2007

Miura E, Kato Y, Matsushima R, Albrecht V, Laalami S, Sakamoto W. (2007) The Balance between Protein Synthesis and Degradation in Chloroplasts Determines Leaf Variegation in Arabidopsis yellow variegated Mutants.
Plant Cell. 19: 1313-1328

Kato Y, Miura E, Matsushima R, Sakamoto W. (2007) White leaf sectors in yellow variegated 2 are formed by viable cells with undifferentiated plastids.
Plant Physiol. 144: 952-960

Ostersetzer O, Kato Y, Adam Z, Sakamoto W. (2007) Multiple intracellular locations of Lon protease in Arabidopsis : evidence for the localization of AtLon4 to chloroplasts.
Plant Cell Physiol. 48: 881-885

Ligaba, A., Katsuhara, M., Sakamoto, W., and Matsumoto, H. (2007) The BnALMT1 protein that is an aluminum-activated malate transporter is localized in the plasma membrane. Plant Signal. Behavior, 2: 255-257.

Kawahigashi, H., Hirose, S., Iwai, T., Ohashi Y., Sakamoto, W., Maekawa, M., and Ohkawa, Y. (2007) Chemically induced expression of rice OSB2 under the control of the OsPR1.1 promoter confers increased anthocyanin accumulation in transgenic rice. J. Agr. Food Chem., 55: 1241-1247.

Xiao, W.M., Su, Y., Sakamoto, W., and Sodmergen (2007) Isolation and characterization of Ty1/copia-like retrotransposons in mung bean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek). J. Plant Res. 120, 323-328.

2006

Matsushima, R., Ozawa, R., Uefune, M., Gotoh, T., Takabayashi, J.(2006) Intraspecies variation in the kanzawa spider mite differentially affects induced defensive response in lima bean plants. Journal of Chemical Ecology 11:2501-2512. The first two authors contributed equally to this work.

Takanashi, H., Arimura, S., Sakamoto, W., Tsutsumi, N. (2006) Differences in DNA amount in each mitochondrion in tobacco cultured cell and rice root. Genes & Genetic Systems 81: 215-218, 2006
Sakamoto, W. (2006) Protein Degradation Machineries in Plastids., Annu. Rev. Plant. Biol. 57: 599-621, 2006

2005

Adam, Z., Zaltsman, A., Sinvany-Villalobo, G., and Sakamoto, W. (2005) FtsH proteases in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. Physiol Planta., 123:386-390.

Nagano, A. J., Matsushima, R., Hara-Nishimura, I. (2005) Activation of an ER-body-localized ß-Glucosidase Via a Cytosolic Binding Partner in Damaged Tissues of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology, 46:1140-1148. The sirst two authors contributed equally to this work.

Yamazaki, T., Yamamoto, M., Sakamoto, W., and Kawano, S. (2005) Isolation and molecular characterization of rbcS in the unicellular green alga Nannochloris bacillaris (Chlorophta, Trebouxophyceae). Phycological Research, 53:67-76.

坂本　亘(2005)葉緑体の膜プロテアーゼによるタンパク質の品質管理.生化学77:335-339.

林純一、杉山康雄、坂本亘、田中寛、正木晴彦編(2005)二層膜オルガネラの遺伝学　蛋白質核酸酵素増刊号vol.50 (No. 14)共立出版

蘇都莫日根、坂本亘(2005)高等植物ミトコンドリアの母性遺伝. 　蛋白質核酸酵素 50:1795-1798.

坂本亘、林純一 (2005)オルガネラダイナミクス研究の現状と展望.　蛋白質核酸酵素 50:1861-1862.

坂本亘(2005)葉緑体の分化と蛋白質分解系.　蛋白質核酸酵素 50:1892-1895.

2004

Feng, X., Arimura, S., Hirano, H.Y., Sakamoto, W., and Tsutsumi, N. (2004) Isolation of mutants with aberrant mitochondrial morphology from Arabidopsis thaliana.Genes Genet.Syst., 79: 301-305.

Sakamoto, W., Miura, E., Kaji, Y., Okuno, T., Nishizono, M., Ogura, T. (2004) Allelic characterization of the leaf-variegated mutation var2 identifies the conserved amino acid residues of FtsH important for ATP hydrolysis and proteolysis. Plant Mol. Biol., 56: 705-716.

