Eiko Ohtsuka

Development of novel chemical probes to detect abasic sites in DNA (2009)

Kojima, Naoshi, Takebayashi, Toshie, Mikami, Akiko, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Komatsu, Yasuo

We chemically synthesized a series of aminooxy derivatives to develop novel probes for sensitive detection of abasic (AP) sites in DNA. The results of the conjugation reactions showed that the probes...

Construction of an aminooxy derivative for RNA and DNA labeling (2008)

Komatsu, Yasuo, Kojima, Naoshi, Takebayashi, Toshie, Mikami, Akiko, Sugino, Maiko, Ohtsuka, Eiko

We previously reported that the reactivity of a primary amine is increased by connecting the amine to an aromatic residue with an alkyl linker. This strategy was applied to the construction of a...

Comparison of the chemical properties of a novel amino-linker with various amino modifications (2008)

Kojima, Naoshi, Takebayashi, Toshie, Mikami, Akiko, Sugino, Maiko, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Komatsu, Yasuo

We previously reported a series of new amino-linkers, consisting of an aminoethyl carbamate structure (Komatsu, 2008). We have now examined the chemical properties of oligonucleotides modified with...

High throughput purification of amino-modified oligonucleotides and its application to novel detection system of gene expression (2005)

Kojima, Naoshi, Sugino, Maiko, Mikami, Akiko, Nonaka, Ken, Fujinawa, Yumi, Ueda, Yoji, ...

We report here a new amino-modifier reagent, which enable high-throughput purification of amino-modified oligonucleotides. Either monomethoxytrityl (MMT) or trifluoroacetyl (TFA) group has been used...

Synthesis and application of new amino modification analogues for functional oligonucleotide (2004)

Komatsu, Yasuo, Kojima, Naoshi, Nonaka, Ken, Fujinawa, Yumi, Sugino, Maiko, Mikami, Akiko, ...

We synthesized new analogues to functionalize oligonucleotides. These analogues included a primary amino group tethering to an aromatic ring, and we introduced them into the 5′-end of each...

Stable hairpins having a loop consisting of 3'-deoxy-4'-C-(2-hydroxyethyl)thymidines (2004)

Shuto, Satoshi, Tamura, Yutaka, Yamamoto, Yuji, Kodama, Tetsuya, Hoshika, Shuichi, Ichikawa, Satoshi, ...

A novel sugar-modified thymidine analogue, 3′-deoxy-4′-C-(2-hydroxyethyl)thymidine (X), was designed and synthesized to show that it can stabilize hairpin structures when it is present in the...

Highly efficient catalytic RNA cleavage by the cooperative action of two Cu(II) complexes embodied within an antisense oligonucleotide (2003)

Sakamoto, Satoshi, Tamura, Takashi, Furukawa, Takako, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Kitamura, Masaya, ...

Based on our recent studies of RNA cleavage by oligonucleotide–terpyridine·Cu(II) complex 5′‐ and/or 3′‐conjugates, we designed 2′‐O‐methyloligonucleotides with two...

A new, but old, nucleoside analog: the first synthesis of 1-deaza-2'-deoxyguanosine and its properties as a nucleoside and as oligodeoxynucleotides (2003)

Kojima, Naoshi, Inoue, Kaori, Nakajima-Shibata, Rina, Kawahara, Shun-ichi, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The first synthesis of 5‐amino‐3‐(2′‐deoxy‐β‐d‐ribofuranosyl)imidazo[4,5‐b]pyridin‐7‐one (1‐deaza‐2′‐deoxyguanosine) is...

RNA cleavage efficiency and catalytic turnover of an oligonucleotide-two copper complexes conjugate (2002)

Sakamoto, Satoshi, Tamura, Takashi, Furukawa, Takako, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Kitamura, Masaya, ...

We synthesized a 2′-O-methyloligonucleotide with two terpyridine-Cu(II) complexes in the central part, and found that this antisense agent cleaves an RNA oligomer more efficiently than an analogous...

Unique Response of Double-Stranded Oligonucleotides Containing a Single 8-Oxo-7,8-Dihydroguanine to Gamma Rays in the Frozen Aqueous State at 77 K (2000)

Yoshiharu Iida, Osamu Inanami, Hideo Inoue, Eiko Ohtsuka, Mikinori Kuwabara

Iida, Y., Inanami, O., Inoue, H., Ohtsuka, E. and Kuwabara, M. Unique Response of Double-Stranded Oligonucleotides Containing a Single 8-Oxo-7,8-Dihydroguanine to Gamma Rays in the Frozen Aqueous...

Two-terpyridine {middle dot} Cu(II) complexes-containing antisense systems for rapid and highly site-specific RNA cleavage (2000)

Inoue, Hideo, Furukawa, Takako, Tamura, Takashi, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko

In an approach toward artificial ribbnucleases,novel RNA cleaving systems were constructed that contained two terpyridine·Cu(II) residues. The first antisense system used tandem Cu(II)...

