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Akira Sato, Ph.D.
Education
1992-1996 School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1996-1997 Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1998-2003 Graduate School of Arts and Science, Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2003 Ph.D.
2003-2004 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2002-2004 Researcher supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2004-present Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Raymond Habas Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry, RWJMS-UMDNJ
2006-2008 Researcher supported by the New Jersey Commision for Cancer Research
Publications
Mouse homolog of SALL1, a causative gene for Townes-Brocks syndrome, binds to A/T-rich sequences in pericentric heterochromatin via its C-terminal zinc finger domains. Yamashita K, Sato A, Asashima M, Wang PC, Nishinakamura R. Genes Cells. 2007 Feb;12(2):171-82.
Profilin is an effector for Daam1 in non-canonical Wnt signaling and is required for vertebrate gastrulation.
Sato A, Khadka D, Liu W, Bharti R, Runnels LW, Dawid IB, Habas R Development 2006 Nov;133(21):4219-31
Sakaki-Yumoto M, Kobayashi C, Sato A, Fujimura S, Matsumoto Y, Takasato M, Kodama T, Aburatani H, Asashima M, Yoshida N, Nishinakamura R. The murine homolog of SALL4, a causative gene in Okihiro syndrome, is essential for embryonic stem cell proliferation, and cooperates with Sall1 in anorectal, heart, brain and kidney development. Development 2006; 133(15): 3005-3013.
Chen C, Ware SM, Sato A, Houston-Hawkins DE, Habas R, Matzuk MM, Shen MM, Brown CW. The Vg1-related protein Gdf3 acts in a Nodal signaling pathway in the pre-gastrulation mouse embryo. Development 2006; 133(2): 319-329.
Park TJ, Gray RS, Sato A, Habas R, Wallingford JB. Subcellular localization and signaling properties of dishevelled in developing vertebrate embryos. Curr. Biol. 2005; 15(11): 1039-1044.
Sato A, Kishida S, Tanaka T, Kikuchi A, Kodama T, Asashima M, Nishinakamura R Sall1, a causative gene for Townes-Brocks syndrome, enhances the canonical Wnt signaling by localizing to heterochromatin. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2004; 319(1): 103-113.
Sato A, Matsumoto Y, Koide U, Kataoka Y, Yoshida N, Yokota T, Asashima M, Nishinakamura R. Zinc finger protein sall2 is not essential for embryonic and kidney development.Mol. Cell. Biol. 2003; 23(1): 62-69.
Wada M, Miyazawa H, Wang RS, Mizuno T, Sato A, Asashima M, Hanaoka F. The second largest subunit of mouse DNA polymerase epsilon, DPE2, interacts with SAP18 and recruits the Sin3 co-repressor protein to DNA. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 2002; 131(3): 307-311.
Nishinakamura R, Matsumoto Y, Nakao K, Nakamura K, Sato A, Copeland NG, Gilbert DJ, Jenkins NA, Scully S, Lacey DL, Katsuki M, Asashima M, Yokota T.Murine homolog of SALL1 is essential for ureteric bud invasion in kidney development. Development 2001; 128(16):3105-3115.
Sato A, Asashima M, Yokota T, Nishinakamura R.Cloning and expression pattern of a Xenopus pronephros-specific gene, XSMP-30. Mech. Dev. 2000; 92(2): 273-275.
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