| A tripeptide ‘anticodon’deciphers stop codons in messenger RNA K Ito, M Uno, Y Nakamura Nature 403 (6770), 680-684, 2000 | 331 | 2000 |
| Structural basis for the drug extrusion mechanism by a MATE multidrug transporter Y Tanaka, CJ Hipolito, AD Maturana, K Ito, T Kuroda, T Higuchi, T Katoh, ... Nature 496 (7444), 247-251, 2013 | 280 | 2013 |
| Emerging understanding of translation termination Y Nakamura, K Ito, LA Isaksson Cell 87 (2), 147-150, 1996 | 231 | 1996 |
| Structural insights into eRF3 and stop codon recognition by eRF1 Z Cheng, K Saito, AV Pisarev, M Wada, VP Pisareva, TV Pestova, ... Genes & development 23 (9), 1106-1118, 2009 | 193 | 2009 |
| Conserved motifs in prokaryotic and eukaryotic polypeptide release factors: tRNA-protein mimicry hypothesis. K Ito, K Ebihara, M Uno, Y Nakamura Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93 (11), 5443-5448, 1996 | 193 | 1996 |
| The mechanism of tryptophan induction of tryptophanase operon expression: Tryptophan inhibits release factor-mediated cleavage of TnaC-peptidyl-tRNAPro F Gong, K Ito, Y Nakamura, C Yanofsky Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (16), 8997-9001, 2001 | 160 | 2001 |
| Identification of the prfC gene, which encodes peptide-chain-release factor 3 of Escherichia coli. O Mikuni, K Ito, J Moffat, K Matsumura, K McCaughan, T Nobukuni, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91 (13), 5798-5802, 1994 | 160 | 1994 |
| Crystal structure and functional analysis of the eukaryotic class II release factor eRF3 from S. pombe C Kong, K Ito, MA Walsh, M Wada, Y Liu, S Kumar, D Barford, ... Molecular cell 14 (2), 233-245, 2004 | 152 | 2004 |
| Making sense of mimic in translation termination Y Nakamura, K Ito Trends in biochemical sciences 28 (2), 99-105, 2003 | 150 | 2003 |
| The critical role of the universally conserved A2602 of 23S ribosomal RNA in the release of the nascent peptide during translation termination N Polacek, MJ Gomez, K Ito, L Xiong, Y Nakamura, A Mankin Molecular cell 11 (1), 103-112, 2003 | 150 | 2003 |
| The stretch of C-terminal acidic amino acids of translational release factor eRF1 is a primary binding site for eRF3 of fission yeast K ITO, K EBIHARA, Y NAKAMURA RNA 4 (8), 958-972, 1998 | 146 | 1998 |
| EF-G2mt is an exclusive recycling factor in mammalian mitochondrial protein synthesis M Tsuboi, H Morita, Y Nozaki, K Akama, T Ueda, K Ito, KH Nierhaus, ... Molecular cell 35 (4), 502-510, 2009 | 135 | 2009 |
| Mg2+‐dependent gating of bacterial MgtE channel underlies Mg2+ homeostasis M Hattori, N Iwase, N Furuya, Y Tanaka, T Tsukazaki, R Ishitani, ... The EMBO journal 28 (22), 3602-3612, 2009 | 131 | 2009 |
| Structural basis for mRNA surveillance by archaeal Pelota and GTP-bound EF1α complex K Kobayashi, I Kikuno, K Kuroha, K Saito, K Ito, R Ishitani, T Inada, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (41), 17575-17579, 2010 | 126 | 2010 |
| Mimicry grasps reality in translation termination Y Nakamura, K Ito, M Ehrenberg Cell 101 (4), 349-352, 2000 | 124 | 2000 |
| Outward-and inward-facing structures of a putative bacterial transition-metal transporter with homology to ferroportin R Taniguchi, HE Kato, J Font, CN Deshpande, M Wada, K Ito, R Ishitani, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 8545, 2015 | 121 | 2015 |
| Omnipotent decoding potential resides in eukaryotic translation termination factor eRF1 of variant-code organisms and is modulated by the interactions of amino acid sequences … K Ito, L Frolova, A Seit-Nebi, A Karamyshev, L Kisselev, Y Nakamura Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (13), 8494-8499, 2002 | 118 | 2002 |
| How protein reads the stop codon and terminates translation Y Nakamura, K Ito Genes to Cells 3 (5), 265-278, 1998 | 116 | 1998 |
| Single amino acid substitution in prokaryote polypeptide release factor 2 permits it to terminate translation at all three stop codons K Ito, M Uno, Y Nakamura Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (14), 8165-8169, 1998 | 103 | 1998 |
| Crystal structure combined with genetic analysis of the Thermus thermophilus ribosome recycling factor shows that a flexible hinge may act as a functional switch T TOYODA, OF TIN, K ITO, T FUJIWARA, T KUMASAKA, M YAMAMOTO, ... Rna 6 (10), 1432-1444, 2000 | 96 | 2000 |
