Publications 

2026年

Complex and heterogeneous fusion dynamics of protein condensates by high-speed imaging and optical trapping. 

Kiyoto Kamagata, Atsumi Hando, Syamil M A Husna, Hana Kawahara, Ryu-Suke Nozawa, Keisuke Ikeda, Eriko Mano

Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 2026年10月2日   New!

Condensate Growth Analysis Platform for Proteins Using Ultra-Widefield Dark-Field Microscopy and Image Analysis. 

Kiyoto Kamagata, Ren Fujita, Eriko Mano, Nanami Hirashita, Ryu-Suke Nozawa

The journal of physical chemistry. B 2026年6月4日 　

2025年

Regulating surface properties of designed phase-separating peptide droplets for improved dispersibility. 

Ibuki Yamashita, Keisuke Ikeda, Syamil Muharror Ahsanul Husna, Kiyoto Kamagata, Hiroyuki Nakao, Minoru Nakano

Journal of colloid and interface science 700(Pt 3) 138609-138609 2025年8月4日 

De Novo Peptides That Induce the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of α-Synuclein. 

Tatsuya Ikenoue, Masatomo So, Naohiro Terasaka, Wei-En Huang, Yasushi Kawata, Yohei Miyanoiri, Kiyoto Kamagata, Hiroaki Suga

Journal of the American Chemical Society 147(27) 24113-24126 2025年6月25日 

Net charge driven recruitment of supercharged GFP mutants into FUS droplets. 

Kiyoto Kamagata, Yuxing Hong, Trishit Banerjee, Hiroto Takahashi, Eriko Mano

Biochemical and biophysical research communications 759 151661-151661 2025年3月20日

Single-molecule microscopy reveals that importin α slides along DNA while transporting cargo molecules. 

Trishit Banerjee, Kazuya Jibiki, Hinata Sugasawa, Saori Kanbayashi, Taiki Niikura, Eriko Mano, Shigeru Chaen, Takashi S Kodama, Satoshi Takahashi, Noriko Yasuhara, Kiyoto Kamagata

Biochemical and biophysical research communications 748 151320-151320 2025年1月11日

2024年

Thermostable nucleoid protein Cren7 slides along DNA and rapidly dissociates from DNA while not inhibiting the sliding of other DNA-binding protein. 

Trishit Banerjee, K Geethika, Saori Kanbayashi, Satoshi Takahashi, Soumit S Mandal, Kiyoto Kamagata

Journal of molecular biology 436(22) 168803-168803 2024年9月24日

2023年

Single-molecule characterization of target search dynamics of DNA-binding proteins in DNA-condensed droplets.
Kiyoto Kamagata, Ryo Kusano, Saori Kanbayashi, Trishit Banerjee, Hiroto Takahashi
Nucleic acids research 51 6654-6667 2023年6月7日 

Suppression of TDP-43 aggregation by artificial peptide binder targeting to its low complexity domain.
Kiyoto Kamagata, Saori Kanbayashi, Shuichi Koda, Akito Kadotani, Osamu Ubukata, Takumi Tashima
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 662 119-125 2023年4月20日

Rational design of phase separating peptides based on phase separating protein sequence of p53.
Kiyoto Kamagata, Atsumi Hando, Maulana Ariefai, Nanako Iwaki, Saori Kanbayashi, Ryotaro Koike, Keisuke Ikeda
Scientific reports 13(1) 5648-5648 2023年4月6日