Keita Muro, Kumi Matsuura-Tokita, Ryoko Tsukamoto, Masahiro M.Kanaoka, Kazuo Ebine, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2018). ANTH domain-containing proteins are required for the pollen tube plasma membrane integrity via recycling ANXUR kinases. Commun. Biol. 1:152.
*Kazuya Ishikawa, Kentaro Tamura, Haruko Ueda, Yoko Ito, Akihiko Nakano, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, and *Tomoo Shimada (2018). The synaptotagmin-associated ER-plasma membrane contact sites are distributed to immobile ER tubules. Plant Physiol. 178:641-653.
Takeshi Haraguchi, Kohji Ito, Zhongrui Duan, Rula Sa, Kento Takahashi, Yuno Shibuya, Nanako Hagino, Yuko Miyatake, Akihiko Nakano, and *Motoki Tominaga (2018). Functional diversity of class XI myosins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 59:2268-2277.
Midori Ishii, Vladimir V. Lupashin and *Akihiko Nakano (2018). Detailed analysis of the interaction of yeast COG complex. Cell Struct. Funct. 43:119-127.
*Emi Ito, Kazuo Ebine, Seung-won Choi, Sakura Ichinose, Tomohiro Uemura, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2018). Integration of two RAB5 groups during endosomal transport in plants. eLife 7:e34064.
Naoki Minamino, Takehiko Kanazawa, Atsuko Era, Kazuo Ebine, Akihiko Nakano, *Takashi Ueda (2018). RAB GTPases in the basal land plant Marchantia polymorpha . Plant Cell Physiol. 59:845-856.
Sayuri Tanabashi, Keiko Shoda, Chieko Saito, Tomoaki Sakamoto, Tetsuya Kurata, Tomohiro Uemura, and *Akihiko Nakano (2018). A missense mutation in the NSF gene causes abnormal Golgi morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana . Cell Struct. Funct. 43:41-51.
Kodai Takemoto, Kazuo Ebine, Jana Christin Askani, Tatsuaki Goh, Karin Schumacher, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2018). Distinct sets of tethering complexes, SNARE complexes, and Rab GTPases mediate membrane fusion at the vacuole in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 115:E2457-E2466.
*Yasuyuki Suda, Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Ichiro Inoue, Tomokazu Kurita, Chieko Saito, Kazuo Kurokawa, Akihiko Nakano, and Kenji Irie (2018). Activation of Rab GTPase Sec4 by its GEF Sec2 is required for prospore membrane formation during sporulation in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae . FEMS Yeast Res. 18:fox095.
Clara Sanchez-Rodriguez, Yanyun Shi, Christopher Kesten, Dongmei Zhang, Gloria Sancho-Andrés, Alexander Ivakov, Edwin R. Lampugnani, Kamil Sklodowski, Masaru Fujimoto, Akihiko Nakano, Antony Bacic, Ian S. Wallace, Takashi Ueda, Daniel van Damme, Yihua Zhou, and *Staffan Persson (2018). The cellulose synthases are cargo of the TPLATE adaptor complex. Mol. Plant 11:346-349.
*Yoko Ito, Tomohiro Uemura, and Akihiko Nakano (2018). Golgi Entry Core Compartment functions as the COPII-independent scaffold for ER-Golgi transport in plant cells. J. Cell Sci. 131:jcs203893.
Shanti S. Sharma, Kotaro Yamamoto, Kohei Hamaji, Miwa Ohnishi, Aya Anegawa, Shashi Sharma, Sveta Thakur, Vijay Kumar, Tomohiro Uemura, Akihiko Nakano, and *Tetsuro Mimura (2017). Cadmium-induced changes in vacuolar aspects of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 114:29-37.
Yoko Ito, Kiminori Toyooka, Masaru Fujimoto, Takashi Ueda, *Tomohiro Uemura, and Akihiko Nakano (2017). The trans-Golgi network and the Golgi stacks behave independently during regeneration after Brefeldin A treatment in tobacco BY-2 cells. Plant Cell Physiol. 58:811-821.
Naoki Minamino, Takehiko Kanazawa, Ryuichi Nishihama, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Takayuki Kohchi, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda
(2017). Dynamic reorganization of the endomembrane system during spermatogenesis in Marchantia polymorpha J. Plant Res. 130:433-441.
Midori Ishii, Yasuyuki Suda, *Kazuo Kurokawa, and *Akihiko Nakano (2016). COPI is essential for Golgi cisternal maturation and dynamics. J. Cell Sci. 129:3251-3261.
