Masami Okabe

A rhodopsin is the functional photoreceptor for phototaxis in the unicellular eukaryote Chlamydomonas

Kenneth W. Foster, Jureepan Saranak, Nayana D. Patel et al. · Nature · 1984 · 377 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Biophysics +12

Identification of Ras farnesyltransferase inhibitors by microbial screening.

Masatake Hara, Koji Akasaka, Shiro Akinaga et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 260 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +9

Antitumor activity of UCN-01, a selective inhibitor of protein kinase C, in murine and human tumor models.

Shiro Akinaga, Katsushige Gomi, Makoto Morimoto et al. · PubMed · 1991 · 190 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Pharmacology +10

Synthesis of the dideoxynucleosides "ddC" and "CNT" from glutamic acid, ribonolactone, and pyrimidine bases

Masami Okabe, Ruen Chu Sun, S. Y. K. TAM et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1988 · 163 citations

Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Chemistry +13

G1 phase accumulation induced by UCN-01 is associated with dephosphorylation of Rb and CDK2 proteins as well as induction of CDK inhibitor p21/Cip1/WAF1/Sdi1 in p53-mutated human epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells.

Tadakazu Akiyama, Toshiko Yoshida, Tadayuki Tsujita et al. · PubMed · 1997 · 154 citations

Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology +17