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• Biochemistry of microbial polyvinyl alcohol degradation.

  Effect of minor chemical structures such as 1,2-diol content, ethylene content, tacticity, a degree of polymerization, and a degree of saponification …

  Authors: Fusako Kawai, Xiaoping Hu

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2009 Aug

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• Method for assessment of viability and morphological changes of bacteria in the early stage of colony formation on a simulated natural environment.

  A quantitative analysis of changes in the physiological status of bacterial cells is a fundamental type of study in microbiological research. We devis…

  Authors: Yumi Shimomura, Ryuzo Ohno, Fusako Kawai, Kazuhide Kimbara

  Source: Applied and environmental microbiology. 2006 Jul

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• Polyethylene glycol (PEG)-carboxylate-CoA synthetase is involved in PEG metabolism in Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain 103.

  Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain 103 possesses polyethylene-glycol (PEG)-inducible pegBCDAE operon encoding the genes relevant to PEG degradation. P…

  Authors: Akio Tani, Peechapack Somyoonsap, Toshiyuki Minami, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Archives of microbiology. 2008 Apr

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• Myroides pelagicus sp. nov., isolated from seawater in Thailand.

  An aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, yellow-to-orange pigmented and rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain SM1(T), was isolated from seawater in Th…

  Authors: Jaewoo Yoon, Suppasil Maneerat, Fusako Kawai, Akira Yokota

  Source: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. 2006 Aug

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• Analysis of amino acid residues involved in catalysis of polyethylene glycol dehydrogenase from Sphingopyxis terrae, using three-dimensional molecular modeling-based kinetic characterization of mutants.

  Polyethylene glycol dehydrogenase (PEGDH) from Sphingopyxis terrae (formerly Sphingomonas terrae) is composed of 535 amino acid residues and one flavi…

  Authors: Takeshi Ohta, Takeshi Kawabata, Ken Nishikawa, Akio Tani, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Applied and environmental microbiology. 2006 Jun

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• Purification and characterization of cytoplasmic NAD-dependent polypropylene glycol dehydrogenase from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

  The oxidizing enzyme NAD(+)-dependent polypropylene glycol dehydrogenase (PPG-DH) was purified to homogeneity from the cytoplasmic fraction of Stenotr…

  Authors: Shinjiro Tachibana, Naohito Naka, Fusako Kawai, Masaaki Yasuda

  Source: FEMS microbiology letters. 2008 Nov

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• The pva operon is located on the megaplasmid of Sphingopyxis sp. strain 113P3 and is constitutively expressed, although expression is enhanced by PVA.

  The upstream and downstream regions of the tentative pva operon including genes encoding oxidized polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrolase (oph), PVA dehydro…

  Authors: Xiaoping Hu, Rie Mamoto, Yoshio Fujioka, Akio Tani, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2008 Mar

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• Involvement of PEG-carboxylate dehydrogenase and glutathione S-transferase in PEG metabolism by Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain 103.

  Sphingopyxis terrae and the Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strains 103 and 203 are able to degrade polyethylene glycol (PEG). They possess the peg operon…

  Authors: Peechapack Somyoonsap, Akio Tani, Jittima Charoenpanich, Toshiyuki Minami, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2008 Dec

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• Xenoestrogenic short ethoxy chain nonylphenol is oxidized by a flavoprotein alcohol dehydrogenase from Ensifer sp. strain AS08.

  The ethoxy chains of short ethoxy chain nonylphenol (NPEO(av2.0), containing average 2.0 ethoxy units) were dehydrogenated by cell-free extracts from …

  Authors: Xin Liu, Akio Tani, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2007 Jan

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• Isolation of bacteria able to grow on both polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polypropylene glycol (PPG) and their PEG/PPG dehydrogenases.

  Two bacterial consortia growing on a random copolymer of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol units were obtained by enrichment cultures from various …

  Authors: Xiaoping Hu, Akira Fukutani, Xin Liu, Kazuhide Kimbara, Fusako Kawai

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2007 Jan

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