Hand-drawn sketches of Drosophila egg chambers beside a pen

Publications

2021

Tumor-cell invasion initiates at invasion hotspots, an epithelial tissue-intrinsic microenvironment

Kobayashi, R., Takishima, H., Deng, S., Fujita, Y., and Tamori, Y.

bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/2021.09.28.462102.

Sequential oncogenic mutations influence cell competition

Kohashi, K., Mori, Y., Narumi, R., Kozawa, K., Kamasaki, T., Ishikawa, S., Kajita, M., Kobayashi, R., Tamori, Y., and Fujita, Y.

Current Biology, 31: 3984–3995.

Tumor hotspots: Tissue-intrinsic oncogenic niche

Kobayashi, R. and Tamori, Y.

The Cell (Saibo), “Angiogenesis and immunity in tumor development.” Japanese

2020

Mechanotransduction-mediated epithelial tissue repair through cell competition

Nara, S. and Tamori, Y.

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (Igaku No Ayumi), 274: 434–441. Japanese

2019

The initial stage of tumorigenesis in Drosophila epithelial tissues

Tamori, Y.

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1167: 87–103.

Cell competition and tissue homeostasis through compensatory cellular growth

Tamori, Y. and Fujita, Y.

Journal of Japanese Biochemical Society, 9: 147–158. Japanese

2018

Tissue-intrinsic tumor hotspots

Tamori, Y.

The Cell (Saibo), “Tumor Microenvironment.” Japanese

2017

Induction and diagnosis of tumors in Drosophila imaginal disc epithelia

Morimoto, K. and Tamori, Y.

Journal of Visualized Experiments, 125: e55901.

Systematic analysis of microRNAs in Drosophila epithelial tumors reveals tumor-enhancing and tumor-suppressing microRNAs

Shu, Z., Huang, Y.-C., Palmer, W., Tamori, Y., Moreno, H., Wang, H., Liu, N., and Deng, W.-M.

Oncotarget, 8: 108825–108839.

Tissue-intrinsic tumor hotspots: terroir for tumorigenesis

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Trends in Cancer, 3: 259–268.

2016

Epithelial tumors originate in tumor hotspots, a tissue-intrinsic microenvironment

Tamori, Y., Suzuki, E., and Deng, W.-M.

PLoS Biology, 14(9): e1002537.

Growth of winner cells in cell competition—replacement and compensation

Tamori, Y.

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (Igaku No Ayumi), Vol. 29, No. 9. Japanese

Compensatory tissue repair in cell competition

Tamori, Y.

Seitai No Kagaku, Vol. 67, No. 2. Japanese

2014

Compensatory cellular hypertrophy: the other strategy for tissue homeostasis

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Trends in Cell Biology, 24: 230–237.

Regulation of broad by the Notch pathway affects timing of follicle cell development

Jia, D., Tamori, Y., Pyrowolakis, G., and Deng, W.-M.

Developmental Biology, 392: 52–61.

2013

Tissue repair through cell competition and compensatory cellular hypertrophy in postmitotic epithelia

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Developmental Cell, 25: 350–363.

Efficient EGFR signaling and dorsal-ventral axis patterning requires syntaxin-dependent Gurken trafficking

Tian, A.-G., Tamori, Y., Huang, Y.-C., Toledo, M. N., and Deng, W.-M.

Developmental Biology, 373: 349–358.

2012

Knudson Hypothesis

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Cell Press Cell Picture Show: Cancer.

2011

Cell competition and its implications for development and cancer

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 38: 483–496.

2010

Involvement of Lgl and Mahjong/VprBP in cell competition

Tamori, Y., Bialucha, C. U., Tian, A.-G., Kajita, M., Huang, Y.-C., Norman, M., Harrison, N., Poulton, J., Ivanovitch, K., Disch, L., Liu, T., Deng, W.-M., and Fujita, Y.

PLoS Biology, 8: e1000422.

Mahjong-mediated regulation of cell competition

Tamori, Y. and Deng, W.-M.

Experimental Medicine (Jikken Igaku), Vol. 29, No. 9. Japanese

2009

Maternal effects on phenotypic plasticity in larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus

Michimae, H., Nishimura, K., Tamori, Y., and Wakahara, M.

Oecologia, 160: 601–608.

2008

Evolution acts on enhancer organization to fine-tune gradient threshold readouts

Crocker, J., Tamori, Y., and Erives, A.

PLoS Biology, 6: e263.

2005

P450 aromatase expression in the temperature-sensitive sexual differentiation of salamander (Hynobius retardatus) gonads

Sakata, N., Tamori, Y., and Wakahara, M.

International Journal of Developmental Biology, 49: 417–425.

2004

Spatio-temporal expression of a DAZ-like gene in the Japanese newt Cynops pyrrhogaster that has no germ plasm

Tamori, Y., Iwai, T., Mita, K., and Wakahara, M.

Development Genes and Evolution, 214: 615–627.

2000

Conversion of red blood cells from the larval to the adult type during metamorphosis in Xenopus: specific removal of mature larval-type RBCs by apoptosis

Tamori, Y. and Wakahara, M.

International Journal of Developmental Biology, 44: 373–380.

Homoiogenetic regulation through the ectoderm on localized expression of the hatching gland phenotype in the head area of Xenopus embryos

Tamori, Y., Mita, K., and Katagiri, C.

Development Growth and Differentiation, 42: 459–467.