Hirooka, S., Itabashi, T., Ichinose, T.M., Onuma, R., Fujiwara, T., Yamashita, S., Jong, L.W., Tomita, R., Iwane, A.H., and Miyagishima, S. (2022) Life cycle and functional genomics of the unicellular red alga Galdieria for elucidating algal and plant evolution and industrial use. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 119, e2210665119.
Kamikawa, R., Mochizuki, T., Sakamoto, M., Tanizawa, Y., Nakayama, T., Onuma, R., Cenci, U., Moog, D., Speak, S., Sarkozi, K., Toseland, A., van Oosterhout, C., Oyama, K., Kato, M., Kume, K., Kayama, M., Azuma, T., Ishii, K.I., Miyashita, H., Henrissat, B., Lombard, V., Win, J., Kamoun, S., Kashiyama, Y., Mayama, S., Miyagishima, S., Tanifuji, G., Mock, T., Nakamura, Y. (2022). Genome evolution of a nonparasitic secondary heterotroph, the diatom Nitzschia putrida. Science Adv. 8, eabi5075.
2021
Fujiwara, T., Hirooka, S., Miyagishima, S. (2021). A cotransformation system of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae with blasticidin S deaminase and chloramphenicol acetyltransferase selectable markers. BMC Plant Biol. 21, 573.
Miyagishima, S. and Tanaka, K. (2021). Yamashita, S., Yamamoto, K., Matsuzaki, R., Suzuki, S., Yamaguchi, H., Hirooka, S., Minakuchi, Y., Miyagishima, A., Kawachi, M., Toyoda, A., Nozaki, H. (2021) Genome sequencing of the multicellular alga Astrephomene provides insights into convergent evolution of germ-soma differentiation. Sci. Rep. 11, 22231-22231.
Miyagishima, S. and Tanaka, K. (2021). The uinicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae-the simplest model of a photosynthetic eukaryote. Plant Cell Physiol. 62, 926-941.
Jong, L.W., Fujiwara, T., Hirooka, S., and Miyagishima, S. (2021). Cell size for commitment to cell division and number of successive cell divisions in cyanidialean red algae. Protoplasma 258, 1103-1118.
2020
Kobayashi, Y., Odahara, M., Sekine, Y., Hamaji, T., Fujiwara, S., Nishimura, Y., Miyagishima, S. (2020) Holliday junction resolvase MOC1 maintains plastid and mitochondrial genome integrity in algae and bryophytes. Plant Physiol. 184, 1870-1883.
Onuma, R., Hirooka, S., Kanesaki, Y., Fujiwara, T., Yoshikawa, H., Miyagishima, S. (2020) Changes in the transcriptome, ploidy, and optimal light intensity of a cryptomonad upon integration into a kleptoplastic dinoflagellate. ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0693-4
Fujiwara, T., Hirooka, S., Ohbayashi, R., Onuma, R., Miyagishima, S. (2020) Relationship between cell cycle and diel transcriptomic changes in metabolism in a unicellular red alga. Plant Physiol. 183, 1484-1501.
Hirooka, S., Tomita, R., Fujiwara, T., Ohnuma, M., Kuroiwa, H., Kuroiwa, T., and Miyagishima, S. (2020) Efficient open cultivation of cyanidialean red algae in acidified seawater. Sci. Rep. 10, Article 13794.
Ohbayashi, R., Hirooka, S., Onuma, R., Kanesaki, Y., Hirose, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Fujiwara, T., Furusawa, C., and Miyagishima, S. (2020) Evolutionary changes in DnaA-dependent chromosomal replication in cyanobacteria. Front. Microbiol. 11, Article 786.
