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Original Research
Takahiro Sanada and Tomoya Kotani
High-sensitive whole-mount in situ hybridization of mouse oocytes and embryos visualizes the super-resolution structures and distributions of mRNA molecules
Biological Procedures Online, vol.26, issue.23. DOI: 10.1186/s12575-024-00250-5
Keisuke Sato and Tomoya Kotani
Visualizing the translational activation of a particular mRNA in zebrafish embryos using in situ hybridization and proximity ligation assay
STAR Protocols, vol.5, 102951. DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.102951
Kan Yaguchi1, Daiki Saito1, Triveni Menon, Akira Matsura, Miyu Hosono, Takeomi Mizutani, Tomoya Kotani, Sreelaja Nair and Ryota Uehara (1Those autors contributed equally to this work.)
Haploidy-linked cell proliferation defects limit larval growth in zebrafish
Open Biology, vol.14, 240126. DOI: 10.1098/rsob.240126
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Original Research
Yuki Takada, Ludivine Fierro, Keisuke Sato, Takahiro Sanada, Anna Ishii, Takehiro Yamamoto and Tomoya Kotani
Mature mRNA processing that deletes 3' end sequences directs translational activation and embryonic development
Science Advances, vol.9, eadg6532. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6532
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Original Research
Keisuke Sato, Moeko Sakai, Anna Ishii, Kaori Maehata, Yuki Takada, Kyota Yasuda and Tomoya Kotani
Identification of embryonic RNA granules that act as sites of mRNA translation after changing their physical properties
iScience, vol.25, 104344. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104344
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Original Research
Natsumi Takei, Keisuke Sato, Yuki Takada, Rajan Iyyappan, Andrej Susor, Takehiro Yamamoto, and Tomoya Kotani
Tdrd3 regulates the progression of meiosis II through translational control of Emi2 mRNA in mouse oocytes
Current Research in Cell Biology, vol.2, 100009. DOI: 10.1016/j.crcbio.2021.100009
Kai Otsuka, Shin Matsubara, Akira Shiraishi, Natsumi Takei, Yui Satoh, Miho Terao, Shuji Takada, Tomoya Kotani, Honoo Satake, and Atsushi P. Kimura
A testis-specific long noncoding RNA, Start, is a regulator of steroidogenesis in mouse Leydig cells
Frontiers in Endocrinology, vol.12, 665874.
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Original Research
Natsumi Takei1, Yuki Takada1, Shohei Kawamura1, Keisuke Sato, Atsushi Saitoh, Jenny Bormann, Wai Shan Yuen, John Carroll, and Tomoya Kotani (1Those autors contributed equally to this work.)
Changes in subcellular structures and states of pumilio1 regulate the translation of target Mad2 and cyclin B1 mRNAs
Journal of Cell Science, vol.133, jcs249128.
Yuki Takada, Rajan Iyyappan, Andrej Susor, and Tomoya Kotani
Posttranscriptional regulation of maternal Pou5f1/Oct4 during mouse oogenesis and early embryogenesis
Histochemistry and Cell Biology, vol.154, p.609-620.
- Research Highlight in "In focus in HCB" of Histochemistry and Cell Biology, vol.154, p.597-607.
Ahmed Z. Balboula, Karen Schindler, Tomoya Kotani, Manabu Kawahara, and Masashi Takahashi
Vitrification-induced activation of lysosomal cathepsin B perturbs spindle assembly checkpoint function in mouse oocytes
Molecular Human Reproduction, vol.26, p.689-701.
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Original Research
Ryuichi Satoh, Hisanori Bando, Noriyoshi Sakai, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Function of leukemia inhibitory factor in spermatogenesis of a teleost fish, the medaka Oryzias latipes
Zygote, vol.27, p.423-431.
Yui Satoh, Natsumi Takei, Shohei Kawamura, Nobuhiko Takahashi, Tomoya Kotani, and Atsushi P. Kimura
A novel testis-specific long noncoding RNA, Tesra, activates the Prss42/Tessp-2 gene during mouse spermatogenesis
Biology of Reproduction, vol.100, p.833-848.
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Original Research
Atsushi Saitoh, Yuki Takada, Mayu Horie, and Tomoya Kotani
Pumilio1 phosphorylation precedes translational activation of its target mRNA in zebrafish oocytes
Zygote, vol.26, p.372-380.
Natsumi Takei, Takuma Nakamura, Shohei Kawamura, Yuki Takada, Yui Satoh, Atsushi P. Kimura, and Tomoya Kotani
High-sensitivity and high-resolution in situ hybridization of coding and long non-coding RNAs in vertebrate ovaries and testes
Biological Procedures Online, vol.20, issue.6.
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Book
Tomoya Kotani*, Kaori Maehata, and Natsumi Takei (*Corresponding author)
Regulation of translationally repressed mRNAs in zebrafish and mouse oocytes
M. Kloc (ed.), Oocytes: Maternal information and functions
Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol.63, Chapter 13, p.297-324.
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Original Research
Formation of mos RNA granules in the zebrafish oocyte that differ from cyclin B1 RNA granules in distribution, density and regulation
Europian Journal of Cell Biology, vol.96, p.563-573.
Ryoma Yoneda1, Yui Satoh1, Ikuya Yoshida, Shoei Kawamura, Tomoya Kotani, and Atsushi P. Kimura (1Those autors contributed equally to this work.)
A genomic region transcribed into a long noncoding RNA interacts with the Prss42/Tessp-2 promoter in spermatocytes during mouse spermatogenesis, and its flanking sequences can function as enhancers
Molecular Reproduction and Development, vol.83, p.541-557.
