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Original Papers (2000 – 2022)

-2022-

  1. Kanoh, Y. (4名), *Masai, H. (2022) “Aberrant association of chromatin with nuclear periphery induced by Rif1 leads to mitotic defect and cell death.” Life Science Alliance revised manuscript submitted (bioRxiv 2022.05.13.491604)
  2. Tajima, Y., Shibasaki, F. and *Masai, H. (2022) “Cell fusion upregulates PD-L1 expression and promotes tumor formation.” Oncogene revised manuscript submitted (bioRxiv 2022.06.14.496068)
  3. Yang, C-C., and *Masai, H. (2022) “Claspin is required for growth recovery from serum starvation through regulating the PI3K-PDK1-mTOR pathway in mammalian cells.” Mol. Cell. Biol. revised manuscript submitted (bioRxiv 2022.01.21.475743)
  4. Tamas Nemeth, Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata,Agnes Pallier, Youichi Tajima, Éva Tóth,Hisao Masai, and Yoko Yamakoshi (2022) Water-Soluble Gd(III)-Porphyrin Complexes as Bifunctional Materials with Relaxivity and Photosensitivity. J. Med. Chem. under revision
  5. *Yoshizawa-Sugata N, Masai H. Histone Modification Analysis of Low-Mappability Regions. Methods Mol. Biol. 2023;2519:163-185. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2433-3_18. PMID: 36066721.
  6. Nakamura H, Sekine H, Kato H, Masai H, Gradin K, Poellinger L. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and poly [ADP ribose] polymerase 1 cooperatively regulate Notch3 expression under hypoxia via a noncanonical mechanism. J. Biol. Chem. 2022 Jul;298(7):102137. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102137. Epub 2022 Jun 14. PMID: 35714766; PMCID: PMC9287808.

-2019-

  1. Kobayashi, S., Fukatsu, R., Kanoh, Y., Kakusho, N., Matsumoto, S., Chaen, S. and *Masai, H. (2018) “Both a unique motif at the C terminus and N-terminal HEAT repeat contribute to G4 binding and origin regulation by Rif1 protein.” Mol Cell. Biol. 39, pii: e00364-18.(cover figure)
  2. *Masai, H., Fukatsu, R., Kakusho, N., Kanoh, Y., Moriyama, K., Ma, Y., Iida, K., Nagasawa, K. (2018) “Rif1 promotes self-association of G-quadruplex (G4) by its specific G4 binding and oligomerization activities.” Sci. Rep., in press.

-2018-

  1. Moriyama K, Yoshizawa-Sugata N, and *Masai H  (2018) Oligomer formation and G-quadruplex-binding by purified murine Rif1 protein, a key organizer of higher-order chromatin architecture. J Biol Chem.  pii: jbc.RA117.000446. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.000446. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29348174.
  2. Iguchi, T., Miyauchi, E., Watanabe, S., Masai, H. and *S. Miyatake (2018) “A BTB-ZF protein, ZNF131, is required for early B cell development.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 501, 70-575.
  3. *Masai, H., Kakusho, N., Fukatsu, R., Ma, Y., Iida, K., Kanoh, Y. and Nagasawa, K. (2018) “Molecular architecture of G-quadruplex structures generated on duplex Rif1 binding.” J Biol Chem. 293, 17033-17049.

-2017-

  1. *You, Z. and Masai, H. (2017) “Potent DNA strand annealing activity associated with mouse Mcm2~7 heterohexamer complex.” Nucleic Acids Res. 45, :6494-6506. [Pubmed]
  2. Irie T, Asami T, Sawa A, Uno Y, Hanada M, Taniyama C, Funakoshi Y, Masai H, and *Sawa M. (2017) Discovery of novel furanone derivatives as potent Cdc7 kinase inhibitors. Eur J Med Chem. 130, 406-418. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.02.030. Epub 2017 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 28279847.
  3. Matsumoto, S., Kanoh, Y., Shimmoto, M., Hayano, M., Ueda, K., Fukatsu, R., Kakusho, N., and *Masai, H. (2017) “Checkpoint-independent Regulation of Origin Firing by Mrc1 through Interaction with Hsk1 kinase.” Mol. Cell. Biol.  Mar 17;37(7). pii: e00355-16. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00355-16. Print 2017 Apr 1. PMID: 28069740
  4.  Toteva, T., Mason, B., Kanoh, Y. Brøgger, P. Green, D., Verhein-Hansen, J. Masai, H. and *Thon, G. (2017) “Establishment of expression-state boundaries by Rif1 and Taz1 in fission yeast.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 114, 1093-1098.

