1. Masuko M, *Kikuta S.

Image recognition-based deep learning model for identifying developmental stages of Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 2024.

2. Mizutani K, Yoshida Y, Nakanishi E, Miyata Y, Tokumoto S, Fuse H, Gusev O, *Kikuta S, *Kikawada T.

A sodium-dependent trehalose transporter contributes to anhydrobiosis in insect cell line, Pv11. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2;121(14):e2317254121. 2024.

3. Takenaka A., Konno, H., *Kikuta S.

In vivo direct cell-penetrating peptide mediated protein transduction system in Acyrthosiphon pisum. BMC Research Notes 16, 231. 2023.

4. Iwata M.1, Yoshinaga M.1, Mizutani K., Kikawada T., *Kikuta S.

Proton gradient mediates hemolymph trehalose influx into aphid bacteriocytes. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology e21971, 2022.  1equal co-1st

5. Kato Y., Kikuta S., Barribeau S.M., Inoue M.N.

In vitro larval rearing method of eusocial bumblebee Bombus terrestris for toxicity test. Scientific Reports 12, 15783. 2022.

6. *菊田真吾・木内隆史

昆虫のトレハロース輸送体は薬剤標的となり得るか? 日本農薬学会誌 46, 143-148. 2021.  

7. *Kikuta S.

The Cytotoxic Effect of Genistein, a Soybean Isoflavone, against Cultured Tribolium Cells. Insects 11, 241. 2020.

8.  *Kikuta S.

Deployment of an attractive toxic sugar bait system (ATSB) with insecticide, for adult Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Stored Products Research  83, 93-102. 2019.

9. *Kikuta S.

Response of Tribolium castaneum to dietary mannitol, with remarks on its possible nutritive effects. PLOS ONE  13, e0207497. 2018.

10. Kashiide T, Kikuta S, Yamaguchi M, Irie T, Kouguchi H, Yagi K, Matsumoto J.

Molecular and functional characterization of glucose transporter genes of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Molecular Biochemistry Parasitology 18, 7-14. 2018. 

11. *Kikuta S.

TribUTE-F assay: Fluorescence-based rapid quantification of dietary intake in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), facilitates evaluation of antifeedant inhibitory effects. Journal of Stored Products Research 77, 122-125.  2018.

12. Endo, H., Tanaka, S., Adegawa, S., Ichino, F., Tabunoki, H., Kikuta,S., Sato, R.

Extracellular Loop Structures in Silkworm ABCC Transporters Determine their Specificities for Bacillus thuringiensis Cry Toxins. Journal of Biological Chemistry  293, 8569-8577. 2018.

13. Endo H., Adegawa S., Kikuta S., Sato R.

The intracellular region of silkworm cadherin-like protein is not necessary to mediate the toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa and Cry1Ab toxins.  Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 94. 2018.

14. Takada T., Sasaki T., Sato R., *Kikuta S., *Inoue MN.

Differential expression of a fructose receptor gene in honey bee workers according to age and behavioral role. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 97, e21437. 2018.

15. Tanaka S., Endo H., Adegawa S., Iizuka A., Imamura K., Kikuta S., *Sato R.

Bombyx mori ABC transporter C2 structures responsible for the receptor function of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa Toxin. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  91, 44-54. 2017.

16. Takada T., Sato R., *Kikuta S.

A mannitol/sorbitol receptor stimulates dietary intake in Tribolium castaneum. PLOS ONE 12, e0186420. 2017. 

17. *Kikuta S., Watanabe SJ., Sato R., Gusev O., Nesmelov A., Sogame Y., Cornette R., *Kikawada T.

Towards water-free biobanks: long-term dry-preservation at room temperature of desiccation-sensitive enzyme luciferase in air-dried insect cells. Scientific Reports 7, 6540. 2017. 

18. Endo H., Tanaka S., Imamura K., Adegawa S., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Cry toxin specificities of insect ABCC transporters closely related to lepidopteran ABCC2 transporters. Peptides 98, 86-92. 2017.

19. Endo H., Azuma M., Adegawa S., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Water influx via aquaporin directly determines necrotic cell death induced by the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxin. FEBS letters 591, 56-64. 2017.

20. Adegawa S., Nakama Y., Endo H., Shinkawa N., Kikuta S., Sato R.

The domain II loops of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa form an overlapping interaction site for two Bombyx mori larvae functional receptors, ABC transporter C2 and cadherin-like receptor. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics 1865, 220-231. 2017.

21. Sogame Y., Okada J., Kikuta S., Miyata Y., Cornette R., Gusev O., Kikawada T.

Establishment of gene transfer and gene silencing methods in a desiccation-tolerant cell line, Pv11. Extremophiles 21, 65-72. 2017.

22. Tanaka S., Endo H., Adegawa S., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Functional characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxin receptors explains resistance in insects. The FEBS Journal 283, 4474-4490. 2016.

23. Mang D., Shu M., Tanaka S., Nagata S., Takada T., Endo H., Kikuta S., Tabunoki H., Iwabuchi K., Sato R.

Expression of the fructose receptor BmGr9 and its involvement in the promotion of feeding, suggested by its co-expression with neuropeptide F1 in Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 75, 58-69. 2016.

24. Kikuta S., Endo H., Tomita N., Takada T., Morita C., Asaoka K., Sato R.

Characterization of a ligand-gated cation channel based on an inositol receptor in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 74, 12-20. 2016.

