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Fumio Arai is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on Molecular Biology, Hematology, Immunology, Genetics, and Physiology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Immune responses and vaccinations

Fumio Arai has published in various academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Communications Biology
  • Blood
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Cell Reports

The following are some of the recent papers featuring their research contributions:

  • Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro (2023, Nature)
  • Transfer learning efficiently maps bone marrow cell types from mouse to human using single-cell RNA sequencing (2020, Communications Biology)
  • MDS cells impair osteolineage differentiation of MSCs via extracellular vesicles to suppress normal hematopoiesis (2022, Cell Reports)
  • Machine Learning of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Divisions from Paired Daughter Cell Expression Profiles Reveals Effects of Aging on Self-Renewal (2020, Cell Systems)
  • Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis Is Essential for Terminal Differentiation of CD45- TER119-Erythroid and Lymphoid Progenitors (2020, iScience)

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yuya Kunisaki
  • Patrick S. Stumpf
  • Ben D. MacArthur
  • Yuichiro Semba
  • Koichi Akashi

The scientist's research spans experimental studies and computational approaches, especially in hematopoietic stem cell biology, aging effects, and translational genomics. Their involvement in single-cell RNA sequencing and machine learning reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding stem cell function and disease mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Tie2/Angiopoietin-1 Signaling Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence in the Bone Marrow Niche

    Fumio Arai;Atsushi Hirao;Masako Ohmura;Hidetaka Sato

  • Reactive oxygen species act through p38 MAPK to limit the lifespan of hematopoietic stem cells.

    Keisuke Ito;Atsushi Hirao;Atsushi Hirao;Fumio Arai;Keiyo Takubo

  • Regulation of oxidative stress by ATM is required for self-renewal of haematopoietic stem cells

    Keisuke Ito;Atsushi Hirao;Fumio Arai;Sahoko Matsuoka

  • Foxo3a is essential for maintenance of the hematopoietic stem cell pool.

    Kana Miyamoto;Kiyomi Y. Araki;Kazuhito Naka;Fumio Arai

  • Thrombopoietin/MPL Signaling Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence and Interaction with the Osteoblastic Niche

    Hiroki Yoshihara;Fumio Arai;Kentaro Hosokawa;Tetsuya Hagiwara

  • Commitment and Differentiation of Osteoclast Precursor Cells by the Sequential Expression of C-Fms and Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κb (Rank) Receptors

    Fumio Arai;Takeshi Miyamoto;Osamu Ohneda;Tornohisa Inada

  • A PML–PPAR-δ pathway for fatty acid oxidation regulates hematopoietic stem cell maintenance.

    Keisuke Ito;Arkaitz Carracedo;Dror Weiss;Fumio Arai

  • Interferon regulatory factor-2 protects quiescent hematopoietic stem cells from type I interferon― dependent exhaustion

    Taku Sato;Nobuyuki Onai;Hiroki Yoshihara;Fumio Arai

  • Bifurcation of osteoclasts and dendritic cells from common progenitors.

    Takeshi Miyamoto;Osamu Ohneda;Fumio Arai;Katsuya Iwamoto

  • Maintenance of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells in the osteoblastic niche.

    Fumio Arai;Toshio Suda

  • Noncanonical Wnt Signaling Maintains Hematopoietic Stem Cells in the Niche

    Ryohichi Sugimura;Xi C. He;Aparna Venkatraman;Aparna Venkatraman;Fumio Arai

  • Mesenchymal stem cells in perichondrium express activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule and participate in bone marrow formation

    Fumio Arai;Osamu Ohneda;Takeshi Miyamoto;Takeshi Miyamoto;Xiu Qin Zhang

  • Isolation and characterization of endosteal niche cell populations that regulate hematopoietic stem cells

    Yuka Nakamura;Fumio Arai;Hiroko Iwasaki;Kentaro Hosokawa

  • Hematopoietic stem cells and their niche.

    Toshio Suda;Fumio Arai;Atsushi Hirao

  • Self-renewal of a purified Tie2+ hematopoietic stem cell population relies on mitochondrial clearance.

    Kyoko Ito;Raphaël Turcotte;Jinhua Cui;Samuel E. Zimmerman

  • Stem Cell Differentiation as a Non-Markov Stochastic Process.

    Patrick S. Stumpf;Rosanna C.G. Smith;Michael Lenz;Michael Lenz;Andreas Schuppert

  • Fbxw7 acts as a critical fail-safe against premature loss of hematopoietic stem cells and development of T-ALL

    Sahoko Matsuoka;Yuichi Oike;Yuichi Oike;Ichiro Onoyama;Atsushi Iwama

  • ALCAM (CD166): its role in hematopoietic and endothelial development.

    Osamu Ohneda;Osamu Ohneda;Osamu Ohneda;Kinuko Ohneda;Kinuko Ohneda;Kinuko Ohneda;Fumio Arai;Fumio Arai;Fumio Arai;James Lee;James Lee;James Lee

  • Function of oxidative stress in the regulation of hematopoietic stem cell-niche interaction

    Kentaro Hosokawa;Fumio Arai;Hiroki Yoshihara;Yuka Nakamura

  • A PML–PPAR-δ Pathway for Fatty Acid Oxidation Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance Through the Control of Asymmetric Division.

    Keisuke Ito;Arkaitz Carracedo;Fumio Arai;Ugo Ala

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Suda
Toshio Suda National University of Singapore
Atsushi Hirao
Atsushi Hirao Kanazawa University
Takeshi Miyamoto
Takeshi Miyamoto Kumamoto University
Yuichi Oike
Yuichi Oike Kumamoto University
Yasuo Ikeda
Yasuo Ikeda Waseda University
Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Hiromitsu Nakauchi Stanford University
Takao Takahashi
Takao Takahashi Keio University
Laurence A. Lasky
Laurence A. Lasky The Column Group
Koichi Akashi
Koichi Akashi Kyushu University
Motohiro Takeya
Motohiro Takeya Kumamoto Health Science University

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