- Otsuka K., Sakashita A., Maezawa S., Schultz RM., Namekawa SH.
KRAB-zinc-finger proteins regulate endogenous retroviruses to sculpt germline transcriptome and genome evolution.
Genome Res. Mar 12;35(3):417-431. (2025)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Guo Y., Kitano T., Inoue K., Murano K., Hirose M., Li TD., Sakashita A., Ishizu H., Ogonuki N., Matoba S., Sato M., Ogura A., Siomi H.
Obox4 promote zygotic genome activation upon loss of Dux.
Elife Jun10:13:e95856. (2024)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A, Ooga M, Otsuka K, Maezawa S, Takeuchi C, Wakayama S, Wakayama T, Namekawa SH.
Polycomb protein SCML2 mediates paternal epigenetic inheritance through sperm chromatin.
Nucleic Acids Res. Jul 21;51(13):6668-6683. (2023)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A, Kitano T, Ishizu H, Guo Y, Masuda H, Ariura M, Murano K, Siomi H.
Transcription of MERVL retrotransposons is required for preimplantation embryo development.
Nat Genet. Mar;55(3):484-495. (2023)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A, Takeuchi C, Maezawa S, Namekawa SH.
Bioinformatics Pipelines for Identification of Super-Enhancers and 3D Chromatin Contacts.
Methods Mol Biol. : 2577:123-146. (2023)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A., Ariura M., Namekawa SH.
CRISPR-mediated activation of transposable elements in embryonic stem cell.
Methods Mol Biol. ;2509:171-194. (2022)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A, Maezawa S, Takahashi K, Alavattam KG, Yukawa M, Hu YC, Kojima S, Parrish NF, Barski A, Pavlicev M, Namekawa SH.
Endogenous retroviruses drive species-specific germline transcriptomes in mammals.
Nat Struct Mol Biol.; 27(10):967-977. (2020)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Maezawa S, Sakashita A, Yukawa M, Chen X, Takahashi K, Alavattam KG, Nakata I, Weirauch MT, Barski A, Namekawa SH.
Super-enhancer switching drives a burst in gene expression at the mitosis-to-meiosis transition.
Nat Struct Mol Biol.; 27(10):978-988. (2020)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Sakashita A, T Wakai, Y Kawabata, C Nishimura, Y Sotomaru, KG Alavattam, Namekawa SH, Kono T.
XY oocytes of sex-reversed females with a Sry mutation deviate from the normal developmental process beyond the mitotic stage.
Biol Reprod.; 100(3):697-710. (2019)
[PubMed] [Journal] - Alavattam KG, Maezawa S, Sakashita A, Khoury H, Barski A, Kaplan N, Namekawa SH.
Attenuated chromatin compartmentalization in meiosis and its maturation in sperm development.
Nat Struct Mol Biol.; 26(3):175-184. (2019)
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