(Selected publication)

Ikeda T., Yamazaki K., Okumura F., Kamura T.*, and Nakatsukasa K.*
Role of the San1 ubiquitin ligase in the heat stress-induced degradation of non-native Nup1 in the nuclear pore complex.
Genetics (2024) Feb 1:iyae017. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae017.

Nishio K.† , Kawarasaki T.† , Sugiura Y.† , Matsumoto S., Konoshima A., Takano Y., Hayashi M., Okumura F., Kamura T.*, Mizushima T.*, and Nakatsukasa K.*
Defective import of mitochondrial metabolic enzyme elicits ectopic metabolic stress.
Science Advances (2023) Apr 14;9(15):eadf1956. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf1956. Epub 2023 Apr 14.

Kusama K., Suzuki Y., Kurita E., Kawarasaki T., Obara K., Okumura F., Kamura T.*, and Nakatsukasa K.*
Dot6/Tod6 degradation fine-tunes the repression of ribosome biogenesis under nutrient-limited conditions.
iScience (2022) Feb 26; 25(3):103986. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103986. eCollection 2022 Mar 18.

*Nakatsukasa K., Nishimura T., Byrne S.D., Okamoto M., Takahashi-Nakaguchi A., Chibana H., Okumura F., and *Kamura T.
The Ubiquitin Ligase SCF(Ucc1) Acts as a Metabolic Switch for the Glyoxylate Cycle.
Molecular Cell (2015) 59, 22-34.

*Nakatsukasa K., Okumura F., *Kamura T.
Proteolytic regulation of metabolic enzymes by E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes: lessons from yeast.
Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2015) Nov-Dec;50(6):489-502. doi: 10.3109/10409238.2015.1081869. Epub 2015 Sep 11. (Invited review)

*Nakatsukasa K., Kamura T., *Brodsky J.L.
Recent technical developments in the study of ER-associated degradation.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology (2014) 29:82-91. doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2014.04.008.

*Nakatsukasa K., Kanada A., Matsuzaki M., Byrne S.D., Okumura F., and *Kamura T.
The nutrient stress-induced small GTPase Rab5 contributes to the activation of vesicle trafficking and vacuolar activity.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (2014) 289, 20970-20978.

*Nakatsukasa K., Brodsky J.L., and *Kamura T.
A stalled retrotranslocation complex reveals physical linkage between substrate recognition and proteasomal degradation during ER-associated degradation.
Molecular Biology of the Cell (2013) 24, 1765-1775, S1761-1768.

Nakatsukasa K., Huyer G., Michaelis S., and *Brodsky J.L.
Dissecting the ER-associated degradation of a misfolded polytopic membrane protein.
Cell (2008) 132, 101-112.