The Japan Academy

Personal Information

 

Name

TAKEICHI Masatoshi

 

Section

Section II, Fourth Subsection

Date of Election

2000/12/12

Speciality

Developmental Biology・Cell Biology

Selected Bibliography

  1. Takeichi, M. (1977) Functional correlation between cell adhesive properties and some cell surface proteins. J. Cell Biol. 75, 464-474.
  2. Yoshida, N. and Takeichi, M. (1982) Teratocarcinoma cell adhesion: Identification of a cell surface protein involved in calcium-dependent cell aggregation. Cell 28, 217-224.
  3. Hatta, K. and Takeichi, M. (1986) Expression of N-cadherin adhesion molecules associated with early morphogenetic events in chicken embryos. Nature 320, 447-449.
  4. Nagafuchi, A., Shirayoshi, Y., Okazaki, K., Yasuda, K. and Takeichi, M. (1987) Transformation of cell adhesion properties by exogenously introduced E-cadherin cDNA. Nature 329, 341-343.
  5. Matsunaga, M., Hatta, K. and Takeichi, M. (1988) Role of N-cadherin cell adhesion molecules in the histogenesis of neural retina. Neuron 1, 289-295.
  6. Nose, A., Nagafuchi, A. and Takeichi, M. (1988) Expressed recombinant cadherins mediate cell sorting in model systems. Cell 54, 993-1001.
  7. Hirano, S., Kimoto, N., Shimoyama, Y., Hirohashi, S. and Takeichi, M. (1992) Identification of a neural alpha-catenin as a key regulator of cadherin function and multicellular organization. Cell 70, 293-301.
  8. Uchida, N., Honjo, Y., Johnson, K.R., Wheelock, M.J. and Takeichi, M. (1996) The catenin/cadherin adhesion system is localized in synaptic junctions bordering the transmitter release zone. J. Cell Biol. 135, 767-779.
  9. Togashi, H., Abe, K., Mizoguchi, A., Chisaka, O., and Takeichi, M. (2002) Cadherin regulates dendritic spine morphogenesis. Neuron 35, 77-89.
  10. Kametani, Y., and Takeichi, M. (2007) Basal-to-apical cadherin flow at cell junctions. Nature Cell Biol., 9, 92-98.
  11. Meng, W., Mushika, Y., Ichii, T., and Takeichi, M. (2008) Anchorage of microtubule minus-ends to adherens junctions regulates epithelial cell-cell contacts. Cell 135, 948-959.
  12. Nishimura, Y., Honda, and Takeichi. M. (2012) Planar cell polarity links axes of spatial dynamics in neural tube closure. Cell 25, 1084-1097.
  13. Vassilev, V., Platek, A., Hiver, S., Enomoto, H., and Takeichi, M. (2017) Catenins Steer Cell Migration via Stabilization of Front-Rear Polarity. Dev Cell. 43, 463-479.
  14. Ito, S., Okuda, S., Abe, M., Fujimoto, M., Onuki, T., Nishimura, T., and Takeichi, M. (2017) Induced cortical tension restores functional junctions in adhesion-defective carcinoma cells. Nature Communications 8, 1834.
  15. Ozawa, M., Hiver, S., Yamamoto, T., Shibata, T., Upadhyayula, S., Mimori-Kiyosue, Y., and Takeichi, M. (2020) Adherens junction regulates cryptic lamellipodia formation for epithelial cell migration. J Cell Biol., 219, doi: 10.1083/jcb.202006196.