Prof. Nobuo Shimamoto
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Emeritus Professor
Email: nshima@nig.ac.jp
Qualifications
1966-1971 Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
1971-1977 Physics, Graduate School of Kyoto University,
Japan
Publications
(Selected)
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Shimamoto, N., Toda, M., Nara, S.,
Komatsuzaki, T., Kamagata, K., Kinebuchi, T. & Tomizawa, J-I. Dependence of
DNA length on binding affinity between TrpR and trpO of DNA. Sci. Rep. 10,
15624 (2020).
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Kinebuchi, T. & Shimamoto, N.
One-dimensional diffusion of TrpR along DNA enhances its affinity for the
operator by chemical ratchet mechanism. Sci. Rep. 11, 4255 (2020).
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Shimamoto, N. & Imashimizu, M. RNA
polymerase and transcription mechanisms: The forefront of physicochemical
studies of chemical reactions. Biomolecules 11, 32 (2021).
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Shimamoto, N. (2013). Nanobiology of
RNA Polymerase: Biological Consequence of Inhomogeneity in Reactant. Chem. Rev.
113, 8400–8422.
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Susa, M., Kubori, T. and Shimamoto, N.
(2006). A pathway branching in transcription initiation in escherichia coli.
Mol Microbiol 59, 1807-17
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Sakata-Sogawa, K. & Shimamoto,
N.(2004). RNA polymerase can track a DNA
groove during promoter search. Proc. Nat. Sci. U. S. A. 101, 14731-14735, 2004.
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Kubori, T. & Shimamoto, N. (1996).
A branched pathway in the early stage of transcription by Escherichia coli RNA
polymerase. J. Mol. Biol. 256, 449-457.
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Kabata, H., Kurosawa, O., Arai, I.,
Washizu, M., Margarson, S. A., Glass, R. E. & Shimamoto, N. (1993).
Visualization of single molecules of RNA polymerase sliding along DNA. Science
262, 1561-1563.