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Kazunobu Matsushita

Kazunobu Matsushita

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
13924
World Ranking
7931
National Ranking
538

Overview

Kazunobu Matsushita is affiliated with Yamaguchi University in Japan and has authored numerous publications in the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on microbial metabolism, enzyme function, and metabolic engineering related to microbial bioproduction.

Their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and food science. Main research topics include microbial metabolism and enzyme function, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biochemical acid research studies, biofuel production and bioconversion, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, and metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with Kazunobu Matsushita include:

  • Naoya Kataoka
  • Toshiharu Yakushi
  • Minenosuke Matsutani
  • Osao Adachi
  • Yoshitaka Ano

Recent publications by Kazunobu Matsushita showcase a focus on microbiology and enzymology with studies such as:

  • Comparative Genomic Analysis of Closely Related Acetobacter pasteurianus Strains Provides Evidence of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Reveals Factors Necessary for Thermotolerance (2020), Journal of Bacteriology
  • The Auxiliary NADH Dehydrogenase Plays a Crucial Role in Redox Homeostasis of Nicotinamide Cofactors in the Absence of the Periplasmic Oxidation System in Gluconobacter oxydans NBRC3293 (2020), Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Thermal adaptation of acetic acid bacteria for practical high-temperature vinegar fermentation (2021), Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • Corynebacterium suranareeae sp. nov., a glutamate producing bacterium isolated from soil and its complete genome-based analysis (2020), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • The membrane-bound sorbosone dehydrogenase of Gluconacetobacter liquefaciens is a pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent enzyme (2020), Enzyme and Microbial Technology

Best Publications

  • Respiratory chains and bioenergetics of acetic acid bacteria.

    Kazunobu Matsushita;Hirohide Toyama;Osao Adachi

  • D-fructose dehydrogenase of Gluconobacter industrius: purification, characterization, and application to enzymatic microdetermination of D-fructose.

    M Ameyama;E Shinagawa;K Matsushita;O Adachi

  • A Synthetic Medium for Bacterial Cellulose Production by Acetobacter xylinum subsp. sucrofermentans

    Masanobu Matsuoka;Takayasu Tsuchida;Kazunobu Matsushita;Osao Adachi

  • Whole-genome analyses reveal genetic instability of Acetobacter pasteurianus

    Yoshinao Azuma;Akira Hosoyama;Minenosuke Matsutani;Naoko Furuya

  • Alcohol dehydrogenase of acetic acid bacteria: structure, mode of action, and applications in biotechnology

    Toshiharu Yakushi;Kazunobu Matsushita

  • Quinoproteins: structure, function, and biotechnological applications.

    K. Matsushita;H. Toyama;M. Yamada;O. Adachi

  • Cytochrome o type oxidase from Escherichia coli. Characterization of the enzyme and mechanism of electrochemical proton gradient generation.

    Matsushita K;Patel L;Kaback Hr

  • Acetic acid bacteria: A group of bacteria with versatile biotechnological applications.

    Natsaran Saichana;Kazunobu Matsushita;Osao Adachi;Ivo Frébort

  • New developments in oxidative fermentation.

    O. Adachi;D. Moonmangmee;H. Toyama;M. Yamada

  • Enhanced bactericidal action of lysozyme to Escherichia coli by inserting a hydrophobic pentapeptide into its C terminus.

    Hisham Radwan Ibrahim;M. Yamada;K. Matsushita;K. Kobayashi

  • Purified lac permease and cytochrome o oxidase are functional as monomers.

    M J Costello;J Escaig;K Matsushita;P V Viitanen

  • D-Glucose Dehydrogenase of Gluconobacter suboxydans: Solubilization, Purification and Characterization

    Minoru Ameyama;Emiko Shinagawa;Kazunobu Matsushita;Osao Adachi

  • Quinohemoprotein alcohol dehydrogenases: structure, function, and physiology

    Hirohide Toyama;F.Scott Mathews;F.Scott Mathews;Osao Adachi;Osao Adachi;Kazunobu Matsushita;Kazunobu Matsushita

  • Development of Thermotolerant Acetic Acid Bacteria Useful for Vinegar Fermentation at Higher Temperatures

    Akihiko Saeki;Gunjana Theeragool;Kazunobu Matsushita;Hirohide Toyama

  • Existence of a novel prosthetic group, PQQ, in mebrane-bound, electron transport chain-linked, primary dehydrogenases of oxidative bacteria

    Minoru Ameyama;Kazunobu Matsushita;Yasue Ohno;Emiko Shinagawa

  • Microbial Production of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone

    Minoru Ameyama;Masaharu Hayashi;Kazunobu Matsushita;Emiko Shinagawa

  • Microbial production of glyceric acid, an organic acid that can be mass produced from glycerol

    Hiroshi Habe;Yuko Shimada;Toshiharu Yakushi;Hiromi Hattori

  • 5-keto-D-gluconate production is catalyzed by a quinoprotein glycerol dehydrogenase, major polyol dehydrogenase, in gluconobacter species.

    Kazunobu Matsushita;Yoshikazu Fujii;Yoshitaka Ano;Hirohide Toyama

  • The highly tolerant acetic acid bacterium Gluconacetobacter europaeus adapts to the presence of acetic acid by changes in lipid composition, morphological properties and PQQ-dependent ADH expression

    Janja Trcek;Katarina Jernejc;Kazunobu Matsushita

  • Correlation between acetic acid resistance and characteristics of PQQ-dependent ADH in acetic acid bacteria

    Janja Trcek;Hirohide Toyama;Jerzy Czuba;Anna Misiewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Osao Adachi
Osao Adachi Yamaguchi University
Hideki Hirakawa
Hideki Hirakawa Kyushu University
Hideto Miyoshi
Hideto Miyoshi Kyoto University
Kenji Kano
Kenji Kano Kyoto University
Dai Kitamoto
Dai Kitamoto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
H. Ronald Kaback
H. Ronald Kaback University of California, Los Angeles
Tokuma Fukuoka
Tokuma Fukuoka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masaru Tanokura
Masaru Tanokura University of Tokyo
Kiyoshi Kita
Kiyoshi Kita Nagasaki University
Hidehiko Kumagai
Hidehiko Kumagai Ishikawa Prefectural University

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