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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
85
Citations
25201
World Ranking
854
National Ranking
67

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Atsuo Ogura is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their publication record spans multiple fields including medicine, molecular biology, reproductive medicine, and genetics, with significant contributions to public health and pediatric studies.

Their main areas of research focus include reproductive biology and fertility, sperm and testicular function, and pluripotent stem cell research. They also work in the fields of CRISPR and genetic engineering, epigenetics and DNA methylation, animal genetics and reproduction, and prenatal screening and diagnostics.

Ogura's frequently published venues include:

  • Biology of Reproduction
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • eLife

Atsuo Ogura has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Shogo Matoba, Narumi Ogonuki, Kimiko Inoue, Michiko Hirose, and Ayumi Hasegawa.

Among recent publications, some significant papers are:

  • "A non-mosaic transchromosomic mouse model of Down syndrome carrying the long arm of human chromosome 21" (2020, eLife)
  • "Acrosin is essential for sperm penetration through the zona pellucida in hamsters" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Loss of H3K27me3 imprinting in the Sfmbt2 miRNA cluster causes enlargement of cloned mouse placentas" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Reprogramming of the histone H3.3 landscape in the early mouse embryo" (2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)
  • "Formation of spermatogonia and fertile oocytes in golden hamsters requires piRNAs" (2021, Nature Cell Biology)

Best Publications

  • Colorimetric detection of loop-mediated isothermal amplification reaction by using hydroxy naphthol blue.

    Motoki Goto;Eiichi Honda;Atsuo Ogura;Akio Nomoto

  • Long-Term Proliferation in Culture and Germline Transmission of Mouse Male Germline Stem Cells

    Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;Narumi Ogonuki;Kimiko Inoue;Hiromi Miki

  • Generation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Neonatal Mouse Testis

    Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;Kimiko Inoue;Jiyoung Lee;Momoko Yoshimoto

  • Requirement of CD9 on the egg plasma membrane for fertilization.

    Kenji Miyado;Gen Yamada;Shuichi Yamada;Hidetoshi Hasuwa

  • Inter-mitochondrial complementation: Mitochondria-specific system preventing mice from expression of disease phenotypes by mutant mtDNA

    Kazuto Nakada;Kimiko Inoue;Kimiko Inoue;Tomoko Ono;Kotoyo Isobe

  • Generation of mice with mitochondrial dysfunction by introducing mouse mtDNA carrying a deletion into zygotes

    Kimiko Inoue;Kazuto Nakada;Atsuo Ogura;Kotoyo Isobe

  • Erasing genomic imprinting memory in mouse clone embryos produced from day 11.5 primordial germ cells.

    Jiyoung Lee;Kimiko Inoue;Ryuichi Ono;Narumi Ogonuki

  • PGC7 binds histone H3K9me2 to protect against conversion of 5mC to 5hmC in early embryos

    Toshinobu Nakamura;Yu-Jung Liu;Hiroyuki Nakashima;Hiroki Umehara

  • Deletion of Peg10 , an imprinted gene acquired from a retrotransposon, causes early embryonic lethality

    Ryuichi Ono;Kenji Nakamura;Kimiko Inoue;Mie Naruse

  • Long-Term Culture of Mouse Male Germline Stem Cells Under Serum-or Feeder-Free Conditions

    Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;Hiromi Miki;Kimiko Inoue;Narumi Ogonuki

  • Role of retrotransposon-derived imprinted gene, Rtl1 , in the feto-maternal interface of mouse placenta

    Yoichi Sekita;Hirotaka Wagatsuma;Kenji Nakamura;Ryuichi Ono

  • Production of Male Cloned Mice from Fresh, Cultured, and Cryopreserved Immature Sertoli Cells

    Atsuo Ogura;Kimiko Inoue;Narumi Ogonuki;Akira Noguchi

  • Faithful expression of imprinted genes in cloned mice.

    Kimiko Inoue;Takashi Kohda;Jiyoung Lee;Narumi Ogonuki

  • BIRTH OF NORMAL YOUNG AFTER ELECTROFUSION OF MOUSE OOCYTES WITH ROUND SPERMATIDS

    Atsuo Ogura;Junichiro Matsuda;Ryuzo Yanagimachi

  • Early death of mice cloned from somatic cells.

    Narumi Ogonuki;Kimiko Inoue;Yoshie Yamamoto;Yoko Noguchi

  • Genetic and epigenetic properties of mouse male germline stem cells during long-term culture

    Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;Narumi Ogonuki;Tomohiko Iwano;Jiyoung Lee;Jiyoung Lee

  • Akt mediates self-renewal division of mouse spermatogonial stem cells.

    Jiyoung Lee;Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;Kimiko Inoue;Narumi Ogonuki

  • Cloning of mice to six generations.

    Teruhiko Wakayama;Yoichi Shinkai;Kellie L. K. Tamashiro;Hiroyuki Niida

  • Impeding Xist Expression from the Active X Chromosome Improves Mouse Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

    Kimiko Inoue;Takashi Kohda;Michihiko Sugimoto;Takashi Sado

  • In Vitro Production of Functional Sperm in Cultured Neonatal Mouse Testes.

    Takuya Sato;Kumiko Katagiri;Kimiko Inoue;Narumi Ogonuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Narumi Ogonuki
Narumi Ogonuki National Institutes of Health
Kimiko Inoue
Kimiko Inoue University of Tsukuba
Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara
Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara Kyoto University
Takashi Shinohara
Takashi Shinohara Kyoto University
Fumitoshi Ishino
Fumitoshi Ishino Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Shinya Toyokuni
Shinya Toyokuni Nagoya University
Teruhiko Wakayama
Teruhiko Wakayama University of Yamanashi
Tadashi Baba
Tadashi Baba University of Tsukuba
Mitsuo Oshimura
Mitsuo Oshimura Tottori University

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