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-2005-

  1. Fujii-Yamamoto, H., Kim, J-M., Arai, K. and *Masai, H. (2005) “Cell cycle and developmental regulations of replication factors in mouse embryonic stem cells.” J. Biol. Chem. 280, 12976-12987.
  2. Yoshizawa-Sugata, N., Ishii, A., Taniyama, C., Matsui, E., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2005) “A second human Dbf4/ASK-related protein, Drf1/ASKL1 is required for efficient completion of S and M phases.” J. Biol. Chem. 280, 13062-13070.
  3. Yamashita, N., Kim, J-M., Koiwai, O., Arai, K. and *Masai, H. (2005) “Functional analyses of mouse ASK, an activator subunit for Cdc7 kinase, using conditional ASK knockout ES cells.” Genes to Cells 50, 551-563.
  4. You, Z. and *Masai, H. (2005) “DNA binding and helicase actions of mouse Mcm4/6/7 helicase.” Nucl. Acids Res. 33, 3033-3047.
  5. Todorovic, V., Giadrossi, S., Pelizon, C., Masai, H. and *Giacca, M. (2005) “Novel human origins of DNA replication selected from a library of nascent DNA.” Mol. Cell 19, 567-575.
  6. Matsumoto, S., Ogino, K., Noguchi, E., Russell, P. and *Masai, H. (2005)  “Hsk1-Dfp1/Him1, the Cdc7-Dbf4 Kinase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, associates with Swi1, a component of the replication fork protection complex.” J. Biol. Chem., 280, 42536-42542.

-2004-

  1. Schnepp, R.W., Hou, Z., Wang, H., Petersen, C., Silva, A, Masai, H. and *Hua X. (2004) “Functional interaction between tumor suppressor menin and activator of S-phase kinase.” Cancer Res. 64, 6791-6796.
  2. Kurita, M., Suzuki, H., Masai, H., Mizumoto, K., Ogata, E., Nishimoto, I., Aiso, S., and *Matsuoka, M. (2004) “Overexpression of CR/periphilin downregulates Cdc7 expression and induces S-phase arrest.” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 32, 554-561.

-2003-

  1. Tanaka, T., Taniyama, C., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2003) “ATPase/helicase motif mutants of Escherichia coli PriA protein essential for recombination-dependent DNA replication.” Genes to Cells, 8, 251-261.
  2. Sato, N., Sato, M., Nakayama, M., Saitoh, R., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2003) “Cell cycle regulation of chromatin binding and nuclear localization of Cdc7-ASK kinase complex.” Genes to Cells, 8, 451-463.
  3. Kim, J.M., Takemoto, N., Arai K. and *Masai, H. (2003) “Hypomorphic mutation in an essential cell-cycle kinase causes growth retardation and impaired spermatogenesis.” EMBO J. 22, 5260-5272.
  4. Mizukoshi, T., Tanaka, T., Arai, K., Kohda, D. and *Masai, H. (2003)  “A critical role of the 3’-terminus of nascent DNA chains in recognition of stalled replication forks.” J. Biol. Chem. 278, 42234-42239.
  5. You, Z., Ishimi, Y., Mizuno, T., Sugasawa, K., Hanaoka, F. and *Masai, H. (2003) “Thymine-rich single-stranded DNA sequences specifically activate mouse Mcm4/6/7 helicase on Y-fork and bubble-like substrates.” EMBO J. 22, 6148-6160.
  6. Furukohri, A., Sato, N., Masai, H., Arai, K., Sugino, A. and *Waga, S. (2003) “Identification and characterization of a Xenopus homolog of dbf4, a regulatory subunit of the cdc7 protein kinase required for the initiation of DNA.” J. Biochem. (Tokyo). 134, 447-457.

-2002-

  1. Kim, J. M., Nakao, K., Nakamura, K., Saito, I., Katsuki, M., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2002) “Inactivation of Cdc7 kinase in mouse embryonic stem cells results in S phase arrest and p53-dependent cell death.” EMBO J. 21, 2168-2179. (“Exceptional” evaluation in F1000)
  2. Yamada, M., Sato, N., Taniyama, C., Ohtani, K., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2002) “A 63 base-pair DNA segment containing a Sp1 site but not a canonical E2F site can confer growth-dependent and E2F-mediated transcriptional stimulation of the human ASK gene encoding the regulatory subunit for human Cdc7-related kinase.” J. Biol. Chem. 277, 27668-27681.
  3. Tanaka, T., Mizukoshi, T., Taniyama, C., Kohda, D., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2002) “DNA binding of PriA protein requires cooperation of the N-terminal D-loop/arrested-fork binding and C-terminal helicase domains.” J. Biol. Chem. 277, 38062-38071.
  4. *You, Z.,  Ishimi, Y., Masai, H., and Hanaoka, F. (2002) “Roles of Mcm7 and Mcm4 subunits in DNA helicase activity of mouse Mcm4/6/7 complex.” J. Biol. Chem. 277, 42471-42479.

