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Chikara Masuta
Researcher at Hokkaido University
Publications - 136
Citations - 4791
Chikara Masuta is an academic researcher from Hokkaido University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cucumber mosaic virus & RNA silencing. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 126 publications receiving 4169 citations.
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On the role of RNA silencing in the pathogenicity and evolution of viroids and viral satellites.
Ming-Bo Wang,Xue-Yu Bian,Limin Wu,Li-Xia Liu,Neil A. Smith,Daniel Isenegger,Rong-Mei Wu,Chikara Masuta,Vicki B. Vance,John M. Watson,A. Rezaian,Elizabeth S. Dennis,Peter M. Waterhouse +12 more
TL;DR: It is shown that preventing RNA silencing in tobacco, using a silencing suppressor, greatly reduces the symptoms caused by the Y satellite of cucumber mosaic virus, and viroid and satellite RNAs are significantly resistant to RNAsilencing-mediated degradation.
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On the role of RNA silencing in the pathogenicity and evolution of viroids and viral satellites
Ming-Bo Wang,Xue-Yu Bian,Limin Wu,Li-Xia Liu,Neil A. Smith,Daniel Isenegger,Rong-Mei Wu,Chikara Masuta,Vicki B. Vance,John M. Watson,A. Rezaian,Elizabeth S. Dennis,Peter M. Waterhouse +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that preventing RNA silencing in tobacco, using a silencing suppressor, greatly reduces the symptoms caused by the Y satellite of cucumber mosaic virus.
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The Soybean Stem Growth Habit Gene Dt1 Is an Ortholog of Arabidopsis TERMINAL FLOWER1
Baohui Liu,Satoshi Watanabe,Tomoo Uchiyama,Fanjiang Kong,Akira Kanazawa,Zhengjun Xia,Atsushi Nagamatsu,Maiko Arai,Tetsuya Yamada,Keisuke Kitamura,Chikara Masuta,Kyuya Harada,Jun Abe +12 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that Dt1 encodes the GmTFL1b protein and that the stem growth habit is determined by the variation of this gene.
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A viral satellite RNA induces yellow symptoms on tobacco by targeting a gene involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis using the RNA silencing machinery.
Hanako Shimura,Vitantonio Pantaleo,Takeaki Ishihara,Nobutoshi Myojo,Jun ichi Inaba,Kae Sueda,József Burgyán,Chikara Masuta +7 more
TL;DR: This study revealed that Y-sat produces specific short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which interfere with a host gene, thus inducing the specific symptom of CMV, and modifies the typical symptom induced by CMV in specific hosts.
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Characterization of Silencing Suppressor 2b of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Based on Examination of its Small RNA-Binding Abilities
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the PTGS suppressor (2b) of a severe strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) can bind to in vitro synthesized siRNAs and even to long dsRNAs to a lesser extent, however, the 2b suppressor weakly bound to a miRNA (miR171) duplex in contrast to another small RNA-binding suppressor, p19 of tombusvirus that can effectively bind miRNAs.