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Tairo Oshima

Tairo Oshima

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11189
World Ranking
11530
National Ranking
794

Overview

Tairo Oshima is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their publications prominently focus on molecular biology, biochemistry, ecology, materials chemistry, and radiation, contributing to an extensive research portfolio spanning several subfields.

Their work addresses a range of topics including polyamine metabolism and applications, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, genomics and phylogenetic studies, enzyme structure and function, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, microbial community ecology and physiology, and advanced X-ray imaging techniques.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tairo Oshima include Toshiyuki Moriya, Yoshitaka Bessho, Akihiko Sakamoto, Kazuei Igarashi, and Keiko Kashiwagi, reflecting ongoing partnerships across various studies.

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • Identification of a novel d-amino acid aminotransferase involved in d-glutamate biosynthetic pathways in the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima, 2022, FEBS Journal
  • Enzymatic properties and physiological function of glutamate racemase from Thermus thermophilus, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
  • Polyamines produced by an extreme thermophile are essential for cell growth at high temperature, 2022, The Journal of Biochemistry
  • Complete Genome Sequence of Thermus thermophilus Strain HB5018, Isolated from Mine Hot Spring in Japan, 2021, Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Complete Genome Sequences of Thermus thermophilus Strains HB5002 and HB5008, Isolated from Mine Hot Spring in Japan, 2021, Microbiology Resource Announcements

The most frequent publication venues for Tairo Oshima's work are The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, The Journal of Biochemistry, Microbiology Resource Announcements, FEBS Journal, and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics.

Best Publications

  • High guanine plus cytosine content in the third letter of codons of an extreme thermophile. DNA sequence of the isopropylmalate dehydrogenase of Thermus thermophilus.

    Y Kagawa;H Nojima;N Nukiwa;M Ishizuka

  • Reversible thermal unfolding of thermostable phosphoglycerate kinase. Thermostability associated with mean zero enthalpy change.

    Hiroshi Nojima;Hiroshi Nojima;Atsushi Ikai;Atsushi Ikai;Tairo Oshima;Haruhiko Noda;Haruhiko Noda

  • Cloning of 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase Gene of an Extreme Thermophile and Partial Purification of the Gene Product

    Teruo Tanaka;Naoko Kawano;Tairo Oshima

  • Crystal Structures of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium 3-Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase and Comparison with their Thermophilic Counterpart from Thermus thermophilus

    Gerlind Wallon;Gitay Kryger;Susan T Lovett;Tairo Oshima

  • An enzyme with a deep trefoil knot for the active-site architecture.

    Osamu Nureki;Mikako Shirouzu;Kyoko Hashimoto;Ryuichiro Ishitani

  • Transcription Profile of Thermus thermophilus CRISPR Systems after Phage Infection

    Yoshihiro Agari;Keiko Sakamoto;Masatada Tamakoshi;Tairo Oshima

  • 2-oxoacid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. strain 7.

    Qian Zhang;Toshio Iwasaki;Takayoshi Wakagi;Tairo Oshima

  • The membrane-associated ATPase from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is distantly related to F1-ATPase as assessed from the primary structure of its alpha-subunit.

    K Denda;J Konishi;T Oshima;T Date

  • Stabilization of nucleic acids by unusual polyamines produced by an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.

    Yusuke Terui;Mio Ohnuma;Kaori Hiraga;Etsuko Kawashima

  • Heat-induced stability of tRNA from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus

    Kimitsuna Watanabe;Mikiko Shinma;Tairo Oshima;Susumu Nishimura

  • Amino acid formation in gas mixtures by high energy particle irradiation

    Kensei Kobayashi;Takeo Kaneko;Takeshi Saito;Tairo Oshima

  • Molecular cloning of the beta-subunit of a possible non-F0F1 type ATP synthase from the acidothermophilic archaebacterium, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.

    K Denda;J Konishi;T Oshima;T Date

  • Long-Term Conservation of Six Duplicated Structural Genes in Cephalopod Mitochondrial Genomes

    Shin-ichi Yokobori;Naoya Fukuda;Mitsue Nakamura;Tomoko Aoyama

  • Nucleotide binding to isolated alpha and beta subunits of proton translocating adenosine triphosphatase studied with circular dichroism.

    Shigeo Ohta;Masamichi Tsuboi;Tairo Oshima;Masasuke Yoshida

  • Replacement of ribothymidine by 5-methyl-2-thiouridine in sequence GTψC in tRNA of an extreme thermophile

    K. Watanabe;T. Oshima;M. Saneyoshi;S. Nishimura

  • Phylogenetic Diversity of Symbiotic Methanogens Living in the Hindgut of the Lower Termite Reticulitermes speratus Analyzed by PCR and In Situ Hybridization

    Naoya Shinzato;Tadao Matsumoto;Ikuo Yamaoka;Tairo Oshima

  • Serial increase in the thermal stability of 3‐isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Bacillus subtilis by experimental evolution

    Satoshi Akanuma;Akihiko Yamagishi;Nobuo Tanaka;Tairo Oshima

  • The cephalopod Loligo bleekeri mitochondrial genome: multiplied noncoding regions and transposition of tRNA genes.

    Kozo Tomita;Shin ichi Yokobori;Tairo Oshima;Takuya Ueda

  • Studies on polypeptide-chain-elongation factors from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus HB8. 3. Molecular properties.

    Shun Nakamura;Shigeo Ohta;Ken-ichi Arai;Naoko Arai

  • N1-Aminopropylagmatine, a New Polyamine Produced as a Key Intermediate in Polyamine Biosynthesis of an Extreme Thermophile, Thermus thermophilus

    Mio Ohnuma;Yusuke Terui;Masatada Tamakoshi;Hidemichi Mitome

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihiko Yamagishi
Akihiko Yamagishi Toho University
Susan T. Lovett
Susan T. Lovett Brandeis University
Toshiharu Suzuki
Toshiharu Suzuki Hokkaido University
Akira Chiba
Akira Chiba Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kimitsuna Watanabe
Kimitsuna Watanabe National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Susumu Nishimura
Susumu Nishimura University of Tsukuba
Gregory A. Petsko
Gregory A. Petsko Cornell University
Yasuo Kagawa
Yasuo Kagawa Kagawa Nutrition University
Masasuke Yoshida
Masasuke Yoshida Kyoto Sangyo University
Tsutomu Suzuki
Tsutomu Suzuki University of Tokyo

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