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Hiroaki Shimada

Researcher at Tokyo University of Science

Publications -  130
Citations -  9345

Hiroaki Shimada is an academic researcher from Tokyo University of Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Genome. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 125 publications receiving 8702 citations. Previous affiliations of Hiroaki Shimada include National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan & University of Tokyo.

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The complete nucleotide sequence of the tobacco chloroplast genome: its gene organization and expression.

TL;DR: Five sequences coding for proteins homologous to components of the respiratory‐chain NADH dehydrogenase from human mitochondria have been found and sequence and expression analyses indicate both prokaryotic and eukaryotic features of the chloroplast genes.
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The complete sequence of the rice (Oryza sativa) chloroplast genome: Intermolecular recombination between distinct tRNA genes accounts for a major plastid DNA inversion during the evolution of the cereals

TL;DR: The entire chloroplast genome of the monocot rice (Oryza sativa) has been sequenced and comprises 134525 bp and a model invoking illegitimate recombination between tRNA genes is proposed which accounts simultaneously for the origin of this pseudogene, the large inversion and the creation of repeated sequences near the inversion endpoints.
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Mobilization of transposons by a mutation abolishing full DNA methylation in Arabidopsis.

TL;DR: This class of Arabidopsis elements transposes and increases in copy number at high frequencies specifically in the ddm1 hypomethylation background, and the DDM1 gene not only epigenetically ensures proper gene expression, but also stabilizes transposon behaviour, possibly through chromatin remodelling or DNA methylation.
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The Rc and Rd genes are involved in proanthocyanidin synthesis in rice pericarp.

TL;DR: In this paper, two genes affecting proanthocyanidin synthesis in red-and brown-colored rice were elucidated, and they were found to encode dihydroflavonol-4-reductase (DFR).
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Fine structural features of the chloroplast genome: comparison of the sequenced chloroplast genomes

TL;DR: The entire nucleotide sequences of the rice, tobacco and liverwort chloroplast genomes have been determined and unidentified ORFs can be assigned to each of these groups such that it is possible to speculate about the functions of products which may be produced by these ORFs.