JAPANESE 
Professor: INOUE, Kunio, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biosignal Transduction, Gene Expression
Research Focus
Regulation of gene expression during zebrafish development
Recent Publication
- Tani-Matsuhana, S., Unozu, Y., Inoue, K. (2025)
Role of CXCR4/SDF1 signaling in the initial migration of cardiac neural crest cells
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 767, 151914 - Tani-Matsuhana, S., Kawata, Y., Inoue, K. (2023)
The cardiac neural crest gene MafB ectopically directs CXCR4 expression in the trunk neural crest.
Dev. Biol. 495 1-7. - Fukumura, K., Yoshimoto, R., Sperotto, L., Kang, H.-S., Hirose, T., Inoue, K., Sattler, M., Mayeda, A. (2021)
SPF45/RBM17-dependent, but not U2AF-dependent, splicing in a distinct subset of human short introns.
Nature Communications 12, 4910. - Tani-Matsuhana, S., Vieceli, F. M., Gandhi, S., Inoue, K., Bronner, M. E. (2018)
Transcriptome profiling of the cardiac neural crest reveals a critical role for MafB.
Dev. Biol. 444, S209-S218. - Kobayashi, M., Tani-Matsuhana, S., Ohkawa, Y., Sakamoto, H., and Inoue, K. (2017)
DND protein functions as a translation repressor during zebrafish embryogenesis.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 484, 235-240 - Yamamoto, K., Furukawa, M.T., Fukumura, K., Kawamura, A., Yamada, T., Suzuki, H., Hirose, T., Sakamoto, H., and Inoue, K. (2016)
Control of the heat stress-induced alternative splicing of a subset of genes by hnRNP K.
Genes to Cells 21, 1006–1014 - Furukawa, M.T., Sakamoto, H., and Inoue, K. (2015)
Interaction and colocalization of HERMES/RBPMS with NonO, PSF, and G3BP1 in neuronal cytoplasmic RNP granules in mouse retinal line cells.
Genes to Cells 20, 257-266. - Mishima, Y., Fukao, A., Kishimoto, T., Sakamoto, H., Fujiwara, T., Inoue, K. (2012)
Translational inhibition by deadenylation-independent mechanisms is central to microRNA-mediated silencing in zebrafish.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109, 1104-1109
Contact
Office: The Graduate School of Science and Technology Bldg 1, room 403
Tel&Fax: +81-78-803-5725
E-mail: kunio@kobe-u.ac.jp