KK
Kazuo Kurokawa
  • Senior Research Scientist, Live Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Research team, Riken Center for Advanced Photonics
Research fields
  • Cell biology
Personal information

Education

Ph. D in Bioscience, Nara institute of science and technology, Japan, 2000

Lab information

Live Cell Super-Resolution Imaging Research Team
http://sclim.riken.jp/en/

Research focus

Membrane traffic

Publications

Since 2010
• Fujii, S., Kurokawa, K., Inaba, R., Hiramatsu, N., Tago, T., Nakamura, Y., Nakano, A., Satoh, T. and Satoh, A. K. (2020). Recycling endosomes attach to the trans-side of Golgi stacks in Drosophila and mammalian cells. J Cell Sci 133(4).
• Matsuura, R., Inabe, K., Otsuki, H., Kurokawa, K., Dohmae, N. and Aida, Y. (2019). Three YXXL Sequences of a Bovine Leukemia Virus Transmembrane Protein are Independently Required for Fusion Activity by Controlling Expression on the Cell Membrane. Viruses 11(12).
• Ishii, A., Kurokawa, K., Hotta, M., Yoshizaki, S., Kurita, M., Koyama, A., Nakano, A. and Kimura, Y. (2019). Role of Atg8 in the regulation of vacuolar membrane invagination. Sci Rep 9(1): 14828.
• Tojima, T., Suda, Y., Ishii, M., Kurokawa, K. and Nakano, A. (2019). Spatiotemporal dissection of the trans-Golgi network in budding yeast. J Cell Sci 132(15).
• Maeda, M., Kurokawa, K., Katada, T., Nakano, A. and Saito, K. (2019). COPII proteins exhibit distinct subdomains within each ER exit site for executing their functions. Sci Rep 9(1): 7346.
• Kurokawa, K., Osakada, H., Kojidani, T., Waga, M., Suda, Y., Asakawa, H., Haraguchi, T. and Nakano, A. (2019). Visualization of secretory cargo transport within the Golgi apparatus. J Cell Biol 218(5): 1602-1618.
• Kurokawa, K. and Nakano, A. (2019). The ER exit sites are specialized ER zones for the transport of cargo proteins from the ER to the Golgi apparatus. J Biochem 165(2): 109-114.
• Suda, Y., Tachikawa, H., Inoue, I., Kurita, T., Saito, C., Kurokawa, K., Nakano, A. and Irie, K. (2018). Activation of Rab GTPase Sec4 by its GEF Sec2 is required for prospore membrane formation during sporulation in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Res 18(1).
• Suda, Y., Kurokawa, K. and Nakano, A. (2017). Regulation of ER-Golgi Transport Dynamics by GTPases in Budding Yeast. Front Cell Dev Biol 5: 122.
• Kobayashi, K., Suemasa, F., Sagara, H., Nakamura, S., Ino, Y., Kobayashi, K., Hiramatsu, H., Haraguchi, T., Kurokawa, K., Todo, T., Nakano, A. and Iba, H. (2017). MiR-199a Inhibits Secondary Envelopment of Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Through the Downregulation of Cdc42-specific GTPase Activating Protein Localized in Golgi Apparatus. Sci Rep 7(1): 6650.
• Ishii, M., Suda, Y., Kurokawa, K. and Nakano, A. (2016). COPI is essential for Golgi cisternal maturation and dynamics. J Cell Sci 129(17): 3251-3261.
• Kurokawa, K., Suda, Y. and Nakano, A. (2016). Sar1 localizes at the rims of COPII-coated membranes in vivo. J Cell Sci 129(17): 3231-3237.
• Iwai, M., Yokono, M., Kurokawa, K., Ichihara, A. and Nakano, A. (2016). Live-cell visualization of excitation energy dynamics in chloroplast thylakoid structures. Sci Rep 6: 29940.
• Kurokawa, K., Okamoto, M. and Nakano, A. (2014). Contact of cis-Golgi with ER exit sites executes cargo capture and delivery from the ER. Nat Commun 5: 3653.
• Kurokawa, K., Ishii, M., Suda, Y., Ichihara, A. and Nakano, A. (2013). Live cell visualization of Golgi membrane dynamics by super-resolution confocal live imaging microscopy. Methods Cell Biol 118: 235-242.
• Suda, Y., Kurokawa, K., Hirata, R. and Nakano, A. (2013). Rab GAP cascade regulates dynamics of Ypt6 in the Golgi traffic. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(47): 18976-18981.
• Okamoto, M., Kurokawa, K., Matsuura-Tokita, K., Saito, C., Hirata, R. and Nakano, A. (2012). High-curvature domains of the ER are important for the organization of ER exit sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Sci 125(Pt 14): 3412-3420.
• Maeda, Y., Yumoto, M., Saito, N., Ogawa, T., Kurokawa, K., Nakano, A., Yamashita, M. and Wada, S. (2010). Broadly tunable UV-blue picosecond pulsed laser and its application for biological imaging. Optical Review 17(3): 305-308.
• Yamashita, M., Kurokawa, K., Sato, Y., Yamagata, A., Mimura, H., Yoshikawa, A., Sato, K., Nakano, A. and Fukai, S. (2010). Structural basis for the Rho- and phosphoinositide-dependent localization of the exocyst subunit Sec3. Nat Struct Mol Biol 17(2): 180-186.
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