Education
Ph.D. in Science, Faculty of Science, Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan (2004)
Current position
Assistant professor in Agricultural Department of Niigata University, Japan
Publications (since 2008)
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Shiraya, T., Mori, T., Maruyama, T., Sasaki, M., Takamatsu, T., Oikawa, K., Itoh, K., Kaneko, K., Ichikawa, H. and Mitsui, T. (2015). Golgi/plastid-type manganese superoxide dismutase involved in heat-stress tolerance during grain filling of rice. Plant Biotechnol J 13(9): 1251-1263.
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Goto-Yamada, S., Mano, S., Yamada, K., Oikawa, K., Hosokawa, Y., Hara-Nishimura, I. and Nishimura, M. (2015). Dynamics of the Light-Dependent Transition of Plant Peroxisomes. Plant Cell Physiol 56(7): 1264-1271.
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Oikawa, K., Matsunaga, S., Man,o S., Kondo, M., Yamada, K., Hayashi, M., Kagawa, T., Kadota, A., Sakamoto, W., Higashi, H., Watanabe, M., Mitsui, T., Shigemasa, A., Iino, T., Hosokawa, Y. and Nishimura, M. (2015). Peroxisome-chloroplast physical interaction elucidated by in situ laser analysis. Nat. Plants 1: 15035.
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Shibata, M., Oikawa, K., Mano, S. and Nishimura, M. (2014). Measurement of the Number of Peroxisomes. Bio-protocol 4(21): e1284.
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Bahaji, A., Baroja-Fernandez, E., Sanchez-Lopez, A. M., Munoz, F. J., Li, J., Almagro, G., Montero, M., Pujol, P., Galarza, R., Kaneko, K., Oikawa, K., Wada, K., Mitsui, T. and Pozueta-Romero, J. (2014). HPLC-MS/MS analyses show that the near-Starchless aps1 and pgm leaves accumulate wild type levels of ADPglucose: further evidence for the occurrence of important ADPglucose biosynthetic pathway(s) alternative to the pPGI-pPGM-AGP pathway. PLoS One 9(8): e104997.
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Shibata, M., Oikawa, K., Yoshimoto, K., Goto-Yamada, S., Mano, S., Yamada, K., Kondo, M., Hayashi, M., Sakamoto, W., Ohsumi, Y. and Nishimura, M. (2014). Plant autophagy is responsible for peroxisomal transition and plays an important role in the maintenance of peroxisomal quality. Autophagy 10(5): 936-937.
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Goto-Yamada, S., Mano, S., Oikawa, K., Shibata, M. and Nishimura, M. (2014). Interaction between chaperone and protease functions of LON2, and autophagy during the functional transition of peroxisomes. Plant Signal Behav 9(5): e28838.
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Yoshimoto, K., Shibata, M., Kondo, M., Oikawa, K., Sato, M., Toyooka, K., Shirasu, K., Nishimura, M. and Ohsumi, Y. (2014). Organ-specific quality control of plant peroxisomes is mediated by autophagy. J Cell Sci 127(Pt 6): 1161-1168.
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Shibata, M.*, Oikawa, K.*, Yoshimoto, K., Kondo, M., Mano, S., Yamada, K., Hayashi, M., Sakamoto, W., Ohsumi, Y. and Nishimura, M. (2013). Highly oxidized peroxisomes are selectively degraded via autophagy in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25(12): 4967-4983. (*Equal contribution)
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Usami, H., Maeda, T., Fujii, Y., Oikawa, K., Takahashi, F., Kagawa, T., Wada, M. and Kasahara, M. (2012). CHUP1 mediates actin-based light-induced chloroplast avoidance movement in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Planta 236(6): 1889-1897.
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Oikawa, K., Yamasato, A., Kong, S. G., Kasahara, M., Nakai, M., Takahashi, F., Ogura, Y., Kagawa, T. and Wada, M. (2008). Chloroplast outer envelope protein CHUP1 is essential for chloroplast anchorage to the plasma membrane and chloroplast movement. Plant Physiol 148(2): 829-842.