Publications
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16) Chelsey Lynn Gough+, Yuxuan Rain Xiong+, Aoi Hiroyasu+, Christina Rou Hsu, Viktorija Juciute, MinJee Kim, Karen Dofher and Kenji Sugioka*. (2025)
Identification of genes required for spatial control and mechanical resilience of cytokinesis during Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis.
bioRxiv + Co-first author * Corresponding author
15) Mi Jing Khor, Gaganpreet Sangha, and Kenji Sugioka*. (2024)
Cytokinesis-dependent twisting of HMR-1/Cadherin regulates the first left-right symmetry-breaking event in Caenorhabditis elegans.
bioRxiv * Corresponding author
14) Yukimasa Shibata, Yuri Tanaka, Shunsuke Mori, Kaito Mitsuzumi, Shion Fujiii, Hiroyuki Sasakura, Yuki Morioka, Kenji Sugioka, Kosei Takeuchi and Kiyoji Nishiwaki. (2024)
Endogenous chondroitin extends lifespan by inhibiting VHA-7-mediated tubular lysosome formation.
Scientific Reports 14, 29651.
13) Christina Rou Hsu+, Gaganpreet Sangha+, Wayne Fan, Joey Zheng and Kenji Sugioka*. (2023)
Contractile ring mechanosensation and its anilin-dependent tuning during early embryogenesis.
Nature Communications 14, 8138.
+ Co-first author * Corresponding author
Preprint Highlight in MBoC Preprint (older version)
12) Kenji Sugioka*., (2022)
Symmetry-breaking of animal cytokinesis.
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology (127), 100-109; doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.12.008
* Corresponding author
11) Rain Xiong and Kenji Sugioka*., (2020)
Improved 3D cellular morphometry of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos using a refractive index matching medium
Plos One 15(9), e0238955, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238955
* Corresponding author
10) Christina Rou Hsu, Rain Xiong and Kenji Sugioka*., (2019)
In vitro reconstitution of spatial cell contact patterns with isolated Caenorhabditis elegans embryo blastomeres and adhesive polystyrene beads.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (153), e60422, doi: 10.3791/60422
* Corresponding author
9) Bruce Bowerman and Kenji Sugioka., (2019)
Breaking Symmetry: Worm Cue Finally Found
Developmental Cell, 48(5): 593-594.
8) Kenji Sugioka* and Bruce Bowerman., (2018)
Combinatorial contact cues specify cell division orientation by directing cortical myosin flows.
Developmental Cell 46, 257-270.e5. (Cover article).
* Corresponding author
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7) Kenji Sugioka,Lars-Eric Fielmich, Kota Mizumoto, Bruce Bowerman, Sander van den Huevel*, Akatsuki Kimura* and Hitoshi Sawa*., (2018)
Tumor suppressor APC is an attenuator of spindle-pulling forces during asymmetric cell division.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jan 30;115(5): E954-E963.
*co-corresponding author
Preprint
6) Kenji Sugioka*, Danielle Hamill*, Josh Lowry, Marie E. McNeely, Molly Enrick, Bhavna Murali, Lauren W. Parsons, James R. Priess and Bruce Bowerman., (2017)
Centriolar SAS-7 acts upstream of SPD-2 to regulate centriole assembly and pericentriolar material formation.
eLife, Jan 16;6. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20353.
*co-first author
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5) Josh Lowry, John Yochem, Chien-Hui Chuang, Kenji Sugioka, Amy A. Connolly and Bruce Bowerman., (2015)
High-throughput cloning of temperature-sensitive C. elegans mutants with adult syncytial germline membrane architecture defects.
G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics, g3. 115.021451
4) Amy Connolly, Kenji Sugioka, Chien-Hui Chuang, Josh Lowry and Bruce Bowerman., (2015)
The C. elegans kinesin-13/MCAK family member KLP-7 acts through kinetochores to limit spindle pole number during oocyte meiotic spindle assembly.
Journal of Cell Biology, 210(6): 917-932
3) Kenji Sugioka and Hitoshi Sawa., (2012)
Formation and functions of asymmetric microtubule organization in polarized cells.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 24(4):517-25.
2) Kenji Sugioka, Kota Mizumoto and Hitoshi Sawa., (2011)
Wnt regulates spindle asymmetry to generate asymmetric nuclear β-catenin in C. elegans.
Cell, 146(6): 942-54.
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1) Kenji Sugioka and Hitoshi Sawa., (2010)
Regulation of asymmetric positioning of nuclei by Wnt and Src signaling and its roles in POP-1/TCF nuclear asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genes to Cells 15(4): 397-407.
