2026
Adaptations of gummivorous primate gut-associated bifidobacteria to type-II arabinogalactan utilisation
Yuki Sasaki*, Tomoya Kozakai, Moe Inoue, Mikiyasu Sakanaka, Toshihiko Katoh, Hiroki Kaneko, Hiroo Imai, Toshitaka Odamaki, Kiyotaka Fujita, and Takane Katayama
The ISME Journal in press
Structural insights into spectral tuning and retinal exchange in cone visual pigments.
Sayaka Ohashi, Kota Katayama, Asato Kojima, Xuchun Yang, Masahiro Fukuda, Filippo Sacchetta, Ryoji Suno, Yukihiko Sugita, Nipawan Nuemket, Suhyang Kim, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Hiroo Imai, So Iwata, Eriko Nango, Takuya Kobayashi, Takeshi Noda, Massimo Olivucci, Hideaki E Kato, Hideki Kandori
Science (New York, N.Y.) 392(6805) eadz3996 2026年6月25日
Nuclear speckles enable processing of RNA from GC-rich isochores.
Michał Małszycki, Lisa Martina, İbrahim Avşar Ilık, Daniela Salgado Figueroa, Nirmalya Dasgupta, Menşura Feray Çoşar, Keun-Tae Kim, Gil Carraco, Beatrix Fauler, David Meierhofer,Thorsten Mielke, Hiroo Imai, Cantaş Alev, Ferhat Ay, Tuğçe Aktaş
Cell 189(7) 2024-2039 2026年4月2日
Generation and characterization of taste organoids from primates.
Aki Nakayasu, Kosuke Sakaguchi, Mitsuki Namba, Akihiko Inaba, Serika Kanamaru, Eitaro Aihara, Peihua Jiang, Yuichi Koshiishi, Tatsuya Kometani, Koji Kawaguchi …
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 796 153154-153154 2026年1月18日
2025
Relaxation of selective constraint on the sweet-taste receptor gene TAS1R2 in lorisiform primates.
Qinyuan Ji, Min Hou, Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar, Takashi Hayakawa, Yasuka Toda, Akihiro Itoigawa, Hiroo Imai, Takafumi Ishida, Amanda D Melin, Shoji Kawamura
Scientific reports 15(1) 38091-38091 2025年11月6日
Exome analysis reveals species divergence in TYR and identifies species genetic markers in five endemic Macaca species on Sulawesi Island.
Xiaochan Yan, Nami Arakawa, Kanthi Arum Widayati, Laurentia Henrieta Permita Sari Purba, Fahri Fahri, Bambang Suryobroto, Yohey Terai, Hiroo Imai
BMC ecology and evolution 25(1) 66-66 2025年7月3日
Deprotonation of retinal Schiff base and structural dynamics in the early photoreaction of primate blue cone visual pigment.
Yosuke Mizuno, Kota Katayama, Hiroo Imai, Hideki Kandori
Biophysical journal 124(12) 2070-2081 2025年6月17日
Post-fertilization transcription initiation in an ancestral LTR retrotransposon drives lineage-specific genomic imprinting of ZDBF2.
Hisato Kobayashi, Tatsushi Igaki, Soichiro Kumamoto, Keisuke Tanaka, Tomoya Takashima, So I Nagaoka, Shunsuke Suzuki, Masaaki Hayashi, Marilyn B Renfree, Manabu Kawahara Shun Saito, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nagashima, Hitomi Matsunari, Kazuaki Nakano, Ayuko Uchikura, Hiroshi Kiyonar,i Mari Kaneko, Hiroo Imai, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Matthew Lorincz, Kazuki Kurimoto
eLife 13 2025年6月2日
Living on the Rocks: Genomic Analysis of Limestone Langurs Provides Novel Insights into the Adaptive Evolution in Extreme Karst Environments.
Zhijin Liu, Xiongfei Zhang, Peipei Wang, Minheng Hong, Xiaochan Yan, Xiaoqiu Qi, Qian Zhao, Zhenghao Chen, Huajian Nie, Hui Li, Ziwen Li, Liye Zhang, Jiwei Qi Chaolei, He Nguyen, Van Truong, Minh D Le, Tilo Nadler, Hiroo Imai, Christian Roos, Ming Li
Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics 23(1) 2025年5月10日
Non-human primate seasonal transcriptome atlas reveals seasonal changes in physiology and diseases.
