Koh-ichi Utani, June-ko Kawamoto and Noriaki Shimizu (2007) Micronuclei bearing acentric extrachromosomal chromatin are transcriptionally competent and may perturb the cancer cell phenotype. Mol. Cancer Res. in press.

Noriaki Shimizu, Naomi Misaka and Koh-ichi Utani (2007) Nonselective DNA Damage Induced by a Replication Inhibitor Results in the Selective Elimination of Extrachromosomal Double Minutes From Human Cancer Cells. Genes Chrom. Cancer in press.

Noriaki Shimizu, Naoyuki Hanada, Kohichi Utani and Naoki Sekiguchi (2007) Interconversion of Intra- and Extra-chromosomal Sites of Gene Amplification by Modulation of Gene Expression and DNA Methylation. J. Cell. Biochem. in press.

Toshihiko Hashizume and Noriaki Shimizu (2007) Dissection of Mammalian Replicators by a Novel Plasmid Stability Assay. J. Cell. Biochem. 101, 552-565.

Noriaki Shimizu, June-ko Kawamoto and Koh-ichi Utani (2007) Regulation of c-myc through intranuclear localization of its RNA subspecies. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 358, 806-810.

Daniela Bosisio, Ivan Marazzi, Alessandra Agresti, Noriaki Shimizu, Marco E. Bianchi and Gioacchino Natoli (2006) A hyper-dynamic equilibrium between promoter-bound and nucleoplasmic dimers controls NF-kB-dependent gene activity. EMBO J. 25, 798-810.

Noriaki Shimizu, Fumie Kamezaki and Shiho Shigematsu (2005) Tracking of microinjected DNA in live cells reveals the intracellular behavior and elimination of extrachromosomal genetic material. Nuc. Acids Res. 33, 6296-6307.

Noriaki Shimizu, Kenta Shingaki, Yukiko Kaneko-Sasaguri, Toshihiko Hashizume and Teru Kanda (2005) When, where and how the bridge breaks: Anaphase bridge breakage plays a crucial role in gene amplification and HSR-generation. Exp. Cell Res. 302, 233-243

Noriaki Shimizu and Kenta Shingaki (2004) Macroscopic folding and replication of the homogeneously staining region in late S phase leads to the appearance of replication bands in mitotic chromosomes. J. Cell Sci. 117, 5303-5312.

Noriaki Shimizu, Toshihiko Hashizume, Kenta Shingaki and June-ko Kawamoto (2003) Amplification of plasmids containing a mammalian replication initiation region is mediated by controllable conflict between replication and transcription. Cancer Res. 63, 5281-5290.