Selected Publications

• 1. Fukuda K, Shimi T, Shimura C, et al.
  "Epigenetic plasticity safeguards heterochromatin configuration in mammals."
  Nucleic Acids Research 51(12) 6190-6207 (2023) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad387
• 2. Onai T, Aramaki T, Takai A, et al.
  "Cranial cartilages: Players in the evolution of the cranium during evolution of the chordates in general and of the vertebrates in particular."
  Evolution & Development 25(3), 197-208 (2023) doi: 10.1111/ede.12433
• 3. Tentaku A, Kurisu S, Sejima K, et al.
  "Proximal deposition of collagen IV by fibroblasts contributes to basement membrane formation by colon epithelial cells in vitro."
  FEBS Journal 289(23), 7466-7485 (2022) doi: 10.1111/febs.16559
• 4. Nishimura R, Kato K, Saida M, et al.
  "Appropriate tension sensitivity of α-catenin ensures rounding morphogenesis of epithelial spheroids."
  Cell Structure and Function 47(2), 55-73 (2022) doi: 10.1247/csf.22014
• 5. Saito H, Matsukawa-Usami F, Fujimori T, et al.
  "Tracheal motile cilia in mice require CAMSAP3 for the formation of central microtubule pair and coordinated beating."
  Molecular Biology of the Cell 32(20), ar12 (2021) doi: 10.1091/mbc.E21-06-0303
• 6. Yonemura S.
  "Actin filament association at adherens junctions."
  The journal of medical investigation 64(1.2), 14-19 (2017) doi: 10.2152/jmi.64.14
• 7. Tsujioka M, Yumura S, Inouye K, et al.
  "Talin couples the actomyosin cortex to the plasma membrane during rear retraction and cytokinesis."
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(32), 12992-12997 (2012) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208296109
• 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(10), 732-736 (2011) doi: 10.1002/bies.201100064
• 9. Yonemura S.
  "Cadherin-actin interactions at adherens junctions."
  Current Opinion in Cell Biology 23(5), 525-522 (2011) doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2011.07.001
• 10. Yonemura S, Wada Y, Watanabe T, et al.
  "alpha-Catenin as a tension transducer that induces adherens junction development."
  Nature Cell Biology 12(6), 533-542 (2010) doi: 10.1038/ncb2055

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