Sakamoto, W. and Hoshino, T. (2004) An approach to screen mitochondrial mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Endocytobiosis Cell Res., 15: 101-109.

Koide, T., Yamazaki, T., Yamamoto, M., Fujishita, M., Nomura, H., Moriyama, Y., Sumiya, N., Matsunaga, S., Sakamoto, W., and Kawano, S. (2004) Molecular divergence and characterization of two chloroplast division genes, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2, in the unicellular green alga Nannochloris bacillaris (Chlorophyta). J. Phycol., 40: 546-556.

Asano, T., Yoshioka, Y., Kurei, S., Sakamoto, W., Sodmergen, and Machida, Y. (2004) The CRUMPLED LEAF protein that is localized in the envelope membrane of plastids is involved in cell division, cell differentiation, and plastid division in Arabidopsis. Plant J., 38: 448-459.

Matsushima, R., Fukao, Y. Nishimura, M., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2004) NAI1 gene encodes a basic-helix-loop-helix-type putative transcription factor that regulates the formation of an Endoplasmic Reticulum-derived structure, the ER body. Plant Cell 16: 1536-1549.

Watanabe, E., Shimada, T., Tamura, K., Matsushima, R., Koumoto, Y., Nishimura, M., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2004)
An ER-localized form of PV72, a seed-specific vacuolar sorting receptor, interferes the transport of an NPIR-containing proteinase in Arabidopsis leaves. Plant Cell Physiol., 45: 9-17.

Hara-Nishimura, I., Matsushima, R., Shimada, T., Nishimura, M.(2004)
Diversity and Formation of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Derived Compartments in Plants. Are These Compartments Specific to Plant Cells? Plant Physiol., 136: 3435-3439.

松島良、西村いくこ(2004)ジャスモン酸メチルによって誘導される小胞体由来の新奇構造体. 細胞工学別冊植物細胞工学シリーズ「新版植物ホルモンのシグナル伝達」秀潤社、pp.209-pp.212.

2003

Sakamoto, W., Zaltsman, A., Adam, Z., and Takahashi, Y. (2003) Coordinated regulation and complex formation of YELLOW VARIEGATED1 and YELLOW VARIWGATED2, chloroplastic FtsH metalloproteases involved in the repair cycle of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thylakoid membranes. Plant Cell, 15: 2843-2855.

Sakamoto, W. (2003) Leaf-variegated mutants and their responsible genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genes Genet. Syst. 78: 1-9.

Sakamoto, W., Murata, M., and Maekawa, M. (2003) Complex organization of the rice Purple leaf locus involved in tissue-specific accumulation of anthocyanin. Advances in Rice Genetics (eds. Khush, G.S., Brar, D.S., and Hardy, B.), pp475-477.

Sakamoto, W. (2003) FtsH metalloproteases involved in the repair cycle of Photosystem II in thylakoid membranes: genetic and biochemical studies. Proceedings of Joint Japanese-Swiss Scientific Seminar. Biogenesis, Function and Acclimation of the Photosynthesis Apparatus, pp24-26.

Matsushima, R., Kondo, M., Nishimura, N., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2003) A novel ER-derived compartment, the ER body, selectively accumulates a b-glucosidase with an ER retention signal in Arabidopsis. Plant J., 33: 493-502.

Hara-Nishimura, I., Matsushima, R.(2003) A wound-inducible organelle derived from endoplasmic reticulum: a plant strategy against the environmental stresses? Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 6: 583-588.

Matsushima, R., Hayashi, Y., Yamada, K., Shimada, T., Nishimura, M., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2003) The ER body, a novel endoplasmic reticulum-derived structure in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol., 44: 661-666.

2002

Sakamoto, W., Tamura, T., Hanba-Tomita, Y., Sodmergen, and Murata, M. (2002) The VAR1 locus of Arabidopsis encodes a chloroplastic FtsH and responsible for leaf variegation in the mutant alleles. Genes Cells, 7: 769-780.

Sodmergen, Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Sakamoto, W., and Kuroiwa T. (2002) Reduction in amounts of mitochondrial DNA in the sperm cells as a mechanism for maternal inheritance in Hordeum vulgare. Planta, 216: 235-244.

