Keigo Fujiwara

The paper identifies LudP, an arrest peptide that stalls translation by remodeling the ribosomal A-site, revealing its mechanism and evolutionary conservation.

This study shows that constitutive sporulation in wild fission yeast enhances survival by resisting digestion by fruit flies, despite being disadvantageous under nutrient-rich conditions.

This study identifies the roles of ABCF ATPases YfmR and YkpA/YbiT in resolving ribosomal stalling during protein synthesis in Bacillus subtilis.

This study identifies YlmH as a novel RQC factor in B. subtilis, showing it can replace RqcP in polyalanine tail addition and is conserved in bacteria lacking RqcP.

The paper identifies novel bacterial arrest peptides associated with protein localization machinery through domain-wide searches and phylogenetic analysis, revealing their widespread distribution and evolutionary significance.

The paper identifies ResQ as a release factor-dependent ribosome rescue factor in Bacillus subtilis, showing it is essential for growth and functions by recruiting RF2 to stalled ribosomes.