DNA binding mode of the Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody specific for cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (2000)

Torizawa, Takuya, Yamamoto, Nobuhiro, Suzuki, Tomonori, Nobuoka, Kaoru, Komatsu, Yasuo, Morioka, Hiroshi, ...

Monoclonal antibodies specific for the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) are widely used for detection and quantification of DNA photolesions. However, the mechanisms of antigen binding by anti-CPD...

A role for MHR1, a gene required for mitochondrial genetic recombination, in the repair of damage spontaneously introduced in yeast mtDNA (2000)

Ling, Feng, Morioka, Hiroshi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Shibata, Takehiko

A nuclear recessive mutant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mhr1-1, is defective in mitochondrial genetic recombination at 30°C and shows extensive vegetative petite induction by UV irradiation at 30°C...

Functional Domain-Assembly in Hairpin Ribozymes (2000)

Komatsu, Yasuo, Kanzaki, Ikuyo, Shirai, Miho, Kumagai, Izumi, Yamashita, Shigeko, Ohtsuka, Eiko

Functional structures of hairpin ribozymes have been investigated by constructing various chemically modified molecules. Domain-exchange and linker insertion experiments were performed to find active...

Tryptophan H33 plays an important role in pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproduct binding by a high-affinity antibody (1999)

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki, Kato, Jiro, Morioka, Hiroshi, Stewart, Jon D., Ohtsuka, Eiko

The importance of Trp H33 in antibody recognition of DNA containing a central pyrimidine (6–4) pyrimidone photoproduct was investigated. This residue was replaced by Tyr, Phe and Ala and the...

Toward artificial ribonucleases: Design and synthesis of 2'-O-methyloligonucleotides with a terpyridine-copper(II) complex (1999)

Tamura, Takashi, Furukawa, Takako, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Inoue, Hideo

In order to construct an antisense 2′-0-methyl-oligonucleotide with an internal terpyridine-Cu(II) complex, a novel synthon was synthesized. This synthon was a...

Nucleic acid synthesis for investigations of gene functions (1999)

Ohtsuka, Eiko

The chemical syntheses of genes encoding human c-Ha-ras and T4 endonuclease V are described. These genes have been used for studies of mutagenesis by damaged bases and recognition of nucleic acids by...

Crystal structures of the 64M-2 and 64M-3 antibody Fabs complexed with DNA (6-4)photoproducts (1999)

Yokoyama, Hideshi, Mizutani, Ryuta, Satow, Yoshinori, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Nikaido, Osamu

Crystal structures of the 64M-2 antibody Fab fragment complexed with DNA photoproducts of dT(6-4)T and dTT(6-4)TT, and of the 64M-3 Fab fragment complexed with dT(6-4)T were determined. The...

Induction of ribozyme activity by anti-ribozyme oligonucleotides (1999)

Komatsu, Yasuo, Yamashita, Shigeko, Kazama, Nobuhiro, Ohtsuka, Eiko

A new type of hammerhead ribozyme, with cleavage activity enhanced by oligonucleotides, was constructed. Stem II of the ribozyme was substituted with a non complementary loop (loop II). The modified...

Further studies of KMnO4 oxidation of synthetic DNAs containing oxidatively damaged bases (1999)

Terashima, Yuko, Fukuoka, Masayoshi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Inoue, Hideo

Recently we found that KMnO4 oxidation of DNA oligomers containing a 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxo-G) residue induces damage to the neighboring base residues; other modified bases,...

Chemical synthesis and properties of (6-4) photoproduct and its analogs (1999)

Sato, Kousuke, Komatsu, Yasuo, Torizawa, Takuya, Kato, Koichi, Shimada, Ichio, Ohtsuka, Eiko

We report the preparation of a deoxyribooligonucleotide containing a new thymine (6-4) photoproduct analog. The (6-4) photoproduct is one of the major forms of DNA lesions, and leads to mutation in...

Specificities and Rates of Binding of Anti-(6-4) Photoproduct Antibody Fragments to Synthetic Thymine Photoproducts (1998)

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki, Morioka, Hiroshi, Torizawa, Takuya, Kato, Koichi, Shimada, Ichio, Nikaido, Osamu, ...

Pyrimidine (6–4) pyrimidone photoproducts are some of the major DNA photolesions induced by ultraviolet (UV) light. A monoclonal antibody (64M5) specific to a (6–4) photoproduct has been...

Modification and Application of Self-Trimming Hairpin Ribozymes to Targeting a Transcribed RNA In Vitro (1998)

Komatsu, Yasuo, Shirai, Miho, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The three-domain hairpin ribozyme was improved by increasing the number of linker bases connecting domain I' with domain II from six to seven, and a new ribozyme was designed to release a...

