Naoki Tani

The paper identifies Firrm as a platform coordinating Mcm8-9-Hrob recruitment and Fignl1-mediated Rad51 unloading during homologous recombination.

This study presents a chromosome-level genome assembly of Falcataria falcata to investigate ancient polyploidy and duplicate gene evolution in Fabaceae, finding evidence for both ancestral and lineage-specific WGD events.

This study characterizes the circadian transcriptome of Rubroshorea leprosula, revealing conserved but less robust circadian rhythms compared to Arabidopsis.

The paper shows MEIOSIN has a STRA8-independent activity that drives meiotic entry in vertebrates, with different effects in zebrafish and mice.

This study identifies MAP7 as a key regulator of microtubule remodeling in Sertoli cells, essential for apical domain formation and timely meiotic progression in mouse testes.

The paper shows that Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription in zebrafish spermatogonial stem cells, preventing Piwil1 from localizing to nucleoli and promoting differentiation.

This study identifies two venom proteins from Asobara japonica that induce imaginal disc degradation in Drosophila, essential for parasitism success.

This study identifies Prc as the periplasmic serine protease responsible for degrading CsgA and maintaining proteostasis in E. coli during curli biogenesis.

This study identifies HSF5 as a male germ cell-specific factor critical for meiotic prophase progression beyond pachytene under non-stress conditions.

This study shows that Mettl1-dependent m7G tRNA modification is essential for spermatogenesis and fertility in Drosophila, as its loss leads to sterility and tRNA instability.

This study identifies a ZFP541-KCTD19 repressor complex that promotes meiotic prophase exit in spermatogenesis by suppressing transcriptional regulators and chromatin modifiers.

This study identifies C19orf57 as a factor that modulates RAD51 and DMC1 localization to DSBs during meiotic recombination in mice, impacting DSB repair and male fertility.

The paper introduces a proteomics-based method to identify RBPs associated with chromatin via RNA, finding 156 proteins including 144 RBPs and revealing RNA-dependent interactions with NHEJ factors and metabolic enzymes.