The onset of collective behavior in social amoebae T Gregor, K Fujimoto, N Masaki, S Sawai Science 328 (5981), 1021-1025, 2010 | 387 | 2010 |
An autoregulatory circuit for long-range self-organization in Dictyostelium cell populations S Sawai, PA Thomason, EC Cox Nature 433 (7023), 323-326, 2005 | 208 | 2005 |
Phase geometries of two-dimensional excitable waves govern self-organized morphodynamics of amoeboid cells D Taniguchi, S Ishihara, T Oonuki, M Honda-Kitahara, K Kaneko, S Sawai Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (13), 5016-5021, 2013 | 145 | 2013 |
Population Fitness and the Regulation of Escherichia coli Genes by Bacterial Viruses Y Chen, I Golding, S Sawai, L Guo, EC Cox PLoS biology 3 (7), e229, 2005 | 133 | 2005 |
Rectified directional sensing in long-range cell migration A Nakajima, S Ishihara, D Imoto, S Sawai Nature communications 5 (1), 5367, 2014 | 118 | 2014 |
Phosphorylated Rho–GDP directly activates mTORC2 kinase towards AKT through dimerization with Ras–GTP to regulate cell migration H Senoo, Y Kamimura, R Kimura, A Nakajima, S Sawai, H Sesaki, ... Nature cell biology 21 (7), 867-878, 2019 | 75 | 2019 |
Tissue self-organization based on collective cell migration by contact activation of locomotion and chemotaxis T Fujimori, A Nakajima, N Shimada, S Sawai Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (10), 4291-4296, 2019 | 75 | 2019 |
High-throughput analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics in Dictyostelium S Sawai, XJ Guan, A Kuspa, EC Cox Genome biology 8, 1-15, 2007 | 57 | 2007 |
Fold-change detection and scale invariance of cell–cell signaling in social amoeba K Kamino, Y Kondo, A Nakajima, M Honda-Kitahara, K Kaneko, S Sawai Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (21), E4149-E4157, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
Optogenetic relaxation of actomyosin contractility uncovers mechanistic roles of cortical tension during cytokinesis K Yamamoto, H Miura, M Ishida, Y Mii, N Kinoshita, S Takada, N Ueno, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 7145, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
Stress-dependent cell stiffening by tardigrade tolerance proteins that reversibly form a filamentous network and gel A Tanaka, T Nakano, K Watanabe, K Masuda, G Honda, S Kamata, ... PLoS Biology 20 (9), e3001780, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
Phosphorylation of chemoattractant receptors regulates chemotaxis, actin reorganization and signal relay JA Brzostowski, S Sawai, O Rozov, X Liao, D Imoto, CA Parent, ... Journal of cell science 126 (20), 4614-4626, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Turing-Type Pattern Formation in a Confined Dictyostelium Cell Mass S Sawai, Y Maeda, Y Sawada Physical review letters 85 (10), 2212, 2000 | 36 | 2000 |
Collective oscillations in developing cells: Insights from simple systems K Kamino, K Fujimoto, S Sawai Development, growth & differentiation 53 (4), 503-517, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
A design principle of group-level decision making in cell populations K Fujimoto, S Sawai PLoS Computational Biology 9 (6), e1003110, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
Two-Round Ca2+ transient in papillae by mechanical stimulation induces metamorphosis in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis type A MK Wakai, MJ Nakamura, S Sawai, K Hotta, K Oka Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1945), 20203207, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
The microfluidic lighthouse: an omnidirectional gradient generator A Nakajima, M Ishida, T Fujimori, Y Wakamoto, S Sawai Lab on a Chip 16 (22), 4382-4394, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
Robustness of self-organizing chemoattractant field arising from precise pulse induction of its breakdown enzyme: a single-cell level analysis of PDE expression in Dictyostelium N Masaki, K Fujimoto, M Honda-Kitahara, E Hada, S Sawai Biophysical journal 104 (5), 1191-1202, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
Comparative mapping of crawling-cell morphodynamics in deep learning-based feature space D Imoto, N Saito, A Nakajima, G Honda, M Ishida, T Sugita, S Ishihara, ... PLoS computational biology 17 (8), e1009237, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
Self-organization of chemoattractant waves in Dictyostelium depends on F-actin and cell–substrate adhesion F Fukujin, A Nakajima, N Shimada, S Sawai Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13 (119), 20160233, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |