Kimitsuna Watanabe

Kimitsuna Watanabe publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

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Kimitsuna Watanabe D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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Overview

Best Publications

• Recent evidence for evolution of the genetic code.

  S Osawa;T H Jukes;K Watanabe;A Muto

  748
  Citations

• Taurine as a constituent of mitochondrial tRNAs: new insights into the functions of taurine and human mitochondrial diseases

  Takeo Suzuki;Tsutomu Suzuki;Takeshi Wada;Kazuhiko Saigo

  428
  Citations

• Modification defect at anticodon wobble nucleotide of mitochondrial tRNAs(Leu)(UUR) with pathogenic mutations of mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes.

  Takehiro Yasukawa;Takehiro Yasukawa;Tsutomu Suzuki;Takeo Suzuki;Takuya Ueda

  363
  Citations

• Codon-specific translational defect caused by a wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNA from a human mitochondrial disease.

  Yohei Kirino;Takehiro Yasukawa;Takehiro Yasukawa;Shigeo Ohta;Shigeo Akira

  335
  Citations

• Mitochondria-specific RNA-modifying Enzymes Responsible for the Biosynthesis of the Wobble Base in Mitochondrial tRNAs IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES

  Noriko Umeda;Takeo Suzuki;Masashi Yukawa;Yoshikazu Ohya

  291
  Citations

• Wobble modification defect in tRNA disturbs codon-anticodon interaction in a mitochondrial disease

  Takehiro Yasukawa;Takehiro Yasukawa;Tsutomu Suzuki;Norie Ishii;Shigeo Ohta

  285
  Citations

• Mutation in TRMU related to transfer RNA modification modulates the phenotypic expression of the deafness-associated mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA mutations

  Min-Xin Guan;Min-Xin Guan;Qingfeng Yan;Xiaoming Li;Yelena Bykhovskaya

  266
  Citations

• Most compact hairpin-turn structure exerted by a short DNA fragment, d(GCGAAGC) in solution: an extraordinarily stable structure resistant to nucleases and heat

  Ichiro Hirao;Gota Kawai;Satoko Yoshizawa;Yoshifumi Nishimura

  260
  Citations

• Non-universal decoding of the leucine codon CUG in several Candida species

  Takeshi Ohama;Tsutomu Suzuki;Miki Mori;Syozo Osawa

  229
  Citations

• An RNA-Modifying Enzyme that Governs Both the Codon and Amino Acid Specificities of Isoleucine tRNA

  Akiko Soma;Yoshiho Ikeuchi;Satoru Kanemasa;Kazuo Kobayashi

  223
  Citations

• Role of the extra G-C pair at the end of the acceptor stem of tRNA(His) in aminoacylation.

  Hyouta Himeno;Tsunemi Hasegawa;Takuya Ueda;Kimitsuna Watanabe

  212
  Citations

• A Cytotoxic Ribonuclease Targeting Specific Transfer RNA Anticodons

  T. Ogawa;K. Tomita;T. Ueda;K. Watanabe

  200
  Citations

• A cytotoxic ribonuclease which specifically cleaves four isoaccepting arginine tRNAs at their anticodon loops

  Kozo Tomita;Tetsuhiro Ogawa;Takeshi Uozumi;Kimitsuna Watanabe

  200
  Citations

• Evolution of Pulmonate Gastropod Mitochondrial Genomes: Comparisons of Gene Organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and Implications of Unusual Trna Secondary Structures

  Nika Yamazaki;Rei Ueshima;Jonathan A. Terrett;Shin Ichi Yokobori;Shin Ichi Yokobori

  196
  Citations

• Proteomic Analysis of the Mammalian Mitochondrial Ribosome IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEIN COMPONENTS IN THE 28 S SMALL SUBUNIT

  Tsutomu Suzuki;Maki Terasaki;Chie Takemoto-Hori;Takao Hanada

  192
  Citations

• GNA trinucleotide loop sequences producing extraordinarily stable DNA minihairpins.

  Satoko Yoshizawa;Gota Kawai;Kimitsuna Watanabe;Kin-ichiro Miura

  187
  Citations

• The ‘polysemous’ codon—a codon with multiple amino acid assignment caused by dual specificity of tRNA identity

  Tsutomu Suzuki;Takuya Ueda;Kimitsuna Watanabe

  186
  Citations

• Conversion of aminoacylation specificity from tRNA(Tyr) to tRNA(Ser) in vitro.

  Hyouta Himeno;Tsunemi Hasegawa;Takuya Ueda;Kimitsuna Watanabe

  185
  Citations

• Yeast Nfs1p is involved in thio-modification of both mitochondrial and cytoplasmic tRNAs.

  Yumi Nakai;Noriko Umeda;Tsutomu Suzuki;Masato Nakai

  175
  Citations

• Defect in modification at the anticodon wobble nucleotide of mitochondrial tRNA(Lys) with the MERRF encephalomyopathy pathogenic mutation.

  Takehiro Yasukawa;Takehiro Yasukawa;Tsutomu Suzuki;Norie Ishii;Takuya Ueda

  173
  Citations