Bioprocess Engineering Lab · Kajita Group

Publications

* corresponding author; † equal contribution as first authors.

Peer-reviewed papers

  1. Kajita MK, Konishi Y, Hatakeyama TS*. “Active thermodynamic force driven mitochondrial alignment.” Physical Review Research 6, L022024 (2024). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022024 arXiv: 2305.05553

  2. Okamoto Y†, Hirano M†, Morino K, Kajita MK*, Nakaoka S, Tsuda M, Sugimoto K, Tamaki S, Hisatake J, Yokoyama H, Igarashi T, Shinagawa A, Sugawara T, Hara S, Fujikawa K, Shimizu S, Yujiri T, Wakita H, Nishiwaki K, Tojo A, Aihara K*. “Early dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia on nilotinib predicts deep molecular response.” npj Systems Biology and Applications 8, 39 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41540-022-00248-3 bioRxiv: 10.1101/2021.02.17.431221

  3. Xin Z†, Kajita MK†, Deguchi K, Suye S, Fujita S. “Time-series clustering of single-cell trajectories in collective cell migration.” Cancers 14 (19), 4587 (2022). doi: 10.3390/cancers14194587

  4. Matsumoto N, Hori I, Kajita MK, Murase T, Nakamura W, Tsuji T, Miyake S, Inatani M, Konishi Y*. “Intermitochondrial signaling regulates the uniform distribution of stationary mitochondria in axons.” Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 119, 103704 (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2022.103704 bioRxiv: 10.1101/2020.07.31.230250

  5. Kajita MK*. “An error correction mechanism for reliable chemical communication systems.” Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life 7 (1), 52–57 (2020). doi: 10.2991/jrnal.k.200512.011

  6. Kajita MK*, Aihara K, Kobayashi TJ. “Reliable target ligand detection by noise-induced receptor cluster formation.” Chaos 30 (1), 011104 (2020). doi: 10.1063/1.5140714 University of Fukui Repository: hdl:10098/10840

  7. Kajita MK*, Aihara K, Kobayashi TJ. “Balancing specificity, sensitivity, and speed of ligand discrimination by zero-order ultraspecificity.” Physical Review E 96 (1), 012405 (2017). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.012405 arXiv: 1611.05814

  8. Kajita MK*, Yokota R, Aihara K, Kobayashi TJ. “Experimental and theoretical bases for mechanisms of antigen discrimination by T cells.” Biophysics 11, 85–92 (2015). doi: 10.2142/biophysics.11.85

Book contributions

  • Kajita MK. “T cell activation” (Chapter 6, Medicine, Column 11). In: Iwasa Y, Ohtsuki H, Satake A, Mochizuki A (eds.), Riron Seibutsugaku Jiten [Encyclopedia of Theoretical Biology]. Asakura Publishing (2025). (in Japanese) ISBN 978-4-254-17203-4

Review / other

  • Kajita MK. “Quantitative biology of ligand discrimination by immune T cells.” Seisan Kenkyu 71 (2), 125–132 (2019). (in Japanese) doi: 10.11188/seisankenkyu.71.125

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