Biography and Research Interest

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

1. Nishina, S., Kohsaka, S., Yamaguchi, Y., Handa, H., Kawakami, A., Fujisawa, H. and Azuma, N. (1999)
PAX6 expression in the developing human eye. British J. Ophthalmology 83, 723-727.

2. Nomura, T., Kawakami, A., and Fujisawa, H. (1998) Correlation between tectum formation and
expression of two PAX family genes, PAX6 and PAX7, in avian brains. Dev. Growth Differentiation 40,
485-495.

3. Yamamoto, M., Gotoh, Y., Tamura, K., Tanaka, M., Kawakami, A., Ide, H., and Kuroiwa, A. (1998)
Coordinated expression of Hoxa-11 and Hoxa-13 during limb musclepatterning. Development 125,
1325-1335.

4. Kawakami, A., Kimura-Kawakami, M., Nomura, T. and Fujisawa, H. (1997) Distributions of PAX6 and
PAX7 suggest their involvement in both early and late phases of chick brain development. Mech. Dev. 66,
119-130.

5. Ericson, J., Rashbass, A., Schedl, A., Brenner-Morton, S., Kawakami, A., von Heyningen, V., Jessell, T.
M. and Briscoe, J. (1997) Pax6 controls progenitor cell identity and neuronal fate in the spinal cord and
hindbrain in response to graded Shh signaling. Cell 90, 169-180.

6. Fujisawa, H., Kitsukawa, T., Kawakami, A., Takagi, S., Shimizu, M., and Hirata, T. (1997) Roles of a
neuronal cell-surface molecule, neuropilin, in nerve fiberfasciculation and guidance. Cell Tissue Res
290, 465-470.

7. Ericson, J., Morton, S., Kawakami, A., Roelink, H. and Jessell, T. M. (1996) Two critical periods of
Sonic Hedgehog signaling required for the specification of motor neuron identity. Cell 87, 661-673.

8. Kameyama, T., Murakami, Y., Sutou, F., Kawakami, A., Takagi, S., Hirata, T, and Fujisawa, H. (1996)
Identification of a neuronal cell surface molecule, Plexin, in mouse. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 226,
524-529.

9. Kameyama, T., Murakami, Y., Sutou, F., Kawakami, A., Takagi, S., Hirata, T, and Fujisawa, H. (1996)
Identification of Plexin family molecules in mouse. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 226, 396-402.

10. Sugisaki, N., Hirata, T., Naruse. I., Kawakami, A., Kitsukawa, T. and Fujisawa, H. Positional cues
that are strictly localized in the telencephalon induce preferential growth of mitral cell axons. (1996)
J. Neurobiol. 29, 127-137.

11. Kawakami, A., Kitsukawa, T., Takagi, S. and Fujisawa, H. (1996) Developmentally regulated
expression of a cell surface molecule, neuropilin, in the mouse nervous system. J. Neurobiol. 29, 1-17.

12. Kitsukawa, T., Shimono, A., Kawakami, A., Kondoh, H. and Fujisawa, H. (1995) Overexpression of a
membrane potein, neuropilin, in chimeric mice causes anomalies in the cardiovascular system, nervous
system and limb. Development 121, 4309-4318.

13. Ohta, K., Mizutani, A., Kawakami, A., Murakami, Y., Kasuya, Y., Takagi, S., Tanaka, H. and Fujisawa, H.
(1995) Plexin: A novel neuronal cell surface molecule that mediates cell adhesion via a homophilic
binding mechanism in the presence of calcium ions. Neuron 14, 1189-1199.

14. Takagi, S., Kasuya, Y., Shimizu, M., Matsuura, T., Tsuboi, M., Kawakami, A. and Fujisawa, H. (1995)
Expression of a cell adhesion molecule, neuropilin, in the developing chick nervous system. Dev. Biol.
170, 207-222.

15. Noguchi, T., Adachi-Yamada, T., Katagiri, T., Kawakami, A., Iwami, M., Ishibashi, J., Kataoka, H.,
Suzuki, A., Go, M. and Ishizaki, H. (1995) Insect prothoracicotropic hormone: a new member of the
vertebrate growth factor superfamily. FEBS letters 376, 251-256.

16. Ishibashi, J., Kataoka, H., Isogai, A., Kawakami, A., Saegusa, H., Yagi, Y., Mizoguchi, A., Ishizaki, H.
and Suzuki, A. (1994) Assignment of disulfide bond location in prothoracicotropic hormone of the
silkworm, Bombyx mori: a homodimeric peptide. Biochemistry 33, 5912-5919.

17. Kimura-Kawakami, M., Iwami, M., Kawakami, A., Nagasawa, H., Suzuki, A. and Ishizaki, H. (1992)
Structure and expression of bombyxin-related peptide genes of the moth Samia cynthia ricini. Gen Comp
Endocrinol 86, 257-268.

18. Kawakami, A., Kataoka, H., Oka, T., Mizoguchi, A., Kimura-Kawakami, M., Adachi, T., Iwami, M.,
Nagasawa, H., Suzuki, A. and Ishizaki, H. (1990) Molecular cloning of the Bombyx mori
prothoracicotropic hormone. Science 247, 1333-1335.

19. Iwami, M., Adachi, T., Kondoh, H., Kawakami, A., Nagasawa, H., Suzuki, A. and Ishizaki, H. (1990) A
novel family C of the genes that encode bombyxin, an insulin-related brain secretory peptide of the
silkmoth Bombyx mori : Isolation and characterization of gene C-1. Insect Biochem. 20, 295-303.

20. Kawakami, A., Iwami, M., Nagasawa, H., Suzuki, A. and Ishizaki, H. (1989) Structure and
organization of four clustered genes that encode bombyxin, an insulin-related brain secretory peptide
of the silkmoth Bombyx mori. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 6843-6847.

21. Iwami, M., Kawakami, A., Ishizaki, H., Takahashi, S. Y., Adachi, T., Suzuki, Y., Nagasawa, H. and
Suzuki, A. (1989) Cloning of a gene encoding bombyxin, an insulin-like secretory peptide of the silkmoth
Bombyx mori with prothoracicotropic activity. Develop. Growth & Differ. 31, 31-37.

22. Adachi, T., Takiya, S., Suzuki, Y., Iwami, M., Kawakami, A., Takahashi, S. Y., Ishizaki, H., Nagasawa,
H. and Suzuki, A. (1989) cDNA structure and expression of bombyxin, an insulin-like brain secretory
peptide of the silkmoth Bombyx mori. J. Biol. Chem. 264, 7681-7685.

23. Hirano, S., Nose, A., Hatta, K., Kawakami, A. and Takeichi, M. (1987) Calcium-dependent cell-cell
adhesion molecules (cadherins): subclass specificities and possible involvement of actin bundles. J.
Cell. Biol. 105, 2501-2510