Shigeaki Harayama

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Biodegradation of high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by bacteria.

  Robert A. Kanaly;Shigeaki Harayama

  1513
  Citations

• PCR amplification and direct sequencing of gyrB genes with universal primers and their application to the detection and taxonomic analysis of Pseudomonas putida strains.

  S Yamamoto;S Harayama

  982
  Citations

• Molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation to xenobiotic compounds.

  J. R. Van Der Meer;W. M. De Vos;S. Harayama;A. J. B. Zehnder

  872
  Citations

• Functional and Evolutionary Relationships Among Diverse Oxygenases

  S Harayama;M Kok;E L Neidle

  638
  Citations

• Phylogeny of the genus Pseudomonas: intrageneric structure reconstructed from the nucleotide sequences of gyrB and rpoD genes.

  Satoshi Yamamoto;Hiroaki Kasai;Dawn L. Arnold;Robert W. Jackson

  622
  Citations

• Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic study of marine Cytophaga-like bacteria: proposal for Tenacibaculum gen. nov. with Tenacibaculum maritimum comb. nov. and Tenacibaculum ovolyticum comb. nov., and description of Tenacibaculum mesophilum sp. nov. and Tenacibaculum amylolyticum sp. nov.

  Makoto Suzuki;Yasuyoshi Nakagawa;Shigeaki Harayama;Satoshi Yamamoto

  515
  Citations

• Petroleum Biodegradation in Marine Environments

  Shigeaki Harayama;Hideo Kishira;Yuki Kasai;Kazuaki Shutsubo

  510
  Citations

• Microbial communities in oil-contaminated seawater.

  Shigeaki Harayama;Yuki Kasai;Akihiro Hara

  495
  Citations

• Design and evaluation of PCR primers to amplify bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA fragments used for community fingerprinting.

  Kazuya Watanabe;Yumiko Kodama;Shigeaki Harayama

  494
  Citations

• Physicochemical Properties and Biodegradability of Crude Oil

  Keiji Sugiura;Masami Ishihara;Toshitsugu Shimauchi;Shigeaki Harayama

  392
  Citations

• Molecular detection, isolation, and physiological characterization of functionally dominant phenol-degrading bacteria in activated sludge

  Kazuya Watanabe;Maki Teramoto;Hiroyuki Futamata;Shigeaki Harayama

  372
  Citations

• Bacteria Belonging to the Genus Cycloclasticus Play a Primary Role in the Degradation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Released in a Marine Environment

  Yuki Kasai;Hideo Kishira;Shigeaki Harayama

  329
  Citations

• Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria.

  Takao Iino;Koji Mori;Yoshihito Uchino;Tatsunori Nakagawa

  324
  Citations

• Advances in the field of high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation by bacteria.

  Robert A. Kanaly;Shigeaki Harayama

  320
  Citations

• Phylogenetic relationships of Pseudomonas putida strains deduced from the nucleotide sequences of gyrB, rpoD and 16S rRNA genes.

  Satoshi Yamamoto;Shigeaki Harayama

  316
  Citations

• Interspecific variations in adhesive protein sequences of Mytilus edulis, M. galloprovincialis, and M. trossulus.

  K. Inoue;J. H. Waite;M. Matsuoka;S. Odo

  313
  Citations

• Differentiation of Phylogenetically Related Slowly Growing Mycobacteria by Their gyrB Sequences

  Hiroaki Kasai;Takayuki Ezaki;Shigeaki Harayama

  312
  Citations

• Bacterial aromatic ring-cleavage enzymes are classified into two different gene families.

  S Harayama;M Rekik

  309
  Citations

• Predominant growth of Alcanivorax strains in oil-contaminated and nutrient-supplemented sea water

  Yuki Kasai;Hideo Kishira;Tetsuya Sasaki;Kazuaki Syutsubo

  296
  Citations

• Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Populations in Petroleum-Contaminated Groundwater Discharged from Underground Crude Oil Storage Cavities

  Kazuya Watanabe;Kanako Watanabe;Yumiko Kodama;Kazuaki Syutsubo

  293
  Citations