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.

Study on Poriflexus aureus, a member of a new deep-branching Chloroflexi lineage by single cell and Raman microscopy analyses with Prof. Haruko Takeyama at Waseda University is now published on PNAS nexus as Kogawa, M. et al. (2022) Single-cell metabolite detection and genomics reveals uncultivated talented producer, PNAS nexus 1(1) pgab007.

Kataoka K, Minei R, Ide K, Ogura A, Takeyama H, Takeda M, Suzuki T, Yura K and Asahi T (2020) “The Draft Genome Dataset of the Asian Cricket Teleogryllus occipitalis for Molecular Research Toward Entomophagy” on Frontiers in Genetics has been cited by Nakamura T, Ylla, G and Extavour CG (2022) “Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science” on Current Opinion in Insect Science.

ThermusQ (https://www.thermusq.net/), a integrated tool for Thermus thermophilus genome and proteome analyses, is now coming up.

Our collaborative study with Waseda University on cricket genome sequences is now published on Biophysical Reviews (K. Kataoka et al. (2022) Dissecting cricket genomes for the advacement of entomology and entomophagy. Biophysical Reviews).