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Tomohiro Kono is affiliated with Tokyo University of Agriculture in Japan. Their research activity spans primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproductive Medicine, Genetics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their work centers on topics related to Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Ovarian function and disorders, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Biochemical and Structural Characterization, and Animal Nutrition and Physiology.

Tomohiro Kono has published research in several scholarly venues. These include:

  • Research Square (2 publications)
  • EMBO Reports (1 publication)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 publication)
  • The FASEB Journal (1 publication)
  • Journal of Reproduction and Development (1 publication)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kono are:

  • Hisato Kobayashi (5 joint publications)
  • Shinya Ikeda (4 joint publications)
  • Ryouka Kawahara-Miki (3 joint publications)
  • Natsuki Nakanishi (3 joint publications)
  • Satoko Osuka (3 joint publications)

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kono include:

  • "Paternal age affects offspring via an epigenetic mechanism involving REST/NRSF," 2021, EMBO Reports
  • "Turnover of mammal sex chromosomes in the Sry -deficient Amami spiny rat is due to male-specific upregulation of Sox9," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Deciphering two rounds of cell lineage segregations during bovine preimplantation development," 2021, The FASEB Journal
  • "Disruption of piRNA machinery by deletion of ASZ1/GASZ results in the expression of aberrant chimeric transcripts in gonocytes," 2022, Journal of Reproduction and Development
  • "Creation, effects on embryo quality, and clinical outcomes of a new embryo culture medium with 31 optimized components derived from human oviduct fluid: A prospective multicenter randomized trial," 2022, Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Best Publications

  • Endogenous siRNAs from naturally formed dsRNAs regulate transcripts in mouse oocytes

    Toshiaki Watanabe;Toshiaki Watanabe;Yasushi Totoki;Atsushi Toyoda;Masahiro Kaneda;Masahiro Kaneda

  • Aberrant silencing of imprinted genes on chromosome 12qF1 in mouse induced pluripotent stem cells

    Matthias Stadtfeld;Effie Apostolou;Hidenori Akutsu;Atsushi Fukuda

  • Birth of parthenogenetic mice that can develop to adulthood

    Tomohiro Kono;Yayoi Obata;Quiong Wu;Katsutoshi Niwa

  • Contribution of Intragenic DNA Methylation in Mouse Gametic DNA Methylomes to Establish Oocyte-Specific Heritable Marks

    Hisato Kobayashi;Takayuki Sakurai;Misaki Imai;Nozomi Takahashi

  • Maternal primary imprinting is established at a specific time for each gene throughout oocyte growth

    Yayoi Obata;Tomohiro Kono

  • Oocyte growth-dependent progression of maternal imprinting in mice.

    Hitoshi Hiura;Yayoi Obata;Junichi Komiyama;Motomu Shirai

  • Pluripotential competence of cells associated with Nanog activity

    Shin-ya Hatano;Masako Tada;Hironobu Kimura;Shinpei Yamaguchi

  • Multielemental determination of GEOTRACES key trace metals in seawater by ICPMS after preconcentration using an ethylenediaminetriacetic acid chelating resin.

    Yoshiki Sohrin;Shouhei Urushihara;Seiji Nakatsuka;Tomohiro Kono

  • Mouse oocyte methylomes at base resolution reveal genome-wide accumulation of non-CpG methylation and role of DNA methyltransferases.

    Kenjiro Shirane;Hidehiro Toh;Hisato Kobayashi;Fumihito Miura

  • Cloned Mice from Fetal Fibroblast Cells Arrested at Metaphase by a Serial Nuclear Transfer

    Yukiko Ono;Nobuhiro Shimozawa;Nobuhiro Shimozawa;Mamoru Ito;Tomohiro Kono

  • Epigenetic modifications during oocyte growth correlates with extended parthenogenetic development in the mouse

    Tomohiro Kono;Yayoi Obata;Tomomi Yoshimzu;Tatsuo Nakahara

  • High-resolution DNA methylome analysis of primordial germ cells identifies gender-specific reprogramming in mice

    Hisato Kobayashi;Takayuki Sakurai;Fumihito Miura;Misaki Imai

  • The paternal methylation imprint of the mouse H19 locus is acquired in the gonocyte stage during foetal testis development.

    Takayuki Ueda;Kuniya Abe;Asuka Miura;Misako Yuzuriha

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

    Piero Carninci;Kazunori Waki;Toshiyuki Shiraki;Hideaki Konno

  • Repetitive sperm-induced Ca2+ transients in mouse oocytes are cell cycle dependent.

    Keith T. Jones;John Carroll;Julie A. Merriman;David G. Whittingham

  • Gene therapy for progeny of mito-mice carrying pathogenic mtDNA by nuclear transplantation

    Akitsugu Sato;Tomohiro Kono;Kazuto Nakada;Kaori Ishikawa

  • Disruption of primary imprinting during oocyte growth leads to the modified expression of imprinted genes during embryogenesis

    Yayoi Obata;Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino;Tsuyoshi Koide;Yasushi Takai

  • High-frequency generation of viable mice from engineered bi-maternal embryos

    Manabu Kawahara;Qiong Wu;Qiong Wu;Nozomi Takahashi;Shinnosuke Morita

  • Complete in vitro generation of fertile oocytes from mouse primordial germ cells

    Kanako Morohaku;Ren Tanimoto;Keisuke Sasaki;Ryouka Kawahara-Miki

  • Epigenetic Modifications Necessary for Normal Development Are Established During Oocyte Growth in Mice

    Siqin Bao;Yayoi Obata;John Carroll;Ikuo Domeki

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuhisa Matsui
Yasuhisa Matsui Tohoku University
Hiroyuki Sasaki
Hiroyuki Sasaki Kyushu University
John L. Carroll
John L. Carroll University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Noriko Osumi
Noriko Osumi Tohoku University
Izuho Hatada
Izuho Hatada Gunma University
Toru Nakano
Toru Nakano Osaka University
Mamoru Ito
Mamoru Ito Central Institute for Experimental Animals
Yoichi Matsuda
Yoichi Matsuda Nagoya University
Yutaka Suzuki
Yutaka Suzuki University of Tokyo

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