主要論文

1. Yajima, H., et al.:
   "Conformational changes in tubulin in GMPCPP and GDP-taxol Microtubules observed by cryo electron microscopy."
   J Cell Biol., in press, 2012
2. Nakata, T., Niwa, S., Okada, Y., Perez, F., Hirokawa, N.:
   "Preferential binding of a kinesin-1 motor to GTP-tubulin-rich microtubules underlies polarized vesicle transport."
   J Cell Biol. 194: 245-255, 2011
3. Hirokawa, N., Tanaka, Y., Okada, Y.:
   "The mechanisms of kinesin motor motility: lessons from the monomeric motor KIF1A."
   Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 10: 877-884, 2009
4. Okada, Y., Hirokawa, N.:
   "Observation of Nodal Cilia Movement and Measurement of Nodal Flow."
   Methods in Cell Biology, 91: 265-285, 2009
5. Hirokawa, N., Okada, Y., Tanaka, Y.:
   "Fluid Dynamic Mechanism Responsible for Breaking the Left-Right Symmetry of the Human Body: The Nodal Flow."
   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 41: 53-72, 2009
6. Nitta, R., Okada, Y., Hirokawa, N.:
   "Structural model for strain-dependent microtubule activation of Mg-ADP release from kinesin."
   Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15: 1067-1075, 2008
7. Hirokawa, N., Tanaka, Y., Okada, Y., Takeda, S.:
   "Nodal flow and the generation of left-right asymmetry."
   Cell 125: 33-45, 2006
8. Tanaka, Y., Okada, Y., Hirokawa, N.:
   "FGF-induced vesicular release of Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid in leftward nodal flow is critical for left-right determination."
   Nature. 435:172-7. 2005
9. Okada, Y., Takeda, S., Tanaka, Y., Izpisúa-Belmonte, J.C., Hirokawa, N.:
   "Mechanism of nodal flow: a conserved symmetry breaking event in left-right axis determination."
   Cell. 121:633-44. 2005
10. Nishinari, K., Okada, Y., Schadschneider, A., Chowdhury, D.:
    "Intracellular transport of single-headed molecular motors KIF1A."
    Phys Rev Lett. 95:118101. 2005

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