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Biology and Biochemistry
Japan
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
104
Citations
37824
World Ranking
336
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Koki Horikoshi was affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focused on materials science, specifically within the subfields of materials chemistry and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their published work addressed topics including photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, as well as photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Their recent papers included the following:

  • Near-infrared photochemical internalization: design of a distorted zinc phthalocyanine for efficient intracellular delivery of immunotoxins, 2025, RSC Medicinal Chemistry
  • Antimicrobial effects of grapefruit seed extract microfibers against mouse hepatitis virus, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2024, Journal of Laboratory Animal Science

Koki Horikoshi collaborated frequently with several coauthors throughout their career. These frequent collaborators included:

  • Mikako Hamabe
  • Wakako Dewa
  • Mizue Yuki
  • Eriko Yamada
  • T. Aiba

Their publications appeared in venues such as RSC Medicinal Chemistry and the Journal of Laboratory Animal Science, where they had at least one publication in each.

Best Publications

  • Alkaliphiles: Some Applications of Their Products for Biotechnology

    Koki Horikoshi

  • Rapid detection and quantification of members of the archaeal community by quantitative PCR using fluorogenic probes.

    Ken Takai;Koki Horikoshi

  • Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

    Ken Takai;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomohiro Toki;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  • Complete Sequence and Gene Organization of the Genome of a Hyper-thermophilic Archaebacterium, Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

    Yutaka Kawarabayasi;Mituhiro Sawada;Hiroshi Horikawa;Yuji Haikawa

  • Complete genome sequence of the alkaliphilic bacterium Bacillus halodurans and genomic sequence comparison with Bacillus subtilis

    Hideto Takami;Kaoru Nakasone;Yoshihiro Takaki;Go Maeno

  • Genetic Diversity of Archaea in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Environments

    Ken Takai;Koki Horikoshi

  • A Pseudomonas thrives in high concentrations of toluene

    Akira Inoue;Koki Horikoshi

  • Microbial Communities Associated with Geological Horizons in Coastal Subseafloor Sediments from the Sea of Okhotsk

    Fumio Inagaki;Masae Suzuki;Ken Takai;Hanako Oida

  • Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the e-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments

    Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson;Koki Horikoshi

  • Extremely Barophilic Bacteria Isolated from the Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep, at a Depth of 11,000 Meters

    Chiaki Kato;Lina Li;Yuichi Nogi;Yuka Nakamura

  • Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure.

    Ken Takai;Tetsushi Komatsu;Fumio Inagaki;Koki Horikoshi

  • Diversity of actinomycetes isolated from Challenger Deep sediment (10,898 m) from the Mariana Trench

    Wasu Pathom-aree;Wasu Pathom-aree;James E. M. Stach;Alan C. Ward;Koki Horikoshi

  • Microbial flora in the deepest sea mud of the Mariana Trench.

    Hideto Takami;Akira Inoue;Fumie Fuji;Koki Horikoshi

  • Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Sulfurimonas denitrificans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas.

    Ken Takai;Masae Suzuki;Satoshi Nakagawa;Masayuki Miyazaki

  • Purification and some properties of an alkaline xylanase from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. strain 41M-1.

    S Nakamura;K Wakabayashi;R Nakai;R Aono

  • Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing ε-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

    Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Hideki Kobayashi;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field.

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hisako Hirayama

  • Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field

    Ken Takai;Toshitaka Gamo;Urumu Tsunogai;Noriko Nakayama

  • Bacterial diversity in deep-sea sediments from different depths

    Lina Li;Chiaki Kato;Koki Horikoshi

  • Estimation of solvent-tolerance of bacteria by the solvent parameter log P

    Akira Inoue;Koki Horikoshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Chiaki Kato
Chiaki Kato Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Toshiaki Kudo
Toshiaki Kudo Nagasaki University
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Takuro Nunoura
Takuro Nunoura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yasuhiko Yoshida
Yasuhiko Yoshida Toyo University
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
William D. Grant
William D. Grant University of Leicester
Alan T. Bull
Alan T. Bull University of Kent

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