collaborative projects
current collaborative projects:
- Synaptic proteostasis
- Synuclein functions
- BAR domain proteins
- Synaptotagmins
- LTP
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published work
Vettkotter, D., Schneider, M., Goulden, B.D., Dill, H., Liewald, J., Zeiler, S., Guldan, J., Arda Ates, Y., Watanabe, S., Gottschalk, A., (2022) Rapid and reversible optogenetic silencing of synaptic transmission by clustering of synaptic vesicles. Nature Comm. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35324-z link pdf
Watanabe, S., Nihongaki, Y., Itoh, K., Watanabe, S., Inoue, T., (2022), Defunctionalizing intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and peroxisomes with engineered phospholipase A/acyltransferases. Nature Comm. 29;13(1):4413 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31946-5 link pdf
Birdsall, V., Kirwan K., Zhu, M., Imoto, Y., Wilson, S.M., Watanabe, S., and Waites, C., (2022) Axonal transport of Hrs is activity dependent and facilitates synaptic vesicle protein degradation. Life Science Alliance, 5 (10):e202000745. link pdf
Vevea, J.D., Kusick, G.F., Courtney, K.C., Chen, E., Watanabe, S., and Chapman, E., Synaptotagmin 7 is targeted to the axonal plasma membrane through γ-secretase processing to promote synaptic vesicle docking in mouse hippocampal neurons, (2021) eLife, 10:e67261, DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67261. link pdf
Itoh, K., Murata, D., Kato, T., Yamada, T., Araki, Y., Saito, A., Adachi, Y., Igarashi, A., Li, S., Pletnikov, M., Huganir, R.L., Watanabe, S., Kamiya, A., Iijima, M., and Sesaki, H. (2019) Brain-specific Drp1 regulates postsynaptic endocytosis and dendrite formation independently of mitochondrial division. eLife DOI: 10.7554/eLife.44739. pdf
Nakamura, H, Lee, A, Afshar, A, Watanabe, S., Rho, E, Razavi, S, Suarez, A., Lin, Y., Tanigawa, M., Huang, B., DeRose, R., Bobb, D., Hong, W., Gabelli, S.B., Goutsias, J., Inoue, T. (2017) Intracellular Production of Hydrogels and Synthetic RNA Granules by Multivalent Interactions. Nature Materials 17, 79-81. pdf
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