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Organization/Members
Administration
Representative of Research Project
Makoto Miyata (Osaka City University)
Cooperator with funding
Michio Homma (Nagoya University): Representative of General Affairs
Masahiro Ito(Toyo University): Affair Department, Video
Takayuki Kato (Osaka University): Specialist of Technical Support
Cooperator without funding
Hiroyuki Mori (Kyoto University) : Information Gathering
Koji Nakayama (Nagasaki University): Software Application and maintenance
Yoshihiro Fukumori
(Kanazawa University): Publicity Department
Taro Q.P. Uyeda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology): Coordinator of Cooperative Research
Seiji Kojima (Nagoya University): Account
Eisaku Katayama (Chiba University): Technical Specialist in the Cryo-EM
Noriyuki Kodera (Kanazawa University): Technical Specialist in the AFM
Azuma Taoka (Kanazawa University):
Technical Specialist in the AFM
Masaru Kawakami (Yamagata University):Technical Specialist in Molecular Model
Tsutomu Kouyama (Nagoya University): Technical Specialist in Structural Resolution
Takayuki Nishizaka (Gakushuin University): Technical Specialist in Optical Microscope
Shin'ichi Ishiwata (Waseda University): Advisor of Academic Committee
Kiyoshi Kita (Tokyo University): Advisor of Academic Committee
Chihiro Sasakawa (Tokyo University): Advisor of Academic Committee
Keiichi Namba (Osaka University): Advisor of Academic Committee
Programmed research projects
[A01] Repetitive machinery
Mechanism of Mycoplasma gliding / Makoto Miyata(Osaka City University)
Elucidation of the working principle of repetitive motors driving protein export / Hiroyuki Mori(Kyoto University)
[A02] Rotational machinery
Energy conversion mechanism of rotaion in supramolecular motor of bacterial flagella / Michio Homma (Nagoya University)
The elucidation of the molecular mechanisms of ion selectivity of hybrid bacterial flagellar motors / Masahiro Ito(Toyo University)
[A03] Complicating machinery
Structure and dynamics of gliding motility machinery of Bacteroidetes bacteria / Koji Nakayama (Nagasaki University)
Structure and Function of Magnetotaxis Machinery / Yoshihiro Fukumori
(Kanazawa University)
Actin structural polymorphism machinery that controls amoeboid movements / Taro Q.P. Uyeda(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Openly recruited research projects
[A01] Repetitive machinery
Investigation of the molecular mechanism of the vesicle formation machinery that mediates membrane deformation / Ken Sato (University of Tokyo)
Molecular Architecuture of Supramolecular Motor Complex and Its Regulatory Mechanism / Yoko Y. Toyoshima (The University of Tokyo)
Structure and dynamics of the gliding protein Gli349 from Mycoplasma mobile / Munehito Arai (The University of Tokyo)
Structural dynamics of muscle switch machinery and paramagnetic ion motive protein as studied by ESR / Toshiaki Arata (Osaka University )
Mechanism of sliding movement of Bacillaria paradoxa / Seiji Sonobe (University of Hyogo)
Gliding movement in eukaryotic flagella: mechanism and physiological significance / Ritsu Kamiya (Gakushuin University)
Actin Assembly as the basis of treadmilling mechanism / Takeyuki Wakabayashi (Teikyo University)
Amoeboid motility in nematode sperm / Katsuya Shimabukuro (Ube National College of Technology)
Structural analysis of terminal organelle component proteins responsible for cytadherence and gliding motility of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. / Tsuyoshi Kenri (National Institute of Infectious Diseases )
[A02] Rotational machinery
[A03] Complicating machinery
Propulsion mechanism of the spirochete. / Shuichi Nakamura (Tohoku University)
Molecular mechanisms underlying periodic arrangement of motor proteins on the eukaryotic flagellar axoneme. / Ken-ichi Wakabayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
A novel motility of Staphylococcus aureus / Chikara Kaito (The University of Tokyo)
Molecular mechanisms of blue light-dependent phototaxis response in cyanobacteria / Shinji Masuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Dynamics of the antiparallel microtubule-based supermolecular machinery that regulates cytokinesis. / Ryota Uehara (Hokkaido University)
Study on the molecular machinery regulating phototaxis of Euglena. / Kenji Iwasaki (Osaka University)
Propagation mechanism of ciliary metachronal waves / Yoshiaki Iwadate (Yamaguchi University)
Molecular mechanisms of sarcomere assembly and maintenance / Ryu Takeya (Miyazaki University)
Molecular mechanism in a novel factor for chromosome segregation / Tsutomu Katayama (Kyushu University)
AAA chaperones as motility machineries / Teru Ogura (Kumamoto University)
Fast gliding motility of a filamentous photosynthetic bacterium, Chloroflexus aggregans / Shin Haruta (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Molecular mechanism of type III plasmid segregation / Ikuko Hayashi (Yokohama City University)
Mechanism of cytokinesis: an in vitro study of the contractile ring of fission yeast / Issei Mabuchi (Gakushuin University )
Structural polymorphism, cooperativity, and response characteristics in actin machinery / Mitsunori Takano (Waseda University)
Geometry and Mechanics of Bacterial Gliding Motility / Hirofumi Wada (Ritsumeikan University)
Analyses of construction and regulation of bacterial cytoskeletal complex. / Daisuke Shiomi (Rikkyo University)
Modeling of diverse form of sperm motility in animal species. / Tatsuhiko Noguchi (National Defense Medical College)