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Yukio Sugiura

Yukio Sugiura

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
17046
World Ranking
7590
National Ranking
505

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
17049
World Ranking
9072
National Ranking
610

Overview

Yukio Sugiura is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, contributing primarily to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Oncology, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their work focuses on several main topics, such as advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, RNA interference and gene delivery, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and genetic engineering, biochemical and structural characterization, microbial metabolism and applications, as well as enzyme production and characterization.

Yukio Sugiura's recent publications include the following papers:

  • The past, present, and future of artificial zinc finger proteins: design strategies and chemical and biological applications, 2023, JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Transpeptidation Reaction Mediated by Ligand- and Metal Cofactor-Substituted Sortase A from Staphylococcus aureus, 2022, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • Importance of two-dimensional cation clusters induced by protein folding in intrinsic intracellular membrane permeability, 2022, RSC Chemical Biology
  • Effect of Charged-cluster Distribution of the ZIF268 Zinc Finger Surface on Cell Membrane Permeability, 2022, Chemistry Letters

Frequent collaborators with Yukio Sugiura include Shigeru Negi, Mami Hamori, Yuka Kawahara-Nakagawa, Miki Imanishi, and Nobuhito Shibata.

Publications by Yukio Sugiura are often found in the following venues:

  • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
  • RSC Chemical Biology
  • Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Arginine-rich Peptides: AN ABUNDANT SOURCE OF MEMBRANE-PERMEABLE PEPTIDES HAVING POTENTIAL AS CARRIERS FOR INTRACELLULAR PROTEIN DELIVERY *

    Shiroh Futaki;Tomoki Suzuki;Wakana Ohashi;Takeshi Yagami

  • Cellular uptake of arginine-rich peptides: roles for macropinocytosis and actin rearrangement.

    Ikuhiko Nakase;Miki Niwa;Toshihide Takeuchi;Kazuhiro Sonomura

  • Photoinduced biochemical activity of fullerene carboxylic acid

    Hidetoshi Tokuyama;Shigeru Yamago;Eiichi Nakamura;Takashi Shiraki

  • Possible existence of common internalization mechanisms among arginine-rich peptides.

    Tomoki Suzuki;Shiroh Futaki;Miki Niwa;Seigo Tanaka

  • Stearylated arginine-rich peptides: a new class of transfection systems.

    Shiroh Futaki;Wakana Ohashi;Tomoki Suzuki;Miki Niwa

  • Interaction of arginine-rich peptides with membrane-associated proteoglycans is crucial for induction of actin organization and macropinocytosis.

    Ikuhiko Nakase;Akiko Tadokoro;Noriko Kawabata;Toshihide Takeuchi

  • Direct and rapid cytosolic delivery using cell-penetrating peptides mediated by pyrenebutyrate.

    Toshihide Takeuchi;Michie Kosuge;Akiko Tadokoro;Yukio Sugiura

  • Biological Activity of Water-Soluble Fullerenes. Structural Dependence of DNA Cleavage, Cytotoxicity, and Enzyme Inhibitory Activities Including HIV-Protease Inhibition

    Eiichi Nakamura;Hidetoshi Tokuyama;Shigeru Yamago;Takashi Shiraki

  • Fluorescence Detection of Specific Sequence of Nucleic Acids by Oxazole Yellow-Linked Oligonucleotides. Homogeneous Quantitative Monitoring of In Vitro Transcription

    Takahiko Ishiguro;Juichi Saitoh;Hideo Yawata;Masami Otsuka

  • Formation of superoxide and hydroxy radicals in iron(II)-bleomycin-oxygen system: electron spin resonance detection by spin trapping.

    Yukio Sugiura;Takanobu Kikuchi

  • Nitrile hydratase. The first non-heme iron enzyme with a typical low-spin iron(III)-active center

    Yukio Sugiura;June Kuwahara;Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  • Translocation of branched-chain arginine peptides through cell membranes: Flexibility in the spatial disposition of positive charges in membrane-permeable peptides

    Shiroh Futaki;Ikuhiko Nakase;Tomoki Suzuki;Zhang Youjun

  • STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES, AND TRANSPORT MECHANISM OF IRON(III) COMPLEX OF MUGINEIC ACID, A POSSIBLE PHYTOSIDEROPHORE

    Y. Sugiura;H. Tanaka;Y. Mino;T. Ishida

  • Cytochrome c polymerization by successive domain swapping at the C-terminal helix

    Shun Hirota;Yoko Hattori;Satoshi Nagao;Midori Taketa

  • DNA intercalation and cleavage of an antitumor antibiotic dynemicin that contains anthracycline and enediyne cores

    Yukio Sugiura;Takashi Shiraki;Masataka Konishi;Toshikazu Oki

  • Bleomycin-iron complexes. Electron spin resonance study, ligand effect, and implication for action mechanism

    Yukio Sugiura

  • Generation of hydroxyl radical by anticancer quinone drugs, carbazilquinone, mitomycin C, aclacinomycin A and adriamycin, in the presence of NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase

    Tadazumi Komiyama;Takanobu Kikuchi;Yukio Sugiura

  • Allosteric regulation of a ribozyme activity through ligand-induced conformational change

    Michihiro Araki;Yasushi Okuno;Yuji Hara;Yukio Sugiura

  • Man-designed bleomycin with altered sequence specificity in DNA cleavage

    Masami Otsuka;Takeshi Masuda;Andreas Haupt;Masaji Ohno

  • Mugineic acid-iron(III) complex and its structurally analogous cobalt(III) complex: characterization and implication for absorption and transport of iron in gramineous plants

    Yoshiki Mino;Toshimasa Ishida;Nagayo Ota;Masatoshi Inoue

  • Binding of tachyplesin I to DNA revealed by footprinting analysis: significant contribution of secondary structure to DNA binding and implication for biological action

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Frequent Co-Authors

Shiroh Futaki
Shiroh Futaki Kyoto University
Masaji Ohno
Masaji Ohno University of Tokyo
Hamao Umezawa
Hamao Umezawa National Institutes of Health
Kunihiro Ueda
Kunihiro Ueda Kyoto University
Takashi Takahashi
Takashi Takahashi Nagoya University
Kenneth T. Douglas
Kenneth T. Douglas University of Manchester
Keisuke Makino
Keisuke Makino Kyoto University
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki University of Tokyo
Kazuo Suzuki
Kazuo Suzuki Teikyo University
Shigeru Yamago
Shigeru Yamago Kyoto University

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