Ryusuke Niwa Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Ryusuke Niwa has not added a biography. If you are Ryusuke Niwa and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Ouija Board: A Transcription Factor Evolved for Only One Target in Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster Transcription. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27434771 Mating-Induced Increase in Germline Stem Cells Via the Neuroendocrine System in Female Drosophila PLoS Genetics. 06, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27310920 Transcriptional Regulation of Insect Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis and Its Role in Controlling Timing of Molting and Metamorphosis Development, Growth & Differentiation. Jan, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26667894 The Drosophila Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Ouija Board Controls Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Through Specific Regulation of Spookier PLoS Genetics. Dec, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26658797 Recent Progress in Understanding the Role of Ecdysteroids in Adult Insects: Germline Development and Circadian Clock in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster Zoological Letters. 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26605077 A Practical Fluorogenic Substrate for High-throughput Screening of Glutathione S-transferase Inhibitors Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England). Jul, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26090533 The Silkworm Glutathione S-transferase Gene Noppera-bo is Required for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis and Larval Development Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25881968 Autocrine Regulation of Ecdysone Synthesis by β3-octopamine Receptor in the Prothoracic Gland is Essential for Drosophila Metamorphosis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Feb, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25605909 Serotonergic Neurons Respond to Nutrients and Regulate the Timing of Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis in Drosophila Nature Communications. Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25502946 A Halloween Gene Noppera-bo Encodes a Glutathione S-transferase Essential for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Via Regulating the Behaviour of Cholesterol in Drosophila Scientific Reports. Oct, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25300303 Enzymes for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis: Their Biological Functions in Insects and Beyond Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25130728 Transcriptional Control of Steroid Biosynthesis Genes in the Drosophila Prothoracic Gland by Ventral Veins Lacking and Knirps PLoS Genetics. Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24945799 Neural Control of Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis During Development in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster Genes & Genetic Systems. 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24817759 Large Scale Full-length CDNA Sequencing Reveals a Unique Genomic Landscape in a Lepidopteran Model Insect, Bombyx Mori G3 (Bethesda, Md.). Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23821615 Mutations in the Neverland Gene Turned Drosophila Pachea into an Obligate Specialist Species Science (New York, N.Y.). Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23019649 Rhn1, a Nuclear Protein, is Required for Suppression of Meiotic MRNAs in Mitotically Dividing Fission Yeast PloS One. 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22912768 Fungal Ecdysteroid-22-oxidase, a New Tool for Manipulating Ecdysteroid Signaling and Insect Development The Journal of Biological Chemistry. May, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22427652 Precocious Metamorphosis in the Juvenile Hormone-deficient Mutant of the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori PLoS Genetics. 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22412378 The Conserved Rieske Oxygenase DAF-36/Neverland is a Novel Cholesterol-metabolizing Enzyme The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jul, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21632547 Reversible Response of Protein Localization and Microtubule Organization to Nutrient Stress During Drosophila Early Oogenesis Developmental Biology. Jul, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21570389 The Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster As a Model System to Study Cholesterol Metabolism and Homeostasis Cholesterol. 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21512589 Identification of a Spatio-temporal Enhancer Element for the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein-like-1 Gene in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21150118 The Nuclear Receptor Gene Nhr-25 Plays Multiple Roles in the Caenorhabditis Elegans Heterochronic Gene Network to Control the Larva-to-adult Transition Developmental Biology. Aug, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20678979 Non-molting Glossy/shroud Encodes a Short-chain Dehydrogenase/reductase That Functions in the 'Black Box' of the Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis Pathway Development (Cambridge, England). Jun, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20501590 C. Elegans Sym-1 is a Downstream Target of the Hunchback-like-1 Developmental Timing Transcription Factor Cell Cycle (Georgetown, Tex.). Dec, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19923914 A Basic-HLH Transcription Factor, HLH54F, is Highly Expressed in the Prothoracic Gland in the Silkworm Bombyx Mori and the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. Mar, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19270399 Juvenile Hormone Acid O-methyltransferase in Drosophila Melanogaster Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Jul, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18549957 The Expression of the Alzheimer's Amyloid Precursor Protein-like Gene is Regulated by Developmental Timing MicroRNAs and Their Targets in Caenorhabditis Elegans Developmental Biology. Mar, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18262516 Differential Regulation of Ecdysteroidogenic P450 Gene Expression in the Silkworm, Bombyx Mori Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. Nov, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17986773 The Evolution of Animal MicroRNA Function Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Apr, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17317150 Neverland is an Evolutionally Conserved Rieske-domain Protein That is Essential for Ecdysone Synthesis and Insect Growth Development (Cambridge, England). Jul, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16763204 Cytochrome P450 CYP307A1/Spook: a Regulator for Ecdysone Synthesis in Insects Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16188237 Identification of a Novel Prothoracicostatic Hormone and Its Receptor in the Silkworm Bombyx Mori The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15701625 CYP306A1, a Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, is Essential for Ecdysteroid Biosynthesis in the Prothoracic Glands of Bombyx and Drosophila The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15197185 A Pathway of Neuregulin-induced Activation of Cofilin-phosphatase Slingshot and Cofilin in Lamellipodia The Journal of Cell Biology. May, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15159416 Phosphoinositide 3-kinase-mediated Activation of Cofilin Phosphatase Slingshot and Its Role for Insulin-induced Membrane Protrusion The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Feb, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 14645219 Differential Activities, Subcellular Distribution and Tissue Expression Patterns of Three Members of Slingshot Family Phosphatases That Dephosphorylate Cofilin Genes to Cells : Devoted to Molecular & Cellular Mechanisms. Oct, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14531860 Cell Cycle-associated Changes in Slingshot Phosphatase Activity and Roles in Cytokinesis in Animal Cells The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Aug, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12807904 Distinct Developmental Modes and Lesion-induced Reactions of Dendrites of Two Classes of Drosophila Sensory Neurons The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience. May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12736346 Control of Growth Cone Motility and Morphology by LIM Kinase and Slingshot Via Phosphorylation and Dephosphorylation of Cofilin The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience. Apr, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12684437 Control of Actin Reorganization by Slingshot, a Family of Phosphatases That Dephosphorylate ADF/cofilin Cell. Jan, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11832213 Protocollen voor het visualiseren steroidogenic organen en hun Interactive Organen met Immunokleuring in de fruitvlieg Eisuke Imura*1, Yuto Yoshinari*1, Yuko Shimada-Niwa*2, Ryusuke Niwa3 1Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 2Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, 3Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba JoVE 55519 Developmental Biology
Protocollen voor het visualiseren steroidogenic organen en hun Interactive Organen met Immunokleuring in de fruitvlieg Eisuke Imura*1, Yuto Yoshinari*1, Yuko Shimada-Niwa*2, Ryusuke Niwa3 1Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 2Life Science Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, 3Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba JoVE 55519 Developmental Biology