武智克彰・坂本　亘 (2002) 「斑入り」葉緑素突然変異体を用いた原因遺伝子の研究と最近の知見育種学研究. 4: 5-11.

Sakamoto, W. (2002) Coordinated regulation of the chloroplast metalloproteases in Arabidopsis: genetic and biochemical studies. Proceedings of Japan-U.S. Cooperative Research Program: Microbial and Plant Metabolism – Function through Genomics, pp. 33-35.

坂本　亘 (2002) ミトコンドリアと葉緑体の制御機構−斑入り突然変異と原因遺伝子の解析から−。蛋白質核酸酵素. 47 (8): 1115-1120 .

植物科学キーノート (2002) A. J. LackD. E. Evans 著岩渕雅樹監訳、坂本　亘、小川健一訳 . シュプリンガー・フェアラーク東京.

坂本　亘 (2002) ミトコンドリア.朝倉植物生理学講座（西村幹夫編）第1巻. 植物細胞 pp. 125-134 朝倉書店.

坂本　亘 (2002) ミトコンドリアと葉緑体の制御機構−斑入り突然変異と原因遺伝子の解析から−. 蛋白質核酸酵素. 47 (8): 1115-1120 .

Matsushima, R., Hayashi, Y., Kondo, M., Shimada, T., Nishimura, N., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2002). An Endoplasmic Reticulum-derived structure that is induced under stress conditions in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol., 130: 1807-1814.

2001

Sakamoto, W., Ohmori, T., Kageyama, K., Miyazaki, C., Saito, A., Murata, M., Noda, K., and Maekawa, M. (2001) The Purple leaf (Pl) locus of rice: complex organization of the Plw aallele with the genes encoding basic helix-loop-helix proteins involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol.,42: 982-991.

Mimida, N., Goto, K., Kobayashi, Y., Araki, T., Ahn, J.H., Weigel, D., Murata, M., Motoyoshi, F., and Sakamoto, W. (2001) Functional divergence of the TFL1-like gene family in Arabidopsis revealed by characterization of a novel member. Genes Cells, 6: 327-336.

Yamada, K., Matsushima, R., Nishimura, M., Hara-Nishimura, I..(2001) A slow maturation of a cysteine protease with a granulin domain in the vacuoles of senescing Arabidopsis leaves. Plant Physiol., 127: 1626-1634.

Hayashi, Y., Yamada, K., Shimada, T., Matsushima, R., Nishizawa, N. K., Nishimura, M., Hara-Nishimura, I.(2001) A proteinase-storing body that prepares for cell death or stresses in the epidermal cells of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol., 42: 894-899.

before 2000

前川雅彦・景山圭祐・力石和英・宇都木繁子・野田和彦・坂本　亘 (2000) イネ完熟種子糊粉層におけるアントシアニン生合成に関わる転写制御遺伝子のトランジェントアッセイ系. 育種学研究 2: 181-187.

Takechi, K., Sodmergen, Murata, M., Motoyoshi, F., and Sakamoto, W. (2000) The YELLOW VARIEGATED (VAR2) locus encodes a homologue of FtsH, an ATP-dependent protease in Arabidopsis. Plant and Cell Physiol., 41: 1334-1346.

Sakamoto, W., Spielewoy, N., Bonnard, G., Murata, M., Motoyoshi, F., and Wintz, H. (2000) Mitochondrial localization of AtOXA1, an Arabidopsis homologue of yeast Oxa1p involved in the insertion and assembly of protein complexes in mitochondrial inner membrane. Plant and Cell Physiol., 41: 1157-1163.

Ibaraki, Y., Matsushima, R., Kurata, K.(2000) Analysis of morphological changes in carrot somatic embryogenisis by serial observation. Plant Cell Tissue Organ Culture, 61: 9-14.

Takechi, K., Sakamoto, W., Utsugi, S., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1999) Characterization of a flower-specific gene encoding a putative myrosinase binding protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol., 40: 1287-1296.

Takechi, K., Sakamoto, W., Katsuhara, M., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1999) Establishment of in situ hybridization using Technovit resion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol.Biol.Rep., 17: 43-51.

