Publications

Jie Yu, Natsuko Izumi, Yukihide Tomari, 庄司佳祐 (2024). Autonomous Shaping of the piRNA Sequence Repertoire by Competition between Adjacent Ping-Pong Sites. BioRxiv.

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

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

Takashi Kiuchi, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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..

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

Wei Liu, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Takahiro Fukui, Takashi Kiuchi, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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..

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

Natsuko Izumi, 庄司佳祐, 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.

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

Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, 庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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.

庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, 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.

庄司佳祐, 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, 庄司佳祐, Maki Kobayashi, Toru Shimada, Sumio Sugano, Yukihide Tomari, Yutaka Suzuki, Susumu Katsuma (2013). The comprehensive epigenome map of piRNA clusters. Nucleic Acids Res..