• Designer Adaptor Proteins for Functional Conversion of Peptides to Small-Molecule Ligands toward In-Cell Catalytic Protein Modification.
  

  Fujimura A, Ishida H, Nozaki T, Terada S, Azumaya Y, Ishiguro T, Kamimura YR, Kujirai T, Kurumizaka H, Kono H, Yamatsugu K, Kawashima SA, Kanai M.
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• Cryo-EM structures of RNA polymerase II-nucleosome complexes rewrapping transcribed DNA.
  

  Akatsu M, Ehara H, Kujirai T, Fujita R, Ito T, Osumi K, Ogasawara M, Takizawa Y, Sekine SI, Kurumizaka H.
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• HMGA2 directly mediates chromatin condensation in association with neuronal fate regulation.
  

  Kuwayama N, Kujirai T, Kishi Y, Hirano R, Echigoya K, Fang L, Watanabe S, Nakao M, Suzuki Y, Ishiguro KI, Kurumizaka H, Gotoh Y.
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• Structural and Dynamical Changes of Nucleosome upon GATA3 Binding.
  

  Ishida H, Matsumoto A,Tanaka H, Okuda A, Morishima K, Wade PA, Kurumizaka H, Sugiyama M, Kono H.
  J Mol Biol. 2023 Oct 5. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168308. Epub ahead of print.

• Cryo-EM and biochemical analyses of the nucleosome containing the human histone H3 variant H3.8.
  

  Hirai S, Kujirai T, Akatsu M, Ogasawara M, Ehara H, Sekine SI, Ohkawa Y, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  J Biochem. 2023 Sep 26. doi: 10.1093/jb/mvad069. Epub ahead of print.

• A chemical catalyst enabling histone acylation with endogenous acyl-CoA.
  

  Habazaki M, Mizumoto S, Kajino H, Kujirai T, Kurumizaka H, Kawashima SA, Yamatsugu K, Kanai M.
  Nat Commun. 2023 Sep 22. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41426-z.

• Contributions of histone tail clipping and acetylation in nucleosome transcription by RNA polymerase II.
  

  Oishi T, Hatazawa S, Kujirai T, Kato J, Kobayashi Y, Ogasawara M, Akatsu M, Ehara H, Sekine SI, Hayashi G, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Oct 27. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad754.

• Structural perspectives on transcription in chromatin.
  

  Sekine SI, Ehara H, Kujirai T, Kurumizaka H.
  Trends Cell Biol. 2023 Aug 16. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2023.07.011. Epub ahead of print.

• Electrostatic Ratchet for Successive Peptide Synthesis in Nonribosomal Molecular Machine RimK.
  

  Ohnuki J, Arimura Y, Kono T, Kino K, Kurumizaka H, Takano M.
  J Am Chem Soc. 2023 Jul 15. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c03926.

• Structural Transition of the Nucleosome during Transcription Elongation.
  

  Kujirai T, Ehara H, Sekine SI, Kurumizaka H.
  Cells. 2023 May 14;12(10):1388. doi: 10.3390/cells12101388.

• Dispersion function of a protein, DP-1, identified in Collimonas sp. D-25, for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles.
  

  Tang D, Kato Y, Zhang D, Negishi L, Kurumizaka H, Hirata T, Nakakido M, Tsumoto K, Fujisawa S, Saito T, Okumura T, Nagata K, Suzuki M.
  Chembiochem. 2023 May 26:e202300221. doi: 10.1002/cbic.202300221.

• Chromatin structure related to oncogenesis.
  

  Matsumoto S, Horikoshi N, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  Cancer Sci. 2023 May 23. doi: 10.1111/cas.15850.

• Structural basis of damaged nucleotide recognition by transcribing RNA polymerase II in the nucleosome.
  

  Osumi K, Kujirai T, Ehara H, Ogasawara M, Kinoshita C, Saotome M, Kagawa W, Sekine SI, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  J Mol Biol. 2023 Apr 27:168130. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168130.

• Heme protein identified from scaly-foot gastropod can synthesize pyrite (FeS2) nanoparticles.
  

  Yamashita T, Matsuda H, Koizumi K, Thirumalaisamy L, Kim M, Negishi L, Kurumizaka H, Tominaga Y, Takagi Y, Takai K, Okumura T, Katayama H, Horitani M, Ahsan N, Okada Y, Nagata K, Suzuki Y, Suzuki M.
  Acta Biomater. 2023 Mar 14:S1742-7061(23)00131-9. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2023.03.005.

• High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Spontaneous Nucleosome Sliding of H2A.Z at the Subsecond Time Scale.
  

  Morioka S, Sato S, Horikoshi N, Kujirai T, Tomita T, Baba Y, Kakuta T, Ogoshi T, Puppulin L, Sumino A, Umeda K, Kodera N, Kurumizaka H, Shibata M.
  Nano Lett. 2023 Mar 8;23(5):1696-1704. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04346.

• The cryo-EM structure of full-length RAD52 protein contains an undecameric ring.
  

  Kinoshita C, Takizawa Y, Saotome M, Ogino S, Kurumizaka H, Kagawa W.
  FEBS Open Bio. 2023 Mar;13(3):408-418. doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.13565.