Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1.Akiyama T, Inoko A, Kaji Y, Yonemura S, Kakiguchi K, Segawa H, Ishitsuka K, Yoshida M, Numata O, Leproux P, Couderc V, Oshika T, Kano H.:
  "SHG-specificity of cellular Rootletin filaments enables naïve imaging with universal conservation."
  Sci Rep. 7:39967 (2017)
• 2.Maki K, Han SW, Hirano Y, Yonemura S, Hakoshima T, Adachi T.:
  "Mechano-adaptive sensory mechanism of α-catenin under tension."
  Sci Rep. 6:24878 (2016)
• 3.Shibata N, Kashima M, Ishiko T, Nishimura O, Rouhana L, Misaki K, Yonemura S, Saito K, Siomi H, Siomi MC, Agata K.:
  "Inheritance of a Nuclear PIWI from Pluripotent Stem Cells by Somatic Descendants Ensures Differentiation by Silencing Transposons in Planarian."
  Dev Cell. 37:226-237 (2016)
• 4.Shirai H, Mandai M, Matsushita K, Kuwahara A, Yonemura S, Nakano T, Assawachananont J, Kimura T, Saito K, Terasaki H, Eiraku M, Sasai Y, Takahashi M.:
  "Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal tissue in two primate models of retinal degeneration."
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:E81-90 (2016)
• 5.Ebrahim, S., Fujita, T., Millis, B. A., Kozin, E., Ma, X., Kawamoto, S., Baird, M. A., Davidson, M., Yonemura, S., Hisa, Y., Conti, M. A., Adelstein, R. S., Sakaguchi, H., Kachar, B.:
  "NMII Forms a Contractile Transcellular Sarcomeric Network to Regulate Apical Cell Junctions and Tissue Geometry."
  Curr Biol. 23:731-736 (2013)
• 6.Tsujioka, M., Yumura, S., Inouye, K., Patel, H., Ueda, M., Yonemura, S.:
  "Talin couples the actomyosin cortex to the plasma membrane during rear retraction and cytokinesis."
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109: 12992-12997 (2012)
• 7.Suga, H., Kadoshima, T., Minaguchi, M., Ohgushi, M., Soen, M., Nakano, T., Takata, N., Wataya, T., Muguruma, K., Miyoshi, H., Yonemura, S., Oiso, Y., Sasai, Y.:
  "Self-formation of functional adenohypophysis in three-dimensional culture."
  Nature. 480:57-62 (2011)
• 8.Yonemura, S.:
  "A mechanism of mechanotransduction at the cell-cell interface: Emergence of α-catenin as the center of a force-balancing mechanism for morphogenesis in multicellular organisms."
  Bioessays. 33:732-736 (2011)
• 9.Yonemura, S.:
  "Cadherin-actin interactions at adherens junctions."
  Curr Opin Cell Biol. 23:515-522 (2011)
• 10.Yonemura, S., Wada, Y., Watanabe, T., Nagafuchi, A. and Shibata, M.:
  "α-catenin as a tension transducer that induces adherens junction development."
  Nature Cell Biol. 12:533-542 (2010)

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