Satoshi Nagao, Ph.D.

Education

2007 - Science Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

2004 - M.Sc., University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

2002 - B.Sc. - University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Positions

2018 - Present - Assistant Professor, Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan.

2007 - 2018 - Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan.

Research Project

Structural analyses of protein nanostructures with NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Selected Publications

Gentry K.A., Prade E., Barnaba C., Zhang M., Mahajan M., Im SC., Anantharamaiah G.M., Nagao S., Waskell L., Ramamoorthy A., Kinetic and Structural Characterization of the Effects of Membrane on the Complex of Cytochrome b5 and Cytochrome c, Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 7793.

Kobayashi H., Nagao S., Hirota S., Characterization of Cytochrome c Membrane-binding Site Using Cardiolipin-containing Bicelles with NMR, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 14019-14022.

Lin YW., Nagao S., Zhang M., Shomura Y.,Higuchi Y., Hirota S., Rational Design of Heterodimeric Protein Using Domain Swapping for Myoglobin, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54, 511-515.

Nagao S., Osuka H., Yamada T., Uni T., Shomura Y., Imai K., Higuchi Y., Hirota S., Structural and Oxygen Binding Properties of Dimeric Horse Myoglobin, Dalton Transactions, 2012, 41, 11378-11385.

Hirota S., Hattori Y., Nagao S., Taketa M., Komori H., Kamikubo H., Wang Z., Takahashi I., Negi S., Sugiura Y., Kataoka M., Higuchi Y., Cytochrome c Polymerization by Successive Domain Swapping at the C-Terminal Helix, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U. S. A., 2010, 107, 12854-12859.

Oral Presentation and Posters

2019/06 - Nagao S., Kobayashi H., Hirota S., NMR Characterization of Dynamic Properties of Cytochrome c bound to Membranes using Lipid Bicelles, 15th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry (ISABC15), Nara city, Nara (poster)

2018/12 - Nagao S., NMR study on structures and dynamic properties of cytochrome c bound to lipid bicelles, The International Symposium on Bioinorganic Chemistry 2018, (invited oral presentation)

2017/06 - Nagao S., Kobayashi H., Hirota S., NMR characterization of cytochrome c membrane-binding site using cardiolipin-containing bicelles, The 17th Annual Meeting of the Protein Science (Sendai, Japan), (poster)

2014/07 - Nagao S., Osuka H., Yamada T., Uni T., Shomura Y., Imai K., Higuchi Y., Hirota S., Structural and Ligand Binding Properties of Dimeric Horse Myoglobin, 28th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society, (San Diego, U.S.A.), (poster)

2014/07 - Nagao S., Formation of Oligomeric Hemoproteins by Domain Swapping, Seminar at University of California, (San Francisco, U.S.A.), (seminar)

Academic Awards

2018 - Presentation Award, The 12th Bio-Related Chemistry Symposium.

2015 - CSJ Presentation Award 2015 for Academics

2006 - Young Scientist Poster Award, The 45th Annual Meeting of the NMR Society of Japan.