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).

The collaborative study of DNA uptake by Synechocystis (Yoshihara et al., 2001) is extensively cited by Han et al. (2021) “PATAN-domain regulators interact with the Type IV pilus motor to control phototactic orientation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis“.

Study on drug-induced liver injury with the group of Prof. Akihiro Umezawa at the National Center for Child Health and Development Research Institute is now published on Stem Cell Research & Therapy as Shoko Miyata et al. (2022) Puromycin-based purification of cells with high expression of the cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 gene from a patient with drug-induced liver injury (DILI), Stem Cell Res Ther 13, 6.

Our plant polyA paper by Zhang et al “CFI 25 subunit of cleavage factor I is important for maintaining the diversity of 3′ UTR lengths in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh” has been accepted by Plant and Cell Physiology.

The lab publication and member lists are extensively updated.

A manuscript describing the history of Protein Data Bank Japan (Bekker G-J et al. Protein Data Bank Japan: Celebrating our 20th anniversary during a global pandemic as the Asian hub of 3D macromolecular structure data) has been accepted and published on Protein Science

A manuscript describing the phylogenetic relationship of crickets including ant-loving cricket based on mitochondrial genome sequences (Sanno R., et al. Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Gryllidea (Insecta: Orthoptera): Implications for Adaptive Evolution in Ant-loving Crickets) has been published on Genome Biology and Evolution