1) Miho Katsuki, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Hiromu Murofushi and Susumu Kotani "The 'assembly-promoting sequence region' of microtubule-associated protein 4 failed to promote microtubule assembly" (1997) FEBS Letters 418, 35-38.
2) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Fumio Kishi and Susumu Kotani "Human natural resistance-associated macrophage protein is a new type of microtubule-associated protein" (1998) FEBS Letters 428, 63-67.
3) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Miho Katsuki, Hiroyuki Nakagawa and Susumu Kotani "A new model for microtubule-associated protein (MAP) induced microtubule assembly. The pro-rich region of MAP4 promotes nucleation of microtubule assembly in vitro" (1999) Eur. J. Biochem. 259, 158-166.
4) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Miho Katsuki, Takanori Matui, Tomomi Kuroya and Susumu Kotani "Microtubule-binding property of microtubule-associated protein 2 differs from that of microtubule-associated protein 4 and tau" (1999) Eur. J. Biochem. 264, 996-1001.
5) Miho Katsuki, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Hiromu Murofushi and Susumu Kotani "Functional analysis of microtubule-binding domain of bovine MAP4" (1999) Cell Struct. Func. 24, 337-344.
6) Miho Katsuki, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Susumu Kotani "Purification and characterization of a new, ubiquitously distributed class of microtubule-associated protein with a molecular mass of 250kDa" (2000) Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 7193-7200.
7) Kiyotaka Tokuraku "Tubulin-bindin motif, Microtubule-bindin (repeat) domain" (2001) Seitai no Kagaku 52(5), 486-487.
8) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Taro Q. P. Uyeda "Phalloidin affects the myosin-dependent sliding velocities of actin filaments in a bound-divalent cation dependent manner" (2001) J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 22, 371-378.
9) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Shinya Okamoto, Miho Katsuki, Hiroyuki Nakagawa and Susumu Kotani "Actin depolymerizing factor destrin has an actin stabilizing domain" (2001) Biochem. Cell Biol. 79, 773-778.
10) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Miho Katsuki, and Susumu Kotani "Structural and Functional Analyses of Microtubule-associated Protein 4" (2002) Rec. Res. Develop. Biochem. 3, 315-333.
11) Taro Q. P. Uyeda, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Kuniyoshi Kaseda, Martin R. Webb, and Bruce Patterson "Evidence for a novel, strongly bound acto･S1･ADP･Pi complex stabilized in the G680V mutant of Dictyostelium myosin II" (2002) Biochemistry 41, 9525-9534.
12) Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Kazuyuki Matsushima, Takanori Matui, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Miho Katsuki, Rie Majima, and Susumu Kotani "The number of repeat sequences in microtubule-associated protein 4 affects the microtubule surface properties" (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 29609-29618.
13) Takanori Matui, Kiyotaka
Tokuraku, Yuka Shimazaki, and Susumu Kotani "Identification of an XMAP215-related
60 kDa polypeptide as a major microtubule-associated protein in Tetrahymena
pyriformis" (2004) Jpn. J. Protozoo. 37, 11-18.
International Meetings
1）Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Miho Katsuki, Hiroyuki Nakagawa and Susumu Kotani "Function of the Pro-rich region in microtubule-associated protein" 25th Silver Jubilee FEBS Meeting (Copenhagen) July, 1998
2）Miho Katsuki, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Hiromu Murofushi and Susumu Kotani "Functional analysis of microtubule-binding domain of bovine MAP4" The 42nd NIBB Conference "Tubulin: 30 Years Later" (Okazaki) February, 1999
3）Taro Q. P. Uyeda, Eisaku Katayama, Kiyotaka Tokuraku,
Kuniyoshi Kaseda, and Bruce Patterson "An extended prestrok A・S1・ADP・Pi
state of G680V mutant dictyostelium S1 in the presence of ATP" Biophysics
Meeting (Boston) February, 2001