{"id":17327,"date":"2021-12-14T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=17327"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:06:51","slug":"reito-watanabe","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/profiles\/reito-watanabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reito Watanabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Blower at the Department of Biochemistry.<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>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.<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>After my Ph.D. course, I joined Blower Lab in October 2021.<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>My research objectives in Blower Lab<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>1. Mechanism and function of RNA removing from chromatin in mitosis<br \/>\n2. How unconventional RNA binding protein interacts with RNA<br \/>\n3. Centromere transcription and maintenance in the G1 phase s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Publications<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic Redistribution and Inheritance of Chromatin: RNA Interactions During Cell Division<br \/>\nEmily Sparago, Reito Watanabe, Judith A Sharp, Michael D Blower<br \/>\nFrontiers in RNA Research, Val. 1, Aug 3, 2023<\/li>\n<li>The cryo\u2010EM structure of the CENP\u2010A 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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>CENP-C Phosphorylation by CDK1 in vitro Reito Watanabe, Masatoshi Hara, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tatsuo Fukagawa Bio-protocol, 11(1) e3879, Jan 5, 2021<\/li>\n<li>CDK1-mediated CENP-C phosphorylation modulates CENP-A binding and mitotic kinetochore localization Reito Watanabe, Masatoshi Hara, Ei-Ichi Okumura, Sol\u00e8ne Herv\u00e9, Daniele Fachinetti, Mariko Ariyoshi, Tatsuo Fukagawa The Journal of cell biology, 218(12) 4042-4062, Dec 2, 2019<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Journal of Environment and Safety, 10(3) 177-187, 2019<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17297,"template":"","tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/17327\/revisions\/19521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}