Publications

Original Paper

2022

• Hiroguchi, A., Nakamura, K. and Fujita, T. (2022) Abscisic acid switches cell division modes of asymmetric cell division and symmetric cell division in stem cells of protonemal filaments in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Plant Biotechnology, (in press)
• Bao, L., Inoue, N., Ishikawa, M., Gotoh, E., Teh, O.-K., Higa, T., Morimoto, T., Ginanjar, E.F., Harashima, H., Noda, N., Watahiki, M., Hiwatashi, Y., Sekine, M., Hasebe, M., Wada, M. and Fujita, T. (2022) A PSTAIRE-type cyclin-dependent kinase controls light responses in land plants. Science Advances, 8, eabk2116, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk2116 (open access)
• Ginanjar, F.E., Teh, O.-K., and Fujita, T. (2022) Characterisation of Rapid Alkalinisation Factors (RAFLs) in Physcomitrium patens Reveals Functional Conservation in Tip Growth. The New Phytologist, 233, 2442-2457. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17942

2021

• Wakabayashi, H., Matsuda, O., Fujita, T. and Kume A. (2021) Practical application of proximal sensing for monitoring the growth of Physcomitrium patens. Biological Sciences in Space, 35, 32-40.
• Kusnandar, AS., Ito, J., Sato, Y., Honda, E., Hibara, K., Kyozuka, J., and Naramoto S. (2021) NARROW AND DWARF LEAF 1, the Orthologue of Arabidopsis ENHANCER OF SHOOT REGENERATION1/DORNRÖSCHEN, Mediates Leaf Development and Maintenance of the shoot Apical Meristem in Oryza sativa L. Plant Cell Physiol in press https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcab169
• Kume, A., Kamachi, H., Onoda, Y., Hanba, T.Y., Hiwatashi, Y., Karahara, I., and Fujita T. (2021) How plants grow under gravity conditions besides 1 g: Perspectives from hypergravity and space experiments that employ bryophytes as a model organism. Plant Molecular Biology, 107, 279–291. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-021-01146-8
• Kameo, S., Aso, M., Furukawa, R., Matsumae, R., Yokono, M., Fujita, T., Tanaka, A., Tanaka, R., and Takabayashi, A. (2021) Substitution of deoxycholate with the amphiphilic polymer amphipol A8-35 improves the stability of large protein complexes during native electrophoresis. Plant and Cell Physiology, 62, 348-355. DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa165
• Mizuno, Y., Komatsu, A., Shimazaki, S., Naramoto, S., Inoue, K., Xie, X., Ishizaki, K., Kohchi, T., and Kyozuka, J. (2021) Major components of the KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2-dependent signaling pathway are conserved in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Plant Cell 31: 1918-1930. https://doi.org/10.1016
• Glanc, M., Van Gelderen, K.,  Hoermayer, L.,  Tan, S., Naramoto, S., Zhang, X., Domjan, D., Včelařová, L., Hauschild, R., Johnson, A., de Koning, E., Van Dop, M., Rademacher, E., Janson, S., Wei, X., Molnár, G., Fendrych, M., De Rybel, B., Offringa, R., and Friml, J. (2021) AGC kinases and MAB4/MEL proteins maintain PIN polarity by limiting lateral diffusion in plant cells. Current Biology 31: 1918-1930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.028

2020

• Kawade, K., Horiguchi, G., Hirose, Y., Oikawa, A., Hirai, M.Y., Saito, K., Fujita, T., and Tsukaya, H. (2020) Metabolic Control of Gametophore Shoot Formation through Arginine in the Moss Physcomitrium patens. Cell Reports, 32, 108127. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108127.
• Wachananawat, B. Kuroha, T., Takenaka, Y., Kajiura, H., Naramoto, S., Yokoyama, R.,  Ishizaki, K., Nishitani, K., and Ishimizu, T. (2020) Diversity of Pectin Rhamnogalacturonan I Rhamnosyltransferases in Glycosyltransferase Family 106.Frontiers in Plant Science 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00997
• Do. T-.H., Pongthai P., Ariyarathne, M., Teh, O.-K., and Fujita, T. (2020) AP2/ERF transcription factors regulate salt-induced chloroplast division in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Journal of Plant Research, 133, 537-548. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-020-01195-y.
• Tomoi, T., Kawade, K., Kitagawa, M., Sakata, Y., Tsukaya, H., and Fujita, T. (2020) Quantitative imaging reveals distinct contributions of SnRK2 and ABI3 in plasmodesmatal permeability in Physcomitrella patens. Plant and Cell Physiology, 61, 942-956. DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa021.

