Naohiro Kato

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Hiroshima University,  1998

Systems Biology; Functional Protein Network in Living Plant Cells

kato@lsu.edu

*Kato's Lab Website*

I am interested in functional network connectivity of proteins in living cells. Over 25,000 different proteins are available to build a single functional cell in multicellular systems. When, Where, How, and for What purpose, do these proteins work together in the cells? My lab addresses the questions by combining conventional and cutting-edge technologies such as recombinant DNA, luminescence imaging, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling, using Arabidopsis thaliana plant as a model organism.

Publications since 2005

• N Kato, Y Fujikawa, T Fuselier, R Adamou-Dodo, A Nishitani, and MH Sato
  Luminescence detection of SNARE-SNARE interaction in Arabidopsis protoplasts
  Plant Molecular Biology, 2009 November 22 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• N Kato, H He, and AP Steger
  A Systems model of vesicle trafficking in Arabidopsis pollen tubes
  Plant Physiology, 2009 November 20 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• H He and N Kato
  Equilibrium Submanifold for a Biological System
  Discrete and Continuous Dynamical System Series B 2009 November 10 |Publisher| |PDF link|
• N. Kato and J. Jones
  Split luciferase complementation assay
  Methods in Plant Development, A series in Methods in Molecular Biology (Ed by Lars Henning), Human Press Inc., 2009 February 13
• J Baxter, W Moeder, W Urquhart, D Shahinas, K Chin, D Christendat, H.G Kang, M Angelova, N Kato, and K Yoshioka
  Identification of a functionally essential amino acid for Arabidopsis cyclic nucleotide gated ion channels using the chimeric AtCNGC11/12 gene
  Plant Journal, 2008 56:457-469 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• FM Rosin, N Watanabe, JL Cacas, N Kato, JM Arroyo, Y Fang, B May, M Vaughn, J Simorowski, U Ramu, RW McCombie, DL Spector, RA Martienssen, and E Lam
  Genome-wide transposon tagging reveals location-dependent effects on transcription and chromatin organization in Arabidopsis.
  Plant Journal, 2008 55:514-525  |PubMed| |PDF link|
• HJ Kim, N Kato, S Kim, and B Triplett
  Cu/Zn superoxide dismutases in developing cotton fibers: evidence for an extracellular formn.
  Planta, 2008 228:281-29 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• N Kato, D Reynolds, ML Brown, M Boisdore, Y Fujikawa, A Morales, and LA  Meisel
  Multidimensional fluorescence microscopy of multiple organelles in Arabidopsis seedlings.
  Plant Methods, 2008 19;4:9  |PubMed| |PDF link|
• Y Fujikawa and N Kato
  Split luciferase complementation assay to study protein-protein interactions in Arabidopsis protoplasts.
  Plant Journal, 2007 52: 185-195 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• ML Churchman, ML Brown, N Kato, V Kirik, M Hülskamp, D Inzé, L De Veylder, JD Walker, Z Zheng, DG Oppenheimer, T Gwin, J Churchman, and JC Larkin
  SIAMESE, a Plant-Specific Cell Cycle Regulator, Controls Endoreplication Onset in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Plant Cell, November 2006 18: 3145-57 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• A Pecinka*, N Kato*, A Meister, A.V. Probst, I Schubert, and E Lam (*the authors equally contributed)
  Tandem repetitive transgenes and fluorescent chromatin tags alter local interphase chromosome arrangement in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Journal of Cell Science, 2005 118: 3751-3758 |PubMed| |PDF link|
• DE Sherizen, Jang, JK, Bhagat R, N Kato, and KS McKim
  Meiotic recombination in Drosophila females depends on chromosome continuity between genetically defined boundaries.
  Genetics, 2005 169: 767-781 |PubMed| |PDF link|

Publications 2001-2004

• E Lam, N. Kato and K Watanane
  Visualizing Chromosome Structure and Organization.
  Annual Review of Plant Biology, Annual Reviews Inc., 2004 55: 535-554. |PubMed| |PDF link |
• N Kato and E Lam
  Chromatin of endoreduplicated pavement cells has greater range of movement than that of diploid guard cells in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Journal of Cell Science, 2003 116: 2195-2201 (Photo cover). |PubMed| |PDF link|
• N Kato
  Structural analyses of living plant nuclei.
  Genetic Engineering: Principal and Methods, Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers, 2003 25: 65-90. |PubMed|
• Y Cheng, N Kato, W Wang, J Li, and X Chen
  Two RNA-binding proteins, HEN4 and HUA1, act together to specify reproductive organ identity and to regulate floral stem cell fate by facilitating the processing of AGAMOUS pre-mRNA in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Developmental Cell, 2003, 4; 53-66 (Photo cover). |PubMed| |PDF link|
• H Liu, JK Jang, N Kato and KS McKim
  mei-P22 encodes a chromosome-associated protein required for double strand break formation during meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster.
  Genetics, 2002, 162: 245-258. |PubMed| |PDF link|
• N Kato, D Pontier and E Lam
  Spectral profiling for the simultaneous observation of four distinct fluorescent proteins and detection of protein-protein interaction via fluorescence resonance energy transfer in tobacco leaf nuclei.
  Plant Physiology, 2002, 129: 931-942. |PubMed| |PDF link|
• N Kato and E Lam
  Detection of green fluorescence protein tagged chromosomes in live Arabidopsis thaliana.
  Genome Biology, 2001, 0045.1–0045.1. |PubMed| |PDF link|
• E Lam, N Kato and M Lawton
  Programmed cell death, mitochondria and the plant hypersensitive response.
  Nature, 2001, 411: 848 – 853. |PubMed| |PDF link|

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