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Ken Matsuoka

Ken Matsuoka

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
14030
World Ranking
14261
National Ranking
1006

Overview

Ken Matsuoka is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Cell Biology, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their recent publications include research on cardiac myosin and cardiomyopathy, featuring a focus on heart function and molecular mechanisms linked to cardiovascular health. Notable papers authored or co-authored by Matsuoka are:

  • Restoration of Cardiac Myosin Light Chain Kinase Ameliorates Systolic Dysfunction by Reducing Superrelaxed Myosin, 2023, Circulation
  • Aberrant accumulation of TMEM43 accompanied by perturbed transmural gene expression in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, 2021, The FASEB Journal
  • Loss-of-function mutations in the co-chaperone protein BAG5 cause dilated cardiomyopathy requiring heart transplantation, 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • Sucrose starvation induces the degradation of proteins in trans-Golgi network and secretory vesicle cluster in tobacco BY-2 cells, 2020, Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • Lower B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict left ventricular concentric remodelling and insulin resistance, 2021, ESC Heart Failure

Their work is frequently published in venues such as Environment Control in Biology, Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, The FASEB Journal, Science Advances, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Ken Matsuoka collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Seiji Takashima
  • Osamu Tsukamoto
  • Hisakazu Kato
  • Masafumi Kitakaze
  • Chisato Okamoto

Their main research topics cover:

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Ecology and Conservation Studies

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Development of series of gateway binary vectors, pGWBs, for realizing efficient construction of fusion genes for plant transformation

    Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Takayuki Kurose;Takeshi Hino;Katsunori Tanaka

  • COPII-Coated Vesicle Formation Reconstituted with Purified Coat Proteins and Chemically Defined Liposomes

    Ken Matsuoka;Lelio Orci;Mylène Amherdt;Sebastian Y Bednarek

  • Proline and glycinebetaine induce antioxidant defense gene expression and suppress cell death in cultured tobacco cells under salt stress.

    Mst. Nasrin Akhter Banu;Md. Anamul Hoque;Megumi Watanabe-Sugimoto;Ken Matsuoka

  • Propeptide of a precursor to a plant vacuolar protein required for vacuolar targeting

    Ken Matsuoka;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Different sensitivity to wortmannin of two vacuolar sorting signals indicates the presence of distinct sorting machineries in tobacco cells.

    Ken Matsuoka;Diane C. Bassham;Natasha V. Raikhel;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion-Type Transporters Implicated in Vacuolar Sequestration of Nicotine in Tobacco Roots

    Tsubasa Shoji;Koji Inai;Yoshiaki Yazaki;Yasutaka Sato

  • The Plant Vacuolar Sorting Receptor Atelp Is Involved in Transport of Nh2-Terminal Propeptide-Containing Vacuolar Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Sharif U. Ahmed;Enrique Rojo;Valentina Kovaleva;Sridhar Venkataraman

  • Coatomer, Arf1p, and nucleotide are required to bud coat protein complex I-coated vesicles from large synthetic liposomes

    Anne Spang;Ken Matsuoka;Susan Hamamoto;Randy Schekman

  • Closing Plant Stomata Requires a Homolog of an Aluminum-Activated Malate Transporter

    Takayuki Sasaki;Izumi C. Mori;Takuya Furuichi;Shintaro Munemasa

  • A Mobile Secretory Vesicle Cluster Involved in Mass Transport from the Golgi to the Plant Cell Exterior

    Kiminori Toyooka;Yumi Goto;Satoru Asatsuma;Masato Koizumi

  • Novel regulation of MHC class II function in B cells

    Yohei Matsuki;Mari Ohmura-Hoshino;Eiji Goto;Masami Aoki

  • Colocalization of Barley Lectin and Sporamin in Vacuoles of Transgenic Tobacco Plants

    Martin R. Schroeder;Olga N. Borkhsenious;Ken Matsuoka;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Operation of an efficient site-specific recombination system of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii in tobacco cells.

    Hitoshi Onouchi;Kumi Yokoi;Chiyoko Machida;Hiroaki Matsuzaki

  • The Rice α-Amylase Glycoprotein Is Targeted from the Golgi Apparatus through the Secretory Pathway to the Plastids

    Aya Kitajima;Satoru Asatsuma;Hisao Okada;Yuki Hamada

  • 3-methyladenine inhibits autophagy in tobacco culture cells under sucrose starvation conditions.

    Chihiro Takatsuka;Yuko Inoue;Ken Matsuoka;Yuji Moriyasu

  • A family of potato genes that encode Kunitz-type proteinase inhibitors: structural comparisons and differential expression.

    Atsushi Ishikawa;Shozo Ohta;Ken Matsuoka;Tsukaho Hattori

  • A Vacuolar-Type H+-ATPase in a Nonvacuolar Organelle Is Required for the Sorting of Soluble Vacuolar Protein Precursors in Tobacco Cells.

    Ken Matsuoka;Tatsuji Higuchi;Masayoshi Maeshima;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Protein Targeting to the Vacuole in Plant Cells

    Kenzo Nakamura;Ken Matsuoka

  • Surface structure of the COPII-coated vesicle

    Ken Matsuoka;Randy Schekman;Lelio Orci;John E. Heuser

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Ida
Katsumi Ida National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Kenzo Nakamura
Kenzo Nakamura Nagoya University
Hiroo Fukuda
Hiroo Fukuda University of Tokyo
Jiro Kasahara
Jiro Kasahara Nagoya University

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