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2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

減数分裂の相同染色体組換えに必要な分子・構造基盤とメカニズムの研究

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26251037
Research InstitutionOsaka University

Principal Investigator

平岡 泰  大阪大学, 生命機能研究科, 教授 (10359078)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords染色体
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

減数分裂は、有性生殖を行う真核生物にとってゲノムを子孫に継承するための普遍的で重要なプロセスである。減数分裂においては、相同染色体の対合・組み換えが必須であるが、これを実現するために特有のクロマチン構造が作られる。本研究では、生細胞蛍光イメージングと分子遺伝学の手法を併用して、相同染色体組換えに伴って形成される減数分裂期クロマチン構造の分子基盤と形成メカニズムを明らかにする。減数分裂に特有のクロマチン構造として、相同染色体の相互認識部位の構造、DNA二重鎖切断部部位の構造、相同染色体の組換え中間体およびキアズマを解析する。減数分裂に障害を持つ変異株のクロマチン構造を解析し、原因遺伝子産物と異常の因果関係を明らかにする。このような構造の構成成分を生化学的に同定し、当該遺伝子の改変や破壊による機能解析とイメージング解析を行うことによって、その分子メカニズムを解明する。
平成27年度は、減数分裂に特有に形成されるクロマチン構造のイメージング解析を行った。分裂酵母の種々の変異体を用いて、減数分裂期の進行を生細胞イメージングにより追跡し、ヒストンH4の修飾が減数分裂前期の進行に影響することを明らかにした。その成果を論文として報告した(Ruan et al., 2015)。また、核膜孔複合体タンパク質の一つNup132を欠損すると、減数分裂の染色体分離に異常が出ることを見いだし、論文として報告した(Yang et al., 2015)。

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

分裂酵母において、核膜孔複合体タンパク質やヒストン修飾が減数分裂前期の進行に影響することを明らかにし、その成果を国際学術誌に論文として報告した (Yang et al., J Cell Biology, 2015; Ruan et al., Scientific Reports, 2015)。これらを含めて、国際学術誌に論文を17編発表した。また、超分解能顕微鏡法として3D-SIM (3次元Structured Illumination Microscope) を用いて、分裂酵母クロマチン構造の高分解能観察を実現し (Matsuda et al., Nature Commun., 2015)、広範に利用できる手法となっている。これらの成果について、国際会議での発表を13件行うなど、未発表のもの含めて着実に成果が得られており、研究はおおむね順調に進展している。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

これまでに分裂酵母減数分裂期にDNA複製に伴って起こるヒストンH4の修飾が減数分裂前期の進行に影響することを発見したが、その仕組みについては未だ不明である。今後の課題として、まず、減数分裂の進行に影響を与えるヒストン変異を検索し、ヒストン変異体のクロマチン構造を解析する。ヒストン修飾を担う酵素を特定するために、候補となる遺伝子の破壊株や変異株の解析を行う。またヒストンの修飾状態を生細胞で蛍光イメージングできる手法を分裂酵母で実現する。さらに、超分解能顕微鏡法として3D-SIM (3次元Structured Illumination Microscope)を用い、分裂酵母の染色体構造を超高分解能で解析する。
核膜タンパク質や核膜孔複合体タンパク質が染色体の挙動に与える影響についても、まだ不明な点が多く、解析する必要がある。これまでに核膜タンパク質の変異株のなかに染色体分離や減数分裂に障害を示すものを見いだしている。これらの変異株において減数分裂のどの段階で障害が生じるのかを調べ、その分子メカニズムの理解を目指す。

  • Research Products

    (35 results)

All 2016 2015 Other

All Journal Article (17 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 15 results,  Open Access: 14 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 8 results) Presentation (15 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 13 results,  Invited: 6 results) Book (1 results) Remarks (1 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Uniquely designed nuclear structures of lower eukaryotes2016

    • Author(s)
      Iwamoto M, Hiraoka Y, Haraguchi T
    • Journal Title

      Current Opinions in Cell Biology

      Volume: 40 Pages: 66-73

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ceb.2016.02.019

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Shugoshin forms a specialized chromatin domain at subtelomeres that regulates transcription and replication timing2016

    • Author(s)
      Sanki Tashiro, Tetsuya Handa, Atsushi Matsuda, Takuto Ban, Toru Takigawa, Kasumi Miyasato, Kojiro Ishii, Kazuto Kugou, Kunihiro Ohta, Yasushi Hiraoka, Hisao Masukata, Junko Kanoh
    • Journal Title

      Nature Communications

      Volume: 7 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/ncomms10393

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Histone H3K36 trimethylation is essential for multiple silencing mechanisms in fission yeast2016

    • Author(s)
      Shota Suzuki, Hiroaki Kato, Yutaka Suzuki, Yuji Chikashige, Yasushi Hiraoka, Chikashi Obuse, Koji Nagao, Hiroshi Kimura, Shinya Takahata, Yota Murakami
    • Journal Title

