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Shigenobu Yonemura

Shigenobu Yonemura

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
33563
World Ranking
4446
National Ranking
292

Overview

Shigenobu Yonemura is affiliated with the University of Tokushima in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant number of publications also contributing to the field of medicine. Within these broad areas, key subfields include molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as cellular mechanics and interactions, retinal development and disorders, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, protist diversity and phylogeny, cell image analysis techniques, and Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ.

Yonemura has published research in various scientific venues, some of the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • iScience

Notable recent papers include:

  • Afadin regulates actomyosin organization through αE-catenin at adherens junctions (2020), published in The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Epigenetic plasticity safeguards heterochromatin configuration in mammals (2023), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • RanGTP and the actin cytoskeleton keep paternal and maternal chromosomes apart during fertilization (2021), published in The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Apoptotic extracellular vesicle formation via local phosphatidylserine exposure drives efficient cell extrusion (2023), published in Developmental Cell
  • Tracheal motile cilia in mice require CAMSAP3 for the formation of central microtubule pair and coordinated beating (2021), published in Molecular Biology of the Cell

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kenta Onoue, Satoko Okayama, Loan Pham-Nguyen, Hiroko Saito, and Fumiko Matsukawa Usami. The collaborative nature is reflected in multiple co-authored publications, indicating active research partnerships within their domains of study.

Best Publications

  • Occludin: a novel integral membrane protein localizing at tight junctions.

    M Furuse;T Hirase;M Itoh;A Nagafuchi

  • Self-Organized Formation of Polarized Cortical Tissues from ESCs and Its Active Manipulation by Extrinsic Signals

    Mototsugu Eiraku;Kiichi Watanabe;Mami Matsuo-Takasaki;Masako Kawada

  • Self-formation of optic cups and storable stratified neural retina from human ESCs.

    Tokushige Nakano;Satoshi Ando;Nozomu Takata;Masako Kawada

  • Direct association of occludin with ZO-1 and its possible involvement in the localization of occludin at tight junctions.

    M Furuse;M Itoh;T Hirase;A Nagafuchi

  • alpha-Catenin as a tension transducer that induces adherens junction development.

    Shigenobu Yonemura;Yuko Wada;Toshiyuki Watanabe;Akira Nagafuchi

  • Rho-Kinase Phosphorylates COOH-terminal Threonines of Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin (ERM) Proteins and Regulates Their Head-to-Tail Association

    Takeshi Matsui;Masato Maeda;Yoshinori Doi;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • Hippo pathway regulation by cell morphology and stress fibers

    Ken Ichi Wada;Kazuyoshi Itoga;Teruo Okano;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin fragment removes specific claudins from tight junction strands: Evidence for direct involvement of claudins in tight junction barrier.

    Noriyuki Sonoda;Mikio Furuse;Hiroyuki Sasaki;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • The 220-kD protein colocalizing with cadherins in non-epithelial cells is identical to ZO-1, a tight junction-associated protein in epithelial cells: cDNA cloning and immunoelectron microscopy.

    M Itoh;A Nagafuchi;S Yonemura;T Kitani-Yasuda

  • Regulation mechanism of ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin) protein/plasma membrane association: possible involvement of phosphatidylinositol turnover and Rho-dependent signaling pathway.

    M Hirao;N Sato;T Kondo;S Yonemura

  • Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin (ERM) Proteins Bind to a Positively Charged Amino Acid Cluster in the Juxta-Membrane Cytoplasmic Domain of CD44, CD43, and ICAM-2

    Shigenobu Yonemura;Motohiro Hirao;Yoshinori Doi;Nobuyuki Takahashi

  • Retraction: Bidirectional developmental potential in reprogrammed cells with acquired pluripotency

    Haruko Obokata;Yoshiki Sasai;Hitoshi Niwa;Mitsutaka Kadota

  • Differentiation of embryonic stem cells is induced by GATA factors

    Junji Fujikura;Eiji Yamato;Shigenobu Yonemura;Kiminori Hosoda

  • Cortical actin organization: lessons from ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin) proteins.

    Sachiko Tsukita;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • Self-formation of functional adenohypophysis in three-dimensional culture

    Hidetaka Suga;Taisuke Kadoshima;Maki Minaguchi;Masatoshi Ohgushi

  • Cell-to-cell adherens junction formation and actin filament organization: similarities and differences between non-polarized fibroblasts and polarized epithelial cells

    Shigenobu Yonemura;Masahiko Itoh;Akira Nagafuchi;Shoichiro Tsukita

  • Modulating F-actin organization induces organ growth by affecting the Hippo pathway

    Leticia Sansores-Garcia;Wouter Bossuyt;Ken Ichi Wada;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • A gene family consisting of ezrin, radixin and moesin. Its specific localization at actin filament/plasma membrane association sites.

    N. Sato;N. Funayama;A. Nagafuchi;S. Yonemura

  • Molecular linkage between cadherins and actin filaments in cell-cell adherens junctions.

    Shoichiro Tsukita;Sachiko Tsukita;Akira Nagafuchi;Shigenobu Yonemura

  • ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin) family : from cytoskeleton to signal transduction

    S Tsukita;S Yonemura

Frequent Co-Authors

Shoichiro Tsukita
Shoichiro Tsukita Kyoto University
Sachiko Tsukita
Sachiko Tsukita Osaka University
Akira Nagafuchi
Akira Nagafuchi Nara Medical University
Yoshiki Sasai
Yoshiki Sasai Kyoto University
Masayo Takahashi
Masayo Takahashi Kyoto University
Toshio Hakoshima
Toshio Hakoshima Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Masaki Inagaki
Masaki Inagaki Mie University
Fiona M. Watt
Fiona M. Watt King's College London

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