Akira Nakai

Overview

Best Publications

• PDSM, a motif for phosphorylation-dependent SUMO modification.

  Ville Hietakangas;Julius Anckar;Henri A. Blomster;Mitsuaki Fujimoto

  620
  Citations

• The Highly Conserved DRY Motif of Class A G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Beyond the Ground State

  G. Enrico Rovati;Valérie Capra;Richard R. Neubig

  530
  Citations

• HSF4, a new member of the human heat shock factor family which lacks properties of a transcriptional activator.

  A Nakai;M Tanabe;Y Kawazoe;J Inazawa

  459
  Citations

• Characterization of a novel chicken heat shock transcription factor, heat shock factor 3, suggests a new regulatory pathway.

  Akira Nakai;Richard I Morimoto

  381
  Citations

• Generalized resistance to thyroid hormone associated with a mutation in the ligand-binding domain of the human thyroid hormone receptor beta

  Akihiro Sakurai;Kyoko Takeda;Kenneth Ain;Paola Ceccarelli

  352
  Citations

• Involvement of the stress protein HSP47 in procollagen processing in the endoplasmic reticulum.

  Akira Nakai;Mamoru Satoh;Kazunori Hirayoshi;Kazuhiro Nagata

  336
  Citations

• HSF4 is required for normal cell growth and differentiation during mouse lens development

  Mitsuaki Fujimoto;Hanae Izu;Keisuke Seki;Ken Fukuda

  334
  Citations

• The heat shock factor family and adaptation to proteotoxic stress.

  Mitsuaki Fujimoto;Akira Nakai

  297
  Citations

• Active HSF1 significantly suppresses polyglutamine aggregate formation in cellular and mouse models.

  Mitsuaki Fujimoto;Eiichi Takaki;Tetsuya Hayashi;Yasushi Kitaura

  273
  Citations

• Flavonoids inhibit the expression of heat shock proteins

  Nobuko Hosokawa;Kazunori Hirayoshi;Akira Nakai;Ydhei Hosokawa

  259
  Citations

• Arrest of spermatogenesis in mice expressing an active heat shock transcription factor 1

  Akira Nakai;Misao Suzuki;Masako Tanabe;Masako Tanabe

  241
  Citations

• Long-term Melatonin Treatment Delays Ovarian Aging

  Hiroshi Tamura;Mai Kawamoto;Shun Sato;Isao Tamura

  221
  Citations

• Quercetin suppresses heat shock response by down regulation of HSF1.

  N. Nagai;A. Nakai;K. Nagata

  212
  Citations

• Proteasome inhibition leads to the activation of all members of the heat-shock-factor family.

  Yoshinori Kawazoe;Akira Nakai;Masako Tanabe;Kazuhiro Nagata

  196
  Citations

• The Mammalian HSF4 Gene Generates Both an Activator and a Repressor of Heat Shock Genes by Alternative Splicing

  Masako Tanabe;Noriaki Sasai;Kazuhiro Nagata;Kazuhiro Nagata;Xiao-Dong Liu

  195
  Citations

• Cloning and expression of murine high molecular mass heat shock proteins, HSP105.

  Kunihiko Yasuda;Akira Nakai;Takumi Hatayama;Kazuhiro Nagata

  193
  Citations

• Genetic Evidence for a Protective Role for Heat Shock Factor 1 and Heat Shock Protein 70 against Colitis

  Ken Ichiro Tanaka;Takushi Namba;Yasuhiro Arai;Mitsuaki Fujimoto

  190
  Citations

• HSP47: a Tissue-Specific, Transformation-Sensitive, Collagen-Binding Heat Shock Protein of Chicken Embryo Fibroblasts.

  Kazunori Hirayoshi;Hitoshi Kudo;Hajime Takechi;Akira Nakai

  166
  Citations

• Disruption of the HSF3 gene results in the severe reduction of heat shock gene expression and loss of thermotolerance

  Masako Tanabe;Yoshinori Kawazoe;Shunichi Takeda;Richard I. Morimoto

  163
  Citations

• Reactive oxygen species play an important role in the activation of heat shock factor 1 in ischemic-reperfused heart

  Junichiro Nishizawa;Akira Nakai;Katsuhiko Matsuda;Masashi Komeda

  162
  Citations