RECENT PUBLICATIONS

オートファゴソーム形成の分子機構　Molecular mechanisms of autophagosome formation

  • Yang Shi and Kuninori Suzuki (2024) Quantitative analysis of the spatial distance between autophagy-related membrane structures and the endoplasmic reticulum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Autophagy, Published online: 23 Mar 2024. DOI:10.1080/15548627.2024.2330033. PubMed ID: 38478967.
  • Yuko Fujioka, Jahangir MD Alam, Daisuke Noshiro, Kazunari Mouri, Toshio Ando, Yasushi Okada, Alexander I. May, Roland L. Knorr, Kuninori Suzuki, Yoshinori Ohsumi, and Nobuo N. Noda (2020) Phase separation organizes the site of autophagosome formation. Nature, 578, 301–305. PubMed ID: 32025038.
  • Takuo Osawa, Tetsuya Kotani, Tatsuya Kawaoka, Eri Hirata, Kuninori Suzuki, Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Yoshinori Ohsumi and Nobuo N. Noda (2019) Atg2 mediates direct lipid transfer between membranes for autophagosome formation. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 26, 281–288. PubMed ID: 30911189.
  • Tatsuya Kawaoka, Shinsuke Ohnuki, Yoshikazu Ohya and Kuninori Suzuki (2017) Morphometric analysis of autophagy-related structures in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Autophagy, 13, 2104–2110. PubMed ID: 28980865.
  • Eri Hirata, Yoshikazu Ohya and Kuninori Suzuki (2017) Atg4 plays an important role in efficient expansion of autophagic isolation membranes by cleaving lipidated Atg8 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS ONE, 12, e0181047. PubMed ID: 28704456.

オートファジックボディ分解の分子機構　Molecular mechanisms of autophagic body degradation

  • Yasunori Watanabe and Kuninori Suzuki (2024) The activation mechanism of Atg15, a vacuolar phospholipase required for the disintegration of organelle membranes. Autophagy, Published online: 26 Mar 2024. DOI:10.1080/15548627.2024.2333165. PubMed ID: 38513722. (Review Article)
  • Yasunori Watanabe, Yurina Iwasaki, Kyoka Sasaki, and Kuninori Suzuki (2023) Atg15 is a vacuolar phospholipase that disintegrates organelle membranes. Cell Reports, 42, 113567. DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113567. PubMed ID: 38118441.
  • Eri Hirata, Kyo Shirai, Tatsuya Kawaoka, Kosuke Sato, Fumito Kodama, and Kuninori Suzuki (2021) Atg15 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae consists of two functionally distinct domains. Mol. Biol. Cell, 32, 645–663. DOI:10.1091/mbc.E20-07-0500. PubMed ID: 33625870.

新規非膜オルガネラの探索　Screening for novel membraneless organelles

  • Kuninori Suzuki and Eri Hirata (2023) Liquid droplet formation and cytoplasm to vacuole targeting of aminopeptidase I are temperature sensitive in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Letters, 597, 631-642. DOI:10.1002/1873-3468.14509. PubMed ID: 36217212.
  • Akinori Yamasaki, Jahangir MD. Alam, Daisuke Noshiro, Eri Hirata, Yuko Fujioka, Kuninori Suzuki, Yoshinori Ohsumi and Nobuo N. Noda (2020) Liquidity is a critical determinant for selective autophagy of protein condensates. Mol. Cell, 77, 1163–1175. PubMed ID: 31995729.
  • Akinori Yamasaki, Yasunori Watanabe, Wakana Adachi, Kuninori Suzuki, Kazuaki Matoba, Hiromi Kirisako, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Fuyuhiko Inagaki and Nobuo N. Noda (2016) Structural basis for receptor-mediated selective autophagy of aminopeptidase I aggregates. Cell Rep. 16, 19–27. PubMed ID: 27320913.