Chikashi Toyoshima

Chikashi Toyoshima ( Japanese 豊 島 近 , Toyoshima Chikashi ; * 1954 in Akita Prefecture ) is a Japanese biophysicist at the University of Tokyo . He is best known for his electron microscopic and X-ray crystallographic work on the structure and function of members of the P-type ATPase family, including the sodium-potassium pump and the calcium pump . His first pictures of an ion pump made it onto the cover of Nature . Toyoshima, he developed novel processes for protein crystallization in phospholipid environments.

Toyoshima grew up in Honjō (now Yurihonjō ). He studied physics at the University of Tokyo, where he obtained a master's degree from Ebashi Setsurō and a D.Sc. in biophysics. Toyoshima then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Nigel Unwin at Stanford University and at the University of Cambridge . He has been back in Japan since 1989, initially as a researcher at RIKEN , and from 1990 as a professor at Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku . Toyoshima has been with the University of Tokyo since 1994. Today he is Professor of Protein Biochemistry and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics .

In 2005 Chikashi Toyoshima was elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences . He received the Asahi Prize from the Asahi Foundation in 2009 and the Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2016 .

literature

• R. Nuzzo: Profile of Chikashi Toyoshima. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103, 2006, pp. 1165-1167, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0508495103 .
• Chikashi Toyoshima: The road to understanding an ion pump. In: Physica Scripta. 91, 2016, p. 042501, doi : 10.1088 / 0031-8949 / 91/4/042501 .

Web links

• Lab. of Membrane Proteins, Toyoshima Group and professional positions at the University of Tokyo (u-tokyo.ac.jp), Toyoshima kenkyū-shitsu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 朝日 賞 -The Asahi Prize – ２００９ （平 成 ２１） 年度 受 賞 者 一 覧 . In: asahi.com . Retrieved September 16, 2018 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Chikashi Toyoshima. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
3. ^ The Asahi Prize - English Information. In: asahi.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018 (Japanese). 
4. ^ Chikashi Toyoshima - Gregori Aminoff Prize. In: kva.se. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , accessed on September 16, 2018 : "for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes" 
5. ^ Gregori Aminoff Prize 2016. In: kva.se. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, September 10, 2015, accessed September 16, 2018 .