List of Selected Publications

1. Kose S, Furuta M., Imamoto N.:
   "Hikeshi, a nuclear import carrier for Hsp70s, protects cells from heat-shock induced nuclear damage"
   Cell, in press
2. Clever M, Funakoshi T, Mimura Y., Takagi M, Imamoto N.:
   "The Nucleoporin ELYS/Mel28 regulates nuclear envelope subdomain formation in HeLa cell. "
   Nucleus, in press
3. Funakoshi, T., Clever, M., Watanabe, A., Imamoto, N.:
   "Localization of Pom121 to the inner nuclear membrane is required for an early step of interphase NPC assembly"
   Mol. Biol. Cell. 7: 1058-1069 (2011)
4. Maeshima K, Iino H, Hihara S, Funakoshi T, Watanabe A, Nishimura M, Nakatomi R, Yahata K, Imamoto F, Hashikawa T, Yokota H, Imamoto N.:
   "Nuclear pore formation but not nuclear growth is governed by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) during interphase."
   Nat Struct Mol Biol. 17, 1065-1071. (2010)
5. Iino H, Maeshima K, Nakatomi R, Kose S, Hashikawa T, Tachibana T, Imamoto N.:
   "Live imaging system for visualizing nuclear pore complex (NPC) formation during interphase in mammalian cells."
   Genes Cells Jun; 15 (6) : 647-60. (2010)
6. Tahara, K,, Takagi, M., Ohsugi, M., Sone,T., Maeshima, K., Horiuchi,Y., Tokai-Nishizumi, N., Fumiko Nishiumi, F., Imamoto, F., Yamamoto, T., Kose, S. and Imamoto, N.:
   "Importin β and small GTPase Ran mediates the chromosome loading of human chromokinesin KID."
   J. Cell Biol, 180, 493-506 (2008).
7. Tokunaga M, Imamoto N, Sakata-Sogawa K.:
   "Highly inclined thin illumination enables clear single-molecule imaging in cells."
   Nature Methods. 5, 159-161. (2008)
8. Funakoshi, T., Maeshima, K., Yahata, K., Imamoto, F., Sugano, S., and Imamoto, N.:
   "TWO DISTINCT HUMAN POM121 GENES: Requirement for the formation of nuclear pore complexes."
   FEBS Lett, 581(25):4910-6. (2007)
9. Maeshima, K., Yahata, K., Sasaki, Y., Nakatomi, R., Tachibana, T., Hashikawa, T., Imamoto,, F., and Imamoto, N.:
   "Cell cycle-dependent dynamics of nuclear pores: pore-free islands and lamins."
   J. Cell Sci., 119, 4442-4451 (2006)
10. Kose, S., Furuta,M., Koike,M., Yoneda, Y., and Imamoto, N.:
    "The 70kDa heat-shock cognate protein facilitates the nuclear export of the import receptors"
    J. Cell Biol., 171, 19-25 (2005).

Members