Yoshikuni Nagamine

Yoshikuni Nagamine

Signal transduction and the plasminogen activator system

The plasminogen activator (PA) system plays an important role in processes involving extracellular proteolysis, such as angiogenesis, wound healing, gametogenesis, inflammation and tumor metastasis.
Recent results show a new form of biological regulation by the PA system not involving proteolytic activity in which urokinase-type PA (uPA)-occupied uPA receptor acquires a high affinity for vitronectin, promoting cell adhesion or migration on vitronectin-containing extracellular matrix. Studying regulation of uPA and PA inhibitor-1 by growth factors, we found serine/threonine phosphorylation of the adaptor/docking protein ShcA. Tyrosine phosphorylation of ShcA and its role in signaling have been well documented, but its serine/threonine phosphorylation has been little studied. Our work has revealed a role for serine phosphorylation of ShcA in insulin induced signaling.

PhD students

Simon Lattmann (2005-2010)
Janice Lai (2005-2010)
Katerina Chalupnikova (2004-2008)
Fumiko Iwamoto (2003-2007)
Svetlana Shustova (2004-2007)
Joshi Venugopal (2001-2006)
Sandra Kleiner (2001-2005)
Amir Faisal (2000-2004)
Hoanh Tran (1998-2003)
Magdalena Koziczak (1995-2001)
Lilian Montero (1995-2000)
Mahmoud El-Shemerly (1996-2000)
Jose Pedro Irigoyen (1993-1998)
Daniel DOrazio (1993-1997)
Rene Marksitzer (1993-1997)
Daniel Besser (1991-1996)
Annemarie Ziegler (1986-1991)
Michael Altus (1983-1990)
Zora Kikinis (1986-1990)
David N. Pearson (1983-1990)

Postdoctoral fellows

Nives Selak Bienz (2005-2008)
Nobuyoshi Akimitsu (2003-2005)
Kazuhiko Hanashiro (2000-2003)
Andrea Thiele (2001-2002)
Fabienne Maurer (1999-2001)
May Al-Maghrebi (2001)
Maja Matulic (2001)
Michael Berman (1998-1999)
Christina Kunz (1996-1998)
Rika Nanbu (1992-1996)
Aribert Stief (1989-1995)
Uwe Frixen (1992-1993)
Janet S. Lee (1989-1993)
Pierre-Alain Menoud (1989-1993)
Kuljeet Sing (1992-1993)
Bhanu Rajput (1984-1990)
Florence Botteri (1987-1989)
Jaromir Knesel (1986-1989)
Dietmar Von der Ahe (1985-1988)
Jun-ichi Nakagawa (1984-1987)
Linda Andrus (1983-1984)
Kirsten Biedermann (1983-1984)
Yo-ichi Nabeshima (1983-1984)

Technical/Research associates

Sandra Pauli (2003-2010)
Stéphane Thiry (2002-2009)
Birgitta Kiefer (1988-2003)
Malgorzata Kisielow (1998-2001)
Mazin Soubt (1995-1998)
Petronella C. Hofstetter (1985-1987)

Undergraduates

Morteza Yazdani (2005-2006)
Lauren Smith (2004-2005)
Katerina Chalupnikova (2003-2004)
Maya Zimmermann (2003)
Silke Gerboth (2002-2003)
Marcel Schilling (2001-2002)
Eliza Pandini Figueiredo Moreno (2000-2002)
Nermeen Ahmed Awaddallah (2001)
Sylvane Desrivieres (1992-1993)
Katryn Stacey (1993)
Diana Hoganson (1989-1990)
Katja Wosikowski (1989-1990)
Theodor E. Haerry (1986-1987)
Marsha A. Grattan (1984-1985)
Edmund K. Waller (1983)

Visiting scientists

Mahmoud El-Shemerly (2003)
Toshiyuki Nakasone (2002)
Michiaki Nagasawa (1997-1998)
Wang-Sik Lee (1997)
Ronald Bogusky (1988-1990)
Masaaki Tsuda (1989-1990)
Alexandre Noel (1989)
Benjamin G. Cocks (1988)
Bertfried Jost (1988)
Kazuyuki Takeuchi (1984-1987)
Richard D. Estensen (1983)

Education

1978
PhD, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University, Tokyo
1973
BSc, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University, Tokyo

Positions held

1983-
Senior Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel
1980-1983
Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, New York
1978-1980
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, France