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42
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19500
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7951

Overview

Kay Tanaka was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their academic career included contributions that, although not detailed in publication records or specific research topics, were connected to this prominent institution.

There are no recent papers listed under their name, nor are there records of frequent co-authors or publication venues associated with their work.

Neither main fields of study nor subfields of study have been specified, and no particular topics of work have been documented in the available data.

Information about book publications or awards received by Kay Tanaka has not been recorded in the data provided.

Kay Tanaka is noted as deceased.

Best Publications

  • Isovaleric acidemia: a new genetic defect of leucine metabolism.

    K Tanaka;M A Budd;M L Efron;K J Isselbacher

  • Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

    Piero Rinaldo;John J. O'Shea;Paul M. Coates;Daniel E. Hale

  • Purification and characterization of short-chain, medium-chain, and long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenases from rat liver mitochondria. Isolation of the holo- and apoenzymes and conversion of the apoenzyme to the holoenzyme.

    Y Ikeda;K Okamura-Ikeda;K Tanaka

  • Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNAs encoding the precursors of rat long chain acyl-coenzyme A, short chain acyl-coenzyme A, and isovaleryl-coenzyme A dehydrogenases. Sequence homology of four enzymes of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenase family.

    Y Matsubara;Y Indo;E Naito;H Ozasa

  • Purification of human very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase and characterization of its deficiency in seven patients.

    Toshifumi Aoyama;Masayoshi Souri;Seiichi Ushikubo;Takehiko Kamijo

  • Identification of very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in three patients previously diagnosed with long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency

    Seiji Yamaguchi;Yasuhiro Indo;Paul M Coates;Takashi Hashimoto

  • Ethylmalonic-Adipic Aciduria: IN VIVO AND IN VITRO STUDIES INDICATING DEFICIENCY OF ACTIVITIES OF MULTIPLE ACYL-CoA DEHYDROGENASES

    Stephanos Mantagos;Myron Genel;Kay Tanaka

  • Prenatal therapy of a patient with vitamin-B12-responsive methylmalonic acidemia.

    Mary G. Ampola;Maurice J. Mahoney;Eiichi Nakamura;Kay Tanaka

  • Molecular survey of a prevalent mutation, 985A-to-G transition, and identification of five infrequent mutations in the medium-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) gene in 55 patients with MCAD deficiency.

    Ichiro Yokota;Paul M. Coates;Daniel E. Hale;Piero Rinaldo

  • Molecular basis of medium chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency. An A to G transition at position 985 that causes a lysine-304 to glutamate substitution in the mature protein is the single prevalent mutation.

    I Yokota;Y Indo;P M Coates;K Tanaka

  • FAD-dependent regulation of transcription, translation, post-translational processing, and post-processing stability of various mitochondrial acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and of electron transfer flavoprotein and the site of holoenzyme formation.

    M Nagao;K Tanaka

  • Developmental, nutritional, and hormonal regulation of tissue-specific expression of the genes encoding various acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and alpha-subunit of electron transfer flavoprotein in rat.

    M Nagao;B Parimoo;K Tanaka

  • Isovaleric and α-Methylbutyric Acidemias Induced by Hypoglycin A: Mechanism of Jamaican Vomiting Sickness

    Kay Tanaka;Kurt J. Isselbacher;Vivian Shih

  • Association of SIGNR1 with TLR4–MD-2 enhances signal transduction by recognition of LPS in gram-negative bacteria

    Koji Nagaoka;Kazuhiko Takahara;Kay Tanaka;Hideo Yoshida

  • Purification and properties of short-chain acyl-CoA, medium-chain acyl-CoA, and isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenases from human liver.

    Finocchiaro G;Ito M;Tanaka K

  • Mutations in the medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) gene.

    K. Tanaka;I. Yokota;P. M. Coates;A. W. Strauss

  • Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of complementary DNAs encoding human short chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase and the study of the molecular basis of human short chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency.

    E Naito;H Ozasa;Y Ikeda;K Tanaka

  • Identification of two variant short chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase alleles, each containing a different point mutation in a patient with short chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency.

    Etsuo Naito;Yasuhiro Indo;Kay Tanaka

  • Demonstration of a specific mitochondrial isovaleryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in fibroblasts from patients with isovaleric acidemia

    William J. Rhead;Kay Tanaka

  • Cloning of human very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase and molecular characterization of its deficiency in two patients.

    T Aoyama;M Souri;I Ueno;T Kamijo

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Rinaldo
Piero Rinaldo Mayo Clinic
Gaetano Finocchiaro
Gaetano Finocchiaro Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
Jan P. Kraus
Jan P. Kraus University of Colorado Denver
Leon E. Rosenberg
Leon E. Rosenberg Yale University
John J. O'Shea
John J. O'Shea National Institutes of Health
Jerry Vockley
Jerry Vockley University of Pittsburgh
Yoichi Matsubara
Yoichi Matsubara Tohoku University
Teresa L. Yang-Feng
Teresa L. Yang-Feng Yale University
Seiji Yamaguchi
Seiji Yamaguchi Shimane University
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto Shinshu University

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