Ayuko Sakane
Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Ayuko Sakane has done her Doctor of Medicine from Tokushima University in 2006. Currently she is working as Associate Professor in Faculty of Medicine at Tokushima University. Her research interests are Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology. Several papers of her work were pubished in reputed international journals. She is also the member of The Japanese Biochemical Society, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japan Society for Cell Biology, The Japanese Cancer Association, The Japan Endocrine Society.
Research Interest
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Study on intracellular vesicle transport and control mechanism of cytoskeleton.
Publications
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Kanchanamala Withanage, Kentaro Nakagawa, Mitsunobu Ikeda, Hidetake Kurihara, Takumi Kudo, Zeyu Yang, Ayuko Sakane, Takuya Sasaki and Yutaka Hata. Expression of RASSF6 in kidney and the implication of RASSF6 and the Hippo pathway in the sorbitol-induced apoptosis in renal proximal tubular epithelial cells. The Journal of Biochemistry. 2012, 152(1): 111-119.
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Ayuko Sakane, Ahmed Alamir Mahmoud Abdallah, Kiyoshi Nakano, Kazufumi Honda, Wataru Ikeda, Yumiko Nishikawa, Mitsuru Matsumoto, Natsuki Matsushita, Toshio Kitamura and Takuya Sasaki. Rab13 small G protein and junctional Rab13-binding protein (JRAB) orchestrate actin cytoskeletal organization during epithelial junctional development. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2012, 287(51): 42455-42468.
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Ayuko Sakane, AA Abdallah, K Nakano, K Honda, T Kitamura, Issei Imoto, N Matsushita and Takuya Sasaki. Junctional Rab13-binding protein (JRAB) regulates cell spreading via filamins. Genes to Cells, 2013, 18(9): 810-822.
