PUBLICATIONS (recent 10 years)

Mio Ohnuma, Yusuke Terui, Masatada Tamakoshi, Hidemichi Mitome, Masaru Niitsu, Keijiro Samejima, Etsuko Kawashima, and Tairo Oshima (2005) N1-Aminopropylagmatine, a New Polyamine Produced as a Key Intermediate in Polyamine Biosynthesis of an Extreme Thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

J. Biol. Chem., 280(34), 30073-30082

Yusuke Terui, Mio Ohnuma, Kaori Hiraga, Etsuko Kawashima, Tairo Oshima (2005) Stabilization of nucleic acids by unusual polyamines produced by an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

Biochem. J., 388, 427-433

Shin-ichi Yokobori, Tairo Oshima, and Hiroshi Wada (2005) Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of doliolum nationalis with implications fro evolution of urochordates.

Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34, 273-283

Kurt Hara, Naoya shinzato, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2004) Endosymbiotic Methanobrevibacter species Detected by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization.

Microbes Environ. 19(2), 120-127

Shin-ichi Yokobori, Naoya Fukuda, Mitsue Nakamura, Tomoko Aoyama, and Tairo Oshima (2004) Long-Term Conservation of Six Duplicated Structural Genes in Cephalopod Mitochondrial Genomes.

Mol. Biol. Evol., 21(11), 2034-2046

Kaori Hiraga, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2004) Mapping of Unit Boundaries of a Protein: Exhaustive Search for Permissive for Duplication by Complementation Analysis of Random Fragment Libraries of Tryptophan Synthase α subunit.

J. Mol. Biol., 335, 1093-1104

Mio Ohnuma, Hiromi Ito, Yusuke Terui, Masatada Tamakoshi, Masaru Niitsu, Keijiro samejima, and Tairo Oshima (2003) Reverse genetic studies on roles of unusual polyamines in Thermus thermophilus.

Amino Acids, 25(2), 177

Miho Aoshima, Masaharu Ishii, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, and Yasuo Igarashi (2003) Metabolic Characteristics of an Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Defective Derivative of Escherichia coli BL21(DE3).

Biotech. Bioeng., 84(6), 732-737

N. Nimura, T. Fujiwara, A. Watanabe, M. Sekine, T. Furuchi, M. Yohda, A. Yamagishi, T. Oshima, and H. Homma. (2003) A novel chiral thiol reagent for automated precolumn derivatization and high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation of amino acids and its application to the aspartate racemase assay.

Analytical Biochemistry 315: 262-269

Naoki Nemoto, Yasuo Shida, Haruo Shimada, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2003) Characterization of the precursor of tetraether lipid biosynthesis on the thermoacidophilic archaon Thermoplasma acidophilum.

Extremophiles 7, 235-243

Naoki Nemoto, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2003) Purification and Characterization of Geranylgeranylglyceryl Phosphate Synthase from a Thermoacidophilic Archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum.

J. Biochem., 133(5), 651-657

Naoki Shigi, Tsutomu Suzuki, Masatada Tamakoshi, Tairo Oshima, and Kimitsuna Watanabe (2002) Conserved Bases in the TψC Loop of tRNA Are Determinants for Thermophile-specific 2-Thiouridylation at Position 54.

J. Biol.Chem., 277(42), 39128-39135

Kozo Tomita, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Tairo Oshima, Takuya Ueda, and Kimitsuna Watanabe (2002) The Cephalopod Loligo bleekeri Mitochondrial Genome: Multiplied Noncoding Regions and Transposition of tRNA Genes.

J. Mol. Evol., 54, 486-500

Masami Ishida, Tairo Oshima, and Katsuhide Yutani (2002) Overexpression in Escherichia coli of the AT-rich trpA and trpB genes from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

FEMS Microbiol. Letters, 216, 179-183

Kurt Hara, Naoya Shinzato, Masae Seo, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2002) Phylogenetic Analysis of Symbiotic Archaea Living in the Gut of Xylophagous Cockroaches.

Microbes Environ., 17(4), 185-190

Taketoshi Uzawa, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2002) Polypeptide Synthesis Directed by DNA as a Messenger in Cell-Free Polypeptide Synthesis by Extreme Thermophiles, Thermus thermophilus HB27 and Sulfolobus tokodaii Strain 7.

J. Biochem., 131(6), 849-853

Masami Ishisa and Tairo Oshima (2002) Effective Structure of a Leader Open Reading Frame for Enhancing the Expression of GC-Rich Genes.

