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1. Qayyum MZ, Imashimizu M, Leanca M, Vishwakarma RK, Riaz-Bradley A, Yuzenkova Y, Murakami KS., Structure and function of the Si3 insertion integrated into the trigger loop/helix of cyanobacterial RNA polymerase, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2024. e2311480121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2311480121

2. Sugiyama J, Tokunaga Y, Hishida M, Tanaka M, Takeuchi K, Satoh D and Imashimizu M*, Nonthermal acceleration of protein hydration by sub-terahertz irradiation, Nature Communications, 2023. 14:2825, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38462-0

3. Tokunaga Y, Tanaka M, Iida H, Kinoshita M, Tojima Y, Takeuchi K and Imashimizu M*, Nonthermal Excitation Effects Mediated by Sub-Terahertz Radiation on Hydrogen Exchange in Ubiquitin, Biophysical Journal, 2021. 120,1-8. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.04.013

4. Imashimizu M*, Tanaka M and Hoshina H,  Gre factors prevent thermal and mechanical stresses induced by terahertz irradiation during transcription, Genes Cells, 2020, doi: 10.1111/gtc.12822.

5. Imashimizu M*, Tokunaga Y, Afek A, Takahash H, Shimamoto N and Lukatsky DB*, Control of Transcription Initiation by Biased Thermal Fluctuations on Repetitive Genomic Sequences, Biomolecules 2020, 10(9).

6. Imashimizu M*, Kireeva ML, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M and Shimamoto N*, The role of pyrophosphorolysis in the initiation-to-elongation transition by E. coli RNA polymerase, JMB, 2019 431(14): p. 2528-2542.

7. Imashimizu M*, Takahashi M, Amano R and Nakamura Y, Single-round isolation of diverse RNA aptamers from a random sequence pool, Biology Methods & Protocols, 2018. 3(1): p1-13

8. Imashimizu M* & Lukatsky DB*,Transcription pausing: biological significance of thermal fluctuations biased by repetitive genomic sequences, Transcription, 2017. doi: 10.1080/21541264.2017.1393492.

9. Imashimizu, M.*, A. Afek, H. Takahashi, L. Lubkowska, and D. B. Lukatsky*, Control of transcriptional pausing by biased thermal fluctuations on repetitive genomic sequences, PNAS, 2016. 113 (47) E7409-17.

10. Imashimizu, M., H. Takahashi, T. Oshima, C. McIntosh, M. Bubunenko, D. L. Court, and M, Kashlev, Visualizing translocation dynamics and nascent transcript errors in paused RNA polymerases in vivo, Genome Biology, 2015.16:98.

11. Imashimizu, M. and M, Kashlev, Unveiling translocation intermediates of RNA polymerase, PNAS, 2014. 111(21):p. 7505-8.

12. Imashimizu, M., N. Shimamoto, T. Oshima, and M. Kashlev, Transcription elongation: Heterogeneous tracking of RNA polymerase and its biological implications, Transcription 2014. 5(1) e28285.

13. Imashimizu, M., T. Oshima, L. Lubkowska, and M. Kashlev, Direct assessment of transcription fidelity by high- resolution RNA sequencing Nucleic Acids Research 2013. 41(19): p. 9090-104.

14. Imashimizu, M., M. L. Kireeva, L. Lubkowska, D. Gotte, A. R. Parks, J. N. Strathern, and M. Kashlev, Intrinsic Translocation Barrier as an Initial Step in Pausing by RNA Polymerase II. J. Mol. Biol. 2013. 425(4):p. 697-712.

15. Imashimizu, M., K. Tanaka, and N. Shimamoto, Comparative Study of Cyanobacterial and E. coli RNA Polymerases: Misincorporation, Abortive Transcription, and Dependence on Divalent Cations. Genetics Research International, 2011. 2011 Article ID 572689.

16. Shukla, S., E. Kavak, M. Gregory, M. Imashimizu, B. Shutinoski, M. Kashlev, P. Oberdoerffer, R. Sandberg, and S. Oberdoerffer, CTCF-promoted RNA polymerase II pausing links DNA methylation to splicing. Nature, 2011. 479(7371):p. 74-9.