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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their recent research contributions cover various aspects of immunology, cancer biology, and molecular regulation, with a focus on the role of chromatin organization and regulatory elements in immune cell function and cancer cell survival.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Runx-mediated regulation of CCL5 via antagonizing two enhancers influences immune cell function and anti-tumor immunity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Chromatin organizer SATB1 controls the cell identity of CD4+ CD8+ double-positive thymocytes by regulating the activity of super-enhancers, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The therapeutically actionable long non-coding RNA 'T-RECS' is essential to cancer cells' survival in NRAS/MAPK-driven melanoma, 2024, Molecular Cancer
  • Crucial Roles of SATB1 in Regulation of Thymocyte Migration after Positive Selection, 2023, The Journal of Immunology
  • Increased Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Levels at the Onset of Sjögren's Syndrome in SATB1-Conditional Knockout Mice, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Kohwi-Shigematsu frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors which includes:

  • Jon Jacobs
  • Ashley Robinson
  • Keqi Tang
  • Ljiljana Paša-Tolić
  • Desmond Smith

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Molecular Cancer
  • The Journal of Immunology

The main fields of study in Kohwi-Shigematsu's research include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad fields, their work delves into several subfields such as:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Geophysics

Their main research topics are identified as:

  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • SATB1 packages densely looped, transcriptionally active chromatin for coordinated expression of cytokine genes

    Shutao Cai;Charles C Lee;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • Loss of silent-chromatin looping and impaired imprinting of DLX5 in Rett syndrome

    Shin-ichi Horike;Shutao Cai;Masaru Miyano;Jan-Fang Cheng

  • A tissue-specific MAR SAR DNA-binding protein with unusual binding site recognition

    Liliane A. Dickinson;Tadashi Joh;Yoshinori Kohwi;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • SATB1 reprogrammes gene expression to promote breast tumour growth and metastasis

    Hye-Jung Han;Jose Russo;Yoshinori Kohwi;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • Tissue-specific nuclear architecture and gene expession regulated by SATB1

    Shutao Cai;Hye-Jung Han;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • SATB1 targets chromatin remodelling to regulate genes over long distances

    Dag Yasui;Masaru Miyano;Shutao Cai;Patrick Varga-Weisz

  • Biological significance of unwinding capability of nuclear matrix-associating DNAs

    J Bode;Y Kohwi;L Dickinson;T Joh

  • The MAR-binding protein SATB1 orchestrates temporal and spatial expression of multiple genes during T-cell development

    John D. Alvarez;Dag H. Yasui;Hiroyuki Niida;Tadashi Joh

  • Ku acts in a unique way at the mammalian telomere to prevent end joining

    Hsin Ling Hsu;David Gilley;Sanjeev A. Galande;M. Prakash Hande

  • Magnesium ion-dependent triple-helix structure formed by homopurine-homopyrimidine sequences in supercoiled plasmid DNA.

    Yoshinori Kohwi;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • Guidance of regulatory T cell development by Satb1-dependent super-enhancer establishment

    Yohko Kitagawa;Naganari Ohkura;Yujiro Kidani;Alexis Vandenbon

  • Nucleolin is a matrix attachment region DNA-binding protein that specifically recognizes a region with high base-unpairing potential.

    L A Dickinson;T Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • POLY(ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASE AND KU AUTOANTIGEN FORM A COMPLEX AND SYNERGISTICALLY BIND TO MATRIX ATTACHMENT SEQUENCES

    Sanjeev Galande;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • Human fetal to adult hemoglobin switching: changes in chromatin structure of the beta-globin gene locus.

    Mark Groudine;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu;Richard Gelinas;George Stamatoyannopoulos

  • A network of genetic repression and derepression specifies projection fates in the developing neocortex

    Karpagam Srinivasan;Dino P. Leone;Rosalie K. Bateson;Gergana Dobreva

  • The Genomic Sequences Bound to Special AT-rich Sequence-binding Protein 1 (SATB1) In Vivo in Jurkat T Cells Are Tightly Associated with the Nuclear Matrix at the Bases of the Chromatin Loops

    Ian de Belle;Shutao Cai;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

  • SATB1 defines the developmental context for gene silencing by Xist in lymphoma and embryonic cells.

    Ruben Agrelo;Abdallah Souabni;Maria Novatchkova;Christian Haslinger

  • p63 regulates Satb1 to control tissue-specific chromatin remodeling during development of the epidermis.

    Michael Y. Fessing;Andrei N. Mardaryev;Michal R. Gdula;Andrey A. Sharov

  • Torsional stress stabilizes extended base unpairing in suppressor sites flanking immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer.

    Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu;Yoshinori Kohwi

  • Stress-induced duplex DNA destabilization in scaffold/matrix attachment regions.

    Craig Benham;Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu;Jürgen Bode

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir A. Botchkarev
Vladimir A. Botchkarev Boston University
Judith Campisi
Judith Campisi Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Yuzuru Kanakura
Yuzuru Kanakura Osaka University
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University
Ichiro Taniuchi
Ichiro Taniuchi RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Christian Steidl
Christian Steidl University of British Columbia
Jose Russo
Jose Russo Fox Chase Cancer Center
Rudolf Grosschedl
Rudolf Grosschedl Max Planck Society
Koichi Kokame
Koichi Kokame National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Constance Tom Noguchi
Constance Tom Noguchi National Institutes of Health

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