Koichi Kato

Research Areas
Nanotechnology/Materials / Biochemistry
Life sciences / Pharmaceuticals - analytical and physicochemistry
Life sciences / Functional biochemistry
Life sciences / Structural biochemistry

Academic & Professional Experience
1986 B.S. The University of Tokyo 
1991 Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
1991 Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
1997 Lecturer, The University of Tokyo
2000 Professor, Nagoya City University
2008 Professor, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (-2018.3)
         Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
         Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
2013 Project Leader, JSPS Grant in Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative
         Areas "Dynamical ordering of biomolecular systems for creation of
        integrated functions" (-2018)
2018.4- Professor, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems

Association Memberships
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality（ISMAR）   Forum: Carbohydrates Coming of Age   Japan Consortium for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology   The Society for Biotechnology, Japan   American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   American Chemical Society   The Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan   The Molecular Biology Society of Japan   Protein Science Society of Japan   The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of Japan   The Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research   Japanese Society for Immunology   Bioimaging Society   The Japanese Biochemical Society   The Phermaceutical Society of Japan   The Biophysical Society of Japan   The Chemical Society of Japan  

Awards & Honors
2011 The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotions '11
2011 Erwin von Balz Prize 2011
2000 The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists '00

Selected Publications

1. H. Yagi, M. Yagi-Utsumi, R. Honda, Y. Ohta, T. Saito, M. Nishio, S. Ninagawa, K. Suzuki, T. Anzai, Y. Kamiya, K. Aoki, M. Nakanishi, T. Satoh and K. Kato, “Improved secretion of glycoproteins using an N-glycan-restricted passport sequence tag recognized by cargo receptor,” Nature Commun. 11, 1368 (2020).


2. M. Yagi-Utsumi, A. Sikdar, C. Song, J. Park, R. Inoue, H. Watanabe, R.N. Burton-Smith, T. Kozai, T. Suzuki, A. Kodama, K. Ishii, H. Yagi, T. Satoh, S. Uchiyama, T. Uchihashi, K. Joo, J. Lee, M. Sugiyama, K. Murata and K. Kato, “Supramolecular tholos-like architecture constituted by archaeal proteins without functional annotation,” Sci. Rep. 10, 1540 (2020).


3. S. Yanaka, R. Yogo, H. Watanabe, Y. Taniguchi, T. Satoh, N. Komura, H. Ando, H. Yagi, N. Yuki, T. Uchihashi and K. Kato, “On-membrane dynamic interplay between anti-GM1 IgG antibodies and complement component C1q,” Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21, 147 (2020).


4. R. Yogo, Y. Yamaguchi, H. Watanabe, H. Yagi, T. Satoh , M. Nakanishi, M. Onitsuka, T. Omasa, M. Shimada, T. Maruno, T. Torisu, S. Watanabe, D. Higo, T. Uchihashi, S. Yanaka, S. Uchiyama, and K. Kato, “The Fab portion of immunoglobulin G contributes to its binding to Fcγ receptor III,” Sci. Rep. 9, Article number: 11957 (2019).


5. S. Yanaka, R. Yogo, R. Inoue, M. Sugiyama, S.G. Itoh, H. Okumura, Y. Miyanoiri, H. Yagi, T. Satoh, T. Yamaguchi, and K. Kato, “Dynamic views of the Fc region of immunoglobulin G provided by experimental and computational observations,” Antibodies 8, 39 (2019).


6. Y. Yunoki, K. Ishii, M. Yagi-Utsumi, R. Murakami, S. Uchiyama, H. Yagi, and K. Kato, “ATP hydrolysis by KaiC promotes its KaiA binding in the cyanobacterial circadian clock system,” Life Sci. Alliance 2, e201900368 (2019).


7. T. Sekiguchi, T. Satoh, E. Kurimoto, C. Song, T. Kozai, H. Watanabe, K. Ishii, H. Yagi, S. Yanaka, S. Uchiyama, T. Uchihashi, K. Murata, and K. Kato, “Mutational and combinatorial control of self-assembling and disassembling of human proteasome α subunits,” Int. J. Mol. Sci. 20, 2308 (2019).