Reiji Okazaki (岡崎 令治, Okazaki Reiji, 8 Oktober 1930 – 1 Agustus 1975) adalah seorang pakar biologi molekular pionir asal Jepang. Ia dikenal karena risetnya tentang replikasi DNA dan khususnya atas penjelasan peran fragmen Okazaki bersama dengan istrinya Tsuneko.[1][2][3][4]
Referensi
- ^ Okazaki, R.; Okazaki, T.; Sakabe, K.; Sugimoto, K.; Sugino, A. (1968). "Mechanism of DNA chain growth. I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 59 (2): 598–605. doi:10.1073/pnas.59.2.598. PMC 224714
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- ^ Sugimoto, K.; Okazaki, T.; Okazaki, R. (1968). "Mechanism of DNA chain growth, II. Accumulation of newly synthesized short chains in E. Coli infected with ligase-defective T4 phages". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 60 (4): 1356–1362. doi:10.1073/pnas.60.4.1356. PMC 224926 . PMID 4299945.
- ^ Sugimoto, K.; Okazaki, T.; Imae, Y.; Okazaki, R. (1969). "Mechanism of DNA chain growth. 3. Equal annealing of T4 nascent short DNA chains with the separated complementary strands of the phage DNA". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 63 (4): 1343–1350. doi:10.1073/pnas.63.4.1343. PMC 223470 . PMID 5260937.
- ^ Okazaki, T.; Okazaki, R. (1969). "Mechanism of DNA chain growth. IV. Direction of synthesis of T4 short DNA chains as revealed by exonucleolytic degradation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 64 (4): 1242–1248. doi:10.1073/pnas.64.4.1242. PMC 223275 . PMID 4989398.
