Makoto Kawamukai

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Best Publications

• Development of series of gateway binary vectors, pGWBs, for realizing efficient construction of fusion genes for plant transformation

  Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Takayuki Kurose;Takeshi Hino;Katsunori Tanaka

  1857
  Citations

• Five geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases expressed in different organs are localized into three subcellular compartments in Arabidopsis.

  Kazunori Okada;Takeshi Saito;Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Makoto Kawamukai

  311
  Citations

• Characterization of a fission yeast SUMO-1 homologue, pmt3p, required for multiple nuclear events, including the control of telomere length and chromosome segregation.

  Katsunori Tanaka;Junko Nishide;Koei Okazaki;Hiroaki Kato

  261
  Citations

• PAD1 and FDC1 are essential for the decarboxylation of phenylacrylic acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Nobuhiko Mukai;Kazuo Masaki;Tsutomu Fujii;Makoto Kawamukai

  251
  Citations

• Biosynthesis, bioproduction and novel roles of ubiquinone.

  Makoto Kawamukai

  183
  Citations

• Polyprenyl diphosphate synthase essentially defines the length of the side chain of ubiquinone

  Kazunori Okada;Kengo Suzuki;Yasuhiro Kamiya;XuFen Zhu

  155
  Citations

• Development of R4 Gateway Binary Vectors (R4pGWB) Enabling High-Throughput Promoter Swapping for Plant Research

  Tsuyoshi Nakagawa;Shinya Nakamura;Katsunori Tanaka;Makoto Kawamukai

  148
  Citations

• Genetic and biochemical analysis of the adenylyl cyclase-associated protein, cap, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

  M. Kawamukai;J. Gerst;J. Field;M. Riggs

  139
  Citations

• Characterization of solanesyl and decaprenyl diphosphate synthases in mice and humans

  Ryoichi Saiki;Ai Nagata;Tomohiro Kainou;Hideyuki Matsuda

  139
  Citations

• Biosynthesis of coenzyme Q in eukaryotes

  Makoto Kawamukai

  139
  Citations

• The ispB gene encoding octaprenyl diphosphate synthase is essential for growth of Escherichia coli.

  K Okada;M Minehira;X Zhu;K Suzuki

  138
  Citations

• Catechol dioxygenases from Escherichia coli (MhpB) and Alcaligenes eutrophus (MpcI): sequence analysis and biochemical properties of a third family of extradiol dioxygenases.

  E. L. Spence;M. Kawamukai;J. Sanvoisin;H. Braven

  137
  Citations

• Biosynthesis and bioproduction of coenzyme Q10 by yeasts and other organisms.

  Makoto Kawamukai

  130
  Citations

• Purification, characterization, and gene analysis of a chitosanase (ChoA) from Matsuebacter chitosanotabidus 3001.

  Jae Kweon Park;Kumiko Shimono;Nobuhisa Ochiai;Kazutaka Shigeru

  120
  Citations

• Coenzyme Q10 supplementation rescues renal disease in Pdss2kd/kd mice with mutations in prenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2

  Ryoichi Saiki;Adam L Lunceford;Yuchen Shi;Beth Marbois

  120
  Citations

• Analysis of the Decaprenyl Diphosphate Synthase (dps) Gene in Fission Yeast Suggests a Role of Ubiquinone as an Antioxidant

  Kengo Suzuki;Kazunori Okada;Yasuhiro Kamiya;Xu Fen Zhu

  113
  Citations

• Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase encoded by the newly isolated gene GGPS6 from Arabidopsis thaliana is localized in mitochondria

  XuFen Zhu;Kengo Suzuki;Takeshi Saito;Kazunori Okada

  112
  Citations

• The Identification of Escherichia Coli ispB (CEL) Gene Encoding the Octaprenyl Diphosphate Synthase

  K.-I. Asai;S. Fujisaki;Y. Nishimura;T. Nishino

  112
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and mutational analysis of the ddsA gene encoding decaprenyl diphosphate synthase from Gluconobacter suboxydans

  Kazunori Okada;Tomohiro Kainou;Katsunori Tanaka;Tsuyoshi Nakagawa

  109
  Citations

• Biological significance of the side chain length of ubiquinone in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Kazunori Okada;Tomohiro Kainou;Hideyuki Matsuda;Makoto Kawamukai

  108
  Citations