Mimida, N., Sakamoto, W., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1999) TERMINAL FLOWER1 -like genes in Brassica species. Plant Sci. 142: 155-162.

Small, I., Akashi, K., Chapron, A., Dietrich, A., Duchene, A.-M., Lancelin, D., Marrehal-Drouard, L., Menand, B., Mireau, H., Moudden, Y., Ovesna, J., Peeters, N.,

Sakamoto, W., Souciet, G., and Wintz, H. (1999) The strange evolutionary history of plant mitochondrial tRNAs and their aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. J. Heredity, 90(3): 333-337.

坂本　亘・前川雅彦 (1999) アントシアニン生合成の制御系　育種学最近の進歩 41:57-60.

Utsugi, S., Sakamoto, W., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1998) Arabidopsis thaliana vegetative storage protein (VSP) genes: gene organization and tissue-specific expression. Plant Mol. Biol., 38: 565-576.

Menand, B., Marechal-Drouard, L., Sakamoto, W., Dietrich, A., and Wintz, H. (1998) A single gene of chloroplast origin codes for mitochondrial and chloroplastic methionyl-tRNA synthetases in A. thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95: 11014-11019.

Cardazzo, B., Hamel, P., Sakamoto, W., Wintz, H., and Dujardin, G. (1998) Isolation of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA by complementation of a yeast abc1 deletion mutant deficient in complex III respiratory activity. Gene, 221: 117-125.

Akashi K., Chapron A., Dietrich A., Lancelin D., Marechal-Drouard L., Menand B., Mireau H., Moudden Y., Peeters N., Sakamoto W., Wintz H., Small I. (1998) Mix ‘n’ match – plant mitochondrial tRNAs and their aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. In: Moller IM, Gardestrom P, Glimelius K Glaser E (eds) Plant Mitochondria: From Gene to Function. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Hamel, P., Sakamoto, W., Wintz, H., and Dujardin, G. (1997) Functional complementation of an oxa1 – yeast mutation identifies an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA involved in the assembly of respiratory complexes. Plant J., 12(6): 1319-1327.

Sugimoto, M. and Sakamoto, W. (1997) Putative phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana induced by oxidative stress. Genes Genet. Syst., 72:311-316.

Tan, S.-H. Nishiguchi, M., Sakamoto, W., Ogura, Y., Murata, M., Ugaki, M., Tomiyama, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1997) Molecular analysis of the genomu of an attemuated strain of cucumber green mottle mosaic virus. Ann. Phytopathol. Soc. Jpn. 63: 470-474.

Ohshima, S., Murata, M., Sakamoto, W., Ogura, Y., and Motoyoshi, F. (1997) Cloning and molecular analysis of the Arabidopsis gene Terminal Flower 1. Mol. Gen. Genet. 254: 186-194.

Sakamoto, W., Tan, S.-H., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1997) An unusual mitochondrial atp9-rpl16 cotranscript found in the maternal distorted leaf mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana: implication of GUG as an initiation codon in plant mitochondria. Plant Cell Physiol., 38 (8): 975-979.

坂本　亘 (1997) 葉緑体分化におけるミトコンドリアの役割. 日本農芸化学会誌 71(12): 1292-1294.

坂本　亘 (1997)植物の「斑入り」はなぜ起こるか？遺伝 51(9): 44-48.

Sakamoto, W. and Wintz, H. (1996) Nucleotide sequence of cDNAs encoding gamma, delta, delta-prime, and epsilon subunits of mitochondrial F1-ATPase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. (PGR), 112:1736.

Sakamoto, W., Kondo H., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1996) Altered mitochondrial gene expression in a maternal distorted leaf mutant of Arabidopsis induced by chloroplast mutator. Plant Cell, 8: 1377-1390.

Utsugi, S., Sakamoto, W., Ogura, Y., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1996) Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones corresponding to the genes expressed preferentially in floral organs of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol. Biol., 32:759-765.

坂本　亘 (1995)植物ミトコンドリア：遺伝子から機能へ. 育種学雑誌 45:407.

