Job title |
Professor |
Laboratory |
Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry |
Room |
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, Room 441 |
E-mail address |
hitomi at ps.nagoya-u.ac.jp |
Outside line |
+81-52-747-6807 |
Fields of research |
Biochemistry and molecular biology(Protein modification, transglutaminase、animal cell culture、monoclonal antibody, medaka) |
Outline of research
Mammalian transglutaminase, a protein cross-linking enzyme, is involved in biological events such as blood coagulation and skin formation. Through the identification and application of highly reactive substrate peptides, we employ several approaches to elucidate the physiological significance of this enzyme.