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Tsutomu Katayama

Tsutomu Katayama

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Biology and Biochemistry

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41
Citations
13957
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19527
National Ranking
1409

Overview

Tsutomu Katayama is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and specializes in research within the broad domain of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work focuses extensively on Molecular Biology and Genetics, with additional contributions in Ecology, Molecular Medicine, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover various aspects of DNA and cellular function, including DNA Repair Mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Katayama has published multiple papers in several respected scientific journals. Recent notable papers include:

  • DnaB helicase is recruited to the replication initiation complex via binding of DnaA domain I to the lateral surface of the DnaB N-terminal domain, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Single-stranded DNA recruitment mechanism in replication origin unwinding by DnaA initiator protein and HU, an evolutionary ubiquitous nucleoid protein, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Novel Divisome-Associated Protein Spatially Coupling the Z-Ring with the Chromosomal Replication Terminus in Caulobacter crescentus, 2020, mBio
  • Whole-Genome Analysis Reveals That the Nucleoid Protein IHF Predominantly Binds to the Replication Origin oriC Specifically at the Time of Initiation, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Concerted actions of DnaA complexes with DNA-unwinding sequences within and flanking replication origin oriC promote DnaB helicase loading, 2022, Journal of Biological Chemistry

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Katayama include:

  • Shogo Ozaki
  • Ryusei Yoshida
  • Kazutoshi Kasho
  • Kazuma Korogi
  • Qinfei Wu

Katayama's publications are commonly found in several key scientific venues including:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • mBio
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • The Initiator Function of DnaA Protein Is Negatively Regulated by the Sliding Clamp of the E. coli Chromosomal Replicase

    Tsutomu Katayama;Tsutomu Katayama;Toshio Kubota;Kenji Kurokawa;Elliott Crooke

  • Hda, a novel DnaA-related protein, regulates the replication cycle in Escherichia coli

    Jun Ichi Kato;Tsutomu Katayama

  • Cell size and nucleoid organization of engineered Escherichia coli cells with a reduced genome

    Masayuki Hashimoto;Toshiharu Ichimura;Hiroshi Mizoguchi;Kimie Tanaka

  • Regulation of the replication cycle: conserved and diverse regulatory systems for DnaA and oriC

    Tsutomu Katayama;Shogo Ozaki;Kenji Keyamura;Kazuyuki Fujimitsu

  • Regulating DNA Replication in Bacteria

    Kirsten Skarstad;Tsutomu Katayama

  • Replication cycle-coordinated change of the adenine nucleotide-bound forms of DnaA protein in Escherichia coli.

    Kenji Kurokawa;Kenji Kurokawa;Satoshi Nishida;Akiko Emoto;Kazuhisa Sekimizu;Kazuhisa Sekimizu

  • Structural basis of replication origin recognition by the DnaA protein.

    Norie Fujikawa;Hitoshi Kurumizaka;Osamu Nureki;Takaho Terada

  • Fate of DNA replication fork encountering a single DNA lesion during oriC plasmid DNA replication in vitro.

    Kumiko Higuchi;Tsutomu Katayama;Shigenori Iwai;Masumi Hidaka

  • Specific genomic sequences of E. coli promote replicational initiation by directly reactivating ADP-DnaA

    Kazuyuki Fujimitsu;Takayuki Senriuchi;Takayuki Senriuchi;Tsutomu Katayama

  • A nucleotide switch in the Escherichia coli DnaA protein initiates chromosomal replication. Evidence from a mutant DnaA protein defective in regulatory ATP hydrolysis in vitro and in vivo

    Satoshi Nishida;Kazuyuki Fujimitsu;Kazuhisa Sekimizu;Tadahiro Ohmura

  • DiaA, a novel DnaA-binding protein, ensures the timely initiation of Escherichia coli chromosome replication.

    Takuma Ishida;Nobuyoshi Akimitsu;Tamami Kashioka;Masakazu Hatano

  • The interaction of DiaA and DnaA regulates the replication cycle in E. coli by directly promoting ATP–DnaA-specific initiation complexes

    Kenji Keyamura;Norie Fujikawa;Takuma Ishida;Shogo Ozaki

  • Structure and Function of DnaA N-terminal Domains SPECIFIC SITES AND MECHANISMS IN INTER-DnaA INTERACTION AND IN DnaB HELICASE LOADING ON oriC

    Yoshito Abe;Takaaki Jo;Yusaku Matsuda;Chika Matsunaga

  • Formation of an ATP-DnaA-specific initiation complex requires DnaA arginine 285, a conserved motif in the AAA+ protein family

    Hironori Kawakami;Kenji Keyamura;Tsutomu Katayama

  • A Common Mechanism for the ATP-DnaA-dependent Formation of Open Complexes at the Replication Origin

    Shogo Ozaki;Hironori Kawakami;Kenta Nakamura;Norie Fujikawa

  • Influence of Cluster Formation of Acidic Phospholipids on Decrease in the Affinity for ATP of DnaA Protein

    Tohru Mizushima;Yuichi Ishikawa;Eishi Obana;Masakazu Hase

  • DnaA binding locus datA promotes DnaA-ATP hydrolysis to enable cell cycle-coordinated replication initiation

    Kazutoshi Kasho;Tsutomu Katayama

  • DiaA Dynamics Are Coupled with Changes in Initial Origin Complexes Leading to Helicase Loading

    Kenji Keyamura;Yoshito Abe;Masahiro Higashi;Tadashi Ueda

  • The DnaA Cycle in Escherichia coli: Activation, Function and Inactivation of the Initiator Protein.

    Tsutomu Katayama;Kazutoshi Kasho;Hironori Kawakami

  • Protein associations in DnaA-ATP hydrolysis mediated by the Hda-replicase clamp complex.

    Masayuki Su'etsugu;Toh Ru Shimuta;Takuma Ishida;Hironori Kawakami

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuhisa Sekimizu
Kazuhisa Sekimizu University of Tokyo
Tohru Mizushima
Tohru Mizushima Keio University
Toshiki Tsurimoto
Toshiki Tsurimoto Kyushu University
Hitoshi Kurumizaka
Hitoshi Kurumizaka University of Tokyo
Shoji Takada
Shoji Takada Kyoto University
Sota Hiraga
Sota Hiraga Kumamoto University
Katsumi Maenaka
Katsumi Maenaka Hokkaido University
Tsutomu Suzuki
Tsutomu Suzuki University of Tokyo
Anders Løbner-Olesen
Anders Løbner-Olesen University of Copenhagen

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