Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus M Kuroda, T Ohta, I Uchiyama, T Baba, H Yuzawa, I Kobayashi, L Cui, ... The Lancet 357 (9264), 1225-1240, 2001 | 2595 | 2001 |
A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes RJ Roberts, M Belfort, T Bestor, AS Bhagwat, TA Bickle, J Bitinaite, ... Nucleic acids research 31 (7), 1805-1812, 2003 | 923 | 2003 |
Behavior of restriction–modification systems as selfish mobile elements and their impact on genome evolution I Kobayashi Nucleic acids research 29 (18), 3742-3756, 2001 | 613 | 2001 |
Selfish behavior of restriction-modification systems T Naito, K Kusano, I Kobayashi Science 267 (5199), 897-899, 1995 | 443 | 1995 |
To be or not to be: regulation of restriction–modification systems and other toxin–antitoxin systems I Mruk, I Kobayashi Nucleic acids research 42 (1), 70-86, 2014 | 271 | 2014 |
Identification in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus hominis of an Active Primordial Mobile Genetic Element for the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec of … Y Katayama, F Takeuchi, T Ito, XX Ma, Y Ui-Mizutani, I Kobayashi, ... Journal of bacteriology 185 (9), 2711-2722, 2003 | 191 | 2003 |
Evolution in an oncogenic bacterial species with extreme genome plasticity: Helicobacter pyloriEast Asian genomes M Kawai, Y Furuta, K Yahara, T Tsuru, K Oshima, N Handa, N Takahashi, ... BMC microbiology 11, 1-28, 2011 | 171 | 2011 |
Shaping the genome–restriction–modification systems as mobile genetic elements I Kobayashi, A Nobusato, N Kobayashi-Takahashi, I Uchiyama Current opinion in genetics & development 9 (6), 649-656, 1999 | 141 | 1999 |
Restriction-modification systems as genomic parasites in competition for specific sequences. K Kusano, T Naito, N Handa, I Kobayashi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 (24), 11095-11099, 1995 | 134 | 1995 |
Restriction-modification gene complexes as selfish gene entities: roles of a regulatory system in their establishment, maintenance, and apoptotic mutual exclusion Y Nakayama, I Kobayashi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (11), 6442-6447, 1998 | 120 | 1998 |
Evidence for the double-strand break repair model of bacteriophage lambda recombination. N Takahashi, I Kobayashi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87 (7), 2790-2794, 1990 | 119 | 1990 |
Dependence of frequency of homologous recombination on the homology length. Y Fujitani, K Yamamoto, I Kobayashi Genetics 140 (2), 797-809, 1995 | 106 | 1995 |
A DNA methyltransferase can protect the genome from postdisturbance attack by a restriction-modification gene complex N Takahashi, Y Naito, N Handa, I Kobayashi Journal of bacteriology 184 (22), 6100-6108, 2002 | 104 | 2002 |
Methylome diversification through changes in DNA methyltransferase sequence specificity Y Furuta, H Namba-Fukuyo, TF Shibata, T Nishiyama, S Shigenobu, ... PLoS genetics 10 (4), e1004272, 2014 | 103 | 2014 |
Genome comparison and context analysis reveals putative mobile forms of restriction–modification systems and related rearrangements Y Furuta, K Abe, I Kobayashi Nucleic acids research 38 (7), 2428-2443, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
Cellular responses to postsegregational killing by restriction-modification genes N Handa, A Ichige, K Kusano, I Kobayashi Journal of bacteriology 182 (8), 2218-2229, 2000 | 102 | 2000 |
Diversity of restriction–modification gene homologues in Helicobacter pylori A Nobusato, I Uchiyama, I Kobayashi Gene 259 (1-2), 89-98, 2000 | 98 | 2000 |
Improved in vitro packaging of coliphage lambda DNA: a one-strain system free from endogenous phage SM Rosenberg, MM Stahl, I Kobayashi, FW Stahl Gene 38 (1-3), 165-175, 1985 | 98 | 1985 |
Chromosome painting in silico in a bacterial species reveals fine population structure K Yahara, Y Furuta, K Oshima, M Yoshida, T Azuma, M Hattori, ... Molecular biology and evolution 30 (6), 1454-1464, 2013 | 94 | 2013 |
Selfishness and death: raison d'etre of restriction, recombination and mitochondria I Kobayashi Trends in Genetics 14 (9), 368-374, 1998 | 91 | 1998 |