Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2009 - 2010 Mechanism of cancer cell specific recognition by microbiological toxin
微生物性抗癌毒素Parasporin-2の臨床応用のための研究
Papers (6)：
Kusaka Masatomo, Katoh-Fukui Yuko, Ogawa Hidesato, Miyabayashi Kanako, Baba Takashi, Shima Yuichi, Sugiyama Noriyuki, Sugimoto Yukihiko, Okuno Yasushi, Kodama Ryuji, et al. Abnormal epithelial cell polarity and ectopic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression induced in Emx2 KO embryonic gonads. Endocrinology. 2010. 151. 12. 5893-5904
Yuko Katoh-Fukui, Akiko Owaki, Yoshiro Toyama, Masatomo Kusaka, Yuko Shinohara, Mamiko Maekawa, Kiyotaka Toshimori, Ken-Ichirou Morohashi. Mouse Polycomb M33 is required for splenic vascular and adrenal gland formation through regulating Ad4BP/SF1 expression. Blood. 2005. 106. 5. 1612-1620
Nagao S, Kusaka M, Nishii K, Marunouchi T, Kurahashi H, Takahashi H, Grantham J. Androgen receptor pathway in rats with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 2005. 16. 7. 2052-2062
Kaname Kawajiri, Togo Ikuta, Taiga Suzuki, Masatomo Kusaka, Masami Muramatsu, Kenji Fujieda, Masayoshi Tachibana, Ken-Ichirou Morohashi. Role of the LXXLL-motif and activation function 2 domain in subcellular localization of Dax-1 (dosage-sensitive sex reversal-adrenal hypoplasia congenita critical region on the X chromosome, gene 1). Molecular Endocrinology. 2003. 17. 6. 994-1004
Nagao S, Yamaguchi T, Kusaka M, Maser RL, Takahashi H, Cowley BD, Grantham JJ. Renal activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in rats with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney international. 2003. 63. 2. 427-437
S Nagao, K Nishii, M Kusaka, H Takahashi, JJ Grantham. Effects of flutamide, an antagonist of testosterone, on androgen receptor expression and disease progression in rodent autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY. 2003. 14. 110A-110A
Kunio Kitamura, Masako Yanazawa, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Hirohito Miura, Akiko Iizuka-Kogo, Masatomo Kusaka, Kayo Omichi, Rika Suzuki, Yuko Kato-Fukui, Kyoko Kamiirisa, et al. Mutations of Arx/ARX cause abnormal migration and differentiation of GABAergic interneurons and abnormal development of testes in mice, and X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia in humans. Nature Genet. 2002. 32. 359-369
