Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences
Job title
Professor
Degree
PhD(The University of Tokyo)
J-Global ID
201301051278280653
Profile
1989-1991 Researcher Safety Research Institute for Chemical Compounds (Japan) 1991-1992 Research Assistant Tonen K.K. Institute of Basic Science (Japan) 1992-1993 Higher Scientific Officer Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology, NERC (UK) 1994-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow Thomas Jefferson University, School of Medicine (USA) 1995-1997 Research Associate Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry (USA) 1997-2007 Assistant Professor/Instructor KEIO University, School of Medicine (Japan) 2007 - 2009 Research Assistant Professor Georgetown University, Department of Neurology (USA) 2009 - 2012 Assistant Professor Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences (Canada) 2012-present Associate Professor Sophia University, Faculty of Science and Technology (Japan)
Tsutomu Arakawa   Takako Niikura   Yoshiko Kita   Teruo Akuta   
Current Issues in Molecular Biology 46(1) 621-633 Jan 2024 [Refereed]
In this study, we review the properties of three anionic detergents, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), Sarkosyl, and sodium lauroylglutamate (SLG), as they play a critical role in molecular biology research. SDS is widely used in electrophoresis and c...
Tsutomu Arakawa   Masao Tokunaga   Yoshiko Kita   Takako Niikura   Richard W. Baker   Janice M. Reimer   Andres E. Leschziner   
The Protein Journal 40(6) 867-875 Dec 2021 [Refereed]
T. Arakawa   A. Hirano   K. Shiraki   T. Niikura   Y. Kita   
Current Medicinal Chemistry 18(36) 5554-5563 2011
Humanin (HN), a short amino acid peptide, protects neurons as well as other cells from amyloid β-induced toxicities and other stresses. A number of HN binding proteins have been identified and their involvements in HN-mediated neuroprotection have...
T. Arakawa   Y. Kita   T. Niikura   
CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 15(21) 2086-2098 Sep 2008
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex disease, involving multiple factors such as the production of aggregation-prone amyloid (A peptides, the formation of fibrillarly tangles of microtubule-associating proteins, Tau, and the polymorphism of chole...