The kinesin-like protein TOP promotes Aurora localisation and induces mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear division

Y Yoshida, T Fujiwara, Y Imoto… - Journal of cell …, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
The cell cycle usually refers to the mitotic cycle, but the cell-division cycle in the plant
kingdom consists of not only nuclear but also mitochondrial and chloroplast division cycle …

Convolutional neural network-based automatic classification for algal morphogenesis

K Hayashi, S Kato, S Matsunaga - Cytologia, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used for various data analyses and resemble the
human brain cognition system. CNN algorithms are composed of multiple layers of …

Deregulated Phosphorylation of CENH3 at Ser65 Affects the Development of Floral Meristems in Arabidopsis thaliana

D Demidov, S Heckmann, O Weiss, T Rutten… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Several histone variants are posttranslationally phosphorylated. Little is known about
phosphorylation of the centromere-specific histone 3 (CENH3) variant in plants. We show …

Cyanidioschyzon merolae aurora kinase phosphorylates evolutionarily conserved sites on its target to regulate mitochondrial division

S Kato, E Okamura, TM Matsunaga… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
The mitochondrion is an organelle that was derived from an endosymbiosis. Although
regulation of mitochondrial growth by the host cell is necessary for the maintenance of …

2A peptides contribute to the co-expression of proteins for imaging and genome editing

MK Shibuta, M Matsuoka, S Matsunaga - Cytologia, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract 2A self-cleaving peptides (2A peptides), originally identified in a short oligopeptide
sequence of foot and mouth disease RNA virus, consist of short amino acids that specify …

A plant ancestral polo-like kinase sheds light on the mystery of the evolutionary disappearance of polo-like kinases in the plant kingdom

E Okamura, T Sakamoto, T Sasaki, S Matsunaga - Cytologia, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Polo-like kinase (PLK) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in the formation of the mitotic
spindle and the maturation of centrosomes. PLKs are highly conserved in the animal and …

Cloning of PcPAL gene from Pyrus communis and characterization of its expression in two cultivars with different anthocyanin accumulation levels

Z Ban, Z Luo, C Chen, J Gong, Q Yuan… - Journal of Biobased …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Anthocyanins are one of highly attractive characteristics contributing attractive color and
antioxidant properties in fruits. During pear ripening, phenylalanine ammonialyase (PAL) …

Imaging with split fluorescent proteins based on the reconstruction of separated asymmetric protein fragments

M Watanabe, Y Sakamoto, S Matsunaga - Cytologia, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Imaging techniques with split fluorescent proteins are based on the reconstruction of
separated asymmetric protein fragments. Although each fragment alone has no …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of mitochondrial division and identification of the plant essential gene set using microalgae

加藤翔一 - 2020 - tus.repo.nii.ac.jp
When biologists try to understand the molecular mechanism, they often inhibit the genes of
interest by genetic approaches such as knockout (KO) and knockdown (KD). These …

Double-membrane-bounded organelles: Recent findings regarding division, inheritance, structure, and evolution of the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts

Y Yoshida, Y Sakamoto, K Iwasaki, S Maruyama… - … merolae: A New Model …, 2017 - Springer
The nucleus of Cyanidioschyzon merolae has quite a limited set of components. The core
and linker histones, H2A. Z, and a centromeric histone variant CenH3 are preserved, but …