Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1. Wakigawa T^#, Mito M^#, Ando Y^#, Yamashiro H, Tomuro K, Tani H, Tomizawa K, Chujo T, Nagao A, Suzuki Ta, Nureki O, Wei FY, Shichino Y, Itoh Y, Suzuki Ts, and Iwasaki S*.
  "Monitoring the complexity and dynamics of mitochondrial translation."
  Mol Cell. 85(22):4279-4297.e8 (2025) DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.10.022
• 2. Saito H, Handa Y, Chen M, Schneider-Poetsch T, Shichino Y, Takahashi M, Romo D, Yoshida M, Fürstner A, Ito T, Fukuzawa K, and Iwasaki S*.
  "DMDA-PatA mediates RNA sequence-selective translation repression by anchoring eIF4A and DDX3 to GNG motifs."
  Nat Commun. 15(1):7418 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51635-9
• 3. Tomuro K^#, Mito M^#, Toh H, Kawamoto N, Miyake T, Chow SYA, Doi M, Ikeuchi Y, Shichino Y*, and Iwasaki S*.
  "Calibrated ribosome profiling assesses the dynamics of ribosomal flux on transcripts."
  Nat Commun. 15(1):7061 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51258-0
• 4. Shichino Y*, Yamaguchi T, Kashiwagi K, Mito M, Takahashi M, Ito T, Ingolia NT, Kuba K, and Iwasaki S*.
  "eIF4A1 enhances LARP1-mediated translational repression during mTORC1 inhibition."
  Nat Struct Mol Biol. 31(10):1557-1566 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41594-024-01321-7
• 5. Apostolopoulos A, Kawamoto N, Chow SYA, Tsuiji H, Ikeuchi Y, Shichino Y*, and Iwasaki S*.
  "dCas13-mediated translational repression for accurate gene silencing in mammalian cells."
  Nat Commun. 15(1):2205 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46412-7
• 6. Tanaka M^#, Yokoyama T^#, Saito H^#, Nishimoto M, Tsuda K, Sotta N, Shigematsu H, Shirouzu M, Iwasaki S*, Ito T*, and Fujiwara T*.
  "Boric acid intercepts 80S ribosome migration from AUG-stop by stabilizing eRF1."
  Nat Chem Biol. 20(5):605–614 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41589-023-01513-0
• 7. Kashiwagi K^#, Shichino Y^#, Osaki T^#, Sakamoto A, Nishimoto M, Takahashi M, Mito M, Weber F, Ikeuchi Y*, Iwasaki S*, and Ito T*.
  "eIF2B-capturing viral protein NSs suppresses the integrated stress response."
  Nat Commun. 12(1):7102. (2021) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27337-x
• 8. Makino S, Kawamata T, Iwasaki S*, and Ohsumi Y*.
  "Selectivity of mRNA degradation by autophagy."
  Nat Commun. 12(1):2316. (2021) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22574-6
• 9. Han P, Shichino Y, Schneider-Poetsch T, Mito M, Hashimoto S, Udagawa T, Kohno K, Yoshida M, Mishima Y, Inada T, and Iwasaki S*.
  "Genome-wide survey of ribosome collision."
  Cell Rep. 31(5):107610. (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107610
• 10. Iwasaki S*, Iwasaki W#, Takahashi M#, Sakamoto A, Watanabe C, Shichino Y, Floor SN, Fujiwara K, Mito M, Dodo K, Sodeoka M, Imataka H, Honma T, Fukuzawa K, Ito T*, and Ingolia NT*.
  "The translation inhibitor rocaglamide targets a bimolecular cavity between eIF4A and polypurine RNA."
  Mol Cell. 73(4):738-748.e9. (2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.11.026

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