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Fukunaga-Takenaka, R., Shirai, Y., Yagi, K., Adachi, N., Sakai, N., Merino, E., Merida, I., and Saito, N. (2005) Importance of chroman ring and tyrosine phosphorylation in the subtype-specific translocation and activation of diacylglycerol kinase alpha by d-α-tocophenol. Genes to Cells. 10, 311-319.

Kuriyama M, Taniguchi T, Shirai Y, Sasaki A, Yoshimura A and Saito N (2004) Activation and translocation of PKC is necessary for VEGF-induced ERK activation through KDR in HEK293T cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 325, 843-851.

Seki T, Matsubayashi H, Amano T, Shirai Y, Saito N and Sakai N (2004) Phosphorylation of PKC activation loop plays an important role in receptor-mediated translocation of PKC Genes to cells 10, 945-957.

Sakai N, Tsubokawa H, Matsuzaki M, Kajimoto T, Takahashi E, Ren Y, Ohmori S, Shirai Y, Matsubayashi H, Chen J, Duman RS, Kasai H, Saito N. (2004) Propagation of gammaPKC translocation along the dendrites of Purkinje cell in gammaPKC-GFP transgenic mice. Genes to cells 9, 945-957.

Ueyama T, Lennartz MR, Noda Y, Kobayashi T, Shirai Y, Rikitake K, Yamasaki T, Hayashi S, Sakai N, Seguchi H, Sawada M, Sumimoto H, Saito N. (2004) Superoxide production at phagosomal cup/phagosome through betaI protein kinase C during FcgammaR-mediated phagocytosis in microglia. J Immunol. 173, :4582-4589.

Kajimoto T, Shirai Y, Sakai N, Yamamoto T, Matsuzaki H, Kikkawa U, and Saito N (2004) Ceramide-induced apoptosis by translocation, phosphorylation and activation of protein kinase Cδ in the Golgi complex. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 12668-12676.

Yagi K, Shirai Y, Hirai M, Sakai N and Saito N. (2004) Phospholipase A₂ products retain a neuron specificγ isoform of PKC on the plasma membrane through the C1 domain- a molecular mechanism for sustained enzyme activity. Neurochem Inter. 45, 39-47

Uchino M, Saka N, Kashiwagi K, Shirai Y, Shinohara Y, Hirose K, Iino M, Yamamura T, and Saito N (2003) Isoform-specific phosphorylation of mGluR5 by PKC blocks Ca²⁺ oscillation and oscillatory translocation of Ca²⁺-dependent PKC. J. Biol. Chem., 279: 2254 - 2261.

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Shindo M., Irie K., Masuda A., Ohigashi H., Shirai Y., Myasaka K., and Naoaki Saito (2003) Synthesis and Phrobol ester biniding of the cysteine-rich domains of diacylglycerol　kinase (DGK) isozymes. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 18448-18454.

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Larsen C.E, Ueyama T, Brannock M.P., Shirai Y., Saito N, Larsson C., Daniel Loegering D., Weber B.P. and Lennartz R.M. (2002) A Role for PKC- in Fcγ R-mediated phagocytosis by RAW 264.7 cells. J. Cell Biol. 159, 939-944.