UTANI Koh-ichi

FacultyDepartment of Microbiology
PositionAssistant Professor

Research Activities

Published Papers

  • Generation and maintenance of acentric stable double minutes from chromosome arms in inter-species hybrid cells, (Noriaki Shimizu), Rita Kapoor, Shuhei Naniwa, Naoto Sakamaru, Taku Yamada, You-ki Yamamura, Koh-ichi Utani, BMC Molecular and Cell Biology20:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12860-019-0186-3Mar. 2019
  • Variation in human chromosome 21 ribosomal RNA genes characterized by TAR cloning and long-read sequencing, (Jung-Hyun Kim), Alexander T Dilthey, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Hee-Sheung Lee, Sergey Koren, Dawood Dudekula, William H Wood III, Yulan Piao, Aleksey Y Ogurtsov, Koichi Utani, Vladimir N Noskov, Svetlana A Shabalina, David Schlessinger, Adam M Phillippy, Vladimir Larionov, Nucleic Acid Research46:6712-6725Jul. 2018
  • The replication initiation determinant protein (RepID) modulates replication by recruiting CUL4 to chromatin, (Sang-Min Jang), Ya Zhang, Koichi Utani, Haiqing Fu, Christophe E. Redon, Anna B. Marks, Owen K. Smith, Catherine J. Redmond, Adrian M. Baris, Danielle A. Tulchinsky, Mirit I. Aladjemc, Nature Communications9:2782Jul. 2018
  • Extra View: Sirt1 Acts As A Gatekeeper Of Replication Initiation To Preserve Genomic Stability., Koichi Utani, Mirit I. Aladjem, Nucleus9:261-267Jan. 2018
  • Phosphorylated SIRT1 associates with replication origins to prevent excess replication initiation and preserve genomic stability., Utani Koichi;Fu Haiqing;Jang Sang-Min;Marks Anna B;Smith Owen K;Zhang Ya;Redon Christophe E;Shimizu Noriaki;Aladjem Mirit I, Nucleic acids research45:7807-78242017
  • Dynamics of replication origin over-activation, Fu Haiqing, Redon Christophe E, Thakur Bhushan L, Utani Koichi, Sebastian Robin, Jang Sang-Min, Gross Jacob M, Mosavarpour Sara, Marks Anna B, Zhuang Sophie Z, Lazar Sarah B, Rao Mishal, Mencer Shira T, Baris Adrian M, Pongor Lorinc S, Aladjem Mirit I, Nature communications12:34482021
  • SIRT1 stabilizes extrachromosomal gene amplification and contributes to repeat-induced gene silencing, (Ryonosuke Taniguchi), Koichi Utani, Bhushan Thakur, Kazuho Ishine, Mirit I. Aladjem, Noriaki Shimizu, Journal of biological chemistry296:1003562021
  • Generation of a recombinant Saffold Virus expressing UnaG as a marker for the visualization of viral infection., Takako Okuwa, Tosiki Himeda, koichi Utani, Masaya Higuchi20:175Aug. 2023