Contact Information

Name
Kota KASAHARA, Ph.D.
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliation
Computational Structural Biology Lab., College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Address
1-1-1, Noji-higashi, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan
E-mail
ktkshr <at> fc.ritsumeikan.ac.jp

Publication List

Articles

  • *: Corresponding author(s). / †: Joint first authors.
      Kota Kasahara, Hideyuki Tsuboi, Michihisa Koyama, Akira Endou, Momoji Kubo, Calros Adriel Del Carpio, *Akira Miyamoto "Tight-Binding Quantum Chemical Molecular Dynamics Study on First Proton Transfer Process of ORR Catalyzed by Cobalt-Porphyrin Complex." 2006 Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 9 A490-A493 doi: 10.1149/1.2336985 URL *Kota Kasahara, Kengo Kinoshita, Toshihisa Takagi "Ligand-binding site prediction of proteins based on known fragment-fragment interactions." 2010 Bioinformatics 26(12) 1493-1499 doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq232 PubMed URL *Takeshi Obayashi, Kozo Nishida, Kota Kasahara, Kengo Kinoshita "ATTED-II updates: condition-specific gene coexpression to extend coexpression analyses and applications to a broad range of flowering plants." 2011 Plant and Cell Physiology 52 213-219 doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcq203 PubMed URL Kota Kasahara, Matsuyuki Shirota, *Kengo Kinoshita "Comprehensive classification and diversity assessment of atomic contacts in protein-small ligand interactions." 2013 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 53(1) 241-248 doi: 10.1021/ci300377f PubMed URL Kota Kasahara, Matsuyuki Shirota, *Kengo Kinoshita "Ion Concentration-Dependent Ion Conduction Mechanism of a Voltage-Sensitive Potassium Channel." 2013 PLoS ONE 8:e56342 1-8 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056342 PubMed URL Kota Kasahara, *Kengo Kinoshita "GIANT: pattern analysis of molecular interactions in 3D structures of protein–small ligand complexes." 2014 BMC Bioinformatics 15:12 1-6 doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-12 PubMed URL Bhaskar Dasgupta, Kota Kasahara, Narutoshi Kamiya, Haruki Nakamura, *Akira R Kinjo "ATTED-II updates: condition-specific gene coexpression to extend coexpression analyses and applications to a broad range of flowering plants." 2014 PLoS ONE 9:e91347 1-16 do+I6i: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091347 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Ikuo Fukuda, Haruki Nakamura "A Novel Approach of Dynamic Cross Correlation Analysis on Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Its Application to Ets1 Dimer-DNA Complex." 2014 PLoS ONE 9(11):e112419 1-13 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112419 PubMed URL *Junichi Higo, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Tadaaki Mashimo, Kota Kasahara, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Haruki Nakamura "Virtual-system-coupled adaptive umbrella sampling to compute free-energy landscape for flexible molecular docking." 2015 Journal of Computational Chemistry 36(20) 1489-1501 doi: 10.1002/jcc.23948 PubMed URL Kota Kasahara, Matsuyuki Shirota, *Kengo Kinoshita "Ion Concentration- and Voltage-Dependent Push and Pull Mechanisms of Potassium Channel Ion Conduction" 2016 PLoS ONE 11:e0150716 1-15 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150716 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Neetha Mohan, Ikuo Fukuda, Haruki Nakamura "mDCC_tools: characterizing multi-modal atomic motions in molecular dynamics trajectories" 2016 Bioinformatics 32(16) 2531-2533 doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw129 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Kengo Kinoshita "Landscape of protein-small ligand binding modes." 