Sakamoto, W., Murata, M., and Motoyoshi, F. (1995) RNA editing of Arabidopsis mitochondrial atp9 gene and expression of the unedited subunit 9 protein in transgenic plants. In Modification of gene expression and non-Mendelian inheritance (eds. K. Ohno and F. Takaiwa), pp401-407.

Sakamoto, W., Chen, X., Kindle, K.L., and Stern, D.B. (1994) Function of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii petD 5′ untranslated region in regulating the accumulation of subunit IV of the cytochrome b 6/f complex. Plant J., 6:503-512.

Sakamoto, W., Sturm, N.R., Kindle, K.L., and Stern, D.B. (1994) petD mRNA maturation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: role of 5′ endonucleolytic processing. Mol. Cell. Biol., 14: 6180-6186.

Sturm, N.R., Kuras, R., Buschlen, S., Sakamoto, W., Kindle, K.L., Stern, D.B., and Wollman, F.-A. (1994) The petD gene is transcribed by functionally redundant promoters in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts. Mol. Cell. Biol., 14: 6171-6179.

坂本　亘 (1994) 高等植物におけるRNAエディティング：その進化的意味. 遺伝 48(10): 82-87.

Sakamoto, W., Kindle, K.L., and Stern, D.B. (1993) In vivo analysis of Chlamydomonas chloroplast petD gene expression using stable transformation of beta-glucuronidase translational fusions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90: 497-501.

Kanazawa, A., Kishimoto, N., Sakamoto, W., Ohsawa, R., Ukai, Y., Tsutsumi, N., Hirai, A., and Saito, A. (1993) Restriction fragments homologous to mitochondrial plasmid-like DNAs are located within limited chromosomal regions on the rice nuclear genome. Theor. Appl. Genet., 87: 577-586.

Kanazawa, A., Sakamoto, W., Nakagahra, M., Kadowaki, K., Tsutsumi, N., and Tano, S. (1992) Distribution and Quantitative variation of mitochondrial plasmid-like DNAs in rice (Oryza sativa L). Jpn. J. Genet., 67: 309-319.

Sakamoto, W., Kadowaki, K., Kishimoto, N., Yano, M., Saito, A., and Tano, S. (1991) RFLP analysis of nuclear DNAs homologous with mitochondrial plasmid-like DNAs in cultivated rice. Theor. Appl. Genet., 82: 179-184.

Kanazawa, A., Sakamoto, W., Kishimoto, N., Yano, M., Tsutsumi, N., Saito, A., and Tano, S. (1991) Linkage analysis of the nuclear homologues of mitochondrial plasmid-like DNAs in rice. Jpn. J. Genet., 66: 597-607.

坂本　亘・山口彦之 (1991) ミトコンドリア DNA のクローニング. 稲学大成 第三巻（遺伝編）（松尾孝嶺編）農文協.

Sakamoto, W., Kadowaki, K., Tano, S., and Yabuno, T. (1990) Analysis of mitochondrial DNAs from Oryza glaberrima and its cytoplasmic substituted line for Oryza sativa associated with cytoplasmic male sterility. Jpn. J. Genet. 65: 1-6.

Sakamoto, W., Kadowaki, K., Kishimoto, N., Yano, M., Saito, A., and Tano, S. (1990) Genetic analysis of nuclear DNAs homologous to small, mitochondrial plasmid-like DNAs in cultivated rice. Rice Genetics, II: 365-372.

Kadowaki, K., Suzuki, T., Kazama, S., Oh-fuchi, T., Sakamoto, W. (1989) Nucleotide sequence of the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene from rice mitochondria. Nucleic Acids Res., 17: 7519.

Sakamoto, W., Momose, M., Tsutsumi, N., Tano, S., and Yamaguchi, H. (1989) Analysis of homology of small plasmid-like mitochondiral DNAs in the different cytoplasmic male sterile strains in rice. Jpn. J. Genet. 64: 49-56.

Sakamoto, W., Kadowaki, K., Harada, K., Tano, S., and Yamaguchi, H. (1989) Heterogeneity of small plasmid-like-DNAs found in rice mitochondria. Rice Genet. Newslet., 6: 155-157.

Yamaguchi, H., Sakamoto, W., and Tsutsumi, N. (1986) Cloning of mitochondrial DNA genomes in rice. Rice Genet. Newslet., 3: 120-121.