Efficient production of the C-terminal domain of secretory leukoprotease inhibitor as a thrombin-cleavable fusion protein in Escherichia coli (1996)

Masuda, Ken-ichi, Kamimura, Takashi, Kanesaki, Masaharu, Ishii, Koji, Imaizumi, Atsushi, Sugiyama, Takashi, ...

We have developed a high-level production system for the C-terminal domain of secretory leukoprotease inhibitor (SLPI) to investigate its pharmacological activities. A gene for the C-terminal domain...

3-Amino-1, 4-dimethyl-5H-pyrido[4, 3-b]indole (Trp-P-1) inhibits the binding activity of T4 endonuclease V to UV-damaged DNA (1996)

Shimoi, Kayoko, Miyamura, Rieko, Mori, Toshio, Todo, Takesi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Wakabayashi, Keiji, ...

3-Amino-1, 4-dimethyl-5H-pyrido[4, 3-b]indole (Trp-P-1) is a mutagen/carcinogen derived from cooked foods which enhances the induction of mutations and chromosome aberrations by UV without microsomal...

Separation of Protein Factors That Correct the Defects in the Seven Complementation Groups of Xeroderma Pigmentosum Cells (1995)

Tateishi, Satoshi, Mori, Seiichi, Sugano, Tatsuo, Hori, Naoko, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Yamaizumi, Masaru

We fractionated HeLa cell extracts by gel filtration and then micro-injected them into cells derived from the seven complementation groups (A-G) of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). Distinct fractions that...

Structural Composition of Hammerhead Ribozymes (1995)

Takenaka, Akio, Matsumoto, Osamu, Chen, Yixin, Hasegawa, Sei-ichi, Chatake, Toshiyuki, Tsunoda, Masaru, ...

Eleven kinds of hammerhead ribozymes were designed and synthesized to investigate the structural composition of the complexes and to find suitable crystallization conditions, the substrate chains...

8-Hydroxyadenine (7, 8-dihydro-8-Oxoadenine) induces misincorporation in in vitro DNA synthesis and mutations in NIH 3T3 cells (1995)

Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Miura, Hiroyuki, Murata-Kamiya, Naoko, Ishikawa, Hiroyuki, Sakaguchi, Tomoki, Inoue, Hideo, ...

An oligodeoxyribonucleotide containing 8-hydroxyadenine (OH8Ade) was chemically synthesized and single- and double-stranded c-Ha-ras gene fragments with OH8Ade at the second position of codon 61 were...

8-Hydroxyguanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine) in hot spots of the c-Ha-ras gene: effects of sequence contexts on mutation spectra (1995)

Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Murata-Kamiya, Naoko, Koizume, Shiro, Inoue, Hideo, Nishimura, Susumu, Ohtsuka, Eiko

We previously reported that 8-hydroxyguanine (7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine) at the second position of codon 12 of the c-Ha-ras gene induces many types of mutations in NIH3T3 cells. In this study we...

Role of the Mg2+Ion in the Escherichia coli Ribonuclease HI Reaction (1994)

Uchiyama, Yohtaro, Iwai, Shigenori, Ueno, Yoshio, Ikehara, Morio, Ohtsuka, Eiko

To study the interaction and the role of the metal ion in the reaction catalyzed by Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI (E. coli RNase HI), substrate analogues containing a phosphorothioate linkage or...

Cross-ligation and exchange reactions catalyzed by hairpin ribozymes (1993)

Komtsu, Yasuo, Koizumi, Makoto, Sekiguchi, Akira, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The negative strand of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus (sTobRV( -)) contains a hairpin catalytic domain that shows self-cleavage and serf-ligation activities in the presence of magnesium...

Cyclobutane thymine dimers in a ras proto-oncogene hot spot activate the gene by point mutation (1993)

Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Murata, Naoko, Murata, Tetsuya, Iwai, Shigenori, Matsukage, Akio, Masutani, Chikahide, ...

ras proto-oncogenes with a cyclobutane-type thymine photodlmer (cls-syn or trans-syn Isomer) were constructed by replacement of a portion of the gene with a chemically synthesized fragment. When the...

Development of a recombinant RNA technique for the construction of chimeric RNA with a long poly(C) tract (1993)

Bae, Yong-Soo, Kang, Yup, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Yoon, Ji-Won

The murine cardioviruses and bovine aphthoviruses are distinguished from other (+) strand RNA viruses by their long poly(C) tract in the 5′-noncoding region. The presence of this poly(C) tract has...

Binding of nucleic acids to E.coli RNase HI observed by NMR and CD spectroscopy (1993)

Oda, Yasushi, Iwa, Shigenori, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ishikawa, Momoyo, Ikehara, Morio, Nakamura, Haruki

To clarify the mechanism by which the RNA portion of a DNA/RNA hybrid is specifically hydrolyzed by ribonuclease H (RNase H), the binding of a DNA/RNA hybrid, a DNA/DNA duplex, or an RNA/RNA duplex...

