Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Kazuhiro Oiwa"
- Kazuhiro Oiwa's recent research primarily focuses on understanding the mechanical and physiological roles of cytoskeletal proteins, particularly microtubules and motors like dynein and kinesin, in cellular transport, movement, and organization processes.
- His studies reveal how mechanical stress influences the behavior of microtubules and their interactions with motor proteins, highlighting mechanisms such as microtubule alignment under stress and self-organized flows in biological droplets.
- Oiwa's work also advances synthetic systems and biotechnological applications by developing programmable transport mechanisms using engineered protein motors on DNA nanotubes, contributing to the understanding of cargo transport dynamics at a molecular level.
