Takako Saito. Mechanisms of self‐incompatibility in ascidians. Genesis, e23556. https://doi. org/10.1002/dvg.23556, 2023 [Link]
Miki Suzuki, Akihiro Nakamura, Yu Matsumoto, Woojin Kang, Minoru Ichinose, Natsuko Kawano, Mitsutoshi Yamada, Miyuki Shindo, Daiki Katano, Takako Saito, Yuichirou Harada, Mami Miyado, and Kenji Miyado. Identification of a putative syncytin gene in a non-rodent laboratory mammal, Suncus murinus. J. Vet. Med. Sci. 85(9):912-920, 2023 [Link]
Hitoshi Sawada＃, Shukumi Inoue, Takako Saito＃, Kei Otsuka and Maki Shirae-Kurabayashi. Involvement in Fertilization and Expression of Gamete Ubiquitin-Activating Enzymes UBA1 and UBA6 in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 24(13), 10662, 2023 [Link] [PDF] ＃corresponding author
Daiki Katano, Woojin Kang, Yuichirou Harada, Natsuko Kawano, Mami Miyado, Takako Saito, Mio Fukuoka, Mitsutoshi Yamada and Kenji Miyado. Sodium Hexametaphosphate Serves as an Inducer of Calcium Signaling, Biomolecules, 2023, 13(4), 577, 2023 [Link]
Hitoshi Sawada and Takako Saito. Mechanisms of Sperm–Egg Interactions: What Ascidian Fertilization Research Has Taught Us, Cells, 2022, 11, 2096. https://doi.org/10.3390/ cells11132096 [Link]
Shizuya Hashimoto*, Keita Kinjo*, Takako Saito＃, Hitoshi Sawada＃. Removal of the block to self-fertilization by low-calcium artificial seawater in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis, Zygote, doi:10.1017/S0967199422000144, 2022 *equal contribution [Link][PDF Hashimoto et al, 2022] ＃corresponding author
Takako Saito and Hitoshi Sawada. Fertilization of Ascidians: Gamete Interaction, Self/Nonself Recognition and Sperm Penetration of Egg Coat, Front. Cell Dev. Biol., doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.827214, 2022 [Link]
Woojin Kang, Miki Suzuki, Takako Saito, Kenji Miyado. Emerging Role of TCA Cycle-Related Enzymes in Human Diseases. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 22(23), 13057, 2021 [Link]
Naokazu Inoue, Takako Saito, Ikuo Wada. Unveiling a novel function of CD9 in surface compartmentalization of oocytes, Development, 2020 Aug 14;147(15):dev189985, 2020
Takako Saito, Ikuo Wada, Naokazu Inoue, Sperm IZUMO1-Dependent Gamete Fusion Influences Male Fertility in Mice, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 20(19): 4809, 2019
Takako Saito, Ikuo Wada, Naokazu Inoue. Alternative splicing of the Izumo1 gene ensures triggering gamete fusion in mice. Sci. Rep. 9: 3151, 2019
Takako Saito*, Marcel Bokhove*, Romina Croci, Sara Zamora-Caballero, Ling Han, Michelle Letarte, Daniele de Sanctis,Luca Jovine. Structural Basis of the Human Endoglin-BMP9 Interaction: Insights into BMP Signaling and HHT1. Cell Rep. 30;19(9): 1917-1928, 2017 *equal contribution
Marcel Bokhove*, Hamed Sadat Al Hossein*, Takako Saito*, Elisa Dioguardi, Katharina Gegenschatz-Schmid, Kaoru Nishimura, Isha Raj, Daniele de Sanctis, Ling Han, Luca Jovine : Easy mammalian expression and crystallography of maltose-binding protein-fused human proteins. J. Struct. Biol. 194(1): 1-7, 2016 *equal contribution
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Hitoshi Sawada, Kazunori Yamamoto, Kei Otsuka, Takako Saito, Akira Yamaguchi, Masako Mino, Mari Akasaka, Yoshito Harada, Lixy Yamada : Allorecognition and Lysin Systems During Ascidian Fertilization. Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants 2014
Takako Saito, Kogiku Shiba, Kazuo Inaba, Lixy Yamada, Hitoshi Sawada. Self-incompatibility response induced by calcium increase in sperm of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. PNAS. 109(11):4158-62, 2012
Hitoshi Sawada, Takako Saito, Akira Yamaguchi, Yoshito Harada, Lixy Yamada. Allorecognition mechanisms in ascidian fertilization: A reproduction strategy shared with flowering plants. Sperm Cell Research in the 21st Century: Historical Discoveries to New Horizons 202-207, 2011
Akira Yamaguchi, Takako Saito, Lixy Yamada, Hisaaki Taniguchi, Yoshito Harada, Hitoshi Sawada. Identification and localization of sperm CRISP family protein CiUrabin involved in gamete interaction in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 78(7):488-97, 2011
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Lixy Yamada*, Takako Saito*, Hisaaki Taniguchi, Hitoshi Sawada,Yoshito Harada. Comprehensive egg coat proteome of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis reveals gamete recognition molecules involved in self-sterility. J.Biol. Chem. 284(14):9402-9410, 2009 *equal contribution
Yoshito Harada, Yuhei Takagaki, Masahiko Sunagawa, Takako Saito, Lixy Yamada, Hisaaki Taniguchi, Eiichi Shoguchi, Hitoshi Sawada. Mechanism of Self-Sterility in a Hermaphroditic Chordate. Science 320(5875):548-550, 2008 [Link]