-2001-

  1. Takeda, T., Ogino, K., Tatebayashi, K. Ikeda, H., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2001) “Regulation of initiation of DNA replication and maintenance of mitotic chromosome structures during S phase by Hsk1 kinase in the fission yeast.” Mol. Biol. Cell 12, 1257-1274.
  2. Uchiyama, M., Griffiths, D., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2001) “Essential role of Cdc45 in the loading of DNA polymerase a into MCM in fission yeast.”  J. Biol. Chem. 276, 26189-26196.
  3. Uchiyama, M., Arai, K., and Masai, H. (2001) “A novel fission yeast G1 arrest mutant sna41goa1 defective in a Cdc45 homologue interacts genetically with DNA polymerase a.” Mol. Genet. Genom. 265, 1039-1049.
  4. Ogino, K., Takeda, T., Matsui, E., Iiyama, H., Taniyama, C., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (2001) “Bipartite binding of a kinase activator activates Cdc7-related kinase essential for S phase.” J. Biol. Chem. 276, 31376-31387.
  5. *Ishimi, Y., Komamura-Kohno, Y., Arai, K. and Masai, H. (2001) “Biochemical activities associated with mouse Mcm2 protein.” J. Biol. Chem. 276, 42744-42752.

-2000-

  1. *Masai, H., Matsui, E., You, Z., Ishimi, Y., Tamai, K., and Arai, K. (2000) “Human Cdc7-related kinase complex: In vitro phosphorylation of MCM by concerted actions of Cdks and Cdc7 and that of a critical threonine residue of Cdc7 by Cdks.” J. Biol. Chem. 275, 29042-29052.
  2. *Masai, H. and Arai, K. (2000) “Dbf4 motifs: conserved motifs in activation subunits for Cdc7 kinases essential for S-phase.” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 18, 228-232.

-1999以前の一部-

  1. Masai, H., Kaziro, Y., and *Arai, K. (1983) “Definition of oriR, the minimum DNA segment essential for initiation of R1 plasmid replication in vitro.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 6814-6818.
  2. Masai, H., Bond, M.W., and *Arai, K. (1986) “Cloning of the Escherichia coli gene for primosomal protein i: the relationship to dnaT, essential for chromosomal DNA replication.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 1256-1260.
  3. Masai, H. and *Arai, K. (1987) “RepA and DnaA proteins are required for initiation of R1 plasmid replication in vitro and interact with the oriR sequence.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 4781-4785.
  4. *Masai, H., and Arai, K. (1988) “RepA protein- and oriR– dependent initiation of R1 plasmid replication: identification of a rho-dependent transcription terminator required for cis-action of repA protein.” Nucleic Acids Res. 16, 6493-6514.
  5. *Masai, H. and Arai, K. (1989) “Leading strand synthesis of R1 plasmid replication in vitro is primed by primase alone at a specific site downstream of oriR.” J. Biol. Chem. 264, 8082-8090.
  6. *Masai, H., Nomura, N. and Arai, K. (1990) “The ABC-primosome: a novel priming system employing dnaA, dnaB, dnaC, and primase on a hairpin containing a dnaA box sequence.” J. Biol. Chem. 265, 15134-15144.
  7. *Masai, H., Asai, T., Kubota, Y., Arai, K. and Kogoma, T. (1994) “Escherichia coli PriA protein is essential for inducible and constitutive stable DNA replications.” EMBO J. 13, 5338-5345.
  8. *Masai, H., Miyake, T. and Arai, K. (1995) “hsk1+, a Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC7 kinase, is required for chromosomal replication.” EMBO J. 14 3094-3104.
  9.  Sato, N., Arai, K. and *Masai, H. (1997) “Human and Xenopus cDNAs encoding budding yeast Cdc7-related kinases: in vitro phosphorylation of MCM subunits by a putative human homologue of Cdc7.” EMBO J. 16, 4340-4351.
  10. *Masai, H. and Arai, K. (1997) “Frpo, a novel single-stranded DNA promoter for transcription and for primer RNA synthesis of DNA replication.”  Cell 89, 897-907.
  11. Kumagai, H., Sato, N., Yamada, M., Mahony, D., Seghezzi, W., Lees, E., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (1999) “A novel growth- and cell cycle-regulated protein, ASK, activates human Cdc7-related kinase and is essential for G1/S transition in mammalian cells.” Mol. Cell. Biol. 19, 5083-5095.
  12.  Takeda, T., Ogino, K., Matsui, E., Cho, M-K., Kumagai, H., Miyake, T., Arai, K., and *Masai, H. (1999) “A Fission yeast gene, him1+/dfp1+, encoding a regulatory subunit for Hsk1 kinase, plays essential roles in S phase initiation as well as in S phase checkpoint control and recovery from DNA damages.” Mol. Cell. Biol. 19, 5535-5547.