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Keiichi Namba

Keiichi Namba

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Biology and Biochemistry

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19732
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National Ranking
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Overview

Keiichi Namba is a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan, focusing on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output comprises 156 publications primarily dedicated to Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Structural Biology, and Cell Biology. Their research topics reflect a specialized interest in bacterial genetics and biotechnology, microbial interactions, and advanced microscopy techniques.

They have contributed extensively to several research topics, including:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

The researcher's work is frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), EMPIAR dataset, Communications Biology, Nature Communications, and Biomolecules.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Fumiaki Makino
  • Takayuki Kato
  • Tomoko Miyata
  • Tohru Minamino
  • Junso Fujita

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Cardiac muscle thin filament structures reveal calcium regulatory mechanism, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Structural and Functional Comparison of Salmonella Flagellar Filaments Composed of FljB and FliC, 2020, Biomolecules
  • Immunodominant proteins P1 and P40/P90 from human pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Native flagellar MS ring is formed by 34 subunits with 23-fold and 11-fold subsymmetries, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Structure of the molecular bushing of the bacterial flagellar motor, 2021, Nature Communications

Keiichi Namba has also contributed to book publications, notably the title Bacterial and Archaeal Motility published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy.

    Koji Yonekura;Saori Maki-Yonekura;Keiichi Namba

  • Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling.

    Fadel A. Samatey;Katsumi Imada;Shigehiro Nagashima;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • Visualization of protein-nucleic acid interactions in a virus. Refined structure of intact tobacco mosaic virus at 2.9 A resolution by X-ray fiber diffraction.

    Keiichi Namba;Rekha Pattanayek;Gerald Stubbs

  • Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus at 3.6 Å Resolution: Implications for Assembly

    Keiichi Namba;Gerald Stubbs

  • Direct visualization of secondary structures of F-actin by electron cryomicroscopy

    Takashi Fujii;Atsuko H. Iwane;Toshio Yanagida;Keiichi Namba

  • Distinct roles of the FliI ATPase and proton motive force in bacterial flagellar protein export

    Tohru Minamino;Keiichi Namba

  • Morphological pathway of flagellar assembly in Salmonella typhimurium.

    Tomoko Kubori;Nobuo Shimamoto;Shigeru Yamaguchi;Keiichi Namba

  • Structure of the core and central channel of bacterial flagella

    Keiichi Namba;Ichiro Yamashita;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • The bacterial flagellar cap as the rotary promoter of flagellin self-assembly

    Koji Yonekura;Saori Maki;David Gene Morgan;David J. DeRosier

  • Molecular motors of the bacterial flagella.

    Tohru Minamino;Katsumi Imada;Keiichi Namba

  • Bacterial Nanomachines: The Flagellum and Type III Injectisome

    Marc Erhardt;Keiichi Namba;Kelly T. Hughes

  • Structure of the bacterial flagellar hook and implication for the molecular universal joint mechanism

    Fadel A. Samatey;Hideyuki Matsunami;Katsumi Imada;Shigehiro Nagashima

  • Molecular architecture of bacterial flagellum

    Keiichi Namba;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • Roles of partly unfolded conformations in macromolecular self-assembly.

    Keiichi Namba

  • Mechanisms of type III protein export for bacterial flagellar assembly

    Tohru Minamino;Katsumi Imada;Keiichi Namba

  • Stator assembly and activation mechanism of the flagellar motor by the periplasmic region of MotB

    Seiji Kojima;Katsumi Imada;Mayuko Sakuma;Yuki Sudo

  • Self-assembly and type III protein export of the bacterial flagellum.

    Tohru Minamino;Keiichi Namba

  • Common architecture of the flagellar type III protein export apparatus and F- and V-type ATPases.

    Tatsuya Ibuki;Katsumi Imada;Tohru Minamino;Tohru Minamino;Takayuki Kato

  • Structure and switching of bacterial flagellar filaments studied by X-ray fiber diffraction

    llchiro Yamashita;Kazuya Hasegawa;Kazuya Hasegawa;Hirofumi Suzuki;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • Cardiac muscle thin filament structures reveal calcium regulatory mechanism.

    Yurika Yamada;Keiichi Namba;Takashi Fujii

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Imada
Katsumi Imada Osaka University
Tohru Minamino
Tohru Minamino Osaka University
Seiji Kojima
Seiji Kojima Nagoya University
Michio Homma
Michio Homma Nagoya University
Ichiro Yamashita
Ichiro Yamashita Osaka University
Robert M. Macnab
Robert M. Macnab Yale University
Kelly T. Hughes
Kelly T. Hughes University of Utah
Long-Fei Wu
Long-Fei Wu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David J. DeRosier
David J. DeRosier Brandeis University
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Nagoya University

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