Akihito Fukudome

The paper identifies EVacs as vacuole-derived structures that mediate RNA secretion in plants by encapsulating and releasing cytoplasmic RNA and proteins into the apoplast.

The paper identifies a new family of Obelisk-like cccRNAs in hot springs using FLDS, expanding the Obelisk superfamily with structurally similar but sequence-divergent proteins.

The paper identifies a new family of marine bacteriophages with double-stranded RNA genomes, named Paraxenoviridae, based on genomic and structural analyses.

The paper shows that Pol IV and RDR2 transcript features determine siRNA size, sequence, and strand polarity, enhancing DNA methylation coverage.

This paper reports the structure of Arabidopsis RDR2 and shows how it initiates transcription from RNA templates displaced from RNA-DNA hybrids.