Crystal Structure of RNase T1(Y45W) Complexed with 3' AMP and Gf1pA (1993)

Gohda, Keigo, Itoh, Takeshi, Hiramatsu, Yasuyuki, Tomita, Ken-ichi, Nishikawa, Satoshi, Uesugi, Sei-ichi, ...

We have previously reported the crystallization of a mutant RNase T1(Y46W) with a synthetic modified trinucleotide ApGflpA [Hakoshima, T. et al. (1990) J. Biochem 108, 695–698]. In the present...

An abasic site analogue activates a c-Ha-ras gene by a point mutation at modified and adjacent positions (1992)

Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Suzuki, Masayuki, Komatsu, Yasuo, Miura, Hiroyuki, Kikuchi, Kanae, Sakaguchi, Tomoki, ...

Synthetic c-Ha-ras genes with an analogue of an abasic site in the first or the second position of codon 12, or in the second position of codon 61 were constructed and transfected into NIH3T3 cells....

Participation of glutamic acid 23 of T4 endonuclease V in the {beta}-elimination reaction of an abasic site in a synthetic duplex DNA (1992)

Hori, Naoko, Doi, Tomoko, Karaki, Yoko, Kituchi, Masakazu, Ikehara, Morio, Ohtsuka, Eiko

T4 endonuclease V catalyzes the hydrolysis of the glycosyl bond of a thymine dimer in a DNA duplex and the cleavage of the 3′-phosphate by β-elimination. We have previously identified a catalytic...

Sequence-dependent cleavage of DNA by alkylation with antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing a 2-(N-iodoacetylaminoethyl)thio-adenine (1992)

Kido, Kaori, Inoue, Hideo, Ohtsuka, Eiko

Antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotldes (15mers), containing a 2-(N-iodoacetylaminoethyl)thlo-adenine, were synthesized and tested for their ability to cleave complementary DNAs (21 mers). Cleavage of...

NMR studies of a DNA containing 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (1991)

Oda, Yasushi, Uesugi, Seichi, Ikehara, Morio, Nishimura, Susumu, Kawase, Yasutoshi, Ishikawa, Hiroyuki, ...

The effects of hydroxylation at the C8 of a deoxyguanosine residue in DNA were studied by NMR analysis of a self-complementary dodecanucleotide, d(C1-G2-C3-oh8G4-A5-A6-T7-T8-C9-G10-C11-G12), which...

NMR studies for identification of dl:dG mismatch base-pairing structure in DNA (1991)

Oda, Yasushi, Uesugi, Seiichi, Ikehara, Morio, Kawase, Yasutoshi, Ohtsuka, Eiko

One- and two-dimensional NMR experiments have been undertaken to Investigate deoxylnosine:deoxyguanosine (dl:dG) base pairing in a seff-complementary dodecadeoxyribonucleotide, d(C1...

Mutagenesis and self-ligation of the self-cleavage domain of the satellite RNA minus strand of tobacco rinspot virus and its binding to polyamines (1991)

Sekiguchi, Akira, Komatsu, Yasuo, Koizumi, Makoto, Ohtsuka, Eiko

Several mutants for the minus strands of the selfcleaving domain of the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus have been synthesized by joining chemically synthesized oligoribonucleotides with RNA...

Hydrophobic effects on protein/nucleic acid interaction: enhancement of substrate binding by mutating tyrosine 45 to tryptophan in ribonuclease Tl (1991)

Hakoshima, Toshio, Tanaka, Masahiro, Itoh, Takeshi, Tomita, Ken-khi, Amisaki, Takashi, Nishikawa, Satoshi, ...

Hydrophobic effects on binding of ribonuclease Tl to guanine bases of several ribonucleotides have been proved by mutating a hydrophobic residue at the recognition site and by measuring the effect on...

Conformation of 2'GMP Bound to a Mutant Ribonuclease T1 (Y45W) Determined by X-Ray Diffraction and NMR Methods (1991)

Itoh, Takeshi, Tomita, Ken-ichi, Hakoshima, Toshio, Hiroaki, Hidekazu, Uesugi, Sei-ichi, Nishikawa, Satoshi, ...

The crystal structure of a mutant ribonuclease T1(Y45W) complexed with a specific inhibitor, 2′GMP, has been determined by X-ray diffraction and refined at 1.9 A� resolution to a conventional...

Synthesis and characterization of a substrate for T4 endonuclease V containing a phosphorodithioate linkage at the thymine dimer site (1990)

Murata, Tetsuya, Iwai, Shigenori, Ohtsuka, Eiko

A dodecadeoxyribonucleotide containing a cis-syn thymine dimer with a phosphorodithioate linkage was synthesized on a solid support using a dinucleotide coupling unit prepared by UV-irradiation of...

