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Ichizo Kobayashi

Ichizo Kobayashi

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Genetics

D-Index
56
Citations
10920
World Ranking
3510
National Ranking
158

Overview

Ichizo Kobayashi is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, Kobayashi has explored subfields including Surgery, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Genetics, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics with a notable emphasis on Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies. Other central areas of research include Inflammatory Bowel Disease, RNA modifications and cancer, Microscopic Colitis, Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Bone health and treatments.

Ichizo Kobayashi has coauthored multiple publications with several frequent collaborators. These include Masaki Fukuyo, Koji Yahara, Kazunari Murakami, Hirokazu Yano, and Atsushi Toyoda.

Kobayashi's research has appeared repeatedly in a number of scientific publication venues. Among the most frequent are Microbial Genomics, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, DNA Research, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Their recent papers showcase the focus on Helicobacter pylori and related gastroenterological conditions as well as inflammatory diseases and microbiology. Notable publications include:

  • "Genome-wide association study of gastric cancer- and duodenal ulcer-derived Helicobacter pylori strains reveals discriminatory genetic variations and novel oncoprotein candidates" (2021, Microbial Genomics)
  • "Genomic differentiation within East Asian Helicobacter pylori" (2022, Microbial Genomics)
  • "Networking and Specificity-Changing DNA Methyltransferases in Helicobacter pylori" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • "Elderly onset age is associated with low efficacy of first anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment in patients with inflammatory bowel disease" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Gene content, phage cycle regulation model and prophage inactivation disclosed by prophage genomics in the Helicobacter pylori Genome Project" (2024, Gut Microbes)

Best Publications

  • Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Makoto Kuroda;Toshiko Ohta;Ikuo Uchiyama;Tadashi Baba

  • A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes

    Richard J. Roberts;Marlene Belfort;Timothy Bestor;Ashok S. Bhagwat

  • Behavior of restriction–modification systems as selfish mobile elements and their impact on genome evolution

    Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Selfish behavior of restriction-modification systems

    Taku Naito;Kohji Kusano;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • To be or not to be: regulation of restriction–modification systems and other toxin–antitoxin systems

    Iwona Mruk;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Identification in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus hominis of an Active Primordial Mobile Genetic Element for the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Yuki Katayama;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Teruyo Ito;Xiao Xue Ma

  • Evolution in an oncogenic bacterial species with extreme genome plasticity: Helicobacter pylori East Asian genomes

    Mikihiko Kawai;Mikihiko Kawai;Yoshikazu Furuta;Koji Yahara;Koji Yahara;Takeshi Tsuru

  • Shaping the genome--restriction-modification systems as mobile genetic elements.

    Ichizo Kobayashi;Ayaka Nobusato;Noriko Kobayashi-Takahashi;Ikuo Uchiyama

  • Restriction-modification systems as genomic parasites in competition for specific sequences

    Kohji Kusano;Taku Naito;Naofumi Handa;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Discovery of a novel restriction endonuclease by genome comparison and application of a wheat-germ-based cell-free translation assay: PabI (5′-GTA/C) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi

    Ken Ishikawa;Miki Watanabe;Toshihiro Kuroita;Ikuo Uchiyama

  • Restriction-modification gene complexes as selfish gene entities: Roles of a regulatory system in their establishment, maintenance, and apoptotic mutual exclusion

    Y. Nakayama;I. Kobayashi

  • Evidence for the double-strand break repair model of bacteriophage lambda recombination

    Noriko Takahashi;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Genome comparison and context analysis reveals putative mobile forms of restriction–modification systems and related rearrangements

    Yoshikazu Furuta;Kentaro Abe;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Methylome diversification through changes in DNA methyltransferase sequence specificity.

    Yoshikazu Furuta;Hiroe Namba-Fukuyo;Tomoko F. Shibata;Tomoaki Nishiyama

  • A DNA Methyltransferase Can Protect the Genome from Postdisturbance Attack by a Restriction-Modification Gene Complex

    Noriko Takahashi;Yasuhiro Naito;Naofumi Handa;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Dependence of frequency of homologous recombination on the homology length.

    Y Fujitani;K Yamamoto;I Kobayashi

  • Cellular Responses to Postsegregational Killing by Restriction-Modification Genes

    Naofumi Handa;Asao Ichige;Kohji Kusano;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • Improved in vitro packaging of coliphage lambda DNA: a one-strain system free from endogenous phage

    Susan M. Rosenberg;Mary M. Stahl;Ichizo Kobayashi;Franklin W. Stahl

  • Diversity of restriction-modification gene homologues in Helicobacter pylori.

    Ayaka Nobusato;Ikuo Uchiyama;Ichizo Kobayashi

  • A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyl transferases, homing endonucleases and their genes

    RJ Roberts;M Belford;T Bester;AS Bhagwat

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaru Tanokura
Masaru Tanokura University of Tokyo
Franklin W. Stahl
Franklin W. Stahl University of Oregon
Takeshi Azuma
Takeshi Azuma Kobe University
Sumio Sugano
Sumio Sugano University of Tokyo
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Yutaka Suzuki
Yutaka Suzuki University of Tokyo
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo

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