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Overview

Keiichi Itakura is affiliated with the City Of Hope National Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Oncology, Cell Biology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main research topics encompass:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Keiichi Itakura has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Biological Research
  • The Prostate
  • Molecular Metabolism
  • Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Itakura include:

  • Lcn2 mediates adipocyte-muscle-tumor communication and hypothermia in pancreatic cancer cachexia, 2022, Molecular Metabolism
  • AT-rich interaction domain 5A regulates the transcription of interleukin-6 gene in prostate cancer cells, 2021, The Prostate
  • Increased glucose metabolism in Arid5b−/− skeletal muscle is associated with the down-regulation of TBC1 domain family member 1 (TBC1D1), 2020, Biological Research
  • Mice with Fabp4-Cre ablation of Arid5b are resistant to diet-induced obesity and hepatic steatosis, 2021, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  • Muscle-specific deletion of Arid5b causes metabolic changes in skeletal muscle that affect adipose tissue and liver, 2023, Frontiers in Endocrinology

Frequent collaborators include Guoxiang Zhang, Garrett P. Larson, Ali A. Ehsani, Takahiro Yamakawa, and Mengistu Lemecha. The number of joint publications with these coauthors ranges from three to six.

Best Publications

  • Structure of a B-DNA dodecamer: conformation and dynamics.

    Horace R. Drew;Richard M. Wing;Tsunehiro Takano;Christopher Broka

  • Expression in Escherichia coli of a Chemically Synthesized Gene for the Hormone Somatostatin

    Keiichi Itakura;Tadaaki Hirose;Roberto Crea;Arthur D. Riggs

  • Expression in Escherichia coli of chemically synthesized genes for human insulin

    David V. Goeddel;Dennis G. Kleid;Francisco Bolivar;Herbert L. Heyneker

  • Crystal structure analysis of a complete turn of B-DNA

    Richard Wing;Richard Wing;Horace Drew;Tsunehiro Takano;Chris Broka

  • Hybridization of synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotides to ΦX 174 DNA: the effect of single base pair mismatch

    R. Bruce Wallace;J. Shaffer;R.F. Murphy;J. Bonner

  • Direct expression in Escherichia coli of a DNA sequence coding for human growth hormone

    David V. Goeddel;Herbert L. Heyneker;Toyohara Hozumi;Rene Arentzen

  • Detection of sickle cell beta S-globin allele by hybridization with synthetic oligonucleotides.

    B J Conner;A A Reyes;C Morin;K Itakura

  • Use of synthetic oligonucleotides as hybridization probes: isolation of cloned cDNA sequences for human beta 2-microglobulin.

    S V Suggs;R B Wallace;T Hirose;E H Kawashima

  • The use of synthetic oligonucleotides as hybridization probes. II. Hybridization of oligonucleotides of mixed sequence to rabbit β-globin DNA

    R.Bruce Wallace;Merrie Jo Johnson;Tadaaki Hirose;Tetsuo Miyake

  • High-salt d(CpGpCpG), a left-handed Z′ DNA double helix

    Horace Drew;Tsunehiro Takano;Shoji Tanaka;Keiichi Itakura

  • Synthesis and Use of Synthetic Oligonucleotides

    Keiichi Itakura;J. J. Rossi;R. B. Wallace

  • Solid-phase synthesis of polynucleotides

    Keiichi Itakura

  • Recombinant cloning vehicle microbial polypeptide expression

    Keiichi Itakura;Arthur D. Riggs

  • ATF-2 has intrinsic histone acetyltransferase activity which is modulated by phosphorylation

    Hiroaki Kawasaki;Lou Schiltz;Robert Chiu;Keiichi Itakura

  • alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency detection by direct analysis of the mutation in the gene.

    Vincent J. Kidd;R. Bruce Wallace;Keiichi Itakura;Savio L. C. Woo

  • Purification of insulin receptor with full binding activity.

    Y Fujita-Yamaguchi;S Choi;Y Sakamoto;K Itakura

  • Dissociation kinetics of 19 base paired oligonucleotide-DNA duplexes containing different single mismatched base pairs.

    S Ikuta;K Takagi;R B Wallace;K Itakura

  • Role of positive charge on the amino-terminal region of the signal peptide in protein secretion across the membrane

    Sumiko Inouye;Xavier Soberon;Thomas Franceschini;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis as a general and powerful method for studies of protein function

    G Dalbadie-McFarland;L W Cohen;A D Riggs;C Morin

  • Chemical synthesis of genes for human insulin.

    Roberto Crea;Adam Kraszewski;Tadaaki Hirose;Keiichi Itakura

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur D. Riggs
Arthur D. Riggs City Of Hope National Medical Center
David V. Goeddel
David V. Goeddel The Colum Group
John J. Rossi
John J. Rossi City Of Hope National Medical Center
Herbert W. Boyer
Herbert W. Boyer University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth J. Breslauer
Kenneth J. Breslauer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brian I. Carr
Brian I. Carr Inonu University
Francisco Bolívar
Francisco Bolívar National Autonomous University of Mexico
Luis A. Marky
Luis A. Marky University of Nebraska Medical Center
Dinshaw J. Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Yuan Chen
Yuan Chen University of Sydney

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