J. Biochem., 132(1), 63-70

Hiroyuki Hori, Tsutomu Suzuki, Kazumasa Sugawara, Yorinao Inoue, Takehiko Shibata, Seiki Kuramitsu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Tairo Oshima, and Kimitsuna Watanabe (2002) Identification and characterization of tRNA(Gm18) methyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus HB8: domain structure and conserved amino acid sequence motifs.

Genes to Cells 7, 259-272

Yoh-ichi Watanabe, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Toshiro Inaba, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, Yutaka Kawarabayasi, Hisasi Kikuchi, and Kiyyoshi Kita (2002) Introns in protein-coding genes in Archaea.

FEBS Letters 510(1), 27-30

Takahide Kon, Naoki Nemoto, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2002) Effects of a Squalene Epoxidase Inhibitor, Terbinafine, on Ether Lipid Biosyntheses in a Thermoacidophilic Archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum.

J. Bacteriol., 184(5), 1395-1401

Haruo Shimada, Naoki Nemoto, Yasuo Sjoda, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2002) Complete Polar Lipid Composition of Thermoplasma acidophilum HO-62 Determined by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Evaporative Light-Scattering Detection.

J. Bacteriol., 184(2), 556-563

Toshiharu Suzuki, Toshio Iwasaki, Taketoshi Uzawa, Kurt Hara, Naoki Nemoto, Takahide Kon, Toshiaki Ueki, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2002) Sulfolobus tokodaii sp. nov. (f. Sulfolobus sp. strain 7), a new member of the Sulfolobus isolated from Beppu Hot Springs, Japan.

Extremophiles 6(1), 39-44

Toshio Iwasaki and Tairo Oshima (2001) Ferredoxin and Related Enzymes from Sulfolobus.

in "Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 334:Hyperthermophilic Enzymes Part C" (ed. by Michael W.W. Adams and Robert M. Kelly) pp.3-22, Academic Press, San Diego, London, Boston, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto

Yutaka Kawarabayasi, Yumi Hino, Hiroshi Horikawa, Koji Jin-no, Mikio Takahashi, Mitsuo Sekine, Sin-ichi Baba, Akiho Ankai, Hiroki Kosugi, Akira Hosoyama, Shigehiro Fukui, Yoshimi Nagai, Keiko Nishijima, Rie Otsuka, Hidekazu Nakazawa, Minako Takamiya, Yumiko Kato, Takio Yoshizawa, Toshihiro Tanaka, Yutaka Kudoh, Jun Yamazaki, Norihiro Kushida, Akio Oguchi, Ken-ichi Aoki, Sayaka Masuda, Masao Yanagii, Masami Nishimura, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, and Hisasi Kikuchi (2001) Complete Genome Sequence of an Aerobic Thermoacidophilic Crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7.

DNA Research, 8(4), 123-140

Long, Z., Lee, J.-A., Okamoto, T., Sekine, M., Nimura, N., Imai, K., Yohda, M., Maruyama, T., Sumi, M., Kamo, N., Yamagishi, A., Oshima, T. and Homma H., Occurrence of D-amino acids and a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent aspartate racemase in the acidothermophilic archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum.

Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 281, 317-321 (2001)

Chie Motono, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2001) High thermal stability of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus resulting from low deltaCp of unfolding.

Protein Eng., 14(12), 961-966

Masako Yasugi, Toshiharu Suzuki, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2001) Analysis of the effect of accumulation of amino acid replacements on activity of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus.

Protein Eng., 14(8), 601-607

Junichi Miyazaki, Shuichi Nakaya, Toshiharu Suzuki, Masatada Tamakoshi, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2001) Ancestral Residues Stabilizing 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase of an Extreme Thermophile: Experimental Evidence Supporting the Thermophilic Common Ancestor Hypothesis.

J. Biochem., 129(5), 777-782

Raita HIrose, Toshiharu Suzuki, Hideaki Moriyama, Takao Sato, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, and Nobuo Tanaka (2001) Crystal structures of mutants of Thermus thermophile IPMDH adapted to low temperatures.

Protein Eng., 14(2), 81-84

Toshiharu Suzuki, Masako Yasugi, Fumio Arisaka, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2001) Adaptation of a thermophilic enzyme, 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase, to low temperatures.

Protein Eng., 14(2), 85-91

Naoya Shinzato, Tadao Matsumoto, Ikuo Yamaoka, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2001) Methanogenic Symbionts and the Locality of their Host Lower Termites.