*Kazuo Kurokawa, Yasuyuku Suda and Akihiko Nakano (2016). Sar1 localizes at the rims of COPII-coated membranes in vivo J. Cell Sci.
129:3231-3237.
*Masakazu Iwai, Makio Yokono, Kazuo Kurokawa, Akira Ichihara, and Akihiko Nakano (2016). Live-cell visualization of excitation energy dynamics in chloroplast thylakoid structures. Sci. Rep. 6:29940.
Hajime Tajima Sakurai, Takeshi Inoue, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda
(2016). ENDOSOMAL RAB EFFECTOR WITH PX-DOMAIN, an interacting partner of RAB5 GTPases, regulates membrane trafficking to protein storage vacuoles in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 28:1490-1503.
Takehiko Kanazawa, Atsuko Era, Naoki Minamino, Yu Shikano, Masaru Fujimoto, Tomohiro Uemura, Ryuichi Nishihama, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Takayuki Kohchi, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2016). SNARE molecules in Marchantia polymorpha: unique and conserved features of the membrane fusion machinery. Plant Cell Physiol. 57:307-324.
Anirban Baral, Niloufer G Irani, Masaru Fujimoto, Akihiko Nakano, *Satyajit Mayor and *Mathew K. Mathew (2015). Salt induced remodelling of spatially restricted clathrin-independent endocytic pathways in Arabidopsis root. Plant Cell 27:1297-1315.
Keiko Nakanishi, Kisa Kakiguchi, Shigenobu Yonemura, Akihiko Nakano, and *Nobuhiro Morishima (2015). Transient Ca2+ depletion from the endoplasmic r eticulum is critical for skeletal myoblast diffrentiation. FASEB J. 14-261529.
Masaru Fujimoto, Yasuyuki Suda, Samantha Vernhettes, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2015). Phosphoinositol 3-kinase and 4-kinase have distinct roles in intracellular trafficking of the cellulose synthase complex in
Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 56:287-298.
*Masakazu Iwai, Makio Yokono, Masaru Kono, Ko Noguchi, Seiji Akimoto, and Akihiko Nakano (2015). Light-harvesting complex Lhcb9 confers a green alga-type photosystem I supercomplex to the moss Physcomitrella patens. Nat. Plants 1:14008.
*Satoshi Naramoto, Marisa S. Otegui, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Riet de Rycke, Tomoko Dainobu, Michael Karampelias, Masaru Fujimoto, Elena Feraru, Daisuke Miki, Hiroo Fukuda, Akihiko Nakano, and Jiri Friml (2014). Insights into the localization and function of the membrane trafficking regulator GNOM ARF-GEF at the Golgi apparatus in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 26:3062-3076.
Kazuo Ebine, Takeshi Inoue, Jun Ito, Emi Ito, Tomohiro Uemura, Tatsuaki Goh, Hiroshi Abe, Ken Sato, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2014). Plant vacuolar trafficking occurs through distinctly regulated pathways. Curr. Biol. 24:1375-1382.
*Kazuo Kurokawa, Michiyo Okamoto, and Akihiko Nakano (2014). Contact of cis-Golgi with ER exit sites executes cargo capture and delivery from the ER. Nat. Commun. 5:3653.
*Tomohiro Uemura, Yasuyuki Suda, Takashi Ueda, and Akihiko Nakano (2014). Dynamic behavior of the trans-Golgi network in root tissues of Arabidopsis revealed by super-resolution live imaging. Plant Cell Physiol. 55:694-703.
*Masakazu Iwai, Makio Yokono, and Akihiko Nakano (2014). Visualizing structural dynamics of thylakoid membranes. Scientific Reports 4:3768.
*Ryogo Hirata, Coh-ichi Nihei, and Akihiko Nakano (2013). Isoform-selective oligomer formation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae p24 family proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 288:37057-37070.
*Yasuyuki Suda, Kazuo Kurokawa, Ryogo Hirata, and Akihiko Nakano (2013). Rab GAP cascade regulates dynamics of Ypt6 in the Golgi traffic. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 110:18976-18981.
*Motoki Tominaga, Atsushi Kimura, Etsuo Yokota, Takeshi Hamaguchi, Teruo Shimmen, Keiichi Yamamoto, Akihiko Nakano, and Kohji Ito (2013). Cytoplasmic streaming velocity as a plant size determinant. Dev. Cell
27:345-352.
Yoko Ito, Tomohiro Uemura, Keiko Shoda, Masaru Fujimoto, Takashi Ueda, and *Akihiko Nakano (2012). cis -Golgi proteins accumulate near the ER exit sites and act as the scaffold for Golgi regeneration after brefeldin A treatment in tobacco BY-2 cells. Mol. Biol. Cell 23:3203-3214.
