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Motomitsu Kitaoka

Motomitsu Kitaoka

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
9470
World Ranking
11321
National Ranking
833

Biology and Biochemistry

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60
Citations
10145
World Ranking
12181
National Ranking
838

Overview

Motomitsu Kitaoka is affiliated with Niigata University in Japan and specializes in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a focus on enzymatic functions and applications. Their research primarily addresses enzyme production and characterization, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, infant nutrition and health, diet, metabolism, and disease, biofuel production and bioconversion, and digestive system-related health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, biotechnology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and biomedical engineering.

Motomitsu Kitaoka's recent publications include:

  • Priority effects shape the structure of infant-type Bifidobacterium communities on human milk oligosaccharides, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Next-generation prebiotic promotes selective growth of bifidobacteria, suppressing Clostridioides difficile, 2021, Gut Microbes
  • Identification of difructose dianhydride I synthase/hydrolase from an oral bacterium establishes a novel glycoside hydrolase family, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Automatic Calculation of the Kinetic Parameters of Enzymatic Reactions with Their Standard Errors Using Microsoft Excel, 2022, Journal of Applied Glycoscience
  • Conversion of levoglucosan into glucose by the coordination of four enzymes through oxidation, elimination, hydration, and reduction, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Shinya Fushinobu (5 publications)
  • Hiroyuki Nakai (4 publications)
  • Takanori Nihira (4 publications)
  • Kazuhiro Chiku (4 publications)
  • Mitsuru Yoshida (4 publications)

Publication venues commonly featuring their research are:

  • Journal of Applied Glycoscience (5 publications)
  • Carbohydrate Research (3 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2 publications)
  • The ISME Journal (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Physiology of Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Infant Gut-associated Bifidobacteria

    Sadaki Asakuma;Emi Hatakeyama;Tadasu Urashima;Erina Yoshida

  • Bifidobacterium bifidum Lacto-N-Biosidase, a Critical Enzyme for the Degradation of Human Milk Oligosaccharides with a Type 1 Structure

    Jun Wada;Jun Wada;Takuro Ando;Masashi Kiyohara;Hisashi Ashida

  • Novel Putative Galactose Operon Involving Lacto-N-Biose Phosphorylase in Bifidobacterium longum

    Motomitsu Kitaoka;Jiesheng Tian;Mamoru Nishimoto

  • Carbohydrate-Processing Phosphorolytic Enzymes

    Motomitsu Kitaoka;Kiyoshi Hayashi

  • Varied Pathways of Infant Gut-Associated Bifidobacterium to Assimilate Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Prevalence of the Gene Set and Its Correlation with Bifidobacteria-Rich Microbiota Formation

    Mikiyasu Sakanaka;Aina Gotoh;Keisuke Yoshida;Toshitaka Odamaki

  • Identification of N-acetylhexosamine 1-kinase in the complete lacto-N-biose I/galacto-N-biose metabolic pathway in Bifidobacterium longum.

    Mamoru Nishimoto;Motomitsu Kitaoka

  • Ten years of CAZypedia: a living encyclopedia of carbohydrate-active enzymes

    Wade Abbott;Orly Alber;Ed Bayer;Jean-Guy Berrin

  • Practical Preparation of Lacto-N-biose I, a Candidate for the Bifidus Factor in Human Milk

    Mamoru Nishimoto;Motomitsu Kitaoka

  • Evolutionary adaptation in fucosyllactose uptake systems supports bifidobacteria-infant symbiosis.

    Mikiyasu Sakanaka;Morten Ejby Hansen;Aina Gotoh;Toshihiko Katoh

  • Sharing of human milk oligosaccharides degradants within bifidobacterial communities in faecal cultures supplemented with Bifidobacterium bifidum.

    Aina Gotoh;Toshihiko Katoh;Mikiyasu Sakanaka;Yiwei Ling

  • Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis uses two different β-galactosidases for selectively degrading type-1 and type-2 human milk oligosaccharides

    Erina Yoshida;Haruko Sakurama;Masashi Kiyohara;Masahiro Nakajima

  • Recent development of phosphorylases possessing large potential for oligosaccharide synthesis.

    Hiroyuki Nakai;Motomitsu Kitaoka;Birte Svensson;Ken’ichi Ohtsubo

  • Cooperation of β-galactosidase and β-N-acetylhexosaminidase from bifidobacteria in assimilation of human milk oligosaccharides with type 2 structure

    Mika Miwa;Tomohiro Horimoto;Masashi Kiyohara;Masashi Kiyohara;Takane Katayama

  • Synthesis of highly ordered cellulose II in vitro using cellodextrin phosphorylase

    Masao Hiraishi;Kiyohiko Igarashi;Satoshi Kimura;Masahisa Wada

  • Distribution of in vitro fermentation ability of lacto-N-biose I, a major building block of human milk oligosaccharides, in bifidobacterial strains.

    Jin-zhong Xiao;Sachiko Takahashi;Mamoru Nishimoto;Toshitaka Odamaki

  • The first glycosynthase derived from an inverting glycoside hydrolase.

    Yuji Honda;Motomitsu Kitaoka

  • Structural and thermodynamic analyses of solute-binding Protein from Bifidobacterium longum specific for core 1 disaccharide and lacto-N-biose I.

    Ryuichiro Suzuki;Jun Wada;Jun Wada;Takane Katayama;Shinya Fushinobu

  • One-step random mutagenesis by error-prone rolling circle amplification

    Ryota Fujii;Motomitsu Kitaoka;Kiyoshi Hayashi

  • 1,2-α-l-Fucosynthase: A glycosynthase derived from an inverting α-glycosidase with an unusual reaction mechanism

    Jun Wada;Jun Wada;Yuji Honda;Masamichi Nagae;Masamichi Nagae;Ryuichi Kato

  • Bifidobacterial Enzymes Involved in the Metabolism of Human Milk Oligosaccharides

    Motomitsu Kitaoka

  • Chitobiose Phosphorylase from Vibrio proteolyticus, a Member of Glycosyl Transferase Family 36, Has a Clan GH-L-like (α/α)6 Barrel Fold

    Masafumi Hidaka;Yuji Honda;Motomitsu Kitaoka;Satoru Nirasawa

  • Error-prone rolling circle amplification: the simplest random mutagenesis protocol

    Ryota Fujii;Motomitsu Kitaoka;Kiyoshi Hayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinya Fushinobu
Shinya Fushinobu University of Tokyo
Kenji Yamamoto
Kenji Yamamoto Ishikawa Prefectural University
Hirofumi Shoun
Hirofumi Shoun University of Tokyo
Hidehiko Kumagai
Hidehiko Kumagai Ishikawa Prefectural University
Birte Svensson
Birte Svensson Technical University of Denmark
Kiyohiko Igarashi
Kiyohiko Igarashi University of Tokyo
Masahiro Samejima
Masahiro Samejima University of Tokyo
Kazuo Sakka
Kazuo Sakka Mie University
Peng George Wang
Peng George Wang Georgia State University
John F. Robyt
John F. Robyt Iowa State University

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