Faculty Information - Oka Takuji

Oka Takuji

Department / Course FACULTY OF BIOTECHNOOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCE Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences

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Book and thesis
1.	2002/01	Papers	Effects of amino acid alterations on the transglycosylation reaction of endoglucanase I from Trichoderma viride HK-75. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 66 (1),pp.110-116 (Co-authored)
2.	2002/01	Papers	Molecular breeding of Aspergillus kawachii overproducing cellulase and its application to brewing barley shochu. J Biosci Bioeng. 93 (4),pp.382-387 (Co-authored)
3.	2004	Papers	Molecular characterization of a keratinolytic protease of an alkaliphilic Nocardiopsis sp. TOA-1. Enzyme Microbial Technol. 34,pp.482-489 (Co-authored)
4.	2004/04	Papers	Thr/Ser-rich domain of Aspergillus glucoamylase is essential for secretion. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 68 (4),pp.961-963 (Co-authored)
5.	2004/06	Papers	Molecular characterizations of protein O-mannosyltransferase and its involvement in cell wall synthesis in Aspergillus nidulans. Microbiology-SGM 150,pp.1973-1982 (Co-authored)
6.	2005/11	Papers	Protein O-mannosyltransferase A of Aspergillus awamori is involved in O-mannosylation of glucoamylase I. Microbiology-SGM 151,pp.3657-3667 (Co-authored)
7.	2006/06	Papers	Reconstruction of de novo pathway for synthesis of UDP-glucuronic acid and UDP-xylose from intrinsic UDP-glucose in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS J. 273,pp.2645-2657 (Co-authored)
8.	2007/02	Papers	Functional analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana RHM2/MUM4, a multidomain protein involved in UDP-D-glucose to UDP-L-rhamnose conversion. J. Biol. Chem 282,pp.5389-5403 (Co-authored)
9.	2008/04	Papers	Engineering of a mammalian O-glycosylation pathway in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: production of O-fucosylated epidermal growth factor domains. Glycobiology 18,pp.303-314 (Co-authored)
10.	2009/01	Papers	Functional UDP-xylose transport across the endoplasmic reticulum/Golgi membrane in a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant defective in UDP-xylose Synthase. J. Biol. Chem 284,pp.2576-2583 (Co-authored)
11.	2009/10	Papers	Protein O-mannosyltransferases B and C support hyphal development and differentiation in Aspergillus nidulans. Eukaryot Cell. 8,pp.1465-1474 (Co-authored)
12.	2010/01	Papers	Characterization of endoplasmic reticulum-localized UDP-D-galactose:hydroxyproline O-galactosyltransferase using synthetic peptide substrates in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 152,pp.332-340 (Co-authored)
13.	2011/11	Papers	Putative stress sensors WscA and WscB are involved in hypo-osmotic and acidic 4 pH stress tolerance in Aspergillus nidulans Eukaryotic Cell 10 (11),pp.1504-1515 (Co-authored)
14.	2012/06	Papers	Purification and properties of S-hydroxymethylglutathione dehydrogenase of Paecilomyces variotii no. 5, a formaldehyde-degrading fungus. AMB Express 2 (1),pp.10.1186/2191-0855-2-32 (Co-authored)
15.	2013/12	Papers	GfsA encodes a novel galactofuranosyltransferase involved in biosynthesis of galactofuranose antigen of O-glycan in Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus. Mol Microbiol. 90 (5),pp.1054-1073 (Co-authored)
16.	2014	Books	Cell wall biosynthesis of filamentous fungi. Stress Biology of Yeasts and Fungi: Application for Industrial Brewing and Fermentation.,pp.in press (Co-authored)
17.	2014/01	Papers	Draft Genome Sequence of the Formaldehyde-Resistant Fungus Byssochlamys spectabilis No. 5 (Anamorph Paecilomyces variotii No. 5) (NBRC109023). Genome Announc. 2 (1),pp.e01162-13 (Co-authored)
18.	2014/06	Papers	Cloning and characterization of a unique cytotoxic protein parasporin-5 produced by Bacillus thuringiensis A1100 strain. Toxins (Basel) 6 (6),pp.1882-1895 (Co-authored)
19.	2014/07	Papers	Identification of novel peptidyl serine α-galactosyltransferase gene family in plants. J. Biol. Chem. 289 (30),pp.20405-20420 (Co-authored)
20.	2014/09	Papers	Determination of D-galactofuranose Content of Galactomannoproteins in Aspergillus nidulans Bio-protocol 4 (17),pp.e1223 (Co-authored)
21.	2014/09	Papers	Purification of the GfsA-3x FLAG Protein Expressed in Aspergillus nidulans. Bio-protocol 4 (17),pp.e1222 (Co-authored)
22.	2014/11	Papers	Isolation, sequencing, and heterologous expression of the Paecilomyces variotii gene encoding S-hydroxymethylglutathione dehydrogenase (fldA). Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. (Sole-authored)
23.	2015/09	Papers	Identification and Characterization of a Novel Galactofuranose-Specific β-D-Galactofuranosidase from Streptomyces Species. PLoS One 10 (9),pp.e0137230 (Co-authored)
24.	2016/06	Papers	Biosynthesis of Galactofuranose-containing Glycans in Filamentous Fungi. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology 28,pp.1-14 (Co-authored)
25.	2017/04	Papers	GfsA is a β1,5-galactofuranosyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of the galactofuran side chain of fungal-type galactomannan in Aspergillus fumigatus Glycobiology 27 (6),pp.568-581 (Co-authored)
26.	2017/07	Papers	Characterization of a PA14 domain-containing galactofuranose-specific β-d-galactofuranosidase from Streptomyces sp. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 81 (7),pp.1314-1319 (Co-authored)
27.	2018/01	Papers	Cloning, Purification, and Characterization of Tripeptidyl Peptidase from Streptomyces herbaricolor TY-21. Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 284 (1),pp.239-252 (Co-authored)
28.	2018/02	Papers	Biosynthesis of galactomannans found in filamentous fungi belonging to Pezizomycotina. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 82 (2),pp.183-191 (Sole-authored)
29.	2018/11	Papers	Identification of two mannosyltransferases contributing to biosynthesis of the fungal-type galactomannan α-core-mannan structure in Aspergillus fumigatus. Scientific Reports 8 (1),pp.16918 (Co-authored)
30.	2020/11	Papers	Structural basis for the core-mannan biosynthesis of cell wall fungal-type galactomannan in Aspergillus fumigatus. J. Biol. Chem. 295 (45),pp.15407-15417 (Co-authored)
31.	2021/01	Books	Glycan-mediated interactions between fungal and higher animal cells. Health and Disease in Glycomedicine. Comprehensive Glycoscience 2nd Edition (Co-authored)
32.	2021/01	Papers	Identification and characterization of β-d-galactofuranosidases from Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus fumigatus J. Biosci. Bioeng. 131 (1),pp.1-7 (Co-authored)