Airi Nakayama, Masakatsu Watanabe, Riku Yamashiro, Hiroo Kuroyanagi, Hironori J. Matsuyama, Atsunori Oshima, Ikue Mori, Shunji Nakano. A hyperpolarizing neuron recruits undocked innexin hemichannels to transmit neural information in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024. 121. 21
Ramli, Toshihiro Aramaki, Masakatsu Watanabe, Shigeru Kondo. Piezo1 mutant zebrafish as a model of idiopathic scoliosis. Frontiers in Genetics. 2024. 14
Yuu Usui, Masakatsu Watanabe. Exploring gap junction networks required for zebrafish skin pattern formation. ATLAS of Science. 2023
Tim Petzold, Masakatsu Watanabe, Julien Y. Bertrand. Connexin 41.8 mediates the correct temporal induction of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. bioRxiv. 2023
Masakatsu Watanabe. Fish-specific N-terminal domain sequence in Connexin 39.4 plays an important role in zebrafish stripe formation by regulating the opening and closing of gap junctions and hemichannels. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 2023. 1867. 5. 130342-130342