Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama

Division of Biological Science
Graduate School of Science
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya
464-8602 Aichi
Japan
Tel: +81-52-747-6404; Fax: +81-52-747-6405
E-mail: higashi@bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp
http://www.bio.nagoya-u.ac.jp/090629gcoe/english/researchers/higashiyama.html
Area of expertise: Plant molecular cell biology; intercellular signaling in plant reproduction
Co-editor until: October 31, 2011

• Berger F, Hamamura Y, Ingouff M, Higashiyama T (2008) Double fertilization - caught in the act. Trends Plant Sci . 13, 437-443.
• Higashiyama T, Hamamura Y (2008) Gametophytic pollen tube guidance. Sex. Plant Reprod . 21, 17-26.
• Ingouff M, Hamamura Y, Gourgues M, Higashiyama T, Berger F (2007) Distinct dynamics of HISTONE3 variants between the two fertilization products in plants. Curr. Biol. 17, 1032-1037.
• Mori T, Kuroiwa H, Higashiyama T, Kuroiwa T (2006) GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1 is essential for angiosperm fertilization. Nat. Cell Biol . 8, 64-71.
• Nishimura Y, Yoshinari T, Naruse K, Yamada T, Sumi K, Mitani H, Higashiyama T, Kuroiwa T (2006) Active digestion of sperm mitochondrial DNA in single living sperm revealed by optical tweezers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 1382-1387.
• Higashiyama T, Inatsugi R, Sakamoto S, Sasaki N, Mori T, Kuroiwa H, Nakada T, Nozaki H, Kuroiwa T, Nakano A (2006) Species preferentiality of the pollen tube attractant derived from the synergid cell of Torenia fournieri. Plant Physiol . 142, 481-491.
• Matsuzaki M, Misumi O, Shin-I T, Maruyama S, Takahara M, Miyagishima SY, Mori T, Nishida K, Yagisawa F, Nishida K, Yoshida Y, Nishimura Y, Nakao S, Kobayashi T, Momoyama Y, Higashiyama T, Minoda A, Sano M, Nomoto H, Oishi K, Hayashi H, Ohta F, Nishizaka S, Haga S, Miura S, Morishita T, Kabeya Y, Terasawa K, Suzuki Y, Ishii Y, Asakawa S, Takano H, Ohta N, Kuroiwa H, Tanaka K, Shimizu N, Sugano S, Sato N, Nozaki H, Ogasawara N, Kohara Y, Kuroiwa T (2004) Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Nature 428, 653-657.
• Sasaki N, Kuroiwa H, Nishitani C, Takano H, Higashiyama T, Kobayashi T, Shirai Y, Sakai A, Kawano S, Murakami-Murofushi K, Kuroiwa T (2003) Glom is a novel mitochondrial DNA packaging protein in Physarum polycephalum and causes intense chromatin condensation without suppressing DNA functions. Mol. Biol. Cell 14, 4758-4769.
• Nishimura Y, Misumi O, Kato K, Inada N, Higashiyama T, Momoyama Y, Kuroiwa T (2002) An mt(+) gamete-specific nuclease that targets mt- chloroplasts during sexual reproduction in C. reinhardtii . Genes Dev. 16, 1116-1128.
• Higashiyama T, Yabe S, Sasaki N, Nishimura Y, Miyagishima S, Kuroiwa H, Kuroiwa T (2001) Pollen tube attraction by the synergid cell. Science 293, 1480-1483.