Miyagishima, S., Era, A., Hasunuma, T., Matsuda, M., Hirooka, S., Sumiya, N., Kondo, A., Fujiwara, T. (2019) Day/Night Separation of Oxygenic Energy Metabolism and Nuclear DNA Replication in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. mBio 10(4), e00833-19, 2019 DOI:10.1128/mBio.00833-19
Ohbayashi, R., Nakamachi, A., Hatakeyama, T., Watanabe, S., Kanesaki, Y., Chibazakura, T., Yoshikawa, H., Miyagishima, S. (2019). Coordination of polyploid chromosome replication with cell size and growth in a cyanobacterium. mBio 10(2), e00510-19 DOI:10.1128/mBio.00510-19
Fujiwara, T., Hirooka, S., Mukai, M., Ohbayashi, R., kanesaki, Y., Watanabe, S., and Miyagishima, S. (2019). Integration of a Galdieria plasma membrane sugar transporter enables heterotrophic growth of the obligate photoautotrophic red alga Cynanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Direct 3, e00134
Kashiyama, Y., Yokoyama, A., Shiratori, T., Hess, S., Not, F., Bachy, C., Gutierrez-Rodriguez, A., Kawahara, J., Suzaki, T., Nakazawa, M., Ishikawa, T., Maruyama, M., Wang, M., Chen, M., Gong, Y., Seto, K., Kagami ,M,. Hamamoto, Y., Honda, D., Umetani, T., Shihongi, A., Kayama, M., Matsuda, T., Taira, J., Yabuki, A., Tsuchiya, M., Hirakawa, Y., Kawaguchi, A., Nomura, M., Nakamura, A., Namba, N., Matsumoto, M., Tanaka, T., Yoshino, T., Higuchi, R., Yamamoto, A., Maruyama, T., Yamaguchi, A., Uzuka, A., Miyagishima, S., Tanifuji, G,. Kawachi, M., Kinoshita, Y., Tamiaki, H. (2019). Taming chlorophylls by early eukaryotes underpinned algal interactions and the diversification of the eukaryotes on the oxygenated Earth. ISME J. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0377-0
2018
Hamaji, T., Kawai-Toyooka, H., Uchimura, H., Suzuki, M., Noguchi, H., Minakuchi, Y., Toyoda, A., Fujiyama, A., Miyagishima, S., Umen, J.G., Nozaki, H. (2018) Anisogamy evolved with a reduced sex-determining region in volvocine green algae. Commun. Biol. 1, 17.
Kuroiwa, T., Miyagishima, S., Matsunaga, S., Sato, N., Nozaki, H., Tanaka, K., Misumi, O. (2018). Cyanidioschyzon merolae—A New Model Eukaryote for Cell and Organelle Biology. Springer
2017
Arakaki, Y., Fujiwara, T., Kawai-Toyooka, H., Kawafune, K., Featherston, J., Durand, P.M., Miyagishima, S., and Nozaki, H. (2017). Evolution of cytokinesis-related protein localization during the emergence of multicellularity in volvocine green algae. BMC Evol. Biol. 17, 243
Jong, L.W., Fujiwara, T., Nozaki, H., and Miyagishima, S. (2017). Cell size for commitment to cell division and number of successive cell divisions in multicellular volvocine green algae Tetrabaena socialis and Gonium pectorale. Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. B 93, 832-840.
Hirooka, S., Hirose, Y., Kanesaki, Y., Higuchi, S., Fujiwara, T., Onuma, R., Era, A., Ohbayashi, R., Uzuka, A., Nozaki, H., Yoshikawa, H., and Miyagishima, S. (2017). Acidophilic green algal genome provides insights into adaptation to an acidic environment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 114, E8304-E8313.
Onuma, R., Mishra, N., and Miyagishima, S. (2017). Regulation of chloroplast and nucleomorph replication by the cell cycle in the cryptophyte Guillardia theta. Sci. Rep. Article 2345
Fujiwara, T., Ohnuma, M., Kuroiwa, T., Ohbayashi, R., Hirooka, S. and Miyagishima, S. (2017). Development of a double nuclear gene-targeting method by two-step transformation based on a newly established chloramphenicol-selection system in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Plant Sci. Article 343
Sumiya, N. and Miyagishima, S. (2017). Hierarchal order in the formation of chloroplast division machinery in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Commun. Integr. Biol. e1294298
Miyagishima, S. (2017). Chloroplast division: A handshake across membranes. Nature Plants 3:17025. Comments on Wang et al., (2017).
2016
Sumiya, N., Fujiwara, T., Era, A. and Miyagishima, S. (2016). Chloroplast division checkpoint in the algal cell cycle. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 113, E7629-E7638.
