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Masahiko Negishi is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional significant contributions to Medicine. Within these broader areas, their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Pharmacology, and Oncology.

The research topics covered by Negishi include:

  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Chemokine receptors and signaling

Negishi has contributed to multiple publications, particularly in well-known venues such as UNC Libraries, Biochemical Pharmacology, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Methods in Molecular Biology.

Recent publications by or closely associated with Negishi include:

  • Nuclear receptor phosphorylation in xenobiotic signal transduction, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Estrogen Sulfotransferase (SULT1E1): Its Molecular Regulation, Polymorphisms, and Clinical Perspectives, 2021, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Human constitutive androstane receptor represses liver cancer development and hepatoma cell proliferation by inhibiting erythropoietin signaling, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Estrogen receptor α phosphorylated at Ser216 confers inflammatory function to mouse microglia, 2020, Cell Communication and Signaling
  • Nuclear receptor CAR-ERα signaling regulates the estrogen sulfotransferase gene in the liver, 2020, Scientific Reports

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Kosuke Yokobori, Tatsuya Sueyoshi, Rick Moore, MyeongJin Yi, and Sawako Shindo.

Best Publications

  • THE NUCLEAR ORPHAN RECEPTOR CAR-RETINOID X RECEPTOR HETERODIMER ACTIVATES THE PHENOBARBITAL-RESPONSIVE ENHANCER MODULE OF THE CYP2B GENE

    Paavo Honkakoski;Igor Zelko;Tatsuya Sueyoshi;Masahiko Negishi

  • The repressed nuclear receptor CAR responds to phenobarbital in activating the human CYP2B6 gene.

    Tatsuya Sueyoshi;Takeshi Kawamoto;Igor Zelko;Paavo Honkakoski

  • Phenobarbital-Responsive Nuclear Translocation of the Receptor CAR in Induction of the CYP2B Gene

    Takeshi Kawamoto;Tatsuya Sueyoshi;Igor Zelko;Rick Moore

  • Regulation of cytochrome P450 (CYP) genes by nuclear receptors

    Paavo Honkakoski;Masahiko Negishi

  • CAR and PXR: the xenobiotic-sensing receptors.

    Yoav E. Timsit;Masahiko Negishi

  • Diverse Roles of the Nuclear Orphan Receptor CAR in Regulating Hepatic Genes in Response to Phenobarbital

    Akiko Ueda;Hisham K. Hamadeh;Heather K. Webb;Yukio Yamamoto

  • Alteration of mouse cytochrome P450coh substrate specificity by mutation of a single amino-acid residue.

    Raija L. P. Lindberg;Masahiko Negishi

  • The phenobarbital response enhancer module in the human bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase UGT1A1 gene and regulation by the nuclear receptor CAR.

    Junko Sugatani;Hiroyuki Kojima;Akiko Ueda;Satoru Kakizaki

  • Structure and function of sulfotransferases.

    Masahiko Negishi;Lee G. Pedersen;Lee G. Pedersen;Evgeniy Petrotchenko;Sergei Shevtsov

  • Nuclear receptors CAR and PXR cross talk with FOXO1 to regulate genes that encode drug-metabolizing and gluconeogenic enzymes

    Susumu Kodama;Chika Koike;Masahiko Negishi;Yukio Yamamoto

  • The orphan nuclear receptor constitutive active/androstane receptor is essential for liver tumor promotion by phenobarbital in mice.

    Yukio Yamamoto;Rick Moore;Thomas L. Goldsworthy;Masahiko Negishi

  • Genetic Mechanisms Controlling the Induction of Polysubstrate Monooxygenase (P-450) Activities

    D. W. Nebert;H. J. Eisen;M. Negishi;M. A. Lang

  • Developmental exposure to diethylstilbestrol elicits demethylation of estrogen-responsive lactoferrin gene in mouse uterus

    Shuanfang Li;Kimberly A. Washburn;Rick Moore;Tomohide Uno

  • Crystal structure of estrogen sulphotransferase

    Yoshimitsu Kakuta;Lee G. Pedersen;Charles W. Carter;Masahiko Negishi

  • Complementary roles of farnesoid X receptor, pregnane X receptor, and constitutive androstane receptor in protection against bile acid toxicity.

    Grace L. Guo;Gilles Lambert;Masahiko Negishi;Jerrold M. Ward

  • Relative Activation of Human Pregnane X Receptor versus Constitutive Androstane Receptor Defines Distinct Classes of CYP2B6 and CYP3A4 Inducers

    Stephanie R. Faucette;Tong Cun Zhang;Rick Moore;Tatsuya Sueyoshi

  • Identification of a defect in the UGT1A1 gene promoter and its association with hyperbilirubinemia.

    Junko Sugatani;Kasumi Yamakawa;Kouich Yoshinari;Takashi Machida

  • Induction of human CYP2C9 by rifampicin, hyperforin, and phenobarbital is mediated by the pregnane X receptor.

    Yuping Chen;Stephen S. Ferguson;Masahiko Negishi;Joyce A. Goldstein

  • Heparan/chondroitin sulfate biosynthesis. Structure and mechanism of human glucuronyltransferase I.

    Lars C. Pedersen;Kazunori Tsuchida;Hiroshi Kitagawa;Kazuyuki Sugahara

  • Synthesis and insertion of cytochrome P-450 into endoplasmic reticulum membranes.

    Shoshana Bar-Nun;Gert Kreibich;Milton Adesnik;Lon Alterman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars C. Pedersen
Lars C. Pedersen National Institutes of Health
Lee G. Pedersen
Lee G. Pedersen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel W. Nebert
Daniel W. Nebert University of Cincinnati
Paavo Honkakoski
Paavo Honkakoski University of Eastern Finland
Joyce A. Goldstein
Joyce A. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
Robert H. Tukey
Robert H. Tukey University of California, San Diego
Edward L. LeCluyse
Edward L. LeCluyse Research Triangle Park Foundation
Yuan-Tsong Chen
Yuan-Tsong Chen Harbor–UCLA Medical Center
Takeshi Kawamoto
Takeshi Kawamoto Hiroshima University
Lalith Perera
Lalith Perera National Institutes of Health

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