Aiko Amagai

Tohoku University — Japan

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Cellular Mechanics and Interactions(28), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology(17), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics(7), Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research(7), Heat shock proteins research(5)

Publications45 total

Induction of macrocyst wall formation by ZYG1 in Dictyostelium discoideum
Research Journal of Developmental Biology·2014· 2 citedOpen Access
Regulatory Mechanism in Sexual and Asexual Cycles of Dictyostelium
InTech eBooks·2012· 2 citedOpen Access
PKC-Mediated ZYG1 Phosphorylation Induces Fusion of Myoblasts as well as of<i>Dictyostelium</i>Cells
International Journal of Cell Biology·2012· 5 citedOpen Access
Ethylene as a potent inducer of sexual development
Development Growth & Differentiation·2011· 15 cited
Developmental significance of cyanide‐resistant respiration under stressed conditions: Experiments in <i>Dictyostelium</i> cells
Development Growth & Differentiation·2010· 12 cited
Novel functions of ribosomal protein S6 in growth and differentiation of <i>Dictyostelium</i> cells
Development Growth & Differentiation·2009· 3 citedOpen Access
Folic Acid is A Potent Chemoattractant of Free-Living Amoebae in A New and Amazing Species of Protist,<i>Vahlkampfia</i>sp.
ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE·2009· 7 cited
A Novel Function of Ethylene
Gene Regulation and Systems Biology·2009· 5 citedOpen Access
An immediate–early gene, srsA: its involvement in the starvation response that initiates differentiation of Dictyostelium cells
Differentiation·2008· 13 cited
Establishment of a new method for precisely determining the functions of individual mitochondrial genes, using Dictyostelium cells
BMC Genetics·2008· 14 citedOpen Access
Involvements of a novel protein, DIA2, in cAMP signaling and spore differentiation during Dictyostelium development
Differentiation·2007· 5 cited
The real factor for polypeptide elongation in Dictyostelium cells is EF-2B, not EF-2A
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications·2007· 2 cited
Ethylene induces zygote formation through an enhanced expression of zyg1 in Dictyostelium mucoroides
Experimental Cell Research·2007· 23 cited
Ethylene induces sexual development through the enhanced expression of a novel zyg1 gene in Dictyostelium
2007
Transcriptional Switch of the <i>dia1</i> and <i>impA</i> Promoter during the Growth/Differentiation Transition
Eukaryotic Cell·2005· 5 citedOpen Access
DNG1, a Dictyostelium homologue of tumor suppressor ING1 regulates differentiation of Dictyostelium cells
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences·2005· 7 citedOpen Access
Research Article DNG1, a Dictyostelium homologue of tumor suppressor ING1 regulates differentiation of Dictyostelium cells
2005
Changes in spatial and temporal localization of Dictyostelium homologues of TRAP1 and GRP94 revealed by immunoelectron microscopy
Experimental Cell Research·2004· 24 cited
Involvement of the TRAP-1 homologue, Dd-TRAP1, in spore differentiation during Dictyostelium development
Experimental Cell Research·2004· 19 cited
Translocation of the<i>Dictyostelium</i>TRAP1 homologue to mitochondria induces a novel prestarvation response
Journal of Cell Science·2004· 27 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Yasuo Maeda(30), Taira Mayanagi(5), Kazunori Sasaki(3), Junji Chida(3), Tsuyoshi Morita(3), Shigenori Hirose(3), Tomoaki Abe(2), Haruhisa Kikuchi(2), Jun'ichi Sekiya(2), Harry K. MacWilliams(2), Hitomi Yamaguchi(2), Soo‐Cheon Chae(2), William F. Loomis(2), Ikuo Takeuchi(2), Shuji Ishida(2), Yasuo Maeda(1), Takashi Ohmori(1), Fumiyoshi Abe(1), Yuzuru Kubohara(1), Yoshiteru Oshima(1)