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Ritsh KAMIYA (Professor)
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Masafumi HIRONO (Associate Professor)
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Selected publications

Kamiya, R. (1988) Mutations at twelve independent loci results in absence of outer dynein arms in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. J. Cell Biol. 102: 2253-2258.

Kamimura, S. and Kamiya, R. (1989) High-frequency, nanometer-scale vibration in "quiescent" flagellar axonemes. Nature 340: 476-478.

Takada, S. and Kamiya, R. (1994) Functional reconstitution of Chlamydomonas outer dynein arms from α−β and γ subunits: requirement of a third factor. J. Cell Biol. 126, 737-745.

Aoyama, S. and Kamiya, R. (2005) Cyclical interactions between two outer doublet microtubules in split flagellar axonemes. Biophys. J. 89: 3261-3268.

Yagi, T., Minoura, I., Fujiwara, A., Saito, R., Yasunaga, T., Hirono, M. and Kamiya, R. (2005) An axonemal dynein particularly important for flagellar movement at high viscosity: implications from a new Chlamydomonas mutant deficient in the dynein heavy chain gene Dhc9. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 41412-41420.



Nakazawa, Y., Hiraki, M., Kamiya, R., and Hirono, M. (2007) SAS-6 is a cartwheel protein that establishes the 9-fold symmetry of the centriole. Curr. Biol. 17, 2169-2174.

Hiraki, M., Nakazawa, Y,,Kamiya, R. and Hirono, M. (2007) Bld10p constitutes the cartwheel-spoke tip and stabilizes the 9-fold symmetry of the centriole. Curr. Biol., 17, 1778-1783.

Matsuura, K., Lefebvre, P.A., Kamiya, R. and Hirono, M. (2004) Bld10p, a novel protein essential for basal body assembly in Chlamydomonas: localization to the cartwheel, the first nine-fold symmetrical structure appearing during assembly. J. Cell Biol. 165, 663-671.


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