Publications

As of January 27, 2016
    [2015]

  1. Tomoike, F, Nakagawa, N, Kuramitsu, S, and Masui R. (2015) Structural and Biochemical Studies on the Reaction Mechanism of Uridine-Cytidine Kinase. Protein J., 34(6), 411–420

  2. Ebihara, A., Manzoku, M. Fukui, K., Shimada, A., Morita, R., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2015) Roles of Mn-catalase and a possible heme peroxidase homologue in protection from oxidative stress in Thermus thermophilus. Extremophiles, 19(4), 775–785


    3. [2014]

  3. Okanishi, H., Kim, K., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2014) Lysine propionylation is a prevalent post-translational modification in Thermus thermophilus. Mol. Cell. Proteomics, 13(9), 2382–2398

  4. Ohyama, H., Sakai, T., Agari, Y., Fukui, K. Nakagawa, N., Shinkai, A., Masui, R. and Kuramitsu, S. (2014) The role of ribonucleases in regulating global mRNA levels in the model organism Thermus thermophilus HB8. BMC Genomics, 15, 386

  5. Masui, R., Takahata, Y., Inoue, M., Iio, Y., Okanishi, H., Kim, K., Nakagawa, N., Yura. K. and Kuramitsu, S. (2014) Structural insights of post-translational modification sites in the proteome of Thermus thermophilus. J. Struct. Funct. Genomics, 15(3), 137–151


    6. [2013]

  6. Okanishi, H., Kim, K., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2013) Acetylome with structural mapping reveals the significance of lysine acetylation in Thermus thermophilus. J. Proteome Res., 12(9), 3952–3968

  7. Uemura, Y., Nakagawa, N., Wakamatsu, T., Kim, K., Montelione, G. T., Hunt, J. F., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2013) Crystal structure of the ligand-binding form of nanoRNase from Bacteroides fragilis, a member of the DHH/DHHA1 phosphoesterase family of proteins. FEBS Lett., 587(16), 2669–2674

  8. Shimada, A., Kawasoe, Y., Hata, Y., Takahashi, T., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukui, K. (2013) MutS stimulates the endonuclease activity of MutL in an ATP hydrolysis-dependent manner. FEBS J., 280(14), 3467–3479

  9. Tomoike, F., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2013) Unique substrate specificity of purine nucleoside phosphorylases from Thermus thermophilus. Extremophiles, 17(3), 505–514

  10. Ouchi, T., Tomita, T., Horie, A., Yoshita, A., Takahashi, K., Nishida, H., Lassak, K., Taka, H., Mineki, R., Fujimura, T., Kosono, S., Nishiyama, C., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Alberts, S.-J., Kuzuyama, T., and Nishiyama, M. (2013) Lysine and arginine biosyntheses mediated by a common carrier protein in Sulfolobus. Nat. Chem. Biol., 9(4), 277–283


    11. [2012]

  11. Wilkinson, O. J., Latypov, V., Tubbs, J. L., Millington, C. L., Morita, R., Blackburn, H., Marriott, A., McGown, G., Thorncroft, M., Watson, A. J., Connolly, B. A., Grasby, J. A., Masui, R., Hunter, C. A., Tainer, J. A., Margison, G. P., and Williams, D. M. (2012) Alkyltransferase-like protein (Atl1) distinguishes alkylated guanines for DNA repair using cation-pi interactions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 109(46), 18755–18760

  12. Nakane, S., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2012) The role of the PHP domain associated with DNA polymerase X from Thermus thermophilus HB8 in base excision repair. DNA Repair, 11(11), 906–914

  13. Kim, K., Okanishi, H., Masui, R., Harada, A., Ueyama, N., and Kuramitsu, S. (2012) Whole-cell proteome reference maps of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus HB8. Proteomics, 12(19-20), 3063–3068

  14. Takahata, Y., Inoue, M., Kim, K., Iio, Y., Miyamoto, M., Masui, R., Ishihama, Y., and Kuramitsu, S. (2012) Close proximity of phosphorylation sites to ligand in the phosphoproteome of the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus HB8. Proteomics, 12(9),1414–1430

  15. Nakane, S., Ishikawa, H., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2012) The structural basis of the kinetic mechanism of a gap-filling X-family DNA polymerase that binds Mg2+-dNTP before binding to DNA. J. Mol. Biol., 417(3), 179–196

