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Yoshihiko Katsuyama

Yoshihiko Katsuyama

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
54
Citations
7789
World Ranking
15848
National Ranking
1132

Overview

Yoshihiko Katsuyama is affiliated with Shinshu University in Japan, focusing on research within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scholarly work encompasses primary topics including microbial natural products and biosynthesis, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several main and subfields of study. These include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

  • Molecular Biology
  • Pharmacology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Biotechnology
  • Materials Chemistry

Yoshihiko Katsuyama's work addresses diverse main topics such as:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms

Their recent publications demonstrate involvement in advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation and elucidating biosynthetic pathways of natural compounds. Selected papers include:

  • MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration, 2024, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Recent advance in the biosynthesis of nitrogen-nitrogen bond-containing natural products, 2020, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
  • Complete Biosynthetic Pathway of Alazopeptin, a Tripeptide Consisting of Two Molecules of 6-Diazo-5-oxo-l-norleucine and One Molecule of Alanine, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Acyltransferase that catalyses the condensation of polyketide and peptide moieties of goadvionin hybrid lipopeptides, 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • Structural basis for selectivity in a highly reducing type II polyketide synthase, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology

Katsuyama has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, among them:

  • Yasuo Ohnishi
  • Seiji Kawai
  • Kazuo Shin-ya
  • Yoshitaka Moriwaki
  • Tohru Terada

Their publications have appeared predominantly in specialized scientific journals and venues including:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ChemBioChem
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Best Publications

  • Triplet repeat polymorphism in the transmembrane region of the MICA gene: A strong association of six GCT repetitions with Behçet disease

    Nobuhisa Mizuki;Masao Ota;Minoru Kimura;Shigeaki Ohno

  • HLA DRB1*0405-DQB1*0401 haplotype is associated with autoimmune pancreatitis in the Japanese population

    Shigeyuki Kawa;Masao Ota;Kaname Yoshizawa;Akira Horiuchi

  • Association Analysis Using Refined Microsatellite Markers Localizes a Susceptibility Locus for Psoriasis Vulgaris Within a 111 kb Segment Telomeric to the HLA-C Gene

    Akira Oka;Gen Tamiya;Maiko Tomizawa;Masao Ota

  • Trinucleotide repeat polymorphism within exon 5 of the MICA gene (MHC class I chain-related gene A): allele frequency data in the nine population groups Japanese, Northern Han, Hui, Uygur, Kazakhstan, Iranian, Saudi Arabian, Greek and Italian

    M. Ota;Y. Katsuyama;N. Mizuki;H. Ando

  • Positive Association of the Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene Polymorphisms With High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

    Yunden Droma;Masayuki Hanaoka;Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

  • Super high resolution for single molecule‐sequence‐based typing of classical HLA loci at the 8‐digit level using next generation sequencers

    T Shiina;S Suzuki;Y Ozaki;H Taira

  • Genetics of Behçet disease inside and outside the MHC

    Akira Meguro;Hidetoshi Inoko;Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

  • Genetic association of Fc receptor-like 3 polymorphisms with autoimmune pancreatitis in Japanese patients

    T Umemura;M Ota;H Hamano;Y Katsuyama

  • Association of autoimmune pancreatitis with cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 gene polymorphisms in Japanese patients.

    Takeji Umemura;Masao Ota;Hideaki Hamano;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

  • Expression of BRCA1 protein in benign, borderline, and malignant epithelial ovarian neoplasms and its relationship to methylation and allelic loss of the BRCA1 gene.

    Cuiju Wang;Akiko Horiuchi;Tsutomu Imai;Satoshi Ohira

  • Two critical genes ( HLA-DRB1 and ABCF1 )in the HLA region are associated with the susceptibility to autoimmune pancreatitis

    Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama;Hideaki Hamano;Takeji Umemura

  • Expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α, hypoxia-inducible factor 2α, and von Hippel–Lindau protein in epithelial ovarian neoplasms and allelic loss of von Hippel-Lindau gene: nuclear expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α is an independent prognostic factor in ovarian carcinoma ☆

    Ryosuke Osada;Akiko Horiuchi;Norihiko Kikuchi;Junko Yoshida

  • A second susceptibility gene for developing rheumatoid arthritis in the human MHC is localized within a 70-kb interval telomeric of the TNF genes in the HLA class III region.

    Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama;Akinori Kimura;Kuniyoshi Tsuchiya

  • Genetic analysis of the HLA region of Japanese patients with type 1 autoimmune hepatitis

    Kaname Yoshizawa;Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama;Tetsuya Ichijo

  • The critical region for Behcet disease in the human major histocompatibility complex is reduced to a 46-kb segment centromeric of HLA-B, by association analysis using refined microsatellite mapping.

    Masao Ota;Nobuhisa Mizuki;Nobuhisa Mizuki;Yoshihiko Katsuyama;Gen Tamiya

  • Localization of the pathogenic gene of Behçet's disease by microsatellite analysis of three different populations.

    Nobuhisa Mizuki;Masao Ota;Kazuro Yabuki;Kazuro Yabuki;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

  • Long-term outcome of Japanese patients with type 1 autoimmune hepatitis.

    Kaname Yoshizawa;Akihiro Matsumoto;Tetsuya Ichijo;Takeji Umemura

  • Association of MICA gene and HLA-B*5101 with Behçet's disease in Greece.

    Kazuro Yabuki;Nobuhisa Mizuki;Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

  • Association analysis between the MIC-A and HLA-B alleles in Japanese patients with Behçet's disease.

    Nobuhisa Mizuki;Masao Ota;Yoshihiko Katsuyama;Kazuro Yabuki

  • Rapid Evolution of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Genes in Primates Generates New Disease Alleles in Humans via Hitchhiking Diversity

    Takashi Shiina;Masao Ota;Sayoko Shimizu;Yoshihiko Katsuyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Masao Ota
Masao Ota Shinshu University
Hidetoshi Inoko
Hidetoshi Inoko Tokai University
Nobuhisa Mizuki
Nobuhisa Mizuki Yokohama City University
Shigeaki Ohno
Shigeaki Ohno Hokkaido University
Eiji Tanaka
Eiji Tanaka Shinshu University
Kendo Kiyosawa
Kendo Kiyosawa Shinshu University
Seiamak Bahram
Seiamak Bahram University of Strasbourg
Shigeyuki Kawa
Shigeyuki Kawa Matsumoto Dental University
Akinori Kimura
Akinori Kimura Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Jerzy K. Kulski
Jerzy K. Kulski University of Western Australia

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