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List of works by Kozo Tomita

7-Methylguanosine at the anticodon wobble position of squid mitochondrial tRNA(Ser)GCU: molecular basis for assignment of AGA/AGG codons as serine in invertebrate mitochondria.

scientific article published in July 1998

A cytotoxic ribonuclease targeting specific transfer RNA anticodons

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Acetate-dependent tRNA acetylation required for decoding fidelity in protein synthesis

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Animated crystallography of genetic code translation.

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Assembly of Q  viral RNA polymerase with host translational elongation factors EF-Tu and -Ts

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Closely related CC- and A-adding enzymes collaborate to construct and repair the 3'-terminal CCA of tRNA in Synechocystis sp. and Deinococcus radiodurans

scientific article published on 04 October 2002

Collaboration between CC- and A-adding enzymes to build and repair the 3'-terminal CCA of tRNA in Aquifex aeolicus.

scientific article published in November 2001

Complete crystallographic analysis of the dynamics of CCA sequence addition.

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Conserved cysteine residues of GidA are essential for biogenesis of 5-carboxymethylaminomethyluridine at tRNA anticodon

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Crystal Structure of the Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli AtaT-AtaR Toxin-Antitoxin Complex

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

Crystal structure of the Lin28-interacting module of human terminal uridylyltransferase that regulates let-7 expression

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Crystal structures of U6 snRNA-specific terminal uridylyltransferase.

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Crystal structures of leucyl/phenylalanyl-tRNA-protein transferase and its complex with an aminoacyl-tRNA analog

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Crystal structures of the Bacillus stearothermophilus CCA-adding enzyme and its complexes with ATP or CTP

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Divergent evolutions of trinucleotide polymerization revealed by an archaeal CCA-adding enzyme structure

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Evolutionary and functional aspects of C-to-U editing at position 28 of tRNA(Cys)(GCA) in plant mitochondria.

scientific article published in April 2000

Function and Regulation of Human Terminal Uridylyltransferases

scholarly article by Yuka Yashiro & Kozo Tomita published 2018 in Frontiers in Genetics

Human BCDIN3D Is a Cytoplasmic tRNA-Specific 5'-Monophosphate Methyltransferase

scholarly article by Kozo Tomita & Yining Liu published 2018 in Frontiers in Genetics

Human BCDIN3D monomethylates cytoplasmic histidine transfer RNA

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Measurement of Acceptor-TΨC Helix Length of tRNA for Terminal A76-Addition by A-Adding Enzyme

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Mechanism for template-independent terminal adenylation activity of Qβ replicase

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Mechanism for the alteration of the substrate specificities of template-independent RNA polymerases

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Mechanism for the definition of elongation and termination by the class II CCA-adding enzyme

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Mechanism of 3'-Matured tRNA Discrimination from 3'-Immature tRNA by Class-II CCA-Adding Enzyme

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Mechanism of aminoacyl-tRNA acetylation by an aminoacyl-tRNA acetyltransferase AtaT from enterohemorrhagic E. coli

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Mechanism of template-independent RNA polymerization

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Molecular basis for RNA polymerization by Qβ replicase

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Molecular basis for maintenance of fidelity during the CCA-adding reaction by a CCA-adding enzyme

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Molecular insights into replication initiation by Qβ replicase using ribosomal protein S1

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Molecular mechanisms of template-independent RNA polymerization by tRNA nucleotidyltransferases

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Protein-based peptide-bond formation by aminoacyl-tRNA protein transferase

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RNA editing in the acceptor stem of squid mitochondrial tRNA(Tyr).

scientific article published on December 1996

Reversible RNA phosphorylation stabilizes tRNA for cellular thermotolerance

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

Structural basis for template-independent RNA polymerization.

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Structures and functions of Qβ replicase: translation factors beyond protein synthesis

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Substrate specificities of Escherichia coli ItaT that acetylates aminoacyl-tRNAs

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Synthetic mRNA devices that detect endogenous proteins and distinguish mammalian cells.

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

The Sam68 nuclear body is composed of two RNase-sensitive substructures joined by the adaptor HNRNPL

scientific article published on July 2016

The cephalopod Loligo bleekeri mitochondrial genome: multiplied noncoding regions and transposition of tRNA genes

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

The presence of pseudouridine in the anticodon alters the genetic code: a possible mechanism for assignment of the AAA lysine codon as asparagine in echinoderm mitochondria.

scientific article published on April 1999

Translocation and rotation of tRNA during template-independent RNA polymerization by tRNA nucleotidyltransferase

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U2 small nuclear RNA is a substrate for the CCA-adding enzyme (tRNA nucleotidyltransferase).

scientific article published on 7 November 2001

[Mechanism of RNA polymerization by Qbeta replicase].

scientific article published in June 2014

[Molecular basis for peptide-bond formation by aminoacyl-tRNA protein transferase].

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