Original papers

Kikuchi, T., Shibata, Y., Kim, H.-S., Kubota, Y., Yoshina, S., Mitani, S. and Nishiwaki, K.(2015). The BED finger domain protein MIG-39 halts migration of distal tip cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Dev. Biol. 397: 151-161.　

Huang, T-F., Cho, C-Y., Cheng, Y-T., Huang, J-W., Wu, Y-Z., Yeh, A. Y-C., Nishiwaki, K., Chang, S-C., and Wu, Y-C. (2014). BLMP-1/Blimp-1 Regulates the Spatiotemporal Cell Migration Pattern in C. elegans.
PLoS Genetics 10(6): e1004428.　.

Kim, H-S., Kitano, Y., Mori, M., Takano, T., Harbaugh, T. E., Mizutani, K., Yanagimoto, H., Miwa, S., Ihara, S., Kubota, Y., Shibata, Y., Ikenishi,K., Garriga, G., and Nishiwaki, K. (2014). The novel secreted factor MIG-18 acts with MIG-17/ADAMTS to control cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans .
Genetics 196: 471-479.　

Shibata, Y., Sawa, H., and Nishiwaki, K. (2014). HTZ-1/H2A.z and MYS-1/MYST HAT act redundantly to maintain cell fates in somatic gonadal cells through repression of ceh-22 in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development in press.141: 209-218.　

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Ogawa, H., Shionyu, M., Sugiura, N., Hatano, S., Nagai, N., Kubota, Y., Nishiwaki, K., Sato, T., Gotoh, M., Narimatsu, H., Shimizu, K., Kimata, K. and Watanabe, H. (2010). Chondroitin sulfate synthase-2/chondroitin polymerizing factor has two variants with distinct function.
J Biol Chem. 285: 34155-34167.

Kawano, T., Zheng, H., Merz, D. C., Kohara, Y., Tamai, K. K., Nishiwaki, K. and Culotti, J. G. (2009). C. elegans mig-6 encodes papilin isoforms that affect distinct aspects of DTC migration, and interacts genetically with mig-17 and collagen IV.
Development 136: 1433-1442.

Kubota, Y., Ohkura, K., Tamai, K. K., Nagata, K. and Nishiwaki, K. (2008). MIG-17/ADAMTS controls cell migration by recruiting nidogen to the basement membrane in C. elegans.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105: 20804-20809.

Ihara, S. and Nishiwaki, K. (2008). Stage-specific activation of MIG-17/ADAMTS controls cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans .
FEBS J. 275: 4296-4305.

Tamai, K. K. and Nishiwaki, K. (2007). bHLH transcription factors regulate organ morphogenesis via activationof an ADAMTS protease in C. elegans.
Dev. Biol. 308: 562-571.

Ihara, S. and Nishiwaki, K. (2007). Prodomain-dependent tissue targeting of an ADAMTS protease controls cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans.
EMBO J. 26: 2607-2620.

Takasaki, T., Liu, Z., Habara, Y., Nishiwaki, K., Nakayama, J., Inoue, K., Sakamoto, H. and Strome, S. (2007). MRG-1, an autosome-associated protein, silences X-linked genes and protects germline immortality in C.elegans.
Development 134: 757-767.

Suzuki, N., Toyoda, H., Sano, M. and Nishiwaki, K. (2006). Chondroitin acts in the guidance of gonadal distal tip cells in C. elegans.
Dev. Biol. 300: 635-646.

Reiner, D. J., Weinshenker, D., Tian, H., Thomas, J. H., Nishiwaki, K., Miwa, J., Gruninger, T., Leboeuf, B. and Garcia, L. R. (2006). Behavioral genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans unc-103-encoded erg-like K(+) channel.
J. Neurogenet. 20: 41-66.

Rottiers, V., Motola, D. L., Gerisch, B., Cummins, C. L., Nishiwaki, K., Mangelsdorf, D. J. and Antebi A. (2006) Hormona l Control of C. elegans. Dauer Formation and Life Span by a Rieske-like Oxygenase.
Dev. Cell 10: 1-10.

Kubota, Y., Sano, M., Goda, S., Suzuki, N. and Nishiwaki, K. (2006). The conserved oligomeric golgi complex acts in organ morphogenesis via glycosylation of an ADAM protease in C. elegans.
Development 133: 263-273.

Itoh, B., Hirose, T., Takata, N., Nishiwaki, K., Koga, M., Ohshima, Y. and Okada, M(2005). SRC-1, a non-receptor type of protein tyrosine kinase, controls the direction of cell and growth cone migration in C. elegans.
Development. 132: 5161-5172.

