Publications

Natsuko Izumi, Keisuke Shoji, Lumi Negishi, Yukihide Tomari (2024). The dual role of Spn-E in supporting heterotypic ping-pong piRNA amplification in silkworms. EMBO Rep..

Keisuke Shoji, Yukihide Tomari (2024). A potential role of inefficient and non-specific piRNA production from the whole transcriptome cells. BioRxiv.

Takashi Kiuchi, Keisuke Shoji, Natsuko Izumi, Yukihide Tomari, Susumu Katsuma (2023). Non-gonadal somatic piRNA pathways ensure sexual differentiation, larval growth, and wing development in silkworms. PLoS Genet..

Takahiro Fukui, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2023). Masculinizer is not post-transcriptionally regulated by female-specific piRNAs during sex determination in the Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol..

Keisuke Shoji, Yusuke Umemura, Susumu Katsuma, Yukihide Tomari (2023). The piRNA cluster torimochi is an expanding transposon in cultured silkworm cells. PLoS Genet..

Wei Liu, Keisuke Shoji, Masahiro Naganuma, Yukihide Tomari, Hiro-Oki Iwakawa (2022). The mechanisms of siRNA selection by plant Argonaute proteins triggering DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids Res..

Natsuko Izumi, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi, Susumu Katsuma, Yukihide Tomari (2022). The two Gtsf paralogs in silkworms orthogonally activate their partner PIWI proteins for target cleavage. RNA.

Susumu Katsuma, Kanako Hirota, Noriko Matsuda-Imai, Takahiro Fukui, Tomohiro Muro, Kohei Nishino, Hidetaka Kosako, Keisuke Shoji, Hideki Takanashi, Takeshi Fujii, Shin Ichi Arimura, Takashi Kiuchi (2022). A Wolbachia factor for male killing in lepidopteran insects. Nat. Commun..

Yuriki Sakurai, Kyungmin Baeg, Andy Y W Lam, Keisuke Shoji, Yukihide Tomari, Hiro-Oki Iwakawa (2021). Cell-free reconstitution reveals the molecular mechanisms for the initiation of secondary siRNA biogenesis in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A..

Keisuke Shoji, Ryuhei Kokusho, Munetaka Kawamoto, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2021). H3K4me3 histone modification in baculovirus-infected silkworm cells. Virus Genes.

Pui Yuen Chung, Keisuke Shoji, Natsuko Izumi, Yukihide Tomari (2021). Dynamic subcellular compartmentalization ensures fidelity of piRNA biogenesis in silkworms. EMBO Rep..

Susumu Katsuma, Keisuke Shoji, Yutaka Suzuki, Masashi Iwanaga (2021). Potential for small RNA production against Bombyx mori latent virus in Bombyx mori ovaries. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol..

Susumu Katsuma, Keisuke Shoji, Yutaka Suzuki, Takashi Kiuchi (2021). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of Ago2 and Siwi in silkworm cultured cells. Gene.

Shota Fujimoto, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma, Masashi Iwanaga (2020). Whole-genome sequencing and comparative transcriptome analysis of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus La strain. Virus Genes.

Natsuko Izumi, Keisuke Shoji, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma, Yukihide Tomari (2020). Zucchini consensus motifs determine the mechanism of pre-piRNA production. Nature.

Susumu Katsuma, Keisuke Shoji, Yudai Sugano, Yutaka Suzuki, Takashi Kiuchi (2019). Masc-induced dosage compensation in silkworm cultured cells. FEBS Open Bio.

Hotaka Kobayashi, Keisuke Shoji, Kaori Kiyokawa, Lumi Negishi, Yukihide Tomari (2019). VCP Machinery Mediates Autophagic Degradation of Empty Argonaute. Cell Rep..

Hotaka Kobayashi, Keisuke Shoji, Kaori Kiyokawa, Lumi Negishi, Yukihide Tomari (2019). Iruka Eliminates Dysfunctional Argonaute by Selective Ubiquitination of Its Empty State. Mol. Cell.

Takahiro Fukui, Takashi Kiuchi, Keisuke Shoji, Munetaka Kawamoto, Toru Shimada, Susumu Katsuma (2018). In vivo masculinizing function of the Ostrinia furnacalis Masculinizer gene. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun..

Susumu Katsuma, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takahiro Aizawa, Takashi Kiuchi, Natsuko Izumi, Moe Ogawa, Takaaki Mashiko, Hideki Kawasaki, Sumio Sugano, Yukihide Tomari, Yutaka Suzuki, Masashi Iwanaga (2018). Transcriptome profiling reveals infection strategy of an insect maculavirus. DNA Res..

Keisuke Shoji, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Toru Shimada, Susumu Katsuma (2017). Artificial ``ping-pong'' cascade of PIWI-interacting RNA in silkworm cells. RNA.

Natsuko Izumi, Keisuke Shoji, Yuriko Sakaguchi, Shozo Honda, Yohei Kirino, Tsutomu Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma, Yukihide Tomari (2016). Identification and Functional Analysis of the Pre-piRNA 3' Trimmer in Silkworms. Cell.

Keisuke Shoji, Susumu Katsuma (2015). Is the expression of sense and antisense transgenes really sufficient for artificial piRNA production?. Curr. Biol..

Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi, Sumio Sugano, Toru Shimada, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2015). The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Selectively Kills Male Hosts by Targeting the Masculinizing Gene. PLoS Pathog..

Munetaka Kawamoto, Hikaru Koga, Takashi Kiuchi, Keisuke Shoji, Sumio Sugano, Toru Shimada, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2015). Sexually biased transcripts at early embryonic stages of the silkworm depend on the sex chromosome constitution. Gene.

Keisuke Shoji, Kahori Hara, Munetaka Kawamoto, Takashi Kiuchi, Shinpei Kawaoka, Sumio Sugano, Toru Shimada, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2015). Silkworm HP1a transcriptionally enhances highly expressed euchromatic genes via association with their transcription start sites. Nucleic Acids Res..

Takashi Kiuchi, Hikaru Koga, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Hiroki Sakai, Yuji Arai, Genki Ishihara, Shinpei Kawaoka, Sumio Sugano, Toru Shimada, Yutaka Suzuki, Masataka G Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2014). A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm. Nature.

Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi, Kahori Hara, Munetaka Kawamoto, Shinpei Kawaoka, Shin Ichi Arimura, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Sumio Sugano, Yutaka Suzuki, Toru Shimada, Susumu Katsuma (2013). Characterization of a novel chromodomain-containing gene from the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Gene.

Shinpei Kawaoka, Kahori Hara, Keisuke Shoji, Maki Kobayashi, Toru Shimada, Sumio Sugano, Yukihide Tomari, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2013). The comprehensive epigenome map of piRNA clusters. Nucleic Acids Res..