Masaru Nonaka

Overview

Best Publications

• The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis : insights into chordate and vertebrate origins

  Paramvir Dehal;Yutaka Satou;Robert K. Campbell;Jarrod Chapman

  1902
  Citations

• The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

  Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  590
  Citations

• A detailed linkage map of medaka, Oryzias latipes: comparative genomics and genome evolution.

  Kiyoshi Naruse;Shoji Fukamachi;Hiroshi Mitani;Mariko Kondo

  397
  Citations

• Proteolytic cascades and their involvement in invertebrate immunity

  Lage Cerenius;Shun-ichiro Kawabata;Bok Luel Lee;Masaru Nonaka

  383
  Citations

• Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: “waiting for Godot”

  Kaoru Azumi;Rosaria De Santis;Anthony De Tomaso;Isidore Rigoutsos

  352
  Citations

• Genomic view of the evolution of the complement system

  Masaru Nonaka;Ayuko Kimura

  347
  Citations

• A novel gene family defined by human dihydropyrimidinase and three related proteins with differential tissue distribution.

  Naoki Hamajima;Koichi Matsuda;Shigeko Sakata;Nanaya Tamaki

  317
  Citations

• Evolution of the complement system.

  Masaru Nonaka

  306
  Citations

• Ancient origin of the complement lectin pathway revealed by molecular cloning of mannan binding protein-associated serine protease from a urochordate, the Japanese ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

  Xin Ji;Kaoru Azumi;Makoto Sasaki;Masaru Nonaka

  219
  Citations

• Local extrahepatic expression of complement genes C3, factor B, C2, and C4 is increased in murine lupus nephritis

  J Passwell;G F Schreiner;M Nonaka;H U Beuscher

  208
  Citations

• Opsonic Complement Component C3 in the Solitary Ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

  Masaru Nonaka;Kaoru Azumi;Xin Ji;Chisato Namikawa-Yamada

  187
  Citations

• Expression of the dihydropyrimidinase related protein 2 (DRP-2) in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease brain is downregulated at the mRNA and dysregulated at the protein level.

  G. Lubec;M. Nonaka;K. Krapfenbauer;M. Gratzer

  186
  Citations

• Two Lineages of Mannose-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Protease (MASP) in Vertebrates

  Yuichi Endo;Minoru Takahashi;Miki Nakao;Hidetoshi Saiga

  178
  Citations

• Complement system of bony and cartilaginous fish.

  Masaru Nonaka;Sylvia L Smith

  177
  Citations

• Complement systems in invertebrates. The ancient alternative and lectin pathways.

  L.Courtney Smith;Kaoru Azumi;Masaru Nonaka

  175
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and protein analysis of divergent forms of the complement component C3 from a bony fish, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio): presence of variants lacking the catalytic histidine.

  Miki Nakao;Junichi Mutsuro;Rie Obo;Kazuhiro Fujiki

  174
  Citations

• A Three-step Proteolytic Cascade Mediates the Activation of the Peptidoglycan-induced Toll Pathway in an Insect

  Chan-Hee Kim;Su-Jin Kim;Hongnan Kan;Hyun-Mi Kwon

  168
  Citations

• Ancestral Organization of the MHC Revealed in the Amphibian Xenopus

  Yuko Ohta;Wilfried Goetz;M. Zulfiquer Hossain;Masaru Nonaka

  157
  Citations

• C6-like and C3-like molecules from the cephalochordate, amphioxus, suggest a cytolytic complement system in invertebrates.

  Miho M. Suzuki;Nori Satoh;Masaru Nonaka

  157
  Citations

• Primitive complement system--recognition and activation.

  Teizo Fujita;Yuichi Endo;Masaru Nonaka

  143
  Citations