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Toyomasa Katagiri

Toyomasa Katagiri

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D-Index
75
Citations
16161
World Ranking
19229
National Ranking
616

Overview

Toyomasa Katagiri is affiliated with the University of Tokushima in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including molecular biology, oncology, cell biology, genetics, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as peptidase inhibition and analysis, epigenetics and DNA methylation, RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, RNA regulation and disease, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

Katagiri's recent publications include:

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • FZD10-targeted α-radioimmunotherapy with 225Ac-labeled OTSA101 achieves complete remission in a synovial sarcoma model, 2021, Cancer Science
  • Pivotal role for S-nitrosylation of DNA methyltransferase 3B in epigenetic regulation of tumorigenesis, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Dynamic movement of the Golgi unit and its glycosylation enzyme zones, 2024, Nature Communications
  • p53-independent tumor suppression by cell-cycle arrest via CREB/ATF transcription factor OASIS, 2023, Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Katagiri include:

  • Tetsuro Yoshimaru
  • Yosuke Matsushita
  • Satoshi Nagayama
  • Ryo Takata

Their research has been frequently published in venues such as Cancer Science, Cancer Medicine, Nature Communications, ChemistryEurope, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Glypican-3, overexpressed specifically in human hepatocellular carcinoma, is a novel tumor marker.

    Tetsuya Nakatsura;Yoshihiro Yoshitake;Satoru Senju;Mikio Monji

  • Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases

    Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Kazuyoshi Ishigaki;Masato Akiyama;Masahiro Kanai;Masahiro Kanai;Atsushi Takahashi

  • Expression profiles of non-small cell lung cancers on cDNA microarrays: Identification of genes for prediction of lymph-node metastasis and sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs

    Takefumi Kikuchi;Takefumi Kikuchi;Yataro Daigo;Toyomasa Katagiri;Tatsuhiko Tsunoda

  • Genome-wide cDNA microarray analysis of gene expression profiles in pancreatic cancers using populations of tumor cells and normal ductal epithelial cells selected for purity by laser microdissection

    Toru Nakamura;Yoichi Furukawa;Hidewaki Nakagawa;Tatsuhiko Tsunoda

  • Enhanced SMYD3 expression is essential for the growth of breast cancer cells.

    Ryuji Hamamoto;Fabio Pittella Silva;Masataka Tsuge;Toshihiko Nishidate

  • Mutation analysis in the BRCA2 gene in primary breast cancers.

    Yoshio Miki;Toyomasa Katagiri;Fujio Kasumi;Takamasa Yoshimoto

  • Predicting Response to Methotrexate, Vinblastine, Doxorubicin, and Cisplatin Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancers Through Genome-Wide Gene Expression Profiling

    R. Takata;T. Katagiri;M. Kanehira;T. Tsunoda

  • An Integrated Database of Chemosensitivity to 55 Anticancer Drugs and Gene Expression Profiles of 39 Human Cancer Cell Lines

    Shingo Dan;Tatsuhiko Tsunoda;Osamu Kitahara;Rempei Yanagawa

  • Molecular features of the transition from prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) to prostate cancer: genome-wide gene-expression profiles of prostate cancers and PINs.

    Shingo Ashida;Hidewaki Nakagawa;Toyomasa Katagiri;Mutsuo Furihata

  • Genome-wide cDNA Microarray Screening to Correlate Gene Expression Profiles with Sensitivity of 85 Human Cancer Xenografts to Anticancer Drugs

    Hitoshi Zembutsu;Yasuyuki Ohnishi;Tatsuhiko Tsunoda;Yoichi Furukawa

  • Genome-wide analysis of gene expression in intestinal-type gastric cancers using a complementary DNA microarray representing 23,040 genes.

    Suguru Hasegawa;Yoichi Furukawa;Meihua Li;Seiji Satoh

  • CDC20, a potential cancer therapeutic target, is negatively regulated by p53.

    T Kidokoro;C Tanikawa;Y Furukawa;T Katagiri

  • Laser Capture Microdissection and Microarray Expression Analysis of Lung Adenocarcinoma Reveals Tobacco Smoking- and Prognosis-related Molecular Profiles

    Koh Miura;Elise D. Bowman;Richard Simon;Amy C. Peng

  • Therapeutic potential of antibodies against FZD10, a cell-surface protein, for synovial sarcomas

    Satoshi Nagayama;Chikako Fukukawa;Toyomasa Katagiri;Takeshi Okamoto

  • Molecular features of triple negative breast cancer cells by genome-wide gene expression profiling analysis.

    Masato Komatsu;Tetsuro Yoshimaru;Taisuke Matsuo;Kazuma Kiyotani

  • Involvement of maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK) in mammary carcinogenesis through interaction with Bcl-G, a pro-apoptotic member of the Bcl-2 family.

    Meng Lay Lin;Jae Hyun Park;Toshihiko Nishidate;Yusuke Nakamura

  • PDZ-Binding Kinase/T-LAK Cell-Originated Protein Kinase, a Putative Cancer/Testis Antigen with an Oncogenic Activity in Breast Cancer

    Jae-Hyun Park;Meng-Lay Lin;Toshihiko Nishidate;Yusuke Nakamura

  • Germline pathogenic variants of 11 breast cancer genes in 7,051 Japanese patients and 11,241 controls.

    Yukihide Momozawa;Yusuke Iwasaki;Michael T. Parsons;Yoichiro Kamatani

  • Cloning and characterization of two novel human cDNAs (NELL1 and NELL2) encoding proteins with six EGF-like repeats.

    Takeshi K. Watanabe;Toyomasa Katagiri;Toyomasa Katagiri;Mikio Suzuki;Mikio Suzuki;Fumio Shimizu

  • Genome-wide analysis of gene expression in synovial sarcomas using a cDNA microarray.

    Satoshi Nagayama;Toyomasa Katagiri;Tatsuhiko Tsunoda;Taisuke Hosaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Yusuke Nakamura
Yusuke Nakamura National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda University of Tokyo
Yataro Daigo
Yataro Daigo Shiga University of Medical Science
Yoshio Miki
Yoshio Miki Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Koichi Matsuda
Koichi Matsuda University of Tokyo
Junya Toguchida
Junya Toguchida Kyoto University
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Koichi Hirata
Koichi Hirata Sapporo Medical University

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