Asako Sugimoto’s Publication List (~2009)

Original Papers
Meshi, T., Watanabe, Y., Saito, T., Sugimoto, A., Maeda, T., and Okada, Y. (1987) Function of the 30kd protein of tobacco mosaic virus: involvement in cell-to cell movement and dispensability for replication. EMBO J 6, 2557-2563.

Iino, Y., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (1991) S. pombe pac1+, whose overexpression inhibits sexual development, encodes a ribonuclease III-like RNase. EMBO J 10, 221-226.

Sugimoto, A., Iino, Y., Maeda, T., Watanabe, Y., and Yamamoto, M. (1991) Schizosaccharomyces pombe ste11+encodes a transcription factor with an HMG motif that is a critical regulator of sexual development. Genes Dev 5, 1990-1999.

Sugimoto, A., Friesen, P. D., and Rothman, J. H. (1994) Baculovirus p35 prevents developmentally programmed cell death and rescues a ced-9 mutant in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. EMBO J 13, 2023-2028.

Kanoh, J., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (1995) Schizosaccharomyces pombe zfs1+encoding a zinc-finger protein functions in the mating pheromone recognition pathway. Mol Biol Cell 6, 1185-1195.

Kunitomo, H., Sugimoto, A., Wilkinson, C. R., and Yamamoto, M. (1995) Schizosaccharomyces pombe pac2+controls the onset of sexual development via a pathway independent of the cAMP cascade. Curr Genet 28, 32-38.

Sugimoto, A., Hozak, R. R., Nakashima, T., Nishimoto, T., and Rothman, J. H. (1995) dad-1, an endogenous programmed cell death suppressor in Caenorhabditis elegansand vertebrates. EMBO J 14, 4434-4441.

Kitayama, C., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (1997) Type II myosin heavy chain encoded by the myo2gene composes the contractile ring during cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. J Cell Biol 137, 1309-1319.

Zhu, J., Hill, R. J., Heid, P. J., Fukuyama, M., Sugimoto, A., Priess, J. R., and Rothman, J. H. (1997) end-1encodes an apparent GATA factor that specifies the endoderm precursor in Caenorhabditis elegansembryos. Genes Dev 11, 2883-2896.

Ohmachi, M., Sugimoto, A., Iino, Y., and Yamamoto, M. (1999) kel-1, a novel Kelch-related gene in Caenorhabditis elegans, is expressed in pharyngeal gland cells and is required for the feeding process. Genes Cells 4, 325-337.

Karashima, T., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (2000) Caenorhabditis eleganshomologue of the human azoospermia factor DAZ is required for oogenesis but not for spermatogenesis. Development 127, 1069-1079.

Maeda, I., Kohara, Y., Yamamoto, M., and Sugimoto, A. (2001) Large-scale analysis of gene function in Caenorhabditis elegansby high- throughput RNAi. Curr Biol 11, 171-176.

Sugimoto, A., Kusano, A., Hozak, R. R., Derry, W. B., Zhu, J., and Rothman, J. H. (2001) Many genomic regions are required for normal embryonic programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 158, 237-252.

Yoshida, M., Sugimoto, A., Ohshima, Y., and Takeshima, H. (2001) Important role of junctophilin in nematode motor function. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 289, 234-239.

Kodama, Y., Rothman, J. H., Sugimoto, A.*, and Yamamoto, M. (2002) The stem-loop binding protein CDL-1 is required for chromosome condensation, progression of cell death and morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 129, 187-196. (* Corresponding author)

Sumiyoshi, E., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (2002) Protein phosphatase 4 is required for centrosome maturation in mitosis and sperm meiosis in C. elegans. J Cell Sci 115, 1403-1410.

Mito, Y., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (2003) Distinct Developmental Function of Two Caenorhabditis elegansHomologs of the Cohesin Subunit Scc1/Rad21. Mol Biol Cell 14, 2399-2409.

Sawa, M., Suetsugu, S., Sugimoto, A., Miki, H., Yamamoto, M., and Takenawa, T. (2003) Essential role of the C. elegansArp2/3 complex in cell migration during ventral enclosure. J Cell Sci 116, 1505-1518.

