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The intracellular phospholipase A₁ protein family

• Katsuko Tani

  Katsuko Tani obtained her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1991. Her thesis involved developing a model for protein transport across the E. coli membrane. Her mentor was Dr. Shoji Mizushima. She underwent her postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. James E. Rothman at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since then, her research interest has been focused on mammalian membrane trafficking. She was subsequently recruited as an assistant professor at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences and was later promoted to professor in 2008. She is currently working on factors involved in protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum in mammalian cells.

  , Takeshi Kogure

  Takeshi Kogure received his PhD in Life Sciences from Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences in 2011. He created and analyzed iPLA₁-family-deficient mice and published his observations in FEBS Letters. His publication was selected by the Faculty of 1000. He is currently working as a researcher in the private sector.

  and Hiroki Inoue

  Hiroki Inoue obtained his PhD in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology from Okayama University in 1997. He studied the structures and functions of proton transporters and ATPases under the supervision of Prof. Hiroshi Kanazawa. From 1997 to 2004, he served as a research associate at Okayama University and Osaka University. From 2004 to 2008, he was a visiting fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Toru Miki and Paul A. Randazzo at the National Cancer Institute in the US, where he researched membrane trafficking and cytoskeleton regulation by Arf and Rho-GTPase family proteins. From 2008 to present, he has been an assistant professor in the laboratory of Prof. Mitsuo Tagaya at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences. His research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms of membrane trafficking under normal and pathological conditions.