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Yoshifumi Nishimura

Yoshifumi Nishimura

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Biology and Biochemistry

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56
Citations
9119
World Ranking
14643
National Ranking
1039

Overview

Yoshifumi Nishimura is affiliated with Hiroshima University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations

Yoshifumi Nishimura has contributed to multiple recent publications in prominent scientific journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Acetylated histone H4 tail enhances histone H3 tail acetylation by altering their mutual dynamics in the nucleosome" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The N-terminal Tails of Histones H2A and H2B Adopt Two Distinct Conformations in the Nucleosome with Contact and Reduced Contact to DNA" (2021) in Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "Histone tail network and modulation in a nucleosome" (2022) in Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • "Three human RNA polymerases interact with TFIIH via a common RPB6 subunit" (2021) in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Partial Replacement of Nucleosomal DNA with Human FACT Induces Dynamic Exposure and Acetylation of Histone H3 N-Terminal Tails" (2020) in iScience

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jun-ichi Kurita
  • Yasuo Tsunaka
  • Hideaki Ohtomo
  • Ayako Furukawa
  • K. Miyazaki

Their publications often appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • iScience
  • CHEST Journal

Best Publications

  • Solution structure of a specific DNA complex of the Myb DNA-binding domain with cooperative recognition helices.

    Kazuhiro Ogata;Souichi Morikawa;Haruki Nakamura;Ai Sekikawa

  • Structural genomics projects in Japan.

    Shigeyuki Yokoyama;Hiroshi Hirota;Takanori Kigawa;Takashi Yabuki

  • The cavity in the hydrophobic core of Myb DNA-binding domain is reserved for DNA recognition and trans-activation.

    Kazuhiro Ogata;Chie Kanei-Ishii;Motoko Sasaki;Hideki Hatanaka

  • Solution structure of a DNA-binding unit of Myb: a helix-turn-helix-related motif with conserved tryptophans forming a hydrophobic core.

    Kazuhiro Ogata;Hironobu Hojo;Saburo Aimoto;Takahisa Nakai

  • Most compact hairpin-turn structure exerted by a short DNA fragment, d(GCGAAGC) in solution: an extraordinarily stable structure resistant to nucleases and heat

    Ichiro Hirao;Gota Kawai;Satoko Yoshizawa;Yoshifumi Nishimura

  • Comparison of the free and DNA-complexed forms of the DNA-binding domain from c-Myb.

    Kazuhiro Ogata;Souichi Morikawa;Haruki Nakamura;Hironobu Hojo

  • The tryptophan cluster: a hypothetical structure of the DNA-binding domain of the myb protooncogene product.

    Chie Kanei-Ishii;A. Sarai;T. Sawazaki;H. Nakagoshi

  • Recognition of specific DNA sequences by the c-myb protooncogene product: role of three repeat units in the DNA-binding domain

    Jun Tanikawa;Takashi Yasukawa;Masato Enari;Kazuhiro Ogata

  • Comparison between TRF2 and TRF1 of their telomeric DNA-bound structures and DNA-binding activities

    Shingo Hanaoka;Aritaka Nagadoi;Yoshifumi Nishimura

  • Extraordinarily stable mini-hairpins: electrophoretical and thermal properties of the various sequence variants of d(GCFAAAGC)and their effect on DNA sequencing

    Ichiro Hirao;Yoshifumi Nishimura;Yon-ichi Tagawa;Kimitsuna Watanabe

  • In-plane vibrational modes in the uracil molecule from an ab initio MO calculation

    Yoshifumi Nishimura;Masamichi Tsuboi;Shigeki Kato;Keiji Morokuma

  • A free-energy landscape for coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein in explicit solvent from detailed all-atom computations.

    Junichi Higo;Yoshifumi Nishimura;Haruki Nakamura

  • Structural comparison of the PhoB and OmpR DNA-binding/transactivation domains and the arrangement of PhoB molecules on the phosphate box.

    Hideyasu Okamura;Shingo Hanaoka;Aritaka Nagadoi;Kozo Makino

  • Conformation-sensitive Raman lines of mononucleotides and their use in a structure analysis of polynucleotides: guanine and cytosine nucleotides

    Yoshifumi Nishimura;Masamichi Tsuboi;Tomohiro Sato;Katsuyuki Aoki

  • Two types of conformers with distinct Fe-C-O configuration in the ferrous CO complex of horseradish peroxidase. Resonance Raman and infarared spectroscopic studies with native and deuteroheme-substituted enzymes.

    T Uno;Y Nishimura;M Tsuboi;R Makino

  • Common TFIIH recruitment mechanism in global genome and transcription-coupled repair subpathways

    Masahiko Okuda;Yuka Nakazawa;Chaowan Guo;Tomoo Ogi

  • Escherichia coli positive regulator OmpR has a large loop structure at the putative RNA polymerase interaction site.

    Hidemasa Kondo;Atsushi Nakagawa;Jun Nishihira;Yoshifumi Nishimura

  • Solution structure of a telomeric DNA complex of human TRF1

    Tadateru Nishikawa;Hideyasu Okamura;Aritaka Nagadoi;Peter König

  • A protein kinase Cdelta-binding protein SRBC whose expression is induced by serum starvation.

    Yasushi Izumi;Syu-ichi Hirai;Yoko Tamai;Ariko Fujise-Matsuoka

  • Structural genomics projects in Japan.

    Shigeyuki Yokoyama;Yo Matsuo;Hiroshi Hirota;Takanori Kigawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Masamichi Tsuboi
Masamichi Tsuboi University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Kurumizaka
Hitoshi Kurumizaka University of Tokyo
Haruki Nakamura
Haruki Nakamura Osaka University
Akinori Sarai
Akinori Sarai Kyushu Institute of Technology
Yoji Arata
Yoji Arata University of Tokyo
Ichiro Hirao
Ichiro Hirao Xenolis Pte. Ltd.
Jun-ichi Nakayama
Jun-ichi Nakayama National Institute for Basic Biology
Saburo Aimoto
Saburo Aimoto Osaka University
Takeshi Mizuno
Takeshi Mizuno Nagoya University

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