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Kubo, T., Yanagisawa, H., Yagi, T., Hirono, M., and Kamiya, R. "Tubulin polyglutamylation regulates axonemal motility by modulating activities of inner-arm dyneins" Curr. Biol. 20, 441-445 (2010).
Yamamoto, R., Hirono, M., and Kamiya, R. "Discrete PIH proteins function in the cytoplasmic preassembly of different subsets of axonemal dyneins" J. Cell Biol. 190, 65-71 (2010).
Yoshioka, K., Hirono, M., Sekiguchi, Y., and Mizuno, T. "Simple visual assay for evaluating the cortex contractility of Dictyostelium cells" Bioimages 17, 1-7 (2009).
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Ikeda, T., Ikeda, K., Enomoto, M., Park, M.K., Hirono, M., Kamiya, R. "The mouse ortholog of EFHC1 implicated in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is an axonemal protein widely conserved among organisms with motile cilia and flagella" FEBS Lett. 579, 819-822 (2005).
Okita, N., Isogai, N., Hirono, M., Kamiya, R., Yoshimura, K. "Phototactic activity in Chlamydomonas 'non-phototactic' mutants deficient in Ca2+-dependent control of flagellar dominance or in inner-arm dynein" J. Cell Sci. 118, 529-537 (2005).
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Wirschell, M., Pazour, G., Yoda, A., Hirono, M., Kamiya, R., and Witman, G. B. "Oda5p, a novel axonemal protein required for assembly of the outer arm and an associated adenylate kinase" Mol. Biol. Cell 15, 2729-2741 (2004).
Minoura-Kato, T., Okumura, M., Hirono, M., and Kamiya, R. "A Novel family of unconventional actins in Volvocalean algae" J. Mol. Evol. 57, 555-561 (2003).
Ikeda, K., Brown, J. A., Yagi, T., Norrander, J. M., Hirono, M., Eccleston, E., Kamiya, R., Linck, R. W. "Rib72, a conserved protein associated with the ribbon compartment of flagellar A-microtubules and potentially involved in the linkage between outer doublet microtubules" J. Biol. Chem. 278, 7725-7734 (2003).
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