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Shinichi Takaichi

Shinichi Takaichi

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
9095
World Ranking
16265
National Ranking
1165

Overview

Shinichi Takaichi is affiliated with Nippon Medical School in Japan and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly contributions cover multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Ecology, Biochemistry, and Plant Science.

Takaichi's research explores key topics such as Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Algal Biology and Biofuel Production, Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Light Effects on Plants, and Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research.

The scientist has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • An LH1-RC photocomplex from an extremophilic phototroph provides insight into origins of two photosynthesis proteins, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Carotenogenesis in cyanobacteria: CruA/CruP-type and CrtL-type lycopene cyclases, 2020, The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology
  • Light dependent accumulation of β-carotene enhances photo-acclimation of Euglena gracilis, 2020, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology
  • Uphill energy transfer mechanism for photosynthesis in an Antarctic alga, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Lycopene-Family Carotenoids Confer Thermostability on Photocomplexes from a New Thermophilic Purple Bacterium, 2020, Biochemistry

The frequent publication venues where Takaichi's work appears include Communications Biology, Nature Communications, The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Algal Research.

Takaichi often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors such as Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo, Michael T. Madigan, Yukihiro Kimura, Shinji Kawasaki, and Kazutoshi Tani, reflecting a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to scientific inquiry.

Best Publications

  • Carotenoids in Algae: Distributions, Biosyntheses and Functions

    Shinichi Takaichi

  • Roseiflexus castenholzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, filamentous, photosynthetic bacterium that lacks chlorosomes.

    Satoshi Hanada;Shinichi Takaichi;Katsumi Matsuura;Kazunori Nakamura

  • Carotenoids and carotenogenesis in cyanobacteria: unique ketocarotenoids and carotenoid glycosides.

    S Takaichi;M Mochimaru

  • Discovery of Natural Photosynthesis using Zn-Containing Bacteriochlorophyll in an Aerobic Bacterium Acidiphilium rubrum

    Norio Wakao;Naoto Yokoi;Naohito Isoyama;Akira Hiraishi

  • Novel hydroxycarotenoids with improved antioxidative properties produced by gene combination in Escherichia coli.

    Manuela Albrecht;Shinichi Takaichi;Sabine Steiger;Zheng-Yu Wang

  • Characterization of carotenoids in photosynthetic bacteria.

    Shinichi Takaichi;Keizo Shimada

  • Quinones in chlorosomes of green sulfur bacteria and their role in the redox-dependent fluorescence studied in chlorosome-like bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates

    N.-U. Frigaard;Shinichi Takaichi;Masamitsu Hirota;Keizo Shimada

  • Genomic structure of an economically important cyanobacterium, Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis NIES-39.

    Takatomo Fujisawa;Rei Narikawa;Shinobu Okamoto;Shigeki Ehira

  • Rare carotenoids, (3R)-saproxanthin and (3R,2'S)-myxol, isolated from novel marine bacteria (Flavobacteriaceae) and their antioxidative activities.

    Kazutoshi Shindo;Kana Kikuta;Atsuko Suzuki;Atsuko Katsuta

  • Phylogeny and photosynthetic features of Thiobacillus acidophilus and related acidophilic bacteria: its transfer to the genus Acidiphilium as Acidiphilium acidophilum comb. nov.

    Akira Hiraishi;Kenji V. P. Nagashima;Katsumi Matsuura;Keizo Shimada

  • Myxoxanthophyll in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is Myxol 2′-Dimethyl-Fucoside, (3R,2′S)-Myxol 2′-(2,4-di-O-Methyl-α-l-Fucoside), not Rhamnoside

    Shinichi Takaichi;Takashi Maoka;Kazumori Masamoto

  • Identification of carotenoids from the extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica

    Rie Yatsunami;Ai Ando;Ying Yang;Shinichi Takaichi

  • Identification of a gene required for cis-to-trans carotene isomerization in carotenogenesis of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Kazumori Masamoto;Hajime Wada;Takakazu Kaneko;Shinichi Takaichi

  • Complete Biosynthetic Pathway of the C50 Carotenoid Bacterioruberin from Lycopene in the Extremely Halophilic Archaeon Haloarcula japonica

    Ying Yang;Rie Yatsunami;Ai Ando;Nobuhiro Miyoko

  • Molecular structure and optical properties of carotenoids for the in vivo energy transfer function in the algal photosynthetic pigment system

    Mamoru Mimuro;Umpei Nagashima;Shinichi Takaichi;Yoshinobu Nishimura

  • The major carotenoid in all known species of heliobacteria is the C30 carotenoid 4,4'-diaponeurosporene, not neurosporene

    Shinichi Takaichi;Kazuhito Inoue;Mitsuhiro Akaike;Masami Kobayashi

  • The effect of growth conditions on the light-harvesting apparatus in Rhodopseudomonas acidophila

    Alastair T. Gardiner;Richard J. Cogdell;Shinichi Takaichi

  • Roseateles depolymerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacteriochlorophyll a-containing obligate aerobe belonging to the beta-subclass of the Proteobacteria.

    Tetsushi Suyama;Toru Shigematsu;Shinichi Takaichi;Yoshinobu Nodasaka

  • Myxol and 4-ketomyxol 2'-fucosides, not rhamnosides, from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 and Nostoc punctiforme PCC 73102, and proposal for the biosynthetic pathway of carotenoids.

    Shinichi Takaichi;Mari Mochimaru;Takashi Maoka;Hiroshi Katoh

  • Characterization of carotenes in a combination of a C18 HPLC column with isocratic elution and absorption spectra with a photodiode-array detector

    Shinichi Takaichi

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Hiraishi
Akira Hiraishi Toyohashi University of Technology
Michael T. Madigan
Michael T. Madigan Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Norihiko Misawa
Norihiko Misawa Ishikawa Prefectural University
Gerhard Sandmann
Gerhard Sandmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Shigeru Itoh
Shigeru Itoh Nagoya University
Richard J. Cogdell
Richard J. Cogdell University of Glasgow
Mamoru Mimuro
Mamoru Mimuro Kyoto University
Iwao Yamazaki
Iwao Yamazaki Hokkaido University
Dimitry Y. Sorokin
Dimitry Y. Sorokin Delft University of Technology
Kazuo Furihata
Kazuo Furihata University of Tokyo

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