Hirooka, S., and Miyagishima, S. (2016). Cultivation of acidophilic algae Galdieria sulphuraria and Pseudochlorella sp. YKT1 in media derived from acidic hot springs. Frontier Microbiology Arcticle 2022
Ohbayashi, R., Yamamoto, J., Watanabe, S., Kanesaki, Y., Chibazakura, T., Miyagishima, S., and Yoshikawa, H. (2016). Variety of DNA replication activity among cyanobacteria correlates with distinct respiration activity in the dark. Plant Cell Physiol. 58, 279-286.
Rademacher, N., Kern, R., Fujiwara, T., Mettler-Altmann, T., Miyagishima, S., Hagemann, M., Eisenhut, M., Weber, A.P. (2016). Photorespiratory glycolate oxidase is essential for the survival of the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae under ambient CO2 conditions. J. Exp. Bot. 67, 3165-3175.
Hamaji, T., Mogi, Y., Ferris, P.J., Mori, T., Miyagishima, S., Kabeya, Y., Nishimura, Y., Toyoda, A., Noguchi ,H,. Fujiyama, A., Olson, B.J., Marriage, T.N., Nishii, I., Umen, J.G., Nozaki, H. (2016). Sequence of the Gonium pectorale Mating Locus Reveals a Complex and Dynamic History of Changes in Volvocine Algal Mating Haplotypes. G3 6, 1179-1189.
2015
Imamura, S., Kawase, Y., Kobayashi, I., Sone, T., Era, A., Miyagishima, S., Shimojima, M., Ohta, H., and Tanaka, K. (2015) Target of rapamycin (TOR) plays a critical role in triacylglycerol accumulation in microalgae Plant Mol. Biol. 89:309-318
Fujiwara, T., Kanesaki, Y., Hirooka, S., Era, A., Sumiya, N., Yoshikawa, H., Tanaka, K., and Miyagishima, S. (2015) A nitrogen source-dependent inducible and repressible gene expression system in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.Front. Plant Sci. 6:657
Sumiya, N., Kawase, Y., Hayakawa, J., Matsuda, M., Nakamura, M., Era, A., Tanaka, K., Kondo, A., Hasunuma, T., Imamura, S., and Miyagishima, S. (2015) Expression of cyanobacterial acyl-ACP reductase elevates the triacylglycerol level in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.Plant Cell Physiol. 56,1962-1980
Fujii, G., Imamura, S., Era, A., Miyagishima, S., Hanaoka, M., and Tanaka, K. (2015)The nuclear-encoded sigma factor SIG4 directly activates transcription of chloroplast psbA and ycf17 genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.FEMS Microbiol. Lett. in press
Okazaki, K., Miyagishima, S., and Wada, H. (2015) Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate Negatively Regulates Chloroplast Division in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 27,663-674
Kawafune. K., Hongoh, Y., Hamaji, T., Sakamoto, T., Kurata, T., Hirooka, S., Miyagishima, S., and Nozaki, H. (2015) Two different rickettsial bacteria invading Volvox carteri. PLOS ONE10(2): e0116192
2014
Sumiya, N., Fujiwara, T., Kobayashi, Y., Misumi, O., and Miyagishima, S. (2014) Development of a Heat-Shock Inducible Gene Expression System in the Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. PLOS ONE 9(10):e111261
Miyagishima, S., Nakamura, M., Uzuka, A., and Era, A. (2014) FtsZ-less prokaryotic cell division as well as FtsZ- and dynamin-less chloroplast and non-photosynthetic plastid division. Front. Plant Sci., 5, 459
Hirooka, S., Higuchi, S., Uzuka, A., Nozaki, H., and Miyagishima, S. (2014) Acidophilic Green Alga Pseudochlorella sp. YKT1 Accumulates High Amount of Lipid Droplets under a Nitrogen-depleted Condition at a Low-pH. PLOS ONE, 9(9): e107702
Nakabachi, A., Ishida, K., Hongoh, Y., Ohkuma, M., and Miyagishima, S. (2014) Aphid gene of bacterial origin encodes a protein transported to an obligate endosymbiont. Curr. Biol., 24, pR640
