College of Medicine
Fujii Lab
Led by Kotaro Fujii · Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
What we study
The Fujii Lab studies how ribosomes regulate protein synthesis to maintain cell function and prevent diseases like neurodegeneration. They use biochemistry, genetics, and genomics to explore translation fidelity and signaling regulation in mammals.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Mice
- Cells in a dish
- Yeast
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
How to Build Up Functional Proteome?
Investigating mechanisms to improve ribosome accuracy in protein synthesis.
Decoding the Role of mRNA Translation in Cell Signaling
Exploring how translation regulation impacts developmental signaling pathways.
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Recent papers, explained
- Ribosomal expansion segment contributes to translation fidelity via N-terminal processing of ribosomal proteins
2025 · Nucleic Acids Research
Shows how a ribosome part helps clean up mistakes in protein-making.
- Translation suppresses exogenous target RNA-mediated microRNA decay
2025 · Nature Communications
Shows how translation affects microRNA decay in target RNA.
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- RAPIDASH: Tag-free enrichment of ribosome-associated proteins reveals composition dynamics in embryonic tissue, cancer cells, and macrophages
2024 · Molecular Cell
- Combinatorial optimization of mRNA structure, stability, and translation for RNA-based therapeutics
2022 · Nature Communications
Finds that mRNA stability, not just ribosome load, affects protein output in RNA-based treatments.
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