Ikeda M, Kihara A, Denpoh A, Igarashi Y (2008) The Rim101 pathway is involved in Rsb1 expression induced by altered lipid asymmetry. Mol Biol Cell, 19, 1922-1931.
Kihara A, Sakuraba H, Ikeda M, Denpoh A, Igarashi Y (2008) Membrane topology and essential amino acid residues of Phs1, a 3-hydoroxyacyl-CoA Dehydratase involved in very long-chain fatty acid elongation. J Biol Chem, 283, 11199-11209.
Yamanaka M, Anada Y, Igarashi Y, Kihara A (2008) A splicing isoform of LPP1, LPP1a, exhibits high phosphatase activity toward FTY720 phosphate. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 375, 675-679.
Kihara A, Igarashi Y (2008) Production and release of sphingosine 1-phosphate and the phosphorylated form of the immunomodulator FTY720. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1781, 496-502. Review
Mizutani Y, Kihara A, Chiba H, Tojo H, Igarashi Y (2008) Synthesis of 2-hydroxy-ceramide by ceramide synthase family members: enzymatic basis for the preference of fatty acid chain length in cultured cell models. J Lipid Res, 49, 2356-2364.