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Yoshikazu Ohya

Yoshikazu Ohya

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
64
Citations
13720
World Ranking
1751
National Ranking
146

Overview

Yoshikazu Ohya is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, contributing extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Plant Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Food Science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies

Ohya's publications appear frequently in notable venues such as:

  • Lab on a Chip
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • Cells
  • Journal of Fungi

Selected recent papers by Ohya demonstrate a focus on imaging, cell sorting, and biological network analysis:

  • "Virtual-freezing fluorescence imaging flow cytometry," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Intelligent image-activated cell sorting 2.0," 2020, Lab on a Chip
  • "Sequentially addressable dielectrophoretic array for high-throughput sorting of large-volume biological compartments," 2020, Science Advances
  • "BIONIC: biological network integration using convolutions," 2022, Nature Methods
  • "Deep imaging flow cytometry," 2022, Lab on a Chip

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ohya include:

  • Shinsuke Ohnuki
  • Kaori Itto-Nakama
  • Keisuke Goda
  • Farzan Ghanegolmohammadi
  • Akihiro Isozaki

Best Publications

  • A global genetic interaction network maps a wiring diagram of cellular function

    Michael Costanzo;Benjamin VanderSluis;Elizabeth N. Koch;Anastasia Baryshnikova

  • Identification of Yeast Rho1p GTPase as a Regulatory Subunit of 1,3-β-Glucan Synthase

    Hiroshi Qadota;Christophe P. Python;Shunsuke B. Inoue;Mikio Arisawa

  • Exploring the mode-of-action of bioactive compounds by chemical-genetic profiling in yeast.

    Ainslie B. Parsons;Andres Lopez;Inmar E. Givoni;David E. Williams

  • Transcriptional analysis of the flagellar regulon of Salmonella typhimurium.

    K Kutsukake;Y Ohya;T Iino

  • Bni1p implicated in cytoskeletal control is a putative target of Rho1p small GTP binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    H. Kohno;K. Tanaka;A. Mino;M. Umikawa

  • ACTIVATION OF YEAST PROTEIN KINASE C BY RHO1 GTPASE

    Yoshiaki Kamada;Hiroshi Qadota;Christophe P. Python;Yasuhiro Anraku

  • High-dimensional and large-scale phenotyping of yeast mutants

    Yoshikazu Ohya;Jim Sese;Masashi Yukawa;Fumi Sano

  • Mitochondria-specific RNA-modifying Enzymes Responsible for the Biosynthesis of the Wobble Base in Mitochondrial tRNAs IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES

    Noriko Umeda;Takeo Suzuki;Masashi Yukawa;Yoshikazu Ohya

  • A novel gene, STT4, encodes a phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase in the PKC1 protein kinase pathway of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Soshi Yoshida;Yoshikazu Ohya;Yoshikazu Ohya;Mark Goebl;Akihiko Nakano

  • The Rho1 effector Pkc1, but not Bni1, mediates signalling from Tor2 to the actin cytoskeleton

    Stephen B. Helliwell;Anja Schmidt;Yoshikazu Ohya;Michael N. Hall

  • Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-Kinase Localized on the Plasma Membrane Is Essential for Yeast Cell Morphogenesis

    Keiichi Homma;Sachiko Terui;Masayo Minemura;Hiroshi Qadota

  • Calcium-sensitive cls Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Showing a Pet- Phenotype Are Ascribable to Defects of Vacuolar Membrane H'-ATPase Activity*

    Y Ohya;N Umemoto;I Tanida;A Ohta

  • Polo-Like Kinase Cdc5 Controls the Local Activation of Rho1 to Promote Cytokinesis

    Satoshi Yoshida;Keiko Kono;Keiko Kono;Drew M. Lowery;Sara Bartolini

  • A role for the Pkc1p/Mpk1p kinase cascade in the morphogenesis checkpoint.

    Jacob C. Harrison;Elaine S.G. Bardes;Yoshikazu Ohya;Daniel J. Lew

  • A fluorescent indicator for detecting protein-protein interactions in vivo based on protein splicing.

    Takeaki Ozawa;Satoru Nogami;Moritoshi Sato;Yoshikazu Ohya

  • VMA13 encodes a 54-kDa vacuolar H(+)-ATPase subunit required for activity but not assembly of the enzyme complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    M.N. Ho;R. Hirata;N. Umemoto;Y. Ohya

  • Diverse essential functions revealed by complementing yeast calmodulin mutants

    Yoshikazu Ohya;David Botstein

  • Genetic evidence for in vivo cross-specificity of the CaaX-box protein prenyltransferases farnesyltransferase and geranylgeranyltransferase-I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    C E Trueblood;Y Ohya;J Rine

  • Dissection of upstream regulatory components of the Rho1p effector, 1,3-beta-glucan synthase, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Mariko Sekiya-Kawasaki;Mitsuhiro Abe;Ayaka Saka;Daisuke Watanabe

  • VMA11, a novel gene that encodes a putative proteolipid, is indispensable for expression of yeast vacuolar membrane H(+)-ATPase activity.

    N Umemoto;Y Ohya;Y Anraku

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuhiro Anraku
Yasuhiro Anraku University of Tokyo
Charles Boone
Charles Boone University of Toronto
Shinichi Morishita
Shinichi Morishita University of Tokyo
Brenda J. Andrews
Brenda J. Andrews University of Toronto
Aiko Hirata
Aiko Hirata University of Tokyo
Chad L. Myers
Chad L. Myers University of Minnesota
Michael Costanzo
Michael Costanzo University of Toronto
Minoru Yoshida
Minoru Yoshida University of Tokyo
Shigeyuki Kawano
Shigeyuki Kawano University of Tokyo

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