2016 Protein Science 25(9) 1659-1671 doi: 10.1002/pro.2971 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Benson Ma, Kota Goto, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Junichi Higo, Ikuo Fukuda, Tadaaki Mashimo, Yutaka Akiyama, Haruki Nakamura "myPresto/omegagene: a GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics simulator tailored for enhanced conformational sampling methods with a non-Ewald electrostatic scheme" 2016 Biophysics and Physicobiology 13 209-216 doi: 10.2142/biophysico.13.0_209 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Kengo Kinoshita "IBiSA_tools: A Computational Toolkit for Ion-binding State Analysis in Molecular Dynamics Trajectories of Ion Channels " 2016 PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167524 1-9 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167524 PubMed URL Hasitha Muthumala Waidyasooriya, Masanori Hariyama, Kota Kasahara "An FPGA Accelerator for Molecular Dynamics Simulation Using OpenCL" 2017 International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing 5(1) 52-61 doi: 10.1109/ICIS.2016.7550743 URL *Junichi Higo, Kota Kasahara, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Haruki Nakamura "Enhancement of canonical sampling by virtual-state transitions" 2017 The Journal of Chemical Physics 146: 044104 1-12 doi: 10.1063/1.4974087 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Masaaki Shiina, Ikuo Fukuda, Kazuhiro Ogata, Haruki Nakamura "Molecular mechanisms of cooperative binding of transcription factors Runx1–CBFβ–Ets1 on the TCRα gene enhancer." 2017 PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172654 1-18 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172654 PubMed URL Hasitha Muthumala Waidyasooriya, Masanori Hariyama, Kota Kasahara "OpenCL-Based Implementation of an FPGA Accelerator for Molecular Dynamics Simulation." 2017 Information Engineering Express 3(2) 11-23 URL *Junichi Higo, Kota Kasahara, Haruki Nakamura "Multi-dimensional virtual system introduced to enhance canonical sampling." 2017 The Journal of Chemical Physics 147: 134102 1-13 doi: 10.1063/1.4986129 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Shun Sakuraba, Ikuo Fukuda "Enhanced Sampling of Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Polyalanine Octapeptide: Effects of the Periodic Boundary Conditions on Peptide Conformation" 2018 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122(9) 2495-2503 doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10830 PubMed URL *†Kota Kasahara, *†Masaaki Shiina, Junichi Higo, Kazuhiro Ogata, Haruki Nakamura "Phosphorylation of an intrinsically disordered region of Ets1 shifts a multi-modal interaction ensemble to an auto-inhibitory state." 2018 Nucleic Acids Research 46(5) 2243-2251 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1297 PubMed URL †Naoki Ogasawara​, *†Kota Kasahara​​, Ryosuke Iwai, Takuya Takahashi "Unfolding of α-helical 20-residue poly-glutamic acid analyzed by multiple runs of canonical molecular dynamics simulations" 2018 PeerJ 6:e4769 1-17 doi: 10.7717/peerj.4769 PubMed URL Tomonori Hayami, Kota Kasahara, Haruki Nakamura, *Junichi Higo "Molecular Dynamics Coupled with a Virtual System for Effective Conformational Sampling" 2018 Journal of Computational Chemistry 39(19) 1291-1299 doi: 10.1002/jcc.25196 PubMed URL †Ryosuke Iwai, *†Kota Kasahara, Takuya Takahashi "Influence of various parameters in the replica-exchange molecular dynamics method: Number of replicas, replica-exchange frequency, and thermostat coupling time constant" 2018 Biophysics and Physicobiology 15 165-172 doi: 10.2142/biophysico.15.0_165 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Shintaro Minami, Yasunori Aizawa "Characteristics of interactions at protein segments without non-local intramolecular contacts in the Protein Data Bank" 2018 PLoS ONE 13(12): e0205052. 1-14 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205052 PubMed URL Shinji Iida, Takeshi Kawabata, Kota Kasahara, Haruki Nakamura, *Junichi Higo "Multimodal Structural Distribution of the p53 C-Terminal Domain upon Binding to S100B via a Generalized Ensemble Method: From Disorder to Extradisorder" 2019 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 15(4) 2597-2607 doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01042 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Hiroki Terazawa, Takuya Takahashi, Junichi Higo "Studies on molecular dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins and their fuzzy complexes: A mini-review" 2019 Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 17 712-720 doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2019.06.009 PubMed URL Tomonori Hayami, Junichi Higo, Haruki Nakamura, *Kota Kasahara "Multidimensional