      Nucleic Acids Research

      Volume: 印刷中 Pages: 印刷中

    • DOI

      10.1093/nar/gkw008

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Virtual nuclear envelope breakdown and its regulators in fission yeast meiosis2016

    • Author(s)
      Haruhiko Asakawa, Hui-Ju Yang, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

      Volume: - Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.3389/fcell.2016.00005

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A nucleoporin that facilitates meiotic kinetochore reorganization2016

    • Author(s)
      Yang H-J, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y
    • Journal Title

      Cell Cycle

      Volume: 15 Pages: 307-308

    • DOI

      10.1080/15384101.2015.1125237

    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cellular economy in fission yeast cells continuously cultured with limited nitrogen resources2015

    • Author(s)
      Yuji Chikashige, Shinichi Arakawa, Kenji Leibnitz, Chihiro Tsutsumi, Chie Mori, Hiroko Osakada, Masayuki Murata, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 5 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/srep15617

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Nup132 modulates meiotic spindle attachment in fission yeast by regulating kinetochore assembly2015

    • Author(s)
      Hui-Ju Yang, Haruhiko Asakawa, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cell Biology

      Volume: 211 Pages: 295-308

    • DOI

      10.1083/jcb.201501035

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Fission yeast meets a legend in Kobe: report of the Eighth International Fission Yeast Meeting2015

    • Author(s)
      Haruhiko Asakawa,Takaharu G Yamamoto,Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Genes to Cells

      Volume: 20 Pages: 967-971

    • DOI

      10.1111/gtc.12307

  • [Journal Article] Selective autophagic receptor p62 regulates the abundance of transcriptional coregulator ARIP4 during nutrient starvation2015

    • Author(s)
      Megumi Tsuchiya, Shin Isogai, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Hidehito Tochio, Masahiro Shirakawa, Ken-ichirou Morohashi, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi, Hidesato Ogawa
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 5 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/srep14498

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The nuclear pore complex acts as a master switch for nuclear differentiation2015

    • Author(s)
      Masaaki Iwamoto, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi
    • Journal Title

      Communicative and Integrative Biology

      Volume: 8 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1080/19420889.2015.1056950

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Histone H4 acetylation required for chromatin decompaction during DNA replication2015

    • Author(s)
      Kun Ruan, Takaharu G Yamamoto, Haruhiko Asakawa, Yuji Chikashige, Hiroshi Kimura, Hisao Masukata, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 5 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/srep12720

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Highly condensed chromatins are formed adjacent to subtelomeric and decondensed silent chromatin in fission yeast2015

    • Author(s)
      Atsushi Matsuda, Yuji Chikashige, Daqiao Ding, Chizuru Ohtsuki, Chie Mori, Haruhiko Asakawa, Hiroshi Kimura, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Nature Communications

      Volume: 6 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/ncomms8753

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Chromosome Scaffold is a Double-Stranded Assembly of Scaffold Proteins2015

    • Author(s)
      Rawin Poonperm, Hideaki Takata, Tohru Hamano, Atsushi Matsuda, Susumu Uchiyama, Yasushi Hiraoka, Kiichi Fukui
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 5 Pages: -

    • DOI

      10.1038/srep11916

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Recent advancements in structured-illumination microscopy toward live-cell imaging2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasuhiro Hirano, Atsushi Matsuda, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Journal Title

      Microscopy (Oxf)

      Volume: 64 Pages: 237-249

    • DOI

      10.1093/jmicro/dfv034

    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Uncleavable Nup98-Nup96 is functional in fission yeast2015

    • Author(s)
      Haruhiko Asakawa, Chie Mori, Chizuru Ohtsuki, Masaaki Iwamoto, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi
    • Journal Title

      FEBS Open Bio

      Volume: 5 Pages: 508-514

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.fob.2015.06.004

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] BAF is a cytosolic DNA sensor that leads to exogenous DNA avoiding autophagy2015

    • Author(s)
      Shouhei Kobayashi, Takako Koujin, Tomoko Kojidani, Hiroko Osakada, Chie Mori, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

      Volume: 112 Pages: 7027-7032

    • DOI

      10.1073/pnas.1501235112

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Biased assembly of the nuclear pore complex is required for somatic and germline nuclear differentiation in Tetrahymena2015

    • Author(s)
      Iwamoto M, Koujin T, Osakada H, Mori C, Kojidani T, Matsuda A, Asakawa H, Hiraoka Y, Haraguchi T
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cell Science

      Volume: 128 Pages: 1812-1823

    • DOI

      10.1242/jcs.167353

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Roles for inner nuclear membrane proteins Lem2 and Bqt4 in chromosome organization2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      4th International Symposium of the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics
    • Place of Presentation
      広島市国際青年会館(広島県・広島市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-12-07 – 2015-12-07
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Chromosomes and nuclear structures in fission yeast2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting “Cell Biology of Yeasts”
    • Place of Presentation
      Cold Spring Harbor(USA)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-03 – 2015-11-07
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Role for the fission yeast Lem2 protein in chromosome segregation and genome stability2015

