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Overview

Kiyoji Tanaka is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a specific focus on Physiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in Tanaka's research include:

  • Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Menstrual Health and Disorders

Tanaka has contributed to scientific literature through publications in venues such as Physiology & Behavior, with at least one notable paper:

  • Characterizing link among phase angle, muscle strength, body composition variables, and urine metabolites in Japanese females with or without dysmenorrhea: A pilot study, 2025, Physiology & Behavior

Their research often collaborates with other scientists, including Suraiya Khatun, Akiko Uchizawa, Emi Kondo, Katsuhiko Yajima, and Analiza M. Silva.

Best Publications

  • The ubiquitin ligase activity in the DDB2 and CSA complexes is differentially regulated by the COP9 signalosome in response to DNA damage.

    Regina Groisman;Jolanta Polanowska;Isao Kuraoka;Jun-ichi Sawada

  • UV-Induced Ubiquitylation of XPC Protein Mediated by UV-DDB-Ubiquitin Ligase Complex

    Kaoru Sugasawa;Yuki Okuda;Masafumi Saijo;Ryotaro Nishi

  • Purification and cloning of a nucleotide excision repair complex involving the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein and a human homologue of yeast RAD23.

    C. Masutani;K. Sugasawa;J. Yanagisawa;T. Sonoyama

  • Analysis of a human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain

    Kiyoji Tanaka;Naoyuki Miura;Ichiro Satokata;Iwai Miyamoto

  • A Downstream Target of RHO1 Small GTP-binding Protein Is PKC1, a Homolog of Protein Kinase C, Which Leads to Activation of the MAP Kinase Cascade in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

    H Nonaka;K Tanaka;H Hirano;T Fujiwara

  • DNA Damage-Dependent Acetylation and Ubiquitination of H2AX Enhances Chromatin Dynamics

    Tsuyoshi Ikura;Satoshi Tashiro;Akemi Kakino;Hiroki Shima

  • Bni1p implicated in cytoskeletal control is a putative target of Rho1p small GTP binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    H. Kohno;K. Tanaka;A. Mino;M. Umikawa

  • High incidence of ultraviolet-B-or chemical-carcinogen-induced skin tumours in mice lacking the xeroderma pigmentosum group A gene

    Hironobu Nakane;Seiji Takeuchi;Shunsuke Yuba;Masafumi Saijo

  • CSA-dependent degradation of CSB by the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway establishes a link between complementation factors of the Cockayne syndrome

    Regina Groisman;Isao Kuraoka;Odile Chevallier;Nogaye Gaye

  • Polκ protects mammalian cells against the lethal and mutagenic effects of benzo[a]pyrene

    Tomoo Ogi;Yoichi Shinkai;Kiyoji Tanaka;Haruo Ohmori

  • Impaired genome maintenance suppresses the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor 1 axis in mice with cockayne syndrome

    Ingrid van der Pluijm;George A Garinis;Renata M. C Brandt;Theo G. M. F Gorgels;Theo G. M. F Gorgels

  • NELF interacts with CBC and participates in 3' end processing of replication-dependent histone mRNAs.

    Takashi Narita;Tetsu M.C. Yung;Junichi Yamamoto;Yasunori Tsuboi

  • Restoration of ultraviolet-induced unscheduled DNA synthesis of xeroderma pigmentosum cells by the concomitant treatment with bacteriophage T4 endonuclease V and HVJ (Sendai virus).

    Kiyoji Tanaka;Mutsuo Sekiguchi;Yoshio Okada

  • Complete absence of Cockayne syndrome group B gene product gives rise to UV-sensitive syndrome but not Cockayne syndrome

    Katsuyoshi Horibata;Yuka Iwamoto;Isao Kuraoka;Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers

  • DNA repair protein XPA binds replication protein A (RPA)

    Toshiro Matsuda;Masafumi Saijo;Isao Kuraoka;Takehiro Kobayashi

  • Mutations in UVSSA cause UV-sensitive syndrome and destabilize ERCC6 in transcription-coupled DNA repair

    Xue Zhang;Katsuyoshi Horibata;Masafumi Saijo;Chie Ishigami

  • The XPA protein is a zinc metalloprotein with an ability to recognize various kinds of DNA damage

    Hiroshi Asahina;Isao Kuraoka;Masahiro Shirakawa;Eugene H. Morita

  • XAB2, a novel tetratricopeptide repeat protein, involved in transcription-coupled DNA repair and transcription

    Yoshimichi Nakatsu;Hiroshi Asahina;Elisabetta Citterio;Suzanne Rademakers

  • Solution structure of the DNA- and RPA-binding domain of the human repair factor XPA

    Takahisa Ikegami;Isao Kuraoka;Masafumi Saijo;Naohiko Kodo

  • XPG Stabilizes TFIIH, Allowing Transactivation of Nuclear Receptors: Implications for Cockayne Syndrome in XP-G/CS Patients

    Shinsuke Ito;Isao Kuraoka;Pierre Chymkowitch;Emmanuel Compe

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshio Okada
Yoshio Okada Kobe Gakuin University
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Akira Yasui
Akira Yasui Tohoku University
Fumio Hanaoka
Fumio Hanaoka National Institute of Genetics
Hiroshi Handa
Hiroshi Handa Tokyo Medical University
Errol C. Friedberg
Errol C. Friedberg The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Masahiro Shirakawa
Masahiro Shirakawa Kyoto University
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst
Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Kaoru Sugasawa
Kaoru Sugasawa Kobe University
Yasufumi Kaneda
Yasufumi Kaneda Osaka University

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