Microbes Environ., 16(1), 43-47

Haruo Shimada, Yasuo Shida, Naoki Nemoto, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2001) Quinone Profiles of Thermoplasma acidophilum HO-62.

J. Bacteriol., 183(4), 1462-1465

Masako Yasugi, Momoyo Amino, Toshiharu Suzuki, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (2001) Cold Adaptation of the Thermophile Enzyme 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase.

J. Biochem., 129(3), 477-484

Koichi Numata, Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki, Jitsutaro Kawaguchi, Masahiro Sakurai, Hideaki Moriyama, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (2001) Thermostabilization of a chimeric enzyme by residue substitutions: Four amino acid residues in loop regions are responsible for the thermostability of Thermus thermophilus isopropylmalate dehydrogenase.

Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1545, 174-183

Masatada Tamakoshi, Yumiko Nakono, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (2001) Selection of stabilized 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using host-vector system of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

Extremophiles, 5, 17-22

Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki and Tairo Oshima (2000) Purification and characterization of Recombinant 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenases from Thermus thermophilus and Other Microorganisms.

In "Methods in Enzymology" Vol. 324 (eds. By Robert A. Harris and John R. Sokatch) pp.301-322, Academic Press, San Diego, London, Boston, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto

Hiroyuki Hori, Tsutomu Suzuki, Kazumasa Sugawara, Yorinao Inoue, Takehiko Shibata, Seiki Kuramitsu, Sigeyuki Yokoyama, Tairo Oshima, and Kimitsuna Watanabe (2000) Identification of Thermus thermophilus HB8 tRNA(Gm 18)methyltransferase gene.

Nucleic Acid Symp. Ser. 44, 167-168

Nobuo Tanaka and Tairo Oshima (2000) Structure and Thermostability of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase.

Protein Peptide Letters, 7[5], 333-340

Tetsuya Hori, Hideaki Moriyama, Jitsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki, Tairo Oshima, and Nobuo Tanaka (2000) The initial step of the thermal unfolding of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase detected by the temperature-jump Laue method.

Protein Engng., 13[8], 527-533

Zeily Nurachman, Satoshi Akanuma, Takao Sato, Tairo Oshima and Nobuo Tanaka (2000) Crystal structures of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenases with mutations at the C-terminus: Crystallographic analyses of structure-stability relationships.

Protein Engng. 13(4), 253-258

Masatada Tamakoshi, Takuro Yaoi, Tairo Oshima and Akihiko Yamagishi (1999) An efficient gene replacemant and deletion system for an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

FEMS Microbiol. Letters, 173, 431-437

Koichi Numata, Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki, Katsuhide Yutani and Tario Oshima (1999) Studies on interdomain interaction of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, by constructing chimeric enzymes.

Extremophiles, 3(4), 259-262

Toshio Iwasaki, Miho Aoshima, Asako Kounosu and Tairo Oshima (1999) Respiratory Complex II from the Thermophilic Archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7: Genes and Protein.

in "Flavins and Flavoproteins 1999" (eds. by S.Ghisla, P.Kroneck, P.Macheroux, and H. Sund) pp.779-786, Rudolf Weber, Berlin

Akira Chiba, Tadashi Eguchi, Tairo Oshima, and Katsumi Kakinuma (1999) Coenzyme Activity of NAD Analogs for 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus HB8.

Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 63(9), 1647-1649

Nathaniel J. Cosper, Christina M.V. Stalhandske, Hideo Iwasaki, Tairo Oshima, Robert A. Scott, and Toshio Iwasaki (1999) Structural Conservation of the Isolated Ainc Site in Archaeal Sinc-containing Ferredoxins as Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Analysis and Its Evolutionary Implications.

J. Biol. Chem., 274(33), 23160-23168

Akira Chiba, Tetsuya Aoyama, Rieko Suzuki, Tadashi Eguchi, Tairo Oshima, and Katsumi Kakinuma (1999) Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of (2R,3S)-3-Vinylmalic Acid as a Mechanism-Based Inhibitor of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase.

J. Org. Chem., 64(17), 6159-6165

Satoshi Akanuma, Akihiko Yamagishi, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1999) Further Improvement of the Thermal Stability of a Partially Stabilized Bacillus subtilis 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase Variant by Random and Site-Directed Mutagenesis.

Eur. J. Biochem., 260, 499-504

Masateru Nishihara, Tomoko Yamazaki, Tairo Oshima, and Yosuke Koga (1999) sn-Glyceol-1-Phosphate-Forming Activities in Archaea: Separation of Archaeal Phospholipid Biosynthesis and Glycerol Catabolism by Glycerophosphate Enantiomers.