-2016-

  1. Yang, C-C., Suzuki, M., Yamakawa, S., Uno, S., Ishii, A., Yamazaki, S., Fukatsu, R., Fujisawa, R., Sakimura, K., Tsurimoto, T., and *Masai, H. (2016) “Claspin recruits Cdc7 kinase for initiation of DNA replication in human cells.” Nature Communications 7:12135 doi: 10.1038/ncomms12135.
  2. *Zhiying You, Koji L. Ode, Haruhiko Takisawa, and Hisao Masai (2015) “Characterization of conserved arginine residues on Cdt1 that affect licensing activity and interaction with Geminin or Mcm complex.” Cell Cycle 15:1213-26.
  3. Tanaka T, Nishito Y, *Masai H. (2016) “Fork restart protein, PriA, binds around oriC after depletion of nucleotide precursors: Replication fork arrest near the replication origin.” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 470, 546-551.
  4.  Tanaka H, Muto A, Shima H, Katoh Y, Sax N, Tajima S, Brydun A, Ikura T, Yoshizawa N, Masai H, Hoshikawa Y, Noda T, Nio M, Ochiai K, *Igarashi K. (2016) “Epigenetic Regulation of the Blimp-1 Gene (Prdm1) in B Cells Involves Bach2 and Histone Deacetylase 3.” J. Biol. Chem. 291, 6316-6330.
  5. *Nonaka T, Suzuki G, Tanaka Y, Kametani F, Hirai S, Okado H, Miyashita T, Saitoe M, Akiyama H, Masai H, Hasegawa M. (2016) “Phosphorylation of TAR DNA-binding Protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) by Truncated Casein Kinase 1δ Triggers Mislocalization and Accumulation of TDP-43.” J. Biol. Chem. 291, 5473-5483.
  6. Kozel, C., Thompson, B., Hustak, S., Moore, C., Nakashima, A., Singh, C.R., Reid, M., Cox, C., Papadopoulos, E., Luna, R.E., Anderson, A., Tagami, H., Hiraishi, H., Slone, E.A., Yoshino, K.I., Asano, M., Gillaspie, S., Nietfeld, J., Perchellet, J.P., Rothenburg, S., Masai, H., Wagner, G., Beeser, A., Kikkawa, U., Fleming, S.D., and *Asano, K. (2016) “Overexpression of eIF5 or its protein mimic 5MP perturbs eIF2 function and induces ATF4 translation through delayed re-initiation.” Nucleic Acids Res. 44, 8704-8713.

-2015-

  1. Yutaka Kanoh, Seiji Matsumoto, Rino Fukatsu, Naoko Kakusho, Nobuaki Kono, Claire Renard-Guillet, Koji Masuda, Keisuke Iida, Kazuo Nagasawa, Katsuhiko Shirahige, and *Hisao Masai (2015) Rif1 binds to G-quadruplex and suppresses replication over a long distances. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Article in press [PubMed]
  2. Zech J, Godfrey EL, Masai H, Hartsuiker E, Dalgaard JZ. (2015) “The DNA-Binding Domain of S. pombe Mrc1 (Claspin) Acts to Enhance Stalling at Replication Barriers.” PLoS One. 10:e0132595. [PubMed]
  3. Iguchi T, Aoki K, Ikawa T, Taoka M, Taya C, Yoshitani H, Toma-Hirano M, Koiwai O, Isobe T, Kawamoto H, Masai H, Miyatake S. (2015) “BTB-ZF Protein Znf131 Regulates Cell Growth of Developing and Mature T Cells.” J Immunol.  195, 982-993. [PubMed]
  4. *Kotaro Koiwai, Takashi Kubota, Nobuhisa Watanabe, Katsutoshi Hori, Osamu Koiwai, and *Hisao Masai (2015) “Definition of the transcription factor TdIF1 consensus binding sequence through genome-wide mapping of its binding sites.” Genes to Cells 20, 242-254. [PubMed]
  5. Jeffery, D.C., Kakusho, N., You, Z., Gharib, M., Wyse, B., Drury, E., Weinreich, M., Thibault, P., Verreault, A., Masai, H., and *Yankulov, K. (2015) “CDC28 phosphorylates Cac1p and regulates the association of chromatin assembly factor with chromatin.” Cell Cycle 14, 74-85. [PubMed]

-2014-

  1. Bellelli, R., Castellone, M.D., Guida, T., Limongello, R., Dathan, N.A., Merolla, F., Cirafici, A.M., Affuso, A., Masai, H., Costanzo, V., Grieco, D., Fusco, A., Santoro, M., and *Carlomagno, F. (2014) “NCOA4 Transcriptional Coactivator Inhibits Activation of DNA Replication Origins.” Mol. Cell 55, 123-137. [PubMed]

