Publications

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Original articles

  • MYB68 regulates suberin patterning and radially distinct endodermal differentiation
    bioRxiv (2024)
    Leonie Kraska, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, David Molina, Laura Ragni, Tonni Grube Andersen
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.593291
  • An Isoflavone catabolism gene cluster underlying Interkingdom interactions in the soybean rhizosphere
    ISME Communications 4:1 (2024)
    Noritaka Aoki*, Tomohisa Shimasaki*, Wataru Yazaki, Tomoaki Sato, Masaru Nakayasu, Akinori Ando, Shigenobu Kishino, Jun Ogawa, Sachiko Masuda, Arisa Shibata, Ken Shirasu, Kazufumi Yazaki, Akifumi Sugiyama
    https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae052
  • Long-term consequences of PTI activation and its manipulation by root-associated microbiota
    Plant and Cell Physiol. pcae033 (2024) Review
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*,# and Tomohisa Shimasaki
    https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcae033
  • Chromosomal barcodes for simultaneous tracking of near-isogenic bacterial strains in plant microbiota
    Nature Microbiol. 9, 1117-1129 (2024)
    Jana Ordon, Julien Thouin, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Ka-Wai Ma, Pengfan Zhang, Bruno Huettel, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Paul Schulze-Lefert
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01619-8
  • ER body-resident myrosinases and tryptophan specialized metabolism modulate root microbiota assembly
    New Phytologist, 241: 329-342 (2024)
    Arpan Kumar Basak*, Anna Piasecka, Jana Hucklenbroich, Gözde Merve Türksoy, Rui Guan, Pengfan Zhang, Felix Getzke, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Stéphane Hacquard, Kazimierz Strzałka, Paweł Bednarek, Kenji Yamada, Ryohei Thomas Nakano#.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19289
  • Apoplastic barrier establishment in roots and nodules of Lotus japonicus is essential for root-shoot signaling and N-fixation
    bioRxiv (2023)
    Defeng Shen, Rafael E. Venado, Ulla Neumann, Nadine Dyballa-Rukes, Swati Mahiwal, Sabine Metzger, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Macarena Marín, Tonni Grube Andersen
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.06.570432
  • Tryptophan metabolism and bacterial commensals prevent fungal dysbiosis in Arabidopsis roots.
    PNAS 118 (49) e2111521118 (2021)
    Katarzyna W. Wolinska*, Nathan Vannier, Thorsten Thiergart, Brigitte Pickel, Sjoerd Gremmen, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Youssef Belkhadir, Pawel Bednarek, Stéphane Hacquard#
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111521118
  • Rhizobiales commensal bacteria promote Arabidopsis thaliana root growth via host sulfated peptide pathway.
    bioRxiv (2021)
    Jana Hucklenbroich*, Tamara Gigolashvili, Anna Koprivova, Philipp Spohr, Mahnaz Nezamivand Chegini, Gunnar W Klau, Stanislav Kopriva, Ryohei Thomas Nakano#
    https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.25.444716
  • Retrograde sulfur flow from glucosinolates to cysteine in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    PNAS 118 (22) e2017890118 (2021)
    Ryosuke Sugiyama*#, Rui Li*, Ayuko Kuwahara, Ryo Nakabayashi, Naoyuki Sotta, Tetsuya Mori, Takehiro Ito, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Toru Fujiwara, Kazuki Saito, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Paweł Bednarek, and Masami Yokota Hirai#
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017890118
  • Tobacco root endophytic Arthrobacter harbors genomic features enabling the catabolism of host-specific plant specialized metabolites. mBio 12:e00846-21 (2021)
    Tomohisa Shimasaki*, Sachiko Masuda, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Takashi Kawasaki, Yuichi Aoki, Arisa Shibata, Wataru Suda, Ken Shirasu, Kazufumi Yazaki, Ryohei Thomas Nakano#, Akifumi Sugiyama#
    https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00846-21
  • Discovery of a Family of Mixed Lineage Kinase Domain-like Proteins in Plants and Their Role in Innate Immune Signaling.
    Cell Host & Microbe 28(6), 813-824.e6 (2020)
    Lisa Mahdi*, Menghang Huang*, Xiaoxiao Zhang*, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Leïla Brulé Kopp, Isabel M.L. Saur, Florence Jacob, Viera Kovacova, Dmitry Lapin, Jane E. Parker, James M. Murphy,Kay Hofmann, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Jijie Chai#, and Takaki Maekawa#
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2020.08.012
  • Characterization of rhizome transcriptome and identification of a rhizomatous ER body in the clonal plant Cardamine leucantha.
    Scientific Reports 10, 13291 (2020)
    Kiwako S. Araki*#, Atsushi J. Nagano, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Tatsuya Kitazume, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, Shuji Shigenobu, and Hiroshi Kudoh#
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69941-9
