Research Highlight

Date		PubMed	Laboratory
2012-03	Neural activity in cortical area V4 underlies fine disparity discrimination Shiozaki HM, Tanabe S, Doi T, Fujita I J Neurosci 32, 3830-3841 (2012)	22423103	Cognitive Neuroscience Group 〈Prof. Fujita〉
2012-02	The structure of a type III secretion needle at 7-Å resolution provides insights into its assembly and signaling mechanisms Takashi Fujii (1), Martin Cheung (2), Amandine Blanco (2), Takayuki Kato (1), Ariel J. Blocker (2), Keiichi Namba (1, 3) Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Schools of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom Riken Quantitative Biology Center, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 4461-4466 (2012)	22388746	JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories 〈Prof. Namba〉
2012-02	Coordinated Ciliary Beating Requires Odf2-Mediated Polarization of Basal Bodies via Basal Feet Koshi Kunimoto (1), Yuji Yamazaki (1,＊), Tomoki Nishida (2,＊), Kyosuke Shinohara (3,＊), Hiroaki Ishikawa (4,＊), Toshiaki Hasegawa (2), Takeshi Okanoue (5), Hiroshi Hamada (3), Tetsuo Noda (6), Atsushi Tamura (1), Shoichiro Tsukita (7) and Sachiko Tsukita (1,§) Laboratory of Biological Science, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Research Center for Ultra-high Voltage Electron Microscopy, Osaka University, 7-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. Developmental Genetics Group, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA94143, USA Department of Hepatology, Saiseikai Suita Hospital, Osaka, Japan. Department of Cell Biology, Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-10-6 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8550,Japan. Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe, Kyoto 606-8315, Japan. ＊ : These authors nearly equally contribute to this work from different directions. § : Corresponding author. Cell 148, 189-200 (2012)	22265411	Biological Science Group 〈Prof. Tsukita〉
2012-02	Pigment Pattern Formation by Contact-Dependent Depolarization Inaba M, Yamanaka H, Kondo S Science 335, 677 (2012)	22323812	Laboratory of Pattern Formation 〈Prof. Kondo〉
2012-02	Regional Neural Activation Defines a Gateway for Autoreactive T Cells to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier Yasunobu Arima (1), Masaya Harada (1), Daisuke Kamimura (1), Jin-Haeng Park (1), Fuminori Kawano (2), Fiona E. Yull (3), Tadafumi Kawamoto (5), Yoichiro Iwakura (6), Ulrich A.K. Betz (7), Gabriel Márquez (8), Timothy S. Blackwell (3, 4), Yoshinobu Ohira (2), Toshio Hirano (9, 10), Masaaki Murakami (1) Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, JST-CREST, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Graduate School of Medicine, and WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Health and Sports Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, and Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, TN 37232, USA Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, TN 37232, USA Radioisotope Research Institute, Department of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Yokohama 230-8501, Japan Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan Merck KGaA, Portfolio Development Merck Serono, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Laboratory of Cytokine Signaling, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan Contact: Masaaki Murakami murakami@molonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, JST-CREST, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Graduate School of Medicine, and Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University Cell 148, 447–457 (2012)	22304915
2012-01	Two rotating cilia in the node cavity are sufficient to break left-right symmetry in the mouse embryo Shinohara K, Kawasumi A, Takamatsu A, Yoshiba S, Botilde Y, Motoyama N, Reith W, Durand B, Shiratori H, Hamada H * ; equal contribution Nat Commun 3, 622 (2012)	22233632
2011-10	Energy transduction mechanism used in bacterial flagellar type III protein export Tohru Minamino, Yusuke V. Morimoto, Noritaka Hara and Keiichi Namba Nat Commun 2, 475 (2011)	21934659	JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories 〈Prof. Namba〉
2011-09	Aneuploidy Drives Genomic Instability in Yeast Jason M. Sheltzer (1), Heidi M. Blank (1), Sarah J. Pfau (1), Yoshie Tange (2), Benson M. George (1), Timothy J. Humpton (1), Ilana L. Brito (3), Yasushi Hiraoka (2, 4), Osami Niwa (5) and Angelika Amon (1) David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology The Rockefeller University Science 333, 1026-1030 (2011)	21852501	Nuclear Dynamics Group 〈Prof. Hiraoka〉
2011-08	Reference frames for spatial frequency in face representation differ in the temporal visual cortex and amygdala Inagaki M, Fujita I J Neurosci 31, 10371-79 (2011)	21753014	Cognitive Neuroscience Group 〈Prof. Fujita〉
2011-06	Origin and role of distal visceral endoderm, a group of cells that determines anterior-posterior polarity of the mouse embryo Takaoka K, Yamamoto M, Hamada H Nat cell biol 13, 743-52 (2011)	21623358
2011-05	Tara up-regulates E-cadherin transcription by binding to the Trio RhoGEF and inhibiting Rac-signaling Yano T (1), Yamazaki Y (1), Adachi M (2), Okawa K (3), Fort P (4), Uji M (1), Tsukita S (1, 2), Tsukita S (1) Laboratory of Biological Science, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2-2, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Drug Discovery Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., Nagaizumi-machi, Shizuoka, 411-8731, Japan CRBM, UMSF, Université Montpellier 2 and 1, CNRS UMR 5237, Montpellier 34293, France J Cell Biol 193, 319-32 (2011)	21482718	Biological Science Group 〈Prof. Tsukita〉