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Yasunori Nakamura is affiliated with Akita Prefectural University in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on nursing and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as nutrition and dietetics, food science, molecular biology, plant science, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Food composition and properties
  • Microbial metabolites in food biotechnology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Vacuum and plasma arcs
  • Polysaccharides composition and applications
  • Probiotics and fermented foods
  • Phytase and its applications

Yasunori Nakamura has published research in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • IEEJ Transactions on Power and Energy

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Prebiotic effects of yeast mannan, which selectively promotes Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and Bacteroides ovatus in a human colonic microbiota model" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Determination of Organic Acids in Honey by Liquid Chromatography with Tandem Mass Spectrometry" (2020), published in Food Analytical Methods
  • "On the cluster structure of amylopectin" (2021), published in Plant Molecular Biology
  • "Effects of Yeast Mannan Which Promotes Beneficial Bacteroides on the Intestinal Environment and Skin Condition: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study" (2020), published in Nutrients
  • "Daily Intake of Paraprobiotic Lactobacillus amylovorus CP1563 Improves Pre-Obese Conditions and Affects the Gut Microbial Community in Healthy Pre-Obese Subjects: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study" (2020), published in Microorganisms

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Masami Ono
  • Kazuki Yashiro
  • Go Matsuba
  • Yasunobu Yokomizu
  • Shunsuke Oba

Yasunori Nakamura's body of work reflects an interdisciplinary approach to life sciences, combining elements of nutrition, microbiology, and molecular biology. Their research contributes to understanding food properties, gut microbiota interactions, and biochemical processes relevant to both human health and plant biology.

Best Publications

  • Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the Effects of Amylose-Extender Mutation in Rice Endosperm

    Aiko Nishi;Yasunori Nakamura;Naoki Tanaka;Hikaru Satoh

  • Towards a Better Understanding of the Metabolic System for Amylopectin Biosynthesis in Plants: Rice Endosperm as a Model Tissue

    Yasunori Nakamura

  • Expression profiling of genes involved in starch synthesis in sink and source organs of rice

    Takashi Ohdan;Perigio B. Francisco;Takayuki Sawada;Tatsuro Hirose

  • Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Developing Endosperm of Rice Grains

    Yasunori Nakamura;Kazuhiro Yuki;Shin-Young Park;Toshihide Ohya

  • Mapping of a gene responsible for the difference in amylopectin structure between japonica-type and indica-type rice varieties.

    T. Umemoto;M. Yano;H. Satoh;A. Shomura

  • Starch biosynthesis in cereal endosperm

    Jong Seong Jeon;Nayeon Ryoo;Tae Ryong Hahn;Harkamal Walia;Harkamal Walia

  • Characterization of SSIIIa-Deficient Mutants of Rice: The Function of SSIIIa and Pleiotropic Effects by SSIIIa Deficiency in the Rice Endosperm

    Naoko Fujita;Mayumi Yoshida;Tomonori Kondo;Kaori Saito

  • Function and Characterization of Starch Synthase I Using Mutants in Rice

    Naoko Fujita;Mayumi Yoshida;Noriko Asakura;Takashi Ohdan

  • Essential amino acids of starch synthase IIa differentiate amylopectin structure and starch quality between japonica and indica rice varieties

    Yasunori Nakamura;Perigio B. Francisco;Yuko Hosaka;Aya Sato

  • Starch-Branching Enzyme I-Deficient Mutation Specifically Affects the Structure and Properties of Starch in Rice Endosperm

    Hikaru Satoh;Aiko Nishi;Kazuhiro Yamashita;Yoko Takemoto

  • The starch-debranching enzymes isoamylase and pullulanase are both involved in amylopectin biosynthesis in rice endosperm

    Akiko Kubo;Naoko Fujita;Kyuya Harada;Toshiaki Matsuda

  • Transepithelial Transport of the Bioactive Tripeptide, Val-Pro-Pro, in Human Intestinal Caco-2 Cell Monolayers

    Makoto Satake;Masashi Enjoh;Yasunori Nakamura;Toshiaki Takano

  • Mutation of the Plastidial α-Glucan Phosphorylase Gene in Rice Affects the Synthesis and Structure of Starch in the Endosperm

    Hikaru Satoh;Kensuke Shibahara;Takashi Tokunaga;Aiko Nishi

  • The fine Structure of Amylopectin in Endosperm from Asian Cultivated Rice can be largely Classified into two Classes

    Yasunori Nakamura;Aya Sakurai;Yumiko Inaba;Kazuko Kimura

  • The structure of starch can be manipulated by changing the expression levels of starch branching enzyme IIb in rice endosperm.

    Naoki Tanaka;Naoko Fujita;Aiko Nishi;Hikaru Satoh

  • Antisense inhibition of isoamylase alters the structure of amylopectin and the physicochemical properties of starch in rice endosperm.

    Naoko Fujita;Akiko Kubo;Dong-Soon Suh;Kit-Sum Wong

  • Correlation between activities of starch debranching enzyme and α-polyglucan structure in endosperms of sugary-1 mutants of rice

    Yasunori Nakamura;Akiko Kubo;Tomoyuki Shimamune;Toshiaki Matsuda

  • Organ Specificity of Isoforms of Starch Branching Enzyme (Q-Enzyme) in Rice

    Hiroaki Yamanouchi;Yasunori Nakamura

  • Characterization of pullulanase (PUL)-deficient mutants of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and the function of PUL on starch biosynthesis in the developing rice endosperm

    Naoko Fujita;Yoshiko Toyosawa;Yoshinori Utsumi;Toshiyuki Higuchi

  • Natural variation in rice starch synthase IIa affects enzyme and starch properties.

    Takayuki Umemoto;Noriaki Aoki;Hongxuan Lin;Yasunori Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hikaru Satoh
Hikaru Satoh Kyushu University
Steven G. Ball
Steven G. Ball University of Lille
Jean-Luc Putaux
Jean-Luc Putaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Martin Steup
Martin Steup University of Potsdam
Kyuya Harada
Kyuya Harada University of Tsukuba
Alain Buléon
Alain Buléon INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Matthew K. Morell
Matthew K. Morell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Akio Miyao
Akio Miyao National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Hirohiko Hirochika
Hirohiko Hirochika Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Thomas W. Okita
Thomas W. Okita Washington State University

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