Research theme for competitive and other funds (21):
2023 - 2027 A novel non-invasive assessment of atherosclerotic risk using a combination of saliva exRNA measurement and a food model, and its application to the diet
2022 - 2025 相同的組換えでの相同並行三重鎖DNAの働き
2019 - 2024 International collaborations for revealing the synergistic genetic relationship in genome maintenance systems
2021 - 2023 Search for a pioneer polymerase complex that opens chromatin in non-coding RNA transcribed regions
2020 - 2023 Role of proofreading exonuclease activity of replicative polymerase epsilon in replication fork slowing at DNA damage
2016 - 2021 Establishment of Novel Bioassays for in vivo Genotoxicity Prediction and Mechanism Characterization
2016 - 2019 Analysis of the regulatory network of polymerases upon replication arrest
2016 - 2018 Regulation of chromatin and genome higher order structure by non-coding RNAs
2016 - 2018 Analysis of Translesion synthesis (TLS) mechanism by novel assay method
2014 - 2016 ノンコーディングRNA転写と共役したクロマチン構造変化の制御機構の解明
2013 - 2016 Analysis of genome maintenance system by the combination of proteomics and genetic approach
2011 - 2016 Establishment of high-throughput screening of toxic chemical compounds.
2012 - 2014 複製ポリメラーゼδによる複製フォークの安定化機構の解明
2009 - 2014 Chromatin regulation by lncRNA
2010 - 2012 Analysis of DNA repair pathway by the combination of proteomics andgenetic approach
2009 - 2010 ノンコーディングRNA転写に共役する新規クロマチン制御機構の解明
2008 - 2009 Method to enhance gene-targeting efficiency
2005 - 2009 Interplay among recombination, replication, segregation, and chromatin structure.
2007 - 2008 Chromatin regulation around M26/CRE DNA sequences
2005 - 2006 Mechanisms of chromatin remodeling and recombination activation in fission yeast starvation and stress response
1999 - 2003 酵母染色体組換えにおける染色体機能装置の連携
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Papers (104):
Hidetaka Seo, Kouji Hirota, Kunihiro Ohta. Molecular mechanisms of avian immunoglobulin gene diversification and prospect for industrial applications. Frontiers in immunology. 2024. 15. 1453833-1453833
Tasnim Ahmad, Ryotaro Kawasumi, Tomoya Taniguchi, Takuya Abe, Kazuhiro Terada, Masataka Tsuda, Naoto Shimizu, Toshiki Tsurimoto, Shunichi Takeda, Kouji Hirota. The proofreading exonuclease of leading-strand DNA polymerase epsilon prevents replication fork collapse at broken template strands. Nucleic Acids Research. 2023
Ivan Psakhye, Ryotaro Kawasumi, Takuya Abe, Kouji Hirota, Dana Branzei. PCNA recruits cohesin loader Scc2 to ensure sister chromatid cohesion. Nature structural & molecular biology. 2023
Mubasshir Washif, Tasnim Ahmad, Md Bayejid Hosen, Md Ratul Rahman, Tomoya Taniguchi, Hiromori Okubo, Kouji Hirota, Ryotaro Kawasumi. CTF18-RFC contributes to cellular tolerance against chain-terminating nucleoside analogs (CTNAs) in cooperation with proofreading exonuclease activity of DNA polymerase ε. DNA repair. 2023. 127. 103503-103503
Daiki Ikemoto, Tomoya Taniguchi, Kouji Hirota, Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Kan Okubo, Takuya Abe. Application of neural network-based image analysis to detect sister chromatid cohesion defects. Scientific Reports. 2023. 13. 1
Takehiko Shibata, Wakana Iwasaki, Kouji Hirota. The intrinsic ability of double-stranded DNA to carry out D-loop and R-loop formation. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 2020. 18. 3350-3360