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Overview

Nozomu Koizumi is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan. Their research encompasses various aspects of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences. Koizumi's work is concentrated in molecular biology and plant science, with additional focus on biochemistry, cell biology, and insect science.

Their primary areas of investigation include photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, antioxidant activity and oxidative stress, plant molecular biology research, RNA research and splicing, plant stress responses and tolerance, plant reproductive biology, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Koizumi has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Plant Biotechnology
  • Food Quality and Preference
  • Plant Cell Reports
  • Genes to Cells
  • PLoS ONE

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Comparison of public attitudes toward five alternative proteins in Japan" (2022, Food Quality and Preference)
  • "Genetic engineering of eggplant accumulating β-carotene in fruit" (2020, Plant Cell Reports)
  • "Unpaired nucleotides on the stem of microRNA precursor are important for precise cleavage by Dicer-like 1 in Arabidopsis" (2022, Genes to Cells)
  • "THESEUS1 is involved in tunicamycin-induced root growth inhibition, ectopic lignin deposition, and cell wall damage-induced unfolded protein response" (2022, Plant Biotechnology)
  • "A comparative analysis of attitudes toward genome-edited food among Japanese public and scientific community" (2024, PLoS ONE)

Koizumi frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Yuji Iwata
  • Kei-ichiro Mishiba
  • Yube Yamaguchi
  • Ryuma Shineha
  • Satomi Takeda

Best Publications

  • Periodic DNA Methylation in Maize Nucleosomes and Demethylation by Environmental Stress

    Nicolas Steward;Mikako Ito;Yube Yamaguchi;Nozomu Koizumi

  • An Arabidopsis transcription factor, AtbZIP60, regulates the endoplasmic reticulum stress response in a manner unique to plants.

    Yuji Iwata;Nozomu Koizumi

  • Arabidopsis bZIP60 Is a Proteolysis-Activated Transcription Factor Involved in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response

    Yuji Iwata;Nina V. Fedoroff;Nozomu Koizumi

  • Producing decaffeinated coffee plants

    Shinjiro Ogita;Hirotaka Uefuji;Yube Yamaguchi;Nozomu Koizumi

  • Arabidopsis IRE1 catalyses unconventional splicing of bZIP60 mRNA to produce the active transcription factor

    Yukihiro Nagashima;Kei-ichiro Mishiba;Eiji Suzuki;Yukihisa Shimada

  • Molecular characterization of two Arabidopsis Ire1 homologs, endoplasmic reticulum-located transmembrane protein kinases.

    Nozomu Koizumi;Immaculada M. Martinez;Yukio Kimata;Kenji Kohno

  • The STT3a Subunit Isoform of the Arabidopsis Oligosaccharyltransferase Controls Adaptive Responses to Salt/Osmotic Stress

    Hisashi Koiwa;Fang Li;Michael G. McCully;Imelda Mendoza

  • Screening of cadmium‐responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

    N. Suzuki;N. Koizumi;H. Sano

  • Plant transducers of the endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response

    Yuji Iwata;Nozomu Koizumi

  • Secreted proteins of tobacco cultured BY2 cells: identification of a new member of pathogenesis-related proteins.

    Y. Okushima;N. Koizumi;T. Kusano;H. Sano

  • Defects in IRE1 enhance cell death and fail to degrade mRNAs encoding secretory pathway proteins in the Arabidopsis unfolded protein response

    Kei-ichiro Mishiba;Yukihiro Nagashima;Eiji Suzuki;Noriko Hayashi

  • Osmotic Stress Tolerance of Transgenic Tobacco Expressing a Gene Encoding a Membrane-Located Receptor-Like Protein from Tobacco Plants

    Takashi Tamura;Kojiro Hara;Yube Yamaguchi;Nozomu Koizumi

  • Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of Three Distinct N-Methyltransferases Involved in the Caffeine Biosynthetic Pathway in Coffee Plants

    Hirotaka Uefuji;Shinjiro Ogita;Yube Yamaguchi;Nozomu Koizumi

  • 7-Methylxanthine methyltransferase of coffee plants. Gene isolation and enzymatic properties.

    Mikihiro Ogawa;Yuka Herai;Nozomu Koizumi;Tomonobu Kusano

  • Identification of an Arabidopsis transmembrane bZIP transcription factor involved in the endoplasmic reticulum stress response

    Hiromi Tajima;Yuji Iwata;Megumi Iwano;Seiji Takayama

  • Regulation by Cytokinins of Endogenous Levels of Jasmonic and Salicylic Acids in Mechanically Wounded Tobacco Plants

    Hiroshi Sano;Shigemi Seo;Nozomu Koizumi;Tomoya Niki

  • Cadmium stress induces production of thiol compounds and transcripts for enzymes involved in sulfur assimilation pathways in Arabidopsis

    Emiko Harada;Yube Yamaguchi;Nozomu Koizumi;Sano Hiroshi

  • Identification of early-responsive genes associated with the hypersensitive response to tobacco mosaic virus and characterization of a WRKY-type transcription factor in tobacco plants.

    H. Yoda;M. Ogawa;Y. Yamaguchi;N. Koizumi

  • Glycosyl hydrolases of cell wall are induced by sugar starvation in Arabidopsis

    Eun-Jeong Lee;Yasuhiro Matsumura;Kouichi Soga;Takayuki Hoson

  • The crystal structure of the novel calcium-binding protein AtCBL2 from Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Masamichi Nagae;Akira Nozawa;Nozomu Koizumi;Hiroshi Sano

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Sano
Hiroshi Sano Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Tomonobu Kusano
Tomonobu Kusano Tohoku University
Yasuyuki Yamada
Yasuyuki Yamada Hosei University
Fumihiko Sato
Fumihiko Sato Kyoto University
Maarten J. Chrispeels
Maarten J. Chrispeels University of California, San Diego
Seiji Takayama
Seiji Takayama University of Tokyo
Toshiyuki Shimizu
Toshiyuki Shimizu University of Tokyo
Nina V. Fedoroff
Nina V. Fedoroff Pennsylvania State University
Kenji Kohno
Kenji Kohno Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Megumi Iwano
Megumi Iwano Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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