2019

• Furukawa, R., Aso M, Fujita, T., Akimoto, S., Tanaka, R., Tanaka, A., Yokono, M., and Takabayashi, A. (2019) Formation of a PSI-PSII megacomplex containing LHCSR and PsbS in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Journal of Plant Research, 132: 867-880, DOI: 10.1007/s10265-019-01138-2.
• Yokono, M., Takabayashi, A., Kishimoto, J., Fujita, T., Iwai, M., Murakami, A., Akimoto, S., Tanaka, A. (2019) The PSI-PSII megacomplex in green plants.  Plant and Cell Physiology, 60, 1098-1108, pcz026, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz026.
• Kitagawa, M., Tomoi, T., Fukushima, T., Sakata, Y., Sato, M., Toyooka, K., Fujita, T., Sakakibara, H. (2019) Abscisic Acid Acts as a Regulator of Molecular Trafficking through Plasmodesmata in the Moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant and Cell Physiology, 60 (4), 738-751,  https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcy249.

2018

• Perroud, P.-F., Haas, F., Hiss, M., Ullrich, K., Alboresi, A., Amirebrahimi, M., Barry, K., Bassi, R., Bonhomme, S., Chen, H., Coates, J., Fujita, T., Guyon-Debast, A., Lang D., Lin, J., Lipzen, A., Nogué, F., Oliver, M., de León, I.-P., Quatrano, R., Rameau, C., Reiss, B., Reski, R., Ricca, M., Saidi, Y., Sun, N., Szövényi, P. Sreedasyam, A., Grimwood, J., Stacey, G., Schmutz, J., Rensing, S. (2018) The Physcomitrella patens gene atlas project: large scale RNA-seq based expression data. Plant Journal, 95, 168-182, DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13940.

2017

• Takemura, K., Watanabe, R., Kameishi R., Sakaguchi, N., Kamachi, H., Kume, A., Karahara, I., Hanba, Y.-T., and Fujita, T. (2017) Hypergravity of 10g changes plant growth, anatomy, chloroplast size, and photosynthesis in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Microgravity Science and Technology, 29, 467-473, DOI:10.1007/s12217-017-9565-6.
• Mori, A., Kamachi, H., Karahara, I., Kume, A., Hanba, Y.-T., Takemura, K. and Fujita, T. (2017) Comparisons of the effects of vibration of two centrifugal systems on the growth and morphological parameters of the moss Physcomitrella patens. Biological Sciences in Space, 31, 9-13, https://doi.org/10.2187/bss.31.9.
• Fukushima, K., Fang, X., Alvarez-Ponce, D., Cai, H., Carretero-Paulet, L., Chen, C., Chang, H.-H., Farr, K., Fujita, T., Hiwatashi, Y. Hoshi, Y., Imai, T., Kasahara, M., Librado, P., Mao, L., Mori, H., Nishiyama, T., Nozawa, M., Pálfalvi, G., Pollard, S., Rozas, J., Sánchez-Gracia, A., Sankoff, D., Shibata, T., Shigenobu, S., Sumikawa, N., Uzawa, T., Xie, M., Zheng, C., Pollock, D., Albert, V., Li, S., and Hasebe, M. (2017) The pitcher plant Cephalotus genome reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 0059. DOI:10.1038/s41559-016-0059.
• Yokota, T., Ohnishi, T., Shibata, K., Asahina, M., Nomura, T., Fujita, T., Ishizaki, K., and Kohchi, T. (2017)  Occurrence of brassinosteroids in non-flowering land plants, liverwort, moss, lycophyte and fern. Phytochemistry, 136, 46-55.
• Takabayashi, A., Takabayashi, S., Takahashi, K., Watanabe, M., Uchida, H., Murakami, A., Fujita, T., Ikeuchi M., and Tanaka, A. (2017)  PCoM-DB update: a protein co-migration database for photosynthetic organisms. Plant and Cell Physiology, 58, e10. DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw219.
• Takemura, K., Kamachi, H., Kume, A., Fujita, T., Karahara, I., and Hanba, Y.-T. (2017)  A hypergravity environment increases chloroplast size, photosynthesis, and plant growth in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Journal of Plant Research, 130, 181-192. DOI: 10.1007/s10265-016-0879-z.    2018 JPR Best Paper Award   (open access)

