Education

Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2011

Current position

Assistant Professor, Division of Cell Signaling and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Publications

1. Iijima M, Kubota Y, Sawa R, Kubota Y, Hatano M, Igarashi M, Kawada M, Momose I, Takekawa M and Shibasaki M. A guanine derivative as a new MEK inhibitor produced by Streptomuces sp. MK63-43F2. J Antibiot. doi.org/10.1038/ja.2017.100 (2017) 
2. Kubota Y, O’Grady P, Saito H and Takekawa M. Oncogenic Ras abrogates MEK SUMOylation that suppresses the ERK pathway and cell transformation. Nature Cell Biol. 13, 282-291 (2011)