Division of Life Style Disease
Takeyori Saheki
Research Summary

Selected Papers
1) Kobayashi K, Sinasac DS, Iijima M, Boright AP, Begum L, Lee JR, Yasuda T, Ikeda S, Hirano R, Terazono H, Crackower MA, Kondo I, Tsui LC, Scherer SW, Saheki T.: The gene mutated in adult-onset type II citrullinaemia encodes a putative mitochondrial carrier protein. Nat Genet. 1999;22(2):159-63.

2) Palmieri L, Pardo B, Lasorsa FM, del Arco A, Kobayashi K, Iijima M, Runswick MJ, Walker JE, Saheki T, Satrustegui J, Palmieri F.: Citrin and aralar1 are Ca(2+)-stimulated aspartate/glutamate transporters in mitochondria. EMBO J. 2000;20(18):5060-9.

3) Sinasac DS, Moriyama M, Jalil MA, Begum L, Li MX, Iijima M, Horiuchi M, Robinson BH, Kobayashi K, Saheki T, Tsui LC.: Slc25a13-knockout mice harbor metabolic deficits but fail to display hallmarks of adult-onset type II citrullinemia. Mol Cell Biol. 2004;24(2):527-36.

4) Moriyama M, Li MX, Kobayashi K, Sinasac DS, Kannan Y, Iijima M, Horiuchi M, Tsui LC, Tanaka M, Nakamura Y, Saheki T.: Pyruvate ameliorates the defect in ureogenesis from ammonia in citrin-deficient mice.
J Hepatol. 2006;44(5):930-8.

5) Saheki T, Iijima M, Li MX, Kobayashi K, Horiuchi M, Ushikai M, Okumura F, Meng XJ, Inoue I, Tajima A, Moriyama M, Eto K, Kadowaki T, Sinasac DS, Tsui LC, Tsuji M, Okano A, Kobayashi T. Citrin/mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase double knock-out mice recapitulate features of human citrin deficiency. J Biol Chem. 2007;282(34):25041-52.