Keisuke Sakurai - My portal

Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

J-GLOBAL ID: 201801012416207433
researchmap Member ID: 7000024500

External link: https://sakuraik.bitbucket.io/index.html

Research History

Sep, 2007 - Aug, 2012

Research Associate, School of Medicine, Washinton University in St. Louis

Papers

GABA-Induced GnRH Release Triggers Chordate Metamorphosis

Hozumi, Akiko, Matsunobu, Shohei, Mita, Kaoru, Treen, Nicholas, Sugihara, Takaho, Horie, Takeo, Sakuma, Tetsushi, Yamamoto, Takashi, Shiraishi, Akira, Hamada, Mayuko …

Current biology : CB, 30(8) 1555-1561.e4-1561, Apr, 2020
Novel erythrocyte clumps revealed by an orphan gene Newtic1 in circulating blood and regenerating limbs of the adult newt

Roman M. Casco-Robles, Akihiko Watanabe, Ko Eto, Kazuhito Takeshima, Shuichi Obata, Tsutomu Kinoshita, Takashi Ariizumi, Kei Nakatani, Tomoaki Nakada, Panagiotis A. Tsonis …

Scientific Reports, 8(1) 7455, Dec 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Physiological Characteristics of Photoreceptors in the Lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum

Keisuke Sakurai

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 34(4) 326-330, Aug, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Implications of a multi-step trigger of retinal regeneration in the adult newt

Hirofumi Yasumuro, Keisuke Sakurai, Fubito Toyama, Fumiaki Maruo, Chikafumi Chiba

Biomedicines, 5(2), Jun 1, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Adaptation of cone pigments found in green rods for scotopic vision through a single amino acid mutation

Keiichi Kojima, Yuki Matsutani, Takahiro Yamashita, Masataka Yanagawa, Yasushi Imamoto, Yumiko Yamano, Akimori Wada, Osamu Hisatomi, Kanto Nishikawa, Keisuke Sakurai …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(21) 5437-5442, May 23, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Adaptation of cone pigments found in green rods for scotopic vision through a single amino acid mutation

Kojima, Keiichi, Matsutani, Yuki, Yamashita, Takahiro, Yanagawa, Masataka, Imamoto, Yasushi, Yamano, Yumiko, Wada, Akimori, Hisatomi, Osamu, Nishikawa, Kanto, Sakurai, Keisuke …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(21) 5437-5442, May, 2017 Peer-reviewed
The Na+/Ca2+, K+ exchanger 2 modulates mammalian cone phototransduction

Keisuke Sakurai, Frans Vinberg, Tian Wang, Jeannie Chen, Vladimir J. Kefalov

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 6, Sep, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Variation in rhodopsin kinase expression alters the dim flash response shut off and the light adaptation in rod photoreceptors

Sakurai, Keisuke, Young, Joyce E, Kefalov, Vladimir J, Khani, Shahrokh C

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 52(9) 6793-6800, Aug, 2011
Role of guanylyl cyclase modulation in mouse cone phototransduction

Sakurai, Keisuke, Chen, Jeannie, Kefalov, Vladimir J

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(22) 7991-8000, Jun, 2011
Effect of g protein-coupled receptor kinase 1 (Grk1) overexpression on rod photoreceptor cell viability

Whitcomb, Tiffany, Sakurai, Keisuke, Brown, Bruce M, Young, Joyce E, Sheflin, Lowell, Dlugos, Cynthia, Craft, Cheryl M, Kefalov, Vladimir J, Khani, Shahrokh C

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 51(3) 1728-1737, Mar, 2010
Deletion of GRK1 causes retina degeneration through a transducin-independent mechanism

Fan, Jie, Sakurai, Keisuke, Chen, Ching-Kang, Rohrer, Baerbel, Wu, Bill X, Yau, King-Wai, Kefalov, Vladimir, Crouch, Rosalie K

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 30(7) 2496-2503, Feb, 2010
Functional interchangeability of rod and cone transducin alpha-subunits

Deng, Wen-Tao, Sakurai, Keisuke, Liu, Jianwen, Dinculescu, Astra, Li, Jie, Pang, Jijing, Min, Seok-Hong, Chiodo, Vince A, Boye, Sanford L, Chang, Bo …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(42) 17681-17686, Oct, 2009

Books and Other Publications

光と生命の辞典

Sakurai,Keisuke (Role: Contributor, 薄明視（暗所視）)

Feb, 2016

Presentations

The contribution of two structural regions to the acid tolerance of bacteriorhodopsin from Haloquadratum walsbyi

Sakurai, Keisuke, Yu, Cheng-Han, Yang, Chii-Shen

International Conference on Retinal Proteins
Physiological role of the cone opsin properties in cone vision

櫻井, 啓輔, Yinyin, Xu

International Conference on Retinal Proteins
Generation of Knock-in Mice Expressing Cone Opsin with Rhodopsin-like Properties

櫻井, 啓輔, 武生朋佳, 徐茵茵

第93回日本動物学会年会
網膜の光応答を測定する ex vivo ERG 測定系の構築

櫻井, 啓輔, 佐藤, 慎哉

日本動物学会第91回大会, Sep 4, 2020
マウスモデル及び数理モデルによる視細胞の光応答特性の検証

櫻井,啓輔

異分野融合による次世代光生物学研究会, Nov 7, 2019, 基礎生物学研究所共同利用研究
Modeling the role of morphology in vertebrate phototransduction

櫻井, 啓輔, 田中智行

日本動物学会第90回大阪大会, Sep 12, 2019
パッチクランプ法によるホヤ幼生光受容細胞のイオンチャネル解析

杉原尭歩, 中川将司, 堀江健生, 櫻井, 啓輔

日本動物学会第90回大阪大会, Sep 12, 2019
Morphological and molecular basis of photoreceptor ability for photon detection

Sakurai,Keisuke

International Symposium “Biophysics of Rhodopsins", May 11, 2017 Invited
Morphological and molecular basis of photoreceptor ability for photon detection.

Sakurai,Keisuke

International Symposium "Biophysics of Rhodopsins", May 11, 2017 Invited

Professional Memberships

Jun, 2012 - Present

THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Research Projects

Mathematical and physiological basis for high S/N ratio of rod photoreceptors

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

SAKURAI Keisuke