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Yoshiro Shimura

Yoshiro Shimura

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
10952
World Ranking
19054
National Ranking
1373

Overview

Yoshiro Shimura is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. The academic profile reflects a career connected to this prominent institution, though specific details about research focus and project involvement are not provided.

No recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work are listed, indicating limited publicly available bibliographic or research metadata in the provided source.

There are no records of awards, which suggests that no major distinctions have been documented in the source data. The scientist is currently active, with no indication of being deceased.

Best Publications

  • The Arabidopsis HY5 gene encodes a bZIP protein that regulates stimulus-induced development of root and hypocotyl

    Tokitaka Oyama;Yoshiro Shimura;Kiyotaka Okada

  • Epidermal cell differentiation in Arabidopsis determined by a Myb homolog, CPC

    Takuji Wada;Tatsuhiko Tachibana;Tatsuhiko Tachibana;Yoshiro Shimura;Yoshiro Shimura;Kiyotaka Okada;Kiyotaka Okada

  • The role of exon sequences in splice site selection.

    Akiya Watakabe;Kenji Tanaka;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Structural basis for recognition of the tra mRNA precursor by the Sex-lethal protein.

    Noriko Handa;Osamu Nureki;Kazuki Kurimoto;Insil Kim

  • Control of doublesex alternative splicing by transformer and transformer-2 in Drosophila

    Kazuyuki Hoshijima;Kunio Inoue;Ikuko Higuchi;Hiroshi Sakamoto

  • Binding of the Drosophila sex-lethal gene product to the alternative splice site of transformer primary transcript.

    Kunio Inoue;Kazuyuki Hoshijima;Hiroshi Sakamoto;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Role of a positive regulator of root hair development, CAPRICE ,in Arabidopsis root epidermal cell differentiation

    Takuji Wada;Tetsuya Kurata;Rumi Tominaga;Yoshihiro Koshino-Kimura

  • Polypurine sequences within a downstream exon function as a splicing enhancer.

    Kenji Tanaka;Akiya Watakabe;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Efficient transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana : comparison of the efficiencies with various organs, plant ecotypes and Agrobacterium strains

    Kazuhito Akama;Hideaki Shiraishi;Shozo Ohta;Kenzo Nakamura

  • Binding of the Drosophila transformer and transformer-2 proteins to the regulatory elements of doublesex primary transcript for sex-specific RNA processing.

    Kunio Inoue;Kazuyuki Hoshijima;Ikuko Higuchi;Hiroshi Sakamoto

  • FILAMENTOUS FLOWER Controls the Formation and Development of Arabidopsis Inflorescences and Floral Meristems

    Shinichiro Sawa;Toshiro Ito;Yoshiro Shimura;Kiyotaka Okada

  • Association of U6 snRNA with the 5'-splice site region of pre-mRNA in the spliceosome.

    Hitoshi Sawa;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Shigella effector IpaH9.8 binds to a splicing factor U2AF35 to modulate host immune responses

    Jun Okuda;Takahito Toyotome;Naoyuki Kataoka;Mutsuhito Ohno

  • Temperature sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli for tRNA synthesis

    Hitoshi Sakano;Shigeru Yamada;Toshimichi Ikemura;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Preferential excision of the 5' proximal intron from mRNA precursors with two introns as mediated by the cap structure.

    Mutsuhito Ohno;Hiroshi Sakamoto;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Nucleotide sequences recognized by the AGAMOUS MADS domain of Arabidopsis thaliana in vitro

    Hideaki Shiraishi;Kiyotaka Okada;Yoshiro Shimura;Yoshiro Shimura

  • Control of Drosophila Sex-lethal pre-mRNA splicing by its own female-specific product

    Hiroshi Sakamoto;Kunio Inoue;Ikuko Higuchi;Yuichi Ono

  • Effect of the cap structure on pre-mRNA splicing in Xenopus oocyte nuclei.

    K Inoue;M Ohno;H Sakamoto;Y Shimura

  • AN ESTIMATE OF DIVERGENCE TIME OF PARAZOA AND EUMETAZOA AND THAT OF CEPHALOCHORDATA AND VERTEBRATA BY ALDOLASE AND TRIOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE CLOCKS

    Naruo Nikoh;Naoyuki Iwabe;Kei-ichi Kuma;Mutsuhito Ohno

  • Identification of a putative RNA helicase (HRH1), a human homolog of yeast Prp22.

    Yuichi Ono;Mutsuhito Ohno;Yoshiro Shimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiyotaka Okada
Kiyotaka Okada National Institute for Basic Biology
Kunio Yasuda
Kunio Yasuda Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Toshiro Ito
Toshiro Ito Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Toshimichi Ikemura
Toshimichi Ikemura Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Koji Takio
Koji Takio University of Washington
Takanori Kigawa
Takanori Kigawa RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Shinichiro Sawa
Shinichiro Sawa Kumamoto University
Osamu Nureki
Osamu Nureki University of Tokyo
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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