A list of all publications (1996 ~)
20. *Ohira, T., Minowa, K., Sugiyama, K., Yamashita, S., Sakaguchi, Y., Miyauchi, K., Noguchi, R., Kaneko, A., Orita, I., Fukui, T., *Tomita, K., *Suzuki T.
Reversible RNA phosphorylation stabilizes tRNA for cellular thermotolerance.
Nature, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04677-2, 2022
19. Yashiro Y, Zhang C, Sakaguchi Y, Suzuki T, *Tomita K.
Molecular basis of glycyl-tRNAGly acetylation by TacT from Salmonella Typhimurium.
Cell Reports, doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110130, 2021
18. Yashiro Y, Sakaguchi Y, Suzuki T, *Tomita K.
Mechanism of aminoacyl-tRNA acetylation by an aminoacyl-tRNA acetyltransferase AtaT from enterohemorrhagic E. coli.
Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19281-z, 2020
17. Kurimoto R, Chiba T, Ito Y, Matsushima T, Yano Y, Miyata K, Yashiro Y, Suzuki T, Tomita K, *Asahara H.
The tRNA pseudouridine synthase TruB1 regulates the maturation of let-7 miRNA
EMBO J., doi: 10.15252/embj.2020104708, 2020
16. Yamashita S, Nagaike T, *Tomita K.
Crystal structures of the Lin28-interacting module of human terminal uridylyltransferase that regulates let-7 expression.
Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09966-5, 2019
15. Taniguchi T, Miyauchi K, Sakaguchi Y, Yamashita S, Soma A, Tomita K, *Suzuki T.
Acetate-dependent tRNA acetylation required for decoding fidelity in protein synthesis.
Nature Chemical Biology, doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0119-z, 2018
14. Yamashita S, Takagi Y, Nagaike T, *Tomita K.
Crystal structures of U6 snRNA-specific terminal uridylyltransferase.
Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms15788, 2017
13. Takeshita D, *Tomita K
Molecular basis for RNA polymerization by Qβ replicase
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Vol.19, No2, pp229-237, 2012
12. Takeshita D, *Tomita K
Assembly of Qβ viral RNA polymerase with host translational elongation factors EF-Tu and -Ts.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Vol. 107, No 36, pp15733-15738, 2010
11. Toh Y, Takeshita D, Numata T, Fukai S, Nureki O, *Tomita K
Mechanism for the definition of elongation and termination by the class II CCA-adding enzyme.
EMBO J. vol. 28, No 21, pp3353-3365, 2009
10. Toh Y, Numata T, Watanabe K, Takeshita D, Nureki O, *Tomita K
Molecular basis for maintenance of fidelity during the CCA-adding reaction by a CCA-adding enzyme.
EMBO J. Vol. 27, No 14, pp1944-1952, 2008
9. Watanabe K, Toh Y, Suto K, Shimizu Y, Oka N, Wada T, *Tomita K
Protein-based peptide-bond formation by aminoacyl-tRNA protein transferase.
Nature. Vol.449, No 7164, pp867-871, 2007
8. Suto K, Shimizu Y, Watanabe K, Ueda T, Fukai S, Nureki O, *Tomita K
Crystal structures of leucyl/phenylalanyl-tRNA-protein transferase and its complex with an aminoacyl-tRNA analog.
EMBO J. Vol.25, No 24, pp5942-50, 2006
7. *Tomita K, Ishitani R, Fukai S, Nureki O.
Complete crystallographic analysis of the dynamics of CCA sequence addition.
Nature. Vol. 443, No 7114, 956-960, 2006
6. Tomita K, Fukai S, Ishitani R, Ueda T, Takeuchi N, Vassylyev DG, Nureki O.
Structural basis for template-independent RNA polymerization.
Nature. Vol. 430, No 7000, 700-704, 2004
5. Okabe M, Tomita K, Ishitani R, Ishii R, Takeuchi N, Arisaka F, Nureki O, Yokoyama S.
Divergent evolutions of trinucleotide polymerization revealed by an archaeal CCA-adding enzyme structure.
EMBO J. Vol. 22, No 21, pp5918-5927, 2003
4. Li F, Xiong Y, Wang J, Cho HD, Tomita K, Weiner AM, Steitz TA.
Crystal structures of the Bacillus stearothermophilus CCA-adding enzyme and its complexes with ATP or CTP.
Cell. Vol. 111, No 6, pp815-824, 2002
3. Tomita K, Weiner AM.
Collaboration between CC- and A-adding enzymes to build and repair the3′-terminal CCA of tRNA in Aquifex aeolicus.
Science Vol. 294, No 5545, pp1334-1336, 2001
2. Tomita K, Ogawa T, Uozumi T, Watanabe K, Masaki H.
A cytotoxic ribonuclease which specifically cleaves four isoaccepting arginine tRNAs at their anticodon loops.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Vol. 97, No 15, pp8278-8283, 2000
1. Ogawa T, Tomita K, Ueda T, Watanabe K, Uozumi T, Masaki H.
A cytotoxic ribonuclease targeting specific transfer RNA anticodons.
Science. Vol. 283, No 5410, pp2097-2100, 1999