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Chikahide Masutani

Chikahide Masutani

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
63
Citations
16859
World Ranking
1789
National Ranking
147

Overview

Chikahide Masutani is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and focuses primarily on research in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

The scientist's research extensively addresses key topics such as:

  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Masutani has published in a variety of scientific venues, including:

  • Carcinogenesis
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Life Science Alliance
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent selected papers by Masutani include:

  • "Novel mechanisms for the removal of strong replication-blocking HMCES- and thiazolidine-DNA adducts in humans" (2023, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "Acetaldehyde induces NER repairable mutagenic DNA lesions" (2021, Carcinogenesis)
  • "RFWD3 and translesion DNA polymerases contribute to PCNA modification-dependent DNA damage tolerance" (2022, Life Science Alliance)
  • "Guanine-5-carboxylcytosine base pairs mimic mismatches during DNA replication" (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • "Strand- and replication timing-dependent functions of DNA polymerase η in human DNA replication and mutagenesis" (2025, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Frequent collaborators in Masutani's research include:

  • Shigenori Iwai
  • Yuji Masuda
  • Rie Kanao
  • Isao Kuraoka
  • Yuina Sonohara

Best Publications

  • The XPV (xeroderma pigmentosum variant) gene encodes human DNA polymerase eta.

    Chikahide Masutani;Rika Kusumoto;Rika Kusumoto;Ayumi Yamada;Naoshi Dohmae

  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C Protein Complex Is the Initiator of Global Genome Nucleotide Excision Repair

    Kaoru Sugasawa;Jessica M.Y Ng;Chikahide Masutani;Shigenori Iwai

  • Mechanisms of accurate translesion synthesis by human DNA polymerase η

    Chikahide Masutani;Rika Kusumoto;Shigenori Iwai;Fumio Hanaoka

  • A multistep damage recognition mechanism for global genomic nucleotide excision repair

    Kaoru Sugasawa;Tomoko Okamoto;Yuichiro Shimizu;Chikahide Masutani

  • Xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XP-V) correcting protein from HeLa cells has a thymine dimer bypass DNA polymerase activity.

    Chikahide Masutani;Marito Araki;Ayumi Yamada;Rika Kusumoto;Rika Kusumoto

  • Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-η

    Toshiro Matsuda;Katarzyna Bebenek;Chikahide Masutani;Fumio Hanaoka

  • Purification and cloning of a nucleotide excision repair complex involving the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein and a human homologue of yeast RAD23.

    C. Masutani;K. Sugasawa;J. Yanagisawa;T. Sonoyama

  • Centrosome Protein Centrin 2/Caltractin 1 Is Part of the Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C Complex That Initiates Global Genome Nucleotide Excision Repair

    Marito Araki;Chikahide Masutani;Mitsuyo Takemura;Akio Uchida

  • Structure and mechanism of human DNA polymerase η

    Christian Biertümpfel;Ye Zhao;Ye Zhao;Yuji Kondo;Santiago Ramón-Maiques;Santiago Ramón-Maiques

  • Interaction of hHR23 with S5a. The ubiquitin-like domain of hHR23 mediates interaction with S5a subunit of 26 S proteasome.

    Hideki Hiyama;Masayuki Yokoi;Chikahide Masutani;Kaoru Sugasawa

  • The Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group C Protein Complex XPC-HR23B Plays an Important Role in the Recruitment of Transcription Factor IIH to Damaged DNA

    Masayuki Yokoi;Chikahide Masutani;Takafumi Maekawa;Kaoru Sugasawa

  • Error-prone bypass of certain DNA lesions by the human DNA polymerase κ

    Eiji Ohashi;Tomoo Ogi;Rika Kusumoto;Rika Kusumoto;Shigenori Iwai

  • Interaction of hREV1 with three human Y-family DNA polymerases

    Eiji Ohashi;Yoshiki Murakumo;Naoko Kanjo;Jun Ichi Akagi

  • Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase η occurs with biased fidelity

    Scott D McCulloch;Robert J Kokoska;Chikahide Masutani;Shigenori Iwai

  • Centrin 2 stimulates nucleotide excision repair by interacting with xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein.

    Ryotaro Nishi;Yuki Okuda;Eriko Watanabe;Toshio Mori

  • Dual roles for DNA polymerase η in homologous DNA recombination and translesion DNA synthesis

    Takuo Kawamoto;Kasumi Araki;Eiichiro Sonoda;Yukiko M. Yamashita;Yukiko M. Yamashita

  • Efficient translesion replication past oxaliplatin and cisplatin GpG adducts by human DNA polymerase eta.

    Alexandra Vaisman;Chikahide Masutani;Fumio Hanaoka;Stephen G. Chaney

  • High‐efficiency bypass of DNA damage by human DNA polymerase Q

    Mineaki Seki;Chikahide Masutani;Lee Wei Yang;Anthony Schuffert

  • Error rate and specificity of human and murine DNA polymerase eta.

    Toshiro Matsuda;Katarzyna Bebenek;Chikahide Masutani;Igor B Rogozin;Igor B Rogozin

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

    Toshiro Matsuda;Masafumi Saijo;Isao Kuraoka;Takehiro Kobayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics
Shigenori Iwai
Shigenori Iwai Osaka University
Kaoru Sugasawa
Kaoru Sugasawa Kobe University
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Hiroyuki Kamiya
Hiroyuki Kamiya Hiroshima University
Takehiko Nohmi
Takehiko Nohmi Gifu University
Thomas A. Kunkel
Thomas A. Kunkel National Institutes of Health
Dirk Bootsma
Dirk Bootsma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Susumu Nishimura
Susumu Nishimura University of Tsukuba
Alan R. Lehmann
Alan R. Lehmann University of Sussex

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