AKIRA KAWANABE

Last Updated :2026/09/02

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. 2026, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Cell Science
  2. 2026, Undergraduate Education, Year, Physiology and Biochemistry
  3. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Physiology and Biological Chemistry
  4. 2026, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Methods in Biomedical Sciences A

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Optical control of PI(4,5)P2 sensitivity of ion channels by manipulation of single lysine residue., Journal of General Physiology, 5(158), e202513811, 20251118
  2. Sugar binding of sodium-glucose cotransporters analyzed by voltage-clamp fluorometry., The Journal of biological chemistry, 107215-107215, 20240524
  3. ★, ATP modulates the activity of the voltage-gated proton channel through direct binding interaction, The Journal of Physiology, 20230809
  4. ★, Intermolecular functional coupling between phosphoinositides and the potassium channel KcsA., The Journal of biological chemistry, 298(8), 102257-102257, 20220712
  5. 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
  6. Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels., Nature structural & molecular biology, 29(6), 592-603, 202206
  7. 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
  8. Engineering an enhanced voltage-sensing phosphatase., The Journal of general physiology, 152(5), 20200504
  9. The mechanoreceptor DEG-1 regulates cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans., EMBO reports, 21(3), e48671, 20200203
  10. 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
  11. ★, The hydrophobic nature of a novel membrane interface regulates the enzyme activity of a voltage-sensing phosphatase, eLife, 201811

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. The functional regulation of the voltage-gated proton channel by ATP, Akira Kawanabe, Yuichiro Fujiwara, The Biophysical Society Conference Proton Reactions: From Basic Science to Biomedical Applications, 2025/08/05, With Invitation, English, Biophysical Society, Colorado, USA
  2. The Intersection of Electrophysiology and Electrochemistry in Ion Channel Research, Akira Kawanabe, 2026/03/12, With Invitation, English

External Funds

Acceptance Results of Competitive Funds

  1. 2022/04/01, 2025/03/31
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  2. 2025/04/01, 2028/03/31
  3. 2022/06/16, 2024/03/31
  4. 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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  5. 2019/04/01, 2022/03/31
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  6. 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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  7. 2010, 2012
  8. 2007, 2009
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