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Original Research
Yumiko Nukada1, Mayu Horie1, Akimasa Fukui, Tomoya Kotani*, and Masakane Yamashita (1Those authors contributed equally to this work; *Corresponding author)
Real-time imaging of actin filaments in the zebrafish oocyte and embryo
Cytoskeleton, vol.72, p.491-501.
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Original Research
Kazuki Takahashi, Tomoya Kotani, Yoshinao Katsu, and Masakane Yamashita
Possible involvement of insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 3 in zebrafish oocyte maturation as a novel cyclin B1 mRNA-binding protein that represses the translation in immature oocytes
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol.448, p.22-27.
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Original Research
Tomoya Kotani*, Kyota Yasuda, Ryoma Ota, and Masakane Yamashita (*Corresponding author)
Cyclin B1 mRNA translation is temporally controlled through formation and disassembly of RNA granules
Journal of Cell Biology, vol.202, p.1041-1055.
- Research Highlight in "In This Issue" of Journal of Cell Biology, vol.202, p.986.
- Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, vol.14, p.688-689.
- Evaluated in Faculty of 1000.
Kyota Yasuda, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
A cis-acting element in the coding region of cyclin B1 mRNA couples subcellular localization to translational timing
Developmental Biology, vol.382, p.517-529.
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Review
Tomoya Kotani
Protein kinase A activity and Hedgehog signaling pathway
Vitamins and hormones, vol.88, p.273-291.
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Original Research
Akira Muto, Masamichi Ohkura, Tomoya Kotani, Shin-ichi Higashijima, Junichi Nakai, and Koichi Kawakami
Genetic visualization with an improved GCaMP reveals spatiotemporal activation of the spinal motor neurons in zebrafish
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol.108, p.5425-5430.
Ryoma Ota, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Possible involvement of Nemo-like kinase 1 in Xenopus oocyte maturation as a kinase responsible for Pumilio1, Pumilio2, and CPEB phosphorylation
Biochemistry, vol.50, p.5648-5659.
Ryoma Ota, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Biochemical characterization of Pumilio1 and Pumilio2 in Xenopus oocytes
Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol.286, p.2853-2863.
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Original Research
Kyota Yasuda1, Tomoya Kotani1, and Masakane Yamashita (1Those autors contributed equally to this work.)
Transgenic zebrafish reveals novel mechanisms of translational control of cyclin B1 mRNA in oocytes
Developmental Biology, vol.348, p.76-86.
Tomoya Kotani*, Shun-ichiro Iemura, Tohru Natsume, Koichi Kawakami, and Masakane Yamashita (*Corresponding author)
Mys protein regulates protein kinase A activity by interacting with regulatory type I alpha subunit during vertebrate deveopment
Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol.285, p.5106-5116.
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Original Research
Toshiharu Iwai, Shinya Inoue, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Production of transgenic medaka fish carrying fluorescent nuclei and chromosomes
Zoological Science, vol.26, p.9-16.
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Original Research
Tomoya Kotani, and Koichi Kawakami
misty somites, a maternal effect gene identified by transposon-mediated insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish that is essential for the somite boundary maintenance
Developmental Biology, vol.316, p.383-396.
Kazuhide Asakawa, Maximiliano L. Suster, Kanta Mizusawa, Saori Nagayoshi, Tomoya Kotani, Akihiro Urasaki, Yasuyuki Kishimoto, Masahiro Hibi, and Koichi Kawakami
Genetic disection of neural circuits by Tol2 transposon-mediated Gal4 gene and enhancer trapping in zebrafish
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol.105, p.1255-1260.
Ryoma Ota, Kaori Suwa, Tomoya Kotani, Koich Mita, and Masakane Yamashita
Possible involvement of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, but not protein kinase B or glycogen synthase kinase 3beta, in progesterone-induced oocyte maturation in the Japanese brown frog, Rana japonica
Zoological Science, vol.25, p.773-781.
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Original Research
Tomoya Kotani, Saori Nagayoshi, Akihiro Urasaki, and Koichi Kawakami
Transposon-mediated gene trapping in zebrafish
Methods, vol.39, p.199-206.
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Original Research
Tomoya Kotani*, and Masakane Yamashita (*Corresponding author)
Overexpression of truncated gamma-tubulins disrupts mitotic aster formation in Xenopus oocyte extracts
Biochemical Journal, vol.389, p.611-617.
Tomoya Kotani*, and Masakane Yamashita (*Corresponding author)
Behavior of gamma-tubulin during spindle formation in Xenopus oocytes: requirement of cytoplasmic dynein-dependent translation
Zygote, vol.13, p.219-226.
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Original Research
Shingo Nakahata, Tomoya Kotani, Koichi Mita, Tomoko Kawwasaki, Yoshinao Katsu, Yoshitaka Nagahama, and Masakane Yamashita
Involvement of Xenopus Pumilio1 in the translational regulation that is specific to cyclin B1 mRNA during oocyte maturation
Mechanisms of Development, vol.120, p.865-880.
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Original Research
Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Discrimination of the roles of MPF and MAP kinase in morphological changes that occur during oocyte maturation
Developmental Biology, vol.252, p.271-286.
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Tomoya Kotani, Noriyuki Yoshida, Koichi Mita, and Masakane Yamashita
Requirement of cyclin B2, but not cyclin B1, for bipolar spindle formation in frog (Rana japonica) oocytes
Molecular Reproduction and Development, vol.59, p.199-208.
Tomoko Kondo, Tomoya Kotani, and Masakane Yamashita
Dispersion of cyclin B mRNA aggregation is coupled with translational activation of the mRNA during zebrafish oocyte maturation
Developmental Biology, vol.229, p.421-431.