Publications
Suzuki R, Honda S, and Kirino Y. PIWI expression and function in cancer Front Genet. 2012;3:204.
Kirino Y, Vourekas A, Khandros E, Mourelatos Z. Immunoprecipitation of piRNPs and directional, next generation sequencing of piRNAs. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;725:281-293.
Kirino Y, Vourekas A, Kim N, de Lima Alves F, Rappsilber J, Klein PS, Jongens TA, Mourelatos Z. Arginine methylation of Vasa proteins is conserved across phyla. J Biol Chem. 2010;285:8148-8154.
Kirino Y, Vourekas A, de Lima Alves F, Rappsilber J, Jongens TA, Mourelatos Z. Arginine methylation of Aubergine mediates Tudor binding and germ plasm localization. RNA. 2010;16:70-78.
Kirino Y, Kim N, Planell-Saguer M, Khandros E, Chiorean S, Klein PS, Rigoutsos I, Jongens TA, Mourelatos Z. Arginine methylation of Piwi proteins catalyzed by dPRMT5 is required for Ago3 and Aub stability. Nat Cell Biol. 2009;11:652-658.
Kirino Y, Mourelatos Z. Site-specific crosslinking of human microRNPs to RNA targets. RNA. 2008;14:2254-2259.
Kirino Y, Mourelatos Z. The mouse homolog of HEN1 is a potential methylase for Piwi-interacting RNAs. RNA. 2007;13:1397-1401.
Kirino Y, Mourelatos Z. Mouse Piwi-interacting RNAs are 2'-O-methylated at their 3' termini. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2007;14:347-348.
Kirino Y, Yasukawa T, Marjavaara SK, Jacobs HT, Holt IJ, Watanabe K, Suzuki T. Acquisition of the wobble modification in mitochondrial tRNALeu(CUN) bearing the G12300A mutation suppresses the MELAS molecular defect. Hum Mol Genet. 2006;15:897-904.
Kirino Y, Goto Y, Campos Y, Arenas J, Suzuki T. Specific correlation between the wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNAs and the clinical features of a human mitochondrial disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2005;102:7127-7132.
Kirino Y, Suzuki T. Human mitochondrial diseases associated with tRNA wobble modification deficiency. RNA Biol. 2005;2:41-44.
Kirino Y, Yasukawa T, Ohta S, Akira S, Ishihara K, Watanabe K, Suzuki T. Codon-specific translational defect caused by a wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNA from a human mitochondrial disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2004;101:15070-15075.
