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Sagor GHM, Zhang S, Kojima S, Simm S, Berberich T, Kusano T (2016)
Reducing cytoplasmic polyamine oxidase activity in Arabidopsis increases salt and drought tolerance by reducing reactive oxygen species production and increasing defense gene expression. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 214.

Sagor GHM, Berberich T, Kojima S, Niitsu M, Kusano T (2016)
Spermine modulates the expression of two probable polyamine transporter genes and determines growth responses to cadaverine in Arabidopsis.
Plant Cell Reports in press

Sagor, GHM; Berberich, Thomas; Tanaka, Shun; Nishiyama, Manabu; Kanayama, Yoshinori; Kojima, Seiji; Muramoto, Koji; Kusano, Tomonobu
A novel strategy to produce sweeter tomato fruits with high sugar contents by fruit-specific expression of a single bZIP transcription factor gene.
Plant Biotechnology Journal inpress

G.H.M. Sagor๕, Masataka Inoue๕, Dong Wook Kim, Seiji Kojima, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2015)
The polyamine oxidase from lycophyte Selaginella lepidophylla (SelPAO5), unlike that of angiosperms, back-converts thermospermine to norspermidine.
FEBS Lett 589: 3071-3078

Sagor GHM๕, Chawla P๕, Kim DW, Berberich T, Kojima S, Niitsu S, Kusano T (2015)
The polyamine spermine induces the unfolded protein response via the MAPK cascade in Arabidopsis.
Frontiers Plant Science 6: 687

Kojima S and Nikaido H (2014)
High Salt Concentrations Increase Permeability through OmpC channels of Escherichia coli
Journal of ‚aiological ‚bhemistry 289: 26464-26473

Dong Wook Kim (2014)
Polyamine catabolism in rice plant: Polyamine back conversion pathway and terminal catabolism.
Saito Ho-on Kai Research Bulletin 78: 1-14

Shuta Kunihiro (2014)
Involvement of cadmium chelating activity and DNA repair activity on cadmium-induced DNA damage for conferring cadmium tolerance to plant.
Saito Ho-on Kai Research Bulletin 78: 69-76

Liu T, Kim DW, Niitsu M, Berberich T, Kusano T (2014)
POLYAMINE OXIDASE 1 from rice (Oryza sativa) is a functional ortholog of Arabidopsis POLYAMINE OXIDASE 5
Plant Signaling & Behavior 9: e29773

Dong Wook Kim, Kanako Watanabe, Chihiro Murayama, Sho Izawa, Masaru Niitsu, Anthony J. Michael, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2014)
Polyamine Oxidase 5 Regulates Arabidopsis thaliana Growth Through A Thermospermine Oxidase Activity.
Plant Physiol 165: 1575-1590

Liu T, Kim DW, Niitsu M, Maeda S, Watanabe S, Kamio Y, Berberich T, Kusano T (2014)
Polyamine oxidase 7 is a terminal catabolism-type enzyme in Oryza sativa and is specifically expressed in anthers.
Plant Cell Physiol 55(6): 1110-1122

Taibo Liu, Hayato Dobashi, Dong Wook Kim, G. H. M. Sagor, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2014)
Arabidopsis mutant plants with diverse defectsin polyamine metabolism show unequal sensitivity to exogenous cadaverine probably based on their spermine content.
Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 20: 151-159

Shuta Kunihiro, Hikaru Kowata, Youichi Kondou, Shinya Takahashi, Minami Matsui, Thomas Berberich, Youssefian Shohab, Jun Hidema, Tomonobu Kusano (2014)
Overexpression of rice OsREX1-S, encoding a putative component of the core general transcription and DNA repair factor IIH, renders plant cells tolerant to cadmium- and UV-induced damage by enhancing DNA excision repair.
Planta 239: 1101-1111

Liu T, Kim DW, Niitsu M, Berberich T, Kusano T (2014)
Oryza sativa polyamine oxidase 1 back-converts tetraamines, spermine and thermospermine, to spermidine.
Plant Cell Reports 33: 143-151

