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Akira Yasui

Akira Yasui

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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Molecular Biology

D-Index
80
Citations
19776
World Ranking
1012
National Ranking
77

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Akira Yasui is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed significantly to the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a primary focus on electronic, optical, and magnetic materials as well as condensed matter physics and materials chemistry. Their research spans a wide array of topics, notably electronic and structural properties of oxides, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, and advanced condensed matter physics.

The scientist's work also covers semiconductor materials and devices, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, rare-earth and actinide compounds, and pancreatic function and diabetes. These diverse research areas demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach intersecting materials science and molecular biology.

Frequent co-authors include Yasumasa Takagi, Daiki Ootsuki, Eiji Ikenaga, T. Yoshida, and Kennichi Satoh, reflecting a collaborative network within their research domain.

Yasui's publications often appear in key scientific journals, with frequent contributions to Physical Review B, Diabetes, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, and Scientific Reports. This distribution highlights engagement with both material sciences and biomedical interfaces.

Notable recent papers include:

  • BL09XU: an advanced hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy beamline of SPring-8, 2023, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
  • Relationship among DNA double-strand break (DSB), DSB repair, and transcription prevents genome instability and cancer, 2020, Cancer Science
  • Activation and stabilization mechanisms of anionic redox for Li storage applications: Joint experimental and theoretical study on Li2TiO3-LiMnO2 binary system, 2020, Materials Today
  • FABP7 Regulates Acetyl-CoA Metabolism Through the Interaction with ACLY in the Nucleus of Astrocytes, 2020, Molecular Neurobiology
  • BEX2 suppresses mitochondrial activity and is required for dormant cancer stem cell maintenance in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Mammalian Cry1 and Cry2 are essential for maintenance of circadian rhythms.

    Gijsbertus T.J. Van Der Horst;Manja Muijtjens;Kumiko Kobayashi;Riya Takano

  • Photic induction of mPer1 and mPer2 in cry-deficient mice lacking a biological clock.

    Hitoshi Okamura;Shigeru Miyake;Yasuo Sumi;Shun Yamaguchi

  • Analysis of a human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain

    Kiyoji Tanaka;Naoyuki Miura;Ichiro Satokata;Iwai Miyamoto

  • Cloning and Characterization of Mammalian 8-Hydroxyguanine-specific DNA Glycosylase/Apurinic, Apyrimidinic Lyase, a Functional mutM Homologue

    Hiroyuki Aburatani;Yoshitaka Hippo;Toshimitsu Ishida;Rieko Takashima

  • Molecular characterization of the human excision repair gene ERCC-1: cDNA cloning and amino acid homology with the yeast DNA repair gene RAD10.

    Marcel van Duin;Jan de Wit;Hanny Odijk;Andries Westerveld

  • Spatial and temporal cellular responses to single-strand breaks in human cells.

    Satoshi Okano;Li Lan;Keith W. Caldecott;Toshio Mori

  • Mitochondrial targeting of human DNA glycosylases for repair of oxidative DNA damage

    Masashi Takao;Hiroyuki Aburatani;Kumiko Kobayashi;Akira Yasui

  • Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers Are Responsible for the Vast Majority of Mutations Induced by UVB Irradiation in Mammalian Cells

    Young Hyun You;Dong Hyun Lee;Jung Hoon Yoon;Satoshi Nakajima

  • In situ analysis of repair processes for oxidative DNA damage in mammalian cells

    Li Lan;Satoshi Nakajima;Yoshitsugu Oohata;Masashi Takao

  • In Vivo Recruitment of XPC to UV-induced Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers by the DDB2 Gene Product

    Maureen E. Fitch;Satoshi Nakajima;Akira Yasui;James M. Ford

  • A back-up glycosylase in Nth1 knock-out mice is a functional Nei (endonuclease VIII) homologue.

    Masashi Takao;Shin Ichiro Kanno;Kumiko Kobayashi;Qiu Mei Zhang

  • Histone acetylation by CBP and p300 at double-strand break sites facilitates SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling and the recruitment of non-homologous end joining factors

    H Ogiwara;A Ui;A Ui;A Otsuka;H Satoh

  • Crystal structure of DNA photolyase from Anacystis nidulans.

    T Tamada;T Tamada;K Kitadokoro;Y Higuchi;K Inaka

  • A new class of DNA photolyases present in various organisms including aplacental mammals.

    A. Yasui;A. P. M. Eker;S. Yasuhira;H. Yajima

  • Measurement of internal body time by blood metabolomics

    Yoichi Minami;Takeya Kasukawa;Yuji Kakazu;Masayuki Iigo

  • Dimerization and nuclear entry of mPER proteins in mammalian cells

    Kazuhiro Yagita;Shun Yamaguchi;Filippo Tamanini;Gijsbertus T.J. van der Horst

  • Powerful Skin Cancer Protection by a CPD-Photolyase Transgene

    Judith Jans;Wouter Schul;Wouter Schul;Yurda-Gul Sert;Yvonne Rijksen

  • The UV-damaged DNA binding protein mediates efficient targeting of the nucleotide excision repair complex to UV-induced photo lesions

    Jill Moser;Marcel Volker;Hanneke Kool;Sergei Alekseev

  • DNA repair protein XPA binds replication protein A (RPA)

    Toshiro Matsuda;Masafumi Saijo;Isao Kuraoka;Takehiro Kobayashi

  • Evidence for a repair enzyme complex involving ERCC1 and complementing activities of ERCC4, ERCC11 and xeroderma pigmentosum group F.

    A. J. Van Vuuren;E. Appeldoorn;H. Odijk;A. Yasui

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Lan
Li Lan Duke University
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kiyoji Tanaka
Kiyoji Tanaka University of Tsukuba
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Samuel H. Wilson
Samuel H. Wilson National Institutes of Health
Dirk Bootsma
Dirk Bootsma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Takashi Kohno
Takashi Kohno National Cancer Centre
Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics
Toshio Mori
Toshio Mori Nara Medical University
Chikashi Ishioka
Chikashi Ishioka Tohoku University

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