  2. Yamada, M., Masai, H., and *Bartek, J. (2014) “Regulation and roles of Cdc7 kinase under replication stress.” Cell Cycle 13, 1859-1866. [PubMed]

-2013-

  1. Yamada, M., Watanabe, K., Mistrik, M., Mailand, N., Lee, M-H., Masai, H., Lukas, J., and *Bartek, B. (2013) “ATR-Chk1-APC/CCdh1-dependent stabilization of Cdc7-ASK(Dbf4) kinase complex is required for DNA damage bypass under replication stress.” Genes and Development 27:2459-2472. [PubMed]

  2.  You, Z., De Falco, S., Pisani, F.M. and *Masai, H. (2012) “MCM helicase interacts with primase and stimulates its priming activity.” PLoS One 8, e72408 [PubMed]

  3.  Aria, V., De Felice, M., Di Perna, R., Uno, S., Masai, H., Syvaoja, J.E., van Loon, B., Hubscher, U., and *Pisani, F.M. (2013) “The Human Tim/Tipin Complex Directly Interacts with DNA Polymerase {epsilon} and Stimulates its Synthetic Activity.” J. Biol. Chem. 288, 12742-12752. [PubMed]

  4.  Jeffery, D.C., Wyse, B.A., Rehman, M.A., Brown, G.W., You, Z., Oshidari, R., Masai, H., and *Yankulov, K.Y. (2013) “Analysis of epigenetic stability and conversions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals a novel role of CAF-I in position-effect variegation.” Nucleic Acids Res. 41, 8475-8488. [PubMed]

  5.  Tanikawa, M., Wada-Hiraike, O., Yoshizawa-Sugata, N., Shirane A, Hirano M, Hiraike H, Miyamoto, Y., Sone, K., Ikeda, Y., Kashiyama, T., Oda K, Kawana K, Katakura Y, Yano T, Masai, H., Roy AL, Osuga, Y., and *Fujii, T. (2013) “Role of multifunctional transcription factor TFII-I and putative tumour suppressor DBC1 in cell cycle and DNA double strand damage repair.” Br. J. Cancer. 109, 3042-3048. [PubMed]

-2012-

  1. Hayano, M., Kanoh, Y., Matsumoto, S., Shrahige, K., and *Masai, H.  (2012) “Rif1 is a global regulator of timing of replication origin firing in fission yeast.” Genes and Development, 26,137-150. (“Exceptional” evaluation in F1000; Highlighted in A-IMBN Research)
  2. Yamazaki, S., Ishii, A., Kanoh, Y., Oda, M., Nishito, Y., and *Masai, H. (2012) “Rif1 protein is a key regulator of the genome-wide DNA replication timing in human cells.” EMBO J. 31, 3167-3177. (Highlighted in Commentary; highlighted in A-IMBN Research)
  3. Barkley, L.R., Palle, K., Durando, M., Day, T.A., Gurkar, A., Kakusho, N., Li, J., Masai, H., and *Vaziri, C. (2012) “c-Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK)-Mediated Rad18 Phosphorylation Facilitates Polη Recruitment to Stalled Replication Forks.” Mol. Biol. Cell. 23, 1943-1954.
  4. Moriyama, K., Yoshizawa-Sugata, N., Obuse, C., Tsurimoto, T., and *Masai, H.  (2012) “EBNA1-dependent recruitment of Orc on OriP of Epstein-Barr virus with purified proteins: Stimulation by Cdc6 through Its direct interaction with EBNA1.” J. Biol. Chem. 287, 23977-23994.
  5. Ito, S., Ishii, A., Kakusho, N., Taniyama, C., Yamazaki, S., Sakaue-Sawano, A., Miyawaki, A., and *Masai, H. (2012) “Mechanism of cancer cell death induced by depletion of an essential replication regulator.” PLoS One, 7, e36372. (Highlighted in A-IMBN Research)
  6. Uno, S., You, Z., and *Masai, H. (2012) “Purification of replication factors using insect and mammalian cell expression systems.” Methods, 57, 214-221.
  7. Oda, M., Kanoh, Y., Watanabe, Y., and *Masai, H. (2012) “Regulation of DNA replication timing on human chromosome by a cell-type specific DNA binding protein SATB1.” PLoS One 7, e42375.
  8. Miyoshi, T., Kugou, K., Yamada, S., Ito, M., Furuichi, M., Oda, A., Hirota, K. and Masai, H. and *Ohta, K. (2012) “A central coupler for recombination initiation linking chromosome architecture to S-phase checkpoint.” Mol. Cell 47, 722-733.
  9. Suzuki, T., Tsuzuku, J., Hayashi, A., Shiomi, Y., Iwanari, H., Mochizuki, Y., Hamakubo, T., Kodama, T., Nishitani, H., Masai, H. and *Yamamoto, T. (2012) “Inhibition of DNA damage-induced apoptosis through Cdc7-mediated stabilization of Tob.” J. Biol. Chem. 287, 40256-40265. (Highlighted in A-IMBN Research)