Michiyo Okamoto, *Kazuo Kurokawa, Kumi Matsuura-Tokita, Chieko Saito, Ryogo Hirata, and Akihiko Nakano (2012). High-curvature domains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are important for the organization of ER exit sites in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Cell Sci. 125:3412-3420.
*Tomohiro Uemura, Hyeran Kim, Chieko Saito, Kazuo Ebine, Takashi Ueda, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Akihiko Nakano (2012). Qa-SNAREs localized to the trans -Golgi network regulate multiple transport pathways and extracellular disease resistance in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109:1784-1789.
Kazuo Ebine, Masaru Fujimoto, Yusuke Okatani, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Tatsuaki Goh, Emi Ito, Tomoko Dainobu, Aiko Nishitani, Tomohiro Uemura, Masa H. Sato, Hans Thordal-Christensen, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Akihiko Nakano, and *Takashi Ueda (2011). A membrane trafficking pathway regulated by the plant-specific RAB GTPase ARA6. Nat. Cell Biol.
13:853-859.
Kazuhito V. Tabata, *Ken Sato, Toru Ide, Takayuki Nishizaka, Akihiko Nakano, and Hiroyuki Noji (2009). Visualization of cargo concentration by COPII minimal machinery in a planar lipid membrane. EMBO J. 28:3279-3289.
Tatsuaki Goh, Wakana Uchida, Satoko Arakawa, Emi Ito, Tomoko Dainobu, Kazuo Ebine, Masaki Takeuchi, Ken Sato, *Takashi Ueda, and Akihiko Nakano (2007). VPS9a, the common activator for two distinct types of Rab5 GTPases, is essential for the development of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 19:3504-3515.
Natsuko Yahara, Ken Sato, and *Akihiko Nakano (2006). The Arf1p GTPase-activating protein Glo3p, executes its regulatory function through a conserved repeat motif at its C-terminus. J. Cell Sci. 119:2604-2612.
Kumi Matsuura-Tokita, Masaki Takeuchi, Akira Ichihara, Kenta Mikuriya, and *Akihiko Nakano (2006). Live imaging of yeast Golgi cisternal maturation. Nature 441:1007-1010.
*Ken Sato and Akihiko Nakano (2005). Dissection of COPII subunit-cargo assembly and disassembly kinetics during Sar1p-GTP hydrolysis. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 12:167-174.
Tomohiro Uemura, Takashi Ueda, Ryosuke Ohniwa, Akihiko Nakano, Kunio Takeyasu, and *Masa H. Sato (2004). Systematic analysis of SNARE molecules in Arabidopsis: Dissection of the post-Golgi network in plant cells. Cell Struct. Funct. 29:49-65.
Miyuki Sato, Ken Sato, and *Akihiko Nakano (2004). Endoplasmic reticulum quality control of unassembled iron transporter depends on Rer1p-mediated retrieval from the golgi. Mol. Biol. Cell 15:1417-1424.
*Ken Sato and Akihiko Nakano (2004). Reconstitution of coat protein complex II (COPII) vesicle formation from cargo-reconstituted proteoliposomes reveals the potential role of GTP hydrolysis by Sar1p in protein sorting. J. Biol. Chem. 279:1330-1335.
*Ken Sato, Miyuki Sato, and Akihiko Nakano (2003). Rer1p, a retrieval receptor for ER membrane proteins, recognizes transmembrane domains in multiple modes. Mol. Biol. Cell 14:3605-3616.
*Ken Sato and Akihiko Nakano (2003). Oligomerization of a cargo transport receptor directs protein sorting into COPII-coated transport vesicles. Mol. Biol. Cell 14:3055-3063.
*Ken Sato and Akihiko Nakano (2002). Emp47p and its close homologue Emp46p have a tyrosine-containing endoplasmic reticulum exit signal and function in glycoprotein secretion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Biol. Cell 13:2518-2532.
*Takashi Ueda, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Hirofumi Uchimiya, and Akihiko Nakano (2001). Ara6, a plant-unique novel-type Rab GTPase, functions in the endocytic pathway of Arabidopsis thaliana. EMBO J. 20:4730-4741.
*Ken Sato, Miyuki Sato, and Akihiko Nakano (2001). Rer1p, a retrieval receptor for endoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins, is dynamically localized to the Golgi apparatus by coatomer. J. Cell Biol. 152:935-944.
