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Susumu Nishimura

Susumu Nishimura

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Chemistry

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94
Citations
33765
World Ranking
1697
National Ranking
643

Molecular Biology

D-Index
100
Citations
37475
World Ranking
529
National Ranking
38

Overview

Susumu Nishimura is affiliated with MSD in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their work encompasses various subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main focus of Nishimura's research lies in Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, an area reflected in multiple publications. Additional topics they investigate include Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Cryptography and Data Security, Cognitive Functions and Memory, Access Control and Trust, Petri Nets in System Modeling, and Mobile Agent-Based Network Management.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • "Logical Obstruction to Set Agreement Tasks for Superset-Closed Adversaries," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Proving Unsolvability of Set Agreement Task with Epistemic mu-Calculus," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Partial Product Updates for Agents of Detectable Failure and Logical Obstruction to Task Solvability," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Defining logical obstruction with fixpoints in epistemic logic," 2023, Journal of Applied and Computational Topology

Nishimura frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) and the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology.

Collaboration is evident in their co-authorship with researchers including Koki Yagi, Daisuke Nakai, and Masaki Muramatsu.

Best Publications

  • 8-Hydroxyguanine, an abundant form of oxidative DNA damage, causes G----T and A----C substitutions.

    Keith C. Cheng;David S. Cahill;Hiroshi Kasai;Susumu Nishimura

  • Molecular switch for signal transduction: structural differences between active and inactive forms of protooncogenic ras proteins

    Michael V. Milburn;Liang Tong;Abraham M. deVos;Axel Brünger

  • Formation of 8-hydroxyguanine moiety in cellular DNA by agents producing oxygen radicals and evidence for its repair

    H. Kasai;P.F. Crain;Y. Kuchino;S. Nishimura

  • Hydroxylation of deoxyguanosine at the C-8 position by ascorbic acid and other reducing agents

    Hiroshi Kasai;Susumu Nishimura

  • Misreading of DNA templates containing 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine at the modified base and at adjacent residues

    Y Kuchino;F Mori;H Kasai;H Inoue

  • Improvement of the dideoxy chain termination method of DNA sequencing by use of deoxy-7-deazaguanosine triphosphate in place of dGTP

    Saeko Mizusawa;Susumu Nishimura;Frank Seela

  • 8-oxoguanine (8-hydroxyguanine) DNA glycosylase and its substrate specificity.

    J Tchou;H Kasai;S Shibutani;M H Chung

  • Three-dimensional structure of an oncogene protein: catalytic domain of human c-H-ras p21.

    A. M. De Vos;Liang Tong;M. V. Milburn;P. M. Matias

  • The consensus motif for phosphorylation by cyclin D1-Cdk4 is different from that for phosphorylation by cyclin A/E-Cdk2.

    M. Kitagawa;H. Higashi;H.-K. Jung;I. Suzuki-Takahashi

  • Codon and amino-acid specificities of a transfer RNA are both converted by a single post-transcriptional modification.

    Tomonari Muramatsu;Kazuya Nishikawa;Fumiko Nemoto;Yoshiyuki Kuchino

  • Mmh/Ogg1 gene inactivation results in accumulation of 8-hydroxyguanine in mice

    Osamu Minowa;Tsuyoshi Arai;Masanori Hirano;Yoshiaki Monden

  • Oral administration of the renal carcinogen, potassium bromate, specifically produces 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine in rat target organ DNA.

    Hiroshi Kasai;Susumu Nishimura;Yuji Kurokawa;Yuzo Hayashi

  • Cloning and Characterization of Mammalian 8-Hydroxyguanine-specific DNA Glycosylase/Apurinic, Apyrimidinic Lyase, a Functional mutM Homologue

    Hiroyuki Aburatani;Yoshitaka Hippo;Toshimitsu Ishida;Rieko Takashima

  • Early embryonic lethality caused by targeted disruption of the mouse selenocysteine tRNA gene (Trsp)

    Michael R. Bösl;Kazuaki Takaku;Masanobu Oshima;Susumu Nishimura

  • Molecular mechanism of codon recognition by tRNA species with modified uridine in the first position of the anticodon.

    Shigeyuki Yokoyama;Tatsuo Watanabe;Katsutoshi Murao;Hisayuki Ishikura

  • Formation of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine in liver DNA of rats following long-term exposure to a peroxisome proliferator.

    H. Kasai;Y. Okada;S. Nishimura;M. S. Rao

  • Possible anticodon sequences of tRNA His , tRNA Asm , and tRNA Asp from Escherichia coli B. Universal presence of nucleoside Q in the first postion of the anticondons of these transfer ribonucleic acids.

    Fumio Harada;Susumu Nishimura

  • Structure-based generation of a new class of potent Cdk4 inhibitors: new de novo design strategy and library design

    Teruki Honma;Kyoko Hayashi;Tetsuya Aoyama;Noriaki Hashimoto

  • NMR studies of a DNA containing 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine.

    Yasushi Oda;Seichi Uesugi;Morio Ikehara;Susumu Nishimura

  • c-Ha-ras containing 8-hydroxyguanine at codon 12 induces point mutations at the modified and adjacent positions.

    Hiroyuki Kamiya;Kazunobu Miura;Hiroyuki Ishikawa;Hideo Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Kasai
Hiroshi Kasai University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan
Yoshiyuki Kuchino
Yoshiyuki Kuchino National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Eiko Ohtsuka
Eiko Ohtsuka Hokkaido University
Tatsuo Miyazawa
Tatsuo Miyazawa University of Tokyo
Takashi Sugimura
Takashi Sugimura National Cancer Centre
Yoichi Taya
Yoichi Taya National University of Singapore
Takao Sekiya
Takao Sekiya National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Hiroyuki Kamiya
Hiroyuki Kamiya Hiroshima University
Minako Nagao
Minako Nagao National Cancer Research Institute, UK

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