RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology
Team Leader: Piero Carninci (Ph.D.)
Research Summary

We will develop technologies to comprehensively detect non-coding RNAs and comprehensively screen their functions. Using those technologies, we will explore regulatory interactions of ncRNAs within cells, with particular emphasis on the interaction of non-coding RNA with chromatin, retrotransposition and ncRNAs having a role in the regulation of protein synthesis. These technologies will be important for the development of cell conversion methods. Additional emphasis will be on standardization of transcriptome technologies like CAGE, to make a universal and finely quantitative transcriptome technology. Such standardization is essential for the identification of novel biomarkers and drug target candidates.
Main Research Fields
- Biological Sciences
Related Research Fields
- Biology
Keywords
- CAGE
- RNA
- Single Cell
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
Selected Publications
- 1.
Toki N, Takahashi H, Sharma H, Valentine MNZ, Rahman FM, Zucchelli S, Gustincich S, Carninci P.:
"SINEUP long non-coding RNA acts via PTBP1 and HNRNPK to promote translational initiation assemblies."
Nucleic Acids Res. 48, 11626-11644. (2020) - 2.
Bonetti A, Agostini F, Suzuki AM, Hashimoto K, Pascarella G, Gimenez J, Roos L, Nash AJ, Ghilotti M, Cameron CJF, Valentine M, Medvedeva YA, Noguchi S, Agirre E, Kashi K, Samudyata, Luginbuühl J, Cazzoli R, Agrawal S, Luscombe NM, Blanchette M, Kasukawa T, Hoon M, Arner E, Lenhard B, Plessy C, Castelo- Branco G, Orlando V, Carninci P.:
"RADICL-seq identifies general and cell type-specific principles of genome-wide RNA-chromatin interactions."
Nat Commun. 11, 1018. (2020) - 3.
Hashimoto K, Kouno T, Ikawa T, Hayatsu N, Miyajima Y, Yabukami H, Terooatea T, Sasaki T, Suzuki T, Valentine M, Pascarella G, Okazaki Y, Suzuki H, Shin JW, Minoda A, Taniuchi I, Okano H, Arai Y, Hirose N, Carninci P.:
"Single-cell transcriptomics reveals expansion of cytotoxic CD4 T cells in supercentenarians."
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116, 24242-24251. (2019) - 4.
Hirabayashi S, Bhagat S, Matsuki Y, Takegami Y, Uehata T, Kanemaru A, Itoh M, Shirakawa K, Takaori- Kondo A, Takeuchi O, Carninci P, Katayama S, Hayashizaki Y, Kere J, Kawaji H, Murakawa Y.:
"NET-CAGE characterizes the dynamics and topology of human transcribed cis-regulatory elements."
Nat Genet. 51, 1369-1379. (2019) - 5.
Kouno T, Moody J, Kwon AT, Shibayama Y, Kato S, Huang Y, Böttcher M, Motakis E, Mendez M, Severin J, Luginbuühl J, Abugessaisa I, Hasegawa A, Takizawa S, Arakawa T, Furuno M, Ramalingam N, West J, Suzuki H, Kasukawa T, Lassmann T, Hon CC, Arner E, Carninci P, Plessy C, Shin JW.:
"C1 CAGE detects transcription start sites and enhancer activity at single-cell resolution."
Nat Commun. 10, 360. (2019) - 6.
Hon CC, Ramilowski JA, Harshbarger J, Bertin N, Rackham OJ, Gough J, Denisenko E, Schmeier S, Poulsen TM, Severin J, Lizio M, Kawaji H, Kasukawa T, Itoh M, Burroughs AM, Noma S, Djebali S, Alam T, Medvedeva YA, Testa AC, Lipovich L, Yip CW, Abugessaisa I, Mendez M, Hasegawa A, Tang D, Lassmann T, Heutink P, Babina M, Wells CA, Kojima S, Nakamura Y, Suzuki H, Daub CO, de Hoon MJ, Arner E, Hayashizaki Y, Carninci P, Forrest AR.:
"An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5' ends."
Nature. 543, 199-204. (2017) - 7.
