Doi Y., Kurita M., Matsumoto M., Kondo T., Noda T., Tsukita Sa., Tsukita Sh., and Seya,T.* 1998.
Moesin is not a receptor for measles virus entry into mouse embryonic stem cells.
J. Virol. 72:1586-1592.[PUBMED]
Matsui T., Maeda M., Yonemura S., Amano M., Kaibuchi K., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1998.
Rho-kinase phosphorylates carboxy-terminal threonines of ERM proteins and regulates their
head-to-tail association.
J. Cell Biol. 140:647-657. [PUBMED]
Yonemura S., Hirao M., Doi Y., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1998.
ERM proteins bind to a specific group of integral membrane proteins containing
a positively-charged amino acid cluster in their juxta-membrane cytoplasmic domain.
J. Cell Biol. 140:885-895.[PUBMED]
Kondo T., Takeuchi K., Doi Y., Yonemura S., Nagata S., Tsukita Sh., and Tsukita Sa.* 1997.
ERM (Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin)-based molecular mechanism of microvillar break-down at an early
stage of apoptosis.
J. Cell Biol. 139:749-758.[PUBMED]
Tsukita Sa., Yonemura S., and Tsukita Sh.* 1997.
ERM (Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin) family: From cytoskeleton to signal transduction.
Curr.Opin.Cell Biol. 9:70-75.[PUBMED]
Tsukita Sa., Yonemura S., and Tsukita Sh.* 1997.
ERM proteins: Head-to-tail regulation of actin/plasma membrane regulations.
TIBS 22:53-58.[PUBMED]
Takahashi K., Sasaki T., Mammoto A., Takaishi K., Kameyama T., Tsukita,Sa., Tsukita Sh., and Takai Y.* 1997.
Direct interaction of the rho GDP dissociation inhibitor with Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin initiates
the activation of the rho small G protein.
J. Biol. Chem. 272:23371-23375.[PUBMED]
Hirao M., Sato N., Kondo T., Yonemura S., Monden M., Sasaki T., Takai Y., Tsukita Sh., Tsukita Sa.* 1996.
Regulation mecanism of ERM(Ezrin/Radixin/Moesin) protein/plasma membrane association:
Possible involvement of phosphatidylinositol turnover and Rho-dependent signaling pathway.
J. Cell Biol. 135: 1-16.[PUBMED]
Furuse M., Fujimoto K., Sato N., Hirase T., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1996.
Overexpression of occludin, a tight junction-associated integral membrane protein, induces
the formation of intracellular multilamellar bodies bearing tight junction-like structures.
J. Cell Sci. 109:429-435.[PUBMED]
Takeda H., Nagafuchi A., Yonemura S., Tsukita Sa., Behrens J., Birchimeier W., and Tsukita Sh.* 1995.
V-src kinase shifts the cadherin-based cell adhesion from the strong to the weak state and
beta-catenin is not required for the shift.
J. Cell Biol. 131:1839-1847.[PUBMED]
Yonemura S., Itoh M., Nagafuchi A., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1995.
Cell-to-cell adherens junction formation and actin filament organization: Similarities and
difference between non-polarized fibroblasts and polarized epithelial cells.
J.Cell Sci. 108:127-142.[PUBMED]
Takaishi K., Sasaki T., Kameyama T., Tsukita Sa., Tsukita Sh., and Takai Y.* 1995.
Translocation of activated Rho from the cytoplasm to membrane ruffling, cell-cell
adhesion sites, and cleavage furrows.
Oncogene 11:39-48.[PUBMED]
Sagara J., Tsukita Sa., Yonemura S., Tsukita Sh., and Kawai A.* 1995.
Cellular actin-binding ezrin-radixin-moesin (ERM) family proteins are incorporated into
the rabies virion and closely associated with viral proteins in the cell.
Virology 206:485-494.[PUBMED]
Tsukita Sa., Oishi K., Sato N., Sagara J., Kawai A., and Tsukita Sh.* 1994.
ERM family members as molecular linkers between the cell surface glyco- protein CD44
and actin-based cytoskeletons.
J. Cell Biol. 126:391-401.[PUBMED]
Furuse M., Itoh M., Hirase T., Nagafuchi A., Yonemura S., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1994.
Direct association of occludin with ZO-1 and its possible involvement in the
localization of occludin at tight junctions.
J. Cell Biol. 127:1617-1626.[PUBMED]
Watabe M., Nagafuchi A., Tsukita Sa., and Takeichi M.* 1994.
Induction of polarized cell-cell associatin and retardation of growth by activation of the
E-cadherin-catenin adhesion system in a dispersed carcinoma cell line.
J. Cell Biol. 127:247-256.[PUBMED]
Takeuchi K., Sato N., Kasahara H., Funayama N., Nagafuchi A., Yonemura S., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1994.
Perturbation of cell adhesion and microvilli formation by antisense oligonuclotides to
ERM family members.
J. Cell Biol. 125:1371-1384.[PUBMED]
Kishino T., Ariga T., Soejima H., Tamura T., Ohta T., Jinno Y., Yonemura S.Sato N., Tsukita Sa.,Tsukita Sh., Sakiyama Y., and Niikawa N.* 1994.
Assignment of the human moesin gene(MSN) to chromosome region Xq11.2-q12.
Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 66:167-169.[PUBMED]
Furuse M., Hirase T., Itoh M., Nagafuchi A., Yonemura S., Tsukita Sa., and Tsukita Sh.* 1993.
Occludin:A novel integral membrane protein localizing at tight junctions.
J. Cell Biol. 123:1777-1788.[PUBMED]
Hashimoto T., Amagai M, Parry D.A.D., Dixon T.W., Tsukita Sa., Tsukita Sh., Miki K., Sakai K., Inokuchi Y., Kudoh J., Shimizu N., and Nishikawa T.* 1993.
Desmoyokin, a 680kD keratinocyte plasma membrane-associated protein, is homologous to
the protein encoded by human gene AHNAK.
J. Cell Biol. 105:275-286.[PUBMED]
Tsukita Sh., Itoh M., Nagafuchi A., Yonemura S., and Tsukita Sa.* 1993.
Submembranous junctional plaque proteins include potential tumor suppressor molecules.
J. Cell Biol. 123:1049-1053.[PUBMED]