Surveying Cis-Acting Sequences of Pre-mRNA by Adding Antisense 2'-O-Methyl Oligoribonucleotides to a Splicing Reaction (1990)

Mayeda, Akila, Hayase, Yoji, Inoue, Hideo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ohshima, Yasumi

We chemically synthesized antisense 12 mer 2′-O-methylribonucleotides and surveyed a scanning (signal-tracking) process as well as sequences within a β-globin transcript acting in the splicing...

Crystallographic Characterization of Wild-Type and Mutant Ribonuclease T1 Complexes with Several Ribonucleotides (1990)

Hakoshima, Toshio, Oka, Ken-ichi, Toda, Shyoji, Tanaka, Masahiro, Goda, Keigo, Higo, Takashi, ...

Ribonuclease T1 and the mutant enzymes were cocrystallized with several ribonucleotides, including non-hydrolyzable substrate analogs of di- and triribonucleotides, which have a novel guanylate in...

Design of RNA enzymes distinguishing a single base mutation in RNA (1989)

Koizumi, Makoto, Hayase, Yoji, Iwai, Shigenori, Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Inoue, Hideo, Ohtsuka, Eiko

RNA enzymes (ribozymes) which can cleave RNA by recognizing sequences of 9–15 bases are described. Substrates must contain UX(X=U, C or A). A ribozyme consisting of two oligoribonucleotides (19 mer...

Conformational properties of the guanine-binding site of ribonuclease T1 inferred from the X-ray structure and protein engineering (1988)

Hakoshima, Toshio, Toda, Shoji, Sugio, Shigetoshi, Tomita, Ken-ichi, Nishikawa, Satoshi, Morioka, Hiroshi, ...

Recognition by ribonuclease T1 of guanine bases via multidentate hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions appears to be mediated mainly by a short peptide segment formed by one stretch of a...

Conversion of the guanine nucleotide binding sites of ras protein resulting in the reduction of base specificity (1988)

Miura, Kazunobu, Kamiya, Hiroyuki, Kubota, Sachie, Ikehara, Morio, Nishimura, Susumu, Ohtsuka, Eiko

A gene coding for the novel ras protein, p21x, in which the domains of guanine binding and phosphate binding were exchanged, was constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene product, p21x,...

5'-Levulinyl and 2'-tetrahydrofuranyl protection for the synthesis of oligoribonucleotides by the phosphoramidite approach (1988)

Iwai, Shigenori, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The levulinyl group has been employed for protection of the 5'-hydroxyl group in the synthesis of oligoribonucleotides by the phosphoramidite approach, using the acid-labile 2'-tetrahydro-furanyl...

A new solid-phase synthesis of oligoribonudeotides by the pbosphoro-p-anisidate method using tetrahydrofuranyl protection of 2'-hydroxyl groups (1987)

Jwai, Shigenori, Yamada, Emi, Asaka, Miyuki, Hayase, Yoji, Inoue, Hideo, Ohtsuka, Eiko

Six nonaribonucleotides containing the 5'-splice site, one complementary nonamer and an octadecamer containing the 3'-splice site have been synthesized on a polymer support using the...

Synthesis and hybridization studies on two complementary nona(2'-O-methyl)ribonucleotides (1987)

Inoue, Hideo, Hayase, Yoji, Imura, Akihiro, Iwai, Shigenori, Miura, Kazunobu, Ohtsuka, Eiko

2′-O-Methyl derivatives of the common ribonucleosides except for guanosine were synthesized via the 2′-O-methylation of appropriately-protected nucleosides with CH3I in the presence of Ag2O. The...

Efficient cleavage by {alpha}-thrombin of a recombinant fused protein which contains insulin-like growth factor I (1987)

Nishikawa, Satoshi, Yanase, Kohichi, Tokunaga-Doi, Tomoko, Kodama, Kazumi, Gomi, Hideyuki, Uesugi, Seiichi, ...

The gene for insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) was constructed from chemically synthesized deoxyoligonucleotides and expressed in Escherichia coli, under the control of a trp promoter, as a set of...

Site-directed cleavage of RNA (1987)

Shibahara, Susumu, Mukai, Sachiko, Nishihara, Tohru, Inoue, Hideo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Morisawa, Hirokazu

Using complementary chimeric oligonucleotides containing deoxyribonucleotides and 2′-O-methylribonucleotides (1), enzymatically synthesized RNA (90 mer) were cleaved at a single site with...

Structure- and sequence-specificity of ozone degradation of supercoiled plasmid DNA1 (1986)

Sawadaishi, Kazuyuki, Miura, Kazunobu, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ueda, Tohm, Shinriki, Nariko, Ishizaki, Kozo

Ozone-reactive sites on the nucleobase moieties in supercoiled pBR322 DNA were investigated by using sequencing procedures. Ozonolysis in the absence of salt resulted in degradation of thymine...

Ozonolysis of supercoiled pBR322 DNA resulting in strand scission to open circular DNA1 (1985)

Sawadaishi, Kazuyuki, Miura, Kazunobu, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ueda, Tohru, Ishizaki, Kazo, Shinriki, Nariko

Treatment of supercoiled pBR322 DNA with ozone resulted in the conversion of closed circular DNA to open circular DNA. Restriction analysis of the resulting open circular DNA showed that ozonolysis...

Replacement and Insertion of nucleotides at the anticodon loop of E. coli tRNAfMet by ligation of chemically synthesized ribooligonucleotides (1985)

Doi, Takefumi, Yamane, Akio, Matsugi, Jitsuhiro, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ikehara, Morio

Insertion of the four major nucleotides at the 5′-side of the anticodon triplet of E. coli tRNAMet was performed by joining of the half molecules obtained b limited digestion with RNase A and the...

Dynamic Behavior of the Imino Protons of the {lambda} OR3 17mer in H2O Solution Studied by High-Resolution NMR (1985)

LEE, Sang Jong, AKUTSU, Hideo, KYOGOKU, Yoshimasa, KITANO, Katsuhiko, TOZUKA, Zenzaburo, OHTA, Atsunori, ...

The imino proton resonances of λ OR3 17mer in water were observed at 500 Mhz with the time-shared Redfield pulse train. All of the 17 imino proton resonances could be assigned specifically to...

Molecular Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of cDNA Coding for Rat Brain Cholecystokinin Precursor (1984)

KUWANO, Ryozo, ARAKI, Kazuaki, USUI, Hiroshi, FUKUI, Toshikazu, OHTSUKA, Eiko, IKEHARA, Morio, ...

A mixture of 14-mer oligodeoxynucleotides was used for the screening of a cDNA clone coding for a cholecystokinin (CCK) precursor from a cDNA library for rat brain microsomal poly(A)RNA. The longest...

Synthesis and conformational studies of ribooligonucleotides which contain an alternating C-G sequence and show unusual circular dichroism spectra (1984)

Uesugi, Seiichi, Ohkubo, Mitsuru, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ikehara, Morio, Kobayashi, Yuji, Kyogoku, Yoshimasa

The poly [r(C-G)]duplex shows an unusually large negative CD band in the long wavelength region. in order to elucidate this phenomenon, r(C-G-C-G) and r(C-G-C-G-C-G) were synthesized by a...

Molecular cloning and the complete nucleotide sequence of cDNA to mRNA for S-100 protein of rat brain (1984)

Kuwano, Ryozo, Usui, Hiroshi, Maeda, Toshinaga, Fukui, Toshikazu, Yamanari, Nobuko, Ohtsuka, Eiko, ...

The complete nucleotide sequence of mRNA for β-subunit of rat brain S-100 protein was determined from recombinant cDNA clones. The sequence was composed of 1488 bp which Included the 276 bp of the...

Studies on transfer ribonucleic acids and related compounds. XLV. Block condensation of ribooligonucleotides containing 2' -O-tetrahydrofuranyl-5' -O-dimethoxytritylnucleosides (1983)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Yamane, Akio, Ikehara, Mono

2′-O-Tetrahydrofurany1-5′-O-dimethoxytrityl-N-protected nucleosides were phosphorylated to give the 3′-(o-chlorophenyl) phosphates which were then condensed with 3′,5′-unprotected...

Raman diagnosis of nucleic acid structure: sugar-puckering and glycosidic conformation in the guanosine moiety (1983)

Nishimura, Yoshifumi, Tsuboi, Masamichi, Nakano, Toru, Higuchi, Shigesada, Sato, Tomohiro, Shida, Toshio, ...

Observations of Raman spectra of various nucleic acids indicate that the guanine ring breathing frequency is sensitive to the internal rotation angle around the glycosidic bond and to the...

Essential structure of E. coli promoter effect of spacer length between the two consensus sequences on promoter function (1983)

Aoyama, Takashi, Takanami, Mituru, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Taniyama, Yoshio, Marumoto, Ryuji, Sato, Hiroko, ...

A promoter with the consensus sequences(TTGACA and TATAAT) at −35 and −10 regions was constructed, and the distance between the two consensus sequences was independently altered at two...

Modification of the anticodon triplet of E.coli tRNAfMet by replacement with trimers complementary to non-sense codons UAG and UAA (1983)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Doi, Takefumi, Fukumoto, Ryoichi, Matsugi, Jitsuhiro, Ikehara, Morio

E. coli tRNAfMet was hydrolyzed with RNase A using a limited amount of the enzyme to give two half molecules lacking the anticodon trimer and 3′-terminal dimer. Chemically synthesized trimers CUAp...

