The collaborative study of DNA uptake by Synechocystis (Yoshihara et al., 2001) is extensively cited by Han et al. (2021) “PATAN-domain regulators interact with the Type IV pilus motor to control phototactic orientation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis“.

Study on drug-induced liver injury with the group of Prof. Akihiro Umezawa at the National Center for Child Health and Development Research Institute is now published on Stem Cell Research & Therapy as Shoko Miyata et al. (2022) Puromycin-based purification of cells with high expression of the cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 gene from a patient with drug-induced liver injury (DILI), Stem Cell Res Ther 13, 6.

Our plant polyA paper by Zhang et al “CFI 25 subunit of cleavage factor I is important for maintaining the diversity of 3′ UTR lengths in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh” has been accepted by Plant and Cell Physiology.

The lab publication and member lists are extensively updated.

A manuscript describing the history of Protein Data Bank Japan (Bekker G-J et al. Protein Data Bank Japan: Celebrating our 20th anniversary during a global pandemic as the Asian hub of 3D macromolecular structure data) has been accepted and published on Protein Science

A manuscript describing the phylogenetic relationship of crickets including ant-loving cricket based on mitochondrial genome sequences (Sanno R., et al. Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Gryllidea (Insecta: Orthoptera): Implications for Adaptive Evolution in Ant-loving Crickets) has been published on Genome Biology and Evolution

A collaborative study of genome sequence with the former student of the lab is now published on Mammalian Genome . Saki Aoto, Mayu Fushimi, Kei Yura, Kohji Okamura (2020) Diversification of CpG-island promoters revealed by comparative analysis between human and rhesus monkey genomes. Mammalian Genome, 31, 240-251, doi:1007/s00335-020-09844-2.

After the turmoil of COVID-19 (not finished though) and rejuvenation of Science Building #1 (half done), the lab has relocated on the sixth floor in May 2021 and is rebooting now.

The lab has been studying on cricket genomes for a while and finally published a paper “The Draft Genome Dataset of the Asian Cricket Teleogryllus occipitalis for Molecular Research toward Entomophagy“ by Kosuke Kataoka, Ryuhei Minei, Keigo Ide, Atsushi Ogura, Haruko Takeyama, Makio N. Takeda Suzuki, Kei Yura and Toru Asahi on Frontiers in Genetics.

A study of the attitude toward breast cancer among younger generation is published on Journal of Human Genetics with the former student of the lab (Terui-Kohbata, H., Egawa, M., Yura, K., Yoshida, M. (2020) Knowledge and attitude of hereditary breast cancer among Japanese university female students) is now published on Journal of Human Genetics.