  16. Tanaka, T., Mega, R., Kim, K., Shinkai, A., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Nakagawa, N. (2012) A non-cold-inducible cold shock protein homolog mainly contributes to translational control under optimal growth conditions. FEBS J., 279(6), 1014–1029


    17. [2011]

  17. Onodera, T., Morino, K., Tokishita, S., Morita, R., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Ohta, T. (2011) Role of alkyltransferase-like (ATL) protein in repair of methylated DNA lesions in Thermus thermophilus. Mutagenesis, 26(2), 303–308

  18. Asano, R., Ishikawa, H., Nakane, S., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2011) An additional C-terminal loop in endonuclease IV, an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, controls binding affinity to DNA. Acta Crystallogr., D67(3), 149–155

  19. Iino, H., Kim, K., Shimada, A., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukui, K. (2011) Characterization of C- and N-terminal domains of Aquifex aeolicus MutL endonuclease: N-terminal domain stimulates the endonuclease activity of C-terminal domain in a zinc-dependent manner. Biosci Rep., 31(5), 309–322

  20. Fukui, K., Wakamatsu, T., Agari, Y., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2011) Inactivation of DNA repair genes mutS and mutL or the anti-recombination gene mutS2 leads to activation of vitamin B1 biosynthesis genes in Thermus thermophilus HB8. PLoS One, 6(4), e19053

  21. Morita, R., Hishinuma, H., Ohyama, H., Mega, R., Ohta, T., Nakagawa, N., Agari, Y., Fukui, K., Shinkai, A., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2011) An alkyltransferase-like protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8 affects the regulation of gene expression in alkylation response. J. Biochem., 150(3), 327–339

  22. Nakane, S., Wakamatsu, T., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukui, K. (2011) In vivo, in vitro, and X-ray crystallographic analyses suggest the involvement of an uncharacterized TIM barrel protein in protection against oxidative stress. J. Biol. Chem., 286(48), 41636–41646

  23. Tomoike, F., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2011) A single amino acid limits the substrate specificity of Thermus thermophilus uridine-cytidine kinase to cytidine. Biochemistry, 50(21), 4597–4607

  24. Wakamatsu, T., Kim, K., Uemura, Y., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2011) Role of RecJ-like exonuclease with 5'-3' exonuclease in oligo(deoxy)nucleotide degradation. J. Biol. Chem., 286(4), 2807–2816

  25. Kim, K., Kim, J.-J., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Sung, M.-H. (2011) Commensal symbiotic interrelationship for the growth of Symbiobacterium toebii with its partner bacterium, Geobacillus toebii. BMC Res. Notes, 4, 437


    26. [2010]

  26. Morita, R., Nakane, S., Shimada, A., Inoue, M., Iino, H., Wakamatsu, T., Fukui, K., Nakagawa, N., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2010) Molecular mechanisms of the whole DNA repair system: A comparison of bacterial and eukaryotic systems. J. Nucleic Acids, 2010, 179594 (Review)

  27. Wakamatsu, T., Kitamura, Y., Kotera, Y., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2010) Structure of RecJ exonuclease defines its specificity for single-stranded DNA. J. Biol. Chem., 285(13), 9762–9769

  28. Shimada, A., Masui, R., Nakagawa, N., Takahata, Y., Kim, K., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukui, K. (2010) A novel single-stranded DNA-specific 3'-5' exonuclease, Thermus thermophilus exonuclease I, is involved in several DNA repair pathways. Nucleic Acids Res., 38(17), 5692–5705

  29. Cielo, C. B., Okazaki, S., Suzuki, A., Mizushima, T., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Yamane, T. (2010) Structure of ST0929, a putative glycosyl transferase from Sulfolobus tokodaii. Acta Crystallogr., F66(4), 397–400

  30. Nishida, Y., Ishikawa, H., Baba, S., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2010) Crystal structure of an archaeal cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor subunit from Pyrococcus horikoshii. Proteins, 78(10), 2395–2398

  31. Shimada, A., Ishikawa, H., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2010) The first crystal structure of an archaeal metallo-β-lactamase superfamily protein; ST1585 from Sulfolobus tokodaii. Proteins, 78(10), 2399–2402