Arner E, Daub CO, Vitting-Seerup K, Andersson R, Lilje B, Drabløs F, Lennartsson A, Rönnerblad M, Hrydziuszko O, Vitezic M, Freeman TC, Alhendi AM, Arner P, Axton R, Baillie JK, Beckhouse A, Bodega B, Briggs J, Brombacher F, Davis M, Detmar M, Ehrlund A, Endoh M, Eslami A, Fagiolini M, Fairbairn L, Faulkner GJ, Ferrai C, Fisher ME, Forrester L, Goldowitz D, Guler R, Ha T, Hara M, Herlyn M, Ikawa T, Kai C, Kawamoto H, Khachigian LM, Klinken SP, Kojima S, Koseki H, Klein S, Mejhert N, Miyaguchi K, Mizuno Y, Morimoto M, Morris KJ, Mummery C, Nakachi Y, Ogishima S, Okada-Hatakeyama M, Okazaki Y, Orlando V, Ovchinnikov D, Passier R, Patrikakis M, Pombo A, Qin XY, Roy S, Sato H, Savvi S, Saxena A, Schwegmann A, Sugiyama D, Swoboda R, Tanaka H, Tomoiu A, Winteringham LN, Wolvetang E, Yanagi-Mizuochi C, Yoneda M, Zabierowski S, Zhang P, Abugessaisa I, Bertin N, Diehl AD, Fukuda S, Furuno M, Harshbarger J, Hasegawa A, Hori F, Ishikawa-Kato S, Ishizu Y, Itoh M, Kawashima T, Kojima M, Kondo N, Lizio M, Meehan TF, Mungall CJ, Murata M, Nishiyori-Sueki H, Sahin S, Nagao-Sato S, Severin J, de Hoon MJ, Kawai J, Kasukawa T, Lassmann T, Suzuki H, Kawaji H, Summers KM, Wells C; FANTOM Consortium, Hume DA, Forrest AR, Sandelin A, Carninci P, Hayashizaki Y.:
"Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells."
Science. 347, 1010-4. (2015) - 8.
Fort A, Hashimoto K, Yamada D, Salimullah M, Keya CA, Saxena A, Bonetti A, Voineagu I, Bertin N, Kratz A, Noro Y, Wong CH, de Hoon M, Andersson R, Sandelin A, Suzuki H, Wei CL, Koseki H; FANTOM Consortium, Hasegawa Y, Forrest AR, Carninci P.:
"Deep transcriptome profiling of mammalian stem cells supports a regulatory role for retrotransposons in pluripotency maintenance."
Nat Genet. 46, 558-66. (2014) - 9.
Forrest AR, Kawaji H, Rehli M, Baillie JK, de Hoon MJ, Haberle V, Lassmann T, Kulakovskiy IV, Lizio M, Itoh M, Andersson R, Mungall CJ, Meehan TF, Schmeier S, Bertin N, Jørgensen M, Dimont E, Arner E, Schmidl C, Schaefer U, Medvedeva YA, Plessy C, Vitezic M, Severin J, Semple C, Ishizu Y, Young RS, Francescatto M, Alam I, Albanese D, Altschuler GM, Arakawa T, Archer JA, Arner P, Babina M, Rennie S, Balwierz PJ, Beckhouse AG, Pradhan-Bhatt S, Blake JA, Blumenthal A, Bodega B, Bonetti A, Briggs J, Brombacher F, Burroughs AM, Califano A, Cannistraci CV, Carbajo D, Chen Y, Chierici M, Ciani Y, Clevers HC, Dalla E, Davis CA, Detmar M, Diehl AD, Dohi T, Drabløs F, Edge AS, Edinger M, Ekwall K, Endoh M, Enomoto H, Fagiolini M, Fairbairn L, Fang H, Farach-Carson MC, Faulkner GJ, Favorov AV, Fisher ME, Frith MC, Fujita R, Fukuda S, Furlanello C, Furino M, Furusawa J, Geijtenbeek TB, Gibson AP, Gingeras T, Goldowitz D, Gough J, Guhl S, Guler R, Gustincich S, Ha TJ, Hamaguchi M, Hara M, Harbers M, Harshbarger J, Hasegawa A, Hasegawa Y, Hashimoto T, Herlyn M, Hitchens KJ, Ho Sui SJ, Hofmann OM, Hoof I, Hori F, Huminiecki L, Iida K, Ikawa T, Jankovic BR, Jia H, Joshi A, Jurman G, Kaczkowski B, Kai C, Kaida K, Kaiho A, Kajiyama K, Kanamori-Katayama M, Kasianov AS, Kasukawa T, Katayama S, Kato S, Kawaguchi S, Kawamoto H, Kawamura YI, Kawashima T, Kempfle JS, Kenna TJ, Kere J, Khachigian LM, Kitamura T, Klinken SP, Knox AJ, Kojima M, Kojima S, Kondo N, Koseki H, Koyasu S, Krampitz S, Kubosaki A, Kwon AT, Laros JF, Lee W, Lennartsson A, Li K, Lilje