Austin Nakano

email: anakano@ucla.edu
phone: (310) 267-1897
office: 490D BSRB

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Ayako Shigeta,Vincent Huang,Jonathan Zuo,1Rana Besada,Yasuhiro Nakashima,Yan Lu,Yichen Ding,Matteo Pellegrini,Rajan P. Kulkarni,Tzung Hsiai,Arjun Deb,Bin Zhou,Haruko Nakano,and Atsushi Nakano, "Endocardially-derived macrophages are essential for valvular remodeling", 48: 617-630 (2019).

Kai Fu, Haruko Nakano, Marco ZMorselli, Tiffany Chen, Herman Pappoe, Atsushi Nakano, Matteo Pellegrini, "A temporal transcriptome and methylome in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes identifies novel regulators of early cardiac development", Epigenetics 13: 1013-1026 (2018).

Steven W. Lee, Allison Anderson, Pilar A. Guzman, Atsushi Nakano, Elena G. Tolkacheva, Kevin Wickm,an, "Atrial GIRK channels mediate the effects of vagus nerve stimulation on heart rate dynamics and arrhythmogenesis", 9 (943): (2018). [link]

Zhu H, Scharnhorst KS, Stieg AZ, Gimzewski JK, Minami I, Nakatsuji N, Nakano H, Nakano A, "Two dimensional electrophysiological characterization of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte system", Sci Rep 7: (2017). [link]

Ding Y, Lee J, Ma J, Sung K, Yokota T, Singh N, Dooraghi M, Abiri P, Wang Y, Kulkarni RP, Nakano A, Nguyen TP, Fei P, Hsiai TK., "Light-sheet fluorescence imaging to localize cardiac lineage and protein distribution", Sci Rep 7: (2017). [link]

Sung K, Ding Y, Ma J, Chen H, Huang V, Cheng M, Yang CF, Kim JT, Eguchi D, Di Carlo D, Hsiai TK, Nakano A, Kulkarni RP, "Simplified three-dimensional tissue clearing and incorporation of colorimetric phenotyping", Sci Rep (2016). [link]

Gao, C. Ren, S. Lee, J. H. Qiu, J. Chapski, D. J. Rau, C. D. Zhou, Y. Abdellatif, M. Nakano, A. Vondriska, T. M. Xiao, X. Fu, X. D. Chen, J. N. Wang, Y., "RBFox1-mediated RNA splicing regulates cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure", J Clin Invest (2015). [link]

Shimura, D. Kusakari, Y. Sasano, T. Nakashima, Y. Nakai, G. Jiao, Q. Jin, M. Yokota, T. Ishikawa, Y. Nakano, A. Goda, N. Minamisawa, S., "Heterozygous deletion of Sarcolipin maintains normal cardiac function", Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2015). [link]

Lluri, G. Huang, V. Touma, M. Liu, X. Harmon, A. W. Nakano, A., "Hematopoietic progenitors are required for proper development of coronary vasculature", J Mol Cell Cardiol 86: 199-207 (2015). [link]

Kim, P. G. Nakano, H. Das, P. P. Chen, M. J. Rowe, R. G. Chou, S. S. Ross, S. J. Sakamoto, K. M. Zon, L. I. Schlaeger, T. M. Orkin, S. H. Nakano, A. Daley, G. Q., "Flow-induced protein kinase A-CREB pathway acts via BMP signaling to promote HSC emergence", J Exp Med (2015). [link]

Shimizu, H. Schredelseker, J. Huang, J. Lu, K. Naghdi, S. Lu, F. Franklin, S. Fiji, H. D. Wang, K. Zhu, H. Tian, C. Lin, B. Nakano, H. Ehrlich, A. Nakai, J. Stieg, A. Z. Gimzewski, J. K. Nakano, A. Goldhaber, J. I. Vondriska, T. M. Hajnoczky, G. Kwon, O. Chen, J. N., "Mitochondrial Ca(2+) uptake by the voltage-dependent anion channel 2 regulates cardiac rhythmicity", eLife 4: (2015). [link]

Chen, P. Y. Ganguly, A. Rubbi, L. Orozco, L. D. Morselli, M. Ashraf, D. Jaroszewicz, A. Feng, S. Jacobsen, S. E. Nakano, A. Devaskar, S. U. Pellegrini, M., "Intra-Uterine Calorie Restriction Affects Placental DNA Methylation and Gene Expression", Physiol Genomics 45 (14): 565-576 (2013).

Arshi, A., Nakashima, Y., Nakano, H., Eaimkhong, S. Evseenko, D. Reed, J., Stieg, A.Z. Gimzewski, J. K. Nakano, A., "Rigid microenvironments promote cardiac differentiation of mouse and human embryonic stem cells", Sci Technol Adv Mater 14: (2013). [link]

Sasman, A., Nassano-Miller, C., Shim, K.S., Koo, H.Y., Liu, T., Schultz, K.M., Millay, M., Nanano, A., Kang, M., Suzuki, T., Kume, T.,, "Generation of conditional alleles for Foxc1 and Foxc2 in mice", Genesis 50 (10): 766-774 (2012).

Van Handel, B., Montel-Hagen, A., Sasidharan, R., Nakano, H. Ferrari, R., Boogerd, C.J., Schredelseker, J., Wang, Y., Hunter, S., Org, T., Zhou, J., Li, X., Pellegrini, M. Chen, J.N., Orkin, S.H., Kurdistani, S.K., Evans, S.M., Nakano, A., Mikkola, H.K., "Scl Represses Cardiomyogenesis in Prospective Hemogenic Endothelium and Endocardium", Cell 150: 590-605 (2012).