2015

• Bao, L., Yamamoto, T. K. and Fujita, T. (2015)  Phototropism in gametophytic shoots of the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 10, e1010900-1-6. DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2015.1010900.
• Fujita, T. (2015) Plasmodesmata: function and diversity in plant intercellular communication. Journal of Plant Research, 128, 3-5. DOI: 10.1007/s10265-014-0697-0.
• Kitagawa, M., and Fujita, T. (2015) A model system for analyzing intercellular communication through plasmodesmata using moss protonemata and leaves. Journal of Plant Research, 128, 63-72. DOI: 10.1007/s10265-014-0690-7.
  

2014

• Ito, K., Ren, J., and Fujita, T. (2014) Conserved function of Rho-related Rop/RAC GTPase signaling in regulation of cell polarity in Physcomitrella patens. Gene, 544, 241-247, (DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.04.057).

2013

• Kitagawa, M., and Fujita, T. (2013) Quantitative imaging of directional transport through plasmodesmata in moss protonemata via single-cell photoconversion of Dendra2. Journal of Plant Research, 126, 577-585, (DOI : 10.1007/s10265-013-0547-5).  2014 JPR Best Paper Award   (open access)

2011

• Banks, J.A., Nishiyama, T., Hasebe, M., Bowman, J.L., Gribskov, M., dePamphilis, C., Albert, V.A., Aono, N., Aoyama, T., Ambrose, B.A., Ashton, N.W., Axtell, M.J., Barker, E., Barker, M.S., Bennetzen, J.L., Bonawitz, N.D., Chapple, C., Cheng, C., Correa, L.G.G., Dacre, M., DeBarry, J., Dreyer, I., Elias, M., Engstrom, E.M., Estelle, M., Feng, L., Finet, C., Floyd, S.K., Frommer, W.B., Fujita, T., Gramzow, L., Gutensohn, M., Harholt, J., Hattori, M., Heyl, A., Hirai, T., Hiwatashi, Y., Ishikawa, M., Iwata, M., Karol, K.G., Koehler, B., Kolukisaoglu, U., Kubo, M., Kurata, T., Lalonde, S., Li, K., Li, Y., Litt, A., Lyons, W., Manning, G., Maruyama, T., Michael, T.P., Mikami, K., Miyazaki, S., Morinaga, S., Murata, T., Mueller‐Roeber, B., Nelson, D.R., Obara, M., Oguri, Y., Olmstead, R.G., Onodera, N., Petersen, B.L., Pils, B., Prigge, M., Rensing, S.A., Ria?o-Pach?n, D.M., Roberts, A.W., Sato, Y., Scheller, H.V., Schulz, B., Schulz, C., Shakirov, E.V., Shibagaki, N., Shinohara, N., Shippen, D.E., S?rensen, I., Sotooka, R., Sugimoto, N., Sugita, M., Sumikawa, N., Tanurdzic, M., Thei?en, G., Ulvskov, P., Wakazuki, S., Weng, J.-K., Willats, W.W.G.T., Wipf, D., Wolf, P.G., Yang, L., Zimmer, A.D., Zhu, Q., Mitros, T., Hellsten, U., Loque D., Otillar, R., Salamov, A., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Lindquist, E., Lucas, S., Rokhsar, D., Grigoriev, I.V. (2011) The Selaginella Genome Identifies Genetic Changes Associated with the Evolution of Vascular Plants. Science, 332, 960-963.

2009

• Fujita, T., and Hasebe, M. (2009) Convergences and divergences in polar auxin transport and shoot development in land plant evolution. Plant Signaling & Behavivor, 4, 313-315. (Article Addenda).
• Oda, Y., Hirata, A., Sano, T., Fujita, T., Hiwatashi, Y., Sato Y., Kadota, A., Hasebe, M., and Hasezawa, S. (2009) Microtubules regulate dynamic organization of vacuoles in Physcomitrella patens. Plant and Cell Physiology, 50, 855-868.

