List of Selected Publications

1. F. Yatagai, M. Honma, A. Ukai, K. Omori, H. Suzuki, T. Shimazu, A. Takahashi, T. Ohnishi, N. Dohmae, N. Ishioka.:
   "Preliminary results of space experiment: Implications for the effects of space radiation and microgravity on survival and mutation induction in human cells"
   Adv. Space Res. 49, 479-486 (2012)
2. Tomohiro Uemura, Hyeran Kim, Chieko Saito, Kazuo Ebine, Takashi Ueda, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Akihiko Nakano.:
   "Qa-SNAREs localized to the trans-Golgi network regulate multiple transport pathways and extracellular disease resistance in plants"
   Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109:1784-1789 (2012)
3. Chieko Saito, Tomohiro Uemura, Chie Awai, Motoki Tominaga, Kazuo Ebine, Jun Ito, Takashi Ueda, Hiroshi Abe, Miyo Terao Morita, Masao Tasaka, and Akihiko Nakano.:
   "The occurence of bulbs, a complex configuration of the vacuolar membrane, is affected by mutations vacuolar SNARE and phospholipase in Arabidopsis"
   Plant J. 68:64-73 (2011)
4. Kazuo Ebine, Masaru Fujimoto, Yusuke Okatani, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Tatsuaki Goh, Emi Ito, Tomoko Dainobu, Aiko Nishitani, Tomohiro Uemura, Masa H. Sato, Hans Thordal-Christensen, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Akihiko Nakano, and Takashi Ueda.:
   "A membrane trafficking pathway regulated by the plant-specific RAB GTPase ARA6"
   Nat. Cell Biol. 13:853-859 (2011)
5. Masaru Fujimoto, Shin-ichi Arimura, Takashi Ueda, Hideki Takanashi, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Akihiko Nakano, and Nobuhiro Tsutsumi.:
   "Arabidopsis dynamin-related proteins DRP2B and DRP1A participate together in clathrin-coated vesicle formation during endocytosis"
   Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 107:6094-6099 (2010)
6. Hashiguchi, Y., Niihama, M., Takahashi, T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., Tasaka, M., and Morita, M.T.:
   "Loss-of-function mutations of retromer large subunits suppress the phenotype of zig mutant that lacks Qb-SNARE VTI11"
   Plant Cell 22, 159-172 (2010).
7. Akeo Kadota, Noboru Yamada, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Mana Hirose, Chieko Saito, Keiko Shoda, Satoshi Ichikawa, Takatoshi Kagawa, Akihiko Nakano, and Masamitsu Wada.:
   "Short actin-based mechanism for light-directed chloroplast movement in Arabidopsis"
   Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 106:13106-13111 (2009)
8. Morita, M.T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., and Tasaka, M.:
   "endodermal-amyloplast less 1 is a novel allele of SHORT-ROOT"
   Advances Space Res. 39, 1127-1133 (2007).
9. Niihama, M., Uemura, T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., Sato, M.H., Tasaka, M., and Morita, M.T.:
   "Conversion of functional specificity in Qb-SNARE VTI1 homologues of Arabidopsis"
   Curr. Biol. 15, 555-560 (2005).
10. Morita, M.T., Kato, T., Nagafusa, K., Saito, C., Ueda, T., Nakano, A., and Tasaka, M.:
    "Involvement of the vacuoles of the endodermis in the early process of shoot gravitropism in Arabidopsis"
    Plant Cell 14, 47-56 (2002).

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