Vol. 20, No. 6(June 2015)

It was in 1936 when the existence of ‘florigen’ was initially predicted as a plant hormone that transmits information on daylight length at their leaves to the tip of the stem and stimulates flower initiation. In 2007, it was finally identified as a protein, which is coded by the FT gene in Arabidopsis thaliana. FT protein is produced in the leaves and transmitted to the growing tip at the shoot apical meristem via the phloem, and interacts with a transcription factor (the product of the FD gene in Arabidopsis) to induce genes involved in flower initiation. In this drawing, an actor performing FT is contacting another actor performing FD, and trying to stimulate flower initiation with him in front of hydrangea flowers that represent the month of June in Japan.

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Genes to Cells © 2015 by the Molecular Biology Society of Japan and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd

Volume 20, Issue 6, 2015.

Original Articles

Pages: 451-463 樹状細胞上のSIRPαはリンパ組織における樹状細胞の恒常性を制御する Dendritic cell SIRPα regulates homeostasis of dendritic cells in lymphoid organs 鷲尾　健、小谷　武徳、齊藤　泰之、Datu Respatika、村田　陽二、金子　和光、岡澤　秀樹、大西　浩史、福永　淳、錦織　千佳子、的崎　尚 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12238

Pages: 464-480 ADH3は非アルコール性肝障害に対して保護的に作用する Alcohol dehydrogenase 3 contributes to the protection of liver from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis 後藤　まき、北村　大志、Md. Morshedul Alam、太田　奈緒、長谷場　健、秋元　敏雄、清水　昭夫、山本　照子、山本　雅之、本橋　ほづみ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12237

Pages: 481-499 分裂酵母RNAポリメラーゼIIによる多量の転写物は分裂期活性化遺伝子およびヒートショック誘導性遺伝子へのコンデンシン蓄積を促進する RNA pol II transcript abundance controls condensin accumulation at mitotically up-regulated and heat-shock-inducible genes in fission yeast 中沢　宜彦、佐二木　健一、許　興亜、Alejandro Villar-Briones、新川　織江、柳田　充弘 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12239

Pages: 500-511 Notchリガンド欠損マウス膵臓における腺房中心細胞の消失 Disappearance of centroacinar cells in the Notch ligand-deficient pancreas 中野　泰博、根岸　尚子、後町　成輔、峯　徹哉、櫻井　有里、矢沢　正樹、阿部　幸一郎、八木田　秀雄、垣生　園子、影山　龍一郎、川口　義弥、穂積　勝人 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12243

Pages: 512-520 Trp²⁵⁰-hK2 is defective in intracellular trafficking and activates the unfolded protein response Eun Ju Choi, Sei Mee Yoon, Suman Lee and Jinu Lee https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12242

Pages: 521-542 RNAiによる表現型をもとにした糖鎖関連遺伝子のクラスタリング Phenotype-based clustering of glycosylation-related genes by RNAi-mediated gene silencing 山本－日野　美紀、吉田　秀樹、一宮　智美、阪村　 翔、前田　恵、木村　吉伸、佐々木　紀彦、木下　フローラ　聖子、木下　亜希子、豊田　英尚、上田　龍、西原　祥子、後藤　聡 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12246