Natsuko Yahara, Takashi Ueda, Ken Sato, and *Akihiko Nakano (2001). Multiple roles of Arf1 GTPase in the yeast exocytic and endocytic pathways. Mol. Biol. Cell 12:221-238.
Miyuki Sato, Ken Sato, Shuh-ichi Nishikawa, Aiko Hirata, Jun-ichi Kato, and
*Akihiko Nakano (1999). The yeast RER2 gene, identified by endoplasmic reticulum protein localization mutations, encodes cis-prenyltransferase, a key enzyme in dolichol synthesis. Mol. Cell. Biol.
19:471-483.
Ken Sato, Miyuki Sato, and *Akihiko Nakano (1997). Rer1p as common machinery for the endoplasmic reticulum localization of membrane proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 94:9693-9698.
Miyuki Sato, Ken Sato, and *Akihiko Nakano (1996). Endoplasmic reticulum localization of Sec12p is achieved by two mechanisms: Rer1p-dependent retrieval that requires the transmembrane domain and Rer1p-independent retention that involves the cytoplasmic domain. J. Cell Biol. 134:279-293.
Ken Sato, Shuh-ichi Nishikawa, and *Akihiko Nakano (1995). Membrane protein retrieval from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER): characterization of the RER1 gene product as a component involved in ER localization of Sec12p. Mol. Biol. Cell 6:1459-1477.
Shuh-ichi Nishikawa, Aiko Hirata, and *Akihiko Nakano (1994). Inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi transport induces relocalization of binding protein (BiP) within the ER to form the BiP bodies. Mol. Biol. Cell
5:1129-1143.
Toshihiko Oka and *Akihiko Nakano (1994). Inhibition of GTP hydrolysis by Sar1p causes accumulation of vesicles that are a functional intermediate of the ER-to-Golgi transport in yeast. J. Cell Biol. 124:425-434.
Shuh-ichi Nishikawa and *Akihiko Nakano (1993). Identification of a gene required for membrane protein retention in the early secretory pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 90:8179-8183.
Toshihiko Oka, Shuh-ichi Nishikawa and *Akihiko Nakano (1991). Reconstitution of GTP-binding Sar1 protein function in ER to Golgi transport. J. Cell Biol. 114:671-679.
Shuh-ichi Nishikawa and *Akihiko Nakano (1991). The GTP-binding Sar1 protein is localized to the early compartment of the yeast secretory pathway. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1093:135-143.
*Akihiko Nakano and Masaaki Muramatsu (1989). A novel GTP-binding protein, Sar1p, is involved in transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus. J. Cell Biol. 109:2677-2691.
Akihiko Nakano, Daniela Brada and *Randy Schekman (1988). A membrane glycoprotein, Sec12p, required for protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus in yeast. J. Cell Biol. 107:851-863.
*Yasuyuki Suda, Kazuo Kurokawa, and Akihiko Nakano (2018). Regulation of ER-Golgi transport dynamics by GTPases in budding yeast. Frontiers Cell Dev. Biol.5:122.
*David G. Robinson, Federica Brandizzi, Chris Hawes, and Akihiko Nakano(2015). Vesicles versus tubes: is ER-Golgi transport in plants fundamentally different from other eukaryotes? Plant Physiol. 168:393-406.
Yoko Ito, Tomohiro Uemura, and *Akihiko Nakano (2014). Formation and maintenance of the Golgi apparatus in plant cells.Intl. Rev. Cell Mol.Biol.310:221-287.
*Kazuo Kurokawa, Midori Ishii, Yasuyuki Suda, Akira Ichihara, and *Akihiko Nakano (2013). Live cell visualization of Golgi membrane dynamics by super-resolution confocal live imaging microscopy. Methods Cell Biol. 118:235-242.
*Tomohiro Uemura and Akihiko Nakano (2013). Plant TGNs: dynamics and physiological functions. Histochem Cell Biol. 140:341-345.
Yasuyuki Suda and *Akihiko Nakano (2012). The yeast Golgi apparatus. Traffic 13:505-510.
*Akihiko Nakano and Alberto Luini (2010). Passage through the Golgi. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 22:471-478.
Scott Emr, Benjamin S. Glick, Adam D. Linstedt, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Alberto Luini, *Vivek Malhotra, Brad J. Marsh, Akihiko Nakano, Suzanne R. Pfeffer, Catherine Rabouille, James E. Rothman, Graham Warren, and Felix T. Wieland (2009). Journeys through the Golgi - taking stock in a new era. J. Cell Biol. 187:449-453.
*Benjamin S. Glick and Akihiko Nakano (2009). Membrane traffic within the Golgi apparatus. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 25:113-132.
