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Overview

Toshiya Endo is affiliated with Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio primarily situated within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work emphasizes Molecular Biology with an additional focus on Cell Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Radiation.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of mitochondrial and cellular functions, including:

  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Recent publications by Toshiya Endo include several papers focused on mitochondrial biology and protein import mechanisms:

  • Role of the TOM Complex in Protein Import into Mitochondria: Structural Views, 2022, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • Mitochondrial sorting and assembly machinery operates by β-barrel switching, 2021, Nature
  • Organelle membrane-specific chemical labeling and dynamic imaging in living cells, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Lipid homeostasis in mitochondria, 2020, Biological Chemistry
  • The mitochondrial inner membrane protein LETM1 modulates cristae organization through its LETM domain, 2020, Communications Biology

Frequent collaborators of Toshiya Endo include:

  • Yasushi Tamura
  • H. Takeda
  • Yu Yamamori
  • Kentaro Tomii
  • Nils Wiedemann

The scientist frequently publishes in specific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • FEBS Journal
  • Nature
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • The Journal of Biochemistry
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • Ubiquitin is phosphorylated by PINK1 to activate parkin

    Fumika Koyano;Kei Okatsu;Kei Okatsu;Hidetaka Kosako;Yasushi Tamura

  • Structural basis of presequence recognition by the mitochondrial protein import receptor Tom20.

    Yoshito Abe;Toshihiro Shodai;Takanori Muto;Katsuyoshi Mihara

  • Molecular chaperones in the yeast endoplasmic reticulum maintain the solubility of proteins for retrotranslocation and degradation

    Shuh-ichi Nishikawa;Sheara W. Fewell;Yoshihito Kato;Jeffrey L. Brodsky

  • Tim50 Is a Subunit of the TIM23 Complex that Links Protein Translocation across the Outer and Inner Mitochondrial Membranes

    Hayashi Yamamoto;Masatoshi Esaki;Takashi Kanamori;Yasushi Tamura

  • Identification of Tim40 That Mediates Protein Sorting to the Mitochondrial Intermembrane Space

    Mari Naoé;Yukimasa Ohwa;Daigo Ishikawa;Chié Ohshima

  • Multiple pathways for mitochondrial protein traffic

    Toshiya Endo;Koji Yamano

  • Mnl1p, an alpha -mannosidase-like protein in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation of glycoproteins.

    Kunio Nakatsukasa;Shuh-ichi Nishikawa;Nobuko Hosokawa;Kazuhiro Nagata

  • Possibility of Cytoplasmic pre-tRNA Splicing: the Yeast tRNA Splicing Endonuclease Mainly Localizes on the Mitochondria

    Tohru Yoshihisa;Kaori Yunoki-Esaki;Chie Ohshima;Nobuyuki Tanaka

  • tRNA actively shuttles between the nucleus and cytosol in yeast.

    Akira Takano;Toshiya Endo;Tohru Yoshihisa

  • Functional cooperation and separation of translocators in protein import into mitochondria, the double-membrane bounded organelles.

    Toshiya Endo;Hayashi Yamamoto;Masatoshi Esaki

  • Molecular architecture of the active mitochondrial protein gate

    Takuya Shiota;Takuya Shiota;Kenichiro Imai;Jian Qiu;Victoria L Hewitt

  • Tom20 recognizes mitochondrial presequences through dynamic equilibrium among multiple bound states

    Takashi Saitoh;Mayumi Igura;Takayuki Obita;Toyoyuki Ose

  • Functions of outer membrane receptors in mitochondrial protein import.

    Toshiya Endo;Daisuke Kohda

  • Structure of the mitochondrial import gate reveals distinct preprotein paths.

    Yuhei Araiso;Yuhei Araiso;Akihisa Tsutsumi;Jian Qiu;Jian Qiu;Kenichiro Imai

  • Tam41 Is a CDP-Diacylglycerol Synthase Required for Cardiolipin Biosynthesis in Mitochondria

    Yasushi Tamura;Yoshihiro Harada;Shuh Ichi Nishikawa;Koji Yamano

  • Two novel proteins in the mitochondrial outer membrane mediate β-barrel protein assembly

    Daigo Ishikawa;Hayashi Yamamoto;Yasushi Tamura;Kaori Moritoh

  • Structural insight into the mitochondrial protein import system.

    Toshiya Endo;Koji Yamano;Shin Kawano

  • Ups1p and Ups2p antagonistically regulate cardiolipin metabolism in mitochondria

    Yasushi Tamura;Toshiya Endo;Miho Iijima;Hiromi Sesaki

  • Tom20 and Tom22 Share the Common Signal Recognition Pathway in Mitochondrial Protein Import

    Koji Yamano;Yoh Ichi Yatsukawa;Masatoshi Esaki;Alyson E. Aiken Hobbs

  • Uniform nomenclature for the protein transport machinery of the mitochondrial membranes.

    Nikolaus Pfanner;Michael G. Douglas;Toshiya Endo;Nicholas J. Hoogenraad

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiromi Sesaki
Hiromi Sesaki Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tatsuo Miyazawa
Tatsuo Miyazawa University of Tokyo
Daisuke Kohda
Daisuke Kohda Kyushu University
Toshiharu Suzuki
Toshiharu Suzuki Hokkaido University
Fuyuhiko Inagaki
Fuyuhiko Inagaki Hokkaido University
Trevor Lithgow
Trevor Lithgow Monash University
Akira Kobata
Akira Kobata University of Tokyo
Nikolaus Pfanner
Nikolaus Pfanner University of Freiburg
Masasuke Yoshida
Masasuke Yoshida Kyoto Sangyo University
Masahiro Sugiura
Masahiro Sugiura Nagoya University

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