Hikoichi Sakai

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Best Publications

• Microtubule-associated-protein (MAP) kinase activated by nerve growth factor and epidermal growth factor in PC12 cells : identity with the mitogen-activated MAP kinase of fibroblastic cells

  Yukiko Gotoh;Eisuke Nishida;Takashi Yamashita;Minako Hoshi

  516
  Citations

• In vitro effects on microtubule dynamics of purified Xenopus M phase-activated MAP kinase.

  Yukiko Gotoh;Eisuke Nishida;Satoshi Matsuda;Nobuyuki Shiina

  482
  Citations

• Two mammalian heat shock proteins, HSP90 and HSP100, are actin-binding proteins

  Shigeo Koyasu;Eisuke Nishida;Takashi Kadowaki;Fumio Matsuzaki

  457
  Citations

• Cofilin, a protein in porcine brain that binds to actin filaments and inhibits their interactions with myosin and tropomyosin.

  Eisuke Nishida;Shohei Maekawa;Hikoichi Sakai

  445
  Citations

• Inhibition of the interactions of cofilin, destrin, and deoxyribonuclease I with actin by phosphoinositides

  N Yonezawa;E Nishida;K Iida;I Yahara

  427
  Citations

• Cofilin is a component of intranuclear and cytoplasmic actin rods induced in cultured cells.

  Eisuke Nishida;Kazuko Iida;Naoto Yonezawa;Shigeo Koyasu

  385
  Citations

• Xenopus M phase MAP kinase: isolation of its cDNA and activation by MPF.

  Y. Gotoh;K. Moriyama;S. Matsuda;E. Okumura

  342
  Citations

• Xenopus MAP kinase activator: identification and function as a key intermediate in the phosphorylation cascade.

  Matsuda S;Kosako H;Takenaka K;Moriyama K

  337
  Citations

• Role of tubulin-SH groups in polymerization to microtubules. Functional-SH groups in tubulin for polymerization.

  Ryoko Kuriyama;Hikoichi Sakai

  329
  Citations

• Mitogen-activated-protein-kinase-catalyzed phosphorylation of microtubule-associated proteins, microtubule-associated protein 2 and microtubule-associated protein 4, induces an alteration in their function.

  Minako Hoshi;Kunihiro Ohta;Yukiko Gotoh;Akiko Mori

  180
  Citations

• Molecular cloning of a ubiquitously distributed microtubule-associated protein with Mr 190,000.

  H Aizawa;Y Emori;H Murofushi;H Kawasaki

  172
  Citations

• A Porcine Brain Protein (35K Protein) Which Bundles Microtubules and Its Identification as Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase

  Hiromichi Kumagai;Hikoichi Sakai

  166
  Citations

• The mitotic apparatus-associated 51-kDa protein from sea urchin eggs is a GTP-binding protein and is immunologically related to yeast polypeptide elongation factor 1 alpha.

  K Ohta;M Toriyama;M Miyazaki;H Murofushi

  164
  Citations

• A common amino acid sequence in 190-kDa microtubule-associated protein and tau for the promotion of microtubule assembly.

  H Aizawa;H Kawasaki;H Murofushi;S Kotani

  164
  Citations

• Phosphorylation of Microtubule-Associated Proteins (MAPs) and pH of the Medium Control Interaction between MAPs and Actin Filaments

  Eisuke Nishida;Tomoyuki Kuwaki;Hikoichi Sakai

  157
  Citations

• Functional analyses of the domain structure of microtubule-associated protein-4 (MAP-U).

  H Aizawa;Y Emori;A Mori;H Murofushi

  138
  Citations

• An actin-depolymerizing protein (destrin) from porcine kidney. Its action on F-actin containing or lacking tropomyosin.

  Eisuke Nishida;Eiro Muneyuki;Shohei Maekawa;Yasutaka Ohta

  137
  Citations

• Microtubules inside the plasma membrane of squid giant axons and their possible physiological function

  Gen Matsumoto;Hikoichi Sakai

  132
  Citations

• Calmodulin inhibits interaction of actin with MAP2 and Tau, two major microtubule-associated proteins.

  S Kotani;E Nishida;H Kumagai;H Sakai

  128
  Citations

• Evidence that cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a protein factor are involved in reactivation of triton X-100 models of sea urchin and starfish spermatozoa.

  K Ishiguro;H Murofushi;H Sakai

  126
  Citations