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Tsuneo Omura

Tsuneo Omura

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
43527
World Ranking
8017
National Ranking
540

Overview

Tsuneo Omura is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, including Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, Computer Science, and Medicine. The interdisciplinary nature of their work reflects a combination of life sciences and computational approaches.

In their scholarly contributions, Omura has published in venues such as Drug Metabolism and Disposition. These venues correspond to their focus areas, underscoring their involvement in pharmacological and biomedical research communities.

The main fields of study for Omura include:

  • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • Computer Science
  • Medicine

The subfields of study further specify the scientific domains they work within:

  • Pharmacology
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Omura's primary research topics include:

  • Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases

One of the recent papers by Omura is titled "Perspective of the Induction of Liver Microsomal Cytochrome P450s by Chemical Compounds", published in 2022 in the journal Drug Metabolism and Disposition. This paper contributes to understanding mechanisms related to drug metabolism enzymes.

Frequent co-authors are not listed, indicating that their publications are either single-authored or with varied collaborators.

Best Publications

  • The Carbon Monoxide-binding Pigment of Liver Microsomes I. EVIDENCE FOR ITS HEMOPROTEIN NATURE

    Tsuneo Omura;Ryo Sato

  • The Carbon Monoxide-binding Pigment of Liver Microsomes II. SOLUBILIZATION, PURIFICATION, AND PROPERTIES

    Tsuneo Omura;Ryo Sato

  • A New Cytochrome in Liver Microsomes

    Tsuneo Omura;Ryo Sato

  • A common trans-acting factor, Ad4-binding protein, to the promoters of steroidogenic P-450s

    Ken-Ichirou Morohashi;Shin Ichiro Honda;Yukio Inomata;Hiroshi Handa

  • Turnover of constituents of the endoplasmic reticulum membranes of rat hepatocytes.

    Tsuneo Omura;P. Siekevitz;G.E. Palade

  • Ad4BP regulating steroidogenic P-450 gene is a member of steroid hormone receptor superfamily.

    Shin Ichiro Honda;Ken-Ichirou Morohashi;Masatoshi Nomura;Hiroyuki Takeya

  • Isolation from adrenal cortex of a nonheme iron protein and a flavoprotein functional as a reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide-cytochrome P-450 reductase

    T. Omura;E. Sanders;R.W. Estabrook;D.Y. Cooper

  • Forty years of cytochrome P450.

    Tsuneo Omura

  • Sex-dependent expression of a transcription factor, Ad4BP, regulating steroidogenic P-450 genes in the gonads during prenatal and postnatal rat development.

    Osamu Hatano;Koichi Takayama;Tsuneo Imai;Michael R. Waterman

  • Ad4BP/SF-1, a transcription factor essential for the transcription of steroidogenic cytochrome P450 genes and for the establishment of the reproductive function.

    Ken Ichirou Morohashi;Tsuneo Omura

  • Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of cDNA for mRNA of mitochondrial cytochrome P-450(SCC) of bovine adrenal cortex

    K Morohashi;Y Fujii-Kuriyama;Y Okada;K Sogawa

  • Activation of CYP11A and CYP11B gene promoters by the steroidogenic cell-specific transcription factor, Ad4BP.

    Ken Ichirou Morohashi;Ulrich M. Zanger;Shi Ichiro Honda;Mizuki Hara

  • Gene Structure of Human Cytochrome P-450(SCC), Cholesterol Desmolase

    Ken ichirou Morohashi;Kazuhiro Sogawa;Tsuneo Omura;Yoshiaki Fujii-kuriyama

  • Functions of signal and signal-anchor sequences are determined by the balance between the hydrophobic segment and the N-terminal charge

    Masao Sakaguchi;Ryoko Tomiyoshi;Tomoko Kuroiwa;Katsuyoshi Mihara

  • Gene regulation of steroidogenesis

    Tsuneo Omura;Ken ichirou Morohashi

  • Importance of the Proline-Rich Region Following Signal-Anchor Sequence in the Formation of Correct Conformation of Microsomal Cytochrome P-450s

    Soh Yamazaki;Ken Sato;Katsuko Suhara;Masao Sakaguchi

  • A mitochondrial import factor purified from rat liver cytosol is an ATP-dependent conformational modulator for precursor proteins.

    Naomi Hachiya;Rashidul Alam;Yuji Sakasegawa;Masao Sakaguchi

  • MSF, a novel cytoplasmic chaperone which functions in precursor targeting to mitochondria.

    N Hachiya;T Komiya;R Alam;J Iwahashi

  • Mitochondria-Targeting Sequence, a Multi-Role Sorting Sequence Recognized at All Steps of Protein Import into Mitochondria

    Tsuneo Omura

  • Protein translocation across membranes

    Omura T

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken-ichirou Morohashi
Ken-ichirou Morohashi Kyushu University
Masao Sakaguchi
Masao Sakaguchi University of Hyogo
Katsuyoshi Mihara
Katsuyoshi Mihara Kyushu University
Nobuhiro Harada
Nobuhiro Harada Fujita Health University
Masatoshi Nomura
Masatoshi Nomura Kurume University
Ryo Sato
Ryo Sato Osaka University
Toshiyuki Miyata
Toshiyuki Miyata Kyushu University
Shun-ichiro Kawabata
Shun-ichiro Kawabata Kyushu University
Osamu Gotoh
Osamu Gotoh Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
Mitsuhiro Okamoto
Mitsuhiro Okamoto Osaka University

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