Publications by authors named "Mai Kitamura"

Folding is a key process to form functional conformations of proteins. Folding on-pathway intermediates leads to the formation of native structures, while folding through off-pathways affords non-native and disease-causing forms. Trapping folding intermediates and misfolded forms is important for investigating folding mechanisms and disease-related biological properties of the misfolded proteins.

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In the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, the circadian clock entrains to a daily light/dark cycle. The transcription factor Pex is abundant under dark conditions and represses kaiA transcription to fine-tune the KaiC-based core circadian oscillator. The transcription of pex also increases during exposure to darkness; however, its mechanism is unknown.

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