RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Chemical Genomics Research Group
Group Director: Minoru Yoshida (D.Agr.)
Research Summary

Identification of novel small molecular ligands is essential to understand diverse biological phenomena and to control the biological systems by chemical methods. This project focuses on the development of useful molecular ligands that are expected to contribute to an advance in environmental and resource sciences by employing chemical libraries that consist of microbial metabolites and/or synthetic compounds. In particular, we search into novel active compounds by constructing a variety of phenotypic screening systems using genetically modified animal, plant and yeast cells, and in vitro screening systems using various target proteins that include enzymes for metabolism and epigenetics. In addition, we construct new platforms for developing high throughput screening systems. Our goal is to identify and provide unique molecular ligands that are useful for chemical biology research aiming at exploiting new area of environmental and resource sciences.
Main Research Fields
- Biology
Related Research Fields
- Chemistry
Keywords
- Chemical Biology
- Epigenetics
- Mode of Action
- Transcriptional Regulation
- Chemical Screening for Drug Discovery
Selected Publications
- 1.
Chhipi-Shrestha, J.K., Schneider-Poetsch, T., Suzuki, T., Mito, M., Khan, K., Dohmae, N., Iwasaki, S., Yoshida, M.:
"Splicing modulators elicit global translational repression by condensate-prone proteins translated from introns."
Cell Chem. Biol. 29(2), 259-275 (2022) - 2.
Yoshimoto, R., Chhipi-Shrestha, J.K., Schneider-Poetsch, T., Furuno, M., Burroughs, A.M., Noma, S., Suzuki, H., Hayashizaki, Y., Mayeda, A., Nakagawa, S., Kaida, D., Iwasaki, S., Yoshida, M.:
"Spliceostatin A interaction with SF3B1 limits U1 snRNP availability and causes premature cleavage and polyadenylation."
Cell Chem. Biol. 28(9), 1356-1365.e4. (2021) - 3.
Kobayashi, H., Hatakeyama, H., Nishimura, H., Yokota, M., Suzuki, S., Tomabechi, Y., Shirouzu, M., Osada, H., Mimaki, M., Goto, Y., Yoshida, M.:
"Chemical reversal of abnormalities in cells carrying mitochondrial DNA mutations."
Nat. Chem. Biol. 17(3), 335-343 (2021) - 4.
Han, P., Shichino, Y., Schneider-Poetsch, T., Mito, M., Hashimoto, S., Udagawa, T., Kohno, K., Yoshida, M., Mishima, Y., Inada, T., Iwasaki, S.:
"Genome-wide survey of ribosome collision."
Cell Rep. 31(5), 107610 (2020) - 5.
Ling, F., Bradshaw, E., Yoshida, M.:
"Prevention of mitochondrial genomic instability in yeast by the mitochondrial recombinase Mhr1."
Sci. Rep. 9(1), 5433 (2019) - 6.
Schneider-Poetsch, T., Yoshida, M.:
"Along the central dogma-controlling gene expression with small molecules."
Annu. Rev. Biochem. 87, 391-420 (2018). - 7.
Piotrowski, J.S., Li, S.C., Deshpande, R., Simpkins, S.W., Nelson, J., Yashiroda, Y., Barber, J.M., Safizadeh, H., Wilson, E., Okada, H., Gebre, A.A., Kubo, K., Torres, N., Leblanc, M.B., Andrusiak, K., Okamoto, R., Yoshimura, M., van Leeuwen, J., Shirahige, K., Baryshnikova, A., Brown, G., Saito, T., Costanzo, M., Andrews, B., Ohya, Y., Osada, H., Yoshida, M., Myers, C.L., Boone, C.:
"Functional annotation of chemical libraries across diverse biological processes."
Nat. Chem. Biol. 13(9), 982-993 (2017) - 8.
Yoshimoto, R., Kaida, D., Furuno, M., Burroughs, A.M., Noma, S., Suzuki, H., Kawamura, Y., Hayashizaki, Y., Mayeda, A., Yoshida, M.:
"Global analysis of pre-mRNA subcellular localization following splicing inhibition by spliceostatin A."
RNA 23(1), 47-57 (2017) - 9.
Vo, T.V., Das, J., Meyer, M.J., Cordero, N.A., Akturk, N., Wei, X., Fair, B.J., Degatano, A.G., Fragoza, R., Liu, L.G., Matsuyama, A., Trickey, M., Horibata, S., Grimson, A., Yamano, H., Yoshida, M., Roth, F.P., Pleiss, J.A., Xia, Y., Yu, H.:
"A proteome-wide fission yeast interactome reveals network evolution principles from yeasts to human."
Cell 164, 310-323 (2016) - 10.
Ito, A., Shimazu, T., Maeda, S., Shah, A.A., Tsunoda, T., Iemura, S.-I., Natsume, T., Suzuki, T., Motohashi, H., Yamamoto, M., and Yoshida, M.:
"The subcellular localization and activity of cortactin is regulated by acetylation and interaction with Keap1."
Sci. Signal. 8, ra120 (2015)
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Minoru Yoshida
- Group Director
Core members
- Ken Matsumoto
- Senior Research Scientist
- Akihisa Matsuyama
- Senior Research Scientist
- Feng Ling
- Senior Research Scientist
- Yoko Yashiroda
- Senior Research Scientist
- Kazuki Sasaki
- Senior Scientist
- Norio Kudo
- Senior Scientist
- Takashi Ito
- Senior Scientist
- Tilman Hans Jorg Schneider-Poetsch
- Research Scientist
- Jagat Krishna Chhipi Shrestha
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Sari Nurmila
- Visiting Researcher
- Fereshteh Azadeh
- Junior Research Associate
- Rumi Kurokawa
- Technical Staff I
- Mayumi Arata
- Technical Staff I
- Atsushi Hashimoto
- Technical Staff II
- Megumi Takase
- Technical Staff II
Contact Information
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)48-467-9516
Fax: +81-(0)48-462-4676
Email: yoshidam [at] riken.jp