Publication
1. Yamasaki DT and Narita TB (2024)
Evidence that the StlA polyketide synthase is required for the transition of growth to development in Polysphondylium violaceum, Biosci Biotechnol Biochem, 88(11): 1362-1369. doi.org/10.1093/bbb/zbae108
2. Kawabe Y, Du Q, Narita TB, Bell C, Schilde C, Kin K, Schaap P (2023)
Emerging roles for diguanylate cyclase during the evolution of soma in dictyostelia, BMC Ecol Evol, 23(60),
doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02169-z
3. Yamasaki DT, Araki T, Narita TB (2022)
The polyketide synthase StlA is involved in inducing aggregation in Polysphondylium violaceum, Biosci Biotechnol Biochem,
86(11): 1590-1598.
4. Narita TB, Kawabe Y, Kin K, Gibbs RA, Kuspa A, Muzny DM, Richards S, Strassmann JE, Sucgang R, Worley KC, Schaap P (2020)
Loss of the polyketide synthase StlB results in stalk cell overproduction in Polysphondylium violaceum, Genome Biol Evol,
12 (5): 674-683.
5. Kondo AP, Narita TB, Murata C, Ogura T, Mikagi A, Usuki T, Saito T (2019)
4-Methyl-5-Pentylbenzene-1,3-Diol Regulates Chemotactic Cell Aggregation and Spore Maturation Via Different Mechanisms in Dictyostelium discoideum, Current Microbiol, 2019 Feb 1, doi: 10.1007/s00284-019-01639-2.
6. Narita TB, Schaap P, Saito T (2017)
Effects of deletion of the receptor CrlA on Dictyostelim aggregation and MPBD-mediated responses are strain dependent and not evident in strain Ax2, FEMS Microbiol Lett, 364 (4): fnx022.
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx022
7. Narita TB, Chen ZH, Schaap P, Saito T (2014).
The Hybrid Type Polyketide Synthase SteelyA Is Required for cAMP Signalling in Early Dictyostelium Development, PLoS One,
9: e106634.
8. Narita TB, Kikukawa TW, Sato YG, Miyazaki SH, Morita N, Saito T (2014)
Role of fatty acid synthase in the development of Dictyostelium discoideum, J Oleo Sci, Feb 26;63(3):281-9.
9. Sato YG, Kagami HN, Narita TB, Fukuzawa M, Saito T (2013)
Steely Enzymes Are Involved in Prestalk and Prespore Pattern Formation, Biosci Biotechnol Biochem, 77(10), 2008-12.
10. Narita TB, Koide K, Morita N, Saito T (2011)
Dictyostelium hybrid polyketide synthase, SteelyA, produces 4-methyl-5-pentylbenzene-1, 3-diol and induces spore maturation, FEMS Microbiol Lett, 319(1), 82-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02273.x.