2008

• Hiwatashi, Y., Obara, M., Sato, Y., Fujita, T., Murata, T., and Hasebe, M. (2008) Kinesins are indispensable for interdigitation of phragmoplast microtubules in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Cell, 20, 3094-3106.
  
• Inouye T., Odahara M., Fujita T., Hasebe M., Sekine Y. (2008) Expression and complementation analyses of a chloroplast-localized homolog of bacterial RecA in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 72, 1340-1347.
• Fujita, T., Sakaguchi, H., Hiwatashi, H., Wagstaff, S.J., Ito, M., Deguchi, H., Sato, T., Hasebe, M. (2008) Convergent evolution of shoots in land plants: lack of auxin polar transport in moss shoots. Evolution and Development, 10, 176-186.
• S.A. Rensing, D. Lang, A. Zimmer, A. Terry, A. Salamov, H. Shapiro, T. Nishiyama, P.-F. Perroud, E. Lindquist, Y. Kamisugi, T. Tanahashi, K. Sakakibara, T. Fujita, K. Oishi, T. Shin-I, Y. Kuroki, A. Toyoda, Y. Suzuki, S.-i. Hashimoto, K. Yamaguchi, S. Sugano, Y. Kohara, A. Fujiyama, N. Ashton, A. Anterola, S. Aoki, W.B. Barbazuk, E. Barker, J. Bennetzen, R. Blankenship, S. H. Cho, S. Dutcher, M. Estelle, J.A. Fawcett, H. Gundlach, K. Hanada, A. Heyl, K.A. Hicks, J. Hughes, M. Lohr, K. Mayer, A. Melkozernov, T. Murata, D. Nelson, B. Pils, M. Prigge, B. Reiss, T. Renner, S. Rombauts, P. Rushton, A. Sanderfoot, G. Schween, S.-H. Shiu, K. Stueber, F.L. Theodoulou, H. Tu, Y. Van de Peer, P.J. Verrier, E. Waters, A. Wood, L. Yang, D. Cove, A.C. Cuming, M. Hasebe, S. Lucas, B.D. Mishler, R. Reski, I. Grigoriev, R.S. Quatrano, J.L. Boore, (2008) The genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens reveals evolutionary insights into the conquest of land by plants. Science, 319, 64-69.

2007

• Odahara M., Inouye T., Fujita T., Hasebe M., Sekine Y. (2007) Involvement of mitochondrial-targeted RecA in the repair of mitochondrial DNA in the moss, Physcomitrella patens. Genes Genet. Syst., 82, 43-51.

2006

• Terakura S., Kitakura S., Ishikawa M., Ueno Y., Fujita T., Machida C., Wabiko H., Machida Y. (2006) Oncogene 6b from Agrobacterium tumefaciens induces abaxial cell division at late stages of leaf development and modifies vascular development in petioles. Plant and Cell Physiology, 47, 664-672.
• M. Machida, K. Takechi, H. Sato, S.J. Chung, H. Kuroiwa, S. Takio, M. Seki, K. Shinozaki, T. Fujita, M. Hasebe, H. Takano (2006) Genes for the peptidoglycan synthesis pathway are essential for chloroplast division in moss. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103, 6753-6758.

2005

• A. Hayashida, K. Takechi, M. Sugiyama, M. Kubo, R.D. Itoh, S. Takio, T. Fujita, Y. Hiwatashi, M. Hasebe and H. Takano (2005) Isolation of mutant lines with decreased numbers of chloroplasts per cell from a tagged mutant library of the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant Biology, 7, 300-306.
• H. Eda, Y. Ishii, M. Obayashi, S. Harada, S. Ito, T. Fujita, M. Ikeda, S. Kusano, R. Kitamura, C. Suzuki, T. Hara, M. Watanabe, H. Satoh, K. Sugihara and K. Yanagi (2005) Monoclonal antibodies against regions topologically surrounding the homodimeric b-barrel interface of Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen-1. Virus Research, 109. 87-94.