  • A Golgi-released subpopulation of the trans-Golgi network mediates constitutive and pathogen-inducible protein secretion in Arabidopsis.
    Plant Physiol. 179 (2) 519-532 (2019)
    Tomohiro Uemura*#, Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Junpei Takagi, Yiming Wang, Katharina Kramer, Iris Finkemeier, Hirofumi Nakagami, Kenichi Tsuda, Takashi Ueda, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Akihiko Nakano
    https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01228
  • Modular Traits of the Rhizobiales Root Microbiota and Their Evolutionary Relationship with Symbiotic Rhizobia.
    Cell Host & Microbe 24(1), 155–167 (2018)
    Ruben Garrido-Oter*, Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Nina Dombrowski*, Ka-Wai Ma, The AgBiome Team, Alice C. McHardy, and Paul Schulze-Lefert#
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2018.06.006
  • Glutathione transferase U13 functions in pathogen-triggered glucosinolate metabolism in Arabidopsis.
    Plant Physiol. 176(1): 538-55 (2018)
    Mariola Piślewska-Bednarek*, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Kei Hiruma, Marta Pastorczyk, Andrea Sanchez-Vallet, Suthitar Singkaravanit-Ogawa, Danuta Ciesiołka, Yoshitaka Takano, Antonio Molina, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Paweł Bednarek#
    https://doi.org/10.1104%2Fpp.17.01455
  • PYK10 Myrosinase Reveals a Functional Coordination between ER Bodies and Glucosinolates in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    Plant J. 89: 204-220 (2017)
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Mariola Piślewska-Bednarek, Kenji Yamada, Patrick P. Edger, Mado Miyahara, Maki Kondo, Christoph Böttcher, Masashi Mori, Mikio Nishimura, Paul Schulze-Lefert#, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura#, and Pawel Bednarek#
    https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13377
  • Root Endophyte Colletotrichum tofieldiae Confers Plant Fitness Benefits that Are Phosphate Status Dependent. 
    CELL 165(2): 464-474 (2016)
    Kei Hiruma*, Nina Gerlach, Soledad Sacristán, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Stéphane Hacquard, Barbara Kracher, Ulla Neumann, Diana Ramírez, Marcel Bucher, Richard J. O’Connell#, and Paul Schulze-Lefert#
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.028
  • ER bodies in plants of the Brassicales order: biogenesis and association with innate immunity.
    Front. Plant Sci. 5:73 (2014) Review
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Kenji Yamada*, Paweł Bednarek, Mikio Nishimura, and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura#
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00073
  • ERMO3/MVP1/GOLD36 Is Involved in a Cell Type-Specific Mechanism for Maintaining ER Morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    PLoS ONE 7, e49103 (2012)
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Ryo Matsushima, Atsushi J Nagano, Yoichiro Fukao, Masayuki Fujiwara, Maki Kondo, Mikio Nishimura, and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura#
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049103
  • GNOM-LIKE1/ERMO1 and SEC24a/ERMO2 Are Required for Maintenance of Endoplasmic Reticulum Morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    THE PLANT CELL 21:3672-3685 (2009)
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*, Ryo Matsushima, Haruko Ueda, Kentaro Tamura, Tomoo Shimada, Lixin Li, Yasuko Hayashi, Maki Kondo, Mikio Nishimura and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura#
    https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.109.068270
  • Quantitative Analysis of ER Body Morphology in an Arabidopsis Mutant.
    Plant Cell Physiol. 50(12):2015-22 (2009)
    Atsushi J. Nagano*, Akinori Maekawa, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Mado Miyahara, Takumi Higaki, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Seiichiro Hasezawa and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura#
    https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcp157

Other articles

  • Taste of microbes: the terroir explained by rhizospheric microbes
    New Phytologist (2024)Commentary
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano
    https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19796
  • A Friend in Common: A Small GTPase in Independent PTI and ETI Immune Receptor Complexes
    Plant Cell Physiol. (2021) Commentary
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano
    https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcab154
  • Apoplastic Fluid Preparation from Arabidopsis thaliana Leaves Upon Interaction with a Nonadapted Powdery Mildew Pathogen
    Plant Proteomics. Methods and Protocols. (3rd edition), 79-88 (2020) 
    Ryohei Thomas Nakano*#, Nobuaki Ishihama, Yiming Wang, Junpei Takagi, Tomohiro Uemura, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Hirofumi Nakagami# 
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0528-8_6
  • 共生微生物―生物と密接に関わるミクロな生命体』第14章「根圏微生物」
    化学同人 ISBN-13:978-4759817287(2016)
    大野 博司 (編集)
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