Vol. 20, No. 5(May 2015)

There is a Japanese legend of an extraordinary strong child ‘Kintaro’, who caught a carp, taller than himself, only with his arms. Carp are familiar to people all over Japan as Koinobori (carp streamer) that is put up in May for their children's healthy growth. In this drawing, Kintaro is showing his extraordinary grip that acts as an external force to drive cellular convergent extension (a process in which a tissue is elongated along a certain axis by cell intercalation in animal development) to elongate the carp's body. The progression status of the convergent extension can be observed by the pattern of the carp's colored scales.

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

Volume 20, Issue 5, 2015.

Original Articles

Pages: 367-381 マウス膵臓由来iPS細胞における遺伝子発現とエピジェネティックメモリー Preferential gene expression and epigenetic memory of induced pluripotent stem cells derived from mouse pancreas 糠谷　大樹、南　幸太郎、星川　律子、横井　伯英、清野　進 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12227

Pages: 382-391 一塩基多型rs2294008のTアレルは、転写因子YY1を介して胃・胆のうがん疾患感受性遺伝子PSCAの発現を抑制する。 rs2294008T, a risk allele for gastric and gallbladder cancers, suppresses the PSCA promoter by recruiting the transcription factor YY1 佐伯　宣久、小野　弘恵、柳原　五吉、青柳　一彦、佐々木　博己、坂本　裕美、吉田　輝彦 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12228

Pages: 392-407 グルコース飢餓ストレス適応時の分裂酵母の転写制御とクロマチン構造変化 Dynamic transition of transcription and chromatin landscape during fission yeast adaptation to glucose starvation 小田　有沙、竹俣　直道、平田　祥人、三好　知一郎、鈴木　穣、菅野　純夫、太田　邦史 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12229

Pages: 408-426 Mef2dは網膜視細胞と双極細胞の成熟と維持に必須である Mef2d is essential for the maturation and integrity of retinal photoreceptor and bipolar cells 大森　義裕、北村　民樹、吉田　怜代、桒原　隆亮、茶屋　太郎、入江　彰一、古川　貴久 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12233

Pages: 427-438 ゼブラフィッシュ尾鰭で再生する動脈は、Notchシグナルの制御のもと静脈から形成される Notch signaling regulates venous arterialization during zebrafish fin regeneration 亀谷　祥子、Neil C. Chi、Didier Y.R. Stainier、高田　慎治 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12234

Pages: 439-449 神経堤細胞からメラノサイト細胞系譜へのスペシフィケーションの際に誘起したＲＥＳＴ遺伝子破壊による白斑表現型 White spotting phenotype induced by targeted REST disruption during neural crest specification to a melanocyte cell lineage 青木　仁美、原　明、國貞　隆弘 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12235