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 · 374 citations

Biology, Photoreceptor Cell, Photochemistry +9

Identification of Ras farnesyltransferase inhibitors by microbial screening.

Masatake Hara, Koji Akasaka, Shiro Akinaga et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 259 citations · Full text

Medicinal Chemistry, Ras Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors, Gpa1 Disruption +12

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

Tumor Biology, Oncology, Protein Kinase C +14

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 · 162 citations

Pharmaceutical Science, Bioorganic Chemistry, Altmetric Attention Score +17

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

Chemoprevention Strategy, G1-phase Accumulation, Cancer Biology +16