Masahiro Okada

A diagnostic support tool for lumbar spinal stenosis: a self-administered, self-reported history questionnaire (2007)

Konno, Shin-ichi, Kikuchi, Shin-ichi, Tanaka, Yasuhisa, Yamazaki, Ken, Shimada, You-ichi, Takei, Hiroshi, ...

Abstract Background There is no validated gold-standard diagnostic support tool for LSS, and therefore an accurate diagnosis depends on clinical assessment. Assessment of the diagnostic value of the...

Difference of rejection between heart and heart-lung transplantation in rats: flowcytometric analysis of graft infiltrating lymphocyte subsets. (2007)

Okada, Masahiro, Senoo, Yoshimasa, Teramoto, Shigeru

Reported clinical and experimental observations indicate that heart grafts in combined heart-lung transplantation are less frequently rejected than heart grafts transplanted alone. In order to...

Drosophila FACT contributes to Hox gene expression through physical and functional interactions with GAGA factor (2003)

Shimojima, Tsukasa, Okada, Masahiro, Nakayama, Takahiro, Ueda, Hitoshi, Okawa, Katsuya, Iwamatsu, Akihiro, ...

Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of transcription. Drosophila GAGA factor directs chromatin remodeling to its binding sites. We show here that Drosophila FACT (facilitates...

Genomic Organization and Isoforms of the Mouse ELP Gene (1995)

Ninomiya, Yasuharu, Okada, Masahiro, Kotomura, Naoe, Suzuki, Katsnyuki, Tsukiyama, Toshio, Niwa, Ohtsura

Analysis was made on the genomic structure, functions, and expression of the mouse ELP gene, which codes for the embryonal long terminal repeat binding protein. Extensive screening of the cDNA...

Repression of Retinoic Acid-Induced Transactivation by Embryonal LTR Binding Protein (1994)

Kotomura, Naoe, Okada, Masahiro, Ninomiya, Yasuharu, Tsukiyama, Toshio, Umesono, Kazuhiko, Evans, Ronald M., ...

The mechanism of repression of transcription by ELP, the embryonal long terminal repeat binding protein, was investigated. ELP represses the Moloney murine leukemia virus long terminal repeat by...

Studies on Probabilistic Analysis of ?-opt for Traveling Salesperson Problems

Okada, Masahiro, 岡田, 正浩, オカダ, マサヒロ

奈良先端科学技術大学院大学情報科学研究科博士論文、NAIST-IS-DT9661004、1999年2月8日

Cloning, Sequencing, and Disruption of the Bacillus subtilis psd Gene Coding for Phosphatidylserine Decarboxylase

Matsumoto, Kouji, Okada, Masahiro, Horikoshi, Yuko, Matsuzaki, Hiroshi, Kishi, Tsutomu, Itaya, Mitsuhiro, ...

The psd gene of Bacillus subtilis Marburg, encoding phosphatidylserine decarboxylase, has been cloned and sequenced. It encodes a polypeptide of 263 amino acid residues (deduced molecular weight of...

Chromatin Remodeling Mediated by Drosophila GAGA Factor and ISWI Activates fushi tarazu Gene Transcription In Vitro

Okada, Masahiro, Hirose, Susumu

GAGA factor is known to remodel the chromatin structure in concert with nucleosome-remodeling factor NURF in a Drosophila embryonic S150 extract. The promoter region of the Drosophila fushi tarazu...

Myb controls G2/M progression by inducing cyclin B expression in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc

Okada, Masahiro, Akimaru, Hiroshi, Hou, De-Xing, Takahashi, Tomomi, Ishii, Shunsuke

The c-myb proto-oncogene product (c-Myb) is a transcriptional activator. Vertebrate c-Myb is a key regulator of the G1/S transition in cell cycle, while Drosophila Myb (dMyb) is important for the...

Drosophila FACT contributes to Hox gene expression through physical and functional interactions with GAGA factor

Shimojima, Tsukasa, Okada, Masahiro, Nakayama, Takahiro, Ueda, Hitoshi, Okawa, Katsuya, Iwamatsu, Akihiro, ...

Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of transcription. Drosophila GAGA factor directs chromatin remodeling to its binding sites. We show here that Drosophila FACT (facilitates...

Isolation and characterization of a digoxin transporter and its rat homologue expressed in the kidney

Mikkaichi, Tsuyoshi, Suzuki, Takehiro, Onogawa, Tohru, Tanemoto, Masayuki, Mizutamari, Hiroya, Okada, Masahiro, ...

Digoxin, which is one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of heart failure, is mainly eliminated from the circulation by the kidney. P-glycoprotein is well characterized as a...

Drosophila Activating Transcription Factor-2 Is Involved in Stress Response via Activation by p38, but Not c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinase

Sano, Yuji, Akimaru, Hiroshi, Okamura, Tomoo, Nagao, Tomoko, Okada, Masahiro, Ishii, Shunsuke

Activating transcription factor (ATF)-2 is a member of the ATF/cAMP response element-binding protein family of transcription factors, and its trans-activating capacity is enhanced by stress-activated...