  32. Mega, R., Manzoku, M., Shinkai, A., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2010) Very rapid induction of a cold shock protein by temperature downshift in Thermus thermophilus. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 399(3), 336–340


    33. [2009]

  33. Nakane, S., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2009) Characterization of DNA polymerase X from Thermus thermophilus HB8 reveals the POLXc and PHP domains are both required for 3'-5' exonuclease activity. Nucleic Acids Res., 37(6), 2037–2052

  34. Mega, R., Kondo, N., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S. and Masui, R. (2009) Two dNTP triphosphohydrolases from Pseudomonas aeruginosa possess diverse substrate specificities. FEBS J., 276(12), 3211–3221

  35. Ooga, T., Ohashi, Y., Kuramitsu, S., Koyama, Y., Tomita, M., Soga, T., and Masui, R. (2009) Degradation of ppGpp by nudix pyrophosphatase modulates the transition of growth phase in the bacterium Thermus thermophilus. J. Biol. Chem., 284(23), 15549–15556

  36. Tomoike, F., Wakamatsu, T., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2009) Crystal structure of the conserved hypothetical protein TTHA1606 from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Proteins, 76(1), 244-248


    37. [2008]

  37. Fukui, K., Nishida, M., Nakagawa, N., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2008) Bound nucleotide controls the endonuclease activity of mismatch repair enzyme MutL. J. Biol. Chem., 283(18), 12136-12145

  38. Morita, R., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R (2008) An O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase-like protein from Thermus thermophilus interacts with a nucleotide excision repair protein. J. Biochem., 144(2), 267–277

  39. Morita, R., Ishikawa, H., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu , S., and Masui, R. (2008) Crystal structure of a putative DNA methylase TTHA0409 from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Proteins, 73(1), 259–264

  40. Fukui, K., Nakagawa, N., Kitamura, Y., Nishida, Y., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2008) Crystal structure of MutS2 endonuclease domain and the mechanism of homologous recombination supression. J. Biol. Chem., 283(48), 33417–33427

  41. Wakamatsu, T., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2008) Structural basis for different substrate specificities of two ADP-ribose pyrophosphatases from Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Bacteriol., 190(3), 1108–1117

  42. Kondo, N., Nishikubo, T., Wakamatsu, T., Ishikawa, H., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2008) Insights into different dependence of dNTP triphosphohydrolase on metal ion species from intracellular ion concentrations in Thermus thermophilus. Extremophiles, 12(2), 217–223

  43. Kim, J. J., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Seo, J. H., Kim, K., and Sung, M. H. (2008) Characterization of growth-supporting factors produced by Geobacillus toebii for the commensal thermophile Symbiobacterium toebii. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 18(3), 490–496

  44. Kim, J.-J., Kim, H. N., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Seo, J. H., Kim, K., and Sung, M.-H. (2008) Isolation of uncultivable anaerobic thermophiles of the family Clostridiaceae requiring growth-supporting factors. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 18(4), 611–615


    45. [2007]

  45. Fukui, K., Kosaka, H., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2007) Nuclease activity of the MutS homologue MutS2 from Thermus thermophilus is confined to the Smr domain. Nucleic Acids Res., 35(3), 850–860

  46. Fukui, K., Takahata, Y., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2007) Analysis of a nuclease activity of catalytic domain of Thermus thermophilus MutS2 by high-accuracy mass spectrometry. Nucleic Acids Res., 35(15), e100

  47. Kosaka, H., Hoseki, J., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2007) Crystal structure of family 5 uracil-DNA glycosylase bound to DNA. J. Mol. Biol., 373(4), 839–850

  48. Kondo, N., Nakagawa, N., Ebihara, A., Chen, L., Liu, ZJ., Wang, BC., Yokoyama, S., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2007) Structure of dNTP-inducible dNTP triphosphohydrolase: insight into broad specificity for dNTPs and triphosphohydrolase-type hydrolysis. Acta Crystallogr., D63(3), 230–239

  49. Mitani, Y., Lezhava, A., Kawai, Y., Kikuchi, T., Oguchi-Katayama, A., Kogo, Y., Itoh, M., Miyagi, T., Takakura, H., Hoshi, K., Kato, C., Arakawa, T., Shibata, K., Fukui, K., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Kiyotani, K., Chalk, A., Tsunekawa, K., Murakami, M., Kamataki, T., Oka, T., Shimada, H., Cizdziel, P. E., and Hayashizaki, Y. (2007) Rapid SNP diagnostics using asymmetric isothermal amplification and a new mismatch-suppression technology. Nat. Methods, 4(3), 257–262

