Publications by authors named "Haruka Yagi"

pv. is a pathogen of kiwifruit canker. Ep4, a bacteriophage lysing the pathogenic bacteria, was isolated from an affected plant.

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Axis formation is one of the most important events occurring at the beginning of animal development. In the ascidian egg, the antero-posterior axis is established at this time owing to a dynamic cytoplasmic movement called cytoplasmic and cortical reorganisation. During this movement, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and maternal mRNAs (postplasmic/PEM RNAs) are translocated to the future posterior side.

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Pseudomonas cichorii is divided into two subclades based on the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence and core genome multilocus sequence typing. It was shown that subclade 2 strains utilize d-tartrate as a sole carbon source, whereas subclade 1 strains do not. Draft genome sequencing was performed with P.

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We functionally characterized the GH10 xylanase (SoXyn10A) and the GH11 xylanase (SoXyn11B) derived from the actinomycete E-86. Each enzyme exhibited differences in the produced reducing power upon degradation of xylan substrates. SoXyn10A produced higher reducing power than SoXyn11B.

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Eggs have developed their own strategies for early development. Amphibian, teleost fish, and ascidian eggs show cortical rotation and an accompanying structure, a cortical parallel microtubule (MT) array, during the one-cell embryonic stage. Cortical rotation is thought to relocate maternal deposits to a certain compartment of the egg and to polarize the embryo.

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Ruminiclostridium josui Abf62A-Axe6A is a modular enzyme comprising (in order from the N-terminus): an N-terminal signal peptide, a glycoside hydrolase family 62 (GH62) catalytic module, a family 6 carbohydrate binding module (CBM6), a dockerin module and an additional carbohydrate esterase family 6 catalytic module (CE6). In this study, three Abf62A-Axe6A derivatives were constructed, overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and biochemically characterized: RjAbf62A-Axe6A, containing all four modules but lacking the signal peptide; RjAbf62A-CBM6, containing the GH62 and CBM6 modules; and RjAxe6A, containing only CE6. RjAbf62A-Axe6A was highly active toward arabinoxylan and moderately active toward sugar beet arabinan, and released mainly arabinose.

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Endoxylanases are important enzymes in bioenergy research because they specifically hydrolyze xylan, the predominant polysaccharide in the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass. For effective biomass utilization, it is important to understand the mechanism of substrate recognition by these enzymes. Recent studies have shown that the substrate specificities of bacterial and fungal endoxylanases classified into glycoside hydrolase family 30 (GH30) were quite different.

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A GH67 α-glucuronidase gene derived from C-125 was expressed in to obtain a recombinant enzyme (GlcA67). Using the purified enzyme, the enzymatic properties and substrate specificities of the enzyme were investigated. GlcA67 showed maximum activity at pH 5.

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