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
Pigments, Pigment Cells and Pigment Patterns
Springer 2021
Education (2)：
1994 - 1999 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
1990 - 1994 Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Chemistry
Work history (5)：
2009 - 現在 Osaka University Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences
2007 - 2009 Nagoya University Graduate School of Science
2006 - 2007 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
2000 - 2006 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
1999 - 2000 Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Association Membership(s) (4)：
JAPANESE SOCIETY OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGISTS
, JAPAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY
, The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
, The Zoological Society of Japan