-2011-

  1. Kitamura, R., Fukatsu, R., Kakusho, N., Cho, Y-S., Taniyama, C., Yamazaki, S., Toh, G-T., Yanagi, K., Arai, N., Chang, H-J., and *Masai, H. (2011) “Molecular mechanism of activation of human Cdc7 kinase: Bipartite interaction with Dbf4/ASK stimulates ATP binding and substrate recognition.” J. Biol. Chem. 286, 23031-23043.
  2. Hayano, M., Kanoh, Y., Matsumoto, S., Kakusho, N. and *Masai, H. (2011) “Pre-firing binding of Mrc1 defines the early-firing origins which are selectively hyper-activated upon loss of fork stabilizing factors in fission yeast.” Mol. Cell. Biol. 31, 2380-2389. (“Recommended” evaluation in F1000)
  3. Uno, S and *Masai, H. (2011) “Efficient expression and purification of human replication fork-stabilizing factor, Claspin, from mammalian cells: DNA binding activity and novel protein interactions.” Genes to Cells, 16, 842-856.
  4. Matsumoto, S., Hayano, M., Kanoh. Y. and *Masai, H. (2011) “Multiple pathways can bypass the essential role of fission yeast Hsk1 kinase in DNA replication initiation.” J. Cell Biol. 195, 387-401. (“Must Read” evaluation in F1000)

-2010-

  1. Tanaka, T., Yokoyama, M., Matsumoto, S., Fukatsu, R., You, Z. and *Masai, H. (2010) “Fission yeast Swi1-Swi3 complex facilitates DNA binding of Mrc1.” J. Biol. Chem. 285, 39609-39622.
  2. Kundu,L.R., Kumata, Y, Kakusho, N., Watanabe, S., Furukohri, A., Waga, S., Sekia, M., Masai, H., Enomoto, T., and *Tada, S. (2010) “Deregulated Cdc6 inhibits DNA replication and suppresses Cdc7-mediated phosphorylation of Mcm2-7 complex.” Nucleic Acid Res. 38, 5409-5418.
  3. Takeishi, Y., Ohashi, E., Ogawa, K, Masai, H., Obuse, C., and *Tsurimoto, T. (2010) “Casein kinase 2-dependent phosphorylation of human Rad9 mediates the interaction between human Rad9-Hus1-Rad1 complex and TopBP1.” Genes Cells 15, 761-771.
  4. Furuya, K., Miyabe, I., Tsutsui, Y., Paderi, F., Kakusho, N., Masai, H., Niki, H., and *Carr, A. M. (2010) “DDK phosphorylates checkpoint clamp Rad9 and promotes its release from damaged Chromatin.” Mol. Cell 40, 606-618.
  5. Day, T.A., Palle, K., Barkley, L.R., Kakusho, N., Zou, Y., Tateishi, S., Verreault, A., Masai, H., and *Vaziri, C. (2010) “Cdc7-Mediated Rad18 Phosphorylation Directs the Accumulation of DNA Polymerase η at Sites of Stalled Replication.” J. Cell Biol. 191, 953-966.
  6. Matsumoto, S., Shimmoto, M., Kakusho, N., Yokoyama, M., Russell, P., and *Masai, H. (2010) “Hsk1 kinase and Cdc45 regulate replication stress-induced checkpoint responses in fission yeast.” Cell Cycle 9, 4627-4637.

-2009-

  1. Shimmoto, S., Matsumoto, S., Hayano, M., Yokoyama, M., Noguchi, E., Russell, P. and *Masai, H. (2009) “Interactions between Swi1-Swi3, Mrc1 and S phase kinase, Hsk1 may regulate cellular responses to stalled replication forks in fission yeast.” Genes to Cells 14, 669-682.
  2. Tanaka, H., Kubota, Y., Tsujimura, T., Kumano, M., Masai, H. and *Takisawa, H. (2009) “Replisome progression complex links DNA replication to sister chromatid cohesion in Xenopus egg extracts.” Genes to Cells 14, 949-963.
  3. Yoshizawa-Sugata, N. and *Masai, H. (2009) “Roles of human AND-1 in chromosome transactions in S phase.” J. Biol. Chem. 284, 20718-20728.