J. Bacteriol., 181[4], 1330-1333

Chie Motono, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1999) Urea-Induced Unfolding and Conformational Stability of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase from the Thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, and Its Mesophilic Counterpart from Escherichia coli.

Biochemistry, 38{4}, 1332-1337

Kensei Kobayashi, Takeo Kaneko, Takeshi Saito, and Tairo Oshima (1998) Amino Acid Formation in Gas Mixtures by High Energy Particle Irradiation.

Origins Life Evol. Biosphere, 28 155-165

Toshiharu Suzuki, Hideaki Moriyama, Raita Hirose, Masahiro Sakurai, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1998) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies on the hyperstable 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from the thermoacidophile archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain 7.

Acta Cryst. D54, 444-445

Satoshi Akanuma, Akihiko Yamagishi, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1998) Serial increase in the thermal stability of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Bacillus subtilis by experimental evolution.

Protein Science, 7, 698-705

Akihiko Yamagishi, Takao Kon, G. Takahashi, and Tairo Oshima (1998) From the common ancestor of all living organisms to protoeukaryotic cell.

in "Thermophiles: The key to molecular evolution and the origin of life" (J. Wiegel and M. Adams, eds.), pp.287-295, Taylor & Francis, Ltd., London

Akihiko Yamagishi and Tairo Oshima (1998) Sulfolobus tokodaii 7.

in "Bacterial Genomes: Physical Structure and Analysis" edited by Frans J. deBruijn, James R. Lupski, and George M. Weinstock, pp759-761, Chapman and Hall, Intern. Thomson Publishing, New York

Naoya Shinzato, Tadao Matsumoto, Ikuo Yamaoka, Tairo Oshima, and Akihiko Yamagishi (1999) Phylogenetic diversity of symbiotic methanogens living in the hindgut of the lower termite Reticulitermes speratus analyzed by PCR and in situ hybridization.

Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 65(2), 837-840

Masatada Tamakoshi, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1998) The organization of the leuC, leuD and leuB genes of the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus.

Gene, 222(1), 125-132

Masatada Tamakoshi, Manabu Uchida, Kazuhiro Tanabe, Shiro Fukuyama, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1997) A New Thermus-Escherichia coli Shuttle Integration Vector System.

J. Bacteriol., 179[15], 4811-4814

Toshio Iwasaki and Tairo Oshima (1997) A stable intermediate product of the archaeal zinc-containing 7Fe ferredoxin from sulfolobus sp. strain 7 by artificial oxidative conversion.

FEBS Letters, 417, 223-226

Masami Ishisa, Masasuke Yoshida, and Tairo Oshima (1997) Highly efficient production of enzymes of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus: A practical method to overexpress GC-rich genes in Escherichia coli.

Extremephiles, 1[3], 157-162

Tomomi Fujii, Yaso Hata, Masato Oozeki, Hideaki Moriyama, Takayoshi Wakagi, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1997) The crystal structure of zinc-containing ferredoxin from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7.

Biochemistry, 36[6], 1505-1513

Chunxu Qu, Satoshi Akanuma, Hideaki Moriyama, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1997) A mutation at the interface between domains causes rearrangement of fomains in 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase.

Protein Eng. 10[1], 45-52

Toshiro Iwasaki, Toshiharu Suzuki, Takahide Kon, Takeo Imai, Akio Urushiyama, Daijiro Ohmori, and Tairo Oshima (1997) Novel Zinc-containing ferredoxin Family in Thermoacidophilic Archaea.

J. Biol. Chem., 272[6] 3453-3458

Akira Chiba, Tadashi Eguchi, Tairo Oshima, and Katsumi Kakinuma (1997) Synthesis of Conformationally Restricted Substrate Analogs and Their Interaction with 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase Derived from Thermus thermophilus.

Tetahedron, 53[10], 3537-3844

Gerlind Wallon, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hiromi Kirino, Akihiko Yamagishi, Susan T. Lovett, Gregory Petsko and Tairo Oshima (1997) Purification, catalytic properties and thermostability of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli.

Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1337, 105-112

Gerlind Wallon, G. Kryger, Susan T. Lovett, Tairo Oshima, Dagmar Ringe, and Gregory Petsko (1997) Crystal structure of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase and comparison with their thermophilic counterpart from Thermus thermophilus.