E. coli initiator tRNA analogs with different nucleotides in the discriminator base position (1982)

Uemura, Haruki, Imai, Mayumi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ikehara, Morio, Söll, Dieter

The effect of base changes at the fourth position from the 3′-terminus of Esoheriohia coli initiator tRNA Met has been studied to test the ′discriminator hypothesis′ which proposed that the...

Reverse Transcriptase Associated with Avian Sarcoma-Leukosis Viruses. III. Influence of Primer Chain Length on the Initiation of DNA Synthesis (1982)

FUKUI, Toshikazu, ISHIHAMA, Akira, OHTSUKA, Eiko, IKEHARA, Morio, FUKUDA, Ryuji

The influence of oligodeoxynucleotide chain length on the priming activity of the reverse transcription was investigated in poly(A)-dependent poly(dT), poly(C)-dependent poly(dG) and influenza virus...

Characterization of nascent DNA fragments produced by excision of uracil residues in DNA (1981)

Machida, Yasunori, Okazaki, Tuneko, Miyake, Tetsuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Ikehara, Morio

Nascent short DNA chains could result from repair of incorporated uracil residues or be intermediates in discontinuous replication. We have characterized short DNA chains having...

RNA Polymerase of Influenza Virus. II. Influence of Oligonucleotide Chain Length on the Priming Activity of RNA Synthesis by Virion-Associated RNA Polymerase (1981)

KAWAKAMI, Kiyoshi, ISHIHAMA, Akira, OHTSUKA, Eiko, TANAKA, Toshiki, TAKASHIMA, Hideaki, IKEHARA, Morio

The virion-associated RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of influenza virus PR8 was activated by treatment with specific non-ionic detergents, and was remarkably stimulated by exogenously added...

Comparison of substrate base sequences for RNA ligase reactions in the synthesis of a tetradecanucleotide corresponding to bases 21-34 of E. coli tRNAfMet 1 (1980)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Doi, Takefumi, Uemura, Haruki, Taniyama, Yoshio, Ikehara, Morio

A tetradecanucleotide U-A-G-C (U-C-G)2G-G-C-Up corresponding to bases 21–34 of a nascent sequence of formylmethionyl tRNA of E. coli has been synthesized by the joining of two combinations of...

2'-Deoxy-2'-Azidoadenosine Triphosphate and 2'-Deoxy-2'-Fluoroadenosine Triphosphate as Substrates and Inhibitors for Escherichia coli DNA-dependent RNA Polymerase (1980)

ISHIHAMA, Akira, ENAMI, Masayoshi, NISHIJIMA, Yoshikazu, FUKUI, Toshikazu, OHTSUKA, Eiko, IKEHARA, Morio

The effects of 2′-substitutions of ATP on the substrate and inhibitor properties for RNA synthesis were studied in the poly(dAT)-dependent reaction of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. In the...

Synthesis of E.coli tRNAfMet fragments and their joining with RNA ligase (1978)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Tanaka, Toshiki, Miyake, Tetsuo, Nakagawa, Eiko, Antkowiak, Janina, Wakabayashi, Toshiaki, ...

Oligonucleotides corresponding to the E. coli tRNAfMet have been synthesized. A diester approach has been used for the synthesis of 6, 7, 8 and 9. A block condensation of nucleotides with...

Polynucleotides. XLII. Limited addition of 2'-O-o-nitrobenzyl nucleotides to the 3'-end of ribooligonucleotide with polynucleotide phosphorylase (1976)

Ikehara, Morio, Tanaka, Shoji, Fukui, Toshikazu, Ohtsuka, Eiko

2′-O-o-Nitrobenzyluridine, -cytidine and -adenosine were phosphorylated with phosphoryl chloride to the corresponding 5′-phosphates and led to 5′-diphosphates by the method of Moffatt and...

Joining of ribooligonucleotides with T4 RNA ligase and identification of the oligonucleotide-adenylate intermediate. (1976)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Nishikawa, Satoshi, Sugiura, Masahiro, Ikehara, Morio

T4 RNA ligase was found to join A-A-A-A-A-A and 32pU-U-U-U in the presence of ATP as cofactor. In this reaction the pyrophosphate of *pU-U-U-U and pA was isolated by chromatography on a RPC-5 column,...

Polynucleotides. XXIII(1). A synthesis of ribodinucleoside monophosphates using nucleoside 5'-phosphates (1974)

Ohtsuka, Eiko, Nakamura, Sojiro, Yoneda, Mariko, Ikehara, Morio

Guanylyl-(3′-5′)-cytidine and guanylyl-(2′-5′)-cytidine were synthesized by condensing 5′-O-monamethoxytritylguanosine and N,2′,3′-O-triacetylcytidine 5′-phosphate using...