    • Author(s)
      Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      Nuclear Transport Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Sant Feliu de Guixols(Spain)
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-20 – 2015-09-20
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Histone H4 acetylation required for chromatin loosening during DNA replication2015

    • Author(s)
      阮琨、山本孝治、淺川東彦、原口徳子、平岡 泰
    • Organizer
      酵母遺伝学フォーラム第48回研究報告会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島大学(広島県・東広島市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-01 – 2015-09-01
  • [Presentation] Nup132 modulates meiotic spindle attachment in fission yeast by regulating kinetochore assembly2015

    • Author(s)
      Yang HJ, Asakawa H, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y
    • Organizer
      EMBO Conference on Meiosis
    • Place of Presentation
      Oxford(UK)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-31 – 2015-08-31
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Role of Chromatin-Nuclear Membrane Protein Interaction on the Nuclear Envelope Assembly2015

    • Author(s)
      Tokuko Haraguchi, Shouhei Kobayashi, Takako Koujin, Hiroko Osakada,Tomoko Kojidani, Chie Mori, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Chromatin Structure, Dynamics, and Function
    • Place of Presentation
      淡路夢舞台国際会議場(兵庫県・淡路市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-25 – 2015-08-25
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Chromosome Segregation is Impaired by Loss of Lem22015

    • Author(s)
      Yoshie Tange, Yuji Chikashige, Yasuhiro Hirano, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Chromatin Structure, Dynamics, and Function
    • Place of Presentation
      淡路夢舞台国際会議場(兵庫県・淡路市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-25 – 2015-08-25
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Highly condensed chromatins are formed adjacent to subtelomeric and decondensed silent chromatin in fission yeast2015

    • Author(s)
      Atsushi Matsuda, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Chromatin Structure, Dynamics, and Function
    • Place of Presentation
      淡路夢舞台国際会議場(兵庫県・淡路市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-24 – 2015-08-24
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Nup132 modulates meiotic spindle attachment in fission yeast by regulating kinetochore reassembly2015

    • Author(s)
      Hui-Ju Yang, Haruhiko Asakawa, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      8th International Fission Yeast Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      生田神社会館(兵庫県・神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-25 – 2015-06-25
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Shugoshin forms a specialized chromatin domain at subtelomeres, repressing transcription and replication2015

    • Author(s)
      Sanki Tashiro, Tetsuya Handa, Atsushi Matsuda, Takuto Ban, Toru Takigawa, Kazumi Miyasato, Kojiro Ishii, Kazuto Kugou, Kunihiro Ohta, Yasushi Hiraoka, Hisao Masukata, Junko Kanoh
    • Organizer
      8th International Fission Yeast Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      生田神社会館(兵庫県・神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-24 – 2015-06-24
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Chromosome segregation is impaired by loss of LEM-domain nuclear membrane protein Lem22015

    • Author(s)
      Yasushi Hiraoka, Yoshie Tange, Yuji Chikashige, Tokuko Haraguchi
    • Organizer
      8th International Fission Yeast Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      生田神社会館(兵庫県・神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-24 – 2015-06-24
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Super-resolution microscopy reveals highly condensed chromatin adjacent to subtelomeric, decondensed silent chromatin2015

    • Author(s)
      Atsushi Matsuda, Tokuko Haraguchi, Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Organizer
      8th International Fission Yeast Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      生田神社会館(兵庫県・神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-24 – 2015-06-24
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Replication timing control by telomere-adjacent nuclear localization in fission yeast2015

    • Author(s)
      Hisao Masukata, Yuta Nakamura, Hidesato Ogawa, Haruhiko Asakawa, Tatsuro S Takahashi, Takuro Nakagawa, Yasushi Hiraoka, Shiho Ogawa
    • Organizer
      8th International Fission Yeast Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      生田神社会館(兵庫県・神戸市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-22 – 2015-06-22
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Actin-dependent redistribution of lipid droplets confers the stress resistance of a yeast ascospore2015

    • Author(s)
      Yang HJ, Kojidani T, Osakada H, Asakawa H, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y
    • Organizer
      Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences “Lipid Metabolism and Human Metabolic Disorders”
    • Place of Presentation
      Suzhou(China)
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-04 – 2015-06-04
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Roles for the inner nuclear membrane in genome stability2015

    • Author(s)
      平岡 泰
    • Organizer
      蛋白研セミナー “Nuclear organization and actin-dependent mechanisms in genome stability”
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪大学蛋白質研究所(大阪府・吹田市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-18 – 2015-05-18
  • [Book] 新・生細胞蛍光イメージング2015

    • Author(s)
      原口徳子、木村宏、平岡泰(編著)
    • Total Pages
      352
    • Publisher
      共立出版
  • [Remarks] Hiraoka Laboratory

    • URL

      http://www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/hiraoka/index.html

  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 核酸導入促進剤2016

    • Inventor(s)
      小川英知、原口徳子、土屋惠、平岡泰
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      大阪大学、情報通信研究機構
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Industrial Property Number
      特願2016-006937
    • Filing Date
      2016-01-18

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