Miyagishima, S., Fujiwara, T., Sumiya, N., Hirooka, S., Nakano, A., Kabeya, Y., and Nakamura, M (2014) Translation-independent circadian control of the cell cycle in a unicellular photosynthetic eukaryote. Nat. commun.,5,3807
Miyagishima, S., Kabeya, Y., Sugita, C., Sugita, M., and Fujiwara, T. (2014) DipM is required for peptidoglycan hydrolysis during chloroplast division. BMC Plant Biol.,14,57
Mori, T., Igawa, T., Tamiya, G., Miyagishima, S., and Berger, F. (2014) Gamete Attachment Requires GEX2 for Successful Fertilization in Arabidopsis. Curr. Biol., 24,170-175
2013
Nakabachi, A., Nikoh, N., Oshima, K., Inoue, H., Ohkuma, M., Hongoh, Y., Miyagishima, S., Hattori, M., and Fukatsu, T. (2013) Horizontal Gene Acquisition of Liberibacter Plant Pathogens from a Bacteriome-Confined Endosymbiont of Their Psyllid Vector. PLoS ONE, 8, e82612
Nakabachi, A., Ueoka, R., Oshima, K., Teta, R., Mangoni, A., Gurgui, M., Oldham, N. J., Echten-Deckert, G., Okamura, K., Yamamoto, K., Inoue, H., Ohkuma, M., Hongoh, Y., Miyagishima, S., Hattori, M., Piel, J., and Fukatsu, T. (2013) Defensive bacteriome symbiont with a drastically reduced genome. Curr. Biol., 23, 1478-1484
Imoto, Y., Kuroiwa, H., Yoshida, Y., Ohnuma, M., Fujiwara, T., Yoshida, M., Nishida, K., Yagisawa, F., Hirooka, S., Miyagishima, S., Misumi, O., Kawano, S., and Kuroiwa, T. (2013) Single-membrane-bounded peroxisome division revealed by isolation of dynamin-based machinery. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 110, 9583-9588
Masud Rana, A.Y. K. Md., Tsujioka, M., Miyagishima, S., Ueda, M., and Yumura S. (2013) Dynamin contributes to cytokinesis via stabilizing actin filaments in the contractile ring. Genes to Cells, 18, 621-635
Kabeya, Y. and Miyagishima, S. (2013) Chloroplast DNA replication is regulated by the redox state independently of chloroplast division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Physiol., 161, 2102-2112
Igawa, T., Yanagawa, Y., Miyagishima, S., and Mori, T. (2013) Analysis of gamete membrane dynamics during double fertilization of Arabidopsis. J. Plant Res. 126, 387-394
2012
Miyagishima,S., Suzuki, K., Okazaki, K., and Kabeya, Y. (2012) Expression of the nucleus-encoded chloroplast division genes and proteins regulated by the algal cell cycle. Mol. Biol. Evol., 29, 2957-2970
Yoshida, Y., Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2012) The plastid-dividing machinery: formation, constriction and fission. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 15, 714-721
Mogi, Y., Hamaji, T., Suzuki, M., Ferris, P., Mori,T., Kabeya, Y., Miyagishima,S., and Nozaki, H. (2012) Evidence for tubular mating structures induced in each mating type of heterothallic GONIUM PECTORALE (Volvocales, Chlorophyta). J. Phycol., 48, 670-674
Kuroiwa, T., Ohnuma, M., Imoto, Y., Misumi, O., Fujiwara, T., Miyagishima, S., Sumiya, N., and Kuroiwa, H. (2012) Lipid droplets of bacteria, algae and fungi and a relationship between their contents and genome sizes as revealed by BODIPY and DAPI staining. Cytologia, 77, 289-299
2011
Miyagishima, S., Nakanishi, H., and Kabeya, Y. (2011) Structure, regulation, and evolution of the plastid division machinery. Int. Rev. Cell. Mol. Biol. 291, 115-153.
Miyagishima, S (2011) Evolution and regulation of the plastid division machinery. Plant Physiol., 155, 1533-1544.
2010
Miyagishima, S. and Kabeya, Y. (2010) Chloroplast division: squeezing the photosynthetic captive. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 13, 738-746.
Minoda, A., Weber, A.P., Tanaka, K., and Miyagishima, S. (2010) Nucleus-independent control of the rubisco operon by the plastid-encoded transcription factor Ycf30 in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Physiol. 154, 1532-1540.