  50. Yoshikawa, S., Arai, R., Kinoshita, Y., Uchikubo-Kamo, T., Wakamatsu, T., Akasaka, R., Masui, R., Terada, T., Kuramitsu, S., Shirouzu, M., and Yokoyama, S. (2007) Structure of archaeal glyoxylate reductase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 complexed with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. Acta Crystallogr., D63(3), 357–365

  51. Ito, A., Okamura, TA., Masui, K., Kaneko, M., Masui, R., Ake, K., Kuramitsu, S., Yamaguchi, M., Kuyama, H., Ando, E., Norioka, S., Nakazawa, T., Tsunasawa, S., Yamamoto, H., and Ueyama, N. (2007) High sequence-coverage detection of proteolytic peptides using a bis(terpyridine)ruthenium(II) complex. Analyst, 132(4), 358–364

  52. Ito, A., Okamura, TA., Yamamoto, H., Ueyama, N., Yamaguchi, M., Kuyama, H., Ando, E., Tsunasawa, S., Ake, K., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Nakazawa, T., and Norioka, S. (2007) Simultaneous detection of N-terminal fragment ions in a protein mixture using a ruthenium(II) complex. Rapid. Commun. Mass Spectrom., 21(16), 2647–2653


    53. [2006]

  53. Ishikawa, H., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2006) Crystal structure of TTHA0252 from Thermus thermophilus HB8, a RNA degradation protein of the metallo-β-lactamase superfamily. J. Biochem., 140(4), 535–542

  54. Ebihara, A., Yao, M., Masui, R., Tanaka, I., Yokoyama, S., and Kuramitsu, S. (2006) Crystal structure of hypothetical protein TTHB192 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 reveals a new protein family with an RNA recognition motif-like domain. Protein Sci., 15(6), 1494–1499


    55. [2005]

  55. Ooga, T., Yoshiba, S., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2005) Molecular mechanism of the Thermus thermophilus ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase from mutational and kinetic studies. Biochemistry, 44(26), 9320–9329

  56. Tanaka, Y., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., and Masui, R. (2005) Novel reaction mechanism of GTP cyclohydrolase I. High-resolution X-ray crystallography of Thermus thermophilus HB8 enzyme complexed with a transition state analogue, the 8-oxoguanine derivative. J. Biochem., 138(1), 263–275

  57. Nishikubo, T., Nakagawa, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2005) Improved heterologous gene expression in Escherichia coli by optimization of the AT-content of codons immediately downstream of the initiation codon. J. Biotechnol., 120(4), 341–346

  58. Nakai, T., Nakagawa, N., Maoka, N., Masui, R., Kuramitsu S., and Kamiya, N. (2005) Structure of P-protein of the glycine cleavage system: implications for nonketotic hyperglycinemia. EMBO J., 24(8), 1523–1536

  59. Ebihara, A., Okamoto, A., Kousumi, Y., Yamamoto, H., Masui, R., Ueyama, N., Yokoyama, S., and Kuramitsu, S. (2005) Structure-based functional identification of a novel heme-binding protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Struct. Funct. Genomics, 6(1), 21-32

  60. Mokhonov, V., Mokhonova, E., Yoshihara, E., Masui, R., Sakai, M., Akama, H., and Nakae, T. (2005) Multidrug transporter MexB of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: overexpression, purification, and initial structural characterization. Protein Expr. Purif., 40(1), 91–100

  61. Kato, M., Yamamoto, H., Okamura, T., Maoka, N., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Ueyama, N. (2005) Inhibition of Thermus thermophilus HB8 thioredoxin activity by platinum(II). Dalton Trans., 6, 1023–1026

  62. Kimura, S., Ide, K., Kashihara, A., Kano, M., Hatakeyama, M., Masui, R., Nakagawa, N., Yokoyama, S., Kuramitsu, S., and Konagaya, A. (2005) Inference of S-system models of genetic networks using a cooperative coevolutionary algorithm. Bioinformatics, 21(7), 1154-1163

  63. Yoshinari, S., Fujita, S., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Yokobori, S., Kita, K., and Watanabe, Y. (2005) Functional reconstitution of a crenarchaeal splicing endonuclease in vitro. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 334(4), 1254–1259

