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Toshiyuki Shimizu

Toshiyuki Shimizu

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Biology and Biochemistry

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68
Citations
15042
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7872
National Ranking
531

Overview

Toshiyuki Shimizu is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work spans multiple disciplines within the life sciences, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in medicine and immunology and microbiology.

The researcher has engaged extensively in areas such as molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, oncology, and cancer research. Key topics in their research include immune response and inflammation, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, interferon and immune responses, antimicrobial peptides and activities, inflammasome and immune disorders, NF-κB signaling pathways, and ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Their recent scientific publications include:

  • Structural Diversity of Ubiquitin E3 Ligase, 2021, Molecules
  • Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Structural basis for the oligomerization-mediated regulation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structure of the bile acid transporter and HBV receptor NTCP, 2022, Nature
  • Structural and functional understanding of the toll-like receptors, 2021, Protein Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Toshiyuki Shimizu include:

  • Umeharu Ohto
  • Zhikuan Zhang
  • Kensuke Miyake
  • Kentaro Sakaniwa
  • Sachiko Toma-Fukai

Their research appears in multiple publication venues frequently, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Nature
  • FEBS Letters
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • Structural basis of the membrane-targeting and unmasking mechanisms of the radixin FERM domain.

    Keisuke Hamada;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Takeshi Matsui;Shoichiro Tsukita

  • Epigenetic Control of rDNA Loci in Response to Intracellular Energy Status

    Akiko Murayama;Kazuji Ohmori;Akiko Fujimura;Hiroshi Minami

  • Structural basis for Ca(2+)-induced activation of human PAD4

    Kyouhei Arita;Hiroshi Hashimoto;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Katsuhiko Nakashima

  • Structural basis of species-specific endotoxin sensing by innate immune receptor TLR4/MD-2

    Umeharu Ohto;Koichi Fukase;Kensuke Miyake;Toshiyuki Shimizu

  • Structural Analysis Reveals that Toll-like Receptor 7 Is a Dual Receptor for Guanosine and Single-Stranded RNA.

    Zhikuan Zhang;Umeharu Ohto;Takuma Shibata;Elena Krayukhina

  • Structural reorganization of the Toll-like receptor 8 dimer induced by agonistic ligands

    Hiromi Tanji;Umeharu Ohto;Takuma Shibata;Kensuke Miyake

  • Toll-like receptor 8 senses degradation products of single-stranded RNA.

    Hiromi Tanji;Umeharu Ohto;Takuma Shibata;Masato Taoka

  • Structural basis of CpG and inhibitory DNA recognition by Toll-like receptor 9

    Umeharu Ohto;Takuma Shibata;Hiromi Tanji;Hanako Ishida

  • Crystal structure of human RhoA in a dominantly active form complexed with a GTP analogue.

    Kentaro Ihara;Sachiko Muraguchi;Masato Kato;Toshiyuki Shimizu

  • Crystal structure of an IRF-DNA complex reveals novel DNA recognition and cooperative binding to a tandem repeat of core sequences.

    Yoshifumi Fujii;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Masahiro Kusumoto;Yoshimasa Kyogoku

  • Crystal structure of PHO4 bHLH domain-DNA complex: flanking base recognition.

    Toshiyuki Shimizu;Atsuki Toumoto;Kentaro Ihara;Masato Shimizu

  • Structural basis for the diversity of DNA recognition by bZIP transcription factors.

    Yoshifumi Fujii;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Takashi Toda;Mitsuhiro Yanagida

  • A Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Is a Site Recognition Factor in Chloroplast RNA Editing

    Kenji Okuda;Takahiro Nakamura;Mamoru Sugita;Toshiyuki Shimizu

  • Novel potent orally active selective VEGFR-2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors: synthesis, structure-activity relationships, and antitumor activities of N-phenyl-N'-{4-(4-quinolyloxy)phenyl}ureas.

    Kazuo Kubo;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Shin-ichi Ohyama;Hideko Murooka

  • Structural basis of adhesion-molecule recognition by ERM proteins revealed by the crystal structure of the radixin-ICAM-2 complex

    Keisuke Hamada;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Shigenobu Yonemura;Shoichiro Tsukita

  • Quinoline derivatives and quinazoline derivatives inhibiting autophosphorylation of growth factor receptor originating in platelet and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same

    Shinichiro Iyaku Tansaku Kenkyusho Kato;Yoshiko Iyaku Tansaku Kenkyusho Kobayashi;Kazuo Iyaku Tansaku Kenkyusho Kubo;Hideko Iyaku Tansaku Kenkyusho Murooka

  • INSIGHTS INTO MULTISTEP PHOSPHORELAY FROM THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE C-TERMINAL HPT DOMAIN OF ARCB

    Masato Kato;Takeshi Mizuno;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Toshio Hakoshima

  • The structural basis of Rho effector recognition revealed by the crystal structure of human RhoA complexed with the effector domain of PKN/PRK1.

    Ryoko Maesaki;Kentaro Ihara;Toshiyuki Shimizu;Shinya Kuroda;Shinya Kuroda

  • Structural Basis for Novel Interactions between Human Translesion Synthesis Polymerases and Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen

    Asami Hishiki;Hiroshi Hashimoto;Tomo Hanafusa;Keijiro Kamei

  • Architectures of class-defining and specific domains of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase

    Osamu Nureki;Dmitry G. Vassylyev;Katsuo Katayanagi;Toshiyuki Shimizu

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Hakoshima
Toshio Hakoshima Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Kensuke Miyake
Kensuke Miyake Tokyo University of Science
Hiroshi Iwasaki
Hiroshi Iwasaki Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeshi Mizuno
Takeshi Mizuno Nagoya University
Shoichiro Tsukita
Shoichiro Tsukita Kyoto University
Hang Yin
Hang Yin Tsinghua University
Susumu Uchiyama
Susumu Uchiyama Osaka University
Shinya Kuroda
Shinya Kuroda University of Tokyo
Akiyoshi Fukamizu
Akiyoshi Fukamizu University of Tsukuba
Hisashi Hirano
Hisashi Hirano Yokohama City University

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