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Kazuo Shin-ya is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research activity spans multiple fields of study with a focus on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Within these areas, major subfields include molecular biology, pharmacology, organic chemistry, oncology, and ecology.

The scientist's primary research topics cover several aspects of biochemical and molecular sciences, including:

  • Microbial natural products and biosynthesis
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Biochemical and structural characterization
  • Chemical synthesis and analysis
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis
  • Synthetic organic chemistry methods

Shin-ya's work has been published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Journal of Antibiotics
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Cancer Science
  • Organic Letters

Among the recent research papers, notable examples are:

  • "Glioma-initiating cells at tumor edge gain signals from tumor core cells to promote their malignancy," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "LUBAC accelerates B-cell lymphomagenesis by conferring resistance to genotoxic stress on B cells," published in 2020 in Blood
  • "In vitro Cas9-assisted editing of modular polyketide synthase genes to produce desired natural product derivatives," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "Novel Plant-Associated Acidobacteria Promotes Growth of Common Floating Aquatic Plants, Duckweeds," published in 2021 in Microorganisms
  • "Replication stress at microsatellites causes DNA double-strand breaks and break-induced replication," published in 2020 in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Collaboration plays a significant role in this scientist's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Junko Hashimoto
  • Hikaru Suenaga
  • Noritaka Kagaya
  • Ikuko Kozone
  • Kei Kudo

Best Publications

  • Telomestatin, a Novel Telomerase Inhibitor from Streptomyces anulatus

    Kazuo Shin-ya;Konstanty Wierzba;Ken-ichi Matsuo;Toshio Ohtani

  • Telomestatin, a potent telomerase inhibitor that interacts quite specifically with the human telomeric intramolecular g-quadruplex.

    Mu Yong Kim;Hariprasad Vankayalapati;Kazuo Shin-Ya;Konstanty Wierzba

  • Terpene synthases are widely distributed in bacteria

    Yuuki Yamada;Tomohisa Kuzuyama;Mamoru Komatsu;Kazuo Shin-ya

  • FANCJ helicase defective in Fanconia anemia and breast cancer unwinds G-quadruplex DNA to defend genomic stability.

    Yuliang Wu;Kazuo Shin-ya;Robert M. Brosh

  • Design and synthesis of an expanded porphyrin that has selectivity for the c-MYC G-quadruplex structure.

    Jeyaprakashnarayanan Seenisamy;Sridevi Bashyam;Vijay Gokhale;Hariprasad Vankayalapati

  • Reevaluation of telomerase inhibition by quadruplex ligands and their mechanisms of action

    Anne De Cian;Gael Cristofari;Patrick Reichenbach;Elsa De Lemos

  • G-Quadruplex stabilization by telomestatin induces TRF2 protein dissociation from telomeres and anaphase bridge formation accompanied by loss of the 3' telomeric overhang in cancer cells.

    H Tahara;K Shin-Ya;H Seimiya;H Yamada

  • Engineered Streptomyces avermitilis host for heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene cluster for secondary metabolites

    Mamoru Komatsu;Kyoko Komatsu;Hanae Koiwai;Yuuki Yamada

  • Telomerase inhibition with a novel G-quadruplex-interactive agent, telomestatin: in vitro and in vivo studies in acute leukemia

    T Tauchi;K Shin-ya;G Sashida;M Sumi

  • Effect on Tumor Cells of Blocking Survival Response to Glucose Deprivation

    Hae-Ryong Park;Akihiro Tomida;Shigeo Sato;Yoshinori Tsukumo

  • Activity of a novel G-quadruplex-interactive telomerase inhibitor, telomestatin (SOT-095), against human leukemia cells: involvement of ATM-dependent DNA damage response pathways.

    Tetsuzo Tauchi;Kazuo Shin-Ya;Goro Sashida;Masahiko Sumi

  • The G-quadruplex Ligand Telomestatin Inhibits POT1 Binding to Telomeric Sequences In vitro and Induces GFP-POT1 Dissociation from Telomeres in Human Cells

    Dennis Gomez;Marie-Françoise O'Donohue;Thomas Wenner;Céline Douarre

  • Telomestatin-induced Telomere Uncapping Is Modulated by POT1 through G-overhang Extension in HT1080 Human Tumor Cells

    Dennis Gomez;Thomas Wenner;Bertrand Brassart;Céline Douarre

  • Genome mining of the Streptomyces avermitilis genome and development of genome-minimized hosts for heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters

    Haruo Ikeda;Kazuo Shin-ya;Satoshi Omura

  • Macrocyclic and helical oligoamides as a new class of G-quadruplex ligands.

    Pravin S. Shirude;Elizabeth R. Gillies;Sylvain Ladame;Frédéric Godde

  • Dysregulated YAP1/TAZ and TGF-β signaling mediate hepatocarcinogenesis in Mob1a/1b-deficient mice

    Miki Nishio;Keishi Sugimachi;Hiroki Goto;Jia Wang

  • Interaction of telomestatin with the telomeric single-strand overhang

    Dennis Gomez;Rajaa Paterski;Thibault Lemarteleur;Kazuo Shin-ya

  • Chemical Genomics Identifies the Unfolded Protein Response as a Target for Selective Cancer Cell Killing during Glucose Deprivation

    Sakae Saito;Aki Furuno;Junko Sakurai;Asami Sakamoto

  • Mammalian DNA2 helicase/nuclease cleaves G-quadruplex DNA and is required for telomere integrity

    Weiqiang Lin;Shilpa Sampathi;Huifang Dai;Changwei Liu;Changwei Liu

  • Apoptolidin, a new apoptosis inducer in transformed cells from Nocardiopsis sp.

    Jin Woo Kim;Hisasi Adachi;Kazuo Shin-Ya;Yoichi Hayakawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Furihata
Kazuo Furihata University of Tokyo
Haruo Seto
Haruo Seto University of Tokyo
Haruo Ikeda
Haruo Ikeda Kitasato University
Takashi Takahashi
Takashi Takahashi Nagoya University
Tomohisa Kuzuyama
Tomohisa Kuzuyama University of Tokyo
Kazuo Nagasawa
Kazuo Nagasawa Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Makoto Nishiyama
Makoto Nishiyama University of Tokyo
Minoru Yoshida
Minoru Yoshida University of Tokyo
Tohru Natsume
Tohru Natsume National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Ichiro Nakano
Ichiro Nakano University of Alabama at Birmingham

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