I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Blower at the Department of Biochemistry.
I graduated from the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences at Osaka University, Japan, in 2021. During my Ph.D. course, I worked on the mitotic regulation of the Kinetochore-centromere interaction, using Chicken DT40 cells, Human RPE1 cells, and in vitro binding assay.
After my Ph.D. course, I joined Blower Lab in October 2021.
My research objectives in Blower Lab
1. Mechanism and function of RNA removing from chromatin in mitosis
2. How unconventional RNA binding protein interacts with RNA
3. Centromere transcription and maintenance in the G1 phase s.
Publications
- Dynamic Redistribution and Inheritance of Chromatin: RNA Interactions During Cell Division
Emily Sparago, Reito Watanabe, Judith A Sharp, Michael D Blower
Frontiers in RNA Research, Val. 1, Aug 3, 2023
- The cryo‐EM structure of the CENP‐A nucleosome in complex with ggKNL2 Honghui Jiang, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tetsuya Hori, Reito Watanabe, Fumiaki Makino, Keiichi Namba, Tatsuo Fukagawa The EMBO Journal (2023)42:e111965, Feb 6, 2023
- Mobility of kinetochore proteins measured by FRAP analysis in living cells. Reito Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hirano, Masatoshi Hara, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tatsuo Fukagawa Chromosome Research, 30 (1), 43-57, Jan 8, 2022
- Cryo-EM structure of the CENP-A nucleosome in complex with phosphorylated CENP-C Mariko Ariyoshi, Fumiaki Makino, Reito Watanabe, Reiko Nakagawa, Takayuki Kato, Keiichi Namba, Yasuhiro Arimura, Risa Fujita, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Ei-Ichi Okumura, Masatoshi Hara, Tatsuo Fukagawa The EMBO journal, 40(5) e105671, Mar 1, 2021
- CENP-C Phosphorylation by CDK1 in vitro Reito Watanabe, Masatoshi Hara, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tatsuo Fukagawa Bio-protocol, 11(1) e3879, Jan 5, 2021
- CDK1-mediated CENP-C phosphorylation modulates CENP-A binding and mitotic kinetochore localization Reito Watanabe, Masatoshi Hara, Ei-Ichi Okumura, Solène Hervé, Daniele Fachinetti, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tatsuo Fukagawa The Journal of cell biology, 218(12) 4042-4062, Dec 2, 2019
- Treatment of bio-diesel fuel wastewater using aerobic thermophilic bacteria Bacillus licheniformis strain MU11 Yamano Koji, Watanabe Reito, Kai Hotaka, Yamaguchi Masahiro, Nakashima Takuji, Araki Kento, Yakushiji Yuka, Arizono Koji, Ishibashi Yasuhiro
Journal of Environment and Safety, 10(3) 177-187, 2019