Laboratory of Integrated Biology, Dept. Integrated Biosciences, Grad. Sch. Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

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  1. Sakamoto, T.*, Sakamoto, Y., Grob, S., Slane, D., Yamashita, T., Ito, N., Oko, Y., Sugiyama, T., Higaki, T., Hasezawa, S., Tanaka, M., Matsui, A., Seki, M., Suzuki, T., Grossniklaus, U. and Matsunaga, S.* (2022) Two-step regulation of centromere distribution by condensin II and the nuclear envelope proteins. Nature Plants, 8, 940-953 (14 pages). [Link][Press Release][AAAS][Research Briefing]
  2. Onosato, H., Fujimoto, G., Higami, T., Sakamoto, T., Yamada, A., Suzuki, T., Ozawa, R., Matsunaga, S., Seki, M., Ueda, M., Sako, K., Galis, I. and Arimura, G.*(2022) Sustained defense response via volatile signaling and its epigenetic transcriptional regulation. Plant Physiol., 189, 922-933 (12 pages).
  3. Kim, J.-S., Sakamoto, Y., Takahashi, F., Shibata, M., Urano, K., Matsunaga, S., Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K. and Shinozaki, K.* (2022) Arabidopsis TBP-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 12 ortholog NOBIRO6 controls root elongation with unfolded protein response cofactor activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 119: e2120219119 (9 pages). [Link]
  4. Sakamoto, Y., Ishimoto, A., Sakai, Y., Sato, M., Nishihama, R., Abe, K., Sano, Y., Furuichi, T., Tsuji, H., Kohchi, T. and Matsunaga, S.*(2022) Improved clearing method contributes to deep imaging of plant organs. Commun. Biol., 5, 12 (12 pages).[Link]
  5. Yagi, N., Kato, T., Matsunaga, S., Ehrhardt, D. W., Nakamura, M.* and Hashimoto T.* (2021) An anchoring complex recruits katanin for microtubule severing at the plant cortical nucleation sites. Nature Commun., 12: 3687 (14 pages). [Link]
  6. Shibuta, M. K., Sakamoto, T., Yamaoka, T., Yoshikawa, M., Kasamatsu, S., Yagi, N., Fujimoto, S., Suzuki, T., Uchino, S., Sato, Y., Kimura, H. and Matsunaga, S.*(2021) A live imaging system to analyze spatiotemporal dynamics of RNA polymerase II modification in Arabidopsis thaliana. Commun. Biol., 4, 580 (10 pages).[Link]
  7. Matsuo, T., Isosaka, T., Hayashi, Y., Tang, L., Doi A., Yasuda, A., Hayashi, M., Lee, CY., Cao, L., Kutsuna, N., Matsunaga, S., Matsuda, T., Yao, I., Setou, M., Kanagawa, D., Higasa, K., Ikawa, M., Liu, Q.*, Kobayakawa, R.* and Kobayakawa, K.* (2021) Thiazoline-related innate fear stimuli orchestrate hypothermia and anti-hypoxia via sensory TRPA1 activation. Nature Commun., 12, 2074 (17 pages). [Link]
  8. Sakamoto, Y., Sato, M., Sato, Y., Harada, A., Suzuki, T., Goto, C., Tamura, K., Toyooka, K., Kimura, H., Ohkawa, Y., Hara-Nishimura, I., Takagi, S. and Matsunaga, S.*(2020) Subnuclear gene positioning through lamina association affects copper tolerance. Nature Commun., 11, 5914 (12 pages). [Link]
  9. Adamusova, K., Khosravi, S., Fujimoto, S., Houben, A., Matsunaga, S., Fajkus, J. and Fojtova, M.* (2020) Two combinatorial patterns of telomere histone marks in plants with canonical and non-canonical telomere repeats. Plant J., 102, 678-687. [Link]
  10. Luo, L., Ando, S., Sakamoto, Y., Suzuki, T., Takahashi, H., Ishibashi, N., Kojima, S., Kurihara, D., Higashiyama, T., Yamamoto, K. T., Matsunaga, S.*, Machida, C.*, Sasabe, M.*, and Machida, Y.* (2020) The formation of perinucleolar bodies is important for normal leaf development and requires the zinc-finger DNA-binding motif in Arabidopsis ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2. Plant J., 101, 1118-1134. [Link]
  11. Ishihara, H.#, Sugimoto, K.*#, Tarr, P. T., Temman, H., Kadokura, S., Inui, Y., Sakamoto, T., Sasaki, T., Aida, M., Suzuki, T., Inagaki, S., Morohashi, K., Seki, M., Kakutani, T., Meyerowitz, E. M. and Matsunaga, S.* (2019) Primed histone demethylation regulates shoot regenerative competency. Nature Commun., 10, 1786 (15 pages). #These authors equally contributed to this work. [Link]
  12. Diaz, M., Pecinkova, P., Nowicka, A., Baroux, C., Sakamoto, T., Gandha, P. Y., Je?abkova, H., Matsunaga, S., Grossniklaus, U. and Pecinka, A.* (2019) The SMC5/6 complex subunit NSE4A is involved in DNA damage repair and seed development. Plant Cell, 31, 1579-1597. [Link]
  13. Kato, S., Okamura, E., Matsunaga, T. M., Nakayama, M., Kawanishi, Y., Ichinose, T., Iwane, A. H., Sakamoto, T., Imoto, Y., Ohnuma, M., Nomura, Y., Nakagami, H., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T. and Matsunaga, S.* (2019) Cyanidioschyzon merolae aurora kinase phosphorylates evolutionarily conserved sites on its target to regulate mitochondrial division. Commun. Biol., 2, 477 (9 pages). [Link]
  14. Sugimoto, K., Temman, H.#, Kadokura, S.#, and Matsunaga, S.* (2019) To regenerate or not to regenerate: factors that drive plant regeneration. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 47, 138-150. #These authors equally contributed to this work. [Link]
  15. Hirakawa, T., Kuwata, K., Gallego, M. E., White, C. I., Nomoto, M., Tada, Y. and Matsunaga, S.* (2019) LSD1-LIKE1-mediated H3K4me2 demethylation is required for homologous recombination repair. Plant Physiol., 181, 499-509. [Link]
  16. Sakamoto, T., Tsujimoto-Inui, Y., Sotta, N., Hirakawa, T., Matsunaga, T. M., Fukao, Y., Matsunaga, S.*, and Fujiwara, T.* (2018) Proteasomal degradation of BRAHMA promotes Boron tolerance in Arabidopsis. Nature Commun., 9, 5285 (16 pages). [Link]
  17. Nishida, H., Tanaka, S., Handa, Y., Ito, M., Sakamoto, Y., Matsunaga, S., Betsuyaku, S., Miura, K., Soyano, T., Kawaguchi, M. and Suzaki, T.* (2018) A NIN-LIKE PROTEIN mediates nitrate-induced control of root nodule symbiosis in Lotus japonicus. Nature Commun., 9, 499 (14 pages). [Link]