2001-2005

  1. "Structural change of tRNA (Gm18) methyltransferase by binding of methyl donor analogues."
    Watanabe K, Nureki O, Fukai S, Endo Y, Hori H.,
    Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxf)., 49 301-302 (2005).
  2. "Crystallization of leucyl-tRNA synthetase complexed with tRNALeu from the archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii"
    Fukunaga R, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Yokoyama S.,
    Acta Crystallographica F., 61 30-32 (2005).
  3. "Structural basis for anticodon recognition by methionyl-tRNA synthetase"
    Nakanishi K, Ogiso Y, Nakama T, Fukai S, Nureki O.,
    Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 12 931-932 (2005).
  4. "Recent progress of structural biology of tRNA processing and modification"
    Nakanishi K, Nureki O.,
    Mol. Cells, 19 157-166 (2005).
  5. "Structural basis for lysidine formation by ATP pyrophosphatase accompanied with a lysine-specific loop and a tRNA-recognition domain"
    Nakanishi K, Fukai S, Ikeuchi Y, Soma A, Sekine Y, Suzuki T, Nureki O.,
    Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. USA, 21 7487-7492 (2005).
  6. "Roles of conserved amino acid sequence motifs in the SpoU (TrmH) RNA methyltransferase family"
    Watanabe K, Nureki O, Fukai S, Ishii R, Okamoto H, Yokoyama S, Endo Y, Hori H.,
    J. Biol. Chem., 280 10368-10377 (2005).
  7. "Structural basis for template-independent RNA polymerization"
    Tomita K, Fukai S, Ishitani R, Ueda T, Takeuchi N, Vassylyev DG, Nureki O.,
    Nature, 430 700-704 (2004).
  8. "Deep knot structure for construction of active site and cofactor binding site of tRNA modification enzyme"
    Nureki O, Watanabe K, Fukai S, Ishii R, Endo Y, Hori H, Yokoyama S.,
    Structure, 12 593-602 (2004).
  9. "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., 60 320-322 (2004).
  10. "Crystal structures of the CP1 domain from Thermus thermophilus isoleucyl- tRNA synthetase and its complex with L-valine"
    Fukunaga R, Fukai S, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Yokoyama S.,
    J. Biol. Chem., 279 8396-8402 (2004).
  11. "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., 02;32 82-92 (2004).
  12. "A short peptide insertion crucial for angiostatic activity of human tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase."
    Kise Y, Lee SW, Park SG, Fukai S, Sengoku T, Ishii R, Yokoyama S, Kim S, Nureki O.,
    Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 11 149-156 (2004).
  13. "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, 93-96 (2003).
  14. "The Crystal Structure of a Putative Aspartate Aminotransferase Belonging to Subgroup IV"
    Katsura Y, Shirouzu M, Yamaguchi H, Ishitani R, Nureki O, Kuramitsu S, Hayashi H, Yokoyama S.,
    Proteins, 55 487-492 (2003).
  15. "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., 278 51454-51461 (2003).
  16. "Crystal structure of the Pyrococcus horikoshii DNA primase-UTP complex: implications for the mechanism of primer synthesis"
    Ito N, Nureki O, Shirouzu M, Yokoyama S, Hanaoka F.,
    Genes Cells, 8 913-923 (2003).
  17. "Divergent evolutions of trinucleotide polymerization revealed by an archaeal CCA-adding enzyme structure."
    Okabe M, Tomita K, Ishitani R, Ishii R, Takeuchi N, Arisaka F, Nureki O, Yokoyama S.,
    EMBO J., 22 5918-5927 (2003).
  18. "Activation of the pyrrolysine suppressor tRNA requires formation of a ternary complex with class I and class II lysyl-tRNA synthetases."
    Polycarpo C, Ambrogelly A, Ruan B, Tumbula-Hansen D, Ataide SF, Ishitani R, Yokoyama S, Nureki O, Ibba M, Soll D.,
    Mol. Cell, 12 287-294 (2003).
  19. "Crystal structure of the tRNA processing enzyme RNase PH from Aquifex aeolicus."
    Ishii R, Nureki O, Yokoyama S.,
    J. Biol. Chem., 278 32397-32404 (2003).
  20. "Structural basis for orthogonal tRNA specificities of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases for genetic-code expansion"
    Kobayashi T, Nureki O, Ishitani R, Yaremchuk A, Tukalo M, Cusack S, Sakamoto K, Yokoyama S.,
    Nat. Struct. Biol., 10 425-432 (2003).
  21. "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., 31 2077-2086 (2003).
  22. "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, 113 383-394 (2003).
  23. "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., 22 676-688 (2003).
  24. "Mechanism of molecular interactions for tRNAVal recognition by valyl-tRNA synthetase"
    Fukai S, Nureki O, Sekine S, Shimada A, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S.,
    RNA, 8 100-111 (2003).
  25. "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, 110 775-787 (2002).
  26. "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, 10 359-371 (2002).
  27. "An enzyme with a deep trefoil knot for the active-site architecture"
    Nureki O, Shirouzu M, Hashimoto K, Ishitani R, Terada T, Tamakoshi M, Oshima T, Chijimatsu M, Takio K, Vassylyev DG, Shibata T, Inoue Y, Kuramitsu S, Yokoyama S.,
    Acta Crystallogr. D., 58 1129-1137 (2002).
  28. "Functional convergence of two lysyl-tRNA synthetases with unrelated topologies"
    Terada T, Nureki O, Ishitani R, Ambrogelly A, Ibba M, Soll D, Yokoyama S.,
    Nat. Struct. Biol., 9 257-262 (2002).
  29. "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., 318 665-677 (2002).
  30. "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, 9 353-362 (2002).
  31. "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, 20 6612-6618 (2001).
  32. "Structural basis for amino acid and tRNA recognition by class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases."
    Nureki O, Fukai S, Sekine S, Shimada A, Terada T, Nakama T, Shirouzu M, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S,
    Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol., 66 167-173 (2001).
  33. "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., 20 6612-6618 (2001).
  34. "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., 276 47387-47393 (2001).
  35. "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, 98 13537-13542 (2001).
  36. "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., 130 727-730 (2001).
  37. "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., 2 87-104 (2001).
  38. "Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of archaeosine tRNA-guanine transglycosylase from Pyrococcus horikoshii"
    Ishitani R, Nureki O, Kijimoto T, Watanabe M, Kondo H, Nameki N, Okada N, Nishimura S, Yokoyama S.,
    Acta Crystallogr. D., 57 1659-1662 (2001).
  39. "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, 9 1253-1263 (2001).
  40. "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., 276 3723-3726 (2001).
  41. "Structural basis for anticodon recognition by discriminating glutamyl-tRNA synthetase"
    Sekine S, Nureki O, Shimada A, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S.,
    Nat. Struct. Biol., 8 203-206 (2001).