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Akira Nakamura

- Verified email at kumamoto-u.ac.jp - Cited by 6176

Akiko Nakamura

- Verified email at kobe-u.ac.jp - Cited by 4645

Akihiro Nakamura

- Verified email at xtbg.ac.cn - Cited by 3251

γH2AX and cancer

…, CE Redon, JS Dickey, AJ Nakamura… - Nature Reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
Histone H2AX phosphorylation on a serine four residues from the carboxyl terminus (producing
γH2AX) is a sensitive marker for DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). DSBs may lead to …

Coordination− insertion copolymerization of fundamental polar monomers

A Nakamura, S Ito, K Nozaki - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Akifumi Nakamura (left) was born in 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan. He received his BS degree
in 2007 and MS degree in 2009 from the University of Tokyo under the guidance of Professor …

[HTML][HTML] Use of the γ-H2AX assay to monitor DNA damage and repair in translational cancer research

A Ivashkevich, CE Redon, AJ Nakamura, RF Martin… - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Formation of γ-H2AX in response to DNA double stranded breaks (DSBs) provides the
basis for a sensitive assay of DNA damage in human biopsies. The review focuses on the …

High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

A Nakamura, N Kaneko, VL Villemagne, T Kato… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
To facilitate clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, which are
expected to be most efficacious at the earliest and mildest stages of the disease 1 , 2 , …

The rubble-pile asteroid Itokawa as observed by Hayabusa

…, T Kominato, H Miyamoto, AM Nakamura, R Nakamura… - Science, 2006 - science.org
During the interval from September through early December 2005, the Hayabusa spacecraft
was in close proximity to near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa, and a variety of data were …

Positional cloning of the rice Rf-1 gene, a restorer of BT-type cytoplasmic male sterility that encodes a mitochondria-targeting PPR protein

H Akagi, A Nakamura, Y Yokozeki-Misono… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2004 - Springer
The combination of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in one parent and a restorer gene (Rf)
to restore fertility in another are indispensable for the development of hybrid varieties. We …

Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

…, SM Pedley, DP Edwards, Y Tang, A Nakamura… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
To manage and conserve biodiversity, one must know what is being lost, where, and why,
as well as which remedies are likely to be most effective. Metabarcoding technology can …

Room-temperature tensile deformation of polysynthetically twinned (PST) crystals of TiAl

H Inui, MH Oh, A Nakamura, M Yamaguchi - Acta metallurgica et materialia, 1992 - Elsevier
Tensile deformation behavior of polysynthetically twinned (PST) crystals of TiAl with a
nearly stoichiometric composition was investigated as a function of the angle ĝ between the …

Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

…, OT Lewis, S Milne, I Mwesige, A Nakamura… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Biotic interactions underlie ecosystem structure and function, but predicting interaction outcomes
is difficult. We tested the hypothesis that biotic interaction strength increases toward the …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis for RNA unwinding by the DEAD-box protein Drosophila Vasa

T Sengoku, O Nureki, A Nakamura, S Kobayashi… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
DEAD-box RNA helicases, which regulate various processes involving RNA, have two RecA-like
domains as a catalytic core to alter higher-order RNA structures. We determined the 2.2 …