Education
Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, 2009
Current position
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Japan
Publications
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Asai, S. and Shirasu, K. (2015). Plant cells under siege: plant immune system versus pathogen effectors. Curr Opin Plant Biol 28: 1-8.
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Asai, S., Rallapalli, G., Piquerez, S. J., Caillaud, M. C., Furzer, O. J., Ishaque, N., Wirthmueller, L., Fabro, G., Shirasu, K. and Jones, J. D. (2014). Expression profiling during arabidopsis/downy mildew interaction reveals a highly-expressed effector that attenuates responses to salicylic acid. PLoS Pathog 10(10): e1004443.
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Wirthmueller, L., Roth, C., Fabro, G., Caillaud, M. C., Rallapalli, G., Asai, S., Sklenar, J., Jones, A. M., Wiermer, M., Jones, J. D. and Banfield, M. J. (2015). Probing formation of cargo/importin-alpha transport complexes in plant cells using a pathogen effector. Plant J 81(1): 40-52.
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Kadota, Y., Sklenar, J., Derbyshire, P., Stransfeld, L., Asai, S., Ntoukakis, V., Jones, J. D., Shirasu, K., Menke, F., Jones, A. and Zipfel, C. (2014). Direct regulation of the NADPH oxidase RBOHD by the PRR-associated kinase BIK1 during plant immunity. Mol Cell 54(1): 43-55.
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Caillaud, M. C., Asai, S., Rallapalli, G., Piquerez, S., Fabro, G. and Jones, J. D. (2013). A downy mildew effector attenuates salicylic acid-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis by interacting with the host mediator complex. PLoS Biol 11(12): e1001732.
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Asai, S., Ichikawa, T., Nomura, H., Kobayashi, M., Kamiyoshihara, Y., Mori, H., Kadota, Y., Zipfel, C., Jones, J. D. and Yoshioka, H. (2013). The variable domain of a plant calcium-dependent protein kinase (CDPK) confers subcellular localization and substrate recognition for NADPH oxidase. J Biol Chem 288(20): 14332-14340.
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Bellin D., Asai S., Delledonne M. and Yoshioka H., “Nitric oxide as a mediator for defense responses” Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 26:271-277, 2013.
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Caillaud, M. C., Wirthmueller, L., Fabro, G., Piquerez, S. J., Asai, S., Ishaque, N. and Jones, J. D. (2012). Mechanisms of nuclear suppression of host immunity by effectors from the Arabidopsis downy mildew pathogen Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis (Hpa). Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 77: 285-293.
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Kobayashi, M., Yoshioka, M., Asai, S., Nomura, H., Kuchimura, K., Mori, H., Doke, N. and Yoshioka, H. (2012). StCDPK5 confers resistance to late blight pathogen but increases susceptibility to early blight pathogen in potato via reactive oxygen species burst. New Phytol 196(1): 223-237.
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Asai, S., Yoshioka, M., Nomura, H., Tone, C., Nakajima, K., Nakane, E., Doke, N. and Yoshioka, H. (2011). A plastidic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is responsible for hypersensitive response cell death and reactive oxygen species production. J Gen Plant Pathol 77:152-162.
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Yoshioka, H., Mase, K., Yoshioka, M., Kobayashi, M. and Asai, S. (2011). Regulatory mechanisms of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species generation and their role in plant immunity. Nitric Oxide 25(2): 216-221.
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Asai, S., Mase, K. and Yoshioka, H. (2010). A key enzyme for flavin synthesis is required for nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species production in disease resistance. Plant J 62(6): 911-924.
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Asai, S., Mase, K. and Yoshioka, H. (2010). Role of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen [corrected] species in disease resistance to necrotrophic pathogens. Plant Signal Behav 5(7): 872-874.
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Asai, S. and Yoshioka, H. (2009). Nitric oxide as a partner of reactive oxygen species participates in disease resistance to necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea in Nicotiana benthamiana. Mol Plant Microbe In 22:619-629.
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Yoshioka, H., Asai, S., Yoshioka, M. and Kobayashi, M. (2009). Molecular mechanisms of generation for nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species, and role of the radical burst in plant immunity. Mol Cells 28(4): 321-329.
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Asai, S., Ohta, K. and Yoshioka, H. (2006). MAPKs signaling regulates nitric oxide and NADPH oxidase-dependent oxidative bursts in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Cell 20:1390-1406.
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Asai, S. and Yoshioka, H. (2008). The role of radical burst via MAPK signaling in plant immunity. Plant Signal Behav 3(11): 920-922.
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Kato, H., Asai, S., Yamamoto-Katou, A., Yoshioka, H., Doke, N. and Kawakita, K. (2007). Involvement of NbNOA1 in NO production and defense in INF1-treated Nicotiana benthamiana. J Gen Plant Pathol 74:15-23.
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Kudo, C., Suzuki, T., Fukuoka, S., Asai, S., Suenaga, H., Sasabe, M., Takano, Y., Okuno, T., Toyoda, K., Shiraishi, T., Ichinose, Y. and Inagaki, Y. S. (2007). Suppression of Cdc27B expression induces plant defence responses. Mol Plant Pathol 8(4): 365-373.