in press
 
[1]Masafumi Sakono*, Mitsuki Nakamura, Tatsuki Ohshima, Ayano Miyakoshi, Ryoichi Arai, Kosuke Minamihata, Noriho Kamiya: 
One-pot synthesis of fibrillar-shaped functional nanomaterial using microbial transglutaminase. 
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
  To be announced...

2023
[1]Naomi Sakono*, Yuto Ishida, Kazuki Ogo, Nobuko Tsumori, Haruno Murayama, and Masafumi Sakono*:
Molar-Fraction-Tunable Synthesis of Ag-Au Alloy Nanoparticles via a Dual Evaporation-Condensation Method as Supported Catalysts for CO Oxidation.
ACS Applied Nano Materials 6(2023) 3065.
 *Front Coverに採択されました


[2]Masafumi Sakono*, Takuma Oya, Mio Aoki:
Development of a transcriptional activator-like effector protein to accurately discriminate single nucleotide difference.
ChemBioChem 24(2023) e202200486.
 
2022
[1]Masafumi Sakono*, Tatsuki Oshima, Takako Iwakawa, Ryoichi Arai:
Production of pentaglycine-fused proteins using Escherichia coli expression system without in vitro peptidase treatment.
Protein Expression and Purification 194(2022) 106068.
 
[2]Hidetoshi Oguri, Kazunori Nakashima, Kasun Godigamuwa, Junnosuke Okamoto, Yudai Takeda, Fumiyoshi Okazaki, Masafumi Sakono, Satoru Kawasaki: 
Solubilization and aggregation control of silica-polymerizing enzyme fused with a removable soluble protein. 
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 133(2022) 222-228.
 
[3]Masafumi Sakono*: 
(Review) ER Endogenous Protein Complexed with Lectin Chaperones Calnexin/Calreticulin. 
Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology 34(2022) E69-E73.
 
[4]Naomi Sakono, Maa Shimizu, Masafumi Sakono*: 
Immobilization Method for Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized via Evaporation/Condensation onto a Glass Plate. 
Chemistry Letters 51(2022) 1074-1076.
 
2021
[1]Masafumi Sakono* and Ryoto Hayakawa:
Repressor-like on-off regulation of protein expression by the DNA-binding transcription activator-like effector in T7 promoter‐based cell-free protein synthesis.
ChemBioChem, 22(2021) 888-893.
*Front Coverに採択されました


[2]Hitomi Nakao, Akira Seko, Yukishige Ito, Masafumi Sakono*:
Dimerization of ER-resident molecular chaperones mediated by ERp29.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 536(2021) 52-58.

 
[3]Masafumi Sakono*, Taiki Arisawa, Takuma Ohya, Naomi Sakono, Atsushi Manaka:
Preparation of Luciferase-fused Peptides for Immunoassay of Amyloid Beta.
Analytical Sciences, 37(2021)759-763.
 
2020
[1]Naomi Sakono, Kazuki Omori, Koki Yamamoto, Naru Ishikuro, Masafumi Sakono:
Vapor-phase synthesis of bimetallic plasmonic nanoparticles.
Analytical Sciences, 36 (2020) 61-65.
 
2019
[1]Naomi Sakono, Kosuke Nakamura, Tatsuki Ohshima, Ryoto Hayakawa, Masafumi Sakono*: 
Tyrosinase-mediated peptide conjugation with chitosan-coated gold nanoparticles.
Analytical Sciences, 35 (2019) 79 - 83.
[2]Rina Sasaki, Reina Tainaka, Yuichi Ando, Yurika Hashi, Deepak Virupaksha, Yoshiko Suga, Yuta Murai, Masaki Anetai, Kenji Monde, Kiminori Ota, Ikuko Ito, Haruhisa Kikuchi, Yoshiteru Oshima, Yasuyuki Endo, Hitomi Nakao, Masafumi Sakono, Koji Uwai, Kiyotaka Tokuraku:
An automated microliter-scale high-throughput screening system (MSHTS) for real-time monitoring of protein aggregation using quantum-dot nanoprobes.
Scientific Reports, 9(2019)2587
 
