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Naotake Ogasawara is affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Nursing, and Engineering. Key subfields of study include Genetics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Biomedical Engineering, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Trace Elements in Health, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • A critical role of the periplasm in copper homeostasis in Gram-negative bacteria, 2023, Biosystems
  • Constitutive expression of the global regulator AbrB restores the growth defect of a genome-reduced Bacillus subtilis strain and improves its metabolite production, 2022, DNA Research
  • Critical role of the periplasm in copper homeostasis in Gram-negative bacteria, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Naotake Ogasawara has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Shu Ishikawa
  • Taku Oshima
  • Jun-ichi Ishihara
  • Tomohiro Mekubo
  • Chikako Kusaka

The scientist's research has been published mainly in the following venues:

  • Biosystems
  • DNA Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    F. Kunst;N. Ogasawara;I. Moszer;A. M. Albertini

  • Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Makoto Kuroda;Toshiko Ohta;Ikuo Uchiyama;Tadashi Baba

  • Essential Bacillus subtilis genes

    K. Kobayashi;S.D. Ehrlich;A. Albertini;G. Amati

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Enterohemorrhagic Eschelichia coli O157:H7 and Genomic Comparison with a Laboratory Strain K-12

    Tetsuya Hayashi;Kozo Makino;Makoto Ohnishi;Ken Kurokawa

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of Aspergillus oryzae

    Masayuki Machida;Kiyoshi Asai;Motoaki Sano;Toshihiro Tanaka

  • Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Tadasu Shin-I;Shinichiro Maruyama

  • Complete genome sequence of Clostridium perfringens, an anaerobic flesh-eater

    Tohru Shimizu;Kaori Ohtani;Hideki Hirakawa;Kenshiro Ohshima

  • Sequence-specific error profile of Illumina sequencers

    Kensuke Nakamura;Taku Oshima;Takuya Morimoto;Shun Ikeda

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

    Hideto Takami;Kaoru Nakasone;Yoshihiro Takaki;Go Maeno

  • Escherichia coli histone-like protein H-NS preferentially binds to horizontally acquired DNA in association with RNA polymerase.

    Taku Oshima;Shu Ishikawa;Ken Kurokawa;Hirofumi Aiba

  • Systematic Sequencing of the 180 Kilobase Region of the Bacillus Subtilis Chromosome Containing the Replication Origin

    Naotake Ogasawara;Sumiko Nakai;Hiroshi Yoshikawa;Hiroshi Yoshikawa

  • Combined transcriptome and proteome analysis as a powerful approach to study genes under glucose repression in Bacillus subtilis

    Ken-ichi Yoshida;Kazuo Kobayashi;Yasuhiko Miwa;Choong-Min Kang

  • Inferring gene regulatory networks from time-ordered gene expression data of Bacillus subtilis using differential equations.

    Michiel J L de Hoon;Seiya Imoto;Kazuo Kobayashi;Naotake Ogasawara

  • A widespread family of bacterial cell wall assembly proteins.

    Yoshikazu Kawai;Jon Marles-Wright;Robert M Cleverley;Robyn Emmins

  • A Bacillus subtilis gene-encoding protein homologous to eukaryotic SMC motor protein is necessary for chromosome partition.

    Shigeki Moriya;Eitoku Tsujikawa;Anwarul K. M. Hassan;Kei Asai

  • Six GTP-binding proteins of the Era/Obg family are essential for cell growth in Bacillus subtilis

    Takuya Morimoto;Pek Chin Loh;Tomohiro Hirai;Kei Asai

  • Enhanced Recombinant Protein Productivity by Genome Reduction in Bacillus subtilis

    Takuya Morimoto;Ryosuke Kadoya;Ryosuke Kadoya;Keiji Endo;Masatoshi Tohata

  • The essential two-component regulatory system encoded by yycF and yycG modulates expression of the ftsAZ operon in Bacillus subtilis.

    Keisuke Fukuchi;Yasuhiro Kasahara;Kei Asai;Kazuo Kobayashi

  • An RNA-Modifying Enzyme that Governs Both the Codon and Amino Acid Specificities of Isoleucine tRNA

    Akiko Soma;Yoshiho Ikeuchi;Satoru Kanemasa;Kazuo Kobayashi

  • Whole-Genome Analysis of Genes Regulated by the Bacillus subtilis Competence Transcription Factor ComK

    Mitsuo Ogura;Hirotake Yamaguchi;Kazuo Kobayashi;Naotake Ogasawara

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigehiko Kanaya
Shigehiko Kanaya Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Junichi Sekiguchi
Junichi Sekiguchi Shinshu University
Yasutaro Fujita
Yasutaro Fujita Fukuyama University
Ken Kurokawa
Ken Kurokawa National Institute of Genetics
Satoru Kuhara
Satoru Kuhara Kyushu University
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Jeff Errington
Jeff Errington University of Sydney
Yoshitoshi Ogura
Yoshitoshi Ogura Kurume University
Minoru Kanehisa
Minoru Kanehisa Kyoto University
Satoru Miyano
Satoru Miyano Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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