SASAKI Nobumitsu

Professional Career

2002/04-2002/12 : Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Kyoto University)
2002/12 - 2005/12 : Postdoctoral research fellow (The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)
2006/01/01 - 2007/03/31 : Assistant, Gene Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2007/04/01 - 2008/03/31 : Assistant professor, Gene Research Center, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2008/04/01 - 2017/07/31 : Assistant professor, Research Center for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2017/08/01 - Present : Associate Professor, Research Center for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2005 PhD. in Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research Interests

Research on molecular mechanisms of plant resistance against plant virus infection, Identification and functional analyses on novel inhibitory factors for plant virus infection, Research on molecular mechanisms of plant virus infection

Publications

• Shinji H., Sasaki N., Hamim I., Itoh Y., Taku K., Hayashi Y., Minato N., Moriyama H., Arie T., Komatsu K. Dynamin-related protein 2 interacts with the membrane-associated methyltransferase domain of plantago asiatica mosaic virus replicase and promotes viral replication. Virus Research 331: 199128 2023.
• Komatsu, K., Sasaki, N., Yoshida, T., Suzuki, K., Masujima, Y., Hashimoto, M., Watanabe, S., Tochio, N., Kigawa T., Yamaji, Y., Oshima, K., Namba, S., Nelson, R., Arie, T . Identification of a Proline-Kinked Amphipathic α-Helix Downstream from the Methyltransferase Domain of a Potexvirus Replicase and Its Role in Virus Replication and Perinuclear Complex Formation. Journal of Virology, 95(20): e01906-20, 2021 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01906-20, 2021
• Ikeda, C., Taku, K., Miyazaki, T., Shirai, R., Nelson, R., Nyunoya, H., Matsushita, Y., Sasaki, N., Cooperative roles of introns 1 and 2 of tobacco resistance gene N in enhanced N transcript expression and antiviral defense responses. Sceintific Reports (Sci Rep) 11: 15424, 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-94713-4