The Constitutive Centromere Component CENP-50 Is Required for Recovery from Spindle Damage‡

Minoshima, Yukinori, Hori, Tetsuya, Okada, Masahiro, Kimura, Hiroshi, Haraguchi, Tokuko, Hiraoka, Yasushi, ...

We identified CENP-50 as a novel kinetochore component. We found that CENP-50 is a constitutive component of the centromere that colocalizes with CENP-A and CENP-H throughout the cell cycle in...

Cloning, Sequencing, and Disruption of the Bacillus subtilis psd Gene Coding for Phosphatidylserine Decarboxylase

Matsumoto, Kouji, Okada, Masahiro, Horikoshi, Yuko, Matsuzaki, Hiroshi, Kishi, Tsutomu, Itaya, Mitsuhiro, ...

The psd gene of Bacillus subtilis Marburg, encoding phosphatidylserine decarboxylase, has been cloned and sequenced. It encodes a polypeptide of 263 amino acid residues (deduced molecular weight of...

Chromatin Remodeling Mediated by Drosophila GAGA Factor and ISWI Activates fushi tarazu Gene Transcription In Vitro

Okada, Masahiro, Hirose, Susumu

GAGA factor is known to remodel the chromatin structure in concert with nucleosome-remodeling factor NURF in a Drosophila embryonic S150 extract. The promoter region of the Drosophila fushi tarazu...

Myb controls G2/M progression by inducing cyclin B expression in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc

Okada, Masahiro, Akimaru, Hiroshi, Hou, De-Xing, Takahashi, Tomomi, Ishii, Shunsuke

The c-myb proto-oncogene product (c-Myb) is a transcriptional activator. Vertebrate c-Myb is a key regulator of the G1/S transition in cell cycle, while Drosophila Myb (dMyb) is important for the...

Drosophila FACT contributes to Hox gene expression through physical and functional interactions with GAGA factor

Shimojima, Tsukasa, Okada, Masahiro, Nakayama, Takahiro, Ueda, Hitoshi, Okawa, Katsuya, Iwamatsu, Akihiro, ...

Chromatin structure plays a critical role in the regulation of transcription. Drosophila GAGA factor directs chromatin remodeling to its binding sites. We show here that Drosophila FACT (facilitates...

Isolation and characterization of a digoxin transporter and its rat homologue expressed in the kidney

Mikkaichi, Tsuyoshi, Suzuki, Takehiro, Onogawa, Tohru, Tanemoto, Masayuki, Mizutamari, Hiroya, Okada, Masahiro, ...

Digoxin, which is one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of heart failure, is mainly eliminated from the circulation by the kidney. P-glycoprotein is well characterized as a...

Drosophila Activating Transcription Factor-2 Is Involved in Stress Response via Activation by p38, but Not c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinase

Sano, Yuji, Akimaru, Hiroshi, Okamura, Tomoo, Nagao, Tomoko, Okada, Masahiro, Ishii, Shunsuke

Activating transcription factor (ATF)-2 is a member of the ATF/cAMP response element-binding protein family of transcription factors, and its trans-activating capacity is enhanced by stress-activated...

The Constitutive Centromere Component CENP-50 Is Required for Recovery from Spindle Damage‡

Minoshima, Yukinori, Hori, Tetsuya, Okada, Masahiro, Kimura, Hiroshi, Haraguchi, Tokuko, Hiraoka, Yasushi, ...

We identified CENP-50 as a novel kinetochore component. We found that CENP-50 is a constitutive component of the centromere that colocalizes with CENP-A and CENP-H throughout the cell cycle in...

Studies on Probabilistic Analysis of ?-opt for Traveling Salesperson Problems

Okada, Masahiro, 岡田, 正浩, オカダ, マサヒロ

奈良先端科学技術大学院大学情報科学研究科博士論文、NAIST-IS-DT9661004、1999年2月8日

CENP-C Is Involved in Chromosome Segregation, Mitotic Checkpoint Function, and Kinetochore Assembly

Kwon, Mi-Sun, Hori, Tetsuya, Okada, Masahiro, Fukagawa, Tatsuo

CENP-C is a conserved inner kinetochore component. To understand the precise roles of CENP-C in the kinetochore, we created a cell line with a conditional knockout of CENP-C with the...

CENP-O Class Proteins Form a Stable Complex and Are Required for Proper Kinetochore Function

Hori, Tetsuya, Okada, Masahiro, Maenaka, Katsumi, Fukagawa, Tatsuo

We previously identified a multisubunit complex (CENP-H/I complex) in kinetochores from human and chicken cells. We showed that the CENP-H/I complex is divided into three functional classes. In the...