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Chikako SHINGYOJI (Associate Professor)
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Selected publications

Shingyoji, C., Murakami, A. and Takahashi, K. (1977) Local reactivation of Triton-extracted flagella by iontophoretic application of ATP. Nature. 265: 269-270.

Gibbons, I. R., Shingyoji, C., Murakami, A. and Takahashi, K. (1987) Spontaneous recovery after experimental manipulation of the plane of beat in sperm flagella. Nature. 325: 351-352.

Shingyoji, C., Higuchi, H., Yoshimura, M., Katayama, E. and Yanagida, T. (1998) Dynein arms are oscillating force generators. Nature. 393: 711-714.

Nakano, I., Kobayashi, T., Yoshimura, M. and Shingyoji, C. (2003) Central-pair-linked regulation of microtubule sliding by calcium in flagellar axonemes. J. Cell Sci. 116: 1627-1636

Morita, Y. and Shingyoji, C. (2004) Effects of imposed bending on microtubule sliding in sperm flagella. Current Biol. 14: 2113-2118.

Hayashi, S. and Shingyoji, C. (2008). Mechanism of oscillation– bending-induced switching of dynein activity in elastase-treated axonemes of sea urchin sperm. J. Cell Sci. 121: 2833-2843.


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