Published Papers & Misc - SASAKI Junko

21. Yoshiko Iizuka-Hishikawa, Daisuke Hishikawa, Junko Sasaki, Keiyo Takubo, Motohito Goto, Katsuyuki Nagata, Hiroki Nakanishi, Hideo Shindou, Tadashi Okamura, Chizuru Ito, Kiyotaka Toshimori, Takehiko Sasaki, Takao Shimizu. Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase 3 tunes the membrane status of germ cells by incorporating docosahexaenoic acid during spermatogenesis. J. Biol. Chem.. 2017.07; 292 (29): 12065-12076. ( PubMed, DOI )

22. Hirotaka Kimura, Satoshi Eguchi, Junko Sasaki, Keiji Kuba, Hiroki Nakanishi, Shunsuke Takasuga, Masakazu Yamazaki, Akiteru Goto, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hiroshi Itoh, Yumiko Imai, Akira Suzuki, Noboru Mizushima, Takehiko Sasaki. Vps34 regulates myofibril proteostasis to prevent hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. JCI Insight. 2017.01; 2 (1): e89462. ( PubMed, DOI )

23. Shin Morioka, Kiyomi Nigorikawa, Junko Sasaki, Kaoru Hazeki, Yoshihiro Kasuu, Takehiko Sasaki, Osamu Hazeki. Myeloid cell-specific inositol polyphosphate-4-phosphatase type I knockout mice impair bacteria clearance in a murine peritonitis model. Innate Immun. 2016.08; 22 (6): 444-451. ( PubMed, DOI )

24. Kiyomi Nigorikawa, Kaoru Hazeki, Junko Sasaki, Yumio Omori, Mikiko Miyake, Shin Morioka, Ying Guo, Takehiko Sasaki, Osamu Hazeki. Inositol Polyphosphate-4-Phosphatase Type I Negatively Regulates Phagocytosis via Dephosphorylation of Phagosomal PtdIns(3,4)P2. PLoS ONE. 2015.11; 10 (11): e0142091. ( PubMed, DOI )

25. Satoshi Kofuji, Hirotaka Kimura, Hiroki Nakanishi, Hiroshi Nanjo, Shunsuke Takasuga, Hui Liu, Satoshi Eguchi, Ryotaro Nakamura, Reietsu Itoh, Noriko Ueno, Ken Asanuma, Mingguo Huang, Atsushi Koizumi, Tomonori Habuchi, Masakazu Yamazaki, Akira Suzuki, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki. INPP4B Is a PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 Phosphatase That Can Act as a Tumor Suppressor. Cancer Discov. 2015.07; 5 (7): 730-739. ( PubMed, DOI )

26. Chen Li Chew, Andrea Lunardi, Federico Gulluni, Daniel T Ruan, Ming Chen, Leonardo Salmena, Michiya Nishino, Antonella Papa, Christopher Ng, Jacqueline Fung, John G Clohessy, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Roderick T Bronson, Emilio Hirsch, Pier Paolo Pandolfi. In Vivo Role of INPP4B in Tumor and Metastasis Suppression through Regulation of PI3K-AKT Signaling at Endosomes. Cancer Discov. 2015.07; 5 (7): 740-751. ( PubMed, DOI )

27. Laura R H Ip, George Poulogiannis, Felipe Cia Viciano, Junko Sasaki, Satoshi Kofuji, Victoria J Spanswick, Daniel Hochhauser, John A Hartley, Takehiko Sasaki, Christina A Gewinner. Loss of INPP4B causes a DNA repair defect through loss of BRCA1, ATM and ATR and can be targeted with PARP inhibitor treatment. Oncotarget. 2015.04; 6 (12): 10548-10562. ( PubMed, DOI )

28. Tomonori Ayukawa, Masakazu Akiyama, Jennifer L Mummery-Widmer, Thomas Stoeger, Junko Sasaki, Juergen A Knoblich, Haruki Senoo, Takehiko Sasaki, Masakazu Yamazaki. Dachsous-dependent asymmetric localization of spiny-legs determines planar cell polarity orientation in Drosophila. Cell Rep. 2014.07; 8 (2): 610-621. ( PubMed, DOI )

29. Yoichiro Fujioka, Masumi Tsuda, Asuka Nanbo, Tomoe Hattori, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Tadaaki Miyazaki, Yusuke Ohba. A Ca(2+)-dependent signalling circuit regulates influenza A virus internalization and infection. Nat Commun. 2013.11; 4 2763. ( PubMed, DOI )

30. Hideaki Morishita, Satoshi Eguchi, Hirotaka Kimura, Junko Sasaki, Yuriko Sakamaki, Michael L Robinson, Takehiko Sasaki, Noboru Mizushima. Deletion of autophagy-related 5 (Atg5) and Pik3c3 genes in the lens causes cataract independent of programmed organelle degradation. J. Biol. Chem.. 2013.04; 288 (16): 11436-11447. ( PubMed, DOI )

31. Shunsuke Takasuga, Yasuo Horie, Junko Sasaki, Ge-Hong Sun-Wada, Nobuyuki Kawamura, Ryota Iizuka, Katsunori Mizuno, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoshi Kofuji, Hirotaka Kimura, Masakazu Yamazaki, Chihoko Horie, Eri Odanaga, Yoshiko Sato, Shinsuke Chida, Kenji Kontani, Akihiro Harada, Toshiaki Katada, Akira Suzuki, Yoh Wada, Hirohide Ohnishi, Takehiko Sasaki. Critical roles of type III phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase in murine embryonic visceral endoderm and adult intestine. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 2013.01; 110 (5): 1726-1731. ( PubMed, DOI )

