2026 Eriko Takano: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	58	12940	11905	1011	941	167	18843

Overview

Eriko Takano is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work also touching on medicine.

Their main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these broader fields, Takano has contributed to multiple subfields, notably:

Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Materials Chemistry
Plant Science
Epidemiology

Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas, including:

Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
Silk-based biomaterials and applications
Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
Plant Gene Expression Analysis

Takano's recent publications represent an active contribution to scientific literature, notably in areas related to antibiotic discovery, metabolic engineering, and biomaterials. Selected papers include:

Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics, 2021, published in Nature Reviews Chemistry
Host Systems for the Production of Recombinant Spider Silk, 2020, published in Trends in Biotechnology
Engineering Escherichia coli towards de novo production of gatekeeper (2S)-flavanones: naringenin, pinocembrin, eriodictyol and homoeriodictyol, 2020, published in Synthetic Biology
Rapid prototyping of microbial production strains for the biomanufacture of potential materials monomers, 2020, published in Metabolic Engineering
Switchable foldamer ion channels with antibacterial activity, 2020, published in Chemical Science

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Takano include:

Rainer Breitling
Nigel S. Scrutton
Cunyu Yan
Erik K. R. Hanko
Marlene Castro-Melchor

Takano's work appears regularly in a variety of publication venues, including:

University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
The Cambridge Structural Database
Synthetic Biology
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Best Publications

antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

2027
Citations
antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

Marnix H. Medema;Kai Blin;Peter Cimermancic;Victor de Jager;Victor de Jager

1988
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antiSMASH 4.0-improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification.

Kai Blin;Thomas Wolf;Marc G. Chevrette;Xiaowen Lu

1252
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Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

Marcus Miethke;Marco Pieroni;Tilmann Weber;Mark Brönstrup

1096
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Insights into secondary metabolism from a global analysis of prokaryotic biosynthetic gene clusters.

Peter Cimermancic;Marnix H. Medema;Jan Claesen;Kenji Kurita

1042
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antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers

Kai Blin;Marnix H. Medema;Daniyal Kazempour;Michael A. Fischbach

945
Citations
Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

925
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γ-Butyrolactones: Streptomyces signalling molecules regulating antibiotic production and differentiation

Eriko Takano

426
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Detecting sequence homology at the gene cluster level with MultiGeneBlast.

Marnix H. Medema;Eriko Takano;Eriko Takano;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

376
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Transcriptional regulation of the redD transcriptional activator gene accounts for growth-phase-dependent production of the antibiotic undecylprodigiosin in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).

E. Takano;H. C. Gramajo;E. Strauch;N. Andres

289
Citations
A complex role for the γ‐butyrolactone SCB1 in regulating antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Eriko Takano;Rekha Chakraburtty;Takuya Nihira;Yashuhiro Yamada

283
Citations
An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline for enhanced microbial production of fine chemicals

Pablo Carbonell;Adrian J. Jervis;Christopher J. Robinson;Cunyu Yan

257
Citations
Stationary-phase production of the antibiotic actinorhodin in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is transcriptionally regulated

Hugo C. Gramajo;Eriko Takano;Mervyn J. Bibb

257
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Computational tools for the synthetic design of biochemical pathways

Marnix H. Medema;Renske van Raaphorst;Eriko Takano;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

250
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The stringent response in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).

E. Strauch;E. Takano;H.A. Baylis;M.J. Bibb

247
Citations
The sequence of a 1.8-Mb bacterial linear plasmid reveals a rich evolutionary reservoir of secondary metabolic pathways

Marnix H. Medema;Axel Trefzer;Andriy Kovalchuk;Marco van den Berg

241
Citations
A bacterial hormone (the SCB1) directly controls the expression of a pathway-specific regulatory gene in the cryptic type I polyketide biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces coelicolor

Eriko Takano;Hiroshi Kinoshita;Vassilis Mersinias;Giselda Bucca

226
Citations
Purification and Structural Determination of SCB1, a γ-Butyrolactone That Elicits Antibiotic Production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Eriko Takano;Takuya Nihira;Yoshitaka Hara;Jo J. Jones

218
Citations
A systematic computational analysis of biosynthetic gene cluster evolution: lessons for engineering biosynthesis.

Marnix H. Medema;Peter Cimermancic;Andrej Sali;Eriko Takano

212
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Exploiting plug-and-play synthetic biology for drug discovery and production in microorganisms

Marnix H. Medema;Rainer Breitling;Roel Bovenberg;Eriko Takano

208
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