Department of Molecular Microbiology

Subjects:

1. Molecular mechanisms of recombination, repair, replication and mutagenesis.
2. Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and regulation of gene expression.
3. Genome analysis of pathogenic bacteria and archaea.

Papers published in 2003

1. Genome sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: a pathogenic mechanism distinct from that of V cholerae.

   Kozo Makino, Kenshiro Oshima, Ken Kurokawa, Katsushi Yokoyama, Takayuki Uda, Kenichi Tagomori, Yoshio Iijima, Masatomo Najima, Masayuki Nakano, Atsushi Yamashita, Yoshino Kubota, Shigenobu Kimura, Teruo Yasunaga, Takeshi Honda, Hideo Shinagawa, Masahira Hattori and Tetsuya Iida

   Lancet, 361 (9359), 743-749, 2003.
2. 32nd annual meeting of European Environmental Mutagen Society. DNA damage and repair fundamental aspects and contribution to human disorders.

   Barbara Tudek, Zygmunt Ciesla, Celina Janion, Serge Boiteux, Katarzyna Bebenek, Hideo Shinagawa, Helmut Bartsch, Jacques Laval, Albert A van Zeeland, Leon F H Mullenders, Krzysztof Szyfter, Andrew Collins and Marcin Kruszewski

   DNA Repair (Amst), 2 (6), 765-781, 2003.
3. [SOS responses to the mechanism of Holliday junction resolution by RuvABC proteins]

   Hideo Shinagawa

   Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso, 48 (6), 727-732, 2003.
4. Competition between the Rad50 complex and the Ku heterodimer reveals a role for Exo1 in processing double-strand breaks but not telomeres.

   Kazunori Tomita, Akira Matsuura, Thomas Caspari, Antony M Carr, Yufuko Akamatsu, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Ken-ichi Mizuno, Kunihiro Ohta, Masahiro Uritani, Takashi Ushimaru, Koichi Yoshinaga and Masaru Ueno

   Mol Cell Biol, 23 (15), 5186-5197, 2003.
5. Uncoupling of the ATPase activity from the branch migration activity of RuvAB protein complexes containing both wild-type and ATPase-defective RuvB proteins.

   Takashi Hishida, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Yong-Woon Han, Takayuki Ohnishi and Hideo Shinagawa

   Genes Cells, 8 (9), 721-730, 2003.
6. Molecular characterization of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe nbs1+ gene involved in DNA repair and telomere maintenance.

   Masaru Ueno, Tomofumi Nakazaki, Yufuko Akamatsu, Kikuo Watanabe, Kazunori Tomita, Howard D Lindsay, Hideo Shinagawa and Hiroshi Iwasaki

   Mol Cell Biol, 23 (18), 6553-6563, 2003.
7. Two different Swi5-containing protein complexes are involved in mating-type switching and recombination repair in fission yeast.

   Yufuko Akamatsu, Dorota Dziadkowiec, Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Hideo Shinagawa and Hiroshi Iwasaki

   Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100 (26), 15770-15775, 2003.

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