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Shun-ichi Sekine
Researcher at University of Tokyo
Publications - 99
Citations - 4145
Shun-ichi Sekine is an academic researcher from University of Tokyo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transfer RNA & Thermus thermophilus. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 86 publications receiving 3728 citations.
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Crystal structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme at 2.6 A resolution
Dmitry G. Vassylyev,Shun-ichi Sekine,Oleg Laptenko,Jookyung Lee,Marina N. Vassylyeva,Sergei Borukhov,Shigeyuki Yokoyama +6 more
TL;DR: The crystal structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme from Thermus thermophilus at 2.6 Å resolution provides insight into the structural organization of transcription intermediate complexes and into the mechanism of transcription initiation.
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Structural Basis for Transcription Regulation by Alarmone ppGpp
Irina Artsimovitch,Vsevolod Patlan,Shun-ichi Sekine,Marina N. Vassylyeva,Takeshi Hosaka,Kozo Ochi,Shigeyuki Yokoyama,Dmitry G. Vassylyev +7 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that base pairing of ppGpp with cytosines in the nontemplate DNA strand might be an essential component of transcription control by pGuanosine-tetraphosphate.
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Structural basis for double-sieve discrimination of L-valine from L-isoleucine and L-threonine by the complex of tRNA(Val) and valyl-tRNA synthetase.
Shuya Fukai,Osamu Nureki,Shun-ichi Sekine,Atsushi Shimada,Jianshi Tao,Dmitry G. Vassylyev,Shigeyuki Yokoyama +6 more
TL;DR: A contiguous pocket was found to accommodate the Thr moiety, but not the Val moiety (the second sieve), and another Thr binding pocket for Thr-adenylate hydrolysis was suggested on the editing domain.
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ATP binding by glutamyl‐tRNA synthetase is switched to the productive mode by tRNA binding
Shun-ichi Sekine,Osamu Nureki,Daniel Y. Dubois,Stéphane Bernier,Robert Chênevert,Jacques Lapointe,Dmitry G. Vassylyev,Shigeyuki Yokoyama +7 more
TL;DR: The crystal structure of the ‘non‐productive’ complex of Thermus thermophilus GluRS, ATP and L‐glutamate is determined and the interactions of the three tRNAGlu regions with GLURS cause conformational changes around the ATP‐binding site, and allow ATP to bind to the “productive” subsite.
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Crystal structure of bacterial RNA polymerase bound with a transcription inhibitor protein
Shunsuke Tagami,Shun-ichi Sekine,Thirumananseri Kumarevel,Nobumasa Hino,Yuko Murayama,Syunsuke Kamegamori,Masaki Yamamoto,Kensaku Sakamoto,Shigeyuki Yokoyama +8 more
TL;DR: The present results reveal that Gfh1 inhibits transcription by preventing NTP binding and freezing RNAP in the alternative structural state, which might also be associated with other aspects of transcription, such as RNAP translocation and transcription termination.