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Yasuyoshi Sakai

Yasuyoshi Sakai

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
36839
World Ranking
8026
National Ranking
541

Overview

Yasuyoshi Sakai is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research contributions encompass 44 publications primarily focused on molecular biology, with additional work in plant science, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, and cell biology.

Their research interests include microbial metabolism and enzyme function, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biofuel production and bioconversion, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, autophagy in disease and therapy, fungal and yeast genetics research, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Yasuyoshi Sakai frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • FEBS Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sakai include:

  • Methane monooxygenases; physiology, biochemistry and structure, 2023, Catalysis Science & Technology
  • ATG and ESCRT control multiple modes of microautophagy, 2023, FEBS Letters
  • Physiology of Methylotrophs Living in the Phyllosphere, 2021, Microorganisms
  • Siderophore for Lanthanide and Iron Uptake for Methylotrophy and Plant Growth Promotion in Methylobacterium aquaticum Strain 22A, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A peroxisome deficiency-induced reductive cytosol state up-regulates the brain-derived neurotrophic factor pathway, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues, including Hiroya Yurimoto, Kosuke Shiraishi, Masahide Oku, Akio Tani, and Shiori Katayama.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

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

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

  • A Unified Nomenclature for Yeast Autophagy-Related Genes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;James M. Cregg;William A Dunn;Scott D. Emr

  • Structure, chromosomal locus, and promoter analysis of the gene encoding the mouse helix-loop-helix factor HES-1. Negative autoregulation through the multiple N box elements.

    K Takebayashi;Y Sasai;Y Sakai;T Watanabe

  • Pexophagy: the selective autophagy of peroxisomes.

    Dunn Wa;Cregg Jm;Kiel Ja;van der Klei Ij

  • Peroxisome Degradation by Microautophagy in Pichia pastoris: Identification of Specific Steps and Morphological Intermediates

    Yasuyoshi Sakai;Antonius Koller;Linda K. Rangell;Gilbert A. Keller

  • Pexophagy: autophagic degradation of peroxisomes.

    Yasuyoshi Sakai;Masahide Oku;Ida J. van der Klei;Jan A.K.W. Kiel

  • Aerobic and anaerobic toluene degradation by a newly isolated denitrifying bacterium, Thauera sp. strain DNT-1.

    Yoshifumi Shinoda;Yasuyoshi Sakai;Hiroshi Uenishi;Yasumitsu Uchihashi

  • The significance of peroxisomes in methanol metabolism in methylotrophic yeast.

    Ida J. van der Klei;Hiroya Yurimoto;Yasuyoshi Sakai;Marten Veenhuis

  • Three Distinct Types of Microautophagy Based on Membrane Dynamics and Molecular Machineries.

    Masahide Oku;Yasuyoshi Sakai

  • Wax ester production from n-alkanes by Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1: ultrastructure of cellular inclusions and role of acyl coenzyme A reductase.

    Takeru Ishige;Akio Tani;Keiji Takabe;Kazunori Kawasaki

  • Isolation and characterization of a novel oxygenase that catalyzes the first step of n-alkane oxidation in Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1.

    J H Maeng;Y Sakai;Y Tani;N Kato

  • Mitochondrial impairment triggers cytosolic oxidative stress and cell death following proteasome inhibition

    Sunita Maharjan;Masahide Oku;Masashi Tsuda;Jun Hoseki

  • Gene Structures and Regulation of the Alkane Hydroxylase Complex in Acinetobacter sp. Strain M-1

    Akio Tani;Takeru Ishige;Yasuyoshi Sakai;Nobuo Kato

  • Mitochondrial division occurs concurrently with autophagosome formation but independently of Drp1 during mitophagy

    Shun Ichi Yamashita;Xiulian Jin;Kentaro Furukawa;Maho Hamasaki

  • Propane Monooxygenase and NAD+-Dependent Secondary Alcohol Dehydrogenase in Propane Metabolism by Gordonia sp. Strain TY-5

    Tetsuya Kotani;Tazuko Yamamoto;Hiroya Yurimoto;Yasuyoshi Sakai

  • Assimilation, dissimilation, and detoxification of formaldehyde, a central metabolic intermediate of methylotrophic metabolism.

    Hiroya Yurimoto;Nobuo Kato;Yasuyoshi Sakai

  • Primary Structures of Fungal Fructosyl Amino Acid Oxidases and their Application to the Measurement of Glycated Proteins

    Nobuyuki Yoshida;Yasuyoshi Sakai;Atsuko Isogai;Hiroshi Fukuya

  • Paz2 and 13 other PAZ gene products regulate vacuolar engulfment of peroxisomes during micropexophagy.

    Hiroyuki Mukaiyama;Masahide Oku;Misuzu Baba;Takeshi Samizo

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsura Izui
Katsura Izui Kindai University
Keiji Takabe
Keiji Takabe Kyoto University
Yoshitaka Takano
Yoshitaka Takano Kyoto University
Peter F. Dunfield
Peter F. Dunfield University of Calgary
Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya
Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya San Diego State University
Huub J. M. Op den Camp
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Radboud University
Martin G. Klotz
Martin G. Klotz City University of New York
Hideya Fukuzawa
Hideya Fukuzawa Kyoto University
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Yuri A. Trotsenko
Yuri A. Trotsenko Russian Academy of Sciences

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