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Max Perutz Labs: Vienna, AT

2025-01-01 to present | Associate Professor
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Shotaro Otsuka

Max Perutz Labs: Vienna, AT

2019-04-01 to 2024-12-31 | Group Leader
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Shotaro Otsuka

EMBL: Heidelberg, DE

2011-04-01 to 2019-03-31
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Shotaro Otsuka

Education and qualifications (1)

Kyoto University: Kyoto, JP

2002-04-01 to 2011-03-31
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Shotaro Otsuka

Works (36)

Integrative spatiotemporal modeling of biomolecular processes: Application to the assembly of the nuclear pore complex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2025-03-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Andrew P. Latham; Wanlu Zhang; Jeremy O. B. Tempkin; Shotaro Otsuka; Jan Ellenberg; Andrej Sali
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Sculpting nuclear envelope identity from the endoplasmic reticulum during the cell cycle

Nucleus
2024-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Pallavi Deolal; Julia Scholz; Kaike Ren; Helena Bragulat-Teixidor; Shotaro Otsuka
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Integrative spatiotemporal modeling of biomolecular processes: application to the assembly of the Nuclear Pore Complex

2024-08-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Andrew P. Latham; Jeremy O. B. Tempkin; Shotaro Otsuka; Wanlu Zhang; Jan Ellenberg; Andrej Sali
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The endoplasmic reticulum connects to the nucleus by constricted junctions that mature after mitosis

EMBO Reports
2024-06-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Helena Bragulat-Teixidor; Keisuke Ishihara; Gréta Martina Szücs; Shotaro Otsuka
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Correlative light and electron microscopy at defined cell cycle stages in a controlled environment

Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy V
2024-03-26 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780323951418
Part of ISSN: 0091-679X
Contributors: Helena Bragulat-Teixidor; Shotaro Otsuka
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Structural evidence for elastic tethers connecting separating chromosomes in crane-fly spermatocytes

Life Science Alliance
2023-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Arthur Forer; Shotaro Otsuka
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Structural evidence for elastic tethers connecting separating chromosomes in crane-fly spermatocytes

2023-05-28 | Preprint
Contributors: Arthur Forer; Shotaro Otsuka
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The endoplasmic reticulum connects to the nucleus by constricted junctions that mature after open mitosis in mammalian cells

2023-02-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Helena Bragulat-Teixidor; Keisuke Ishihara; Gréta Martina Szücs; Shotaro Otsuka
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A quantitative map of nuclear pore assembly reveals two distinct mechanisms

Nature
2023-01-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Shotaro Otsuka; Jeremy O. B. Tempkin; Wanlu Zhang; Antonio Z. Politi; Arina Rybina; M. Julius Hossain; Moritz Kueblbeck; Andrea Callegari; Birgit Koch; Natalia Rosalia Morero et al.
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A mitotic chromatin phase transition prevents perforation by microtubules

Nature
2022-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Maximilian W. G. Schneider; Bryan A. Gibson; Shotaro Otsuka; Maximilian F. D. Spicer; Mina Petrovic; Claudia Blaukopf; Christoph C. H. Langer; Paul Batty; Thejaswi Nagaraju; Lynda K. Doolittle et al.
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Visualizing Nuclear Pore Complex Assembly In Situ in Human Cells at Nanometer Resolution by Correlating Live Imaging with Electron Microscopy.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
2022-04-13 | Book chapter
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Shotaro Otsuka

A chromatin phase transition protects mitotic chromosomes against microtubule perforation

2021-07-05 | Other
Contributors: Maximilian W. G. Schneider; Bryan A. Gibson; Shotaro Otsuka; Maximilian F.D. Spicer; Mina Petrovic; Claudia Blaukopf; Christoph C. H. Langer; Lynda K. Doolittle; Michael K. Rosen; Daniel W. Gerlich
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A quantitative map of nuclear pore assembly reveals two distinct mechanisms

2021-05-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Shotaro Otsuka; Jeremy O. B. Tempkin; Wanlu Zhang; Antonio Z. Politi; Arina Rybina; M. Julius Hossain; Moritz Kueblbeck; Andrea Callegari; Birgit Koch; Natalia Rosalia Morero et al.
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Chemogenetic Control of Nanobodies

