Dr Kayoko Tanaka
Lecturer
School/Department: Molecular Cell Biology Department of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 229 7126
Email: kt96@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
Tanaka K. 2014. Centrosome duplication: suspending a license by phosphorylating a template. Curr Biol. 24 R651-653.
Dhani DK Goult BT George GM Rogerson DT Bitton DA Miller CJ Schwabe JW Tanaka K. 2013. Mzt1/Tam4 a fission yeast MOZART1 homologue is an essential component of the γ-tubulin complex and directly interacts with GCP3Alp6. Mol Biol Cell 24 3337-3349.
Varadarajan S Tanaka K Smalley JL Bampton ETW Pellecchia M Dinsdale D Willars GB Cohen GM. 2013. Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Reorganization Is Regulated by Ionic Homeostasis. PLoS ONE 8 e56603
Grallert A Chan KY Alonso-Nunez ML Madrid M Biswas A Alvares-Tabares I Connolly Y Tanaka K Robertson A Ortiz JM Smith DL Hagan IM. 2013. Removal of Centrosomal PP1 by NIMA Kinase Unlocks the MPF Feedback Loop to Promote Mitotic Commitment in S.pombe. Curr. Biol. 23 213-222.
Varadarajan S Bampton ET Smalley JL Tanaka K Caves RE Butterworth M Wei J Pellecchia M Mitcheson J Gant TW Dinsdale D Cohen GM. 2012. A novel cellular stress response characterised by a rapid reorganisation of membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum. Cell Death Differ. 19 1896-1907.
Funaya C Samarasinghe S Pruggnaller S Ohta M Connolly Y Müller J Murakami H Grallert A Yamamoto M Smith D Antony C Tanaka K. 2012. Transient structure associated with the spindle pole body directs meiotic microtubule reorganization in S.pombe. Curr. Biol. 22 562-574.
Kohda TA Tanaka K Konomi M Sato M Osumi M Yamamoto M. 2007. Fission yeast autophagy induced by nitrogen starvation generates a nitrogen source to drive the adaptation processes. Genes to cells 12 155-170.
Harigaya Y Tanaka H Yamanaka S Tanaka K Watanabe Y Tsutsumi C Chikashige Y Hiraoka Y Yamashita A Yamamoto M. 2006. Selective elimination of messenger RNA prevents an incidence of untimely meiosis. Nature 442 45-50.
Tanaka K Kohda T Yamashita A Nonaka N Yamamoto M. 2005. Hrs1p/Mcp6p on the meiotic SPB organizes astral microtubule arrays for oscillatory nuclear movement. Curr. Biol. 15 1479-1486.
Hirota K Tanaka K Ohta K Yamamoto M. 2003. Gef1p and Scd1p the Two GDP-GTP exchange factors for Cdc42p form a ring structure that shrinks during cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mol. Biol. Cell 14 3617-3627.