32. Hyeon-Cheol Lee, Takao Inoue, Junko Sasaki, Takuya Kubo, Shinji Matsuda, Yasuko Nakasaki, Mitsuharu Hattori, Fumiharu Tanaka, Osamu Udagawa, Nozomu Kono, Toshiki Itoh, Hideo Ogiso, Ryo Taguchi, Makoto Arita, Takehiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Arai. LPIAT1 regulates arachidonic acid content in phosphatidylinositol and is required for cortical lamination in mice. Mol. Biol. Cell. 2012.12; 23 (24): 4689-4700. ( PubMed, DOI )

33. G Gregory Neely, Shuan Rao, Michael Costigan, Norbert Mair, Ildiko Racz, Giedre Milinkeviciute, Arabella Meixner, Swetha Nayanala, Robert S Griffin, Inna Belfer, Feng Dai, Shad Smith, Luda Diatchenko, Stefano Marengo, Bernhard J Haubner, Maria Novatchkova, Dustin Gibson, William Maixner, J Andrew Pospisilik, Emilio Hirsch, Ian Q Whishaw, Andreas Zimmer, Vaijayanti Gupta, Junko Sasaki, Yasunori Kanaho, Takehiko Sasaki, Michaela Kress, Clifford J Woolf, Josef M Penninger. Construction of a global pain systems network highlights phospholipid signaling as a regulator of heat nociception. PLoS Genet.. 2012.11; 8 (12): e1003071. ( PubMed, DOI )

34. Naoki Kobayashi, Kohjiro Ueki, Yukiko Okazaki, Aya Iwane, Naoto Kubota, Mitsuru Ohsugi, Motoharu Awazawa, Masatoshi Kobayashi, Takayoshi Sasako, Kazuma Kaneko, Miho Suzuki, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Kazuo Hara, Kotaro Yoshimura, Isao Koshima, Susumu Goyama, Koji Murakami, Junko Sasaki, Ryozo Nagai, Mineo Kurokawa, Takehiko Sasaki, Takashi Kadowaki. Blockade of class IB phosphoinositide-3 kinase ameliorates obesity-induced inflammation and insulin resistance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 2011.04; 108 (14): 5753-5758. ( PubMed, DOI )

35. Yoichiro Fujioka, Masumi Tsuda, Tomoe Hattori, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Tadaaki Miyazaki, Yusuke Ohba. The Ras-PI3K signaling pathway is involved in clathrin-independent endocytosis and the internalization of influenza viruses. PLoS ONE. 2011.01; 6 (1): e16324. ( PubMed, DOI )

36. Nobukatsu Kinoshita, Yasuo Horie, Shigetoshi Ohshima, Yohei Hirai, Takahiro Dohmen, Mario Jin, Tamotsu Matsuhashi, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Masahiro Iizuka, Hirohide Ohnishi. Epimorphin protects hepatocytes from oxidative stress by inhibiting mitochondrial injury. J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol.. 2011.01; 26 (1): 201-206. ( PubMed, DOI )

37. Laura A Volpicelli-Daley, Louise Lucast, Liang-Wei Gong, Lijuan Liu, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Charles S Abrams, Yasunori Kanaho, Pietro De Camilli. Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinases and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate synthesis in the brain. J. Biol. Chem.. 2010.09; 285 (37): 28708-28714. ( PubMed, DOI )

38. Junko Sasaki, Satoshi Kofuji, Reietsu Itoh, Toshihiko Momiyama, Kiyohiko Takayama, Haruka Murakami, Shinsuke Chida, Yuko Tsuya, Shunsuke Takasuga, Satoshi Eguchi, Ken Asanuma, Yasuo Horie, Kouichi Miura, Elizabeth Michele Davies, Christina Mitchell, Masakazu Yamazaki, Hirokazu Hirai, Tadaomi Takenawa, Akira Suzuki, Takehiko Sasaki. The PtdIns(3,4)P(2) phosphatase INPP4A is a suppressor of excitotoxic neuronal death. Nature. 2010.05; 465 (7297): 497-501. ( PubMed, DOI )

39. Takehiko Sasaki, Shunsuke Takasuga, Junko Sasaki, Satoshi Kofuji, Satoshi Eguchi, Masakazu Yamazaki, Akira Suzuki. Mammalian phosphoinositide kinases and phosphatases. Prog. Lipid Res.. 2009.11; 48 (6): 307-343. ( PubMed, DOI )

40. Yumiko Anezaki, Shigetoshi Ohshima, Hajime Ishii, Nobukatsu Kinoshita, Takahiro Dohmen, Ei Kataoka, Wataru Sato, Masahiro Iizuka, Takashi Goto, Junko Sasaki, Takehiko Sasaki, Akira Suzuki, Hirohide Ohnishi, Yasuo Horie. Sex difference in the liver of hepatocyte-specific Pten-deficient mice: A model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Hepatol. Res.. 2009.06; 39 (6): 609-618. ( PubMed, DOI )