News/Topics
- 2022/02/14
- Shimasawa-san received an Excellent Poster Abstract Award at the 2021 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat
- 2022/02/12
- Dr. Chino received Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists.
- 2021/11/17
- Prof. Mizushima was selected as a 2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (8th straight year)
- 2021/09/10
- The ERATO Symposium was held on Thursday, November 11, 2021
- 2021/06/17
- The ERATO International Symposium was held on Thursday, June 17, 2021
- 2021/04/30
- Prof. Mizushima was awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon
- 2021/02/13
- Shimasawa-san and Suzuki-san received an Excellent Poster Abstract Award and the Best Poster Abstract Award respectively at the 2020 ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Retreat
- 2020/12/25
- Oshima-san received the Dean’s Award from ‘Medical Scientist Training Program’ Thesis Review Committee, and Mimura-san received the 2020 SATOSHI ARIMA Memorial Fellowship
- 2020/12/24
- Prof. Mizushima received “Minister of MEXT Award” at the 4th Award Ceremony for the Japan Medical Research and Development Grand Prize
- 2020/11/19
- Prof. Mizushima was selected as a 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (7th straight year)
- 2020/11/01
- Prof. Mizushima received the Medical Award of the Japan Medical Association
- 2020/09/16
- Yamamoto-san won Young Scientists Presentation Award of Excellence at the 93rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Biochemical Society
- 2020/08/06
- Prof. Mizushima won the 61st Fujihara Award
- 2020/07/08
- Prof. Mizushima has been elected as an EMBO Associate Member
- 2020/06/10
- Dr. Morishita received a Young Scientist Presentation Award of Excellence at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Cell Biology
Recent Publications (Original)
- 2022/08/16
- A pulse-chasable reporter processing assay for mammalian autophagic flux with HaloTag (Yim et al., eLife)
- 2022/04/20
- Evolutionary diversification of the autophagy-related ubiquitin-like conjugation systems (Zhang et al., Autophagy)
- 2022/04/20
- Phosphorylation by casein kinase 2 enhances the interaction between ER-phagy receptor TEX264 and ATG8 proteins (Chino et al., EMBO Rep.)
- 2022/04/20
- Annexins A1 and A2 are recruited to larger lysosomal injuries independently of ESCRTs to promote repair (Yim et al., FEBS Lett)
- 2021/11/23
- An exploratory text analysis of the autophagy research field (Yim, et al., Autophagy)
- 2021/06/02
- NEK9 regulates primary cilia formation by acting as a selective autophagy adaptor for MYH9/myosin IIA (Yamamoto, et al., Nat. Commun.)
- 2021/05/12
- Genome-wide CRISPR screening reveals nucleotide synthesis negatively regulates autophagy (Mimura, et al., J Biol Chem)
- 2021/04/15
- Organelle degradation in the lens by PLAAT phospholipases (Morishita, et al., Nature)
- 2021/04/01
- Evolution and insights into the structure and function of the DedA superfamily containing TMEM41B and VMP1 (Okawa, Hama, Zhang et al., J Cell Sci)
- 2020/12/08
- Autophagy is required for maturation of surfactant-containing lamellar bodies in the lung and swim bladder (Morishita, et al., Cell Rep.)
- 2020/09/04
- Modeling Membrane Morphological Change during Autophagosome Formation (Sakai, et al., iScience)
- 2019/09/17
- A critical role of VMP1 in lipoprotein secretion (Morishita, et al., eLife)
- 2019/04/19
- Intrinsically disordered protein TEX264 mediates ER-phagy (Chino et al., Mol Cell)
- 2019/03/25
- Evolution from covalent conjugation to non-covalent interaction in the ubiquitin-like ATG12 system (Yamamoto et al., Nat Struct Mol Biol)
- 2018/08/09
- Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies TMEM41B as a gene required for autophagosome formation (Morita et al., J Cell Biol)
Recent Publications (Review)
- 2022/02/03
- Regulation of ER-derived membrane dynamics by the DedA domain-containing proteins VMP1 and TMEM41B (Hama, Morishita et al., EMBO Rep.)
- 2021/07/11
- Breakthroughs and bottlenecks in autophagy research (Mizushima, et al., Trends Mol Med)
- 2021/07/01
- The evolution of autophagy proteins – diversification in eukaryotes and potential ancestors in prokaryotes (Zhang, et al., J Cell Sci)
- 2020/10/15
- Autophagy in human diseases (*Mizushima, N., Levine, B. , N. Engl. J. Med, 2020)
- 2020/08/22
- Beth Levine 1960-2020 (Simon et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2020)
- 2020/08/21
- Autophagy assays for biological discovery and therapeutic development (Mizushima et al. Trends Biochem Sci. 2020)
- 2020/03/02
- ER-phagy: Quality control and turnover of endoplasmic reticulum (Chino et al., Trends Cell Biol)
- 2020/02/11
- Lysosome biology in autophagy (Yim et al., Cell Discov)
- 2019/12/31
- The ATG conjugation systems in autophagy (Mizushima, Curr Opin Cell Biol)
- 2019/10/06
- Diverse cellular roles of autophagy (Morishita et al., Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol)
- 2019/09/15
- The ubiquitin E2 enzyme UBE2QL1 mediates lysophagy (Mizushima, EMBO Rep)
- 2019/02/26
- TMEM41B functions with VMP1 in autophagosome formation (Morita et al., Autophagy)
- 2018/10/13
- YKT6 as a second SNARE protein of mammalian autophagosomes (Mizushima et al., Autophagy)
- 2018/09/23
- A brief history of autophagy from cell biology to physiology and disease (Mizushima, Nat Cell Biol)
- 2018/08/15
- Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism (AIM) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence: supporting the next generation of autophagy researchers and fostering international collaborations (Deretic et al., Autophagy)