J. Mol. Biol., 266 (5), 1016-1031

Toshiharu Suzuki, Yuji Tanaka, Masami Ishida, Morio Ishizuka, Akihiko Yamagishi and Tairo Oshima (1997) Screening of a mutant plasmid with high expression Efficiency of GC-rich leuB gene of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, in Escherichia coli.

J. Biochem., 121[6], 1031-1034

Miho Aoshima and Tairo Oshima (1997) Purification and characterization of isocitrate dehydrogenase from a hyperthermophilic archaebacyterium, Caldococcus noboribetus.

Biochim. Biopys. Acta, 1340, 227-234

Miho Aoshima and Tairo Oshima (1997) Stabilization of Escherichia coli isopropylmalate dehydrogenase by single amino acid substitution.

Protein Eng., 10[3], 249-254

Toshiharu Suzuki, Yutaka Inoki, Akihiko Yamagishi, Toshio Iwasaki, Takayoshi Wakagi, and Tairo Oshima (1997) Molecular and Phylogenetic Characterization of Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase of a Thermoacidophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7.

J. Bacteriol., 179[4], 1174-1179

Satoshi Akanuma, Akihiko Yamagishi, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Spontaneous Tandem Sequence Duplications Reverse the Thermal Stability of Carboxyl-Terminal Modified 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase.

J. Bacteriol., 178[21], 6300-6304

Toshiro Iwasaki, Takeo Imai, Akio Urushiyama, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Redox-linked Ionization of Sulredoxin, an Archaeal Riske-type [2Fe-2S] Protein from Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7.

J. Biol. Chem., 271, 27659-27663

Takuro Yaoi, Kentaro Miyazaki, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Substrate recognition of isocitratedehydrogenase and isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus HB8.

J. Biochem., 121[1], 77-81

Takuro Yaoi, Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Electrostatic interaction between teo domains of isocitrate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus is important for the catalytic function and protein stability.

FEBS Letters, 398, 228-230

Miho Aoshima, Yoshihisa Nishibe, Masami Hasegawa, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Cloning and sequencing of a gene encoding 16S ribosomal RNA from a novel hyperthermophilic archaebacterium NC12.

Gene, 180, 183-187

Toshiro Iwasaki and Tairo Oshima (1996) Role of cytochrome b562 in the archaeal aerobic respitory chain of Sulfolobus sp. strain 7.

FEMS Microbiol. Letters, 144, 259-266

Chikahiro Nagata, Hideaki Moriyama, Nobuo Tanaka, Masayoshi Nakasako, Masaki Yamamoto, Tatsuo Ueki, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Cryocrystallography of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus and its Chimeric enzyme.

Acta Cryst., D52, 623-630

Tomomi Fujii, Yasuo Hata, Takayoshi Wakagi, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Novel zinc-binding centre in thermoacidophilic archaeal ferredoxins.

Nature Str. Biol., 3[10], 834-837

Miho Aoshima, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Eubacteria-type isocitrate dehydrogenase from an archaeon: Cloning, sequencing, and expression of a gene encoding isociterate dehydrogenase from a hyperthermophilelic archaebacterium, Caldococcus noboribetus.

Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 336[1], 77-85

Qian Zhang, Toshio Iwasaki, Takayoshi Wakagi, and Tairo Oshima (1996) 2-Oxoacid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain 7.

J. Biochem., 120[3], 587-599

Takayoshi Wakagi, Tomomi Fujii, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Molecular cloning, sequencing, and heterologous expression of a novel zinc-containing ferredoxin gene from a thermoacidophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain 7.

Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 225[2], 489-493

Akihiko Yamagishi, Tomoaki Tanimoto, Toshiharu Suzuki, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Primidine biosynthesis genes (pyrE and pyrF) of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 62[6], 2191-2194

Takuro Yaoi, Kentaro Miyazaki, Tairo Oshima, Yutaka Komukai, and Michiko Go (1996) Conversion of the coenzyme specificity of isocitrate dehydrogenase by module replacement.

J. Biochem., 119[5 ], 1014-1018

Akihiro Okamoto, Ryuichi Kato, Ryoji Masui, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, and Seiki Kuramitsu (1996) An Aspartate Aminotransferase from an Extremely Thermophilic Bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB8.

J. Biochem., 119[1], 135-144

Yoko Hayashi-Iwasaki, Koishi Numata, Akihiko Yamagishi, Katsuhide Yutani, Masahiro Sakurai, Nobuo Tanaka, and Tairo Oshima (1996) A Stable Intermediate in the Thermal Unfolding Process of a Chimeric 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase Between a Thermophilic and a Mesophilic Enzymes.