2018
[1] Tatsuto Kiuchi, Masayuki Izumi, Yuki Mukogawa, Arisa Shimada, Ryo Okamoto, Akira Seko, Masafumi Sakono, Yoichi Takeda, Yukishige Ito, and Yasuhiro Kajihara:
Monitoring of glycoprotein quality control system with a series of chemically synthesized homogeneous native and misfolded glycoproteins.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(2018) 17499-17507.
 
2017
[1] Tatsuki Ohshima, Masafumi Sakono*:
Enzymatic installation of functional molecules on amyloid-based polymers.
Bioconjugate Chemistry, 28(2017) 2687-2691.
[2] Hitomi Nakao,Akira Seko, Yukishige Ito, Masafumi Sakono*:
PDI family protein ERp29 recognizes P-domain of molecular chaperone calnexin.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 487(2017) 763-767.
[3] Masafumi Sakono*, Tomoya Kidani:
ATP-independent inhibition of amyloid beta fibrillation by the endoplasmic reticulum resident molecular chaperone GRP78.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 493(2017) 500-503.
 
2016
[1] Masakazu Hachisu, Akira Seko, Shusaku Daikoku, Yoichi Takeda, Masafumi Sakono, Yukishige Ito:
Hydrophobic Tagged Dihydrofolate Reductase for Creating Misfolded Glycoprotein Mimetics.
ChemBioChem,17 (2016)300-303.
[2] Masafumi Sakono*, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Masakazu Hachisu, Akihiko Koizumi, Kohki Fujikawa, Hideharu Seto, Yukishige Ito:
Influence of high-mannose glycan whose glucose moiety is substituted with 5-thioglucose on calnexin/calreticulin cycle.
RSC Advances, 6 (2016)76879-76882.
[3] Kenta Kitauchi, Masafumi Sakono*:
Glycoprotein quality control-related proteins effectively inhibit fibrillation of amyloid beta 1・2. >
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 481 (2016) 227-231.
 
2014
[1] Masafumi Sakono*, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Yukishige Ito:
PDI family protein ERp29 forms 1:1 complex with lectin chaperone calreticulin.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 452 (2014) 27-31.
[2] Masafumi Sakono, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Jun-ichi Aikawa, Masakazu Hachisu, Akihiko Koizumi, Kohki Fujikawa, Yukishige Ito:
Glycan specificity of a testis-specific lectin chaperone calmegin and effects of hydrophobic interactions.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, 1840 (2014) 2904-2913.
[3] Simone Dedola, Masayuki Izumi, Yutaka Makimura, Akira Seko, Akiko Kanamori, Masafumi Sakono, Yukishige Ito, and Yasuhiro Kajihara:
Folding of Synthetic Homogeneous Glycoproteins in the Presence of a Glycoprotein Folding Sensor Enzyme.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53 (2014) 2883-2887.
 
2013
[1] Yoichi Takeda, Akira Seko, Masafumi Sakono, Masakazu Hachisu, Akihiko Koizumi,Kohki Fujikawa, and Yukishige Ito:
Parallel Quantification of Lectin;lycan Interaction using Ultrafiltration. >
Carbohydrate Research, 375号 (2013) pp. 112-117.
[2] Karin Margareta Sorgjerd, Tamotsu Zako, Masafumi Sakono, Peter C Stirling, Michel R Leroux, Takashi Saito, Per Nilsson, Misaki Sekimoto, Takaomi C. Saido, and Mizuo Maeda:
Human prefoldin inhibits Aβ fibrillation and contributes to formation of non-toxic Aβ aggregates.
Biochemistry, 52号 (2013) pp. 3532-3542.
[3] Masafumi Sakono, Arata Utsumi, Tamotsu Zako, Tetsuya Abe, Masafumi Yohda and Mizuo Maeda:
Formation of non-toxic Ab fibrils by small heat shock protein under heat-stress conditions.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 430号 (2013) pp. 1259-1264.
 
