HOMEAssistant Professor Takaya Sakura

Faculty

Assistant Professor Takaya Sakura

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords
Parasitology, Molecular biology, Cellular biology
Supervision
Masters ProgrammeDoctoral Programme

Personal/work Web page addresses

https://researchmap.jp/-2qE3_xt?lang=ja https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8320-8485 http://www.tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/molecdyna/

Research gate or Linked-in account links

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Takaya-Sakura

Affiliation(s)

Department of Molecular Infection Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University

Background

Ph. D, Nagasaki University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2013. Postdoctoral researcher, National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Institut Cochin, Nagasaki University, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Assistant professor, Department of Molecular Infection Dynamics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University from 2019.

Research

Parasitology, Drug Discovery

Five MOST IMPORTANT/INTERESTING recent publications

  1. Fukumoto J, Yoshida M, Tokuoka SM, H Hayakawa ES, Miyazaki S, Sakura T, Inaoka DK, Kita K, Usukura J, Shindou H, Tokumasu F. Pivotal roles of Plasmodium falciparum lysophospholipid acyltransferase 1 in cell cycle progression and cytostome internalization. Commun Biol. 2025; 8(1):142.
  2. Sakura T, Ishii R, Yoshida E, Kita K, Kato T, Inaoka DK. Accelerating Antimalarial Drug Discovery with a New High-Throughput Screen for Fast-Killing Compounds. ACS Infect Dis. 2024; 10 (12):4115-26.
  3. Komatsuya K, Sakura T, Shiomi K, Ōmura S, Hikosaka K, Nozaki T, Kita K, Inaoka DK. Siccanin Is a Dual-Target Inhibitor of Plasmodium falciparum Mitochondrial Complex II and Complex III. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2022; 15(7):903.
  4. Hartuti ED, Sakura T, Tagod MSO, Yoshida E, Wang X, Mochizuki K, Acharjee R, Matsuo Y, Tokumasu F, Mori M, Waluyo D, Shiomi K, Nozaki T, Hamano S, Shiba T, Kita K, Inaoka DK. Identification of 3,4-Dihydro-2H,6H-pyrimido[1,2-c][1,3]benzothiazin-6-imine Derivatives as Novel Selective Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase. Int J Mol Sci. 2021; 22(13):7236.
  5. Sakura T, Sindikubwabo F, Oesterlin LK, Bousquet H, Slomianny C, Hakimi MA, Langsley G, Tomavo S. A Critical Role for Toxoplasma gondii Vacuolar Protein Sorting VPS9 in Secretory Organelle Biogenesis and Host Infection. Sci Rep. 2016; 6:38842.
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