Research Summary

Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

• 1. Nishiyama, K., Aihara, Y., Suzuki, T., Takahashi, K., Kinoshita, T., Dohmae, N., Sato, A., & Hagihara, S.
  "Discovery of a Plant 14‐3‐3 Inhibitor Possessing Isoform Selectivity and In Planta Activity."
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(27), e202400218 (2024)
• 2. Izumi, M., Nakamura, S., Otomo, K., Ishida, H., Hidema, J., Nemoto, T., & Hagihara, S.
  "Autophagosome development and chloroplast segmentation occur synchronously for piecemeal degradation of chloroplasts."
  eLife, 12, RP93232 (2024)
• 3. Kusano, S., Yamada, Y., & Hagihara, S.
  "Benzoxaborole Catalyst Embedded with a Lewis Base: A Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for cis -1,2-diol Modification."
  The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89(10), 6714–6722 (2024)
• 4. Kusano, S., Nakamura, S., Izumi, M., & Hagihara, S.
  "Development of 1,8-naphthalimide dyes for rapid imaging of subcellular compartments in plants."
  Chemical Communications, 58(11), 1685–1688 (2022)
• 5. Nakamura, S., Hagihara, S., Otomo, K., Ishida, H., Hidema, J., Nemoto, T., & Izumi, M.
  "Autophagy Contributes to the Quality Control of Leaf Mitochondria."
  Plant and Cell Physiology, 62(2), 229-247 (2021)
• 6. Hagihara, S., Yamada, R., Itami, K., & Torii, K. U.
  "Dissecting plant hormone signaling with synthetic molecules: perspective from the chemists."
  Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 47, 32–37 (2019)
• 7. *Yoshimura, M., Sato, A., Kuwata, K., Inukai, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., Tsuchiya, Y., & Hagihara, S.
  "Discovery of Shoot Branching Regulator Targeting Strigolactone Receptor DWARF14."
  ACS Central Science, 4(2), 230–234 (2018)
• 8. *Yamada, R., Murai, K., Uchida, N., Takahashi, K., Iwasaki, R., Tada, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., Torii, K. U., & Hagihara, S.
  "A Super Strong Engineered Auxin–TIR1 Pair."
  Plant and Cell Physiology, 59(8), 1538–1544 (2018)
• 9. *Uchida, N., Takahashi, K., Iwasaki, R., Yamada, R., Yoshimura, M., Endo, T. A., Kimura, S., Zhang, H., Nomoto, M., Tada, Y., Kinoshita, T., Itami, K., Hagihara, S., & Torii, K. U.
  "Chemical hijacking of auxin signaling with an engineered auxin–TIR1 pair."
  Nature Chemical Biology, 14(3), 299–305 (2018)
• 10. *Tsuchiya, Y., Yoshimura, M., Sato, Y., Kuwata, K., Toh, S., Holbrook-Smith, D., Zhang, H., McCourt, P., Itami, K., Kinoshita, T., & Hagihara, S.
  "Probing strigolactone receptors in Striga hermonthica with fluorescence."
  Science, 349, 864–868 (2015)

Recent Research Results

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  Mar. 28, 2022
  Visualizing the internal compartments of living plant cells using fluorescent naphthalimide dyes

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  Oct. 16, 2020
  Degradation of damaged organelles in plant cells involves an unknown mechanism

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