News / Topics
- Our paper (JBC_vol.286_Yoshii, et al.) has been designated as one of the '2011 BEST of jbc'. The JBC has selected only 20 papers out of more than 4,000 published in 2011.NEW
- Prof. Mizushima appeared on 'Kunimaru JAPAN' radio show. (Nippon Cultural Broadcasting) NEW
- A new book by Prof. Mizushima has been published by PHP Science World.
- It has been decided that the 2011 Takeda Prize for Medical Science will go to Prof. Mizushima.
- The JBC announces that they have selected our paper as Papers of the week and chose our ‘mitophagy’ photo as its Cover. The co-first authors’ profiles have been introduced.
- Prof. Mizushima has won the 2010 ‘Kakiuchi Saburo’ Memorial Award.
- An interview with Prof. Mizushima appeared in People & Ideas of the JCB
- The 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Autophagy was held in Italy where Prof. Mizushima was the Chair.
- An interview with Prof. Mizushima appeared in Science Watch (Thomson Reuters)
Recent publication of the
- Structures containing Atg9A and the ULK1 complex independently target depolarized mitochondria at initial stages of Parkin-mediated mitophagy. (2012) NEW
- Mammalian Atg2 proteins are essential for autophagosome formation and important for regulation of size and distribution of lipid droplets.(2012)NEW
- Our review article has appeared in Cell. (2011)
- Autophagy-deficient mice develop multiple liver tumors. (2011)
- Parkin mediates proteasome-dependent protein degradation and rupture of the outer mitochondrial membrane. (2011)
- p62 targeting to the autophagosome formation site requires self-oligomerization but not LC3 binding. (2011)