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Takuya Nakayama

Researcher at University of Virginia

Publications -  55
Citations -  5128

Takuya Nakayama is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Xenopus. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 48 publications receiving 4731 citations. Previous affiliations of Takuya Nakayama include Hokkaido University & National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan.

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Identification of Smad7, a TGFβ-inducible antagonist of TGF-β signalling

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the identification of Smad7, which is related to Smad6 (ref. 13) and showed that TGF-β-mediated phosphorylation of two proteins, Smad2 and Smad3, is inhibited by Smad-7, indicating that the antagonistic effect of the protein is exerted at this important regulatory step.
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Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis

Adam M. Session, +80 more
- 20 Oct 2016 - 
TL;DR: The Xenopus laevis genome is sequenced and it is estimated that the two diploid progenitor species diverged around 34 million years ago and combined to form an allotetraploid around 17–18 Ma, where more than 56% of all genes were retained in two homoeologous copies.
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Daughters against dpp modulates dpp organizing activity in Drosophila wing development

TL;DR: It is concluded that the pattern-organizing mechanism governed by Dpp involves a negative-feedback circuit in which Dpp induces expression of its own antagonist, Dad, which appears to be conserved in vertebrate development.
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Simple and efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in Xenopus tropicalis.

TL;DR: A standardized protocol for genome editing using the recently developed CRISPR/Cas system provides a powerful new reverse genetics tool for Xenopus researchers.
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A protein that binds to a cis-acting element of wheat histone genes has a leucine zipper motif

TL;DR: The structure and function of transcription factors of higher plants was studied by isolating cDNA clones encoding a wheat sequence-specific DNA binding protein, which indicates that HBP-1 contains the leucine zipper motif, which represents a characteristic property of several eukaryotic transcription factors.