Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2022 - 2025 Neuropeptide regulation of organogenesis through cell surface FoF1-ATP synthase
2020 - 2024 オルガネラ間サイズネットワーク機構の実験的検証
2019 - 2022 Analysis of the effect of cytoplasmic streaming on organelle positioning during early embryogenesis
2014 - 2016 What is the difference among mechanisms that regulate the nuclear positioning in various cell types?
Papers (10):
Shibata Y, Tanaka Y, Sasakura H, Morioka Y, Sassa T, Fujii S, Mitsuzumi K, Ikeno M, Kubota Y, Kimura K, et al. Endogenous chondroitin extends the lifespan and healthspan in C. elegans. Scientific Reports. 2024. 14. 1. 55417-7
Tsutsui K, Kim HS, Yoshikata C, Kimura K, Kubota Y, Shibata Y, Tian C, Liu J, Nishiwaki K. Repulsive guidance molecule acts in axon branching in Caenorhabditis elegans. Scientific Reports. 2021. 11. 1. 22370-22370
Kenji Kimura, Fumio Motegi. Fluid flow dynamics in cellular patterning. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. 2021
Kenji Kimura, Akatsuki Kimura. Cytoplasmic streaming drifts the polarity cue and enables posteriorization of the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote at the side opposite of sperm entry. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2020. 31. 16. 1765-1773
The polarity cue moves with two types of cytoplasmic streaming in the C. elegans zygote
(2020)
Effects of two cytoplasmic streaming depending on microtubules and actomyosin on cell polarization in the C. elegans zygotes
(The 91st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society 2018)
Cytoplasmic streaming controls organelle positioning during the oocyte-to-embryo transition in the C. elegans zygote
(The 2018 joint annual meeting of JSCB & JSDB 2018)