Naoki Sakai

This study identifies amino acid substitutions in KIF5A from giraffes and pythons that enhance axonal transport speed, revealing convergent evolutionary adaptations for long-distance transport.

This study determines the crystal structure of BCG3185c and identifies a large pocket near its catalytic center that may bind agelasine D, suggesting its role in inhibiting Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth.

This paper demonstrates the use of intensity-based hierarchical clustering to detect structural polymorphs in diffraction datasets from multiple crystals.