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RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Metabolomics

Team Director: Makoto Arita (Ph.D.)

Research Summary

Makoto  Arita(Ph.D.)

Since abnormal lipid metabolism is often a background factor in many diseases, elucidating the regulation of their spatiotemporal dynamics may lead to new drug targets, early diagnosis and therapeutics. We develop cutting-edge lipidomics technology to comprehensively capture the lipid diversity, and create a Lipidome Atlas that captures a global view of the diversity, distribution, and localization of lipids in living systems. The Lipidome Atlas will facilitate the discovery of new biological systems shaped by lipid diversity, leading to an integrated understanding of lipid-centric biology.

Main Research Fields

  • Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy

Related Research Fields

  • Chemistry
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biology
  • Biomolecular chemistry and related fields
  • Biology at molecular to cellular levels, and related fields
  • Pharmaceutical sciences and related fields

Keywords

  • Lipidomics
  • Bioactive lipids
  • Fatty acids
  • Mass spectrometry imaging
  • Regulation of inflammation

Selected Publications

  • 1. Takeda H, Matsuzawa Y, Takeuchi M, Takahashi M, Nizhida K, Harayama T, Todoroki Y, Shimizu K, Sakamoto N, Oka T, Maekawa M, Chung MH, Kurizaki Y, Kiuchi S, Kvasnička A, Takeda U, Uchino H, Hasegawa M, Miyamoto J, Tanabe K, Takeda S, Mori T, Tanaka T, Yoshino T, Saito K, Okamoto M, Takahashi H, Arita M, Tsugawa H.
    "MS-DIAL 5 multimodal mass spectrometry data mining unveils lipidome complexities."
    Nature Communications in press
  • 2. Tsugawa H, Ishihara T, Ogasa K, Iwanami S, Hori A, Takahashi M, Yamada Y, Satoh-Takayama N, Ohno H, Minoda A, Arita M."
    "A lipidome landscape of aging in mice.
    Nature Aging 4, 709-726 (2024)
  • 3. Kuroha S, Katada Y, Isobe Y, Uchino H, Shishikura K, Nirasawa T, Tsubota K, Negishi K, Kurihara T, Arita M.
    "Long chain acyl-CoA synthetase 6 facilitates the local distribution of di-docosahexaenoic acid- and ultra-long-chain-PUFA-containing phospholipids in the retina to support normal visual function in mice."
    FASEB Journal 37, e23151 (2023)
  • 4. Iino Y, Naganuma T, Arita M.
    "Dysregulated ceramide metabolism in mouse progressive dermatitis resulting from constitutive activation of Jak1."
    Journal of Lipid Research 64, 100329 (2023)
  • 5. Aoki H, Isobe Y, Yoshida M, Kang JX, Maekawa M, Arita M.
    "Enzymatically-epoxidized docosahexaenoic acid, 19,20-EpDPE, suppresses hepatic crown-like structure formation and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis fibrosis through GPR120."
    Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 1868, 159275 (2023)
  • 6. Uchino H, Tsugawa H, Takahashi H, Arita M.
    "Computational mass spectrometry accelerates C=C position-resolved untargeted lipidomics using oxygen attachment dissociation."
    Communications Chemistry 5, 162 (2022)
  • 7. Yoshida M, Ishihara T, Isobe Y, Arita M.
    "Genetic deletion of Cyp4f18 disrupts the omega-3 epoxidation pathway and results in psoriasis-like dermatitis."
    FASEB Journal 36, e22648 (2022)
  • 8. Miyata J, Yokokura Y, Moro K, Arai H, Fukunaga K, Arita M.
    "12/15-Lipoxygenase regulates IL-33-induced eosinophilic airway inflammation in mice."
    Frontiers in Immunology 12, 687192 (2021)
  • 9. Yasuda S, Okahashi N, Tsugawa H, Ogata Y, Ikeda K, Suda W, Arai H, Hattori M, Arita M.
    "Elucidation of gut microbiota-associated lipids using LC-MS/MS and 16S rRNA sequence analyses."
    iScience 23, 101841 (2020)
  • 10. Tsugawa H, Ikeda K, Takahashi M, Satoh A, Mori Y, Uchino H, Okahashi N, Yamada Y, Tada I, Bonini P, Higashi Y, Okazaki Y, Zhou Z, Zhu Z, Koelmel J, Cajka T, Fiehn O, Saito K, Arita M, Arita M.
    "A lipidome atlas in MS-DIAL 4."
    Nature Biotechnology 38, 1159-1163 (2020)

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Lab Members

Principal investigator

Makoto Arita
Team Director

Core members

Yosuke Isobe
Deputy Team Director
Haruki Uchino
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yumiko Ono
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mie Honda
Technical Staff I
Aya Hori
Technical Staff I
Wei Huang
Technical Staff I
Yukie Sato
Research Part-time Worker II
Sachiko Sasaki
Research Part-time Worker II

Contact Information

North Research Building,
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku,
Yokohama City, Kanagawa,
230-0045, Japan
Email: makoto.arita@riken.jp

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