• Chihiro Nakayama, Qi Fang, Yasukazu Daigaku, Yuki Aoi, Shoko Ito, Mami Takahashi, Reo Shimatani, Tamiko Minamisawa, Yagiz Ozturk, Hiroshi Kimura et al.
  NELF prevents transcriptional readthrough into DNA replication zones in cancer cells. EMBO Reports, e57703 2026.
• Xiaoxuan Zhu, Atabek Bektash, Yuki Hatoyama, Sachiko Muramatsu, Shin-Ya Isobe, Chikashi Obuse, Atsushi Toyoda, Yasukazu Daigaku, Chun-Long Chen, Masato T. Kanemaki
  Regulated TRESLIN-MTBP loading governs initiation zones and replication timing in human DNA replication. Nature Communications, 16 7929 2025.
• Lewis J. Bainbridge, Yuji Masuda, Kanae Kaneko, Tamiko Minamisawa, Mami Takahashi, Chikahide Masutani, Yasukazu Daigaku
  Strand- and replication timing-dependent functions of DNA polymerase η in human DNA replication and mutagenesis. bioRxiv 2025.
• Toshiaki Abe, Reiko Daigaku, Xie Yuting, Yasukazu Daigaku, Nobuhiro Nagai, Hirokazu Kaji, Aya Katsuyama, Yuki Katsukura, Yasuko Izumida, Atsuko Suzuki et al.
  Retinal Pigment Epithelium Specific Metabolic Phenotypes Are Regulated by High-Mobility Group Protein N1. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 66(4) 70 2025.
• Yasuji Sawada, Yasukazu Daigaku, Kenji Toma
  Maximum Entropy Production Principle of Thermodynamics for the Birth and Evolution of Life. Entropy, 27(4) 449 2025.
• Akino Matsumoto, Yasukazu Daigaku, Tomomi Tsubouchi
  Polymerase-usage sequencing identifies initiation zones with less bias across S phase in mouse embryonic stem cells. The Journal of Biochemistry, 177(3) 183-193 2025.
• Lewis J. Bainbridge, Yasukazu Daigaku
  Bulk synthesis and beyond: The roles of eukaryotic replicative DNA polymerases. DNA Repair, 103740 2024.
• Yuki Sugiyama, Satoshi Okada, Yasukazu Daigaku, Emiko Kusumoto, Takashi Ito
  Strategic targeting of Cas9 nickase induces large segmental duplications. Cell Genomics, 4(8) 100610 2024.
• Lewis J. Bainbridge, Yasukazu Daigaku
  Adaptive use of error-prone DNA polymerases provides flexibility in genome replication during tumorigenesis. Cancer Science, 115(7) 2125-2136 2024.
• Takayuki Nojima, Chihiro Nakayama, Yasukazu Daigaku, Yuki Aoi, Qi Fang, Hiroshi Kimura, Ali Shilatifard, Michael Tellier
  NELF coordinates Pol II transcription termination and DNA replication initiation. Preprint 2024.
• Eri Koyanagi, Yoko Kakimoto, Tamiko Minamisawa, Fumiya Yoshifuji, Toyoaki Natsume, Atsushi Higashitani, Tomoo Ogi, Antony M. Carr, Masato T. Kanemaki, Yasukazu Daigaku
  Global landscape of replicative DNA polymerase usage in the human genome. Nature Communications, 13 7221 2022.
• Yasuji Sawada, Yasukazu Daigaku, Kenji Toma
  Onset model of mutually catalytic self-replicative systems formed by an assembly of polynucleotides. Physical Review E, 107 054404 2023.
• Motoko Unoki, Guillaume Velasco, Satomi Kori, Kyohei Arita, Yasukazu Daigaku, Wan Kin Au Yeung, Akihiro Fujimoto, Hirofumi Ohashi, Takeo Kubota, Kunio Miyake et al.
  Novel compound heterozygous mutations in UHRF1 are associated with atypical immunodeficiency, centromeric instability and facial anomalies syndrome with distinctive genome-wide DNA hypomethylation. Human Molecular Genetics, 31(17) 2852-2868 2023.
• Zhenghao Chen, Satoshi Watanabe, Hironori Hashida, Michio Inoue, Yasukazu Daigaku, Masahide Kikkawa, Kenji Inaba
  Cryo-EM structures of human SPCA1a reveal the mechanism of Ca 2+ /Mn 2+ transport into the Golgi apparatus. Science Advances, 9(9) eadd9742 2023.
• Yuka Nakazawa, Yuichiro Hara, Yasuyoshi Oka, Okiru Komine, Diana van den Heuvel, Chaowan Guo, Yasukazu Daigaku, Mayu Isono, Yuxi He, Mayuko Shimada, Kana Kato, Nan Jia, Satoru Hashimoto, Yuko Kotani, Yuka Miyoshi, Miyako Tanaka, Akira Sobue, Norisato Mitsutake, Takayoshi Suganami, Akio Masuda, Kinji Ohno, Shinichiro Nakada, Tomoji Mashimo, Koji Yamanaka, Martijn S Luijsterburg, Tomoo Ogi
  Ubiquitination of DNA Damage-Stalled RNAPII Promotes Transcription-Coupled Repair. Cell, 180(6) 1228-1244 2020.
• Z. Shao, S. Niwa, A. Higashitani, Y. Daigaku
  Vital roles of PCNA K165 modification during C. elegans gametogenesis and embryogenesis. DNA repair, 82 102688 2019.