Inoue, T., Sugimoto, A., Suzuki, Y., Yamamoto, M., Tsujimoto, M., Inoue, K., Aoki, J., and Arai, H. (2004) Type II platelet-activating factor-acetylhydrolase is essential for epithelial morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101, 13233-13238.

Maruyama, R., Endo, S., Sugimoto, A., and Yamamoto, M. (2005) Caenorhabditis elegans DAZ-1 is expressed in proliferating germ cells and directs proper nuclear organization and cytoplasmic core formation during oogenesis. Dev Biol 277, 142-154.

Yanagi, K., Mizuno, T., Tsuyama, T., Tada, S., Iida, Y., Sugimoto, A., Eki, T., Enomoto, T. and Hanaoka, F. (2005) Caenorhabditis elegans geminin homologue participates in cell cycle regulation and germ line development. J Biol Chem 280, 19689-94.

Furuya, M., Qadota, H., Chisholm, A. D. and Sugimoto, A. (2005) The C. elegans eyes absent ortholog EYA-1 is required for tissue differentiation and plays partially redundant roles with PAX-6. Dev Biol 15, 452-63.

Motegi, F., Velarde, N.V., Piano, F., and Sugimoto, A. (2006) Two phases of astral microtubule activity during cytokinesis in C. elegans embryos. Dev Cell 10, 509-20.

Motegi, F. and Sugimoto, A. (2006) Sequential functioning of ECT-2/RhoGEF, RHO-1 and CDC-42 establishes cell polarity in C. elegans embryos. Nature Cell Biology 8 , 978 - 985.

Maruyama, R., Velarde, N.V., Klancer, R., Gordon, S., Kadandale, P., Parry, J.M., Hang, J.S., Rubin, J., Stewart-Michaelis, A., Schweinsberg, P., Grant, B.D., Piano, F., Sugimoto, A., and Singson, A. (2007). EGG-3 regulates cell-surface and cortex rearrangements during egg activation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Curr Biol 17, 1555-1560.

Konishi, T., Uodome, N., and Sugimoto, A. (2008). The Caenorhabditis elegans DDX-23, a homolog of yeast splicing factor PRP28, is required for the sperm-oocyte switch and differentiation of various cell types. Developmental Dynamics 237, 2367-2377.

Takeda, K., Watanabe, C., Qadota, H., Hanazawa, M., and Sugimoto, A. (2008). Efficient production of monoclonal antibodies recognizing specific structures in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using an antigen subtraction method. Genes to Cells 13, 653-665.

Konishi, T., Uodome, N., & Sugimoto, A. (2008). The Caenorhabditis elegans DDX-23, a homolog of yeast splicing factor PRP28, is required for the sperm-oocyte switch and differentiation of various cell types. Dev Dyn 237, 2367-2377.

Gassmann, R., Essex, A., Hu, J.S., Maddox, P.S., Motegi, F., Sugimoto, A., O'Rourke, S.M., Bowerman, B., McLeod, I., Yates, J.R., 3rd, Oegema, K., Cheeseman, I.M., & Desai, A. (2008). A new mechanism controlling kinetochore-microtubule interactions revealed by comparison of two dynein-targeting components: SPDL-1 and the Rod/Zwilch/Zw10 complex. Genes Dev 22, 2385-2399.

Han, X., Gomes, J.E., Birmingham, C.L., Pintard, L., Sugimoto, A., & Mains, P.E. (2009). The Role of Protein Phosphatase 4 in Regulating Microtubule Severing in the Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo. Genetics 181, 933-943.



Review Articles:

Sugimoto, A., and Miura, M. (1998) Death signalling in C. elegansand activation mechanisms of caspases. In "Apoptosis genes", eds. C. S. Potten, C. Booth, and J. W. Wilson (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA) pp. 167-203.

Sugimoto, A. (2004) High-throughput RNAi in Caenorhabditis elegans: genome-wide screens and functional genomics. Differentiation, 72, 81-91.

Sugimoto, A. (2005) High-throughput RNAi-by-soaking in Caenorhabditis elegans. In "RNA interference technology: From basic science to drug development", ed. Appasani, K. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) pp. 419-432.

Sugimoto, A. (2005) WormMethod, Reverse genetics: RNAi by soaking. In: WormBook (ed. The C. elegans Research Community).

Sugimoto, A. (2009). Clearance of germ granules in soma. F1000 Biology Reports. 1, 49.