Ryusuke Niwa

Publications

• Ouija Board: A Transcription Factor Evolved for Only One Target in Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster
  Transcription. Oct, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 27434771
• Mating-Induced Increase in Germline Stem Cells Via the Neuroendocrine System in Female Drosophila
  PLoS Genetics. 06, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 27310920
• Transcriptional Regulation of Insect Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis and Its Role in Controlling Timing of Molting and Metamorphosis
  Development, Growth & Differentiation. Jan, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 26667894
• The Drosophila Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Ouija Board Controls Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Through Specific Regulation of Spookier
  PLoS Genetics. Dec, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 26658797
• Recent Progress in Understanding the Role of Ecdysteroids in Adult Insects: Germline Development and Circadian Clock in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster
  Zoological Letters. 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 26605077
• A Practical Fluorogenic Substrate for High-throughput Screening of Glutathione S-transferase Inhibitors
  Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England). Jul, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 26090533
• The Silkworm Glutathione S-transferase Gene Noppera-bo is Required for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis and Larval Development
  Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Jun, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25881968
• Autocrine Regulation of Ecdysone Synthesis by β3-octopamine Receptor in the Prothoracic Gland is Essential for Drosophila Metamorphosis
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Feb, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25605909
• Serotonergic Neurons Respond to Nutrients and Regulate the Timing of Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis in Drosophila
  Nature Communications. Dec, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25502946
• A Halloween Gene Noppera-bo Encodes a Glutathione S-transferase Essential for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Via Regulating the Behaviour of Cholesterol in Drosophila
  Scientific Reports. Oct, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25300303
• Enzymes for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis: Their Biological Functions in Insects and Beyond
  Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25130728
• Transcriptional Control of Steroid Biosynthesis Genes in the Drosophila Prothoracic Gland by Ventral Veins Lacking and Knirps
  PLoS Genetics. Jun, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24945799
• Neural Control of Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis During Development in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster
  Genes & Genetic Systems. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24817759
• Large Scale Full-length CDNA Sequencing Reveals a Unique Genomic Landscape in a Lepidopteran Model Insect, Bombyx Mori
  G3 (Bethesda, Md.). Sep, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23821615
• Mutations in the Neverland Gene Turned Drosophila Pachea into an Obligate Specialist Species
  Science (New York, N.Y.). Sep, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23019649
• Rhn1, a Nuclear Protein, is Required for Suppression of Meiotic MRNAs in Mitotically Dividing Fission Yeast
  PloS One. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22912768
• Fungal Ecdysteroid-22-oxidase, a New Tool for Manipulating Ecdysteroid Signaling and Insect Development
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. May, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22427652
• Precocious Metamorphosis in the Juvenile Hormone-deficient Mutant of the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori
  PLoS Genetics. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22412378
• The Conserved Rieske Oxygenase DAF-36/Neverland is a Novel Cholesterol-metabolizing Enzyme
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jul, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21632547
• Reversible Response of Protein Localization and Microtubule Organization to Nutrient Stress During Drosophila Early Oogenesis
  Developmental Biology. Jul, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21570389
• The Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster As a Model System to Study Cholesterol Metabolism and Homeostasis
  Cholesterol. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21512589
• Identification of a Spatio-temporal Enhancer Element for the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein-like-1 Gene in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
  Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 21150118
• The Nuclear Receptor Gene Nhr-25 Plays Multiple Roles in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Heterochronic Gene Network to Control the Larva-to-adult Transition
  Developmental Biology. Aug, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20678979
• Non-molting Glossy/shroud Encodes a Short-chain Dehydrogenase/reductase That Functions in the 'Black Box' of the Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Pathway
  Development (Cambridge, England). Jun, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20501590
• C. Elegans Sym-1 is a Downstream Target of the Hunchback-like-1 Developmental Timing Transcription Factor
  Cell Cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). Dec, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19923914
• A Basic-HLH Transcription Factor, HLH54F, is Highly Expressed in the Prothoracic Gland in the Silkworm Bombyx Mori and the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster
  Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. Mar, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19270399
• Juvenile Hormone Acid O-methyltransferase in Drosophila Melanogaster
  Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Jul, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18549957
• The Expression of the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein-like Gene is Regulated by Developmental Timing MicroRNAs and Their Targets in Caenorhabditis Elegans
  Developmental Biology. Mar, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18262516
• Differential Regulation of Ecdysteroidogenic P450 Gene Expression in the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori
  Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. Nov, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17986773
• The Evolution of Animal MicroRNA Function
  Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Apr, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17317150
• Neverland is an Evolutionally Conserved Rieske-domain Protein That is Essential for Ecdysone Synthesis and Insect Growth
  Development (Cambridge, England). Jul, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16763204
• Cytochrome P450 CYP307A1/Spook: a Regulator for Ecdysone Synthesis in Insects
  Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Nov, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16188237
• Identification of a Novel Prothoracicostatic Hormone and Its Receptor in the Silkworm Bombyx Mori
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Apr, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 15701625
• CYP306A1, a Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, is Essential for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis in the Prothoracic Glands of Bombyx and Drosophila
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15197185
• A Pathway of Neuregulin-induced Activation of Cofilin-phosphatase Slingshot and Cofilin in Lamellipodia
  The Journal of Cell Biology. May, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 15159416
• Phosphoinositide 3-kinase-mediated Activation of Cofilin Phosphatase Slingshot and Its Role for Insulin-induced Membrane Protrusion
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Feb, 2004  |   Pubmed ID: 14645219
• Differential Activities, Subcellular Distribution and Tissue Expression Patterns of Three Members of Slingshot Family Phosphatases That Dephosphorylate Cofilin
  Genes to Cells : Devoted to Molecular & Cellular Mechanisms. Oct, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 14531860
• Cell Cycle-associated Changes in Slingshot Phosphatase Activity and Roles in Cytokinesis in Animal Cells
  The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12807904
• Distinct Developmental Modes and Lesion-induced Reactions of Dendrites of Two Classes of Drosophila Sensory Neurons
  The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience. May, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12736346
• Control of Growth Cone Motility and Morphology by LIM Kinase and Slingshot Via Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of Cofilin
  The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience. Apr, 2003  |   Pubmed ID: 12684437
• Control of Actin Reorganization by Slingshot, a Family of Phosphatases That Dephosphorylate ADF/cofilin
  Cell. Jan, 2002  |   Pubmed ID: 11832213