Sima Jonusaite, Nathalie Oulhen, Yasushi Izumi, Mikio Furuse, Takashi Yamamoto, Naoaki Sakamoto, Gary Wessel, Andreas Heyland. Identification of the genes encoding candidate septate junction components expressed during early development of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and evidence of a role for Mesh in the formation of the gut barrier. Developmental Biology. 2022
Maiko Abe, Takumi Kamiyama, Yasushi Izumi, Qingyin Qian, Yuma Yoshihashi, Yousuke Degawa, Kaori Watanabe, Yukako Hattori, Tadashi Uemura, Ryusuke Niwa. Shortened lifespan induced by a high-glucose diet is associated with intestinal immune dysfunction in Drosophila sechellia. Journal of Experimental Biology. 2022. 225. 21
Yasushi Izumi, Kyoko Furuse, Mikio Furuse. The novel membrane protein Hoka regulates septate junction organization and stem cell homeostasis in the Drosophila gut. Journal of Cell Science. 2021. 134. 6. jcs.257022-jcs.257022
Klaus W Beyenbach, Frederike Schöne, Leonhard F Breitsprecher, Felix Tiburcy, Mikio Furuse, Yasushi Izumi, Heiko Meyer, Sima Jonusaite, Aylin R Rodan, Achim Paululat. The septate junction protein Tetraspanin 2A is critical to the structure and function of Malpighian tubules in Drosophila melanogaster. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology. 2020. 318. 6. C1107-C1122
Sima Jonusaite, Klaus W Beyenbach, Heiko Meyer, Achim Paululat, Yasushi Izumi, Mikio Furuse, Aylin R Rodan. The septate junction protein Mesh is required for epithelial morphogenesis, ion transport, and paracellular permeability in the Drosophila Malpighian tubule. American journal of physiology. Cell physiology. 2020. 318. 3. C675-C694
The roles of septate junctions in Drosophila intestinal stem cell proliferation and differentiation.
(The 57th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists 2024)
The role of paracellular diffusion barrier in the Drosophila intestinal and renal stem cell proliferation.
(2023)
The role of the epithelial barrier function in Drosophila gut homeostasis”
(The 13th Japanese Drosophila Research Conference 2018)
Molecular dissection of septate junctions in the Drosophila midgut.
(第70回 日本細胞生物学会、第51回 日本発生生物学会 合同大会 シンポジウム “Metazoan Cell-cell Junctions: Molecules, Structures, Mechanics and Evolution. 2018)
Identification and characterization of novel smooth septate junction proteins in Drosophila.
(International tight junction conference. 2016)
