Koji AKASAKA, Ph.D

Director, Professor

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 Ph.D., University of Tokyo,

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Selected Publications:

 T. Ohtsuki, M. Otsuki, Y. Murakami, T. Maekawa, T. Yamamoto, K. Akasaka, S. Takeuchi and S. Takahashi.
Organ-specific and age-dependent expression of insulin-like growth factor-1(IGI-I) mRNA variants: IGF-IA and IB mRNAs in the mouse.
Zool. Sci. 22:1011-1021, 2005.

H. Tagashira, T. Shimotori, N. Sakamoto, M. Katahira, Y. Miyanoiri, T. Yamamoto, K. M. Nakatsubo, S. Kusunoki and Koji Akasaka
Unichrom, a novel nuclear matrix protein, binds Ars insulator and canonical MARs.
Zool. Sci. 23:9-21, 2006.

Takayoshi Fujii, Keiko Mitsunaga-Nakatsubo, Ikuya Saito, Hiroka Iida, Naoaki Sakamoto, Koji Akasaka and Takashi Yamamoto
Developmental expression of HpNanos, the Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus homologue of nanos.
Gene Expression Patterns 6:572-577, 2006.

Shinjiro Hino, Koji Akasaka and Masao Matsuoka
Sea urchin arylsulfatase insulator exerts its anti-silencing effect without interacting with the nuclear matrix.
J. Mol. Biol. 357:18-27, 2006.

Sachiko Watanabe, Naoki Sakamoto, Masahiro Sato and Koji Akasaka
Functional Analysis of the Sea Urchin-Derived Arylsulfatase (Ars)-Element in Mammalian Cells
Genes to Cell 11:1009-1021, 2006.

S. Tajima, K. Shinohara, M. Fukumoto, R. Zaitsu, J. Miyagawa, S. Hino, J. Fan, K. Akasaka and M. Matsuoka.
Ars insulator identified in sea urchin possesses an activity to ensure the transgene expression in mouse cells.
J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 139, 705-714, 2006.

Hara Y, Yamaguchi M, Akasaka K, Nakano H, Nonaka M, Amemiya S.
Expression patterns of Hox genes in larvae of the sea lily Metacrinus rotundus.
Dev Genes Evol. 216, 797-809, 2006