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Tuneko Okazaki is affiliated with Fujita Health University in Japan. Their academic profile indicates a current active status with no indication of being deceased.

Although specific data on recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, or book publications are not available, the affiliation with a recognized health university suggests involvement in research activities likely related to medical or health sciences.

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Best Publications

  • A human centromere antigen (CENP-B) interacts with a short specific sequence in alphoid DNA, a human centromeric satellite.

    H Masumoto;H Masukata;Y Muro;N Nozaki

  • Dicer is essential for formation of the heterochromatin structure in vertebrate cells

    Tatsuo Fukagawa;Masahiro Nogami;Mitsuko Yoshikawa;Masashi Ikeno

  • Construction of YAC-based mammalian artificial chromosomes.

    Masashi Ikeno;Brenda Grimes;Tuneko Okazaki;Tuneko Okazaki;Megumi Nakano

  • Mechanism of DNA chain growth. I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains.

    Reiji Okazaki;Tuneko Okazaki;Kiwako Sakabe;Kazunori Sugimoto

  • Human centromere protein A (CENP-A) can replace histone H3 in nucleosome reconstitution in vitro.

    Kinya Yoda;Satoshi Ando;Setsuo Morishita;Kenichi Houmura

  • Centromere protein B assembles human centromeric alpha-satellite DNA at the 17-bp sequence, CENP-B box.

    Y Muro;H Masumoto;K Yoda;N Nozaki

  • In Vivo Mechanism of DNA Chain Growth

    Reiji Okazaki;Tuneko Okazaki;Kiwako Sakabe;Kazunori Sugimoto

  • Proteomics analysis of the centromere complex from HeLa interphase cells: UV-damaged DNA binding protein 1 (DDB-1) is a component of the CEN-complex, while BMI-1 is transiently co-localized with the centromeric region in interphase.

    Chikashi Obuse;Hua Yang;Naohito Nozaki;Shouhei Goto

  • Construction and characterization of the deletion mutant of hupA and hupB genes in Escherichia coli.

    M. Wada;Y. Kano;T. Ogawa;T. Okazaki

  • Distribution of CENP-B boxes reflected in CREST centromere antigenic sites on long-range α-satellite DNA arrays of human chromosome 21

    Masashi Ikeno;Hiroshi Masumoto;Tuneko Okazaki

  • A novel DnaA protein-binding site at 94.7 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome.

    Risa Kitagawa;Hironobu Mitsuki;Tuneko Okazaki;Tohru Ogawa

  • Mechanism of DNA chain growth XVI. Analyses of RNA-linked DNA pieces in Escherichia coli with polynucleotide kinase.

    Tohru Ogawa;Susumu Hirose;Tuneko Okazaki;Reiji Okazaki

  • Function of RNase H in DNA replication revealed by RNase H defective mutants of Escherichia coli.

    Tohru Ogawa;Tuneko Okazaki

  • A human centromere protein, CENP-B, has a DNA binding domain containing four potential alpha helices at the NH2 terminus, which is separable from dimerizing activity.

    K Yoda;K Kitagawa;H Masumoto;Y Muro

  • Alphoid satellite DNA is tightly associated with centromere antigens in human chromosomes throughout the cell cycle.

    Hiroshi Masumoto;Kenji Sugimoto;Tuneko Okazaki

  • DNA chain growth: in vivo and in vitro synthesis in a DNA polymerase-negative mutant of E. coli.

    Reiji Okazaki;Kazunori Sugimoto;Tuneko Okazaki;Yasuo Imae

  • Evidence that discontinuous DNA replication in Escherichia coli is primed by approximately 10 to 12 residues of RNA starting with a purine.

    Takako Kitani;Kin-ya Yoda;Tohru Ogawa;Tuneko Okazaki

  • Assay of centromere function using a human artificial chromosome

    Hiroshi Masumoto;Masashi Ikeno;Megumi Nakano;Tuneko Okazaki

  • Mechanism of DNA chain growth. XV. RNA-linked nascent DNA pieces in Escherichia coli strains assayed with spleen exonuclease.

    Yoshikazu Kurosawa;Tohru Ogawa;Susumu Hirose;Tuneko Okazaki

  • Cell cycle-dependent transcription from the gid and mioC promoters of Escherichia coli.

    T Ogawa;T Okazaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Masumoto
Hiroshi Masumoto Kazusa DNA Research Institute
Hisanori Shinohara
Hisanori Shinohara Nagoya University
Akio Sugino
Akio Sugino Osaka University
Yasunori Machida
Yasunori Machida Nagoya University
Takanori Kigawa
Takanori Kigawa RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Chikashi Obuse
Chikashi Obuse Osaka University
Yuji Kohara
Yuji Kohara National Institute of Genetics
Kazu Suenaga
Kazu Suenaga Osaka University
Tomoki Naoe
Tomoki Naoe Nagoya University
Christian M. Julien
Christian M. Julien Sorbonne University

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