Kabeya, Y., Nakanishi, H., Suzuki, K., Ichikawa, T., Kondou, Y., Matsui, M., and Miyagishima, S. (2010) The YlmG protein has a conserved function related to the distribution of nucleoids in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. BMC Plant Biol. 10, 57
*Suzuki K. and *Miyagishima S. (2010) Eukaryotic and eubacterial contributions to the establishment of plastid proteome estimated by large-scale phylogenetic analyses. Mol. Biol. Evol. 27, 581-590, *Co-first authors
The International Aphid Genomics Consortium (2010) Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biol. 8, e1000313
Nikoh, N., McCutcheon, J.P., Kudo, T., Miyagishima, S., Moran, N.A., and Nakabachi, A. (2010) Absence of functional gene transfer from the obligate endosymbiont Buchnera to its aphid host. PLoS Genet. 6, 1000827
Okazaki, K., Kabeya, Y., and Miyagishima, S. (2010) The evolution of the regulatory mechanism of chloroplast division. Plant Signal Behav. 5, 70-73.
Miyagishima, S. and Nakanishi, H. (2010) Chloroplast division machinery: origins and evolutions. In Red Algae in Genomic Age. (eds. J. Sechbach, D. J. Chapman, and A. Weber), Springer, in press
Nakabachi, A., Shigenobu, S., and Miyagishima, S. (2010) Chitinase-like proteins encoded in the genome of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Mol. Biol. Supple 2, 175-185
Shigenobu, S., Richards, S., Cree, A. G., Morioka, M., Fukatsu, T., Kudo, T., Miyagishima, S., Gibbs, R.A., Stern, D.L., and Nakabachi, A. (2010). A full-length cDNA resource for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Mol. Biol.Supple 2, 23-31
Nakabachi, A. and Miyagishima, S. (2010) Expansion of genes encoding a novel type of dynamin in the genome of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Mol. Biol.Supple 2, 165-173
*Okazaki, K., *Kabeya, Y., Suzuki, K., Mori, T., Ichikawa, T., Matsui, M., Nakanishi, H., and Miyagishima, S. (2009) The PDV1 and PDV2 components of the chloroplast division machinery determine the rate of chloroplast division in land plant cell differentiation. Plant Cell 21, 1769-1780, *Co-first authors
2009
Suzuki K., Nakanishi H., Bower J., Yoder D.W., Osteryoung K.W., and Miyagishima S. (2009) Plastid chaperonin proteins Cpn60alpha and Cpn60beta are required for plastid division in Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biol. 9, 38
Nakanishi, H., Suzuki, K., Kabeya, Y., and Miyagishima, S. (2009) The plant-specific protein MCD1 determines the site of chloroplast division in concert with bacteria-derived MinD. Curr. Biol. 19, 151-156
Nakabachi, A., Koshikawa, S., Miura, T., and Miyagishima, S. (2009) Genome size of Pachypsylla venusta (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), and the ploidy of its bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors intracellular mutualistic bacteria with the smallest cellular genome. Bull. Entomol. Res. 100, 23-33
Glynn, J.M., Yang, Y., Vitha, S., Schmitz, A.J., Hemmes, M., Miyagishima, S., and Osteryoung, K.W. (2009) PARC6, a novel chloroplast division factor, influences FtsZ assembly and is required for recruitment of PDV1 during chloroplast division in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 59, 700-711
Nakanishi, H., Suzuki, K., Kabeya, Y., Okazaki, K., and Miyagishima, S. (2009) Conservation and differences of the Min system in the chloroplast and bacterial division site placement. Commun. Integr. Biol. 2:5, 1-3.
2008
Miyagishima, S., Kuwayama, H., Urushihara, H., and Nakanishi, H. (2008) Evolutionary linkage between eukaryotic cytokinesis and chloroplast division by dynamin proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105, 15202-15207
*Hirai, M., *Arai, M., *Mori, T., Miyagishima, S., Kawai, S., Kita, K., Kuroiwa, T., Terenius, O., and Matsuoka, H. (2008) Male fertility of malaria parasites is determined by GCS1, a plant-type reproduction factor. Curr. Biol. 18, 607-613, *Co-first authors
Sakamoto, W., Miyagishima, S., and Jarvis, P. (2008) Chloroplast biogenesis: control of plastid development, protein import, division and inheritance. The Arabidopsis Book pp. 1-30.
Maruyama, S., Matsuzaki, M., Kuroiwa, H., Miyagishima, S., Tanaka, K., Kuroiwa, T., and Nozaki, H. (2008) Centromere structures highlighted by the 100%-complete Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome. Plant Signal Behav. 3, 140-141.
