Akira Ishihama

Heterogeneity of the principal sigma factor in Escherichia coli: the rpoS gene product, sigma 38, is a second principal sigma factor of RNA polymerase in stationary-phase Escherichia coli.

Kan Tanaka, Y Takayanagi, Nobuyuki Fujita et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 351 citations · Full text

Protein Expression, Natural Sciences, Genetics +14

Promoter selectivity of<i>Escherichia coli</i>RNA polymerase: effect of base substitutions in the promoter −35 region on promoter strength

Makoto Kobayashi, Kyosuke Nagata, Akira Ishihama · Nucleic Acids Research · 1990 · 73 citations · Full text

<i>Escherichia coli</i> RNA polymerase subunit ω and its N‐terminal domain bind full‐length β′ to facilitate incorporation into the α₂β subassembly

Pallavi Ghosh, Akira Ishihama, Dipankar Chatterji · European Journal of Biochemistry · 2001 · 70 citations · Full text

Structural Map of the Alpha Subunit of RNA Polymerase: Structural Domains Identified by Proteolytic Cleavage

Tomofumi Negishi, Nobuyuki Fujita, Akira Ishihama · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1995 · 50 citations

Biochemistry, Natural Sciences, Rna Structure Prediction +6

Regulatory sequences in sigma 54 localise near the start of DNA melting

Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj, Matthew Chaney, Akira Ishihama et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 2001 · 36 citations

Chromatin, Transcriptional Regulation, Genome Instability +12