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Benjamin Masao Akiyama

TitlePost-Doctoral Fellow
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
DepartmentSOM-BioChem&Molecular Genetics

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    F32GM117730     (AKIYAMA, BENJAMIN)Aug 1, 2016 - Jul 31, 2018
    NIH/NIGMS
    A pathogenic RNA that resists degradation: characterization of subgenomic flavivirus RNA
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Steckelberg AL, Akiyama BM, Costantino DA, Sit TL, Nix JC, Kieft JS. A folded viral noncoding RNA blocks host cell exoribonucleases through a conformationally dynamic RNA structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 06 19; 115(25):6404-6409. PMID: 29866852.
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    2. Akiyama BM, Laurence HM, Massey AR, Costantino DA, Xie X, Yang Y, Shi PY, Nix JC, Beckham JD, Kieft JS. Zika virus produces noncoding RNAs using a multi-pseudoknot structure that confounds a cellular exonuclease. Science. 2016 12 02; 354(6316):1148-1152. PMID: 27934765.
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    3. Akiyama BM, Eiler D, Kieft JS. Structured RNAs that evade or confound exonucleases: function follows form. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2016 Feb; 36:40-7. PMID: 26797676.
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    4. Jansson LI, Akiyama BM, Ooms A, Lu C, Rubin SM, Stone MD. Structural basis of template-boundary definition in Tetrahymena telomerase. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Nov; 22(11):883-8. PMID: 26436828.
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    5. Akiyama BM, Parks JW, Stone MD. The telomerase essential N-terminal domain promotes DNA synthesis by stabilizing short RNA-DNA hybrids. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jun 23; 43(11):5537-49. PMID: 25940626.
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    6. Akiyama BM, Gomez A, Stone MD. A conserved motif in Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase reverse transcriptase is proximal to the RNA template and is essential for boundary definition. J Biol Chem. 2013 Jul 26; 288(30):22141-9. PMID: 23760279.
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    7. Akiyama BM, Stone MD. Structural biology: a solution to the telomerase puzzle. Nature. 2013 Apr 11; 496(7444):177-8. PMID: 23552897.
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    8. Akiyama BM, Loper J, Najarro K, Stone MD. The C-terminal domain of Tetrahymena thermophila telomerase holoenzyme protein p65 induces multiple structural changes in telomerase RNA. RNA. 2012 Apr; 18(4):653-60. PMID: 22315458.
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    9. Berman AJ, Akiyama BM, Stone MD, Cech TR. The RNA accordion model for template positioning by telomerase RNA during telomeric DNA synthesis. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2011 Nov 20; 18(12):1371-5. PMID: 22101935.
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    10. Hengesbach M, Akiyama BM, Stone MD. Single-molecule analysis of telomerase structure and function. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2011 Dec; 15(6):845-52. PMID: 22057212.
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    11. Akiyama BM, Stone MD. Assembly of complex RNAs by splinted ligation. Methods Enzymol. 2009; 469:27-46. PMID: 20946783.
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