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Kunio Shiota

Kunio Shiota

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
12679
World Ranking
14323
National Ranking
1010

Overview

Kunio Shiota is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on molecular-level biological processes.

Shiota's work covers subfields such as Molecular Biology and extends to topics including Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Their recent publication record includes the paper titled A novel O-GlcNAcylation at threonine 71 of histone H4 is a component of heterochromatin, published in 2025 in The Journal of Biochemistry.

Shiota frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Koji Hayakawa
  • Mitsuko Hirosawa
  • Daisuke Nara
  • Nobuyuki Fujiwara
  • Satoshi Tanaka

Their work has appeared predominantly in The Journal of Biochemistry, which serves as a primary venue for their publications.

Best Publications

  • PPARγ Mediates High-Fat Diet–Induced Adipocyte Hypertrophy and Insulin Resistance

    Naoto Kubota;Yasuo Terauchi;Hiroshi Miki;Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Hiroyuki Tamemoto

  • PGC7/Stella protects against DNA demethylation in early embryogenesis.

    Toshinobu Nakamura;Yoshikazu Arai;Hiroki Umehara;Masaaki Masuhara

  • Epigenetic Control of Mouse Oct-4 Gene Expression in Embryonic Stem Cells and Trophoblast Stem Cells

    Naoko Hattori;Koichiro Nishino;Yeoung Gyu Ko;Naka Hattori

  • Methyl-CpG-binding protein, MeCP2, is a target molecule for maintenance DNA methyltransferase, Dnmt1.

    Hiromichi Kimura;Kunio Shiota

  • Dimethyl Sulfoxide Has an Impact on Epigenetic Profile in Mouse Embryoid Body

    Misa Iwatani;Kohta Ikegami;Yuliya Kremenska;Naka Hattori

  • DNA methylation variation in cloned mice.

    Jun Ohgane;Teruhiko Wakayama;Yasushi Kogo;Sho Senda

  • Epigenetic marks by DNA methylation specific to stem, germ and somatic cells in mice

    Kunio Shiota;Yasushi Kogo;Jun Ohgane;Takuya Imamura

  • Placentomegaly in Cloned Mouse Concepti Caused by Expansion of the Spongiotrophoblast Layer

    Satoshi Tanaka;Mayumi Oda;Yasushi Toyoshima;Teruhiko Wakayama

  • Epigenetic regulation of Nanog gene in embryonic stem and trophoblast stem cells

    Naoko Hattori;Yuko Imao;Koichiro Nishino;Naka Hattori

  • DNA Methylation-mediated Control of Sry Gene Expression in Mouse Gonadal Development

    Koichiro Nishino;Naoko Hattori;Satoshi Tanaka;Kunio Shiota;Kunio Shiota

  • DNA methylation profiles of CpG islands for cellular differentiation and development in mammals

    K. Shiota

  • Equivalency of Nuclear Transfer‐Derived Embryonic Stem Cells to Those Derived from Fertilized Mouse Blastocysts

    Sayaka Wakayama;Martin L. Jakt;Masako Suzuki;Ryoko Araki

  • DNA methylation profile of tissue-dependent and differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) in mouse promoter regions demonstrating tissue-specific gene expression

    Shintaro Yagi;Keiji Hirabayashi;Shinya Sato;Wei Li

  • Interplay between DNA methylation, histone modification and chromatin remodeling in stem cells and during development

    Kohta Ikegami;Jun Ohgane;Satoshi Tanaka;Shintaro Yagi

  • CpG island of rat sphingosine kinase-1 gene: Tissue-dependent DNA methylation status and multiple alternative first exons

    Takuya Imamura;Jun Ohgane;Seiichiro Ito;Tomoya Ogawa

  • Epigenetics: The DNA Methylation Profile of Tissue-Dependent and Differentially Methylated Regions in Cells

    J. Ohgane;S. Yagi;K. Shiota;K. Shiota

  • Loss of the maternal imprint in Dnmt3Lmat-/- mice leads to a differentiation defect in the extraembryonic tissue.

    Takahiro Arima;Kenichiro Hata;Kenichiro Hata;Satoshi Tanaka;Maki Kusumi;Maki Kusumi

  • Regulation of the Expression of Human Organic Anion Transporter 3 by Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1α/β and DNA Methylation

    Ryota Kikuchi;Hiroyuki Kusuhara;Naka Hattori;Kunio Shiota

  • Stage-by-Stage Change in DNA Methylation Status of Dnmt1 Locus during Mouse Early Development

    Yeoung Gyu Ko;Koichiro Nishino;Naoko Hattori;Yoshikazu Arai

  • Retinoic Acid Promotes Differentiation of Trophoblast Stem Cells to a Giant Cell Fate

    Junli Yan;Satoshi Tanaka;Mayumi Oda;Tsunehisa Makino

Frequent Co-Authors

Teruhiko Wakayama
Teruhiko Wakayama University of Yamanashi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi University of Hawaii at Manoa
John M. Greally
John M. Greally Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Norihiro Sugino
Norihiro Sugino Yamaguchi University
Hiroyuki Nakazawa
Hiroyuki Nakazawa Hoshi University
Atsuo Ogura
Atsuo Ogura University of Tsukuba
Hiroshi Ohta
Hiroshi Ohta Kyoto University
Yuichi Sugiyama
Yuichi Sugiyama University of Tokyo

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