  64. Ito, A., Okamura, T., Yamamoto, H., Ueyama, N., Ake, K., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Tsunasawa, S. (2005) Distinction of Leu and Ile using a ruthenium(II) complex by MALDI-LIFT-TOF/TOF-MS analysis. Anal. Chem., 77(20), 6618–6624

  65. Masui, R., Nakagawa, N., and Kuramitsu, S. (2005) MutM: Single C2C2 zinc finger-DNA interaction. "Zinc Finger Proteins: from Atomic Contact to Cellular Function" (edited by Shiro Iuchi and Natalie Kuldell), Landes Bioscience (Book)


    66. [2004]

  66. Fukui, K., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2004) Thermus thermophilus MutS2, a MutS paralogue, possesses an endonuclease activity effected by MutL. J. Biochem., 135(3), 375–384

  67. Iwai, T., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2004) The Nudix hydrolase Ndx1 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 is a diadenosine hexaphosphate hydrolase with a novel activity. J. Biol. Chem., 279(21), 21732–21739

  68. Yoshiba, S., Ooga, T., Nakagawa, N., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Yokoyama, S., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2004) Structural insights into the Thermus thermophilus ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase mechanism via crystal structures with the bound substrate and metal. J. Biol. Chem., 279(35), 37163–37174

  69. Kondo, N., Kuramitsu, S., and Masui, R. (2004) Biochemical characterization of TT1383 from Thermus thermophilus identifies a novel dNTP triphosphohydrolase activity stimulated by dATP and dTTP. J. Biochem., 136(5), 221–231

  70. Nakai, T., Nakagawa, N., Maoka, N., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Kamiya, N. (2004) Ligand-induced conformational changes and a reaction intermediate in branched-chain 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase (E1) from Thermus thermophilus HB8, as revealed by X-ray crystallography. J. Mol. Biol., 337(4), 1011–1033

  71. Kaneko, M., Masui, R., Ake, K., Kousumi, Y., Kuramitsu, S., Yamaguchi, M., Kuyama, H., Ando, E., Norioka, S., Nakazawa, T., Okamura, TA., Yamamoto, H., and Ueyama, N. (2004) Rapid and sensitive amino-acid sequencing of cloning Thermus thermophilus HB8 ferredoxin by proteomics. J. Proteome Res., 3(5), 983–987

  72. Suno, R., Taguchi, H., Masui, R., Odaka, M., and Yoshida, M. (2004) Trigger factor from Thermus thermophilus is a Zn2+-dependent chaperone. J. Biol. Chem., 279(8), 6380–6384

  73. Shimamura, T., Koike-Takeshita, A., Yokoyama, K., Masui, R., Murai, N., Yoshida, M., Taguchi, H., and Iwata, S. (2004) Crystal structure of the native chaperonin complex from Thermus thermophilus revealed unexpected asymmetry at the cis-cavity. Structure, 12(8), 1471–1480

  74. Kobayashi, S., Masui, R., Yokoyama, S., Kuramitsu, S., and Takagi, H. (2004) A novel metal-activated L-serine O-acetyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Biochem., 136(5), 629–634


    75. [2003]

  75. Hoseki, J., Okamoto, A., Masui, R., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Yokoyama, S., and Kuramitsu, S. (2003) Crystal structure of a family 4 uracil-DNA glycosylase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Mol. Biol., 333(3), 515–526

  76. Yoshiba, S., Nakagawa, N., Masui, R., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., Yokoyama, S., and Kuramitsu, S. (2003) Overproduction, crystallization and preliminary diffraction data of ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Acta Crystallogr., D59(10), 1840–1842

  77. Takeishi, S., Nakagawa, N., Maoka, N., Kihara, M., Moriguchi, M., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2003) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of nucleoside diphosphate kinase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Acta Crystallogr., D59(10), 1843–1845

  78. Nakai, T., Nakagawa, N., Maoka, N., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Kamiya, N. (2003) Coexpression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of glycine decarboxylase (P-protein) of the glycine-cleavage system from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Acta Crystallogr., D59(3), 554–557

  79. Nakai, T., Ishijima, J., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Kamiya, N. (2003) Structure of Thermus thermophilus HB8 H-protein of the glycine-cleavage system, resolved by a six-dimensional molecular-replacement method. Acta Crystallogr., D59(9), 1610–1618

