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Cell Biochemistry Lab
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A lab that studies how the body works through the collagen surrounding cells and through cholesterol transporters.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding how the body works through the biochemistry of cells.
The Cell Biochemistry Lab studies the various vital functions of mammalian cells, including human cells, from the perspective of the biochemistry of genes and proteins.
Cells in the body proliferate, move, and differentiate in response to their surroundings, such as the collagen that surrounds them.
The lab aims to clarify how cells respond to their extracellular environment and how the body maintains homeostasis, and to use this knowledge to help overcome cancer and lifestyle-related diseases.
Undergraduates are assigned to the lab in their fourth year (graduate school: Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Applied Life Sciences).
Key terms
- Collagen
- One of the proteins that fill the space around cells. It supports the shape of the body's tissues
- Transporter
- A protein in the cell membrane that carries substances into and out of the cell
- Homeostasis
- The function of keeping conditions inside the body constant
NewsLab news
A paper on cholesterol and ABCA1 received the JB Paper Award
A paper on cell differentiation and substrate stiffness was published in Experimental Cell Research
A master's student received the Best Presentation Award at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Transporter Research Group
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how cells change their behavior in response to their extracellular environment, and how the body maintains homeostasis. Abnormalities in these processes can lead to cancer, hyperlipidemia, and other diseases, so the lab aims to use its findings to help overcome disease.
*Illustrative imageHow the extracellular environment changes cells
The lab seeks to clarify how the extracellular environment, such as collagen, which is unique to multicellular animals, regulates cell proliferation and differentiation, and to connect this to an understanding of cancer invasion and metastasis.
*Illustrative imageTransporters that carry cholesterol
The lab clarifies how transporters (such as ABC proteins) that keep the levels of substances in the body, including cholesterol, constant actually work, and aims to apply this to overcoming lifestyle-related diseases such as hyperlipidemia and arteriosclerosis.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Cell Biochemistry Lab consist of faculty, researchers, technical assistants, secretaries, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNoriyuki Kioka
- Associate ProfessorYasuhisa Kimura
- Assistant ProfessorAyaka Ichikawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Wavy collagen” PW31 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- How the extracellular environment changes cells: “Fibroblastid” Heiti Paves / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Transporters that carry cholesterol: “Cholesterol molecule spacefill” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
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