Obituary: Nobuhiko Saitô, a man who understood protein folding in his own way

Yura, Kei

doi:10.2142/biophysico.13.0_245

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“…Professor Nobuhiko Saitô was a core initial member of biophysics research at Waseda University where he studied the protein folding problem up to 1988 when he retired (Yura 2016). The main topic of the Saitô laboratory was the elucidation of the protein folding pathway and the prediction of the secondary/tertiary structure from amino acid sequence only with computational tools and databases (Saitô et al 1988).…”

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Biophysics at Waseda University

2020

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Biophysics in Waseda University was started in 1965 as one of the three key research areas that constitute the Physics Department. In the biophysics group, one theoretical lab and two experimental labs are now working on the cutting-edge themes on biophysics, disseminating the ideas and knowledge of biophysics to undergraduate and graduate students from the viewpoint of physics. Keywords Molecular machine • Polymorphism • Allostery • Bioinformatics • Computational biology • Myosin • Actin • Cofilin • On-chip cellomics • Community effect of cells • "Algebraic" system • "Geometric" system What is Waseda University? Waseda University is one of the leading Japanese private research universities located in Shinjuku, the center of Tokyo Metropolis, with about 40,000 undergraduate students and 9,000 postgraduate students. The University was established as Tokyo Senmon Gakko (Tokyo College) on October 21, 1882 by Marquess ShigenobuŌkuma, the 5th Prime Minister of Japan, and was formally renamed to Waseda University in 1902 after the location of the founder's villa in Waseda Village. The University started from three departments, political science and economics, law, and physical science, and is now organized into ten divisions covering 13 undergraduate schools, 24 graduate schools, 21 research institutes, and 9 affiliated institutes at the central campus in Shinjuku, and other branch campuses in Chūō, Nishitōkyō, Tokorozawa, Honjō, and Kitakyūshū. Mission statement of the University was proclaimed by President ShigenobuŌkuma on Waseda University's 30th anniversary in October 1913 as "Waseda University holds as its founding principles the preservation of the independence of scholarship, the promotion of the practical application of

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“…His obituary will appear first in this special issue written by Kei Yura [1], one of the last graduates of Saitô’s laboratory in 1980s. We try to organize this special issue as a review of the work in biophysics by late Nobuhiko Saitô, especially protein folding study and current extension of his work by other researchers.…”

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