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Senji Shirasawa

Senji Shirasawa

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
14890
World Ranking
10178
National Ranking
683

Overview

Senji Shirasawa is affiliated with Fukuoka University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional contributions in the field of medicine.

Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, immunology, and epidemiology. The main topics covered in their research portfolio address areas such as cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism; cancer-related molecular pathways; genomics and chromatin dynamics; PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer; colorectal cancer treatments and studies; chromosomal and genetic variations; and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Senji Shirasawa include the following:

  • In Colorectal Cancer Cells With Mutant KRAS, SLC25A22-Mediated Glutaminolysis Reduces DNA Demethylation to Increase WNT Signaling, Stemness, and Drug Resistance (2020, Gastroenterology)
  • Oncogenic KRAS mutations enhance amino acid uptake by colorectal cancer cells via the hippo signaling effector YAP1 (2021, Molecular Oncology)
  • Epipharyngeal Abrasive Therapy (EAT) Has Potential as a Novel Method for Long COVID Treatment (2022, Viruses)
  • Targeting the KRAS oncogene: Synthesis, physicochemical and biological evaluation of novel G-Quadruplex DNA binders (2020, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
  • Dual blockade of macropinocytosis and asparagine bioavailability shows synergistic anti-tumor effects on KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer (2021, Cancer Letters)

Frequently collaborating researchers include Toshiyuki Tsunoda (19 joint works), Kensuke Nishi (9), Shuhei Ishikura (8), Kazumasa Yoshida (6), and Kazuhiko Nakabayashi (5).

The scientist's work has been published across a variety of venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Anticancer Research (8). Other frequent publication venues include Nucleic Acids Research (2), Frontiers in Oncology (2), Journal of Biological Chemistry (2), and Gastroenterology (1).

Best Publications

  • Mutant ras oncogenes upregulate VEGF/VPF expression: implications for induction and inhibition of tumor angiogenesis.

    J. Rak;Y. Mitsuhashi;L. Bayko;J. Filmus

  • Altered growth of human colon cancer cell lines disrupted at activated Ki-ras

    Senji Shirasawa;Masanori Furuse;Nobuhiko Yokoyama;Takehiko Sasazuki

  • Oncogenic events regulate tissue factor expression in colorectal cancer cells: implications for tumor progression and angiogenesis.

    Joanne L. Yu;Linda May;Vladimir Lhotak;Siranoush Shahrzad

  • A functional variant in FCRL3 , encoding Fc receptor-like 3, is associated with rheumatoid arthritis and several autoimmunities

    Yuta Kochi;Ryo Yamada;Akari Suzuki;John B. Harley;John B. Harley;John B. Harley

  • Opposing Effects of Ras on p53: Transcriptional Activation of mdm2 and Induction of p19ARF

    Stefan Ries;Carola Biederer;Douglas Woods;Ohad Shifman

  • 4E-BP1 is a key effector of the oncogenic activation of the AKT and ERK signaling pathways that integrates their function in tumors.

    Qing Bai She;Ensar Halilovic;Qing Ye;Wei Zhen

  • Deregulation of the PI3K and KRAS signaling pathways in human cancer cells determines their response to everolimus

    Federica Di Nicolantonio;Sabrina Arena;Josep Tabernero;Stefano Grosso

  • Tlx3 and Tlx1 are post-mitotic selector genes determining glutamatergic over GABAergic cell fates

    Leping Cheng;Akiko Arata;Rumiko Mizuguchi;Ying Qian

  • Impact of oncogenes in tumor angiogenesis: Mutant K-ras up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor is necessary, but not sufficient for tumorigenicity of human colorectal carcinoma cells

    Futoshi Okada;Janusz W. Rak;Brad St. Croix;Blandine Lieubeau

  • Lbx1 and Tlx3 are opposing switches in determining GABAergic versus glutamatergic transmitter phenotypes

    Leping Cheng;Omar Abdel Samad;Yi Xu;Rumiko Mizuguchi

  • Identification of susceptibility loci for autoimmune thyroid disease to 5q31–q33 and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis to 8q23–q24 by multipoint affected sib-pair linkage analysis in Japanese

    Kenji Sakai;Senji Shirasawa;Naofumi Ishikawa;Kunihiko Ito

  • Sensitization to the Lysosomal Cell Death Pathway by Oncogene-Induced Down-regulation of Lysosome-Associated Membrane Proteins 1 and 2

    Nicole Fehrenbacher;Lone Bastholm;Thomas Kirkegaard-Sørensen;Bo Rafn

  • Competition between human cells by entosis.

    Qiang Sun;Tianzhi Luo;Yixin Ren;Oliver Florey

  • Inhibition of interferon gamma signaling by the short chain fatty acid butyrate.

    Lidija Klampfer;Jie Huang;Takehiko Sasazuki;Senji Shirasawa

  • Enx (Hox11L1)-deficient mice develop myenteric neuronal hyperplasia and megacolon

    Senji Shirasawa;Anne Marie R. Yunker;Kevin A. Roth;Gary A. Brown

  • BRAF and RAS oncogenes regulate Rho GTPase pathways to mediate migration and invasion properties in human colon cancer cells: a comparative study

    Eleni Makrodouli;Eftychia Oikonomou;Michal Koc;Ladislav Andera

  • Oncogenic K-RAS is required to maintain changes in cytoskeletal organization, adhesion, and motility in colon cancer cells.

    Claire B. Pollock;Senji Shirasawa;Takehiko Sasazuki;Walter Kolch

  • Formation of brainstem (nor)adrenergic centers and first-order relay visceral sensory neurons is dependent on homeodomain protein Rnx/Tlx3.

    Ying Qian;Bernd Fritzsch;Senji Shirasawa;Chih-Li Chen

  • Rnx deficiency results in congenital central hypoventilation

    Senji Shirasawa;Akiko Arata;Hiroshi Onimaru;Kevin A. Roth

  • Involvement of deregulated epiregulin expression in tumorigenesis in vivo through activated Ki-Ras signaling pathway in human colon cancer cells.

    Iwai Baba;Senji Shirasawa;Ryo Iwamoto;Koji Okumura

Frequent Co-Authors

Takehiko Sasazuki
Takehiko Sasazuki Kyushu University
Kazuhiko Nakabayashi
Kazuhiko Nakabayashi National Center For Child Health and Development
Ken Yamamoto
Ken Yamamoto Kurume University
Satoshi Sasaki
Satoshi Sasaki University of Tokyo
Hidenao Fukuyama
Hidenao Fukuyama Kyoto University
Hiroshi Onimaru
Hiroshi Onimaru Showa University
Qiufu Ma
Qiufu Ma Harvard University
Kenneth M. Kaufman
Kenneth M. Kaufman Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
John B. Harley
John B. Harley United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Francesco Cognetti
Francesco Cognetti Sapienza University of Rome

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