25. Tanaka S., Miyamoto K., Noda H., Endo H., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Single amino acid insertions in extracellular loop 2 of Bombyx mori ABCC2 disrupt its receptor function for Bacillus Thuringiensis Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac but not Cry1Aa toxins. Peptides 78, 99-108. 2016.

26. Mang D., Shu M., Endo H., Yoshizawa Y., Nagata S., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Expression of a sugar clade gustatory receptor, BmGr6, in the oral sensory organs, midgut, and central nervous system of larvae of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 70, 85-98. 2016.

27. Shu M., Mang D., Fu GS., Tanaka S., Endo H., Kikuta S., Sato R.

Mechanisms of nodule-specific melanization in the hemocoel of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 70, 10-23. 2016.

28. *Kikuta S., Hou B-H., Sato R., Frommer WB., *Kikawada T.

FRET sensor-based quantification of intracellular trehalose in mammalian cells. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 80, 162-165. 2016.

29. Martínez-Quintana JA., Valenzuela-Soto EM., Martínez-Téllez MA., Peregrino-Uriarte AB., Gómez-Jiménez S, Kikuta S., Yepiz-Plascencia G.

Functionality of the white shrimp Glucose Transporter 1: expression in Xenopus oocytes and gene silencing during hypoxia. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 474, 109-115. 2016.

30. Martínez-Quintana JA., Kikuta S., Monserrath Felix-Portillo, Alma B. Peregrino-Uriarte, Gloria Yepiz-Plascencia*.

A novel functional glucose transporter in the white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei-LvGLUT2- is up-regulated during hypoxia in hepatopancreas. Marine Environmental Research 112, 61-67. 2015.

31. *Kikuta S., Nakamura Y., Hattori M., Sato R., Kikawada T., *Noda H.

Herbivory-induced glucose transporter gene expression in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 64, 60-67. 2015.

32. Okada J., Kikuta S., Gusev O., Suetsugu Y., Cornette R., Sakuma T., Yamamoto T., *Kikawada T.

Construction of Optimized CRISPR/Cas System to Reveal the Mechanisms of Anhydrobiosis in the Sleeping Chironomid. Cryobiology and Cryotechnology 61, 69-73. 2015.

33. Hatanaka H., Gusev O., Cornette R., Shimura S., Kikuta S., Okada J., Okuda T., *Kikawada T. 

Diversity of the expression profiles of late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) protein encoding genes in the anhydrobiotic midge Polypedilum vanderplanki. Planta 242, 451-459. 2015.

34. Gusev O., Suetsugu Y., Cornette R., Kawashima T., Logacheva MD., Kondrashov AS., Penin AA., Hatanaka R., Kikuta S., Shimura S., Kanamori H., Katayose Y., Matsumoto T., Shagimardanova E., Alexeev D., Govorun V., Wisecaver J., Mikheyev A., Koyanagi R., Fujie M., Nishiyama T., Shigenobu S., Shibata TF., Hasebe M., Okuda T., Satoh N., *Kikawada T.

Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge. Nature Communications 5, 4784. 2014.

35. Endo H., Kobayashi Y., Hoshino Y., Tanaka S., Kikuta S., Tabunoki H., *Sato S.

Affinity maturation of Cry1Aa toxin to the Bombyx mori cadherin-like receptor by directed evolution based on phage display and biopanning selections of domain II loop 2 mutant toxins. MicrobiologyOpen 3, 568-577. 2014.

36. Tokura A, Fu GS., Sakamoto S., Endo H., Tanaka S., Kikuta S., Tabunoki H., *Sato R.

Factors functioning in nodule melanization of insects and their mechanisms of accumulation in nodules. Journal of Insect Physiology 60, 40-49. 2013.

37. Wang L., Kiuchi T., Fujii T., Daimon T., Li M., Banno Y., Kikuta S., Kikawada T., Katsuma S., *Shimada T.

Mutation of a novel ABC transporter gene is responsible for the failure to incorporate uric acid in the epidermis of ok mutants of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 43, 562-571. 2013.

38. Kikuta S., Hagiwara-Komoda Y., Noda H., *Kikawada T.

A novel member of the trehalose transporter family functions as an H+-dependent trehalose transporter in the reabsorption of trehalose in Malpighian tubules. Frontiers in Physiology 3, 290-304. 2012.

39. Kikuta S., Kikawada T., Hagiwara-Komoda Y., Nakashima N., *Noda H.

Sugar transporter genes of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens: A facilitated glucose/fructose transporter. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 40, 805-813. 2010.

40. Mitsumasu K., Kanamori Y., Fujita M., Iwata K-i., Tanaka D., Kikuta S, Watanabe M., Cornette R., Okuda T., *Kikawada T.

Enzymatic control of anhydrobiosis-related accumulation of trehalose in the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki. The FEBS Journal 277, 4215-4228. 2010.

41. Kanamori Y., Saito A., Hagiwara-Komoda Y., Tanaka D., Mitsumasu K., Kikuta S., Watanabe M., Cornette R., *Kikawada T., *Okuda T.

The trehalose transporter 1 gene sequence is conserved in insects and encodes proteins with different kinetic properties involved in trehalose import into peripheral tissues. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 40, 30-37. 2010.

42. *Kikuta S., Kiuchi T., Aoki F., Nagata M.

Recovery of infective juveniles of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae via factors produced by insect cells and symbiotic bacteria. Nematology 11, 611-618. 2009.

43. *Kikuta S., Kiuchi T., Aoki F., Nagata M.

Development of an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema carpocapsae, in cultured insect cells under axenic conditions. Nematology 10, 845-851. 2008.