Cell Biology
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Distinguished Professor
ProteolysisBiological membraneCell structure･functionAutophagy
Topics
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Professor Ohsumi receives 2016 Order of Culture
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Professor Ohsumi wins 2017 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Professor Ohsumi and Professor Ohsumi gives Nobel Lecture in Stockholm
| 1977-1986 | Research Associate, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo |
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| 1986-1988 | Lecturer, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo |
| 1988-1996 | Associate Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| 1996-2004 | Professor, Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology |
| 2004-2009 | Professor, Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology |
| 2009-2016 | Specially Appointed Professor, Advanced Research Organization, Integrated Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2016- | Distinguished Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology |
| 2014- | Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2005 | Fujiwara Award |
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| 2009 | Asahi Prize |
| 2012 | Kyoto Prize |
| 2013 | Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates |
| 2015 | Canada Gairdner International Award |
| 2016 | Order of Culture |
| 2017 | Recycling of iron via autophagy is critical for the transition from glycolytic to respiratory growth. Horie T, Kawamata T, Matsunami M, Ohsumi Y. J. Biol. Chem., 2017, 10.1074/jbc.M116.762963, [Faculty of 1000], in press Zinc starvation induces autophagy in yeast. Kawamata T, Horie T, Matsunami M, Sasaki M, Ohsumi Y J. Biol. Chem., 2017, 10.1074/jbc.M116.762948, [editor’s pick up], in press |
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| 2016 | The intrinsically disordered protein Atg13 mediates supramolecular assembly of autophagy initiation complexes. Yamamoto H, Fujioka Y, Suzuki SW, Noshiro D, Suzuki H, Kondo-Kakuta C, Kimura Y, Hirano H, Ando T, Noda NN & Ohsumi Y Dev. Cell., 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.06.015 Structural basis for receptor-mediated selective autophagy of aminopeptidase I aggregates. Yamasaki A, Watanabe Y, Adachi W, Suzuki K, Matoba K, Kirisako H, Kumeta H, Nakatogawa H, Ohsumi Y, Inagaki F, Noda NN* Cell Rep. 2016, 16, 19-27 |