• Sufficient amounts of functional HOP2/MND1 complex promote interhomolog DNA repair but are dispensable for intersister DNA repair during meiosis in Arabidopsis.

  Uanschou C, Ronceret A, Von Harder M, De Muyt A, Vezon D, Pereira L, Chelysheva L, Kobayashi W, Kurumizaka H, Schlogelhofer P, Grelon M.
  Plant Cell. 2013 Dec;25(12):4924-4940

• Structural basis of a nucleosome containing histone H2A.B/H2A.Bbd that transiently associates with reorganized chromatin

  Arimura Y, Kimura H, Oda T, Sato K, Osakabe A, Tachiwana H, Sato Y, Kinugasa Y, Ikura T, Sugiyama M, Sato M, Kurumizaka H.
  Sci. Rep.; 3:3510, 2013 Dec 16.

• Homologous pairing activities of two rice RAD51 proteins, RAD51A1 and RAD51A2.

  Morozumi Y, Ino R, Ikawa S, Mimida N, Shimizu T, Toki S, Ichikawa H, Shibata T, Kurumizaka H.
  PLoS One. 2013 Oct 4;8(10):e75451.

• Structural polymorphism in the L1 loop regions of human H2A.Z.1 and H2A.Z.2.

  Horikoshi N, Sato K, Shimada K, Arimura Y, Osakabe A, Tachiwana H, Hayashi-Takanaka Y, Iwasaki W, Kagawa W, Harata M, Kimura H, Kurumizaka H
  Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr.; 69(Pt 12):2431-2439.

• Contribution of histone N-terminal tails to the structure and stability of nucleosomes.

  Iwasaki W, Miya Y, Horikoshi N, Osakabe A, Taguchi H, Tachiwana H, Shibata T, Kagawa W, Kurumizaka H
  FEBS Open Bio. Pages 363-369, Volume 3, 2013 Aug 15

• Activation of the SUMO modification system is required for the accumulation of RAD51 at sites containing DNA damage.

  Shima H, Suzuki H, Sun J, Kono K, Shi L, Kinomura A, Horikoshi Y, Ikura T, Ikura M, Kanaar R, Igarashi K, Saitoh H, Kurumizaka H, Tashiro S
  J Cell Sci. 2013 Nov 15;126(Pt 22):5284-5292

• Genetically encoded system to track histone modification in vivo.

  Sato Y, Mukai M, Ueda J, Muraki M, Stasevich TJ, Horikoshi N, Kujirai T, Kita H, Kimura T, Hira S, Okada Y, Hayashi-Takanaka Y, Obuse C, Kurumizaka H, Kawahara A, Yamagata K, Nozaki N, Kimura H.
  Sci Rep. 2013;3:2436.

• Conclusive evidence of the reconstituted hexasome proved by native mass spectrometry.

  Azegami N, Saikusa K, Todokoro Y, Kurumizaka H, Nagadoi A, Nishimura Y, Akashi S.
  Biochemistry. 6;52(31):5155-5157, 2013 Jul 23

• Interaction between Basic Residues of Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA1 Protein and Cellular Chromatin Mediates Viral Plasmid Maintenance.

  Kanda T, Horikoshi N, Murata T, Kawashima D, Sugimoto A, Narita Y, Kurumizaka H, Tsurumi T.
  J Biol Chem. 2013 Aug 16;288(33):24189-24199.

• Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the secreted protein Athe_0614 from Caldicellulosiruptor bescii.

  Yokoyama H, Yamashita T, Horikoshi N, Kurumizaka H, Kagawa W.
  Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2013 Apr 1;69(Pt 4):438-40.

• Gas-phase structure of the histone multimers characterized by ion mobility mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulation.

  Saikusa K, Fuchigami S, Takahashi K, Asano Y, Nagadoi A, Tachiwana H, Kurumizaka H, Ikeguchi M, Nishimura Y, Akashi S.
  Anal Chem. 2013 Apr 16;85(8):4165-4171.

• Purification and characterization of the fission yeast telomere clustering factors, Bqt1 and Bqt2.

  Ichikawa Y, Kagawa W, Saito K, Chikashige Y, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y, Kurumizaka H.
  Protein Expr Purif. 2013 Apr 1;88(2):207-213.

• Vertebrate Spt2 is a novel nucleolar histone chaperone that assists in rebosomal DNA transcription.

  Osakabe,A., Tachiwana, H., Takaku, M., Hori,T., Obuse, C., Kimura, H., Fukagawa, T., Kurumizaka, H.
  J Cell Sci. 2013 Mar 15;126(Pt 6):1323-1232.

• Nap1 regulates proper CENP-B binding to nucleosomes.

  Tachiwana H, Miya Y, Shono N, Ohzeki JI, Osakabe A, Otake K, Larionov V, Earnshaw WC, Kimura H, Masumoto H, Kurumizaka H.
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Mar 1;41(5):2869-2880.

• Current progress on structural studies of nucleosomes containing histone H3 variants.

  Kurumizaka H, Horikoshi N, Tachiwana H, Kagawa W.
  Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2013 Feb;23(1):109-115