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Akira Ono is affiliated with Kanagawa University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans numerous subfields including molecular biology, oncology, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear and high energy physics.

Their work broadly covers advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, RNA interference and gene delivery, nanocluster synthesis and applications, chemical synthesis and analysis, metal complexes synthesis and properties, and lung cancer treatments and mutations.

Key papers authored or coauthored by Akira Ono include:

  • A Novel AgI-DNA Rod Comprising a One-Dimensional Array of 11 Silver Ions within a Double Helical Structure (2022), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Enzymatic formation of consecutive thymine-HgII-thymine base pairs by DNA polymerases (2020), published in Chemical Communications
  • Effect of cytosine-Ag+-cytosine base pairing on the redox potential of the Ag+/Ag couple and the chemical reduction of Ag+ to Ag by tetrathiafulvalene (2021), published in Dalton Transactions
  • A methodology for developing nanomaterial testing standards (2023), published in SICE Journal of Control Measurement and System Integration
  • Development of Bioreduction Labile Protecting Groups for the 2'-Hydroxyl Group of RNA (2020), published in Organic Letters

Frequent coauthors in Akira Ono's publications include:

  • Jiro Kondo
  • Shoji Fujiwara
  • Hisao Saneyoshi
  • Takahiro Atsugi
  • Yoshiyuki Tanaka

The scientist has published multiple articles in a variety of venues, most notably:

  • Dalton Transactions
  • Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids
  • ChemBioChem
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Highly Selective Oligonucleotide‐Based Sensor for Mercury(II) in Aqueous Solutions

    Akira Ono;Humika Togashi

  • MercuryII-mediated formation of thymine-HgII-thymine base pairs in DNA duplexes

    Yoko Miyake;Humika Togashi;Mitsuru Tashiro;Hiroshi Yamaguchi

  • Specific interactions between silver(I) ions and cytosine–cytosine pairs in DNA duplexes

    Akira Ono;Shiqi Cao;Humika Togashi;Mitsuru Tashiro

  • 15N−15N J-Coupling Across HgII: Direct Observation of HgII-Mediated T−T Base Pairs in a DNA Duplex

    Yoshiyuki Tanaka;Shuji Oda;Hiroshi Yamaguchi;Yoshinori Kondo

  • Optimal isotope labelling for NMR protein structure determinations

    Masatsune Kainosho;Takuya Torizawa;Yuki Iwashita;Tsutomu Terauchi

  • NMR scalar couplings across Watson-Crick base pair hydrogen bonds in DNA observed by transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy

    Konstantin Pervushin;Akira Ono;César Fernández;Thomas Szyperski

  • Well-Controlled Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Organorhodium(I) Complexes: Mechanism and Structure of the Polyenes

    Yasuhisa Kishimoto;Peter Eckerle;Tatsuya Miyatake;Masatsune Kainosho

  • Binding of metal ions by pyrimidine base pairs in DNA duplexes

    Akira Ono;Hidetaka Torigoe;Yoshiyuki Tanaka;Itaru Okamoto

  • NMR structure of the histidine kinase domain of the E. coli osmosensor EnvZ

    Toshiyuki Tanaka;Soumitra K. Saha;Chieri Tomomori;Rieko Ishima

  • Human apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme-catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) is incorporated into HIV-1 virions through interactions with viral and nonviral RNAs.

    Evguenia S. Svarovskaia;Hongzhan Xu;Jean L. Mbisa;Rebekah Barr

  • The NMR Structure of a DNA Dodecamer in an Aqueous Dilute Liquid Crystalline Phase

    Nico Tjandra;Shin-ichi Tate;Akira Ono;Masatsune Kainosho

  • A metallo-DNA nanowire with uninterrupted one-dimensional silver array.

    Jiro Kondo;Yoshinari Tada;Takenori Dairaku;Yoshikazu Hattori

  • Triplex formation of oligonucleotides containing 2'-O-methylpseudoisocytidine in substitution for 2'-deoxycytidine

    Akira Ono;Paul O. P. Ts'o;Lou Sing Kan

  • HgII Ion Specifically Binds with T:T Mismatched Base Pair in Duplex DNA

    Hidetaka Torigoe;Akira Ono;Tetsuo Kozasa

  • Metal-Ion Selectivity of Chemically Modified Uracil Pairs in DNA Duplexes†

    Itaru Okamoto;Kenji Iwamoto;Yuko Watanabe;Yoko Miyake

  • Crystal structure of metallo DNA duplex containing consecutive Watson-Crick-like T-Hg(II)-T base pairs.

    Jiro Kondo;Tom Yamada;Chika Hirose;Itaru Okamoto

  • Structures, physicochemical properties, and applications of T–HgII–T, C–AgI–C, and other metallo-base-pairs

    Yoshiyuki Tanaka;Yoshiyuki Tanaka;Jiro Kondo;Vladimír Sychrovský;Jakub Šebera

  • High-Resolution Crystal Structure of a Silver(I)-RNA Hybrid Duplex Containing Watson-Crick-like CSilver(I)C Metallo-Base Pairs

    Jiro Kondo;Yoshinari Tada;Takenori Dairaku;Hisao Saneyoshi

  • The structure of metallo-DNA with consecutive thymine-HgII-thymine base pairs explains positive entropy for the metallo base pair formation.

    Hiroshi Yamaguchi;Jakub Šebera;Jiro Kondo;Shuji Oda

  • Thermodynamic and structural properties of the specific binding between Ag⁺ ion and C:C mismatched base pair in duplex DNA to form C-Ag-C metal-mediated base pair.

    Hidetaka Torigoe;Itaru Okamoto;Takenori Dairaku;Yoshiyuki Tanaka

  • AgI Ion Mediated Formation of a C–A Mispair by DNA Polymerases

    Tatsuya Funai;Yuki Miyazaki;Megumi Aotani;Eriko Yamaguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Masatsune Kainosho
Masatsune Kainosho Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yoshinori Kondo
Yoshinori Kondo Tohoku University
Akira Matsuda
Akira Matsuda Juntendo University
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich ETH Zurich
Thomas Szyperski
Thomas Szyperski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Eric O. Freed
Eric O. Freed National Institutes of Health
Peter Güntert
Peter Güntert ETH Zurich
Paul O. P. Ts'o
Paul O. P. Ts'o Johns Hopkins University
Kunio Nagashima
Kunio Nagashima National Institutes of Health

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