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  • Katsutomo Okamura, Nicolas Robine, Ying Liu, Qinghua Liu, and Eric C. Lai (2011) R2D2 organizes small regulatory RNA pathways in Drosophila. Mol. Cell. Biol. 31(4):884-96
  • Wei-Jen Chung, Phaedra Agius, Jakub O. Westholm, Michael Chen, Katsutomo Okamura, Nicolas Robine, Christina S. Leslie, and Eric C. Lai (2011) Computational and experimental identification of mirtrons in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans Genome Research 21(2):286-300
  • Eugene Berezikov, Nicolas Robine, Anastasia Samsonova, Jakub O. Westholm, Ammar Naqvi, Jui-Hung Hung, Katsutomo Okamura, Qi Dai, Raquel Martin, Yongjun Zhao, Phillip D. Zamore, Gregory J. Hannon, Marco A. Marra, Zhiping Weng, Norbert Perrimon, and Eric C. Lai (2011), Deep annotation of Drosophila melanogaster microRNAs yields insights into their processing, modification, and emergence. Genome Research 21(2):203-15
  • Daniel Hain, Brian R. Bettencourt, Katsutomo Okamura, Tibor Csorba, Wibke Meyer, Zhigang Jin, Jason Biggerstaff, Haruhiko Siomi, Gyorgy Hutvagner, Eric C. Lai, Michael Welte, H.-Arno J. Müller. (2010) Natural variation of the amino-terminal glutamine-rich domain in Drosophila argonaute2 is not associated with developmental defects. PLoS One 5(12):e15264.
  • The modENCODE consortium et al. (40th in 96 authors) (2010) Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE, Science 330(6012):1787-97
  • Nicolas Robine, Nelson C. Lau, Sudha Balla, Zhigang Jin, Katsutomo Okamura, Satomi Kuramochi-Miyagawa, Michael D. Blower, Eric C. Lai. (2009) A Broadly Conserved Pathway Generates 3'UTR-Directed Primary piRNAs. Current Biology. 19(24): 2066-2076.
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Na Liu and Eric C. Lai (2009) Distinct mechanisms for microRNA strand selection by Drosophila Argonautes. Molecular Cell. 36(3): 431-44.
  • Katsutomo Okamura*, Sudha Balla*, Raquel Martin, Na Liu and Eric C. Lai (2008) Two distinct mechanisms generate endogenous siRNAs from bidirectional transcription in Droophila. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15(6): 581-90 (*: Equal contribution)
  • Wei-Jen Chung*, Katsutomo Okamura*, Raquel Martin* and Eric C. Lai (2008) Endogenous RNA interference provides a somatic defense against Drosophila transposons. Current Biology 18(11): 795-802. (*: Equal contribution)
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Wei-Jen Chung, J. Graham Ruby, Huili Guo, David P. Bartel and Eric C. Lai (2008) The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous siRNAs Nature 453(7196): 803-6
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Michael D. Phillips, David M. Tyler, Hong Duan, Yu-ting Chou and Eric C. Lai (2008) The regulatory activity of microRNA* species has substantial influence on microRNA and 3' UTR evolution. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15(4): 354-63
  • Pelin Cayirlioglu, Ilona Grunwald Kadow, Xiaoli Zhan, Katsutomo Okamura, Greg S.B. Suh, Dorian Gunning, Eric C. Lai, David J. Anderson and S. Lawrence Zipursky (2008) Hybrid Neurons In a microRNA Mutant Are Putative Evolutionary Intermediates In Insect CO2 Sensory Systems. Science 319(5867): 1256-60
  • David M. Tyler, Katsutomo Okamura, Wei-jen Chung, Joshua W. Hagen, Eugene Berezikov, Gregory J. Hannon, and Eric C. Lai (2008) Functionally distinct regulatory RNAs generated by bidirectional transcription and processing of microRNA loci. Genes & Development 22(1): 26-36.
  • Serena J. Silver, Joshua W. Hagen, Katsutomo Okamura, Norbert Perrimon and Eric C. Lai (2007) Functional screening identifies miR-315 as a potent activator of Wingless signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(46): 18151-6
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Joshua W. Hagen, Hong Duan, David M. Tyler and Eric C. Lai (2007) The mirtron pathway generates microRNA-class regulatory RNAs in Drosophila. Cell 130(1): 89-100
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Akira Ishizuka, Haruhiko Siomi and Mikiko C. Siomi (2004) Distinct roles for Drosophila Argonaute proteins in small RNA-directed RNA cleavage pathways. Genes & Development 18, 1655-1666
  • Katsutomo Okamura, Yukio Kimata, Hironori Higashio, Akio Tsuru, and Kenji Kohno (2000) Dissociation of Kar2/BiP from an ER sensory molecule, Ire1p, triggers the unfolded protein response in yeast. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 279, 445-450