Our paper, with Ito as first author, has been published in Nature Plants. We reveal how signaling by two types of small GTPases is integrated on plant endosomes. You can read the paper here and the press release here.
2026/06/12
A collaborative work with Dr Kimitsune Ishizaki was published in Plant & Cell Physiology (here). A collaborative work with Dr Kenji Matsui was published in Plant & Cell Physiology (here).
2026/04/16
A collaborative work with Dr Takashi Shimada was published in Plant & Cell Physiology (here). A collaborative work with Dr Keiko Torii was published in Science Advances (here).
2026/04/01
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2026/01/01
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2025/10/09
Our new paper on the retrieval pathway from the vacuole is published in Nature Plants (here). See also here.
2025/10/01
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2025/09/01
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2025/05/16
Our new paper on neofunctionalization of VAMP72 is published in Current Biology (here).
2025/04/01
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2025/03/31
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2025/01/06
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2024/04/12
A collaborative work with Drs Tomoyuki Furuya and Yuki Kondo was published in Nature Plants (here).
2024/04/01
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2023/10/19
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2023/10/13
A collaboration work with Dr. Shohei Yamaoka was published in Current Biology (here).
2023/10/06
A collaboration work with Dr. Masa H. Sato was published in The Plant Cell (here).
2023/10/02
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2023/05/16
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2023/04/03
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2023/03/31
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2023/02/13
Our new paper on autophagic degradation of the plastid during spermiogenesis in Marchantia is published in Frontiers in Plant Science (here).
2022/08/15
Our new paper on requirement of the COPI coat function in oil body formation in Marchantia is published in Frontiers in Plant Science (here).
2022/08/08
Our new paper on organelle remodeling during spermiogenesis in Marchantia polymorpha was published in Development (here).
2022/08/05
A collaborative work with Drs Kentaro Yano, Kiminori Toyooka, Tomoaki Nishiyama, and Keiko Sakakibara was published in New Phytologist (here).
2022/08/02
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2022/06/15
Our new paper on mitochondrial reorganization through autophagy during spermiogenesis in Marchantia polymorpha was published in Cell Reports (here). Commentary published in Autophagy is here.
2022/06/15
A review article on ANTH domain-containing proteins, which act in clathrin-mediated endocytosis, was published in FEBS Letters (here).
2022/04/01
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2022/03/31
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2021/10/01
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2021/07/01
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2021/04/01
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2021/03/31
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2021/03/29
A collaborative work with Drs. Tomohiro Uemura (Ochanomizu University) and Akihiko Nakano (RIKEN) was published in Nature Communications (here).
2021/02/01
A collaborative work with Dr. Munetaka Sugiyama in The University of Tokyo was published in eLife (here).
2020/12/03
Our new paper on biogenesis of a liverwort-specific organelle, the oil body, was published in Nature Communications (here).
2020/11/26
A collaborative work with the Karin Schmacher Lab (COS, Heidelberg) was published in eLife (here).
2020/10/01
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2020/09/24
Our new paper on recycling of R-SNARE members from the plasma membrane was published in PNAS (here).
2020/08/25
A collaborative work with Dr. Motoki Tominaga on a plant myosin function was published in The Plant Journal (here).
2020/07/20
A multinational collaborative work on a transcription factor in Marchantia polymorpha was published in Current Biology (here).
Methods and Protocols of our RAB5 effector research were published in Methods in Molecular Biology (here).
2020/06/18
Mini review on autophagy in plant male reproduction by Norizuki et al. is published here!
2020/06/01
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2020/04/01
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2020/03/09
A collaborative work with Drs. Yuki Kondo and Hiroo Fukuda was published in Plant and Cell Physiology (here).
2019/11/16
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2019/11/13
A collaborative work with Dr Takashi Shimada (Chiba Univ) and Dr. Ikuko Hara-Nishimura (Konan Univ) was published in Nature Plants (here).
2019/11/01
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2019/10/15
A collaborative work with the Kimi Ishizaki lab was published in Current Biology (here).
2019/10/15
A collaborative work with the Juan Ausió group was published in J. Biol. Chem (here).
2019/10/01
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2019/08/29
A collaborative work with Kimitsune Ishizaki in Kobe University has been accepted for publication in Current Biology.
2019/07/30
A review article on endocytic RAB GTPases and effector molecules has been accepted for publication in the December issue of Curr Opin Plant Biol.
2019/07/19
Our work on autophagy in Marchantia was published in Frontiers in Plant Science (see here).
2019/07/01
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2019/04/02
Our work on interfacial membranes between Arabidopsis and pathogenic microbes was accepted for publication in Plant and Cell Physiology.
2019/04/01
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2018/12/05
A collaborative work with Tomohiro Uemura in Ochanomizu University and Ryohei Thomas Nakano in MPMIZ was accepted for publication in Plant Physiology.
2018/11/15
A collaborative work with Yong Cui and Liwen Jiang in Chinese University of Hong Kong was accepted for publication in Nature Plants.
2018/10/02
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2018/09/27
Our work on discovery of novel factors required for pollen tube integrity was published in Communications Biology (see here).
2018/09/10
Our work on discovery of novel factors required for pollen tube growth in Arabidopsis has been accepted for publication in Communications Biology.
2018/08/28
A collaborative work with Masaru Fujimoto was published in PNAS (see here).
2018/08/09
A collaborative work with Masaru Fujimoto and Nobuhiro Tsutsumi in the University of Tokyo was accepted for publication in PNAS.
2018/05/14
Our paper on an effector molecule of plant-unique RAB5, ARA6, was publishes in eLife (see here).
2018/04/12
Our work on a novel effector of ARA6 was accepted for publication in eLife.
2018/04/05
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2018/02/20
Update: Our work on the CORVET and HOPS complexes in Arabidopsis has been published in PNAS.
2018/02/14
Our work on RAB GTPases in Marchantia polymorpha was published in Plant & Cell Physiology.
