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Masaharu Ishii

Masaharu Ishii

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
7953
World Ranking
18716
National Ranking
1342

Overview

Masaharu Ishii is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, ecology, and biomedical engineering.

Their scientific contributions cover multiple topics such as algal biology and biofuel production, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, heat shock proteins research, enzyme structure and function, microbial community ecology and physiology, protein structure and dynamics, and metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins.

Masaharu Ishii has published work in several research venues, including the EMPIAR dataset, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Bioresource Technology Reports, Algal Research, and Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering.

Recent publications by Ishii include:

  • Reversible Glutamate Coordination to High-Valent Nickel Protects the Active Site of a [NiFe] Hydrogenase from Oxygen (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Dark mode of microalga - A sustainable and economical solution for microalgal biofuel production and waste treatment (2023, Bioresource Technology Reports)
  • Simple transformation of the filamentous thermophilic cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya sp. KC45 (2022, Algal Research)
  • Regulation of the high-specificity Rubisco genes by the third CbbR-type regulator in a hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium Hydrogenovibrio marinus (2022, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering)
  • Unlocking microalgal host-exploring dark-growing microalgae transformation for sustainable high-value phytochemical production (2023, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology)

Their frequent co-authors include Masafumi Kameya, Hiroyuki Arai, Kanjana Mahanil, Jeeraporn Pekkoh, and Chayakorn Pumas.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic transition of a methanogenic population in response to the concentration of volatile fatty acids in a thermophilic anaerobic digester.

    Tomoyuki Hori;Shin Haruta;Yoshiyuki Ueno;Masaharu Ishii

  • Construction of a stable microbial community with high cellulose-degradation ability

    S. Haruta;Z. Cui;Z. Huang;M. Li

  • Stable coexistence of five bacterial strains as a cellulose-degrading community.

    Souichiro Kato;Shin Haruta;Zong Jun Cui;Masaharu Ishii

  • Microbial community in anaerobic hydrogen-producing microflora enriched from sludge compost

    Y Ueno;S Haruta;M Ishii;Y Igarashi

  • Effective cellulose degradation by a mixed-culture system composed of a cellulolytic Clostridium and aerobic non-cellulolytic bacteria

    Souichiro Kato;Shin Haruta;Zong Jun Cui;Masaharu Ishii

  • Succession of bacterial and fungal communities during a traditional pot fermentation of rice vinegar assessed by PCR-mediated denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis.

    Shin Haruta;Shintaro Ueno;Isao Egawa;Kazunori Hashiguchi

  • Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analyses of microbial community from field-scale composter.

    Mannix Salvador Pedro;Shin Haruta;Masaru Hazaka;Rumiko Shimada

  • Conductive iron oxides accelerate thermophilic methanogenesis from acetate and propionate.

    Chihaya Yamada;Souichiro Kato;Yoshiyuki Ueno;Masaharu Ishii

  • Methanogenic pathway and community structure in a thermophilic anaerobic digestion process of organic solid waste

    Daisuke Sasaki;Tomoyuki Hori;Tomoyuki Hori;Shin Haruta;Shin Haruta;Yoshiyuki Ueno

  • Differential expression of multiple terminal oxidases for aerobic respiration in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Takuro Kawakami;Miho Kuroki;Masaharu Ishii;Yasuo Igarashi

  • A novel enzyme, citryl-CoA lyase, catalysing the second step of the citrate cleavage reaction in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK-6

    Miho Aoshima;Masaharu Ishii;Yasuo Igarashi

  • Clostridium straminisolvens sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, aerotolerant and cellulolytic bacterium isolated from a cellulose-degrading bacterial community

    Souichiro Kato;Shin Haruta;Zong Jun Cui;Masaharu Ishii

  • Enzymatic Characterization and In Vivo Function of Five Terminal Oxidases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Hiroyuki Arai;Takuro Kawakami;Tatsuya Osamura;Takehiro Hirai

  • Diversity of a stable enrichment culture which is useful for silage inoculant and its succession in alfalfa silage

    Xiaofen Wang;Shin Haruta;Pu Wang;Masaharu Ishii

  • Characterization of a microorganism isolated from the effluent of hydrogen fermentation by microflora

    Yoshiyuki Ueno;Shin Haruta;Masaharu Ishii;Yasuo Igarashi

  • Transcriptional Regulation of the Flavohemoglobin Gene for Aerobic Nitric Oxide Detoxification by the Second Nitric Oxide-Responsive Regulator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Hiroyuki Arai;Michiko Hayashi;Azusa Kuroi;Masaharu Ishii

  • Network Relationships of Bacteria in a Stable Mixed Culture

    Souichiro Kato;Shin Haruta;Shin Haruta;Zong Jun Cui;Masaharu Ishii

  • Microbial community changes during organic solid waste treatment analyzed by double gradient-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and fluorescence in situ hybridization.

    Haruta S;Kondo M;Nakamura K;Aiba H

  • Distinctive Responses of Metabolically Active Microbiota to Acidification in a Thermophilic Anaerobic Digester

    Masateru Akuzawa;Tomoyuki Hori;Tomoyuki Hori;Shin Haruta;Shin Haruta;Yoshiyuki Ueno

  • A novel biotin protein required for reductive carboxylation of 2‐oxoglutarate by isocitrate dehydrogenase in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK‐6

    Miho Aoshima;Masaharu Ishii;Yasuo Igarashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yasuo Igarashi
Yasuo Igarashi Southwest University
Hiroyuki Arai
Hiroyuki Arai University of Tokyo
Naoki Yoshida
Naoki Yoshida University of Tokyo
Akira Yokota
Akira Yokota Tohoku University
Atsushi Ogata
Atsushi Ogata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Toru Nakayama
Toru Nakayama Tohoku University
Tokuzo Nishino
Tokuzo Nishino Tohoku University
Masaru Tanokura
Masaru Tanokura University of Tokyo
Shinya Fushinobu
Shinya Fushinobu University of Tokyo
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich

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