Shuta Kunihiro, Tatsuhiko Saito, Taiki Matsuda, Masataka Inoue, Masato Kuramata, Fumio Taguchi-Shiobara, Shohab Youssefian, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2013)
Rice OsDEP1, encoding a highly cysteine-rich G protein ƒม subunit, confers cadmium-tolerance to yeast cells and plants.
J Exp Bot 64: 4517-4527

G.H.M. Sagor, Taibo Liu, Hideki Takahashi, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2013)
Longer uncommon polyamines have a stronger defense gene-induction activity and a higher suppressing activity of Cucumber mosaic virus multiplication compared to that of spermine in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Cell Reports 32: 1477-1488

Sagor GHM, Berberich T, Takahashi Y, Niitsu M, Kusano T (2013)
The polyamine spermine protects Arabidopsis from heat stress-induced damage by increasing expression of heat shock-related genes.
Transgenic Research 22: 595-605

Hideki Takahashi, Hiromi Shoji, Sugihiro Ando, Yoshinori Kanayama, Tomonobu Kusano, Minoru Takeshita, Masashi Suzuki, and Chikara Masuta (2012)
RCY1-Mediated Resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus Is Regulated by LRR Domain-Mediated Interaction with CMV(Y) Following Degradation of RCY1
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 25(9):1171-1185

GHM Sagor (2012)
Differential roles of tetramines, spermine and thermospermine, in Arbidopsis thaliana.
Saito Ho-on Kai Research Bulletin 76: 43-51

Taiki Matsuda (2012)
Extensive screening of heavy metal-related genes from plants.
Saito Ho-on Kai Research Bulletin 76: 53-63

Seung Hwan Yang, Sang-Hyun Kim, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2012)
Identification and properties of a small protein that interacts with a tobacco bZIP-type transcription factor TBZF
Plant Biotechnology 29, 395-399

XuJun Zhu, Sunil Kumar Thalor, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano (2012)
An inhibitory effect of the sequence-conserved upstream open reading frame on the translation of the main open-reading frame of HsfB1 transcripts in Arabidopsis.
Plant Cell Environment 35: 2014-2030

Sagor GHM, Takahashi H, Niitsu M, Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Kusano T (2012)
Exogenous thermospermine has an activity to induce a subset of the defense genes and restrict cucumber mosaic virus multiplication in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Cell Reports 31: 1227-1232

Sunil Kumar Thalor, Thomas Berberich, Sun Shing Lee, Seung Hwan Yang, Xujun Zhu, Ryozo Imai, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Tomonobu Kusano, (2012)
Deregulation of sucrose-controlled translation of a bZIP-type transcription factor results in sucrose accumulation in leaves
PLoS ONE 7: e33111

Yusuke Ono, Dong Wook Kim, Kanako Watanabe, Ayano Sasaki, Masaru Niitsu,
Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano, Yoshihiro Takahashi (2012)
Constitutively and highly expressed Oryza sativa polyamine oxidases localize in peroxisomes and catalyze polyamine back conversion.
Amino Acids 42: 867-876@


Chika Tateda; Tomonobu Kusano; Yoshihiro Takahashi (2012)
The Arabidopsis voltage-dependent anion channel 2 is required for plant growth
Plant Signaling & Behavior 7: 31-33

G.H.M. Sagor, Koji Yamaguchi, Kanako Watanabe, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano, Yoshihiro Takahashi (2011)
Spatio-temporal expression analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana spermine synthase gene promoter.
Plant Biotechnol 28: 407-411
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Chika Tateda; Kanako Watanabe; Tomonobu Kusano; Yoshihiro Takahashi (2011)
Molecular and genetic characterization of the gene family encoding the voltage-dependent anion channel in Arabidopsis.
Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 4773-4785

Takahashi Y, Cong R, Sagor GHM, Niitsu M, Berberich T, Kusano T (2010)
Characterization of five polyamine oxidase isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana
Plant Cell Reports 29: 955-965

Naka Y, Watanabe K, Sagor G.H.M, Niitsu M, Pillai A, Kusano T, Takahashi Y.(2010)
Quantitative analysis of plant polyamines includuing thermospermine during growth and salinity stress.
Plant Physiol Biochem (Polyamine special issue) 48:527-533

Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Saitoh H, Kusano T, Terauchi R. (2009)
Unraveling the roles of sphingolipids in plant innate immunity
Plant Signaling & Behavior 4:6,536-538

Matsuda T, Kuramata M, Takahashi Y, Kitagawa E, Youssefian S, Kusano T: (2009)
A novel plant cysteine-rich peptide family conferring cadmium tolerance to yeast and plants .
Plant Signaling & Behavior 4:419-421

Sagor G.H.M, Cong Run-Zi , Berberich T, Takahashi H, Tatahashi Y, Kusano T: (2009)
Spermine signaling in defense reaction against avirulent viralpathogen in Arabidopsis thaliana .
Plant Signaling & Behavior 4:316-318


Yoshiko Mitsuya, Yoshihiro Takahashi , Thomas Berberich , Atsushi Miyazaki , Hideo Matsumura, Hideki Takahashi ,Ryohei Terauchi, Tomonobu Kusano.(2009)
Spermine signaling plays a significant role in the defense response of Arabidopsis thaliana to cucumber mosaic virus.
J Plant Physiol 166:626-643

Kuramata M, Masuya S, Takahashi Y, Kitagawa E, Inoue C, Ishikawa S, Youssefian S, Kusano T(2009)
Novel cysteine-rich peptides from Digitaria ciliaris and Oryza sativa enhance tolerance to cadmium by limiting its cellular accumulation.
Plant Cell Physiol 50:106-117

Tateda C, Yamashita K, Takahashi F, Kusano T, Takahashi Y. (2009)
Plant voltage-dependent anion channels are involved in host defense against Pseudomonas cichorii
@and in Bax-induced cell death.@Plant Cell Reports 28:41-51

Takahashi Y , Berberich T, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Saitoh H, Kusano T, and Terauchi R (2009)
Serine palmitoyltransferase, the first step enzyme in sphingolipid biosynthesis, is involved in non-host resistance.
Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact 22:31-38

Tateda C, Ozaki R, Onodera Y, Takahashi Y, Yamaguchi K, Berberich T, Koizumi N, Kusano T. (2008)
NtbZIP60, an endoplasmic reticulum-localized transcription factor, plays a role in defence response
against bacterial pathogen in Nicotiana tabacum.
J Plant Research 121(6): 603-611

Ishihara T, Sekine KT, Hase S, Kanayama Y, Seo S, Ohashi Y, Kusano T, Shibata D, Shah J, Tahahashi H. (2008)
Overexpression of the Arabidopsis thaliana EDS5 gene enhances resistance to viruses.
Plant Biol (Stuttg). 10:451-461.

Mei-Fang Chien, Chieh-Chen Huang, Tomonobu Kusano, Ginro Endo (2008)
Facilities for transcription and mobilization of an exon-less bacterial group ‡Uintron nested in transposon TnMERI1.
Gene 408, 164-171

Coemans B, Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Ito A, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Saitoh H, Tsuda S, Kamoun S, Sagi L, Swennen R, Terauchi R. (2007)
High-throughput in planta expression screening identifies an ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF1) that is involved in non-host resistance and R gene mediated resistance.
Mol Plant Pathol 9, 25-36

Takahashi Y, Nasir KHB, Ito A, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Saitoh H, Fujisawa S, Kamoun S, Terauchi R. (2007)
A novel MAPKK involved in cell death and defense signaling. Plant Signaling & Behavior 2, 280-281

Kusano T, Yamaguchi K, Berberich T, Takahashi Y. (2007)
The polyamine spermine rescues Arabidopsis from salinity and drought stresses.
P‚Œant Signaling & Behavior 2, 251-252

Kusano T, Yamaguchi K, Berberich T, Takahashi Y. (2007)
Advences in polyamine research in 2007. (review) J Plant Research 120, 345-350

Mitsuya Y, Takahashi Y, Uehara Y, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Takahashi H, Kusano T (2007)
Identification of a novel Cys2/His2-type zinc finger protein as a component of a spermine-signaling pathway in tobacco. J Plant Physiol 164, 785-793

