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JAMSTEC 2002 Annual Report
Research Achievements
host-vector system for deep-sea piezophilic bacteria,
Shewanella violacea DSS and Moritella japonica DSK (in
Japanese), JAMSTECR, , -, .
) Hagihara, H., Igarashi, K., Hayashi, Y., Kitayama, K., Endo,
K., Ozawa, T., Ozaki, K., Kawai, S. & Ito, S., Improvement of
thermostability of a calcium-free a-amylase from an alkaliphilic
Bacillus sp. by protein engineering, J. Appl. Glycosci,
, -, .
) Hakamada, Y., Endo, K., Takizawa, S., Kobayashi, T., Shirai,
T., Yamane, T. and Ito, S., Enzymatic properties, crystallization,
and deduced amino acid sequence of an alkaline endoglucanase
from Bacillus circulans, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, ,
-, .
) Hamamoto, M., Nagahama, T. & Tamura, M., Systematic study
of basidiomycetous yeasts - evaluation of the ITS regions of
rDNA to delimit species of the genus Rhodosporidium, FEMS
Yeast Res , -, .
) Inagaki, F., Motomura, Y. & Ogata, S., Microbial silica deposition
in geothermal hot waters, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
, in press.
) Inagaki, F., Sakihama, Y., Inoue, A., Kato, C. & Horikoshi, K.,
Molecular phylogenetic analyses of reverse transcripted bacterial
rRNA obtained from deep-sea cold seep sediments,
Environ. Microbiol., , -, .
) Inagaki, F., Sakihama, Y., Kato, C., Inoue, A. & Horikoshi, K.,
Microbial diversity in the cold seep sediment at the Japan
Trench, JAMSTEC J. Deep Sea Res., , -, .
) Inagaki, F., Sakihama, Y., Takai, K., Komatsu, T., Inoue, A. &
Horikoshi, K., Profile of microbial community structure and
presence of endolithic microorganisms inside a deep-sea rock,
Geomicrobiol. J. , -, .
) Inagaki, F., Sakihama, Y., Takai, K., Komatsu, T., Inoue, A. &
Horikoshi, K., Transition in microbial community structures
and presence of unusual microorganisms in a deep-sea rock,
Geomicrobiol. J. in press.
) Inagaki, F., Takai, K., Hirayama, H., Yamato, Y., Nealson, K.
H. & Horikoshi, K., Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of
the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal
gold mine, Extremophiles in press.
) Ishii, A., Nakasone, K., Sato, T., Wachi, M., Sugai, M., Nagai,
K. & Kato, C., Isolation and characterization of the dcw cluster
from the piezophilic deep- sea bacterium Shewanella violacea,
J. Biochem., , -, .
) Ito, S., Hatada, Y., Ozawa, T., Hagihara, H., Araki, H., Tsujino,
Y., Kitayama, K., Igarashi, K., Kageyama, Y., Kobayashi, T.
and Ozaki, K., Protein-engineered Bacillus α-amylases that
have acquired both enhanced thermostability and chelator
resistance, J. Appl. Glycosci., , -, .
) Ito, S., Kobayashi, T., Ozaki, K., Igarashi, K., Hagihara, H.,
Hayashi, Y., Ozawa, T., Hatada, Y. and Kawai, S.,
Carbohydrate-active enzymes from alkaliphiles, J. Appl.
Glycosci., in press.
) Kato, C., Nakasone, K., Ikegami, A., Kawano, H., Usami, R.
and Horikoshi, K., Bacteria-sensing mechanisms at transcription
level in piezophilic bacteria. J.S.B.B. Congress,
Proceedings, in press.
) Kato, C., Nakasone, K., Ikegami, A., Kawano, R., Usami, R.
and Horikoshi, K., Molecular mechanisms of pressure-regulation
at transcription level in piezophilic bacteria, In "Trends in
High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology" (ed. R.
Hayashi), pp.-, .
) Kawano, H., Nakasone, K., Ikegami, A., Kato, C., Usami, R.
& Horikoshi, K., Purification and characterization of RNA
polymerase from deep-sea piezophilic Shewanella violacea.
JAMSTECR, , -, .
) Kawasaki, K., Nogi, Y., Hishinuma, M., Nodasaka, Y.,
Matsuyama, H. & Yumoto, I., Psychromonas marina sp. nov.,
a novel halophilic, facultatively psychrophilic bacterium isolated
from the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol. , -, .
) Kobayashi, T., Sawada, K., Sumitomo, N., Hatada, Y. & Ito,
S., Bifunctional pectinolyti enzyme with separate pectate lyase
and pectin methylesterase domains from an alkaliphilic
Bacillus isolate, Curr. Microbiol., in press.
) Koyama, S. & Aizawa, M., PKC dependent IL- production
and inhibition of IL- production by PKC activation in normal
human skin fibroblasts under extremely high hydristatic pressure,
Extremophiles, , -, .
) Koyama, S., Fujii, S. & Aizawa, M., Post-transcriptional regulation
of immunomodulatory cytokines production in human
skin fibroblasts by intense mechanical stresses, J. Biosci.
Bioeng., , -, .
) Koyama, S., Horii, M., Yanagida, Y., Kobatake, E., Miwa, T.
& Aizawa, M., Pressure Sensitivity of HSP Promoter in
Transformed T-L Cells, JAMSTEC Journal Deep Sea
Research, .
) Koyama, S., Miwa, T., Horii, M., Horikoshi, K. & Aizawa, M.,
Tissue culture of the deep-sea eel Simenchelys parasiticus collected
at m, Extremophiles, in press.
) Koyama, S., Miwa, T., Horii, M., Ishikawa, Y., Horikoshi, K.
& Aizawa, M., Pressure-stat aquarium system designed for
capturing and maintaining deep-sea organisms, Deep Sea
Research Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers , ,
-, .
) Mitsuzawa, S. & Yukawa, T., Reverse chemical evolution: A
new method to search for thermally stable biopolymers,
Origins Life Evol.Biosphere. in press.
) Miura, T., Abe, F., Inoue, A., Usami R. and Horikoshi, K.,
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