Department of Oncogene Research

Staff:

Professor

Masato Okada, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Shigeyuki Nada, Ph.D.

Guest Professor

Chitose Oneyama, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Kentaro Kajiwara, Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Researcher

Akira Ogawa, Ph.D.

Graduate Student

Rei Matsuyama

Yu Komiya

Yuichi Ninomiya

Atsushi Kuwahara

Teruhisa Tsukamoto

Kentaro Tanaka

Jun Nakayama

Keisuke Kitano

Tomokazu Nakai

Risa Ohno

Choo Jun Jie

Yuki Kubo

Kim Junhyeong

Mao Ito

Hiroya Ohkura

Atsuya Sugihara

Haruyuki Hasegawa

Chee Woei-Yaw

Undergraduate Student

Akiko Nakayama

Hiroki Nishida

Yuriko Kurahashi

Basu Shuchismita

Naoyuki Kawase

Masahiro Nakai

Chen Ping-Kuan

Subjects:

1. Functions of the Src family tyrosine kinases (SFK).
2. Molecular mechanisms of SFK-mediated cell transformation.
3. Regulation of tumor growth via the endosomal compartments.

Papers published in 2016

1. MicroRNA-27b suppresses tumor progression by regulating ARFGEF1 and focal adhesion signaling.

   Rei Matsuyama, Daisuke Okuzaki, Masato Okada and Chitose Oneyama

   Cancer Sci, 107 (1), 28-35, 2016.
2. Fer tyrosine kinase oligomer mediates and amplifies Src-induced tumor progression.

   C Oneyama, Y Yoshikawa, Y Ninomiya, T Iino, S Tsukita and M Okada

   Oncogene, 35 (4), 501-512, 2016.

Link

Department of Oncogene Research

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University