Biography and Research Interest

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Kawakami, K. and Noda, T. (2004) Transposition of the Tol2 element, an Ac-like element from the Japanese medaka fish Oryzias latipes, in mouse embryonic stem cells. Genetics 166:895-899.

Kawakami, K., Imanaka, K., Itoh, M., and Taira, M. (2004) Excision of the Tol2 transposable element of the medaka fish Oryzias latipes in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis. Gene 338:93-98.

The MGC project team (Gerhard, D.S. and 113 authors). (2004) The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: The mammalian gene collection (MGC). Genome Res 14:2121-2127.

Terai, Y., Morikawa, N., Kawakami, K., and Okada, N. (2003) The complexity of alternative splicing of hagoromo mRNAs is increased in an explosively speciated lineage in East African cichlids. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100:12798-12803.


Clark, M.S., Edwards, Y.J.K., Peterson, D., Clifton, S.W., Thompson, A.J., Sasaki, M., Suzuki, Y., Kikuchi, K., Watabe, S., Kawakami, K., Sugano. S., Elgar, G., and Johnson, S.L. (2003) Fugu ESTs: New resources for transcription analysis and genome annotation. Genome Research 13:2747-2753.

Terai, Y., Morikawa, N., Kawakami, K., and Okada, N. (2002) Accelerated evolution of the surface amino acids in the WD-repeat domain encoded by the hagoromo gene in an explosively speciated lineage of east cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:574-578.

Maruyama, S., Hatakeyama, S., Nakayama, K., Ishida, N., Kawakami, K., and Nakayama, K.-i. (2001) Characterization of a mouse gene (Fbxw6) that encodes a homologue of Caenorhabditis elegans SEL-10. Genomics 78:214-222.

Kawakami, K., Pande, S., Faiola, B., Moore, D. P., Boeke, J. D., Farabaugh, P. J., Strathern, J. N., Nakamura, Y., and Garfinkel, D. J. (1993) A rare tRNA-Arg(CUU) that regulates Ty1 element ribosomal frameshifting is essential for Ty1 retrotransposition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 135:309-320.

Shirayama, M., Kawakami, K., Matsui, Y., Tanaka, K., and Toh-e, A. (1993) MSI3, a multicopy suppressor of mutants hyper-activated in the RAS-cAMP pathway, encodes a novel HSP70 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol. Gen. Genet. 240:323-332.

Ito, K., Kawakami, K., and Nakamura, Y. (1993) Multiple control of Escherichia coli lysyl-tRNA synthetase expression involves a transcriptional repressor and a translational enhancer element. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:302-306.

Kawakami, K., Ito, K., and Nakamura, Y. (1992) Differential regulation of two genes encoding lysyl-tRNA synthetases in Escherichia coli: lysU-constitutive mutations compensate for a lysS null mutation. Molecular Microbiology 6:1739-1746.

Nakamura, Y., and Kawakami, K. (1992) Overproduction and purification of lysyl-tRNA synthetase encoded by the herC gene of Escherichia coli. Biochimie 74:581-584.

Kawakami, K., Shafer, B. K., Garfinkel, D. J., Strathern, J. N., and Nakamura, Y. (1992) Ty element-induced temperature sensitive mutations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 131:821-832.

Mikuni, O., Kawakami, K., and Nakamura, Y. (1991) Sequence and functional analysis of mutations in the gene encoding peptide-chain-release factor 2 of Escherichia coli. Biochimie 73:1509-1516.

Nakamura, Y., Kawakami, K., and Mikuni, O. (1990) Alternative translation and functional diversity of release factor 2 and lysyl-tRNA synthetase. In Post-transcriptional control of gene expression: Springer-Verlag, pp. 455-464.

Kawakami, K., and Nakamura, Y. (1990) Autogenous suppression of an opal mutation in the gene encoding peptide chain release factor 2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:8432-8436.

Kawakami, K., Naito, S., Inoue, N., Nakamura, Y., Ikeda, H., and Uchida, H. (1989) Isolation and characterization of herC, a mutation of Escherichia coli affecting maintenance of ColE1. Mol. Gen. Genet. 219:333-340.

Inada, T., Kawakami, K., Chen, S.-M., Takiff, H., Court, D. L., and Nakamura, Y. (1989) Temperature-sensitive lethal mutant of Era, a G protein in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 171:5017-5024.

Kawakami, K., Inada, T., and Nakamura, Y. (1988) Conditionally lethal and recessive UGA-suppressor mutations in the prfB gene encoding peptide chain release factor 2 of Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology 170:5378-5381.

Kawakami, K., Josson, Y. H., Bjork, G. R., Ikeda, H., and Nakamura, Y. (1988) Chromosomal location and structure of the operon encoding peptide-chain-release factor 2 of Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:5620-5624.