Education

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies and National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan, 1997

Publications

Since 2005
• Kinoshita-Kawada, M., Hasegawa, H., Hongu, T., Yanagi, S., Kanaho, Y., Masai, I., Mishima, T., Watanabe, T., Chen, X., Iwasaki, K., Tsuboi, Y., Rao, Y., Yuasa-Kawada, J. and Wu, J. Y. (2019). A crucial role for Arf6 in the response of commissural axons to Slit. Development 146(3): pii: dev172106.
• Mishima, T., Deshimaru, M., Watanabe, T., Kubota, K., Kinoshita-Kawada, M., Yuasa-Kawada, J., Takasaki, K., Uehara, Y., Jinno, S., Iwasaki, K., and Tsuboi, Y. (2018). Behavioral defects in a DCTN1G71A transgenic mouse model of Perry syndrome. Neurosci Lett 666: 98-103.
• Nishiwaki, Y., Yoshizawa, A., Kojima, Y., Oguri, E., Nakamura, S., Suzuki, S., Yuasa-Kawada, J., Kinoshita-Kawada, M., Mochizuki, T., and Masai, I. (2013). The BH3-only SNARE BNip1 mediates photoreceptor apoptosis in response to vesicular fusion defects. Dev Cell 25(4): 374-387.
• Yuasa-Kawada, J., Kinoshita-Kawada, M., Wu, G., Rao, Y., and Wu, J. Y. (2009). Midline crossing and Slit responsiveness of commissural axons require USP33. Nat Neurosci 12(9): 1087-1089.
• Yuasa-Kawada, J., Kinoshita-Kawada, M., Rao, Y., and Wu, J. Y. (2009). Deubiquitinating enzyme USP33/VDU1 is required for Slit signaling in inhibiting breast cancer cell migration. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(34): 14530-14535.
• Hotta, A., Inatome, R. Yuasa-Kawada, J., Qin, Q., Yamamura, H., and Yanagi, S. (2005). Critical roles of collapsin response mediator protein-associated molecule CRAM for filopodia and growth cone development in neurons. Mol Biol Cell 16(1): 32-39.