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Overview

Tomoyuki Tanaka is affiliated with the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Mathematical Physics, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Navier-Stokes equation solutions
  • Light effects on plants

Tanaka's recent publications include:

  • The primary structural photoresponse of phytochrome proteins captured by a femtosecond X-ray laser, 2020, eLife
  • Structure of the dopamine D2 receptor in complex with the antipsychotic drug spiperone, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography reveals early structural changes in channelrhodopsin, 2021, eLife
  • Visualizing the DNA repair process by a photolyase at atomic resolution, 2023, Science
  • Long-term effects of biochar one-off application on soil physicochemical properties, salt concentration, nutrient availability, enzyme activity, and rice yield of highly saline-alkali paddy soils: based on a 6-year field experiment, 2024, Biochar

Tanaka collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Eriko Nango
  • So Iwata
  • Kensuke Tono
  • Rie Tanaka
  • Michihiro Sugahara

Their work has been published in several recurring venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Nature Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Evidence that the Ipl1-Sli15 (Aurora Kinase-INCENP) Complex Promotes Chromosome Bi-orientation by Altering Kinetochore-Spindle Pole Connections

    Tomoyuki U. Tanaka;Tomoyuki U. Tanaka;Najma Rachidi;Carsten Janke;Gislene Pereira

  • Ordered Recruitment of Transcription and Chromatin Remodeling Factors to a Cell Cycle- And Developmentally Regulated Promoter

    Maria Pia Cosma;Tomoyuki Tanaka;Kim Nasmyth

  • Cohesin's Binding to Chromosomes Depends on a Separate Complex Consisting of Scc2 and Scc4 Proteins

    Rafal Ciosk;Masaki Shirayama;Anna Shevchenko;Tomoyuki Tanaka

  • A novel signaling molecule, p130, forms stable complexes in vivo with v-Crk and v-Src in a tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent manner.

    R Sakai;A Iwamatsu;N Hirano;S Ogawa

  • Loading of an Mcm Protein onto DNA Replication Origins Is Regulated by Cdc6p and CDKs

    Tomoyuki Tanaka;Dunja Knapp;Kim Nasmyth

  • Yeast kinesin-8 depolymerizes microtubules in a length-dependent manner

    Vladimir Varga;Jonne Helenius;Kozo Tanaka;Anthony A. Hyman

  • A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin

    Eriko Nango;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Minoru Kubo;Takanori Nakane

  • Generation of the AML1-EVI-1 fusion gene in the t(3;21)(q26;q22) causes blastic crisis in chronic myelocytic leukemia.

    K. Mitani;S. Ogawa;T. Tanaka;H. Miyoshi

  • Cohesin ensures bipolar attachment of microtubules to sister centromeres and resists their precocious separation.

    Tomoyuki Tanaka;Jörg Fuchs;Josef Loidl;Kim Nasmyth

  • Identification of Cohesin Association Sites at Centromeres and along Chromosome Arms

    Tomoyuki Tanaka;Maria Pia Cosma;Karin Wirth;Kim Nasmyth

  • Molecular mechanisms of kinetochore capture by spindle microtubules

    Kozo Tanaka;Naomi Mukae;Hilary Dewar;Mark van Breugel

  • Pds5 cooperates with cohesin in maintaining sister chromatid cohesion.

    Silvia Panizza;Tomoyuki Tanaka;Andreas Hochwagen;Frank Eisenhaber

  • Modes of spindle pole body inheritance and segregation of the Bfa1p–Bub2p checkpoint protein complex

    Gislene Pereira;Tomoyuki U. Tanaka;Kim Nasmyth;Elmar Schiebel

  • An acute myeloid leukemia gene, AML1, regulates hemopoietic myeloid cell differentiation and transcriptional activation antagonistically by two alternative spliced forms.

    T Tanaka;K Tanaka;S Ogawa;M Kurokawa

  • Grease matrix as a versatile carrier of proteins for serial crystallography.

    Michihiro Sugahara;Eiichi Mizohata;Eriko Nango;Mamoru Suzuki

  • The proto-oncogene product c-Cbl becomes tyrosine phosphorylated by stimulation with GM-CSF or Epo and constitutively binds to the SH3 domain of Grb2/Ash in human hematopoietic cells.

    Hideharu Odai;Ko Sasaki;Akihiro Iwamatsu;Yutaka Hanazono

  • Tension between two kinetochores suffices for their bi-orientation on the mitotic spindle

    Hilary Dewar;Kozo Tanaka;Kim Nasmyth;Tomoyuki U. Tanaka

  • Kinetochore recruitment of two nucleolar proteins is required for homolog segregation in meiosis I.

    Kirsten P Rabitsch;Mark Petronczki;Jean Paul Javerzat;Sylvie Genier

  • Live-cell imaging reveals replication of individual replicons in eukaryotic replication factories

    Etsushi Kitamura;J. Julian Blow;Tomoyuki U. Tanaka

  • Association of RPA with chromosomal replication origins requires an Mcm protein, and is regulated by Rad53, and cyclin- and Dbf4-dependent kinases

    Tomoyuki Tanaka;Kim Nasmyth

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshio Yazaki
Yoshio Yazaki University of Tokyo
Hisamaru Hirai
Hisamaru Hirai University of Tokyo
Mineo Kurokawa
Mineo Kurokawa University of Tokyo
Kim Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth University of Oxford
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Makina Yabashi
Makina Yabashi Uppsala University
Seishi Ogawa
Seishi Ogawa Kyoto University
J. Julian Blow
J. Julian Blow University of East Anglia
Antoine Royant
Antoine Royant Institut de Biologie Structurale

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