Energy Transfer from Tryptophan Residues to a Fluorescent ATP Analog, 1, N6-Ethenoadenosine Tri phosphate, Bound to H-Meromyosin (1973)

ONISHI, Hirofumi, OHTSUKA, Eiko, IKEHARA, Morio, TONOMURA, Yuji

1. The hydrolysis of 1, N6-ethenoadenosine triphosphate (ϵATP) by myosin [EC 3.6.1.3] and the change in fluorescence of ϵATP induced by H-meromyosin were studied. (a) The amount of...

DNA binding mode of the Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody specific for cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer

Torizawa, Takuya, Yamamoto, Nobuhiro, Suzuki, Tomonori, Nobuoka, Kaoru, Komatsu, Yasuo, Morioka, Hiroshi, ...

Monoclonal antibodies specific for the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) are widely used for detection and quantification of DNA photolesions. However, the mechanisms of antigen binding by anti-CPD...

A role for MHR1, a gene required for mitochondrial genetic recombination, in the repair of damage spontaneously introduced in yeast mtDNA

Ling, Feng, Morioka, Hiroshi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Shibata, Takehiko

A nuclear recessive mutant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mhr1-1, is defective in mitochondrial genetic recombination at 30°C and shows extensive vegetative petite induction by UV irradiation at 30°C...

Highly efficient catalytic RNA cleavage by the cooperative action of two Cu(II) complexes embodied within an antisense oligonucleotide

Sakamoto, Satoshi, Tamura, Takashi, Furukawa, Takako, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Kitamura, Masaya, ...

Based on our recent studies of RNA cleavage by oligonucleotide–terpyridine·Cu(II) complex 5′- and/or 3′-conjugates, we designed 2′-O-methyloligonucleotides with two terpyridine-attached...

A new, but old, nucleoside analog: the first synthesis of 1-deaza-2′-deoxyguanosine and its properties as a nucleoside and as oligodeoxynucleotides

Kojima, Naoshi, Inoue, Kaori, Nakajima-Shibata, Rina, Kawahara, Shun-ichi, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The first synthesis of 5-amino-3-(2′-deoxy-β-d-ribofuranosyl)imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-7-one (1-deaza-2′-deoxyguanosine) is described. The compound was converted from the known AICA-deoxyriboside....

Structural basis for recruitment of human flap endonuclease 1 to PCNA

Sakurai, Shigeru, Kitano, Ken, Yamaguchi, Hiroto, Hamada, Keisuke, Okada, Kengo, Fukuda, Kotaro, ...

Flap endonuclease-1 (FEN1) is a key enzyme for maintaining genomic stability and replication. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) binds FEN1 and stimulates its endonuclease activity. The...

DNA binding mode of the Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody specific for cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer

Torizawa, Takuya, Yamamoto, Nobuhiro, Suzuki, Tomonori, Nobuoka, Kaoru, Komatsu, Yasuo, Morioka, Hiroshi, ...

Monoclonal antibodies specific for the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) are widely used for detection and quantification of DNA photolesions. However, the mechanisms of antigen binding by anti-CPD...

A role for MHR1, a gene required for mitochondrial genetic recombination, in the repair of damage spontaneously introduced in yeast mtDNA

Ling, Feng, Morioka, Hiroshi, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Shibata, Takehiko

A nuclear recessive mutant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, mhr1-1, is defective in mitochondrial genetic recombination at 30°C and shows extensive vegetative petite induction by UV irradiation at 30°C...

Highly efficient catalytic RNA cleavage by the cooperative action of two Cu(II) complexes embodied within an antisense oligonucleotide

Sakamoto, Satoshi, Tamura, Takashi, Furukawa, Takako, Komatsu, Yasuo, Ohtsuka, Eiko, Kitamura, Masaya, ...

Based on our recent studies of RNA cleavage by oligonucleotide–terpyridine·Cu(II) complex 5′- and/or 3′-conjugates, we designed 2′-O-methyloligonucleotides with two terpyridine-attached...

A new, but old, nucleoside analog: the first synthesis of 1-deaza-2′-deoxyguanosine and its properties as a nucleoside and as oligodeoxynucleotides

Kojima, Naoshi, Inoue, Kaori, Nakajima-Shibata, Rina, Kawahara, Shun-ichi, Ohtsuka, Eiko

The first synthesis of 5-amino-3-(2′-deoxy-β-d-ribofuranosyl)imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-7-one (1-deaza-2′-deoxyguanosine) is described. The compound was converted from the known AICA-deoxyriboside....

Structural basis for recruitment of human flap endonuclease 1 to PCNA

Sakurai, Shigeru, Kitano, Ken, Yamaguchi, Hiroto, Hamada, Keisuke, Okada, Kengo, Fukuda, Kotaro, ...

Flap endonuclease-1 (FEN1) is a key enzyme for maintaining genomic stability and replication. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) binds FEN1 and stimulates its endonuclease activity. The...