Sasaki-Sekimoto, Y., Saito, H., Masuda, S., Shirasu, K. and Ohta, H. (2014) Comprehensive analysis of protein interactions between JAZ proteins and bHLH transcription factors that negatively regulate jasmonate signaling Plant Signaling Behavior In press.

Masuda, S., Tokaji, Y., Kobayashi, Y. and Ohta, H. (2014) Mechanisms of induction of the stress-responsive transcription factors HsfA2 and DREB2A by 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. In press.

Masuda, S., Nakatani, Y., Ren, S. and Tanaka, M. (2013) Blue light-mediated manipulation of transcription factor activity in vivo ACS Chem. Biol. 8: 2649-2653. DOI: 10.1021/cb400174d

Awakawa, T., Sugai, Y., Otsutomo, K., Ren, S., Masuda, S., Katsuyama, Y., Horinouchi, S. and Ohnishi, Y. (2013) 4-hydroxy-3-methyl-6-(1-methyl-2-oxoalkyl)pyran-2-one synthesis by a type III polyketide synthase from Rhodospirillum centenum. ChemBioChem May 27;14(8):1006-13. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201300066. Epub 2013 Apr 22.

Yasuhito Sekine, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Yano, Ryu Funase, Ken Takai, Morio Ishihara, Takazo Shibuya, Shogo Tachibana, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Hikaru Yabuta, Jun Kimura, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Exploration of Enceladus' water-rich plumes toward understanding of chemistry and biology of the interior ocean. Aerospace Technology Japan - The ISTS special issue of Transactions of JSASS, 2014, in press.

Shinji Masuda, Yuki Nakatani, Shukun Ren, Mikiko Tanaka.(2013) "Blue Light-Mediated Manipulation of Transcription Factor Activity In Vivo" ACS Chemical Biology DOI:10.1021/cb400174d (Published Online:September 24,2013)

Masuda S, Hori K, Maruyama F, Ren S, Sugimoto S, Yamamoto N, Mori H, Yamada T, Sato S, Tabata S, Ohta H, Kurokawa K. (2013) Whole-Genome Sequence of the Purple Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum Strain W4. Genome Announc. 2013 Aug 8;1(4).

Sasaki-Sekimoto Y, Jikumaru Y, Obayashi T, Saito H, Masuda S, Kamiya Y, Ohta H, Shirasu K. Plant Physiol. 2013 Jul 16. [Epub ahead of print], bHLH transcription factors JA-ASSOCIATED MYC2-LIKE 1, JAM2 and JAM3 are negative regulators of jasmonate responses in Arabidopsis, Published online before print July 2013, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.113.220129 Plant Physiology July 2013 pp.113.220129

Kobayashi Yasuhumi, Kobayashi Yuriko, Watanabe T, Shaff JE, Ohta H, Kochian L, Wagatsuma T, Kinraide, TB and Koyama H. (2013) Molecular and physiological analysis of Al3+ and H+ rhizotoxicities at moderately acidic conditions. Plant Physiology Preview. 2013 July DOI:10.1104/pp.113.222893

Ren S, Sato R, Hasegawa K, Ohta H, Masuda S. (2013) A predicted structure for the PixD-PixE complex determined by homology modeling, docking simulations, and a mutagenesis study. Biochemistry. 2013 Feb 19;52(7):1272-9.