ZFIN Person: Hama, Kotaro

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-060315-3

Hama, Kotaro

Email:	khama@mail.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp
URL:	http://www.ciwemb.edu/labs/farber/index.php
Affiliation:
Address:	Carnegie Institution Department of Embryology 3520 San Martin Drive Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
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Phone:	(410) 554-8196
Fax:	(410) 243-6311
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Kawaguchi, M., Okabe, T., Okudaira, S., Hama, K., Kano, K., Nishimasu, H., Nakagawa, H., Ishitani, R., Kojima, H., Nureki, O., Aoki, J., Nagano, T. (2020) Identification of potent in vivo autotaxin inhibitors that bind to both hydrophobic pocket and channel in the catalytic domain. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 63(6):3188-3204

Nishioka, T., Arima, N., Kano, K., Hama, K., Itai, E., Yukiura, H., Kise, R., Inoue, A., Kim, S.H., Solnica-Krezel, L., Moolenaar, W.H., Chun, J., Aoki, J. (2016) ATX-LPA1 axis contributes to proliferation of chondrocytes by regulating fibronectin assembly leading to proper cartilage formation. Scientific Reports. 6:23433

Nakanaga, K., Hama, K., Kano, K., Sato, T., Yukiura, H., Inoue, A., Saigusa, D., Tokuyama, H., Tomioka, Y., Nishina, H., Kawahara, A., and Aoki, J. (2014) Overexpression of autotaxin, a lysophosphatidic acid-producing enzyme, enhances cardia bifida induced by hypo-sphingosine-1-phosphate signaling in zebrafish embryo. Journal of biochemistry. 155(4):235-41

Yukiura, H., Hama, K., Nakanaga, K., Tanaka, M., Asaoka, Y., Okudaira, S., Arima, N., Inoue, A., Hashimoto, T., Arai, H., Kawahara, A., Nishina, H., and Aoki, J. (2011) Autotaxin regulates vascular development via multiple lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptors in zebrafish. The Journal of biological chemistry. 286(51):43972-83

Clifton, J.D., Lucumi, E., Myers, M.C., Napper, A., Hama, K., Farber, S.A., Smith, A.B. 3rd, Huryn, D.M., Diamond, S.L., and Pack, M. (2010) Identification of novel inhibitors of dietary lipid absorption using zebrafish. PLoS One. 5(8):e12386

Hama, K., Provost, E., Baranowski, T.C., Rubinstein, A.L., Anderson, J.L., Leach, S.D., and Farber, S.A. (2009) In vivo imaging of zebrafish digestive organ function using multiple quenched fluorescent reporters. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology. 296(2):G445-G453

Ouyang, M., Garnett, A.T., Han, T.M., Hama, K., Lee, A., Deng, Y., Lee, N., Liu, H.Y., Amacher, S.L., Farber, S.A., and Ho, S.Y. (2008) A web based resource characterizing the zebrafish developmental profile of over 16,000 transcripts. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 8(3):171-180

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