Research theme for competitive and other funds (2):
2021 - 2023 タイトジャンクションのターンオーバー機構の解明
2020 - 2022 The role of membrane lipids for formation of tight junctions
Papers (10):
Junichi Ikenouchi, Kenta Shigetomi. Role of lipids in the organization of tight junction. Microscopy (Oxford, England). 2024
Kenta Shigetomi, Yumiko Ono, Kenji Matsuzawa, Junichi Ikenouchi. Cholesterol-rich domain formation mediated by ZO proteins is essential for tight junction formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2023. 120. 8. e2217561120
Yuma Cho, Daichi Haraguchi, Kenta Shigetomi, Kenji Matsuzawa, Seiichi Uchida, Junichi Ikenouchi. Tricellulin secures the epithelial barrier at tricellular junctions by interacting with actomyosin. The Journal of cell biology. 2022. 221. 4
Kenji Matsuzawa, Hayato Ohga, Kenta Shigetomi, Tomohiro Shiiya, Masanori Hirashima, Junichi Ikenouchi. MAGIs regulate aPKC to enable balanced distribution of intercellular tension for epithelial sheet homeostasis. Communications biology. 2021. 4. 1. 337-337
Kenta Shigetomi, Junichi Ikenouchi. Cell Adhesion Structures in Epithelial Cells Are Formed in Dynamic and Cooperative Ways. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2019. 41. 7. e1800227