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Mitinori Saitou

Mitinori Saitou

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
78
Citations
32261
World Ranking
1060
National Ranking
84

Overview

Mitinori Saitou is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial number of publications in these areas. Medicine is also a notable field of their work.

The scientist frequently contributes to several subfields, including molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and reproductive medicine.

Their main research topics encompass pluripotent stem cells research, CRISPR and genetic engineering, renal and related cancers, reproductive biology and fertility, epigenetics and DNA methylation, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and animal genetics and reproduction.

Mitinori Saitou has published in various academic venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Nature
  • Cell Reports

Some of the recent papers by Mitinori Saitou and collaborators include:

  • ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation: The 2021 update (2021) in Stem Cell Reports
  • Capturing human trophoblast development with naive pluripotent stem cells in vitro (2021) in Cell Stem Cell
  • Mammalian in vitro gametogenesis (2021) in Science
  • In vitro reconstitution of the whole male germ-cell development from mouse pluripotent stem cells (2021) in Cell Stem Cell
  • ZGLP1 is a determinant for the oogenic fate in mice (2020) in Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mitinori Saitou include:

  • Takuya Yamamoto
  • Yukihiro Yabuta
  • Tomonori Nakamura
  • Ikuhiro Okamoto
  • Yoji Kojima

Best Publications

  • Reconstitution of the Mouse Germ Cell Specification Pathway in Culture by Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Katsuhiko Hayashi;Hiroshi Ohta;Kazuki Kurimoto;Shinya Aramaki

  • Direct Binding of Three Tight Junction-Associated Maguks, Zo-1, Zo-2, and Zo-3, with the Cooh Termini of Claudins

    Masahiko Itoh;Mikio Furuse;Kazumasa Morita;Koji Kubota

  • Complex Phenotype of Mice Lacking Occludin, a Component of Tight Junction Strands

    Mitinori Saitou;Mikio Furuse;Hiroyuki Sasaki;Jörg-Dieter Schulzke

  • Blimp1 is a critical determinant of the germ cell lineage in mice

    Yasuhide Ohinata;Bernhard Payer;Dónal O'Carroll;Katia Ancelin

  • A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice

    Mitinori Saitou;Sheila C. Barton;M. Azim Surani

  • Offspring from Oocytes Derived from in Vitro Primordial Germ Cell–like Cells in Mice

    Katsuhiko Hayashi;Katsuhiko Hayashi;Sugako Ogushi;Kazuki Kurimoto;So Shimamoto

  • Possible Involvement of Phosphorylation of Occludin in Tight Junction Formation

    Akira Sakakibara;Mikio Furuse;Mitinori Saitou;Yuhko Ando-Akatsuka

  • Occludin as a possible determinant of tight junction permeability in endothelial cells

    Tetsuaki Hirase;James M. Staddon;Mitinori Saitou;Yuhko Ando-Akatsuka

  • Occludin-deficient Embryonic Stem Cells Can Differentiate into Polarized Epithelial Cells Bearing Tight Junctions

    Mitinori Saitou;Kazushi Fujimoto;Yoshinori Doi;Masahiko Itoh

  • Critical function of Prdm14 for the establishment of the germ cell lineage in mice.

    Masashi Yamaji;Yoshiyuki Seki;Kazuki Kurimoto;Yukihiro Yabuta

  • A Signaling Principle for the Specification of the Germ Cell Lineage in Mice

    Yasuhide Ohinata;Hiroshi Ohta;Mayo Shigeta;Kaori Yamanaka

  • Extensive and orderly reprogramming of genome-wide chromatin modifications associated with specification and early development of germ cells in mice.

    Yoshiyuki Seki;Katsuhiko Hayashi;Kunihiko Itoh;Michinao Mizugaki

  • A developmental coordinate of pluripotency among mice, monkeys and humans

    Tomonori Nakamura;Ikuhiro Okamoto;Kotaro Sasaki;Yukihiro Yabuta

  • Reconstitution in vitro of the entire cycle of the mouse female germ line

    Orie Hikabe;Nobuhiko Hamazaki;Go Nagamatsu;Yayoi Obata

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse pre-implantation development and primordial germ cells.

    Mitinori Saitou;Saya Kagiwada;Kazuki Kurimoto

  • Blimp1 Defines a Progenitor Population that Governs Cellular Input to the Sebaceous Gland

    Valerie Horsley;Dónal O'Carroll;Reuben Tooze;Yasuhide Ohinata

  • Cellular dynamics associated with the genome-wide epigenetic reprogramming in migrating primordial germ cells in mice.

    Yoshiyuki Seki;Masashi Yamaji;Yukihiro Yabuta;Mitsue Sano

  • Robust In Vitro Induction of Human Germ Cell Fate from Pluripotent Stem Cells.

    Kotaro Sasaki;Shihori Yokobayashi;Tomonori Nakamura;Ikuhiro Okamoto

  • An improved single-cell cDNA amplification method for efficient high-density oligonucleotide microarray analysis

    Kazuki Kurimoto;Yukihiro Yabuta;Yasuhide Ohinata;Yukiko Ono

  • Primordial Germ Cells in Mice

    Mitinori Saitou;Masashi Yamaji

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsuhiko Hayashi
Katsuhiko Hayashi Osaka University
Hiroshi Ohta
Hiroshi Ohta Kyoto University
Takuya Yamamoto
Takuya Yamamoto Kyoto University
Shoichiro Tsukita
Shoichiro Tsukita Kyoto University
Hiroyuki Sasaki
Hiroyuki Sasaki Kyushu University
Mikio Furuse
Mikio Furuse The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
M. Azim Surani
M. Azim Surani University of Cambridge
Masatsugu Ema
Masatsugu Ema Shiga University of Medical Science
Sheila C. Barton
Sheila C. Barton University of Cambridge
Edith Heard
Edith Heard Collège de France

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