Junfeng Chen, Kousuke Okimura, Liang Ren, Yusuke Nakane, Tomoya Nakayama, Yang Chen, Kai Fukawa, Soutarou Sugiyama, Takayoshi Natsume, Naoko Suda-Hashimoto. Mayumi Morimoto, Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki, Takao Oishi, Yuma Katada, Manhui Zhang, Kohei Kobayashi, Shoko Matsumoto, Taiki Yamaguchi, Ying-Jey Guh, Issey Takahashi, Taeko Nishiwaki,-Ohkawa Daiki, X Sato, Yoshiharu Murata, Kenta Sumiyama, Atsushi J Nagano, Hiroo Imai, Takashi Yoshimura
Nature communications 16(1) 3906-3906 2025年4月28日
Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee.
Tao Huang, Arthur Radley, Ayaka Yanagida, Zhili Ren, Francesca Carlisle, Somayyeh Tahajjodi, Dongwan Kim, Paul O'Neill, James Clarke, Madeline A Lancaster, Zoe Heckhausen, Jingran Zhuo, João Pedro, Agostinho de Sousa, Petra Hajkova, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Hiroo Imai, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, Ge Guo, Austin Smith, Hideki Masaki
Cell stem cell 32(4) 627-639 2025年4月3日
Behavioral (reaction time) and prefrontal cortex response revealed differences in grief vs. sadness perception.
Srishti Tripathi, Hiroo Imai, Ikuma Adachi
Scientific reports 15(1) 6356-6356 2025年2月21日
Establishment of Intestinal Organoids from Common Marmosets
Arisa Ishimura, Ken Iwatsuki, Hiroo Imai
Organoids 2025年2月12日
Effects of the genetic polymorphisms of TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 on receptors’ function and on perceived bitterness of caffeine by human subjects
Rena Numabe, Alon Rainish, Masha Y Niv, Hiroo Imai
Chemical Senses 50 2025年1月22日
Generation and functional characterization of tuft cells in non-human primate pancreatic ducts through organoid culture systems.
Kosuke Sakaguchi, Chiemi Kimura-Nakajima, Akihiko Inaba, Yoshiko Hatano, Hanako Ogawa, Yuichi Koshiishi, Keisuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Kometani, Makoto Ohmoto, Koji Sato, Hiroo Imai, Ken Iwatsuki
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology 13 1593226-1593226 2025年
Human milk oligosaccharides and infant gut microbiome in Mongolian mother-infant dyads
Enkhtuul Davaanyam, Undarmaa Otgonbaatar, Aruto Nakajima, Mikiyasu Sakanaka, Miriam N. Ojima, Tomoya Kozakai, Toshihiko Katoh, Toshitaka Odamaki, Batkhuu Javzan, Enkhmaa Dagvadorj …
Journal of Dairy Science 2025年11月
Ecological insights into the assembly of bifidobacterial communities in the infant gut
Miriam N. Ojima, Mikiyasu Sakanaka, Aruto Nakajima, Toshitaka Odamaki, Takane Katayama
Ecological Research 2025年9月 査読有り筆頭著者責任著者
In vitro competition with Bifidobacterium strains impairs potentially pathogenic growth of Clostridium perfringens on 2′-fucosyllactose
Aruto Nakajima, Aleksandr A. Arzamasov, Mikiyasu Sakanaka, Ryuta Murakami, Tomoya Kozakai, Keisuke Yoshida, Toshihiko Katoh, Miriam N. Ojima, Junko Hirose, Saeko Nagao …
Gut Microbes 17(1) 2025年3月18日 査読有り
Yusuke Hamazaki, Hiroto Akuta, Hikaru Suzuki, Hideyuki Tanabe, Tsubasa Suzuki, Kouki Inoue, Kenji Ichiyanagi, Takuya Imamura, Masanori Imamura
BMC Genomics 27(1) 2025年12月5日 査読有り