• Andrea Keszthelyi, Izumi Miyabe, Katsuyuki Ptasínska, Yasukazu Daigaku, Kaija Naiman, Antony M. Carr
  Analysis of replicative polymerase usage by ribonucleotide incorporation. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1837 237-264 2018.
• N. García-Rodríguez, M. Morawska, RP. Wong, Y. Daigaku, HD. Ulrich
  Spatial separation between replisome- and template-induced replication stress signaling. EMBO Journal, 37(9) e98369 2018.
• Y. Daigaku, Thomas J. Etheridge, Yuka Nakazawa, Mayumi Nakayama, Adam T. Watson, Izumi Miyabe, Tomoo Ogi, Mark A. Osborne, Antony M. Carr
  PCNA ubiquitylation ensures timely completion of unperturbed DNA replication in fission yeast. PLoS Genetics, 13(5) e1006789 2017.
• Andrea Keszthelyi, Yasukazu Daigaku, Katie Ptasinska, Izumi Miyabe, Antony M. Carr
  Mapping ribonucleotides in genomic DNA and exploring replication dynamics by polymerase usage sequencing (Pu-seq). Nature Protocols, 10(11) 1786-1801 2015.
• Izumi Miyabe, Ken'Ichi Mizuno, Andrea Keszthelyi, Yasukazu Daigaku, Meliti Skouteri, Saed Mohebi, Thomas A. Kunkel, Johanne M. Murray, Antony M. Carr
  Polymerase delta replicates both strands after homologous recombination-dependent fork restart. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 22(11) 932-938 2015.
• Yasukazu Daigaku, Andrea Keszthelyi, Carolin A. Mueller, Izumi Miyabe, Tony Brooks, Renata Retkute, Mike Hubank, Conrad A. Nieduszynski, Antony M. Carr
  A global profile of replicative polymerase usage. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 22(3) 192-198 2015.
• Thomas J. Etheridge, Remi L. Boulineau, Alex Herbert, Adam T. Watson, Yasukazu Daigaku, Jem Tucker, Sophie George, Peter Joensson, Matthieu Palayret, David Lando, Ernest Laue, Mark A. Osborne, David Klenerman, Steven F. Lee, Antony M. Carr
  Quantification of DNA-associated proteins inside eukaryotic cells using single-molecule localization microscopy. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(19) e146 2014.
• Adam T. Watson, Yasukazu Daigaku, Saed Mohebi, Thomas J. Etheridge, Charly Chahwan, Johanne M. Murray, Antony M. Carr
  Optimisation of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe urg1 Expression System. PLoS One, 8(12) e83800 2013.
• Hironobu Ikehata, Shoichi Higashi, Shingo Nakamura, Yasukazu Daigaku, Yoshiya Furusawa, Yasuhiro Kamei, Masakatsu Watanabe, Kazuo Yamamoto, Kotaro Hieda, Nobuo Munakata, Tetsuya Ono
  Action Spectrum Analysis of UVR Genotoxicity for Skin: The Border Wavelengths between UVA and UVB Can Bring Serious Mutation Loads to Skin. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 133(7) 1850-1856 2013.
• Yasukazu Daigaku, Adelina A. Davies, Helle D. Ulrich
  Ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is separable from genome replication. Nature, 465(7300) 951-U13 2010.
• Yasukazu Daigaku
  Roadworks of DNA damage bypass during and after replication. Genes and Environment, 34(1) 77-85 2012.
• Adelina A. Davies, Diana Huttner, Yasukazu Daigaku, Shuhua Chen, Helle D. Ulrich
  Activation of ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is mediated by replication protein A. Molecular Cell, 29(5) 625-636 2008.
• Tatsuo Nunoshiba, Eri Watanabe, Teruhisa Takahashi, Yasukazu Daigaku, Satoko Ishikawa, Masataka Mochizuki, Ayako Ui, Takemi Enomoto, Kazuo Yamamoto
  Ames test-negative carcinogen, ortho-phenyl phenol, binds tubulin and causes aneuploidy in budding yeast. Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, 617(1-2) 90-97 2007.
• Kingo Endo, Yu-ichiro Tago, Yasukazu Daigaku, Kazuo Yamamoto
  Error-free RAD52 pathway and error-prone REVS pathway determines spontaneous mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cereaisiae. Genes & Genetic Systems, 82(1) 35-42 2007.
• Yasukazu Daigaku, Satsuki Mashiko, Keiichiro Mishiba, Saburo Yamamura, Ayako Ui, Takemi Enomoto, Kazuo Yamamoto
  Loss of heterozygosity in yeast can occur by ultraviolet irradiation during the S phase of the cell cycle. Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, 600(1-2) 177-183 2006.
• G Ohnishi, K Endo, A Doi, A Fujita, Y Daigaku, T Nunoshiba, K Yamamoto
  Spontaneous mutagenesis in haploid and diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 325(3) 928-933 2004.
• Y Daigaku, K Endo, E Watanabe, T Ono, K Yamamoto
  Loss of heterozygosity and DNA damage repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, 556(1-2) 183-191 2004.
• G Ohnishi, Y Daigaku, Y Nagata, M Ihara, K Yamamoto
  Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD27 complements its Escherichia coli homolog in damage repair but not mutation avoidance. Genes & Genetic Systems, 79(3) 183-187 2004.