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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
98
Citations
35061
World Ranking
573
National Ranking
42

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

Overview

Hiroshi Handa is affiliated with Tokyo Medical University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology, hematology, and neurology. Their work also intersects related subfields such as genetics and immunology.

Handa's main research topics include multiple myeloma research and treatments, protein degradation and inhibitors, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, histone deacetylase inhibitors research, and platelet disorders and treatments.

Frequent collaborators in Handa's research activities include Takumi Ito, Kazuhide Asakawa, Koichi Kawakami, Junichi Yamamoto, and Yuki Yamaguchi. Their scholarly output features publications in several recurrent venues, with multiple articles published in Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia, Nature Communications, Cancers, Scientific Reports, and Communications Biology.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "Discovery of CRBN as a target of thalidomide: a breakthrough for progress in the development of protein degraders" (2022), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Molecular mechanisms of thalidomide and its derivatives" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • "ARID2 is a pomalidomide-dependent CRL4CRBN substrate in multiple myeloma cells" (2020), published in Nature Chemical Biology
  • "Optogenetic modulation of TDP-43 oligomerization accelerates ALS-related pathologies in the spinal motor neurons" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Molecular Mechanisms of the Teratogenic Effects of Thalidomide" (2020), published in Pharmaceuticals

Handa's research contributions cover molecular mechanisms related to thalidomide and its derivatives, their impact on protein degradation pathways, and neurological disease mechanisms, particularly ALS. The scientist's work also includes investigations on the substrates targeted by cereblon (CRBN), which plays a role in the therapeutic effects of immunomodulatory drugs used in multiple myeloma.

Best Publications

  • Identification of a Primary Target of Thalidomide Teratogenicity

    Takumi Ito;Hideki Ando;Takayuki Suzuki;Toshihiko Ogura

  • NELF, a Multisubunit Complex Containing RD, Cooperates with DSIF to Repress RNA Polymerase II Elongation

    Yuki Yamaguchi;Toshiyuki Takagi;Tadashi Wada;Keiichi Yano

  • An SV40-immortalized human corneal epithelial cell line and its characterization.

    K Araki-Sasaki;Y Ohashi;T Sasabe;K Hayashi

  • DSIF, A NOVEL TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR THAT REGULATES RNA POLYMERASE II PROCESSIVITY, IS COMPOSED OF HUMAN SPT4 AND SPT5 HOMOLOGS

    Tadashi Wada;Toshiyuki Takagi;Yuki Yamaguchi;Anwarul Ferdous

  • Cereblon is a direct protein target for immunomodulatory and antiproliferative activities of lenalidomide and pomalidomide.

    A Lopez-Girona;D Mendy;T Ito;K Miller

  • A common trans-acting factor, Ad4-binding protein, to the promoters of steroidogenic P-450s

    Ken-Ichirou Morohashi;Shin Ichiro Honda;Yukio Inomata;Hiroshi Handa

  • Redox regulation of NF-κB activation: Distinct redox regulation between the cytoplasm and the nucleus

    Yasuaki Kabe;Kozue Ando;Satoshi Hirao;Makoto Yoshida

  • Immunomodulatory agents lenalidomide and pomalidomide co-stimulate T cells by inducing degradation of T cell repressors Ikaros and Aiolos via modulation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex CRL4(CRBN.).

    Anita K Gandhi;Jian Kang;Courtney G Havens;Thomas Conklin

  • Evidence that Spt4, Spt5, and Spt6 control transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Grant A. Hartzog;Tadashi Wada;Hiroshi Handa;Fred Winston

  • EVIDENCE THAT P-TEFB ALLEVIATES THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF DSIF ON RNA POLYMERASE II-DEPENDENT TRANSCRIPTION IN VITRO

    Tadashi Wada;Toshiyuki Takagi;Yuki Yamaguchi;Daisuke Watanabe

  • A novel cereblon modulator recruits GSPT1 to the CRL4 CRBN ubiquitin ligase

    Mary E. Matyskiela;Gang Lu;Takumi Ito;Barbra Pagarigan

  • P-TEFb-mediated phosphorylation of hSpt5 C-terminal repeats is critical for processive transcription elongation.

    Tomoko Yamada;Yuki Yamaguchi;Yuki Yamaguchi;Naoto Inukai;Sachiko Okamoto

  • Structure of the human Cereblon–DDB1–lenalidomide complex reveals basis for responsiveness to thalidomide analogs

    Philip P Chamberlain;Antonia Lopez-Girona;Karen Miller;Gilles Carmel

  • MafA Is a Glucose-regulated and Pancreatic β-Cell-specific Transcriptional Activator for the Insulin Gene

    Kohsuke Kataoka;Song-iee Han;Setsuko Shioda;Momoki Hirai

  • NELF and DSIF cause promoter proximal pausing on the hsp70 promoter in Drosophila

    Chwen Huey Wu;Yuki Yamaguchi;Lawrence R. Benjamin;Maria Horvat-Gordon

  • Mutations of the PAX6 Gene Detected in Patients with a Variety of Optic-Nerve Malformations

    Noriyuki Azuma;Yuki Yamaguchi;Hiroshi Handa;Keiko Tadokoro

  • High-performance affinity beads for identifying drug receptors

    Noriaki Shimizu;Kotaro Sugimoto;Jianwei Tang;Takeyuki Nishi

  • Evidence that Negative Elongation Factor Represses Transcription Elongation through Binding to a DRB Sensitivity-Inducing Factor/RNA Polymerase II Complex and RNA

    Yuki Yamaguchi;Naoto Inukai;Takashi Narita;Tadashi Wada

  • Human transcription elongation factor NELF: identification of novel subunits and reconstitution of the functionally active complex.

    Takashi Narita;Yuki Yamaguchi;Keiichi Yano;Seiji Sugimoto

  • Mediator requirement for both recruitment and postrecruitment steps in transcription initiation.

    Gang Wang;Michael A. Balamotis;Jennitte L. Stevens;Yuki Yamaguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuki Yamaguchi
Yuki Yamaguchi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hajime Watanabe
Hajime Watanabe Osaka University
Haruma Kawaguchi
Haruma Kawaguchi Keio University
Jun-ichi Sawada
Jun-ichi Sawada University of Shizuoka
Makoto Suematsu
Makoto Suematsu Keio University
Hirotoshi Tanaka
Hirotoshi Tanaka Keio University
Kyosuke Nagata
Kyosuke Nagata University of Tsukuba
Koichi Kawakami
Koichi Kawakami National Institute of Genetics
Taisen Iguchi
Taisen Iguchi National Institute for Basic Biology

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