Kubota, Y., Kuroki, R., and Nishiwaki, K. (2004). A fibulin-1 homolog interacts with an ADAM protease that controls cell migration in C. elegans.
Current Biology 14: 2011-2018.
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Nishiwaki, K., Kubota, Y., Chigira, Y., Roy, S. K., Suzuki, M., Schvarzstein, M., Jigami, Y., Hisamoto, N. and Matsumoto, K. (2004). An NDPase links ADAM protease glycosylation with organ morphogenesis in C. elegans.
Nat. Cell Biol. 6: 31-37.
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Gumienny, T. L, Brugnera, E., Tosello-Trampont,A.-C., Kinchen, J. M., Haney,L. B., Nishiwaki, K., Walk, S. F., Francis,R., Schedl, Y. Q., Van Aelst, L., Hengartner, M. O. and Ravichandran, K. S.(2001). CED-12/ELMO, a novel member of the CRKII/DOCK180/RAC pathway, is required for phagocytosis and cell migration.
Cell 107: 27-41.

Suzuki, N., Buechner, M., Nishiwaki. K., Hall, D. H., Nakanishi, H., Takai, Y., Hisamoto, N. and Matsumoto, K. (2001).  A putative GDP-GTP exchange factor is required for development of the excretory cell in C. elegans.
EMBO Reports 21: 530-535.

Nishiwaki, K. and Miwa, J. (2001). emb-1 and emb-3 genes are required for post-fertilization meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Jpn. J. Nematol. 31: 12-18.

Nishiwaki, K., Hisamoto, N., and Matsumoto, K. (2000). A metalloprotease distintegrin that controls cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Science 288: 2205-2208.

Nishiwaki, K. (1999). Mutations affecting symmetrical migration of distal tip cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics 152: 985-997.

Nishiwaki, K., and Miwa, J. (1998). Mutations in genes encoding extracellular matrix proteins suppress the emb-5 gastrulation defect in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Mol. Gen. Genet. 259: 2-12.

Sano, T., Tabuse, Y., Nishiwaki, K. and Miwa, J. (1995). The tpa-1 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes two proteins similar to Ca2+-independent protein kinase Cs: Evidence by complete genomic and complementary DNA sequences of the tpa-1 gene.
J. Mol. Biol. 251: 477-485.

Tabuse, Y., Sano, T., Nishiwaki, K. and Miwa, J. (1995). Molecular evidence for the direct involvement of a protein kinase C in developmental and behavioral susceptibility to tumor-promoting phorbol esters in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Biochem. J. 312: 69-74.

Nishiwaki, K., Sano, T.. and Miwa, J. (1993). emb-5, a gene required for the correct timing of gut precursor cell division during gastrulation in Caenorhabditis elegans, encodes a protein similar to the yeast nuclear protein SPT6.
Mol. Gen. Genet. 239: 313-322.

Gengyo-Ando, K., Kamiya, Y., Yamakawa, A., Kodaira, K., Nishiwaki, K., Miwa, J., Hori, I. and Hosono, R. (1993). The C. elegans unc-18 gene encodes a protein expressed in motor neurons.
Neuron 11: 703-711.

Hosono, R., Hekimi, S., Kamiya, Y., Sassa, T., Murakami, S., Nishiwaki, K., Miwa, J., Taketo, A. and  Kodaira, K.-I. (1992). The unc-18 gene encodes a novel protein affecting the kinetics of acetylcholine metabolism in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
J. Neurochem. 58: 1517-1525.

Tabuse, Y., Nishiwaki, K. and Miwa, J. (1989). Mutations in a protein kinase C homolog confer phorbol ester resistance on Caenorhabditis elegans.
Science 243: 1713-1716 .

Reviews

Kim, H.-S.and Nishiwaki, K. (2015). Control of the basement membrane and cell migration by ADAMTS proteinases: Lessons from C. elegans genetics.
Matrix Biol. 44-46C:64-69.　

Shibata, Y. and Nishiwaki, K. (2014) Maintenance of cell fates through acetylated histone and the histone variant H2A.z in C. elegans.
Worm 3 　

Kim, H.-S. and Nishiwaki, K. (2012). Nuclear positioning in the gonadal distal tip cells of C.elegans.
Worm 1: 112-115　

Kubota, Y. and Nishiwaki, K. (2006). C.elegans as a model system to study the function of the COG complex in animal development.
Biological Chemistry. 387: 1031-1035.






Books

Nishiwaki, K. and Kubota, Y. (2007). Role of the basement membrane in cell migration. In “Principles of Developmental Genetics”
(Sally A. Moody, ed.), pp. 404-423, Academic Press.