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- "Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the helicase domains of Vasa complexed with RNA and an ATP analogue." - Sengoku T, Nureki O, Dohmae N, Nakamura A, Yokoyama S., - Acta Crystallogr D.,
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- "Structural and biochemical analyses of hemimethylated DNA binding by the SeqA protein." - Fujikawa N, Kurumizaka H, Nureki O, Tanaka Y, Yamazoe M, Hiraga S, Yokoyama S., - Nucleic Acids Res.,
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- "The Activation Mechanism of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor" - Saito K, Ogiso H, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Fukai S, Yamanaka M, Kim J H, Shirouzu M, Yokoyama S, - The Japnese Peptide Society,
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- "Crystal structure of the human CENP-B dimerization domain at 1.65 A resolution." - Tawaramoto MS, Park SY, Tanaka Y, Nureki O, Kurumizaka H, Yokoyama S., - J. Biol. Chem.,
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- "Crystal structure of the tRNA processing enzyme RNase PH from Aquifex aeolicus." - Ishii R, Nureki O, Yokoyama S., - J. Biol. Chem.,
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- "Structural basis of the replication origin recognition by the DnaA protein" - Fujikawa N, Kurumizaka H, Nureki O, Terada T, Shirouzu M, Katayama T, Yokoyama S., - Nucleic Acids Res.,
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- "Alternative tertiary structure of tRNA for recognition by a posttranscriptional modification enzyme" - Ishitani R, Nureki O, Nameki N, Okada N, Nishimura S, Yokoyama S., - Cell,
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- "ATP binding by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase is switched to the productive mode by tRNA binding" - Sekine S, Nureki O, Dubois DY, Bernier S, Chenevert R, Lapointe J, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S., - EMBO J.,
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- "Mechanism of molecular interactions for tRNAVal recognition by valyl-tRNA synthetase" - Fukai S, Nureki O, Sekine S, Shimada A, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S., - RNA,
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- "Crystal structure of human epidermal growth factor in complex with the extracellular domains of the receptor" - Ogiso H, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Fukai S, Yamanaka M, Kim JH, Saito K, Sakamoto A, Inoue M, Shirouzu M, Yokoyama S., - Cell,
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- "Crystal structure of the homologous-pairing domain from the human Rad52 recombinase in the undecameric form." - Kagawa W, Kurumizaka H, Ishitani R, Fukai S, Nureki O, Shibata T, Yokoyama S., - Mol. Cell,
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- "Crystal structure of archaeosine tRNA-guanine transglycosylase" - Ishitani R, Nureki O, Fukai S, Kijimoto T, Nameki N, Watanabe M, Kondo H, Sekine M, Okada N, Nishimura S, Yokoyama S., - J. Mol. Biol.,
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- "Mutation Separation of two pathways for editing by a class I tRNA synthetase" - Hendrickson TL, Nomanbhoy TK, de Crecy-Lagard V, Fukai S, Nureki O, Yokoyama S, Schimmel P., - Mol. Cell,
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- "DNA kink at the contact site with an arginine-rich helix of human centeromere protein B" - Tanaka Y*, Nureki O*, Kurumizaka H*, Fukai S, Kawaguchi S, Ikuta M, Iwahara J, Okazaki T and Yokoyama S (*equal contribution), - EMBO J,
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- "Crystal structure of the CENP-B protein-DNA complex: the DNA-binding domains of CENP-B induce kinks in the CENP-B box DNA." - Tanaka Y, Nureki O, Kurumizaka H, Fukai S, Kawaguchi S, Ikuta M, Iwahara J, Okazaki T, Yokoyama S., - EMBO J.,
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- "Structural basis for the recognition of isoleucyl-adenylate and an antibiotic, mupirocin, by isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase" - Nakama T, Nureki O, Yokoyama S., - J. Biol. Chem.,
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- "Structural and mutational studies of the recognition of the arginine tRNA-specific major identity element, A20, by arginyl-tRNA synthetase" - Shimada A, Nureki O, Goto M, Takahashi S, Yokoyama S., - Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. USA,
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- "Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a DNA primase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus horikoshii" - Ito N, Nureki O, Shirouzu M, Yokoyama S, Hanaoka F., - J. Biochem.,
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- "Selenomethionine incorporation into a protein by cell-free synthesis" - Kigawa T, Yamaguchi-Nunokawa E, Kodama K, Matsuda T, Yabuki T, Matsuda N, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Yokoyama S., - J. Struc. Func. Gen.,
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- "Crystal structure of human AUH protein, a single-stranded RNA-binding homologue of enoyl-CoA hydratase" - Kurimoto K, Fukai S, Nureki O, Muto Y, Yokoyama S., - Structure,
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- "Crucial role of the HIGH-loop lysine for the catalytic activity of arginyl-tRNA synthetase" - Sekine S, Shimada A, Nureki O, Cavarelli J, Moras D, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S., - J. Biol. Chem.,
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- "Structural basis for anticodon recognition by discriminating glutamyl-tRNA synthetase" - Sekine S, Nureki O, Shimada A, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S., - Nat. Struct. Biol.,
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