| Development of defective and persistent Sendai virus vector: a unique gene delivery/expression system ideal for cell reprogramming K Nishimura, M Sano, M Ohtaka, B Furuta, Y Umemura, Y Nakajima, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 286 (6), 4760-4771, 2011 | 417 | 2011 |
| Effect of asymmetric terminal structures of short RNA duplexes on the RNA interference activity and strand selection M Sano, M Sierant, M Miyagishi, M Nakanishi, Y Takagi, S Sutou Nucleic acids research 36 (18), 5812-5821, 2008 | 140 | 2008 |
| Sequence-specific interference by small RNAs derived from adenovirus VAI RNA M Sano, Y Kato, K Taira FEBS letters 580 (6), 1553-1564, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| RNA–protein hybrid ribozymes that efficiently cleave any mRNA independently of the structure of the target RNA M Warashina, T Kuwabara, Y Kato, M Sano, K Taira Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (10), 5572-5577, 2001 | 125 | 2001 |
| Vectors for generating pluripotent stem cells and methods of producing pluripotent stem cells using the same M Nakanishi, K Nishimura, M Ohtaka, M Sano US Patent 8,496,941, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| A role for the Dicer helicase domain in the processing of thermodynamically unstable hairpin RNAs HS Soifer, M Sano, K Sakurai, P Chomchan, P Sætrom, MA Sherman, ... Nucleic acids research 36 (20), 6511-6522, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Expression of long anti-HIV-1 hairpin RNAs for the generation of multiple siRNAs: advantages and limitations M Sano, H Li, M Nakanishi, JJ Rossi Molecular Therapy 16 (1), 170-177, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Simple and effective generation of transgene-free induced pluripotent stem cells using an auto-erasable Sendai virus vector responding to microRNA-302 K Nishimura, M Ohtaka, H Takada, A Kurisaki, NVK Tran, YTH Tran, ... Stem cell research 23, 13-19, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Significantly higher activity of a cytoplasmic hammerhead ribozyme than a corresponding nuclear counterpart: engineered tRNAs with an extended 3′ end can be exported … T Kuwabara, M Warashina, S Koseki, M Sano, J Ohkawa, K Nakayama, ... Nucleic Acids Research 29 (13), 2780-2788, 2001 | 57 | 2001 |
| Recognition of Engineered tRNAs with an Extended 3 ‘End by Exportin-t (Xpo-t) and Transport of tRNA-Attached Ribozymes to the Cytoplasm in Somatic Cells T Kuwabara, M Warashina, M Sano, H Tang, F Wong-Staal, E Munekata, ... Biomacromolecules 2 (4), 1229-1242, 2001 | 41 | 2001 |
| Ribozymes: applications to functional analysis and gene discovery M Shiota, M Sano, M Miyagishi, K Taira Journal of biochemistry 136 (2), 133-147, 2004 | 21 | 2004 |
| Novel methods for expressing RNA interference in human cells M Sano, Y Kato, H Akashi, M Miyagishi, K Taira Methods in enzymology 392, 97-112, 2005 | 18 | 2005 |
| Antigens of adult female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis recognized by infected humans. N Akao, K Kondo, TA Ohyama, ER Chen, M Sano | 15 | 1992 |
| Sensitive and long-term monitoring of intracellular microRNAs using a non-integrating cytoplasmic RNA vector M Sano, M Ohtaka, M Iijima, A Nakasu, Y Kato, M Nakanishi Scientific Reports 7 (1), 12673, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Functional gene-discovery systems based on libraries of hammerhead and hairpin ribozymes and short hairpin RNAs M Sano, Y Kato, K Taira Molecular BioSystems 1 (1), 27-35, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| A direct and efficient synthesis method for dumbell-shaped linear DNA using PCR in vitro M Taki, Y Kato, M Miyagishi, Y Takagi, M Sano, K Taira Nucleic acids symposium series 3 (1), 191-192, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| Novel strategy to control transgene expression mediated by a Sendai virus-based vector using a nonstructural C protein and endogenous microRNAs M Sano, M Iijima, M Ohtaka, M Nakanishi PloS one 11 (10), e0164720, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| A Sendai virus-based cytoplasmic RNA vector as a novel platform for long-term expression of microRNAs M Sano, A Nakasu, M Ohtaka, M Nakanishi Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development 15, 371-382, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Vectors for generating pluripotent stem cells and methods of producing pluripotent stem cells using the same M Nakanishi, K Nishimura, M Sano, M Ohtaka US Patent 9,365,866, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Surface modulation of extracellular vesicles with cell-penetrating peptide-conjugated lipids for improvement of intracellular delivery to endothelial cells T Huang, Y Sato, A Kuramochi, Y Ohba, M Sano, M Miyagishi, H Tateno, ... Regenerative Therapy 22, 90-98, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
