Morimatsu, Katsumi

 

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Katsumi Morimatsu

B.S., 1990, Biology, Osaka University, Japan

M.S., 1992, Physiology, Osaka University, Japan

Ph.D., 1995, Physiology, Osaka University, Japan

   

Morimatsu, K., Horii T.
Analysis of the DNA binding site of Escherichia coli RecA protein.
Adv Biophys. 1995;31:23-48.

Morimatsu, K., Horii T.
The DNA-binding site of the RecA protein. Photochemical cross-linking of Tyr103 to single-stranded DNA.
Eur J Biochem. 1995 Mar 15;228(3):772-8. 

Morimatsu, K., Horii T, Takahashi M.
Interaction of Tyr103 and Tyr264 of the RecA protein with DNA and nucleotide cofactors. Fluorescence study of engineered proteins.
Eur J Biochem. 1995 Mar 15;228(3):779-85.

Morimatsu, K., Horii T.
DNA-binding surface of RecA protein photochemical cross-linking of the first DNA binding site on RecA filament.
Eur J Biochem. 1995 Dec 15;234(3):695-705. 

Morimatsu, K., Maraboeuf F, Hagmar P, Nordén B, Horii T, Takahashi M.
Roles of Tyr103 and Tyr264 in the regulation of RecA-DNA interactions by nucleotide cofactors.
Eur J Biochem. 1996 Aug 15;240(1):91-7.

Morimatsu, K., Morikawa T, Tanabe K, Bzik DJ, Horii T.
Sequence diversity in the amino-terminal 47 kDa fragment of the Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen.
Mol Biochem Parasitol. 1997 Jun;86(2):249-54. 

Morimatsu, K., Funakoshi T, Horii T, Takahashi M.
Interaction of tyrosine 65 of RecA protein with the first and second DNA strands.
J Mol Biol. 2001 Feb 16;306(2):189-99. 

Morimatsu, K., Takahashi M, Nordén B.
Arrangement of RecA protein in its active filament determined by polarized-light spectroscopy.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Sep 3;99(18):11688-93. 

Kim HK, Morimatsu, K., Nordén B, Ardhammar M, Takahashi M.
ADP stabilizes the human Rad51-single stranded DNA complex and promotes its DNA annealing activity.
Genes Cells. 2002 Nov;7(11):1125-34. 

Stohl, E.A., Brockman, J., Burkle, K.L., Morimatsu, K, Kowalczykowski, S.C., and Seifert, H.S. (2003)
Escherichia coli RecX inhibits RecA recombinase and coprotease activities in vitro and in vivo.
J. Biol. Chem., 278
, 2278-2285 (published November 9, 2002 as 10.1074/jbc.M210496200).  [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [PDF]

Morimatsu, K. and Kowalczykowski, S.C.  (2003).  
RecFOR proteins load RecA protein onto gapped DNA to accelerate DNA strand exchange: A universal step of recombinational repair. 
Mol. Cell,
11, 1337-1347 
[Abstract]  [Full Text]  [PDF]

Frykholm K, Morimatsu, K., Nordén B.
Conserved conformation of RecA protein after executing the DNA strand-exchange reaction. A site-specific linear dichroism structure study.
Biochemistry. 2006 Sep 19;45(37):11172-8. 

Morimatsu, K., Takahashi M.
Structural analysis of RecA protein-DNA complexes by fluorescence-detected linear dichroism: absence of structural change of filament for pairing of complementary DNA strands.  Anal Biochem. 2006 Nov 15;358(2):192-8.