FIGNL1 AAA+ ATPase remodels RAD51 and DMC1 filaments in pre-meiotic DNA replication and meiotic recombination

Masaru Ito, Asako Furukohri, Kenichiro Matsuzaki, Yurika Fujita, Atsushi Toyoda, Akira Shinohara

Nature Communications　Vol. 14　No. 1　2023/10/27　Research paper (scientific journal)

The role of conserved amino acid residues of Sae3 in Mei5-Sae3 complex for Dmc1 assembly in meiotic recombination.

Priyanka Sawant, Stephen Mwaniki, Yurika Fujita, Masaru Ito, Asako Furukohri, Akira Shinohara

Genes & genetic systems　Vol. 98　No. 1　p. 45-52　2023/06/23　Research paper (scientific journal)

Chromosome architecture and homologous recombination in meiosis

Masaru Ito, Akira Shinohara

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology　Vol. 10　2023/01/06　Research paper (scientific journal)

SUMO is a pervasive regulator of meiosis.

Nikhil R Bhagwat, Shannon N Owens, Masaru Ito, Jay V Boinapalli, Philip Poa, Alexander Ditzel, Srujan Kopparapu, Meghan Mahalawat, Owen Richard Davies, Sean R Collins, Jeffrey R Johnson, Nevan J Krogan, Neil Hunter

eLife　Vol. 10　2021/01/27　Research paper (scientific journal)

Cytological Monitoring of Meiotic Crossovers in Spermatocytes and Oocytes.

Yan Yun, Masaru Ito, Sumit Sandhu, Neil Hunter

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)　Vol. 2153　p. 267-286　2021　Research paper (scientific journal)

PCNA activates the MutLγ endonuclease to promote meiotic crossing over.

Dhananjaya S Kulkarni, Shannon N Owens, Masayoshi Honda, Masaru Ito, Ye Yang, Mary W Corrigan, Lan Chen, Aric L Quan, Neil Hunter

Nature　Vol. 586　No. 7830　p. 623-627　2020/10　Research paper (scientific journal)

Proline-rich protein PRR19 functions with cyclin-like CNTD1 to promote meiotic crossing over in mouse.

Anastasiia Bondarieva, Kavya Raveendran, Vladyslav Telychko, H B D Prasada Rao, Ramya Ravindranathan, Chrysoula Zorzompokou, Friederike Finsterbusch, Ihsan Dereli, Frantzeskos Papanikos, Daniel Tränkner, Alexander Schleiffer, Ji-Feng Fei, Anna Klimova, Masaru Ito, Dhananjaya S Kulkarni, Ingo Roeder, Neil Hunter, Attila Tóth

Nature communications　Vol. 11　No. 1　p. 3101-3101　2020/06/18　Research paper (scientific journal)

Histone H3 Threonine 11 Phosphorylation Is Catalyzed Directly by the Meiosis-Specific Kinase Mek1 and Provides a Molecular Readout of Mek1 Activity in Vivo

Ryan Kniewel, Hajime Murakami, Yan Liu, Masaru Ito, Kunihiro Ohta, Nancy M. Hollingsworth, Scott Keeney

GENETICS　Vol. 207　No. 4　p. 1313-1333　2017/12　Research paper (scientific journal)

Arabidopsis AtRRP44 has ribonuclease activity that is required to complement the growth defect of yeast rrp44 Mutant

Naoyoshi Kumakura, Hiroka Otsuki, Masaru Ito, Mika Nomoto, Yasuomi Tada, Kunihiro Ohta, Yuichiro Watanabe

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY　Vol. 33　No. 2　p. 77-+　2016/06　Research paper (scientific journal)

Meiotic recombination cold spots in chromosomal cohesion sites

Masaru Ito, Kazuto Kugou, Jeffrey A. Fawcett, Sachiko Mura, Sho Ikeda, Hideki Innan, Kunihiro Ohta

GENES TO CELLS　Vol. 19　No. 5　p. 359-373　2014/05　Research paper (scientific journal)

Spatiotemporal regulation of meiotic recombination by Liaisonin.

Miyoshi T, Ito M, Ohta K

Bioarchitecture　Vol. 3　No. 1　p. 20-24　2013/01

A central coupler for recombination initiation linking chromosome architecture to S-phase checkpoint

Ito Masaru, Miyoshi Tomoichiro, Kugou Kazuto, Yamada Shintaro, Furuichi Masaki, Oda Arisa, Yamada Takatomi, Hirota Kouji, Masai Hisao, Ohta Kunihiro

GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS　Vol. 87　No. 6　2012/12

A Central Coupler for Recombination Initiation Linking Chromosome Architecture to S Phase Checkpoint

Tomoichiro Miyoshi, Masaru Ito, Kazuto Kugou, Shintaro Yamada, Masaki Furuichi, Arisa Oda, Takatomi Yamada, Kouji Hirota, Hisao Masai, Kunihiro Ohta

MOLECULAR CELL　Vol. 47　No. 5　p. 722-733　2012/09　Research paper (scientific journal)

Stable maintenance of genomic information and its failure in development of malignancies and diseases 染色体軸関連タンパク質・接着因子による減数分裂期組換え開始制御(Stable maintenance og genomic information and its failure in development of malignancies and diseases Control of recombination-initiating DNA double strand breaks by cohesin and chromsomal axis proteins)

太田 邦史, 三好 知一郎, 久郷 和人, 伊藤 将, 笹沼 博之

日本生化学会大会・日本分子生物学会年会合同大会講演要旨集　Vol. 83回・33回　p. 4S12-1　2010/12

Rec8 Guides Canonical Spo11 Distribution along Yeast Meiotic Chromosomes

Kazuto Kugou, Tomoyuki Fukuda, Shintaro Yamada, Masaru Ito, Hiroyuki Sasanuma, Saori Mori, Yuki Katou, Takehiko Itoh, Kouji Matsumoto, Takehiko Shibata, Katsuhiko Shirahige, Kunihiro Ohta

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL　Vol. 20　No. 13　p. 3064-3076　2009/07　Research paper (scientific journal)