Yoder, D.W., Kadirjan-Kalbach, D., Olson, B.J., Miyagishima, S., Deblasio, S.L., Hangarter, R.P., and Osteryoung, K.W. (2007) Effects of mutations in Arabidopsis FtsZ1 on plastid division, FtsZ ring formation and positioning, and FtsZ filament morphology in vivo. Plant Cell Physiol. 48, 775-791
Maruyama, S., Kuroiwa, H., Miyagishima, S., Tanaka, K., and Kuroiwa, T. (2007) Centromere dynamics in the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant J. 49, 1122-1129
2006
Miyagishima, S., Froehlich, J.E., and Osteryoung, K.W. (2006) PDV1 and PDV2 mediate recruitment of the dynamin-related protein ARC5 to the plastid division site. Plant Cell18, 2517-2530
2005
Miyagishima, S., Wolk, C.P., and Osteryoung, K.W. (2005) Identification of cyanobacterial cell division genes by comparative and mutational analyses. Mol. Microbiol. 56, 126-143
Misumi, O., Matsuzaki, M., Nozaki, H., Miyagishima, S., Mori, T., Nishida, K., Yagisawa, F., Yoshida, Y., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2005) Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome. A tool for facilitating comparable studies on organelle biogenesis in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Plant Physiol. 137, 567-585
Miyagishima, S. (2005) Origin and evolution of the chloroplast division machinery. J. Plant Res. 118, 295-306
Miyagishima S. and Kuroiwa T. (2005) The Mechanism of Plastid Division: The Structure and Origin of The Plastid Division Apparatus. In The Structure and Function of Plastids (ed. R. Wise), Springer, Netherlands, pp. 103-121.
2004
Miyagishima, S., Nozaki, H., Nishida, K., Nishida, K., Matsuzaki, M., and Kuroiwa, T. (2004) Two types of FtsZs for mitochondria and red-lineage chloroplasts: the duplication of FtsZ is implicated in endosymbiosis. J. Mol. Evol. 58, 291-303
Matsuzaki M, Misumi O, Shin-I T, Maruyama S, Takahara M, Miyagishima S, Mori T, Nishida K, Yagisawa F, Nishida K, Yoshida Y, Nishimura Y, Nakao S, Kobayashi T, Momoyama Y, Higashiyama T, Minoda A, Sano M, Nomoto H, Oishi K, Hayashi H, Ohta F, Nishizaka S, Haga S, Miura S, Morishita T, Kabeya Y, Terasawa K, Suzuki Y, Ishii Y, Asakawa S, Takano H, Ohta N, Kuroiwa H, Tanaka K, Shimizu N, Sugano S, Sato N, Nozaki H, Ogasawara N, Kohara Y, and Kuroiwa T. (2004) Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Nature 428, 653-657
2003
Miyagishima, S., Nishida, K., Mori, T., Matsuzaki, M., Higashiyama, T., Kuroiwa H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2003) A plant-specific dynamin-related protein forms a ring at the chloroplast division site. Plant Cell 15, 655-665
Miyagishima, S., Nishida, K., and Kuroiwa, T (2003) An evolutionary puzzle: chloroplast and mitochondrial division rings. Trends Plant Sci. 8, 432-438
Nishida, K., Takahara, M., Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., Matsuzaki, M., and Kuroiwa, T. (2003) Dynamic recruitment of dynamin for final mitochondrial severance in a primitive red alga. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 2146-2151
Ohta, N., Matsuzaki, M., Misumi, O., Miyagishima, S., Nozaki, H., Tanaka, K., Shin-I, T., Kohara, Y., and Kuroiwa, T. (2003) Complete sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 10, 67-77
Momoyama, Y., Miyazawa, Y., Miyagishima, S., Mori, T., Misumi, O., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2003) The preomorphic division of plastids by FtsZ in tobacco Bright Yellow-2. Eur. J. Cell Biol. 82, 323-332
2002
Kobayashi, T., Takahara, M., Miyagishima, S., Ohta, N., Sasaki, N., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2002) Detection and localization of a chloroplast-encoded HU-like protein that organizes chloroplast nucleoids. Plant Cell14, 1579-1589
Kuroiwa, H., Mori, T., Takahara, M., Miyagishima, S., and Kuroiwa, T. (2002)Chloroplast division machinery as revealed by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. Planta 215, 185-190
2001
Miyagishima, S., Takahara, M., Mori, T., Kuroiwa H., Higashiyama, T., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) Plastid division is driven by a complex mechanism that involves differential transition of the bacterial and eukaryotic division rings. Plant Cell 13, 2257-2268