2012
[1] Masafumi Sakono, Akira Seko, Yoichi Takeda, Masakazu Hachisu, and Yukishige Ito:
Biophysical properties of UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase, a folding sensor enzyme in the ER, delineated by synthetic probes.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 426号 (2012) pp. 504-510.
[2] Masayuki Izumi, Yutaka Makimura, Simone Dedola, Akira Seko, Akiko Kanamori, Masafumi Sakono, Yukishige Ito and Yasuhiro Kajihara:
Chemical Synthesis of Intentionally Misfolded Homogeneous Glycoprotein: A Unique Approach for the Study of Glycoprotein Quality Control.,
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134号(2012) pp. 7238-7241.
[3] Masafumi Sakono*, Tamotsu Zako, Masafumi Yohda and Mizuo Maeda:
Amyloid oligomer detection by immobilized molecular chaperone.,
Biochemical Engineering Journal, 61 号(2012) pp. 28-33.
[4] Tamotsu Zako, Masafumi Sakono, Takahiro Kobayashi, Karin Sorgjerd, K. Peter R. Nilsson, Per Hammarstrom, Mikael Lindgren, and Mizuo Maeda:
Cell interaction study of amyloid using luminescent conjugated polythiophene: Implication that amyloid cytotoxicity is correlated with prolonged cellular binding.,
ChemBioChem, 13号 (2012) pp. 358-363.
[5] Masafumi Sakono*, Tamotsu Zako, and Mizuo Maeda:
Naked-eye detection of amyloid aggregates by gold nanoparticles conjugated with amyloid beta antibody.,
Analytical Sciences, 28号 (2012) pp. 73-76.
[6] Tomohiro Hiraishi, Koichi Yamashita, Masafumi Sakono, Jun Nakanishi, Tan Liu Tzea, Kumar Sudesh, Hideki Abe, and Mizuo Maeda:
Display of Functionally Active PHB Depolymerase on Escherichia coli.,
Macromolecular Bioscience 12号 (2012), pp. 218-224.
 
2011
[1] Masafumi Sakono*, Shigenori Akiyama, Tamotsu Zako, Shujiro Sakaki, Tomonori Waku, Naoki Tanaka, and Mizuo Maeda:
Immobilized insulin amyloid enhances cell adhesion and proliferation due to interaction with fibronectin.,
Chemistry Letters 40号(2011), pp. 315-317
[2] Masafumi Sakono, Konomi Motomura, Tatsuo Maruyama, Noriho Kamiya, and Masahiro Goto:
Alpha casein micelles show not only molecular chaperone-like aggregation inhibition properties but also protein refolding activity from the denatured state.,
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 404号 (2011), pp. 494-497.
[3] Masafumi Sakono, Shigenori Akiyama, Tamotsu Zako, Shujiro Sakaki, Tomonori Waku, Naoki Tanaka, and Mizuo Maeda:
Application of two morphologically different fibrillar and filamentous insulin amyloids as a biomaterial for cell culture surfaces.,
Reactive and Functional Polymers 71号 (2011), pp. 324-328.
 
2010
[1] Tamotsu Zako, Shinya Banba, Muhamad Sahlan, Masafumi Sakono, Naofumi Terada, Masafumi Yohda, and Mizuo Maeda:
Hyperthermophilic archaeal prefoldin shows refolding activity at low temperature.,
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 391号 (2010), pp. 467-470.
[2] Kazuki Bando, Tamotsu Zako, Masafumi Sakono, Mizuo Maeda, Takehiko Wada, Masaki Nishijima, Gaku Fukuhara, Cheng Yang, Tadashi Mori, Tamara C. S. Pace, Cornelia Bohne and Yoshihisa Inoue:
Bio-supramolecular photochirogenesis with molecular chaperone: enantiodifferentiating photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylate mediated by prefoldin.,
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 9号 (2010), pp. 655-660
[3] Masafumi Sakono*, Tamotsu Zako, Srdja Drakulic, Jose M Valpuesta, Masafumi Yohda and Mizuo Maeda:
Size-selective recognition of gold nanoparticles by a molecular chaperone.,
Chemical Physics Letters 501号 (2010), pp. 108-112.
 
