AKIRA KAWANABE

Last Updated :2025/07/07

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Associate Professor/Lecturer
E-mail
kawanabehiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2024/10, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Lecturer
  • 2019/06, 2024/09, Kagawa University, Faculty of Medicine, Lecturer
  • 2015/03, 2019/05
  • 2013/04, 2015/02
  • 2010/04, 2013/03
  • 2007/04, 2010/03, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering

Educational Backgrounds

  • Nagoya Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering , Japan, 2007/04, 2009/03
  • Nagoya Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering , Japan, 2005/04, 2007/03
  • Nagoya Institute of Technology, School of Engineering , Japan, 2001/04, 2005/03

Academic Degrees

  • Nagoya Institute of Technology
  • Nagoya Institute of Technology

Research Fields

  • Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy;Basic medicine;General physiology
  • Biology;Biological Science;Biophysics

Research Keywords

  • Electrophysiology

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Cell Science
  2. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Year, Physiology and Biochemistry
  3. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Physiology and Biological Chemistry
  4. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Methods in Biomedical Sciences A

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Sugar binding of sodium-glucose cotransporters analyzed by voltage-clamp fluorometry., The Journal of biological chemistry, 107215-107215, 20240322
  2. ★, ATP modulates the activity of the voltage-gated proton channel through direct binding interaction, The Journal of Physiology, 20230809
  3. ★, Intermolecular functional coupling between phosphoinositides and the potassium channel KcsA., The Journal of biological chemistry, 298(8), 102257-102257, 20220712
  4. Interaction between S4 and the phosphatase domain mediates electrochemical coupling in voltage-sensing phosphatase (VSP)., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(26), e2200364119, 20220628
  5. Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels., Nature structural & molecular biology, 29(6), 592-603, 202206
  6. Heterologous functional expression of ascidian Nav1 channels and close relationship with the evolutionary ancestor of vertebrate Nav channels, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296, 100783-100783, 202101
  7. Engineering an enhanced voltage-sensing phosphatase., The Journal of general physiology, 152(5), 20200504
  8. The mechanoreceptor DEG-1 regulates cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans., EMBO reports, 21(3), e48671, 20200203
  9. Functional analysis of a double-point mutation in the KCNJ2 gene identified in a family with Andersen-Tawil syndrome., Journal of the neurological sciences, 407, 116521-116521, 20191215
  10. ★, The hydrophobic nature of a novel membrane interface regulates the enzyme activity of a voltage-sensing phosphatase, eLife, 201811

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. 2022/04/01, 2025/03/31
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  2. 2022/06/16, 2024/03/31
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Development of light-driven neural devices, 2021/07/09, 2023/03/31
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  4. 2019/04/01, 2022/03/31
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  5. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), The anlaysis of the cooperative gating of voltage-gated proton channel, 2015/04/01, 2017/03/31
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  6. 2010, 2012
  7. 2007, 2009
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