Research Highlight

Date		PubMed	Laboratory
2013-03	Autophagosomes form at ER-mitochondria contact sites Maho Hamasaki (1, 2, †), Nobumichi Furuta (3, †), Atsushi Matsuda (4, 5), Akiko Nezu (1, 2), Akitsugu Yamamoto (6), Naonobu Fujita (1, 2), Hiroko Oomori (7), Takeshi Noda (1, 2), Tokuko Haraguchi (4), Yasushi Hiraoka (5), Atsuo Amano (3, 8, ), Tamotsu Yoshimori (1, 2, ) Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan Laboratory of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Oral Frontier Biology, Center for Oral Frontier Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 588-2 Iwaoka, Iwaoka-cho, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-2492, Japan Biomolecular Networks Laboratories Group, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Bio-Science, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, 1266 Tamura-cho, Nagahama, Shiga 526-0829, Japan Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Preventive Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: tamyoshi@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp and amanoa@dent.osaka-u.ac.jp Nature* (2013) in press		Laboratory of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics 〈Prof. Yoshimori〉
2013-02	Disease-Association Analysis of an Inflammation-Related Feedback Loop Masaaki Murakami (1, 7), Masaya Harada (1, 7), Daisuke Kamimura (1, 7), Hideki Ogura (1), Yuko Okuyama (1),Noriko Kumai (1), Azusa Okuyama (1), Rajeev Singh (1), Jing-Jing Jiang (1), Toru Atsumi (1), Sayaka Shiraya (1), Yuji Nakatsuji (2), Makoto Kinoshita (2), Hitoshi Kohsaka (4), Makoto Nishida (6), Saburo Sakoda (5), Nobuyuki Miyasaka (4), Keiko Yamaguchi-Takihara (6) and Toshio Hirano (3) 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 Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan JST-CREST, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, GCOE Program, International Research Center for Molecular Science in Tooth and Bone Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Toneyama Hospital, Osaka 560-0045, Japan Health Care Center, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan These authors contributed equally to this work Correspondence: murakami@molonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (M.M.), hirano@molonc.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (T.H.) Cell Rep* (2013) in press	23434511	Laboratory of Immunology and Cell Biology 〈Prof. Ishii〉
2013-01	Lamin B receptor recognizes specific modifications of histone H4 in heterochromatin formation. Yasuhiro Hirano (1), Kohji Hizume (2), Hiroshi Kimura (1), Kunio Takeyasu (3), Tokuko Haraguchi (4) and Yasushi Hiraoka (1) Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University Division of Microbial Genetics, National Institute of Genetics Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University Advanced ICT Research Institute Kobe, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology J Biol Chem 287, 42654-42663 (2012)	23100253	Nuclear Dynamics Group 〈Prof. Hiraoka〉
2013-01	Fluid Flow and Interlinked Feedback Loops Establish Left-Right Asymmetric Decay of Cerl2 mRNA Tetsuya Nakamura (1), Daisuke Saito (2), Aiko Kawasumi (1), Kyosuke Shinohara (1), Yasuko Asai (1), Katsuyoshi Takaoka (1), Fenglan Dong (1), Atsuko Takamatsu (3), Jose Antonio Belo (4), Atsushi Mochizuki (2), Hiroshi Hamada (1) Developmental Genetics Group, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), 1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan Theoretical Biology Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, Japan Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan IBB–Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centro de Biomedicina Moleculare Estrutural, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro 8005-135, Portugal Nat commun 3, 1322 (2012)	23271656
2012-12	Blink-related momentary activation of the default mode network while viewing videos Nakano T (1, 2, 3), Kato M (3, 4), Morito Y (3, 4), Itoi S (4), Kitazawa S (1, 2, 3) Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University Department of Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Osaka University Center for Information and Neural Networks, Advanced Information and Communication Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110, 702-706 (2012) This paper was introduced at the THIS WEEK in PNAS.	23267078	Dynamic Brain Network Laboratory 〈Prof. Kitazawa〉
2012-12	Architecture of a flagellar apparatus in the fast-swimming magnetic bacterium MO-1 Juanfang Ruana（１），Takayuki Katoa（１），Claire-Lise Santinib（２），Tomoko Miyataa (1), Akihiro Kawamotoa (1), Wei-Jia Zhangb (2), Alain Bernadacc (3), Long-Fei Wub (2), Keiichi Namba (1, 4) Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7283, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, F-13402, Marseille Cedex 20, France Service de Microscopie, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, F-13402, Marseille Cedex 20, France Riken Quantitative Biology Center, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 20643-20648 (2012)	23184985	JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories 〈Prof. Namba〉
2012-10	Thalamus-Derived Molecules Promote Survival and Dendritic Growth of Developing Cortical Neurons Sato H, Fukutani Y, Yamamoto Y, Tatara E, Takemoto M, Shimamura K, Yamamoto N J Neurosci 32, 15388-15402 (2012)	23115177	Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Group 〈Prof. Yamamoto〉
2012-10	A Bipolar Spindle of Antiparallel ParM Filaments Drives Bacterial Plasmid Segregation P. Gayathri (1), T. Fujii (2, ＊), J. Møller-Jensen (1, ＋), F. van den Ent (1), K. Namba (2, 3), J. Löwe (1) Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University Riken Quantitative Biology Center ＊ Present address : Riken Quantitative Biology Center ＋ Present address : University of Southern Denmark Science 338, 1334-1337 (2012)	23112295	JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories 〈Prof. Namba〉
2012-09	Dynamics of the leading process, nucleus, and Golgi apparatus of migrating cortical interneurons in living mouse embryos Yanagida M, Miyoshi R, Toyokuni R, Zhu Y, Murakami F Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 16737-16742 (2012)	23010922
2012-07	CTCF is required for neural development and stochastic expression of clustered Pcdh genes in neurons Hirayama T, Tarusawa E, Yoshimura Y, Galjart N, Yagi T Cell Rep 2, 1-13 (2012)	22854024	KOKORO-Biology Group 〈Prof. Yagi〉
2012-06	PGC7 binds histone H3K9me2 to protect against conversion of 5mC to 5hmC in early embryos Nakamura T, Liu YJ, Nakashima H, Umehara H, Inoue K, Matoba S, Tachibana M, Ogura A, Shinkai Y, Nakano T Nature 486, 415-419 (2012)	22722204	Laboratory of Stem Cell Pathology 〈Prof. Nakano〉
2012-05	Meiosis-specific noncoding RNA mediates robust pairing of homologous chromosomes in meiosis. Ding DQ, Okamasa K, Yamane M, Tsutsumi C, Haraguchi T, Yamamoto M, Hiraoka Y Science 336, 732-736 (2012)	22582262	Nuclear Dynamics Group 〈Prof. Hiraoka〉
2012-05	Mutations in UVSSA cause UV-sensitive syndrome and destabilize ERCC6 in transcription-coupled DNA repair Zhang X, Horibata K, Saijo M, Ishigami C, Ukai A, Kanno S, Tahara H, Neilan EG, Honma M, Nohmi T, Yasui A, Tanaka K Nat Genet 44, 593-597 (2012)	22466612	Human Cell Biology Group 〈Assoc. Prof. Saijo〉