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Japan Marine Science and Technology Center
Research Achievements
Superoxide dismutase is involved in high tolerance to copper
in the deep-sea yeast Cryptococcus sp. N, Biotechnol. Lett.
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) Miwa, T., Sato, T., Kato, C., Aizawa, M. & Horikoshi, K.,
Restoration of Escherichia coli from high hydrostatic pressure
–A study of the FtsZ-ring formation using confocal laser
microscopy, Progress in Biotechnology , In "Trends in High
Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology" (ed. R. Hayashi), pp.
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) Nagahama, T., Hamamoto, M., Nakase, T. & Horikoshi, K.,
Rhodotorula benthica sp. nov. and Rhodotorula calyptogenae
sp. nov., novel yeast species from animals collected from the
deep-sea floor, and Rhodotorula lysinophila sp. nov., which is
related phylogenetically, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, in press.
) Nakagawa, S., Takai, K., Horikoshi, K. & Sako, Y.,
Persephonella hydrogenophila sp. nov., a novel thermophilic,
hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal
vent chimney, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. in press.
) Nakasone, K., Ikegami, A., Kawano, H., Usami, R., Kato, C.
& Horikoshi, K., Transcriptional regulation under pressure
conditions by the RNA polymerase γ factor with a two components
regulatory system in Shewanella violacea,
Extremophiles, , -, .
) Nakasone, K., Kato, C. & Horikoshi, K., Cloning and sequencing
of the endA gene encoding deoxyribonuclease from a
deep-sea piezophilic bacterium, Shewanella violacea strain
DSS, JAMSTECR, , -, .
) Nogi, Y., Kato, C. & Horikoshi, K., Psychromonas kaikoae sp.
nov., isolation of novel piezophilic bacteria from the deepest
cold-seep sediments in the Japan Trench, Int J Syst Evol
Microbiol . -, .
) Nonaka, T., Fujihashi, M., Kita, A., Hagihara, H., Ozaki, K.,
Ito, S. & Miki, K., Crystal structure of calcium-free α-amylase
from Bacillus sp. strain KSM-K (AmyK) and its sodium
binding sites, J. Biol. Chem., in press.
) Nonomura, Y., Sugawara, T., Kashimoto, K., Fukuda, K.,
Hotta, H. & Tsujii, K., Langmuir, , -, .
) Nunoura, T., Aihara, S., Takai, K. & Sako, Y.,
Thermaerobacter nagasakiensis sp. nov., a novel aerobic and
extremely thermophilic bacterium, Arch. Microbiol. , -
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) Nunoura, T., Sako, Y., Wakagi, T. & Uchida, A., Regulation
of the respiratory chain in facultatively aerobic and hyperthermophilic
archaeon Pyrobaculum oguniense, Microbiology, in
press.
) Okamura, Y., Satake, K., Takeuchi, A., Gamo, T., Kato, C.,
Sasayama, Y., Nakayama, F., Ikehara, K. & Kodera, T.,
Techtonic, geochemical and biological studies in the eastern
margin of the Japan Sea –preliminary results of
Yokosuka/Shinkai YK- Cruise–, JAMSTEC J. Deep
Sea Res., , -, .
) Saeki, S., Magallones, M.V., Takimura, Y., Hatada, Y.,
Kobayashi, T., Kawai, S. & Ito, S., Nucleotide and deduce
amino acid sequences of a new subtilisin from an alkaliphilic
Bacillus isolate, Curr. Microbiol., in press.
) Sako, Y., Nakagawa, S., Takai, K. & Horikoshi, K.,
Marinithermus hydrothermalis sp. nov., a sterictly aerobic,
thermophilic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
chimney, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. in press.
) Sato, T., Miwa, T., Ishii, A., Kato, C., Wachi, M., Nagai, K.,
Aizawa, M. & Horikoshi, K., The dynamism of Escherichia
coli under high hydrostatic pressure–repression of the FtsZring
formation and chromosomal DNA condensation, Progress
in Biotechnology , In "Trends in High Pressure Bioscience
and Biotechnology" (ed. R. Hayashi), pp.-, .
) Shirai, T., Hung, S.-V, Hatada, Y., Ito, S. & Horikoshi, K.,
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray study of α-glucosidase
from Geobacillus sp. strain HTA-, one of the deepest sea
bacteria, Acta Crystallogr., accepted for publication.
) Sohirad, M., Miwa, T., Abe, F. & Aizawa, M., Cytoskeletal
adapted of living mammalian cells surviving under extremoly
high hydrostatic pressure, Trends in zzhigh Pressure,
Bioscience and Biotechnology, -, Elsevier B.V., .
) Takai, K. & Fujiwara, Y., Biodiversity in deep-sea hydrothermal
vents, Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology -
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) Takai, K., Hirayama, H., Sakihama, Y., Inagaki, F., Yamato,
Y. & Horikoshi, K., Isolation and metabolic characteristics of
previously uncultured members of the order Aquificales in a
subsurface gold mine, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. , -
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) Takai, K., Inagaki, F. & Horikoshi, K., The presence of unusual
archaea in subsurface environments, AGU Monograph, in press.
) Takai, K., Inagaki, F., Komatsu, T. & Horikoshi, K., The
Archaea World: the Silent Majority in the Global Subsurface
Biosphere, AGU Monograph in press.
) Takai, K., Inagaki, F., Nakagawa, S., Hirayama, H., Nunoura,
T., Sako, Y., Nealson, K. H. & Horikoshi, K., Isolation and
phylogenetic diversity of members of previously uncultivated
ε-Proteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal fields, FEMS
Microbiol. Lett. in press.
) Takai, K., Inoue, A. & Horikoshi, K., Methanothermococcus
okinawensis sp. nov., a thermophilic methane-producing
archaeon isolated from a Western Pacific deep-sea hydrothermal
vent system. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. , -, .
) Takai, K., Kobayashi, H., Nealson, K. H. & Horikoshi, K.,
Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- or
arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea
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