Protein Sci., 5, 511-516

Takashi Kotsuka, Satoshi Akanuma, Masaaki Tomura, Akihiko Yamagishi, and Tairo Oshima (1996) Further Stabilization of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase of an Extreme Thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, by a Suppressor Mutation Method.

J. Bacteriol., 178[3], 723-727

Masami Ishida and Tairo Oshima (1996) A leader open reading frame is essential for the expression of GC rich leuB gene of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, in Escherichia coli.

FEMS Microbiol. Letter, 135(1), 137-142

BOOKS AND REVIEW ARTICLES:

Module replacement converted coenzyme specificity of isocitrate dehydrogenase.

in "Tracing Biological Evolution in Protein and Gene Structures" (M. Go & P. Schimmel, eds.) pp.197-203, Elsevier, 1995

Genes and genetic manipulation in Thermus thermophilus.

in "Thermus Species" ( R. Sharp & R. Williams, eds.) pp.185-205, Plenum Press, 1995

Return to Dichotomy: Bacteria and Archaea.

in "Chemical Evolution: Self-Organization of the Macromolecules of Life" (J. Chela-Flores, M. Chada, A. Negron-Mendoza, and T. Oshima, eds.) pp.155-158, A.Deepak Publ.,1995

Archaebacteria: Key microorganisms for speculation of early bichemical evolution.

in "The Origin and Evolution of the Cell" (H. Hartman & K. Matsuno, eds.) 155-162, World Scientific, 1992

Early biochemical evolution: Speculations on the biochemistry of primitive life.

in "Evolution of Life: Fossils, Molecules, and Culture" (S. Osawa & T. Honjo, eds.) pp.353-359, Springer-Verlag 1991

Protein Engineering (Editor) Japan Scientific Societies Press & Springer-Verlag, 1990

Polyamines in Thermophiles.

in "The Physiology of Plyamines, Volume 2" (U. Bachrach & Y.M. Heimer, eds.) pp.35-46, CRC Press, 1989

Biochemical properties of unusual polyamines found in an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

in "Progress in Plyamine Research" (V. Zappia & A.E. Pegg, eds.) pp.633-642, Plenum Press, 1988

Structural and Functional Analyses of Thermophile Proteins.

in "Protein Engineering: Application in Science, Medicine, and Industry" (R. Sarma & M. Inoue, eds.) pp.81-93, Academic Press, 1986

Mechanisms of Heat Stability of Thermophilic Proteins.

in "Computer Analysis for Life Science" (C. Kawabata & A.R. Bishop, eds.) pp.56-64, Ohmsha, 1986

Genes and genetic apparatus of extreme thermophiles.

in "Thermophiles: General, Molecular, and Applied Microbiology" (T.D. Brock, ed.) pp.137-157, John Wiley & Sons, 1986

Phylogenetic Status of Archaebacteria: Considerations Based on mRNA.

in "Molecular Evolution and Protobiology" (K. Matsuno, K. Dose, K. Harada, & D.L. Rohlfing, eds.) pp.339-344, Plenum Press, 1984

Novel Polyamines in Thermus thermophilus: Isolation, Identification, and Chemical Synthesis.

in "Methods in Enzymology, vol. 94 ( H. Tabor & C.W. Tabor, eds.) pp.401-411, Academic Press, 1983

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate Dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus.

in "Methods in Enzymology, vol.89, (W.A. Wood, ed.) pp.335-340, Academic Press, 1982

Science and Scientists (Editor), Japan Scientific Societies Press & D.Reidel Publ. Co., 1981

Specific interaction of base-specific nucleases with nucleosides and nucleotides.

in "Chemical Recognition in Biology" (F. Chapeville & A.L. Haenni, eds.) Spring-Verlag, 1980

Molecular basis for unusual thermostabilities of cell constituents from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

in "Strategies of Microbial Life in Extreme Environments" (M. Shilo, ed.) Verlag Chemie, 1979

Properties of heat stable enzymes of extreme thermophile.

in "Enzyme Engineering, 4" (G.B. Broun, G. Manecke, and L.B. Wingard,Jr., eds.) pp.41-46, Plenum Press, 1978

ω-Cyclohexyl fatty acids in acido-thermophilic bacterial membranes and phage capsids.

in "Biochemistry of Thermophiles" (S.M. Friedman, ed.) pp.31-44, Academic Press, Inc., 1978

Novel polyamines of extremely thermophilic bacteria.

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