Department of Molecular Genetics

Subjects:

1. Molecular mechanisms regulating the cell cycle in mammalian cells.
2. Molecular mechanisms controlling the meiosis in fission yeast.
3. Molecular mechanisms modulating the metastasis of malignant cells.
4. Application of a new technique (stepwise subtraction) to RNA diagnosis.

Papers published in 2012

1. Cyclin G-associated kinase regulates protein phosphatase 2A by phosphorylation of its B'γ subunit.

   Yoko Naito, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Takashi Kasama, Jun Sato, Hiroe Tabara, Ayumi Okamoto, Norikazu Yabuta and Hiroshi Nojima

   Cell Cycle, 11 (3), 604-616, 2012.
2. Cancer susceptibility and embryonic lethality in Mob1a/1b double-mutant mice.

   Miki Nishio, Koichi Hamada, Kohichi Kawahara, Masato Sasaki, Fumihito Noguchi, Shuhei Chiba, Kensaku Mizuno, Satoshi O Suzuki, Youyi Dong, Masaaki Tokuda, Takumi Morikawa, Hiroki Hikasa, Jonathan Eggenschwiler, Norikazu Yabuta, Hiroshi Nojima, Kentaro Nakagawa, Yutaka Hata, Hiroshi Nishina, Koshi Mimori, Masaki Mori, Takehiko Sasaki, Tak W Mak, Toru Nakano, Satoshi Itami and Akira Suzuki

   J Clin Invest, 122 (12), 4505-4518, 2012.

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