-2008-

  1. Kim, J-M., Kakusho, N., Yamada, M., Kanoh, Y., Takemoto, N., and *Masai, H. (2008) “Cdc7 kinase is required for Claspin phosphorylation in DNA replication checkpoint.” Oncogene 27, 3475-3482.
  2. Sasanuma, H., Hirota, K., Fukuda, T., Kakusho, N., Kugou, N., Kawasaki, Y., Shibata, T., Masai, H., and *Ohta, K. (2008) “Cdc7-dependent phosphorylation of Mer2 facilitates initiation of yeast meiotic recombination.” Genes & Dev. 22, 398-410.
  3. Sakaue-Sawano, A., Kurokawa, H., Morimura, T., Hanyu, A., Hama, H., Kashiwagi, S., Fukami, K., Imamura, T., Ogawa, M., Masai, H. and *Miyawaki, A. (2008) “Spatio-temporal dynamics of multicellular cell cycle progression.” Cell 132, 487-498. (Featured on the cover of the issue; “Exceptional” evaluation in F1000)
  4. Kakusho, N., Taniyama, C., and *Masai, H. (2008) “Identification of stimulators and inhibitors of CDC7 kinase in vitro.” J. Biol. Chem. 283, 19211-19218.
  5. You Z. and Masai H. (2008) “Cdt1 forms a complex with MCM and activates its helicase activity.” J. Biol. Chem. 283, 24469-24477.

-2007-

  1. Yoshizawa-Sugata, N. and *Masai, H. (2007) “Human Tim/Timeless-interacting protein, Tipin, is required for efficient progression of S phase and DNA replication checkpoint.” J. Biol. Chem. 282, 2729-2740
  2. Tanaka, T., Mizukoshi, T., Sasaki, K., Kohda, D. and Masai, H. (2007) “Escherichia coli PriA protein: Two modes of DNA binding and activation of ATP hydrolysis.” J. Biol. Chem. 282, 19917-19927.
  3. Sasaki, K., Ose, T., Okamoto, N., Maenaka, K., Tanaka, T., Masai, H., Saito, M., Shirai, T., and D. Kohda (2007) “Structural basis of the 3′-end recognition of a leading strand in stalled DNA replication forks by PriA. EMBO J. 26,19917-19927

-2006-

  1. Ogino, K. and Masai, H. (2006) “Rad3-Cds1 mediates coupling of initiation of meiotic recombination with DNA replication: Mei4-dependent transcription as a potential target of meiotic checkpoint.” J. Biol. Chem., 281,1338-1344.
  2. Tanaka, T. and Masai, H. (2006) “Stabilization of a stalled replication fork by concerted actions of two helicases.” J. Biol. Chem. 281, 3484-3493.
  3. Sasaki, K., Ose, T., Tanaka, T., Mizukoshi, T., Ishigaki, T., Maenaka,K., Masai, H., and *Kohda, D. (2006) “Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the N-terminal domain of PriA from Escherichia coli.” Biochim. Biophys. Acta., 1764, 157-160.
  4. Kitamura, R., Sekimoto, T., Ito, S., Harada, S., Yamagata, H., Masai, H., Yoneda, H., and *Yanagi, K. (2006) “Nuclear import of Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigen 1 mediated by NPI-1 (Importin a5) is up- and down-regulated by phosphorylation of the nuclear localization signal for which Lys379 and Arg380 are essential.” J. Virol., 80, 1979-1991.
  5. Ogino, K., Hirota, K., Matsumoto, S., Takeda, T., Ohta, K., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2006) “Hsk1 kinase is required for induction of meiotic double-stranded DNA breaks without involving checkpoint kinases in fission yeast.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 8131-8136.
  6. Hayashida, T., Oda , M., Ohsawa, K., Yamaguchi, A., Giacca, M., Locksley, R.M., Masai H.*, and Miyatake, S.* (2006) “Replication initiation from a novel origin identified in the Th2 cytokine cluster locus requires a distant conserved non-coding sequence.” (*cocommunicating authors) J. Immunol., 176, 5446-5454.
  7. *Masai, H., Taniyama, C., Ogino, K., Matsui, E., Kakusho, N., Matsumoto, M., Kim, J-M., Ishii, A., Tanaka, T., Kobayashi, T., Tamai, K., Ohtani, K., and Arai, K. (2006) “Phosphorylation of MCM4 by Cdc7 kinase facilitates its interaction with Cdc45 on the chromatin.” J. Biol. Chem., 281, 39249-32961. (This paper was selected as “JBC paper of the week” and was featured in the cover of December 22 issue of JBC.)
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