Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2015 - 2018 カイコにおける条件付き遺伝子ノックアウト法の開発
2012 - 2014 Study on the basis for genetic code expansion in silkworm
2011 - 2013 Knockout of Bombyx sericin genes using zinc finger nucleases
Papers (46):
Satomi Adegawa, Yonghao Wang, Ryusei Waizumi, Tetsuya Iizuka, Yoko Takasu, Kenji Watanabe, Ryoichi Sato. Cry Toxins Use Multiple ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter Subfamily C Members as Low-Efficiency Receptors in Bombyx mori. Biomolecules. 2024. 14. 3. 271-271
Kana Iwabuchi, Kazuhisa Miyamoto, Akiya Jouraku, Yoko Takasu, Tetsuya Iizuka, Satomi Adegawa, Xiaoyi Li, Ryoichi Sato, Kenji Watanabe. ABC transporter subfamily B1 as a susceptibility determinant of Bombyx mori larvae to Cry1Ba, Cry1Ia and Cry9Da toxins. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 2023. 163. 104030-104030
Yoko Takasu, Nobuto Yamada, Katsura Kojima, Masatoshi Iga, Fumiko Yukuhiro, Tetsuya Iizuka, Taiyo Yoshioka. Fibroin heavy chain gene replacement with a highly ordered synthetic repeat sequence in Bombyx mori. Insect biochemistry and molecular biology. 2023. 104002-104002
Satoshi Morinaga, Takuya Tsubota, Yoko Takasu, Hideki Sezutsu, Kazushige Touhara. Role of a single odorant receptor in the chemotaxis behavior of Bombyx mori. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2023
Hajime Nakao, Yoko Takasu. Differential requirement ofnanoshomologs in the germline suggests the evolutionary path toward an inheritance mechanism of primordial germ cell formation in the silkmothBombyx. 2022
内山広純, 八木橋泰仁, 千葉龍之介, 吉武和敏, 伴野豊, 山本公子, 高須陽子, 飯塚哲也, 内野恵郎, 瀬筒秀樹, et al. Identification of a novel ommochrome related gene responsible for maternal brown of Tsujita (b-t) mutation in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. 日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・要旨集(Web). 2021. 44th