Itaru Okamoto

Specific interactions between silver(i) ions and cytosine–cytosine pairs in DNA duplexes

Akira Ono, Shiqi Cao, Humika Togashi et al. · Chemical Communications · 2008 · 762 citations

Crystal Structure of Metallo DNA Duplex Containing Consecutive Watson–Crick‐like T–Hg^II–T Base Pairs

Jiro Kondo, Tom Yamada, Chika Hirose et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2014 · 150 citations

Crystal Structure, Engineering, Dna Analysis +16

Metal‐Ion Selectivity of Chemically Modified Uracil Pairs in DNA Duplexes

Itaru Okamoto, Kenji Iwamoto, Yuko Watanabe et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2009 · 131 citations · Full text

Dna Nanotechnology, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry +14

The structure of metallo-DNA with consecutive thymine–HgII–thymine base pairs explains positive entropy for the metallo base pair formation

Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Jakub Šebera, Jiro Kondo et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2013 · 111 citations · Full text

Thermodynamic and structural properties of the specific binding between Ag+ ion and C:C mismatched base pair in duplex DNA to form C–Ag–C metal-mediated base pair

Hidetaka Torigoe, Itaru Okamoto, Takenori Dairaku et al. · Biochimie · 2012 · 103 citations

Base Pair, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Natural Sciences +8