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Toshihide Kobayashi

Toshihide Kobayashi

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
16391
World Ranking
7059
National Ranking
226

Overview

Toshihide Kobayashi is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work encompasses a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cell Biology alongside interdisciplinary contributions to Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Radiation studies.

The scientist's main research topics include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling, Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology, Nuclear physics research studies, Cellular transport and secretion, Nuclear Physics and Applications, and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research.

Recent publications by Toshihide Kobayashi demonstrate active involvement in membrane biology and cellular processes:

  • Extreme deformability of insect cell membranes is governed by phospholipid scrambling, 2021, Cell Reports
  • PMP2/FABP8 induces PI(4,5)P2-dependent transbilayer reorganization of sphingomyelin in the plasma membrane, 2021, Cell Reports
  • MOSPD2 is an endoplasmic reticulum-lipid droplet tether functioning in LD homeostasis, 2022, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Cholesterol asymmetry at the tip of filopodia during cell adhesion, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • The use of pore-forming toxins to image lipids and lipid domains, 2021, Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology

Toshihide Kobayashi has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors over their career, including Nario Tomishige, Motohide Murate, Yves Mély, Asami Makino, and Yasushi Sako. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers focused on molecular and cellular biological processes.

The researcher regularly publishes in scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Cell Reports
  • Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
  • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Best Publications

  • A lipid associated with the antiphospholipid syndrome regulates endosome structure and function

    T Kobayashi;E Stang;K S Fang;P de Moerloose

  • Late endosomal membranes rich in lysobisphosphatidic acid regulate cholesterol transport

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Marie-Hélène Beuchat;Margaret Lindsay;Sonia Frias

  • Mast cell- and dendritic cell-derived exosomes display a specific lipid composition and an unusual membrane organization

    Karine Laulagnier;Claude Motta;Safouane Hamdi;Sébastien Roy

  • Activation of STING requires palmitoylation at the Golgi

    Kojiro Mukai;Hiroyasu Konno;Tatsuya Akiba;Takefumi Uemura

  • Mitochondrial phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase inhibits the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria by suppressing the peroxidation of cardiolipin in hypoglycaemia-induced apoptosis.

    Kazuhiro Nomura;Kazuhiro Nomura;Hirotaka Imai;Tomoko Koumura;Toshihide Kobayashi

  • Separation and Characterization of Late Endosomal Membrane Domains

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Toshihide Kobayashi;Marie-Hélène Beuchat;Julien Chevallier;Asami Makino

  • A Bilirubin-Inducible Fluorescent Protein from Eel Muscle

    Akiko Kumagai;Ryoko Ando;Hideyuki Miyatake;Peter Greimel

  • The tetraspanin CD63/lamp3 cycles between endocytic and secretory compartments in human endothelial cells.

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Ulrich M. Vischer;Corinne Rosnoblet;Cécile Lebrand

  • Redistribution of phosphatidylethanolamine at the cleavage furrow of dividing cells during cytokinesis

    Kazuo Emoto;Toshihide Kobayashi;Akiko Yamaji;Hiroyuki Aizawa

  • Glycosphingolipid-enriched, detergent-insoluble complexes in protein sorting in epithelial cells

    Klaus Fiedler;Toshihide Kobayashi;Teymuras V. Kurzchalia;Kai Simons

  • STARD3 mediates endoplasmic reticulum-to-endosome cholesterol transport at membrane contact sites.

    Léa P Wilhelm;Corinne Wendling;Benoît Védie;Toshihide Kobayashi;Toshihide Kobayashi

  • Spatial and Functional Heterogeneity of Sphingolipid-rich Membrane Domains

    Etsuko Kiyokawa;Takeshi Baba;Naomi Otsuka;Asami Makino

  • Eudicot plant-specific sphingolipids determine host selectivity of microbial NLP cytolysins

    Tea Lenarčič;Isabell Albert;Hannah Böhm;Vesna Hodnik

  • Novel Lipogenic Enzyme ELOVL7 Is Involved in Prostate Cancer Growth through Saturated Long-Chain Fatty Acid Metabolism

    Kenji Tamura;Asami Makino;Françoise Hullin-Matsuda;Toshihide Kobayashi

  • A functional barrier to movement of lipids in polarized neurons.

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Brian Storrie;Kai Simons;Carlos G. Dotti

  • Role of membrane sphingomyelin and ceramide in platform formation for Fas-mediated apoptosis

    Michihiko Miyaji;Michihiko Miyaji;Zhe-Xiong Jin;Zhe-Xiong Jin;Shohei Yamaoka;Ryuichi Amakawa

  • Increased lipid rafts and accelerated lipopolysaccharide-induced tumor necrosis factor-α secretion in Abca1-deficient macrophages

    Masahiro Koseki;Ken-ichi Hirano;Daisaku Masuda;Chiaki Ikegami

  • A Lipid-Specific Toxin Reveals Heterogeneity of Sphingomyelin-Containing Membranes

    Reiko Ishitsuka;Akiko Yamaji-Hasegawa;Asami Makino;Yoshio Hirabayashi

  • Lipids, lipid domains and lipid–protein interactions in endocytic membrane traffic

    Toshihide Kobayashi;Feng Gu;Jean Gruenberg

  • Oligomerization and pore formation of a sphingomyelin-specific toxin, lysenin.

    Akiko Yamaji-Hasegawa;Asami Makino;Takeshi Baba;Yukiko Senoh

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihiro Kusumi
Akihiro Kusumi Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Akihiko Yoshimura
Akihiko Yoshimura Keio University
Robert G. Parton
Robert G. Parton University of Queensland
Jean Gruenberg
Jean Gruenberg University of Geneva
Masaki Takata
Masaki Takata Tohoku University
Yuji Sugita
Yuji Sugita RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Masato Umeda
Masato Umeda Kyoto University
Maki Kawai
Maki Kawai University of Tokyo
Kai Simons
Kai Simons Lipotype

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