  80. Mori, H., Tsukazaki, T., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., Johnson, AE., Kimura, Y., Akiyama, Y., and Ito, K. (2003) Fluorescence resonance energy transfer analysis of protein translocase. SecYE from Thermus thermophilus HB8 forms a constitutive oligomer in membranes. J. Biol. Chem., 278(16), 14257–14264


    81. [2002]

  81. Yamagata, A., Kakuta, Y., Masui, R., and Fukuyama, K. (2002) The crystal structure of exonuclease RecJ bound to Mn2+ ion suggests how its characteristic motifs are involved in exonuclease activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 99(9), 5908–5912

  82. Shimomura, Y., Sumiguchi-Agari, K., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukuyama, K. (2002) Overproduction, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a quinone oxidoreductase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Acta Crystallogr., D58(8), 1365-1367


    83. [2001]

  83. Yamagata, A., Masui, R., Kakuta, Y., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukuyama, K. (2001) Overexpression, purification and characterization of RecJ protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8 and its core domain. Nucleic Acids Res., 29(22), 4617–4624

  84. Komori, H., Tsujiuchi, H., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., and Miki, K. (2001) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of a thermostable DNA photolyase from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Curr. Pharm. Des., 8(6), 495–498

  85. Komori, H., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., Yokoyama, S., Shibata, T., Inoue, Y., and Miki, K. (2001) Crystal structure of thermostable DNA photolyase: Pyrimidine-dimer recognition mechanism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 98(24), 13560–13565

  86. Shimizu, H., Yamagata, S., Masui, R., Inoue, Y., Shibata, T., Yokoyama, S., Kuramitsu, S., and Iwama, T. (2001) Cloning and overexpression of the oah1 gene encoding O-acetyl-L-homoserine sulfhydrylase of Thermus thermophilus HB8 and characterization of the gene product. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1549(1), 61–72


    87. [2000]

  87. Yokoyama, S., Hirota, H., Kigawa, T., Yabuki, T., Shirouzu, M., Terada, T., Nishimura, Y., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (2000) Structural genomics projects in Japan. Nat. Struct. Biol., 7 (11, supp), 943–945 (Perspectives)

  88. Kil, Y., Baitin, D. M., Masui, R., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A., Kuramitsu, S., and Lanzov, V. (2000) Efficient strand transfer by the RadA recombinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Desulfurococcus amylolyticus. J. Bacteriol., 182(1), 130–134

  89. Spies, M., Kil, Y., Masui, R., Kato, R., Kujo, C., Ohshima, T., Kuramitsu, S., and Lanzov, V. (2000) The RadA protein from a hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum is a DNA-dependent ATPase that shows two disparate catalytic modes, with a transition termperature at 75°C. Eur. J. Biochem., 267(4), 1125–1137

  90. Yamagata, A., Masui, R., Kato, R., Nakagawa, N., Ozaki, H., Sawai, H., Kuramitsu, S. and Fukuyama, K. (2000) Interaction of UvrA and UvrB proteins with a fluorescent single-stranded DNA. Implication for slow conformational change upon interaction of UvrB with DNA. J. Biol. Chem., 275(18), 13235-13242

  91. Isaev-Ivanov, V. V., Kozlov, M. G., Baitin, D. M., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Lanzov, V. A. (2000) Fluorescence and excitation Escherichia coli RecA protein spectra analyzed separatedly for tyrosine and tryptophan residues. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 376(1), 124–140

  92. Kato, R., Kataoka, M., Mikawa, T., Masui, R., Nakagawa, N., Kamikubo, H., and Kuramitsu, S. (2000) Observation of RecA protein monomer by small angle X-ray scattering with synchrotron radiation. FEBS Lett., 482(1-2), 159–162


    93. [1999]

  93. Shibata, A., Nakagawa, N., Sugahara, M., Masui, R., Kato, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Fukuyama, K. (1999) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of a DNA excision repair enzyme, UvrB, from Thermus thermophilus HB8. Acta Crystallogr., D55(3), 704–705

  94. Nakagawa, N., Sugahara, M., Masui, R., Kato, R., Fukuyama, K., and Kuramitsu, S. (1999) Crystal structure of Thermus thermophilus HB8 UvrB protein, a key enzyme of nucleotide excision repair. J. Biochem., 126(6), 986–990