virtual-system coupled canonical molecular dynamics to compute free-energy landscapes of peptide multimer assembly" 2019 Journal of Computational Chemistry 40(28) 2453-2463 doi: 10.1002/jcc.26020 PubMed URL Yusuke Nomoto, Yukihiro Kubota, Yuto Ohnishi, Kota Kasahara, Aimi Tomita, Takehiro Oshime, Hiroki Yamashita, Muhamad Fahmi, *Masahiro Ito "Gene Cascade Finder: A tool for identification of gene cascades and its application in Caenorhabditis elegans" 2019 PLoS ONE 14(9):e0215187 1–16 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215187 PubMed URL †Takuya Shimato, *†Kota Kasahara, Junichi Higo, Takuya Takahashi "Effects of number of parallel runs and frequency of bias-strength replacement in generalized ensemble molecular dynamics simulations." 2019 PeerJ Physical Chemistry 1:e4 1–20 doi: 10.7717/peerj-pchem.4 URL *Junichi Higo, Kota Kasahara, Mitsuhito Wada, Bhaskar Dasgupta, Narutoshi Kamiya, Tomonori Hayami, Ikuo Fukuda, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, *Haruki Nakamura "Free-energy landscape of molecular interactions between endothelin 1 and human endothelin type B receptor: Fly-casting mechanism" 2019 Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 32(7) 297–308 doi: 10.1093/protein/gzz029 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Yuki Takimoto, Ryoi Ashida, Takuya Takahashi "Effects of ion–water Lennard-Jones potentials on the hydration dynamics around a monovalent atomic ion in molecular dynamics simulations." 2020 Molecular Simulation 46(2) 83-91 doi: 10.1080/08927022.2019.1675883 URL *Masatake Sugita, Masataka Hamano, Kota Kasahara, Takeshi Kikuchi, Fumio Hirata "New Protocol for Predicting the Ligand-Binding Site and Mode Based on the 3D-RISM/KH Theory" 2020 Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 16(4) 2864–2876 doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01069 PubMed URL *Junichi Higo, Takeshi Kawabata, Ayumi Kusaka, Kota Kasahara, Narutoshi Kamiya, Ikuo Fukuda, Kentaro Mori, Yutaka Hata, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Haruki Nakamura "Molecular interaction mechanism of a 14-3-3 protein with a phosphorylated peptide elucidated by enhanced conformational sampling" 2020 Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 60(10) 4767-4880 doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00551 PubMed URL *Kota Kasahara, Hiroki Terazawa, Hayato Itaya, Satoshi Goto, Haruki Nakamura, Takuya Takahashi, Junichi Higo "myPresto/omegagene 2020: a molecular dynamics simulation engine for virtual-system coupled sampling" 2020 Biophysics and Physicobiology 17 140-146 doi: 10.2142/biophysico.BSJ-2020013 PubMed URL *Junichi Higo, Ayumi Kusaka, Kota Kasahara, Narutoshi Kamiya, Itaya Hayato, Xie Qilin, Takuya Takahashi, Ikuo Fukuda, Kentaro Mori, Yutaka Hata, Yoshifumi Fukunishi "GA-guided mD-VcMD: A genetic-algorithm-guided method for multi-dimensional virtual-system coupled molecular dynamics" 2020 Biophysics and Physicobiology 17 161-176 doi: 10.2142/biophysico.BSJ-2020008 PubMed URL Tomonori Hayami, Narutoshi Kamiya, *Kota Kasahara, Takeshi Kawabata, Jun-ichi Kurita, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Haruki Nakamura, *Junichi Higo "Difference of binding modes among three ligands to a receptor mSin3B corresponding to their inhibitory activities" 2021 Scientific Reports 11 6178 doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-139177 PubMed URL Hayato Itaya, *Kota Kasahara, Qilin Xie, Yoshiaki Yano, Katsumi Matsuzaki, Takuya Takahashi "All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Elucidating Molecular Mechanisms of Single-Transmembrane Model Peptide Dimerization in a Lipid Bilayer" 2021 ACS Omega 6(17) 11458–11465 doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00482 PubMed URL *Shun Sakuraba, Qilin Xie, Kota Kasahara, Junichi Iwakiri, Hidetoshi Kono "Extended ensemble simulations of a SARS-CoV-2 nsp1-5'-UTR complex" 2022 PLoS Computational Biology 18(1) e1009804 doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009804 PubMed URL Ryohei Kondo, *Kota Kasahara, Takuya Takahashi "Information quantity for secondary structure propensities of protein subsequences in the Protein Data Bank" 2022 Biophysics and Physicobiology e190002 doi: 10.2142/biophysico.bppb-v19.0002 URL

