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Toshifumi Takao

Toshifumi Takao

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
22394
World Ranking
6193
National Ranking
399

Overview

Toshifumi Takao is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses particularly on Molecular Biology, with additional work in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Spectroscopy, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Genetics.

Their publications cover a variety of significant topics including:

  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Hormonal and Reproductive Studies
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Estrogen and Related Hormone Effects

Frequent publication venues for Toshifumi Takao's work include:

  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Lipid Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Takao include:

  • "Firmicutes in Gut Microbiota Correlate with Blood Testosterone Levels in Elderly Men," 2022, published in The World Journal of Men's Health
  • "Carnosine dipeptidase II (CNDP2) protects cells under cysteine insufficiency by hydrolyzing glutathione-related peptides," 2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • "Total Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Caveolin-1," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "DOPAnization of tyrosine in α-synuclein by tyrosine hydroxylase leads to the formation of oligomers," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Extracellular mRNA transported to the nucleus exerts translation-independent function," 2021, Nature Communications

Toshifumi Takao collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Nobuaki Okumura, Toshiki Takei, Hironobu Hojo, Qiuyi Wang, and Luis Javier González.

Best Publications

  • A ubiquitin-like system mediates protein lipidation

    Yoshinobu Ichimura;Takayoshi Kirisako;Takayoshi Kirisako;Toshifumi Takao;Yoshinori Satomi

  • The Atg12-Atg5 conjugate has a novel E3-like activity for protein lipidation in autophagy.

    Takao Hanada;Nobuo N. Noda;Yoshinori Satomi;Yoshinobu Ichimura

  • The Reversible Modification Regulates the Membrane-Binding State of Apg8/Aut7 Essential for Autophagy and the Cytoplasm to Vacuole Targeting Pathway

    Takayoshi Kirisako;Yoshinobu Ichimura;Yoshinobu Ichimura;Hisashi Okada;Yukiko Kabeya

  • Involvement of linear polyubiquitylation of NEMO in NF-kappaB activation.

    Fuminori Tokunaga;Shin-ichi Sakata;Shin-ichi Sakata;Yasushi Saeki;Yoshinori Satomi

  • Mouse Apg16L, a novel WD-repeat protein, targets to the autophagic isolation membrane with the Apg12-Apg5 conjugate

    Noboru Mizushima;Noboru Mizushima;Akiko Kuma;Akiko Kuma;Yoshinori Kobayashi;Yoshinori Kobayashi;Akitsugu Yamamoto

  • Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Modification of Wnt Protein: Its Role in Wnt Secretion

    Ritsuko Takada;Yoshinori Satomi;Tomoko Kurata;Naoto Ueno;Naoto Ueno

  • Tachyplesin, a class of antimicrobial peptide from the hemocytes of the horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus). Isolation and chemical structure.

    T Nakamura;H Furunaka;T Miyata;F Tokunaga

  • Transmembrane phosphoprotein Cbp regulates the activities of Src-family tyrosine kinases.

    Masahiro Kawabuchi;Yoshinori Satomi;Toshifumi Takao;Yasutsugu Shimonishi

  • A new lipopeptide biosurfactant produced by Arthrobacter sp. strain MIS38.

    M Morikawa;H Daido;T Takao;S Murata

  • Farnesylated gamma-subunit of photoreceptor G protein indispensable for GTP-binding.

    Yoshitaka Fukada;Toshifumi Takao;Hiroshi Ohguro;Tôru Yoshizawa

  • Antimicrobial Peptides, Isolated from Horseshoe Crab Hemocytes, Tachyplesin II, and Polyphemusins I and II: Chemical Structures and Biological Activity

    Toshiyuki Miyata;Fuminori Tokunaga;Takashi Yoneya;Katsuhiro Yoshikawa

  • Involvement of Histone H1.2 in Apoptosis Induced by DNA Double-Strand Breaks

    Akimitsu Konishi;Akimitsu Konishi;Shigeomi Shimizu;Junko Hirota;Toshifumi Takao

  • In vivo evidence for involvement of a 58 kDa component of nuclear pore-targeting complex in nuclear protein import.

    N Imamoto;T Shimamoto;T Takao;T Tachibana

  • CKIε/δ-dependent phosphorylation is a temperature-insensitive, period-determining process in the mammalian circadian clock

    Yasushi Isojima;Masato Nakajima;Hideki Ukai;Hiroshi Fujishima

  • Subtilosin A, a New Antibiotic Peptide Produced by Bacillus subtilis 168: Isolation, Structural Analysis, and Biogenesis

    Katsuhiko Babasaki;Toshifumi Takao;Yasutsugu Shimonishi;Kiyoshi Kurahashi

  • A sequential program of dual phosphorylation of KaiC as a basis for circadian rhythm in cyanobacteria.

    Taeko Nishiwaki;Yoshinori Satomi;Yohko Kitayama;Kazuki Terauchi

  • Primary Structure of Microbial Transglutaminase from Streptoverticillium sp. Strain s-8112"

    T Kanaji;H Ozaki;T Takao;H Kawajiri

  • Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein α-subunit

    Koichi Kokame;Yoshitaka Fukada;Tôru Yoshizawa;Toshifumi Takao

  • Role of KaiC phosphorylation in the circadian clock system of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

    Taeko Nishiwaki;Yoshinori Satomi;Masato Nakajima;Cheolju Lee;Cheolju Lee

  • Amino-acid sequence of a heat-stable enterotoxin produced by human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.

    Saburo Aimoto;Toshifumi Takao;Yasutsugu Shimonishi;Saburo Hara

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasutsugu Shimonishi
Yasutsugu Shimonishi Osaka University
Yoshitaka Fukada
Yoshitaka Fukada University of Tokyo
Tae Takeda
Tae Takeda Osaka University
Toshiharu Hase
Toshiharu Hase Osaka University
Saburo Aimoto
Saburo Aimoto Osaka University
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Toshio Miwatani
Toshio Miwatani Osaka University
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Katsuya Nagai
Katsuya Nagai Osaka University
Sadaaki Iwanaga
Sadaaki Iwanaga Kyushu University

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