Vol. 26, No. 1(January 2021)

The first sun of the year is rising above the ocean. Several lines of shadows that are emerging between the waves look like a ladder of a multicolored molecular weight marker for SDS-PAGE. It is very auspicious that they appear to be running horizontally and straight without smiling. We hope that this year will be a happy one for you all.

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Genes to Cells © 2021 the Molecular Biology Society of Japan and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

Volume 26, Issue 1, 2021.

Original Articles

Pages: 5-17 マウス成熟神経細胞におけるMKK7は育児行動に必要である MKK7 deficiency in mature neurons impairs parental behavior in mice 進　匡、平岡　優一、山崎　世和、Jamey D. Marth、Josef M. Penninger、金井　正美、田中　光一、小藤　智史、仁科　博史 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12816

Pages: 18-30 ISG20と核エキソソームは、スプライソソームのU snRNAsとU1バリアントの新生転写物の不安定化を促進する ISG20 and nuclear exosome promote destabilization of nascent transcripts for spliceosomal U snRNAs and U1 variants 川本　崇仁、芳本　玲、谷口　一郎、北畠　真、大野　睦人 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12817

Pages: 31-39 広く利用されているアフリカツメガエルのアルビノは、Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 4 遺伝子における2個のエクソンの欠失によって引き起こされる Periodic albinism of a widely used albino mutant of Xenopus laevis caused by deletion of two exons in the Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 4 gene 福澤　利彦 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12818