    Reviews (Japanese)

      笠原浩太, 城田松之, 木下賢吾 "分子動力学シミュレーションによるタンパク質動的構造の解明:電位依存カリウムチャネルでの適用を例として" 2013 生化学 第85巻 第8号656–662 URL 笠原浩太, 椎名政昭, 肥後順一, 緒方一博, 中村春木 "蛋白質の天然変性領域の化学修飾による特異的構造誘起と活性制御機構" 2018 アンサンブル 第20巻 第4号253–259 URL

    Books (Japanese)

      柳田敏雄, 木下賢吾, 笠原浩太, 木寺詔紀 , 林重彦, 江口至洋, 高木周 "計算と生命(岩波講座 計算化学 第4巻)" 2012 岩波書店 url 中村春木編(笠原浩太ほか9名) "見てわかる構造生命科学-生命科学研究へのタンパク質構造の利用" 2014 化学同人 url 技術情報協会編(笠原浩太他81名) "in silico創薬におけるスクリーニングの高速化・高精度化技術" 2018 技術情報協会 url 白木賢太郎編 "相分離生物学の全貌(現代化学増刊46)" 2020 東京化学同人 url 日本バイオインフォマティクス学会編 "バイオインフォマティクス入門 第2版" 2021 慶応義塾大学出版 url Editors: Timir Tripathi, Vikash Dubey "Advances in Protein Molecular and Structural Biology Methods" 2022 ELSEVIER url

    Software/Database

    Curriculum Vitae

    C.V.

    Jan 8th, 1983
    Hello, world.
    Apr,1st,1998−Mar,19th,2003
    Department of Material Engeneering, Nagaoka College, National Institute of Technology, Japan
    Apr,1st,2003−Mar,2005
    Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engeneering, Tohoku University
    Undergraduate student
    (Supervisor: Prof. Akira Miyamoto)
    Apr,1st,2005−Mar,27th,2007
    Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engeneering, Tohoku University
    Master course student
    (Supervisor: Prof. Akira Miyamoto)
    Apr,1st,2007−Sep,27th,2010
    Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
    Ph.D. course student
    (Supervisor: Prof. Toshihisa Takagi)
    Apr,2008−Mar,2009
    Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)
    Oct,1st,2010−Dec,31st,2012
    Department of Applied Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
    Postdoc.
    (PI: Prof. Kengo Kinoshita)
    Jan,1st,2013−Mar,31st,2016
    Research Center for State-of-the-Art Functional Protein Analysis, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
    Postdoc.
    (PI: Prof. Haruki Nakamura)
    Apr,1st,2016−Present
    Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
    Assistant Professor.
    (PI: Prof. Takuya Takahashi)

    Affiliated Academic Organizations

    • Protein Science Society of Japan
    • Biophisical Society of Japan
    • Japanese Society for Bioinformatics