Yoko Asakura

Altered metabolic flux due to deletion of odhA causes L-glutamate overproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum.

From damaged genome to cell surface: transcriptome changes during bacterial cell death triggered by loss of a restriction-modification gene complex.

Flt-1 haploinsufficiency ameliorates muscular dystrophy phenotype by developmentally increased vasculature in mdx mice.

MyoD regulates apoptosis of myoblasts through microRNA-mediated down-regulation of Pax3.

MyoD gene suppression by Oct4 is required for reprogramming in myoblasts to produce induced pluripotent stem cells.

Evolutionary genome engineering using a restriction-modification system.

Increased angiogenesis and improved left ventricular function after transplantation of myoblasts lacking the MyoD gene into infarcted myocardium.