Nature Methods
2020-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1548-7091
Part of ISSN: 1548-7105
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Shotaro Otsuka

Mechanisms of nuclear pore complex assembly – two different ways of building one molecular machine

FEBS Letters
2018-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Shotaro Otsuka; Jan Ellenberg
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Postmitotic nuclear pore assembly proceeds by radial dilation of small membrane openings

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
2018-01-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Shotaro Otsuka; Anna M. Steyer; Martin Schorb; Jean-Karim Hériché; M. Julius Hossain; Suruchi Sethi; Moritz Kueblbeck; Yannick Schwab; Martin Beck; Jan Ellenberg
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Nuclear pore assembly proceeds by an inside-out extrusion of the nuclear envelope

eLife
2016-09-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Shotaro Otsuka; Khanh Huy Bui; Martin Schorb; M Julius Hossain; Antonio Z Politi; Birgit Koch; Mikhail Eltsov; Martin Beck; Jan Ellenberg
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Dissecting in vivo steady-state dynamics of karyopherin-dependent nuclear transport

Mol Biol Cell
2016-01-01 | Journal article
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Shotaro Otsuka

Imaging the assembly, structure, and function of the nuclear pore inside cells.

2014 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/B978-0-12-417160-2.00010-2

PMID:

24857732

Contributors: Otsuka, Shotaro; Szymborska, Anna; Ellenberg, Jan
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EMBL-EBI

Intermolecular disulfide bonds between nucleoporins regulate karyopherin-dependent nuclear transport.

2013-07 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1242/jcs.124172

PMID:

23641069

Contributors: Yoshimura, Shige H; Otsuka, Shotaro; Kumeta, Masahiro; Taga, Mariko; Takeyasu, Kunio
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EMBL-EBI

Nup358, a nucleoporin, functions as a key determinant of the nuclear pore complex structure remodeling during skeletal myogenesis.

2011-02 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07982.x

PMID:

21205196

Contributors: Asally, Munehiro; Yasuda, Yoshinari; Oka, Masahiro; Otsuka, Shotaro; Yoshimura, Shige H; Takeyasu, Kunio; Yoneda, Yoshihiro
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EMBL-EBI

Individual binding pockets of importin-beta for FG-nucleoporins have different binding properties and different sensitivities to RanGTP.

2008-10 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1073/pnas.0802647105

PMID:

18845677

PMC:

PMC2570979

Contributors: Otsuka, Shotaro; Iwasaka, Shizuka; Yoneda, Yoshihiro; Takeyasu, Kunio; Yoshimura, Shige H
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EMBL-EBI

Nuclear architecture and chromatin dynamics revealed by atomic force microscopy in combination with biochemistry and cell biology.

2008-04 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s00424-007-0431-z

PMID:

18172599

Contributors: Hirano, Yasuhiro; Takahashi, Hirohide; Kumeta, Masahiro; Hizume, Kohji; Hirai, Yuya; Otsuka, Shotaro; Yoshimura, Shige H; Takeyasu, Kunio
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EMBL-EBI

Development of glutathione-coupled cantilever for the single-molecule force measurement by scanning force microscopy.

2006-07 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.032

PMID:

16806198

Contributors: Yoshimura, Shige H; Takahashi, Hirohide; Otsuka, Shotaro; Takeyasu, Kunio
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EMBL-EBI

FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 11.2 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 3.1 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 3.9 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 4.3 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 5.3 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 5.7 min after anaphase onset

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FIB-SEM of a dividing cell at 6.3 min after anaphase onset

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Raw 2d tomographic tilt series of a dividing cell

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EMBL-EBI

Tomograms and the raw 2d tilt series of ER-ER junctions of HeLa cells in interphase

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EMBL-EBI

Tomograms and the raw 2d tilt series of ER-ER/nuclear envelope junctions of HeLa cells in late anaphase

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Tomograms and the raw 2d tilt series of ER-nuclear envelope junctions of HeLa cells in early telophase

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Tomograms and the raw 2d tilt series of ER-nuclear envelope junctions of HeLa cells in interphase

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EMBL-EBI

Peer review (5 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Cellular and molecular life sciences (1)
Review activity for EMBO journal. (1)
Review activity for Journal of Molecular Biology. (2)
Review activity for Life science alliance. (1)