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Yukihide Tomari

Yukihide Tomari

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
53
Citations
18353
World Ranking
2358
National Ranking
180

Overview

Yukihide Tomari is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on molecular biology and plant science, with additional interests in cancer research, cell biology, and neurology.

The scientist's research covers a variety of advanced topics including chromosomal and genetic variations, CRISPR and genetic engineering, plant virus research studies, RNA research and splicing, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, microRNA in disease regulation, and RNA interference and gene delivery.

Yukihide Tomari has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • RNA
  • Nature
  • Molecular Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yukihide Tomari include:

  • "Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex," 2021, Molecular Cell
  • "Zucchini consensus motifs determine the mechanism of pre-piRNA production," 2020, Nature
  • "A widespread family of heat-resistant obscure (Hero) proteins protect against protein instability and aggregation," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "Ribosome stalling caused by the Argonaute-microRNA-SGS3 complex regulates the production of secondary siRNAs in plants," 2021, Cell Reports
  • "GTSF1 accelerates target RNA cleavage by PIWI-clade Argonaute proteins," 2022, Nature

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • Keisuke Shoji
  • Natsuko Izumi
  • Hiro-oki Iwakawa
  • Susumu Katsuma
  • Kotaro Tsuboyama

Best Publications

  • Cell-free translation reconstituted with purified components

    Yoshihiro Shimizu;Akio Inoue;Yukihide Tomari;Tsutomu Suzuki

  • Passenger-strand cleavage facilitates assembly of siRNA into Ago2-containing RNAi enzyme complexes

    Christian B. Matranga;Yukihide Tomari;Chanseok Shin;David P. Bartel

  • Perspective: machines for RNAi

    Yukihide Tomari;Phillip D. Zamore

  • A protein sensor for siRNA asymmetry.

    Yukihide Tomari;Christian B. Matranga;Benjamin Haley;Natalia Julia Martinez

  • The Functions of MicroRNAs: mRNA Decay and Translational Repression

    Hiro-oki Iwakawa;Yukihide Tomari

  • Normal microRNA Maturation and Germ-Line Stem Cell Maintenance Requires Loquacious, a Double-Stranded RNA-Binding Domain Protein

    Klaus Forstemann;Yukihide Tomari;Tingting Du;Vasily V. Vagin

  • Hsc70/Hsp90 chaperone machinery mediates ATP-dependent RISC loading of small RNA duplexes.

    Shintaro Iwasaki;Maki Kobayashi;Mayuko Yoda;Yuriko Sakaguchi

  • Drosophila microRNAs Are Sorted into Functionally Distinct Argonaute Complexes after Production by Dicer-1

    Klaus Förstemann;Michael D. Horwich;LiangMeng Wee;Yukihide Tomari;Yukihide Tomari

  • RISC assembly defects in the Drosophila RNAi mutant armitage.

    Yukihide Tomari;Tingting Du;Benjamin Haley;Dianne S Schwarz

  • Sorting of Drosophila Small Silencing RNAs

    Yukihide Tomari;Tingting Du;Phillip D. Zamore

  • ATP-dependent human RISC assembly pathways

    Mayuko Yoda;Tomoko Kawamata;Zain Paroo;Xuecheng Ye

  • The N domain of Argonaute drives duplex unwinding during RISC assembly

    Pieter Bas Kwak;Yukihide Tomari

  • The RNA-Induced Silencing Complex Is a Mg2+-Dependent Endonuclease

    Dianne S Schwarz;Yukihide Tomari;Phillip D Zamore

  • Structural determinants of miRNAs for RISC loading and slicer-independent unwinding.

    Tomoko Kawamata;Hervé Seitz;Hervé Seitz;Yukihide Tomari;Yukihide Tomari

  • RISC assembly: Coordination between small RNAs and Argonaute proteins.

    Hotaka Kobayashi;Yukihide Tomari

  • The microRNA pathway and cancer.

    Pieter Bas Kwak;Shintaro Iwasaki;Yukihide Tomari

  • 3′ End Formation of PIWI-Interacting RNAs In Vitro

    Shinpei Kawaoka;Natsuko Izumi;Susumu Katsuma;Yukihide Tomari

  • Codon Usage and 3′ UTR Length Determine Maternal mRNA Stability in Zebrafish

    Yuichiro Mishima;Yukihide Tomari

  • Molecular Insights into microRNA-Mediated Translational Repression in Plants

    Hiro-oki Iwakawa;Yukihide Tomari

  • Recognition of the pre-miRNA structure by Drosophila Dicer-1

    Akihisa Tsutsumi;Tomoko Kawamata;Natsuko Izumi;Hervé Seitz;Hervé Seitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Susumu Katsuma
Susumu Katsuma University of Tokyo
Phillip D. Zamore
Phillip D. Zamore University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Yutaka Suzuki
Yutaka Suzuki University of Tokyo
Tsutomu Suzuki
Tsutomu Suzuki University of Tokyo
Sumio Sugano
Sumio Sugano University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Sasaki
Hiroshi Sasaki Jikei University School of Medicine
Takuya Ueda
Takuya Ueda University of Tokyo
Toru Shimada
Toru Shimada Gakushuin University
William E. Theurkauf
William E. Theurkauf University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich

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