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Ken Izumori

Ken Izumori

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
10718
World Ranking
10305
National Ranking
747

Overview

Ken Izumori is affiliated with Kagawa University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the field of medicine, with a significant focus on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Their scholarly contributions also extend into plant science, molecular biology, biochemistry, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their research topics broadly cover diet, metabolism, and disease, with additional work related to microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, GABA and rice research, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, as well as liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Ken Izumori has coauthored numerous papers with a range of collaborators, including Akihide Yoshihara, Kazuya Akimitsu, Susumu Mochizuki, Hiromi Yoshida, and S. Kamitori.

Some of the recent publications by Ken Izumori include:

  • The rare sugar d-tagatose protects plants from downy mildews and is a safe fungicidal agrochemical, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Allulose for the attenuation of postprandial blood glucose levels in healthy humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Antitumor Effects of Orally Administered Rare Sugar D-Allose in Bladder Cancer, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Crystal structure of a novel homodimeric l-ribulose 3-epimerase from Methylomonus sp., 2021, FEBS Open Bio
  • Structural and biochemical characterizations of Thermus thermophilus HB8 transketolase producing a heptulose, 2022, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The scientist's work has been published in a variety of academic venues, with multiple publications in Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Food Science and Technology Research, and singular contributions in Communications Biology and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Izumoring: a novel and complete strategy for bioproduction of rare sugars.

    Tom Birger Granström;Goro Takata;Masaaki Tokuda;Ken Izumori

  • Izumoring: A strategy for bioproduction of all hexoses

    Ken Izumori

  • Nutritive value of popular wild edible mushrooms from northern Thailand

    R Sanmee;B Dell;P Lumyong;K Izumori

  • D-Psicose Is a Rare Sugar That Provides No Energy to Growing Rats

    Tatsuhiro Matsuo;Hiroo Suzuki;Mineo Hashiguchi;Ken Izumori

  • Bioproduction strategies for rare hexose sugars.

    Ken Izumori

  • Mass production of D-psicose from d-fructose by a continuous bioreactor system using immobilized D-tagatose 3-epimerase.

    K. E. I. Takeshita;Akihiro Suga;Goro Takada;Ken Izumori

  • A rare sugar xylitol. Part II: biotechnological production and future applications of xylitol

    Tom Birger Granström;Ken Izumori;Matti Leisola

  • Modification of ovalbumin with a rare ketohexose through the Maillard reaction: effect on protein structure and gel properties.

    Yuanxia Sun;Shigeru Hayakawa;Ken Izumori

  • Dietary D-psicose, a C-3 epimer of D-fructose, suppresses the activity of hepatic lipogenic enzymes in rats.

    Tatsuhiro Matsuo;Yoshitake Baba;Mineo Hashiguchi;Kei Takeshita

  • Purification and Characterization of D-Tagatose 3-Epimerase from Pseudomonas sp. ST-24

    Hiromichi Itoh;Hiroaki Okaya;Anisur Rahman Khan;Shigeyuki Tajima

  • A rare sugar xylitol. Part I: the biochemistry and biosynthesis of xylitol

    Tom Birger Granström;Ken Izumori;Matti Leisola

  • A novel inhibitory effect of d-allose on production of reactive oxygen species from neutrophils

    Akiko Murata;Keizo Sekiya;Yasuo Watanabe;Fuminori Yamaguchi

  • Preparation of d-psicose from d-fructose by immobilized d-tagatose 3-epimerase

    Hiromichi Itoh;Tomoko Sato;Ken Izumori

  • Failure of d-psicose absorbed in the small intestine to metabolize into energy and its low large intestinal fermentability in humans.

    Tetsuo Iida;Noriko Hayashi;Takako Yamada;Yuko Yoshikawa

  • Psicose Contents in Various Food Products and its Origin

    Hisaka Oshima;Isao Kimura;Ken Izumori

  • Chemical properties and antioxidative activity of glycated α-lactalbumin with a rare sugar, d-allose, by Maillard reaction

    Yuanxia Sun;Shigeru Hayakawa;Somwipa Puangmanee;Ken Izumori

  • Effects of dietary D-psicose on diurnal variation in plasma glucose and insulin concentrations of rats.

    Tatsuhiro Matsuo;Ken Izumori

  • Acute D-psicose administration decreases the glycemic responses to an oral maltodextrin tolerance test in normal adults.

    Tetsuo Iida;Yuka Kishimoto;Yuko Yoshikawa;Noriko Hayashi

  • Crystal structures of D-tagatose 3-epimerase from Pseudomonas cichorii and its complexes with D-tagatose and D-fructose

    Hiromi Yoshida;Mitsugu Yamada;Takeyori Nishitani;Goro Takada

  • Neuroprotective Effect of D -Psicose on 6-Hydroxydopamine-Induced Apoptosis in Rat Pheochromocytoma (PC12) Cells

    Maki K. Takata;Fuminori Yamaguchi;Koichi Nakanose;Yasuo Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

George W. J. Fleet
George W. J. Fleet University of Oxford
Mark R. Wormald
Mark R. Wormald University of Oxford
Amber L. Thompson
Amber L. Thompson University of Oxford
Atsushi Kato
Atsushi Kato University of Toyama
Raymond A. Dwek
Raymond A. Dwek University of Oxford
Robert J. Nash
Robert J. Nash Aberystwyth University
Matti Leisola
Matti Leisola Aalto University
Terry D. Butters
Terry D. Butters University of Oxford
Saisamorn Lumyong
Saisamorn Lumyong Chiang Mai University
Wim Soetaert
Wim Soetaert Ghent University

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