Takahashi S., Iwamoto N., Sasaki H., Ohashi M., Oda Y., Tsukita S., and Furuse M. (2009) The E3 ubiquitin ligase LNX1p80 promotes the removal of claudins from tight junctions in MDCK cells. J. Cell Sci. 122 985-994; doi: 10.1242/10.1242/jcs.040055.

Geden, S. E., Gardner, R.A., Fabbrini, M., Ohashi, M., Phanstiel, O., and Teter, K. (2007) Lipopolyamine Treatment Increases the Efficacy of Intoxication with Saporin and an Anti-Cancer Saporin Conjugate. FEBS J. 274, 4825-4836;   doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06008.x.

Lee, R. H. K., Iioka, H., Ohashi, M., Iemura, S., Natsume, T., Kinoshita, N. (2007) XRab40 and XCullin5 form a ubiquitin ligase complex essential for the noncanonical Wnt pathway. EMBO J. 26, 3592-3606; doi: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601781.

Sugii, S., Lin, S., Ohgami, N., Ohashi, M., Chang, C. C. Y., Chang, T.-Y. (2006) Roles of endogenously synthesized sterols in the endocytic pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 23191-23206.

Ohashi, M. (2005) Basic functions of lipids in intracellular membrane traffic. Proc. Indian Natl. Sci. Acad. B Biol. Sci. 71, 97-107.

Ohashi, M. (2004) Cholesterol and endosomal sorting. Recent Res. Devel. Cell Sci. 1, 112-116.

Ohashi, M.*, Mizushima, N., Kabeya, Y., Yoshimori, T. (2003) Localization of mammalian NAD(P)H steroid dehydrogenase-like protein on lipid droplets. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 36819-36829.

Miwako, I., Yamamoto, A., Kitamura, T., Nagayama, K. and Ohashi, M.* (2001). Cholesterol requirement for cation-independent mannose 6-phosphate receptor exit from multivesicular late endosomes to the Golgi. J. Cell Sci. 114, 1765-1776.

Ohashi, M.*, Miwako, I., Yamamoto, A. and Nagayama, K. (2000). Arrested maturing multivesicular endosomes observed in a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant, LEX2, isolated by repeated flow-cytometric cell sorting. J. Cell Sci. 113, 2187-2205.

Yoshimori, T., Yamagata, F., Yamamoto, A., Mizushima, N., Kabeya, Y., Nara, A., Miwako, I., Ohashi, M., Ohsumi, M. and Ohsumi, Y. (2000). The Mouse SKD1, a Homologue of Yeast Vps4p, Is Required for Normal Endosomal Trafficking and Morphology in Mammalian Cells. Mol. Biol. Cell 11, 747-763.

Ohashi, M.*, Miwako, I., Nakamura, K., Yamamoto, A., Murata, M., Ohnishi, S., and Nagayama, K. (1999) An arrested late endosome-lysosome intermediate aggregate observed in a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant isolated by novel three-step screening. J. Cell Sci. 112, 1125-1138.

Ohashi, M., Bauerfeind, R., and Huttner, W. B. (1996) Biogenesis of constitutive secretory vesicles, secretory granules and synaptic vesicles - facts and concepts. In Protein Targeting, S. M. Hurtley (Ed.) IRL press, Oxford, 152-175.

Huttner, W. B., Ohashi, M., Kehlenbach, R. H., Barr, F. A., Bauerfeind, R., Braunling, O., Corbeil, D., Hannah, M., Pasolli, A. Schmidt, A., Schmidt, A., Thiele, C., Wang, Y., Kromer, A., and Gerdes, H.-H. (1996) Biogenesis of neurosecretory vesicles. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 60, 315-327.

Ohashi, M., de Vries, K. J., Frank, R., Snoek, G., Bankaitis, V., Wirtz, K., and Huttner, W. B. (1995) A role for phosphatidylinositol transfer protein in secretory vesicle formation. Nature 377, 544-547.

Ohashi, M., and Huttner, W. B. (1994) An elevation of cytosolic protein phosphorylation modulates trimeric G-protein regulation of secretory vesicle formation from the trans-Golgi network. J. Biol. Chem., 269, 24897-24905.

Ohashi, M., Murata, M., and Ohnishi, S. (1992) A novel fluorescence method to monitor the lysosomal disintegration of low density lipoprotein. Eur. J. Cell Biol., 59, 116-126.

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