News


2024/01/25
Our paper was published in Nature.
Coordination of cohesin and DNA replication observed with purified proteins. 

Yasuto Murayama, Shizuko Endo, Yumiko Kurokawa, Ayako Kurita, Sanae Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Araki

Nature   Jan 24 (2024)



2020/11/10
Our paper was published in Cell Reports.
DNA Binding by the Mis4Scc2 Loader Promotes Topological DNA Entrapment by the Cohesin Ring. 

Yumiko Kurokawa, Yasuto Murayama

Cell Reports  33(6) 108357-108357 (2020)


2020/06/11
Collaborative research paper was published in Nature Communications.
Real-time tracking reveals catalytic roles for the two DNA binding sites of Rad51. 

Kentaro Ito, Yasuto Murayama, Yumiko Kurokawa, Shuji Kanamaru, Yuichi Kokabu, Takahisa Maki, Tsutomu Mikawa, Bilge Argunhan, Hideo Tsubouchi, Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Masayuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwasaki

Nature Communications  11(1) 2950-2950 (2020)



2018/04/10

Prof. Murayama won "the MEXT Young Scientists' Prize in 2018"


2018/01/18
Our paper was published in Cell.
Establishment of DNA-DNA Interactions by the Cohesin Ring. 

Yasuto Murayama, Catarina P Samora, Yumiko Kurokawa, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Frank Uhlmann

Cell  172(3) 465-477 (2018)


2017/09/14

Prof. Murayama received "the Genetics Society of Japan Encouragement Prize in 2017"


2017/07/01

Murayama Laboratory has started.



Murayama Lab

Chromosome Biochemistry Laboratory
Department of Chromosome Science
National Institute of Genetics

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