Takahashi Y, Nasir KHB, Ito A, Kanzaki H, Matsumura H, Saitoh H, Fujisawa S, Kamoun S, Terauchi R. (2007)
High-throughput screen of cell death-inducing factors in Nicotiana benthamiana identifies a novel MAPKK that mediates INF1-induced cell death signaling and non-host resistance to Pseudomonas cichorii. Plant J 49, 1030-1040

Rakshit S, Rakshit A, Matsumura H, Takahashi Y, Hasegawa Y, Ito A, Ishii T, Miyashita N, Terauchi R (2007)
Large-scale DNA polymorphism study of Oryza sativa and O, rufipogon reveals the origin and divergence of Asian rice. Theor Appl Genet 114, 731-743

Yamaguchi K, Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Imai A, Takahashi T, Michael A, Kusano T (2007)
A protective role for the polyamine spermine against drought sress in Arabidopsis. Biochemical ana Biophysical Reseach Communications 352, 486-490

Yamaguchi K, Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Imai A, Miyazaki A, Takahashi T, Michael A, Kusano T (2006)
The polyamine spermine protects against high salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS Letters 580, 6783-6788

Sekine KT, Ishihara T, Hase S, Kusano T, Shah J, Takahashi H (2006) Single amino acid alterations in Arabidopsis thaliana RCY1 compromise resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus, but differentially suppress hypersensitive respomse-like cell death. Plant Mol. Biol. 62, 669-682

Sasaki Y, Hayakawa T, Inoue C, Miyazaki A, Silver S, Kusano T. (2006)
Generation of mercury-hyperaccumulating plants through transgenic expression of the bacterial mercury membrane transport protein MerC.
Transgenic Research 15, 615-625

Lee SS, Yang SH, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Kusano T (2006)
Characterization of AtbZIP2, AtbZIP11, and AtbZIP53 from the Group S basic region-leucine zipper family in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Biotechnol. 23, 249-258

Shimizu H, Sato K, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Ozaki R, Imai R, Kusano T. (2005)
LIP19, a basic region leucine zipper protein, is a Fos-like molecular switch in the cold signaling of rice plants.
Plant Cell Physiol. 46(10): 1623-1634

Nasir, K.H.B., Takahashi, Y., Ito, A., Saitoh, H., Matsumura, H., Kanzaki, H., Shimizu, T., Ito, M., Fujisawa, S., Sharma, P.C., Ohme-Takagi, M., Kamoun, S. and Terauchi, R. (2005) high-throughput in planta expression screening identifies a class II ethylene-responsive element binding factor-like protein that regulates plant cell death and non-host resistance. Plant J. 43: 491-505.

Terauchi, R., Nasir, K.H.B., Ito, A., Saitoh, H., Berberich, T. and Takahashi, Y. (2005) High-throughput functional screening of plant and pathogen genes in planta. Plant Biotechnology 22: 455-459. [Minireview]

Uehara Y, Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Takahashi H, Matsui K, Ohme-Takagi M, Saitoh H, Terauchi R, Kusano T.@(2005)
Tobacco ZFT1, a transcriptional repressor with a Cys2/His2 type zinc finger motif that functions in spermine-signaling pathway.
Plant Mol. Biol. 59(3): 433-446

Sasaki Y, Minakawa T, Miyazaki A, Silver S, Kusano T. (2005)
Functional dissection of a mercuric ion transporter MerC from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 69(7), 1394-1402

Berberich T, Takagi T, Miyazaki A, Ohtani M, Shimada T, Kusano T (2005)
Production of mouse adiponectin, an anti-diabetic protein, in transgenic sweet potato plants.
J. Plant Physiol. 162, 1169-1176

Zheng MS, Takahashi H, Miyazaki A, Yamaguchi K, Kusano T (2005)
Identification of the cis-acting elements in Arabidopsis thaliana NHL10 promoter responsible for leaf senescence, the hypersensitive response against Cucumber mosaic virus infection, and spermine treatment.
Plant Science 168(2), 415-422

Takahashi Y, Uehara Y, Berberich T, Ito A, Saitou H, Miyazaki A, Terauchi R, Kusano T. (2004)
A subset of the hypersensitive response marker genes including HSR203J is downstream target of spermine-signal transduction pathway in tobacco.
Plant J 40(4), 586-595

