• Yamashita, S., Oku, M., and Sakai, Y.: Function of PI4P and sterol glucoside are necessary for the synthesis of a nascent membrane structure during pexophagy. Autophagy 3: 35-37 (2007).
• Sasano, Y., Yurimoto, H., and Sakai, Y.: Random mutagenesis by RALF in the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii. J. Biosci. Bioeng. (in press)
• Kobayashi, S., Tanaka, A., Fujiki, Y.: Fis1, DLP1, and Pex11p coordinately regulate peroxisome morphogenesis. Exp. Cell Res. (in press).

Y. Fujiki Group

• Kobayashi, S., Tanaka, A., Fujiki, Y.: Fis1, DLP1, and Pex11p coordinately regulate peroxisome morphogenesis. Exp. Cell Res. 313: 1675-1686 (2007).
• Saito, M., Horikawa, M., Iwamori, Y., Sakakihara, Y., Mizuguchi, M., Igarashi, T., Fujiki, Y., and Iwamori, M.: Alterations in the molecular species of plasmalogen phospholipids and glycolipids due to peroxisomal dysfunction in Chinese hamster ovary-mutant Z65 cells by FABMS method. J. Chromatogr. B 852: 367-373 (2007).
• Sato, Y., Shibata, H., Nakano, H., Matsuzono, Y., Yoshinori, K., Kobayashi, Y., Fujiki, Y., Imanaka, T., and Kato, H.: Characterization of the interaction between recombinant human peroxin PEX3p and PEX19p: Identification of TRP104 in Pex3p as a critical residue for the interaction. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 6136-6144 (2008).
• Fujiki, Y., Miyata, N., Matsumoto, N., and Tamura, S.: Dynamic and functional assembly of the AAA peroxins, Pex1p and Pex6p, and their membrane receptor Pex26p involved in shuttling of PTS1-receptor Pex5p in peroxisome biogenesis. Biochem. Soc. Trans. 36: 109-113 (2008).
• Ghaedi, K., and Fujiki. Y.: Isolation and characterization of novel phenotype CHO cell mutants defective in peroxisome assembly, using ICR191 as a potent mutagenic agent. Cell Biochem. Funct. (in press).

Y. Sakai Group

• Sasano, Y., Yurimoto, H., and Sakai, Y.: Gene-tagging mutagenesis in the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii. J. Biosci. Bioeng. 104: 86-89 (2007).
• Sasano, Y., Yurimoto, H., Yanaka, M., and Sakai, Y.: Trm1p, a Zn(II)2Cys6-type transcription factor, is a master regulator of methanol-specific gene activation in the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii. Eukaryot. Cell, 7, 527-536 (2008).