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Akio Matsukage

Akio Matsukage

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Molecular Biology

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7109
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Overview

Akio Matsukage is a researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan. Their work includes scholarly publications primarily centered around molecular biology, as indicated by their study on DNA polymerase.

Matsukage has contributed to academic literature with at least one documented paper titled DNA Polymerase Beta, published in 2020 in the venue Definitions. This publication currently has no recorded citations.

Their research outputs are associated exclusively with the publication venue Definitions, reflecting a focused yet limited scope of published work within that platform.

  • DNA Polymerase Beta, 2020, Definitions

There are no frequent co-authors listed, suggesting that the researcher may work independently or with collaborators not recurrently appearing in the publication record.

Best Publications

  • Cdt1 Phosphorylation by Cyclin A-dependent Kinases Negatively Regulates Its Function without Affecting Geminin Binding

    Nozomi Sugimoto;Yasutoshi Tatsumi;Tatsuya Tsurumi;Akio Matsukage

  • Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol, KM043, a New Potent Inhibitor of Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases and HIV-Reverse Transcriptase Type 1 from a Marine Red Alga, Gigartina tenella.

    Keisuke Ohta;Yoshiyuki Mizushima;Noriko Hirata;Masaharu Takemura

  • Expression of active rat DNA polymerase .beta. in Escherichia coli

    Takayasu Date;Masamitsu Yamaguchi;Fumiko Hirose;Yoshio Nishimoto

  • Identification of ter94, Drosophila VCP, as a modulator of polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration.

    H Higashiyama;H Higashiyama;F Hirose;M Yamaguchi;Y H Inoue

  • A Mushroom Fruiting Body-Inducing Substance Inhibits Activities of Replicative DNA Polymerases

    Yoshiyuki Mizushina;Linda Hanashima;Toyofumi Yamaguchi;Masaharu Takemura

  • Orbit, a Novel Microtubule-Associated Protein Essential for Mitosis in Drosophila melanogaster

    Yoshihiro H. Inoue;Maria do Carmo Avides;Maria do Carmo Avides;Michina Shiraki;Peter Deak;Peter Deak

  • Difference in the expression level of DNA polymerase β among mouse tissues: High expression in the pachytene spermatocyte

    Fumiko Hirose;Yasuo Hotta;Masamitsu Yamaguchi;Akio Matsukage

  • Drosophila proliferating cell nuclear antigen (cyclin) gene: structure, expression during development, and specific binding of homeodomain proteins to its 5'-flanking region.

    M. Yamaguchi;Y. Nishida;T. Moriuchi;F. Hirose

  • Studies on inhibitors of mammalian DNA polymerase α and β: Sulfolipids from a pteridophyte, Athyrium niponicum

    Yoshiyuki Mizushina;Itiro Watanabe;Keisuke Ohta;Masaharu Takemura

  • Identification of three conserved regions in the DREF transcription factors from Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis

    Yasuhiko Takahashi;Fumiko Hirose;Akio Matsukage;Masamitsu Yamaguchi

  • The DNA Replication-related Element (DRE)/DRE-binding Factor System Is a Transcriptional Regulator of the Drosophila E2FGene

    Tomoyuki Sawado;Fumiko Hirose;Yasuhiko Takahashi;Takayo Sasaki

  • D-type cyclin-binding regions of proliferating cell nuclear antigen

    S Matsuoka;M Yamaguchi;A Matsukage

  • An influenza virus replicon system in yeast identified Tat-SF1 as a stimulatory host factor for viral RNA synthesis

    Tadasuke Naito;Yoshihiko Kiyasu;Kenji Sugiyama;Ayumi Kimura

  • On the DNA polymerase III of mouse myeloma: partial purification and characterization.

    A. Matsukage;E. W. Bohn;S. H. Wilson

  • Ectopic expression of DREF induces DNA synthesis, apoptosis, and unusual morphogenesis in the Drosophila eye imaginal disc: possible interaction with Polycomb and trithorax group proteins.

    Fumiko Hirose;Nobuko Ohshima;Michina Shiraki;Yoshihiro H. Inoue

  • Chick embryo DNA polymerase gamma. Purification and structural analysis of nearly homogeneous enzyme.

    M Yamaguchi;A Matsukage;T Takahashi

  • Structure of rat DNA polymerase beta revealed by partial amino acid sequencing and cDNA cloning.

    B Z Zmudzka;D SenGupta;A Matsukage;F Cobianchi

  • Transcriptional Regulation of the Drosophila CycA Gene by the DNA Replication-Related Element (DRE) and DRE Binding Factor (DREF)

    Katsuhito Ohno;Fumiko Hirose;Kengo Sakaguchi;Yasuyoshi Nishida

  • The DRE/DREF transcriptional regulatory system: a master key for cell proliferation.

    Akio Matsukage;Fumiko Hirose;Mi-Ae Yoo;Masamitsu Yamaguchi

  • dE2F2, a novel E2F-family transcription factor in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Tomoyuki Sawado;Masamitsu Yamaguchi;Yoshio Nishimoto;Katsuhito Ohno

Frequent Co-Authors

Masamitsu Yamaguchi
Masamitsu Yamaguchi Kyoto Institute of Technology
Kengo Sakaguchi
Kengo Sakaguchi Tokyo University of Science
Shonen Yoshida
Shonen Yoshida Nagoya University
Yoshiyuki Mizushina
Yoshiyuki Mizushina Shinshu University
Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics
Hiroyuki Koshino
Hiroyuki Koshino Tokyo University of Agriculture
Takashi Takahashi
Takashi Takahashi Nagoya University
David M. Glover
David M. Glover California Institute of Technology
Hiroyasu Esumi
Hiroyasu Esumi Tokyo University of Science
Akira Kakizuka
Akira Kakizuka Kyoto University

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