2026年
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 Daniel Bregieiro Carraco, Beatrix Fauler, David Meierhofer, Thorsten Mielke, Hiroo Imai, Cantaş Alev, Ferhat Ay and Tuğçe Akta*
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, Koji Sato, Hiroo Imai, Ken Iwatsuki*
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 796 153154-153154 2026年1月18日
#Yusuke Hamazaki, #Hiroto Akuta, Hikaru Suzuki, Hideyuki Tanabe, Tsubasa Suzuki, Kouki Inoue, Kenji Ichiyanagi, Takuya Imamura*, Masanori Imamura*
BMC Genomics 27(1) 29. (2026) DOI: 10.1186/s12864-025-12400-4 #: Equal contribution
2025年
#: Equal contribution
Rena Numabe, Alon Rainish, Masha Y Niv, *Hiroo Imai. (2025) Effects of the genetic polymorphisms of TAS2R43 and TAS2R46 on receptors' function and on perceived bitterness of caffeine by human subjects. Chemical Senses 50, bjaf027. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaf027
*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 Kiyonari, Mari Kaneko, Hiroo Imai, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Matthew Lorincz, Kazuki Kurimoto. (2025) Post-fertilization transcription initiation in an ancestral LTR retrotransposon drives lineage-specific genomic imprinting of ZDBF2. eLife 13, RP94502. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.94502
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. (2025) Generation and functional characterization of tuft cells in non-human primate pancreatic ducts through organoid culture systems. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 13, 1593226. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2025.1593226
Xiaochan Yan, Nami Arakawa, Kanthi Arum Widayati, Laurentia Henrieta Permita Sari Purba, Fahri Fahri, Bambang Suryobroto, *Yohey Terai, *Hiroo Imai. (2025) Exome analysis reveals species divergence in TYR and identifies species genetic markers in five endemic Macaca species on Sulawesi Island. BMC Ecology and Evolution 25, 66. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-025-02407-6
Yusuke Hamazaki, Hiroto Akuta, Hikaru Suzuki, Hideyuki Tanabe, Kenji Ichiyanagi, Takuya Imamura, *Masanori Imamura. (2025) Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells of small apes. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 13, 1536947. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2025.1536947
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. (2025) Non-human primate seasonal transcriptome atlas reveals seasonal changes in physiology and diseases. Nature Communications 16, 3906. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57994-1
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. (2025) Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee. Cell Stem Cell 32(4), 627-639. DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2025.02.002
*Srishti Tripathi, Hiroo Imai, Ikuma Adachi. (2025) Behavioral (reaction time) and prefrontal cortex response revealed differences in grief vs. sadness perception. Scientific reports 15, 6356. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-90387-4
#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. (2025) Living on the Rocks: Genomic Analysis of Limestone Langurs Provides Novel Insights into the Adaptive Evolution in Extreme Karst Environments. Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 10, 23(1):qzaf007. DOI: 10.1093/gpbjnl/qzaf007
Arisa Ishimura, Ken Iwatsuki and *Hiroo Imai. (2025) Establishment of Intestinal Organoids from Common Marmosets. Organoids 4, 3. DOI: 10.3390/organoids4010003
今井啓雄, 石村有沙 (2025) 霊長類の食性多様化と味覚受容体の進化「生体の科学」76(4)
石村有沙, 今井啓雄 (2025) 腸管オルガノイド培養系とセンサー細胞解析への応⽤. 「⽇本味と匂学会誌」32(1):5