B, Lipovich L, Mackay-Sim A, Manabe R, Mar JC, Marchand B, Mathelier A, Mejhert N, Meynert A, Mizuno Y, de Lima Morais DA, Morikawa H, Morimoto M, Moro K, Motakis E, Motohashi H, Mummery CL, Murata M, Nagao-Sato S, Nakachi Y, Nakahara F, Nakamura T, Nakamura Y, Nakazato K, van Nimwegen E, Ninomiya N, Nishiyori H, Noma S, Noma S, Noazaki T, Ogishima S, Ohkura N, Ohimiya H, Ohno H, Ohshima M, Okada-Hatakeyama M, Okazaki Y, Orlando V, Ovchinnikov DA, Pain A, Passier R, Patrikakis M, Persson H, Piazza S, Prendergast JG, Rackham OJ, Ramilowski JA, Rashid M, Ravasi T, Rizzu P, Roncador M, Roy S, Rye MB, Saijyo E, Sajantila A, Saka A, Sakaguchi S, Sakai M, Sato H, Savvi S, Saxena A, Schneider C, Schultes EA, Schulze-Tanzil GG, Schwegmann A, Sengstag T, Sheng G, Shimoji H, Shimoni Y, Shin JW, Simon C, Sugiyama D, Sugiyama T, Suzuki M, Suzuki N, Swoboda RK, 't Hoen PA, Tagami M, Takahashi N, Takai J, Tanaka H, Tatsukawa H, Tatum Z, Thompson M, Toyodo H, Toyoda T, Valen E, van de Wetering M, van den Berg LM, Verado R, Vijayan D, Vorontsov IE, Wasserman WW, Watanabe S, Wells CA, Winteringham LN, Wolvetang E, Wood EJ, Yamaguchi Y, Yamamoto M, Yoneda M, Yonekura Y, Yoshida S, Zabierowski SE, Zhang PG, Zhao X, Zucchelli S, Summers KM, Suzuki H, Daub CO, Kawai J, Heutink P, Hide W, Freeman TC, Lenhard B, Bajic VB, Taylor MS, Makeev VJ, Sandelin A, Hume DA, Carninci P, Hayashizaki Y.:
"A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas."
Nature. 507, 462-70. (2014) - 10.
Andersson R, Gebhard C, Miguel-Escalada I, Hoof I, Bornholdt J, Boyd M, Chen Y, Zhao X, Schmidl C, Suzuki T, Ntini E, Arner E, Valen E, Li K, Schwarzfischer L, Glatz D, Raithel J, Lilje B, Rapin N, Bagger FO, Jørgensen M, Andersen PR, Bertin N, Rackham O, Burroughs AM, Baillie JK, Ishizu Y, Shimizu Y, Furuhata E, Maeda S, Negishi Y, Mungall CJ, Meehan TF, Lassmann T, Itoh M, Kawaji H, Kondo N, Kawai J, Lennartsson A, Daub CO, Heutink P, Hume DA, Jensen TH, Suzuki H, Hayashizaki Y, Muüller F, Forrest ARR, Carninci P, Rehli M, Sandelin A.:
"An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues."
Nature. 507, 455-461. (2014)
Recent Research Results
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Events
Publications
- Research Highlights, Feb 2013: Prioritizing protein production
- Research Highlights, Jun 2014: Genetic ‘junk’ may have its uses
- Research Highlights, Apr 2014: Making sense of the cellular rulebook
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Piero Carninci
- Team Leader
Core members
- Masaki Kato
- Senior Research Scientist
- Hazuki Takahashi
- Special Fixed Term Contract Researcher
- Giovanni Pascarella
- Research Scientist
- Harshita Sharma
- Research Scientist
- Matthew Valentine
- Research Scientist
- Prabha Tiwari
- Research Scientist
- Lokesh Pati Tripathi
- Research Scientist
- Pauline Robbe
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Naoko Toki
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Diane Delobel
- Research Associate
- Mitsuyoshi Murata
- Expert Technician
- Hiromi Sueki
- Expert Technician
- Miki Kojima
- Expert Technician
- Sachi Kato
- Expert Technician
- Xufeng Shu
- Research Part-time Worker II
Contact Information
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku
Yokohama, Kanagawa
230-0045, Japan
Email: carninci [at] riken.jp