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Yutaka Ebizuka

Yutaka Ebizuka

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Chemistry

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67
Citations
12493
World Ranking
7091
National Ranking
459

Biology and Biochemistry

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67
Citations
12375
World Ranking
8391
National Ranking
559

Overview

Yutaka Ebizuka is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific subfields in Pharmacology and Biotechnology. The main topics they focus on include Fungal Biology and Applications, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, and Microbial Metabolism and Applications.

Among their recent scholarly contributions is the paper titled Novel angular naphthopyrone formation by Arp1p dehydratase involved in Aspergillus fumigatus melanin biosynthesis, published in 2021 in Environmental Microbiology Reports. This publication addresses biochemical pathways associated with fungal biology and was cited five times.

Their work has appeared in the journal Environmental Microbiology Reports, which is the primary venue for their publications.

Yutaka Ebizuka has collaborated with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Natsuki Nambu
  • Huei-Fung Tsai
  • Yun C. Chang
  • Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
  • Tomoki Yoshida

Best Publications

  • Beta-amyrin synthase--cloning of oxidosqualene cyclase that catalyzes the formation of the most popular triterpene among higher plants.

    Tetsuo Kushiro;Masaaki Shibuya;Yutaka Ebizuka

  • A new pathway for polyketide synthesis in microorganisms

    Nobutaka Funa;Yasuo Ohnishi;Isao Fujii;Masaaki Shibuya

  • The Electronic Plant Gene Register

    Matthias Schmidt;Juergen Feierabend;Ya-Hsuan Hsu;Kin-Ying To

  • Dammarenediol-II synthase, the first dedicated enzyme for ginsenoside biosynthesis, in Panax ginseng

    Pimpimon Tansakul;Masaaki Shibuya;Tetsuo Kushiro;Yutaka Ebizuka

  • Identification of Claisen cyclase domain in fungal polyketide synthase WA, a naphthopyrone synthase of Aspergillus nidulans.

    Isao Fujii;Akira Watanabe;Ushio Sankawa;Yutaka Ebizuka

  • Reconstitution of a fungal meroterpenoid biosynthesis reveals the involvement of a novel family of terpene cyclases

    Takayuki Itoh;Kinya Tokunaga;Yudai Matsuda;Isao Fujii

  • Antitumor Activity of Shikonin and Its Derivatives

    Ushio Sankawa;Yutaka Ebizuka;Terutaka Miyazaki;Yasuo Isomura

  • Identification of β-amyrin and sophoradiol 24-hydroxylase by expressed sequence tag mining and functional expression assay

    Masaaki Shibuya;Masaki Hoshino;Yuji Katsube;Hiroaki Hayashi

  • Molecular cloning and functional expression of triterpene synthases from pea (Pisum sativum): new α-amyrin-producing enzyme is a multifunctional triterpene synthase.

    Masayo Morita;Masaaki Shibuya;Tetsuo Kushiro;Kazuo Masuda

  • Mutational Studies on Triterpene Synthases: Engineering Lupeol Synthase into β-Amyrin Synthase

    Tetsuo Kushiro;Masaaki Shibuya;and Kazuo Masuda;Yutaka Ebizuka

  • Identification and characterization of glycosyltransferases involved in the biosynthesis of soyasaponin I in Glycine max

    Masaaki Shibuya;Masaaki Shibuya;Kazuya Nishimura;Nao Yasuyama;Yutaka Ebizuka

  • Pentaketide melanin biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus requires chain-length shortening of a heptaketide precursor.

    Huei-Fung Tsai;Isao Fujii;Akira Watanabe;Michael H. Wheeler

  • Cloning and Characterization of a cDNA Encoding β-Amyrin Synthase Involved in Glycyrrhizin and Soyasaponin Biosyntheses in Licorice

    Hiroaki Hayashi;Pengyu Huang;Ara Kirakosyan;Kenichiro Inoue

  • Cloning of the polyketide synthase gene atX from Aspergillus terreus and its identification as the 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase gene by heterologous expression.

    I. Fujii;Y. Ono;H. Tada;Katsuya Gomi

  • Re-identification of Aspergillus nidulans wA gene to code for a polyketide synthase of naphthopyrone

    Akira Watanabe;Isao Fujii;Ushio Sankawa;María E. Mayorga

  • Solanapyrone Synthase, a Possible Diels–Alderase and Iterative Type I Polyketide Synthase Encoded in a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from Alternaria solani

    Ken Kasahara;Ken Kasahara;Takanori Miyamoto;Takashi Fujimoto;Hiroki Oguri

  • Cloning, sequencing and heterologous expression of the medermycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces sp. AM-7161: towards comparative analysis of the benzoisochromanequinone gene clusters.

    Koji Ichinose;Makoto Ozawa;Keiko Itou;Kanako Kunieda

  • Two branches of the lupeol synthase gene in the molecular evolution of plant oxidosqualene cyclases.

    Masaaki Shibuya;Hong Zhang;Aki Endo;Kaori Shishikura

  • Lanosterol synthase in dicotyledonous plants.

    Masashi Suzuki;Ting Xiang;Kiyoshi Ohyama;Hikaru Seki

  • Enzymatic synthesis of 1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene solely from malonyl coenzyme A by a fungal iterative type I polyketide synthase PKS1.

    Isao Fujii;Yuichiro Mori;Akira Watanabe;Yasuyuki Kubo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ushio Sankawa
Ushio Sankawa University of Tokyo
Haruo Seto
Haruo Seto University of Tokyo
Ikuro Abe
Ikuro Abe University of Tokyo
Akira Watanabe
Akira Watanabe Kyoto University
Yoichi Iitaka
Yoichi Iitaka University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Tomoda
Hiroshi Tomoda Kitasato University
Hideaki Oikawa
Hideaki Oikawa Hokkaido University
David A. Hopwood
David A. Hopwood John Innes Centre
Katsuhiko Kitamoto
Katsuhiko Kitamoto Nihon Pharmaceutical University
Kazufumi Yazaki
Kazufumi Yazaki Kyoto University

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