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Sakurai H and Enoki Y (2010) Novel aspects of heat shock factors: DNA recognition, chromatin modulation and gene expression. FEBS J 277(20):4140-9 PMID:20945530
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Sakurai H and Takemori Y (2007) Interaction between heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) and divergent binding sequences: binding specificities of yeast HSFs and human HSF1. J Biol Chem 282(18):13334-41 PMID:17347150
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Yamamoto A and Sakurai H (2006) The DNA-binding domain of yeast Hsf1 regulates both DNA-binding and transcriptional activities. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 346(4):1324-9 PMID:16806072
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Hashikawa N and Sakurai H (2004) Phosphorylation of the yeast heat shock transcription factor is implicated in gene-specific activation dependent on the architecture of the heat shock element. Mol Cell Biol 24(9):3648-59 PMID:15082761
Sakurai H and Fukasawa T (2003) Artificial recruitment of certain Mediator components affects requirement of basal transcription factor IIE. Genes Cells 8(1):41-50 PMID:12558798
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Sakurai H and Fukasawa T (1997) Yeast Gal11 and transcription factor IIE function through a common pathway in transcriptional regulation. J Biol Chem 272(51):32663-9 PMID:9405484
Sakurai H and Ishihama A (1997) Gene organization and protein sequence of the small subunits of Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II. Gene 196(1-2):165-74 PMID:9322754
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Sakurai H, et al. (1994) Yeast GAL11 protein stimulates basal transcription in a gene-specific manner by a mechanism distinct from that by DNA-bound activators. FEBS Lett 351(2):176-80 PMID:8082760
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