-2009
[1] Tamotsu Zako, Masafumi Sakono, Naomi Hashimoto, Masaki Ihara, and Mizuo Maeda:
Bovine insulin filaments induced by reducing disulfide bonds show a different morphology, secondary structure, and cell toxicity from intact insulin amyloid fibrils.,
Biophysical Journal 96号 (2009), pp. 3331-3340.
[2] Tamotsu Zako, Hiroyasu Nagata, Naofumi Terada, Arata Utsumi, Masafumi Sakono, Masafumi Yohda, Hiroshi Ueda, Kohei Soga, and Mizuo Maeda:
Cyclic RGD peptide-labeled upconversion nanophosphors for tumor cell-targeted imaging.,
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 381号 (2009), pp. 54-58.
[3] Jun Okada, Tatsuo Maruyama, Konomi Motomura, Kimiko Kuroki, Kkatsumi Maenaka, Masafumi Sakono, and Masahiro Goto:
Enzyme-mediated protein refolding.,
Chemical Communications (2009) pp. 7197-7199.
[4] Masafumi Sakono, Tamotsu Zako, Hiroshi Ueda, Masafumi Yohda, and Mizuo Maeda:
Formation of highly toxic soluble amyloid beta oligomers by the molecular chaperone prefoldin.,
FEBS Journal 275号 (2008), pp. 5982-5993.
[5] Tamotsu Zako, Hiroyasu Nagata, Naofumi Terada, Masafumi Sakono, Kohei Soga, and Mizuo Maeda:
Improvement of dispersion stability and characterization of upconversion nanophosphors covalently modified with PEG as a fluorescence bioimaging probe.,
Journal of Materials Science 43号 (2008), pp. 5325-5330.
[6] Masafumi Sakono, Tatsuo Maruyama, Noriho Kamiya, and Masahiro Goto:
Refolding of denatured carbonic anhydrase B by reversed micelles formulated with nonionic surfactant.,
Biochemical Engineering Journal 19号 (2004), pp. 217-220.
[7] Masafumi Sakono, Yumi Kawashima, Hirofumi Ichinose, Tatsuo Maruyama, Noriho Kamiya, and Masahiro Goto:
Direct refolding of inclusion bodies using reversed micelles.,
Biotechnology Progress 20号 (2004) pp. 1783-1787.
[8] 迫野昌文, 河嶋優美, 一瀬博文, 丸山達生, 後藤雅宏, 古崎新太郎:
逆ミセルによるインクルージョンボディの高効率リフォールディング,
化学工学論文集 30号 (2004), pp. 468-473.
[9] 河嶋優美, 迫野昌文, 一瀬博文, 後藤雅宏, 古崎新太郎:
ナノ集合体の孤立空間を利用した変性タンパク質の高効率リフォールディング,
Membrane(膜)28号, pp 29-36 (2003)
[10] Masafumi Sakono, Hirofumi Ichinose, and Masahiro Goto:
Protein refolding in nanostructured reversed micelles including a molecular chaperone.,
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 96号 (2003), pp. 275-278.
[11] Masafumi Sakono, Masahiro Goto, and Shintaro Furusaki:
Refolding of cytochrome c using reversed micelles.,
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 89号 (2000), pp. 458-462.
[12] Masahiro Goto, Takaaki Fujita, Masafumi Sakono, Shintaro Furusaki:
Novel protein refolding by reversed micelles.,
Progress in Biotechnology 16号 (2000), pp. 113-118.