The results of our joint research with Keio University and Tokyo Medical University have been published today in Nature Communications. This is the world’s first elucidation of the unique three-dimensional structure of a protein involved in malignant tumor growth and drug resistance.

The paper “CTCF regulates NELF, DSIF and P-TEFb recruitment during transcription” has been accepted for publication in the transcription journal Transcription. The first author of this paper is Clelia Laitem (University of Oxford, Shona Murphy lab), who visited our lab and collaborated with us as a JSPS Research Fellow two years ago, and the co-authors

The paper “Characterization of the human transcription elongation factor Rtf1: evidence for non-overlapping Characterization of the human transcription elongation factor Rtf1: evidence for non-overlapping functions of Rtf1 and the Paf1 complex” was accepted for publication in Molecular Cellular Biology and a preliminary version was posted on the web on July 27, 2012. The first author