Wada Y, Miyamoto T, Kusano T, Sano H (2004)
Association between up-regulation of stress-responsive genes and hypomethylation of genomic DNA in tobacco plants.
Mol. Genet. Genomics 271(6), 658-666

Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Yamashita K, Uehara Y, Miyazaki A, Kusano T. (2004)
Identification of tobacco: HIN1and two closely related genes as spermine-responsive genes and their differential expression during the Tobacco mosaic virus-induced hypersensitive response and during leaf- and flower-senescence.
Plant Mol. Biol.54(4), 613-622

Takahashi H, Kanayama Y, Zheng MS, Kusano T, Hase S, Ikegami M, Shah J (2004)
Antagonistic interactions between the SA- and JA- signaling pathways in Arabidopsis modulate expression of defense genes and gene-for-gene resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus.
Plant Cell Physiol. 45(6), 803-809

Zheng MS, Takahashi H, Miyazaki A, Hamamoto H, Shah J, Yamaguchi I, Kusano T (2004)
Up-regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana NHL10 in the hypersensitive response to Cucumber mosaic virus infection and in senescing leaves is controlled by signalling pathways that differ in salicylate involvement.
Planta 218 740-750

Takahashi Y, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Seo S, Ohashi Y, Kusano T. (2003)
Spermine signaling in tobacco: activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases by spermine is mediated through mitochondrial dysfunction.
Plant J. 36(6) 820-829

Yang SH, Berberich T, Miyazaki A, Sano H, Kusano T (2003)
Ntdin, a tobacco senescence-associated gene, is involved in molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis.
Plant Cell Physiol. 44(10), 1037-1044

Yang SH, Yamaguchi Y, Koizumi N, Kusano T, Sano H (2002)
Promoter analysis of tbzF, a gene encoding a bZIP-type transcription factor, reveals distinct variation in cis-regions responsible for transcriptional activation between senescing leaves and flower buds in tobacco plants.
Plant Sci. 162 973-980

Yoda H, Ogawa M, Yamaguchi Y, Koizumi N, Kusano T, Sano H (2002)
Identification of early-responsive genes associated with the hypersensitive response to tobacco mosaic virus and characterization of a WRKY-type transcription factor in tobacco plants.
Mol. Genet. Genomics 267 (): 154-161

Choi YE, Yang DC, Kusano T, Sano H (2001)
Rapid and efficient Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Panax ginseng by plasmolyzing pre-treatment of cotyledons.
Plant Cell Rep. 20(7) 616-621

Ogawa M, Herai Y, Koizumi N, Kusano T, Sano H (2001)
7-Methylxanthine methyltransferase of coffee plants: gene isolation and enzymatic properties.
J. Biol. Chem. 276 (11) 8213-8218

Akaracharanya A, Choi YE, Kusano T, Shinmyo A, Sano H (2001)
Efficient plant regeneration of Ipomoea aquatica by direct shoot formation from cotyledon segments.
Plant Biotech. 18(1) 77-79

Nakano Y, Koizumi N, Kusano T, Sano H (2001)
Isolation and properties of an S-adenosyl-L-methionine binding protein from the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi.
J. Plant Physiol. 157 (6): 707-711

Choi YE, Harada E, Wada M, Tsuboi H, Morita Y, Kusano T, Sano H (2001)
Detoxification of cadmium in tobacco plants: formation and active excretion of crystals containing cadmium and calcium through trichomes.
Planta 213 (1) 45-50

Yang SH, Berberich T, Sano H, Kusano T. (2001)
Specific association of transcripts of tbzF and tbz17, tobacco genes encoding basic region leucine zipper-type transcriptional activators, with guard cells of senescing leaves and/or flowers.
Plant Physiol. 127 (1) 23-32

Chikano H, Ogawa M, Ikeda Y, Koizumi N, Kusano T, Sano H (2001)
Two novel genes encoding SNF1-related protein kinases from Arabidopsis thaliana: differential accumulation of AtSR1 and AtSR2 transcripts in response to cytokinins and sugars, and phosphorylation of sucrose synthase by AtSR2
MOL GEN GENET 264 (5): 674-681 JAN