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

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  1. Ito, N., Sakamoto, T.*, Oko, Y., Sato, H., Hanamata, S., Sakamoto, Y., and Matsunaga, S.* (2024) Nuclear pore complex proteins are involved in centromere distribution. iScience 27, 108855 (14 pages). [Link]
  2. Takusagawa, M., Misumi, O., Nozaki, H., Kato, S., Maruyama, S., Tsujimoto-Inui, Y., Yagisawa, F., Ohnuma, M., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T., and Matsunaga, S.* (2023) Complete mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA sequences of the freshwater green microalga Medakamo hakoo. Genes Genet. Syst. 98, 353-360 (8 pages). [Link]
  3. Ishii, Y., Ishii, H., Kuroha, T., Yokoyama, R., Deguchi, R., Nishitani, K., Minagawa, J., Kawata, M., Takahashi, S., and Maruyama, S.* (2023) Environmental pH signals the release of monosaccharides from cell wall in coral symbiotic alga. eLife 12, e80628 (15 pages). [Link]
  4. Sakamoto, T. and Matsunaga, S.* (2023) Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 75, 102431 (8 pages). [Link]
  5. Wang, N., Wang, Z., Tzourtzou, S., Wang, X., Bi, X., Leimeister, J., Xu, L., Sakamoto, T., Matsunaga, S., Schaller, A., Jiang, H., and Liu, C.* (2023) The plant nuclear lamina disassembles to regulate genome folding in stress conditions. Nature Plants 9, 1081-1093 (13 pages). [Link]
  6. Kato, S., Misumi, O., Maruyama, S., Nozaki, H., Tsujimoto-Inui, Y., Takusagawa, M., Suzuki, S., Kuwata, K., Noda, S., Ito, N., Okabe, Y., Sakamoto, T., Yagisawa, F., Matsunaga, T. M., Matsubayashi, Y., Yamaguchi, H., Kawachi, M., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T.* and Matsunaga, S.* (2023) Genomic analysis of an ultrasmall freshwater green alga, Medakamo hakoo. Commun. Biol., 6, 89 (13 pages). [Link]
  7. Temman, H., Sakamoto, T., Ueda, M., Sugimoto, K., Migihashi, M., Yamamoto, K., Tsujimoto-Inui, Y., Sato, H., Shibuta, M. K., Nishino, N., Nakamura, T., Shimada, H., Taniguchi, Y. Y., Takeda, S., Aida, M., Suzuki, T., Seki, M., and Matsunaga, S.* (2023) Histone deacetylation regulates de novo shoot regeneration. PNAS Nexus, 2, pdad002 (12 pages). [Link]
  8. 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]
  9. 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). [Link]
  10. 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]
  11. 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]
  12. 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]
  13. 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]
  14. 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]
  15. 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]
  16. 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]
  17. 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]