2003

• T. Nishiyama＊, T. Fujita＊, T. Shin-I, M. Seki, H. Nishide, I. Uchiyama, A. Kamiya, P. Carninci, Y. Hayashizaki, K. Shinozaki, Y. Kohara andM. Hasebe (2003) Comparative genomics of Physcomitrella patens gametophytic transcriptome and Arabidopsis thaliana: Implication for land plant evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.,100, 8007-8012. (＊equal contribution)
• T. Fujita, A. Maggio, M. Garcia-Rios, C. Stauffacher, R.A. Bressan L.N. and Csonka (2003) Identification of regions of the tomato γ-glutamyl kinase that are involved in allosteric regulation by proline. J. Biol. Chem., 278, 14203-14210.

2002

• A. Maggio, S. Miyazaki, P. Veronese, T. Fujita, J.I. Ibeas, B. Damsz, M.L. Narasimhan, P.M. Hasegawa, R.J. Joly and R.A. Bressan (2002) Does proline accumulation play an active role in stress-induced growth reduction? Plant J., 31, 699-712.
• S. Kitakura, T. Fujita, Y. Ueno, S. Terakura, H. Wabiko, and Y. Machida (2002) The protein encoded by oncogene 6b from Agrobacterium tumefaciens interacts with a putative transcription factor in tobacco cells. Plant Cell, 14, 451-463.

2001

• Y.Hiwatashi, T.Nishiyama, T. Fujita and M.Hasebe (2001) Establishment of gene-trap and enhancer-trap systems in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant J., 28, 105-116.
• T. Fujita, M.Ikeda, S.Kusano, M.Yamazaki, S.Ito, M.Obayashi and K.Yanagi (2001) Amino acid substitution analyses of the DNA contact region, two amphipathic a-helices and a recognition-helix-like helix outside the dimeric b-barrel of Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1. Intervirology, 44, 271-282.

1999

• R. Salzman, T. Fujita, K. Zhu-Salzman, M. Hasegawa and R.A. Bressan (1999) An improved RNA isolation method for plant tissues containing high levels of phenolic compounds or carbohydrates. Plant Mol. Biol. Reptr., 17, 11-17.

1998

• T. Fujita, A. Maggio, M. Garcia-Rios, R.A. Bressan and L.N. Csonka (1998) Comparative analysis of the regulation of expression and structures of two evolutionarily divergent genes for Δ¹-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase from tomato. Plant Physiol., 118, 661-674.

1997

• M. Garcia-Rios＊, T. Fujita＊, P. Christopher R.D. LaRosa, Locy, J.M. Clithero, R.A. Bressan and L.N. Csonka (1997) Cloning of a polycistronic cDNA from tomato encoding γ-glutamyl kinase and g-glutamyl phosphate reductase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 94, 8249-8254. (＊equal contribution)

1996

• A. Maggio, M. Garcia-Rios, T. Fujita, R.A. Bressan, R.J. Joly, P.M. Hasegawa and L.N. Csonka (1996) Cloning of tomPRO1 and tomPRO2 from Lycopersicon esculentum L.: coexistence of polycistronic and monocistronic genes which encode the enzymes catalyzing the first two steps of proline biosynthesis. Plant Physiol., 112, 862.

1994

• S. Aoki, A. Kawaoka, M. Sekine, T. Ichikawa, T. Fujita, A. Shinmyo and K. Syono (1994) The sequence of cellular T-DNA in the untransformed genome of Nicotiana glauca that is homologous to ORFs 13 and 14 of the Ri plasmid and the analyses of the expression of the cellular genes in genetic tumors of N. glauca x N. langsdorffii. Mol. Gen. Genet., 243, 706-710.
• T. Fujita, H. Kouchi, T. Ichikawa and K. Syono (1994) Cloning of cDNAs for genes that are specifically or preferentially expressed during the development of tobacco genetic tumors. Plant J., 5, 645-654.

1993

• T. Fujita, H. Kouchi, T. Ichikawa and K. Syono (1993) Isolation and characterization of a cDNA that encodes a novel proteinase inhibitor I from a tobacco genetic tumor. Plant Cell Physiol.,34, 137-142.

1991

• T. Fujita, T. Ichikawa and K. Syono (1991) Changes in morphology, leveles of endogenous IAA and protein composition in relation to the development of tobacco genetic tumor induced in the dark. Plant Cell Physiol.,32, 169-177.