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Kan Tanaka is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research focuses primarily on molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, plant science, biochemistry, and cell biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, algal biology and biofuel production, protist diversity and phylogeny, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and the effects of light on plants.

Kan Tanaka has published research in multiple recognized venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Plant and Cell Physiology
  • The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology
  • FEBS Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plants

Recent papers associated with their work demonstrate a variety of research interests and collaborations. These include:

  • The Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae-The Simplest Model of a Photosynthetic Eukaryote (2021) in Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Pathogenesis-related protein 1 suppresses oomycete pathogen by targeting against AMPK kinase complex (2022) in Journal of Advanced Research
  • Low-temperature and circadian signals are integrated by the sigma factor SIG5 (2023) in Nature Plants
  • ESCRT Machinery Mediates Cytokinetic Abscission in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae (2020) in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Acetate overflow metabolism regulates a major metabolic shift after glucose depletion in Escherichia coli (2021) in FEBS Letters

Kan Tanaka frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. These frequent co-authors include:

  • S. Imamura
  • Satoru Watanabe
  • Tatsuhiro Tsurumaki
  • Hazuki Hasegawa
  • Tokiaki Takemura

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Tadasu Shin-I;Shinichiro Maruyama

  • A hierarchical quorum-sensing cascade in Pseudomonas aeruginosa links the transcriptional activators LasR and RhIR (VsmR) to expression of the stationary-phase sigma factor RpoS

    A. Latifi;M. Foglino;K. Tanaka;P. Williams

  • Heterogeneity of the principal sigma factor in Escherichia coli: the rpoS gene product, sigma 38, is a second principal sigma factor of RNA polymerase in stationary-phase Escherichia coli.

    Kan Tanaka;Yuko Takayanagi;Nobuyuki Fujita;Akira Ishihama

  • A 100%-complete sequence reveals unusually simple genomic features in the hot-spring red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Hiroyoshi Takano;Osami Misumi;Kimihiro Terasawa

  • Inorganic polyphosphate and the induction of rpoS expression

    Toshikazu Shiba;Kaori Tsutsumi;Hiroyuki Yano;Yoshiharu Ihara

  • Improvement of Culture Conditions and Evidence for Nuclear Transformation by Homologous Recombination in a Red Alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Ayumi Minoda;Rei Sakagami;Fumi Yagisawa;Fumi Yagisawa;Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa

  • Complete sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.

    Niji Ohta;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Shin-ya Miyagishima

  • Transcriptional activation of NtcA-dependent promoters of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 by 2-oxoglutarate in vitro.

    Ryohei Tanigawa;Masao Shirokane;Shin-ichi Maeda;Tatsuo Omata

  • Positive Regulation of Sugar Catabolic Pathways in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by the Group 2 σ Factor SigE

    Takashi Osanai;Yu Kanesaki;Yu Kanesaki;Takayuki Nakano;Hiroyuki Takahashi

  • Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)-Mediated Transient Gene Expression in a Red Alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Mio Ohnuma;Takashi Yokoyama;Takayuki Inouye;Yasuhiko Sekine

  • Characterization of three cDNA species encoding plastid RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis thaliana: evidence for the sigma factor heterogeneity in higher plant plastids

    Kan Tanaka;Yuzuru Tozawa;Nobuyoshi Mochizuki;Kazuo Shinozaki

  • The Multiple-Stress Responsive Plastid Sigma Factor, SIG5, Directs Activation of the psbD Blue Light-Responsive Promoter (BLRP) in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Akitomo Nagashima;Mitsumasa Hanaoka;Toshiharu Shikanai;Makoto Fujiwara

  • An Arabidopsis sigma factor (SIG2)-dependent expression of plastid-encoded tRNAs in chloroplasts.

    Kengo Kanamaru;Akitomo Nagashima;Makoto Fujiwara;Hiroshi Shimada

  • Nitrogen Induction of Sugar Catabolic Gene Expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Takashi Osanai;Sousuke Imamura;Sousuke Imamura;Munehiko Asayama;Makoto Shirai

  • Circadian Control of Chloroplast Transcription by a Nuclear-Encoded Timing Signal

    Zeenat B. Noordally;Kenyu Ishii;Kelly A. Atkins;Sarah J. Wetherill

  • Purification, characterization, and gene expression of all sigma factors of RNA polymerase in a cyanobacterium.

    Sousuke Imamura;Satoshi Yoshihara;Serina Nakano;Noriko Shiozaki

  • Nuclear Encoding of a Chloroplast RNA Polymerase Sigma Subunit in a Red Alga

    Kan Tanaka;Kosuke Oikawa;Niji Ohta;Haruko Kuroiwa

  • Molecular genetic analysis of chloroplast gene promoters dependent on SIG2, a nucleus-encoded sigma factor for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase, in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Mitsumasa Hanaoka;Kengo Kanamaru;Hideo Takahashi;Kan Tanaka

  • Specific function of a plastid sigma factor for ndhF gene transcription

    Jean-Jacques Favory;Masanori Kobayshi;Kan Tanaka;Gilles Peltier

  • Glutamyl‐tRNA mediates a switch in RNA polymerase use during chloroplast biogenesis

    Mitsumasa Hanaoka;Kengo Kanamaru;Kengo Kanamaru;Makoto Fujiwara;Hideo Takahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideo Takahashi
Hideo Takahashi University of Tokyo
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics
Masahiko Ikeuchi
Masahiko Ikeuchi University of Tokyo
Akira Ishihama
Akira Ishihama Hosei University
Hisayoshi Nozaki
Hisayoshi Nozaki University of Tokyo
Naoki Sato
Naoki Sato University of Tokyo
Haruko Kuroiwa
Haruko Kuroiwa Japan Women's University

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