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Masayoshi Itoh

Masayoshi Itoh

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Genetics

D-Index
53
Citations
25991
World Ranking
3682
National Ranking
163

Overview

Masayoshi Itoh is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and specializes primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial number of publications in these areas. Their research extends notably into Medicine, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Genetics, while also touching on Neurology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in Itoh's work include RNA Research and Splicing, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and the role of MicroRNA in disease regulation.

Recent scholarly contributions by Itoh include several papers published predominantly between 2020 and 2021. These works explore diverse biological and medical themes:

  • Functional annotation of human long noncoding RNAs via molecular phenotyping, 2020, Genome Research
  • Comparative transcriptomics of primary cells in vertebrates, 2020, Genome Research
  • Cancer-associated fibroblast migration in non-small cell lung cancers is modulated by increased integrin α11 expression, 2021, Molecular Oncology
  • Genetic Spectrum of EYS-associated Retinal Disease in a Large Japanese Cohort: Identification of Disease-associated Variants with Relatively High Allele Frequency, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Deep phenotyping of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in Japanese population, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in Itoh's research include:

  • Hideya Kawaji
  • Piero Carninci
  • Jordan A. Ramilowski
  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  • Michihira Tagami

The scientist's work has been published in multiple venues, with the highest number of publications found in:

  • Genome Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stem Cells Translational Medicine
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

    Robin Andersson;Claudia Gebhard;Irene Miguel-Escalada;Ilka Hoof

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Collection, Mapping, and Annotation of Over 28,000 cDNA Clones from japonica Rice

    Shoshi Kikuchi;Kouji Satoh;Toshifumi Nagata;Nobuyuki Kawagashira

  • An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends

    Chung Chau Hon;Jordan A. Ramilowski;Jayson Harshbarger;Nicolas Bertin;Nicolas Bertin

  • Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection

    J. Kawai;A. Shinagawa;K. Shibata;M. Yoshino

  • Gateways to the FANTOM5 promoter level mammalian expression atlas

    Marina Lizio;Jayson Harshbarger;Hisashi Shimoji;Jessica Severin

  • Functional annotation of a full-length Arabidopsis cDNA collection.

    Motoaki Seki;Mari Narusaka;Asako Kamiya;Junko Ishida

  • A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human

    Jordan A. Ramilowski;Tatyana Goldberg;Jayson Harshbarger;Edda Kloppmann

  • Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

    Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

  • High-Efficiency Full-Length cDNA Cloning by Biotinylated CAP Trapper

    Piero Carninci;Catrine Kvam;Catrine Kvam;Akiko Kitamura;Tomoya Ohsumi

  • Normalization and subtraction of cap-trapper-selected cDNAs to prepare full-length cDNA libraries for rapid discovery of new genes.

    Piero Carninci;Yuko Shibata;Norihito Hayatsu;Yuichi Sugahara

  • Hierarchical folding and reorganization of chromosomes are linked to transcriptional changes in cellular differentiation

    James Fraser;Carmelo Ferrai;Carmelo Ferrai;Andrea M Chiariello;Markus Schueler

  • FANTOM5 CAGE profiles of human and mouse samples

    Shuhei Noguchi;Takahiro Arakawa;Shiro Fukuda;Masaaki Furuno

  • Thermostabilization and thermoactivation of thermolabile enzymes by trehalose and its application for the synthesis of full length cDNA

    Piero Carninci;Yoko Nishiyama;Arthur Westover;Masayoshi Itoh

  • Delineating developmental and metabolic pathways in vivo by expression profiling using the RIKEN set of 18,816 full-length enriched mouse cDNA arrays

    Rika Miki;Koji Kadota;Hidemasa Bono;Yosuke Mizuno

  • Detecting Expressed Genes Using CAGE

    Mitsuyoshi Murata;Hiromi Nishiyori-Sueki;Miki Kojima-Ishiyama;Piero Carninci

  • Targeting a Complex Transcriptome: The Construction of the Mouse Full-Length cDNA Encyclopedia

    Piero Carninci;Kazunori Waki;Toshiyuki Shiraki;Hideaki Konno

  • Transcript annotation in FANTOM3: mouse gene catalog based on physical cDNAs.

    Norihiro Maeda;Takeya Kasukawa;Rieko Oyama;Julian Gough

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair R. R. Forrest
Alistair R. R. Forrest Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Timo Lassmann
Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute
Yasushi Okazaki
Yasushi Okazaki Juntendo University
Carsten O. Daub
Carsten O. Daub Karolinska Institute
Christine A. Wells
Christine A. Wells University of Melbourne

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