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Yasuhide Furuta is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions spanning molecular biology, genetics, urology, plant science, and physiology.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting

Yasuhide Furuta has published in various academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Cell Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • RNA Biology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Tracing the origin of hair follicle stem cells," 2021, published in Nature
  • "Pronuclear Microinjection during S-Phase Increases the Efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9-Assisted Knockin of Large DNA Donors in Mouse Zygotes," 2020, published in Cell Reports
  • "CDK1 dependent phosphorylation of hTERT contributes to cancer progression," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Essential functions of the CNOT7/8 catalytic subunits of the CCR4-NOT complex in mRNA regulation and cell viability," 2020, published in RNA Biology
  • "Targeted gene disruption in a marsupial, Monodelphis domestica, by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing," 2021, published in Current Biology

Their collaborative work includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Takaya Abe
  • Hiroshi Kiyonari
  • Rachel A. Glenn
  • Richard P. Koche
  • Thomas Vierbuchen

Best Publications

  • Reduced cell motility and enhanced focal adhesion contact formation in cells from FAK-deficient mice

    D Ilić;Y Furuta;S Kanazawa;N Takeda

  • Insulin resistance and growth retardation in mice lacking insulin receptor substrate-1.

    Hiroyuki Tamemoto;Takashi Kadowaki;Kazuyuki Tobe;Takeshi Yagi

  • Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) as regulators of dorsal forebrain development

    Yasuhide Furuta;David W. Piston;Brigid L. M. Hogan

  • Involvement of Sonic hedgehog (Shh) in mouse embryonic lung growth and morphogenesis

    Savério Bellusci;Yasuhide Furuta;Margaret G. Rush;Randall Henderson

  • A Novel ES Cell Line, TT2, with High Germline-Differentiating Potency

    T. Yagi;T. Tokunaga;Y. Furuta;S. Nada

  • Parthenogenetic activation of oocytes in c-mos-deficient mice

    Naohiro Hashimoto;Nobumoto Watanabe;Yasuhide Furuta;Hiroyuki Tamemoto

  • BMP4 is essential for lens induction in the mouse embryo

    Yasuhide Furuta;Brigid L.M. Hogan

  • Formation of Rathke's pouch requires dual induction from the diencephalon.

    Naoyuki Takuma;Hui Z. Sheng;Yasuhide Furuta;Jerrold M. Ward

  • Mesodermal defect in late phase of gastrulation by a targeted mutation of focal adhesion kinase, FAK.

    Yasuhide Furuta;Duško Ilić;Satoshi Kanazawa;Naoki Takeda

  • Failure of ventral body wall closure in mouse embryos lacking a procollagen C-proteinase encoded by Bmp1, a mammalian gene related to Drosophila tolloid

    Noboru Suzuki;Patricia A. Labosky;Yasuhide Furuta;Linda Hargett

  • Sox9 Is Expressed in Mouse Multipotent Retinal Progenitor Cells and Functions in Müller Glial Cell Development

    Ross A. Poché;Yasuhide Furuta;Marie Christine Chaboissier;Andreas Schedl

  • Comparison of the expression of three highly related genes, Fgf8, Fgf17 and Fgf18, in the mouse embryo

    Yutaka Maruoka;Norihiko Ohbayashi;Masamitsu Hoshikawa;Nobuyuki Itoh

  • Retina- and ventral forebrain-specific Cre recombinase activity in transgenic mice.

    Yasuhide Furuta;Yasuhide Furuta;Oleg Lagutin;Brigid L. M. Hogan;Brigid L. M. Hogan;Guillermo C. Oliver

  • Threshold-specific requirements for Bmp4 in mandibular development.

    Wei Liu;Jennifer Selever;Deepa Murali;Xiaoxia Sun

  • Driven by the same Ig enhancer and SV40 T promoter ras induced lung adenomatous tumors, myc induced pre-B cell lymphomas and SV40 large T gene a variety of tumors in transgenic mice.

    Y. Suda;S. Aizawa;S.-I. Hirai;T. Inoue

  • Tissue-specific RNAi reveals that WT1 expression in nurse cells controls germ cell survival and spermatogenesis

    Manjeet K. Rao;John Pham;J. Saadi Imam;James A. MacLean

  • Tbx1 expression in pharyngeal epithelia is necessary for pharyngeal arch artery development

    Zhen Zhang;Fabiana Cerrato;Huansheng Xu;Francesca Vitelli

  • Six3 promotes the formation of ectopic optic vesicle‐like structures in mouse embryos

    Oleg Lagutin;Changqi C. Zhu;Yasuhide Furuta;David H. Rowitch

  • Distinct developmental programs require different levels of Bmp signaling during mouse retinal development.

    Deepa Murali;Shunichi Yoshikawa;Rebecca R. Corrigan;Daniel J. Plas

  • Erratum: Parthenogenetic activation of oocytes in c-mos-deficient mice

    Naohiro Hashimoto;Nobumoto Watanabe;Yasuhide Furuta;Hiroyuki Tamemoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoji Ikawa
Yoji Ikawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Shin-Ichi Aizawa
Shin-Ichi Aizawa Prefectural University of Hiroshima
Shinichi Aizawa
Shinichi Aizawa Kumamoto University
Takeshi Yagi
Takeshi Yagi Osaka University
Tadashi Yamamoto
Tadashi Yamamoto Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Dusko Ilic
Dusko Ilic King's College London
Toshio Suda
Toshio Suda National University of Singapore
Kazuki Nakao
Kazuki Nakao University of Tokyo

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