Toru Nagasawa

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Best Publications

• The superiority of the third-generation catalyst, Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 nitrile hydratase, for industrial production of acrylamide

  Toru Nagasawa;Hitoshi Shimizu;Hideaki Yamada

  254
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• Nitrile hydratase of Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23. Purification and characterization.

  Toru Nagasawa;Hironori Nanba;Koichiro Ryuno;Koji Takeuchi

  246
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• Nitrile hydratase. The first non-heme iron enzyme with a typical low-spin iron(III)-active center

  Yukio Sugiura;June Kuwahara;Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  236
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• Microbial transformations of nitriles

  Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  236
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• Purification and characterization of a novel nitrilase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous K22 that acts on aliphatic nitriles.

  M Kobayashi;N Yanaka;T Nagasawa;H Yamada

  213
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• Nitrilase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1: purification and characterization

  Michihiko Kobayashi;Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  212
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• Nitrilase in biosynthesis of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid from indole-3-acetonitrile: cloning of the Alcaligenes gene and site-directed mutagenesis of cysteine residues.

  Michihiko Kobayashi;Hiroshi Izui;Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  206
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• Amidase coupled with low-molecular-mass nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1. Sequencing and expression of the gene and purification and characterization of the gene product.

  Michihiko Kobayashi;Hidenobu Komeda;Toru Nagasawa;Makoto Nishiyama

  198
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• Characterization of a new cobalt-containing nitrile hydratase purified from urea-induced cells of Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1.

  Toru Nagasawa;Koji Takeuchi;Hideaki Yamada

  191
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• Nitrilase-Catalyzed Production of Nicotinic Acid from 3-Cyanopyridine in Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1

  Caluwadewa Deepal Mathew;Toru Nagasawa;Michihiko Kobayashi;Hideaki Yamada

  184
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• Nitrile hydratase of Brevibacterium R312--purification and characterization.

  Toru Nagasawa;Koichiro Ryuno;Hideaki Yamada

  183
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• A novel nitrilase, arylacetonitrilase, of Alcaligenes faecalis JM3. Purification and characterization.

  Toru Nagasawa;Jacques Mauger;Hideaki Yamada

  179
  Citations

• Nitrile Hydratase-Catalyzed Production of Nicotinamide from 3-Cyanopyridine in Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1

  Toru Nagasawa;Caluwadewa Deepal Mathew;Jacques Mauger;Hideaki Yamada

  176
  Citations

• Nitrilase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1. Sequencing and overexpression of the gene and identification of an essential cysteine residue.

  M Kobayashi;H Komeda;N Yanaka;T Nagasawa

  173
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• Cloning and characterization of genes responsible for metabolism of nitrile compounds from Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23.

  M Nishiyama;S Horinouchi;M Kobayashi;T Nagasawa

  168
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• Cloning, nucleotide sequence and expression in Escherichia coli of two cobalt-containing nitrile hydratase genes from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1.

  Michihiko Kobayashi;Makoto Nishiyama;Toru Nagasawa;Sueharu Horinouchi

  158
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• Purification and Characterization of Benzonitrilases from Arthrobacter sp. Strain J-1

  Amal Kumar Bandyopadhyay;Toru Nagasawa;Yasuhisa Asano;Kinya Fujishiro

  155
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• Primary structure of an aliphatic nitrile-degrading enzyme, aliphatic nitrilase, from Rhodococcus rhodochrous K22 and expression of its gene and identification of its active site residue.

  Michihiko Kobayashi;Noriyuki Yanaka;Toru Nagasawa;Hideaki Yamada

  132
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• Occurrence of a cobalt-induced and cobalt-containing nitrile hydratase in Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1.

  Toru Nagasawa;Koji Takeuchi;Hideaki Yamada

  123
  Citations

• Multi-enzymatic Synthesis of beta-11C-Labelled L-Tyrosine and L-DOPA.

  Peter Bjurling;Yasuyoshi Watanabe;Shogo Oka;Toru Nagasawa

  111
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