Miyagishima, S., Takahara, M., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) Novel filaments 5 nm in diameter constitute the cytosolic ring of the plastid division apparatus. Plant Cell 13, 707-721
Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) The timing and manner of disassembly of the apparatuses for chloroplast and mitochondrial division in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Planta212, 517-528
Higashiyama, T., Yabe, S., Sasaki, N., Nishimura, Y., Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) Pollen tube attraction by the synergid cell. Science 293, 1389-1544
Takahara, M., Kuroiwa, H., Miyagishima, S., Mori, T., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) Localization of the mitochondrial FtsZ protein in a dividing mitochondrion. Cytologia 66, 421-425
Mori, T., Kuroiwa, H., Takahara, M., Miyagishima, S., and Kuroiwa, T. (2001) Visualization of an FtsZ ring in chloroplasts of Lilium longiflorum leaves. Plant Cell Physiol.42, 555-559
Kuroiwa T., Kuroiwa H., Miyagishima S., and Nishimura Y. (2001) Inheritance of cytoplasmic traits ? embryological perspectives. In Current Trends in the Embryology of Angiosperms (eds. S. S. Bhojwani and W.-Y. Soh), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 509-523.
2000
Takahara, M., Takahashi, H., Matsunaga, S., Miyagishima, S., Sakai, A., Kawano, S., and Kuroiwa, T. (2000) A putative mitochondrial ftsZ gene is encoded in the unicellular primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Mol. Gen. Genet. 264, 452-460
1999
Miyagishima, S., Itoh, R., Toda, K., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1999) Real-time analyses of chloroplast and mitochondrial division and differences in the behavior of their dividing rings during contraction. Planta 207, 343-353
Miyagishima, S., Itoh, R., Toda, K., Kuroiwa, H., Nishimura, M., and Kuroiwa, T. (1999) Microbody proliferation and segregation cycle in the single-microbody alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Planta 208, 326-336
Miyagishima, S., Itoh, R., Aita, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1999) Isolation of dividing chloroplasts with intact plastid-dividing rings from a synchronous culture of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Planta209, 371-375
Miyazawa, Y., Sakai, A., Miyagishima, S., Takano, H., Kawano, S., and Kuroiwa, T. (1999) Auxin and cytokinin have opposite effects on amyloplast development and the expression of starch synthesis genes in cultured bright yellow-2 tobacco cells. Plant Physiol. 121, 461-469
Kuroiwa, T., Takahara, M., Miyagishima, S., Ohashi, Y., Kawamura, F., and Kuroiwa, H. (1999) The FtsZ protein is not located on outer plastid dividing rings. Cytologia 64, 333-342
Itoh, R., Takano, H., Ohta, N., Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa T. (1999) Two ftsH-family genes encoded in the nuclear and chloroplast genomes of the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Mol. Biol. 41, 321-337
1998
Miyagishima, S., Itoh, R., Toda, K., Takahashi, H., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1998) Orderly formation of the double ring structures for plastid and mitochondrial division in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.Planta 206, 551-560
Miyagishima S., Itoh, R., Toda, K., Takahashi, H., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1998) Visualization of the microbody division in Cyanidioschyzon merolae with the fluorochrome brilliant sulfoflavin. Protoplasma 201, 115-119
Miyagishima, S., Itoh, R., Toda, K., Takahashi, H., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1998) Identification of a triple ring structure involved in plastid division in the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.J. Electron Microsc. 47, 269-272
Toda, K., Takano, H., Miyagishima, S., Kuroiwa, H., and Kuroiwa, T. (1998) Characterization of a chloroplast isoform of serine acetyltransferase from the thermo-acidiphilic red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1403, 72-84
1997
Takahashi, H., Kuroiwa, H., Miyagishima, S., Toda, K., Itoh, R., and Kuroiwa, T. (1997) Improved procedure for immunogold electron microscopy: rapid-freeze substitution with absolute acetone. Cytologia 62, 303-308
