A bioinformatics analysis of Cuppredoxin domains published on FEBS Letters by Nakamura, K. et al in 2003 was recently cited by Fukuda Y. et al (2025)  Structural basis of cuproenzme nitrite reduction at the level of a single hydrogen atom on Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Our website CoDP for variation analysis on MSH6 protein is extensively used for education and explained in the recent paper by Joanna E. Haye-Bertolozzi et al. titled “Creating A Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Genetics Yeast Laboratory Course Xavier University of Lousiana” on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.

A manuscript describing the genome sequence of Jamaican field cricket has been published on Scientific data as Ito et al. Chromosome-scale whole genome assembly and annotation of the Jamaican field cricket Gryllus assimilis. Scientific Data, 12, 826.

As new school year has started, the member list of the lab has been updated.

As new school year has started, the member list and the publication list of the lab have been updated.

Kei Yura will make a presentation on the recent study of Thermus thermophilus at  ESAB Webinar next Friday. The detail is on ESAB webinar website.

Our paper on the transcriptome analysis of Watasenia scintillans and on the prediction of luciferase is cited by Inouye et al. “Enzymatic sulfation of coelenterazine by human cytosolic aryl sulfotransferase SULT1A1: Identification of coelenterazine C2-benzyl monosulfate by LC/ESI-TOF-MS“ on BBRC.

Our paper on Actin proteins of ciliates is cited in “Four ciliate-specific expansion events occurred during actin gene family evolution of eukaryotes” by Su et al. in Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution.

A paper by Yoshihara S. et al., (2001) about study of identifying factors for natural transformation in cyanobacterium conducted at the beginning of this century is recently cited by Nies F. et al (2002) Natural Competence in the Filamentous, Heterocystous Cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC6912 on mSphere.

“Co-expression network analysis of environmental canalization in the ascidian Ciona“, collaboration with Associate Professors Atsuko Sato and Nathaneël Aubert-Kato is now on BMC Ecology and Evolution.