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Takashi Toda is affiliated with Hiroshima University in Japan, contributing to research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work engages with multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Surgery.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, notably:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Takashi Toda has published extensively, with notable recent papers as follows:

  • How Essential Kinesin-5 Becomes Non-Essential in Fission Yeast: Force Balance and Microtubule Dynamics Matter, 2020, Cells
  • KIFC1 regulates ZWINT to promote tumor progression and spheroid formation in colorectal cancer, 2021, Pathology International
  • Escape from mitotic catastrophe by actin-dependent nuclear displacement in fission yeast, 2021, iScience
  • The Putative RNA-Binding Protein Dri1 Promotes the Loading of Kinesin-14/Klp2 to the Mitotic Spindle and Is Sequestered into Heat-Induced Protein Aggregates in Fission Yeast, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Seismic seiche-related oscillations in Lake Biwa, Japan, after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, 2022, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors of Takashi Toda include:

  • Masashi Yukawa
  • Yasuhiro Teratani
  • Maho Iwaki
  • Mitsuki Ohishi
  • Yusuke Yamada

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as the Japanese Journal of Phytopathology, Preprints.org, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, and Pathology International.

Best Publications

  • In yeast, RAS proteins are controlling elements of adenylate cyclase

    Takashi Toda;Isao Uno;Tatsuo Ishikawa;Scott Powers

  • Three different genes in S. cerevisiae encode the catalytic subunits of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase

    Takashi Toda;Scott Cameron;Philip Sass;Mark Zoller

  • Mutations in Dynein Link Motor Neuron Degeneration to Defects in Retrograde Transport

    Majid Hafezparast;Rainer Klocke;Christiana Ruhrberg;Andreas Marquardt

  • Cloning and characterization of BCY1, a locus encoding a regulatory subunit of the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    T. Toda;S. Cameron;P. Sass;M. Zoller

  • A new group of conserved coactivators that increase the specificity of AP-1 transcription factors

    Francois Xavier Claret;Masahiko Hibi;Susheela Dhut;Takashi Toda

  • The S. cerevisiae CDC25 gene product regulates the RAS/adenylate cyclase pathway

    Daniel Broek;Takashi Toda;Tamar Michaeli;Lonny Levin

  • The fission yeast dis2+ gene required for chromosome disjoining encodes one of two putative type 1 protein phosphatases

    Hiroyuki Ohkura;Noriyuki Kinoshita;Seiji Miyatani;Takashi Toda

  • The NDA3 gene of fission yeast encodes β-tubulin: A cold-sensitive nda3 mutation reversibly blocks spindle formation and chromosome movement in mitosis

    Yasushi Hiraoka;Takashi Toda;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • Fission yeast genes that confer resistance to staurosporine encode an AP-1-like transcription factor and a protein kinase related to the mammalian ERK1/MAP2 and budding yeast FUS3 and KSS1 kinases.

    Takashi Toda;Mizuki Shimanuki;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • THE ATF1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IS A TARGET FOR THE STY1 STRESS-ACTIVATED MAP KINASE PATHWAY IN FISSION YEAST

    M. G. Wilkinson;M. Samuels;T. Takeda;W. M. Toone

  • Regulation of the fission yeast transcription factor Pap1 by oxidative stress: requirement for the nuclear export factor Crm1 (Exportin) and the stress-activated MAP kinase Sty1/Spc1

    W. Mark Toone;Shusuke Kuge;Michael Samuels;Brian A. Morgan

  • New drug-resistant cassettes for gene disruption and epitope tagging in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    Masamitsu Sato;Susheela Dhut;Takashi Toda

  • Cloning and characterization of the high-affinity cAMP phosphodiesterase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Philip Sass;Jeffrey Field;Junichi Nikawa;Takashi Toda

  • Schizosaccharomyces pombe atf1+ encodes a transcription factor required for sexual development and entry into stationary phase.

    T. Takeda;T. Toda;K.-I. Kominami;A. Kohnosu

  • Covalent modifier NEDD8 is essential for SCF ubiquitin-ligase in fission yeast.

    Fumio Osaka;Mihoro Saeki;Satoshi Katayama;Noriko Aida

  • Rigorous feedback control of cAMP levels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    J. Nikawa;S. Cameron;T. Toda;K. M. Ferguson

  • The fission yeast pmk1+ gene encodes a novel mitogen-activated protein kinase homolog which regulates cell integrity and functions coordinately with the protein kinase C pathway.

    T Toda;S Dhut;G Superti-Furga;Y Gotoh

  • Cold-sensitive and caffeine-supersensitive mutants of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe dis genes implicated in sister chromatid separation during mitosis.

    H. Ohkura;Y. Adachi;N. Kinoshita;O. Niwa

  • Identification of the pleiotropic cell division cycle gene NDA2 as one of two different α-tubulin genes in schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Takashi Toda;Yasuhisa Adachi;Yasushi Hiraoka;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • Structural basis for the diversity of DNA recognition by bZIP transcription factors.

    Yoshifumi Fujii;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Takashi Toda;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayuki Yamamoto
Masayuki Yamamoto Tohoku University
Chris J. Norbury
Chris J. Norbury University of Oxford
Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Mitsuhiro Yanagida Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Jonathan B.A. Millar
Jonathan B.A. Millar University of Warwick
Ambrosius P. Snijders
Ambrosius P. Snijders The Francis Crick Institute
Nic Jones
Nic Jones University of Manchester
Minoru Yoshida
Minoru Yoshida University of Tokyo
Toshio Hakoshima
Toshio Hakoshima Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Antony M. Carr
Antony M. Carr University of Sussex
Hiroshi Iwasaki
Hiroshi Iwasaki Tokyo Institute of Technology

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