  95. Nakano, M., Morita, T., Yamamoto, T., Sano, S., Ashiuchi, M., Masui, R., Kuramitsu, S., and Yagi, T. (1999) Purification, molecular cloning, and catalytic activity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe pyridoxal reductase. A possible additional family in the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. J. Biol. Chem., 274(33), 23185–23190


    96. [1998]

  96. Masui, R. and Kuramitsu, S (1998) Probing of DNA-binding site of Escherichia coli RecA protein by utilizing 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid. Biochemistry, 37(35), 12133–12143

  97. Masui, R., Mikawa, T., Kato, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (1998) Characterization of the oligomeric states of RecA protein: monomeric RecA protein can form a nucleoprotein filament. Biochemistry, 37(42), 14788–14797

  98. Tachiki, H., Kato, R., Masui, R., Hasegawa, K., Itakura, H., Fukuyama, K., and Kuramitsu, S. (1998) Domain organization and functional analysis of Thermus thermophilus MutS protein. Nucleic Acids Res., 26(18), 4153–4159


    99. [1997]

  99. Nakagawa, N., Masui, R., Kato, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (1997) Domain structure of Thermus thermophilus UvrB protein. Similarity in domain structure to a helicase. J. Biol. Chem., 272(36), 22703–22713

  100. Masui, R., Mikawa, T., and Kuramitsu, S. (1997) Local folding of the N-terminal domain of Escherichia coli RecA controls protein-protein interaction. J. Biol. Chem., 272(44), 27707–27715

  101. Mikawa, T., Masui, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (1997) RecA protein has extremely high cooperativity for substrate in its ATPase activity. J. Biochem., 123(3), 450–457


    102. [1996]

  102. Okamoto, A., Kato, R., Masui, R., Yamagishi, A., Oshima, T. and Kuramitsu, S. (1996) An aspartate aminotransferase from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB8. J. Biochem., 119(1), 135–144


    103. [1995]

  103. Mikawa, T., Masui, R., Ogawa, T., Ogawa, H., and Kuramitsu, S. (1995) N-Terminal 33 amino acid residues of Escherichia coli RecA protien contribute to its self-assembly. J. Mol. Biol., 250(4), 471–483


    104. [1994]

  104. Watanabe, R., Masui, R., Mikawa, T., Takamatsu, S., Kato, R., and Kuramitsu, S. (1994) Interaction of RecA protein with ATP and its analogues. J. Biochem., 116(5), 960–966


    105. [1992]

  105. Wada, K., Sakai, H., Masui, R., Ihara, M., and Matsubara, H. (1992) Amino acid sequences of ferredoxins from Alocasia macrorrhiza Schott in Papua New Guinea. Protein Seq. Data Anal., 5(1), 13–19

  106. Nagata, Y., Masui, R., and Akino, T. (1992) The presence of free D-serine, D-alanine, and D-proline in human plasma. Experientia, 48(3), 986–988


    107. [1991]

  107. Masui, R., Wakabayashi, R., Matsubara, H., and Hatefi, Y. (1991) The amino acid sequences of two 13kDa polypeptides and partial amino acid sequence of 30kDa polypeptide of complex I from bovine heart mitochondria: Possible location of iron-sulfur clusters. J. Biochem., 109(4), 534–543

  108. Masui, R., Wakabayashi, S., Matsubara, H., and Hatefi. Y. (1991) The amino acid sequences of the 9kDa polypeptide and partial amino acid sequence of the 20kDa polypeptide of mitochondrial NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase. J. Biochem., 110(4), 575–582


    109. [1988]

  109. Wada, K., Masui, R., Matsubara, H., and Rogers, L. J. (1988) Properties and structure of the ferredoxin from Synechococcus 6301 (Anacystis nidulans). Biochem. J., 252(2), 571–575

  110. Masui, R., Wada, K., Matsubara, H., Williams, M. M., and Rogers, L, J. (1988) Characterization, amino acid sequence and phylogenetic considerations regarding the ferredoxin from Ochromonas danica. Phytochemistry, 27(9), 2817–2820

  111. Masui, R., Wada, K., Matsubara, H., and Rogers, L. J. (1988) Properties and amino acid sequence of the ferredoxin from the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus 6307. Phytochemistry, 27(9), 2821–2826



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