KAWAMUKAI Makoto

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Name	KAWAMUKAI Makoto
Affiliation	Shimane University
Section	Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Biotechnology
Job title	Professor
Degree	Ph.D.(Agriculture)(Kyoto University)

Research Interests

Applied Microbiology(182) , Applied Molecular Cell Biology(18) , Molecular Biology(941)

Research Areas

Biological science / Molecular biology /
Agricultural chemistry / Applied microbiology /
Agricultural chemistry / Applied biochemistry /

Academic & Professional Experience

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Apr 2015

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Vice dean, Lifer and Environmental Sciences, Shimane University

Apr 1998

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Professor, Shimane University

1988

1998

Associate profesor, Faculty of Agriculture,, Shimane University

1987

1988

Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture,, Shimane University

1986

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture,, Kyoto University

Education

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1986

Graduate School, Division of Agriculture, Kyoto University

1981

Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Awards & Honors

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1999

Nougeikagaku Encouragement Award

Published Papers

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Suppression of respiratory growth defect of mutant deficient in mitochondrial phospholipase A₁ by overexpression of genes involved in coenzyme Q synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Morisada S, Nishida I, Kawamukai M, Horiuchi H, Fukuda R

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 82(9) 1633-1639 Sep 2018 [Refereed]

Schizosaccharomyces japonicus has low levels of CoQ₁₀ synthesis, respiration deficiency, and efficient ethanol production.

Kaino T, Tonoko K, Mochizuki S, Takashima Y, Kawamukai M

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 82(6) 1031-1042 Jun 2018 [Refereed]

Biosynthesis and applications of prenylquinones.

Kawamukai M

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 82(6) 963-977 Jun 2018 [Refereed]

Studying anti-oxidative properties of inclusion complexes of α-lipoic acid with γ-cyclodextrin in single living fission yeast by confocal Raman microspectroscopy.

Noothalapati H, Ikarashi R, Iwasaki K, Nishida T, Kaino T, Yoshikiyo K, Terao K, Nakata D, Ikuta N, Ando M, Hamaguchi HO, Kawamukai M, Yamamoto T

Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 197 237-243 May 2018 [Refereed]

Overexpression of the transcription factor Rst2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe indicates growth defect, mitotic defects, and microtubule disorder.

Takenaka K, Tanabe T, Kawamukai M, Matsuo Y

Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 82(2) 247-257 Feb 2018 [Refereed]

Misc

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Regulation and role of an RNA-binding protein Msa2 in controlling the sexual differentiation in fission yeast.

Yasuo Oowatari, Heetae Jeong, Katsuhiro Tanae, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa. Makoto Kawamukai.

Current Genetics 57(3) 191-200 2011

Nuclear protein quality is regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system through the activity of Ubc4 and San1 in fission yeast

Yuzy Matsuo, Hayafumi Kishimoto, Katsuhiro Tanae, Kenji Kitamura, Satoshi Katayama, Makoto Kawamukai.

J. Biol. Chem 286(15) 13775-13790 2011

PAD1 and FDC1 are essential for the decarboxylation of phenylacrylic acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Nobuhiko Mukai, Kazuo Masaki Tsutomu Fujii, Makoto Kawamukai, Haruyuki Iefuji.

J. Biosci. Bioengin 109(6) 564-569 2010

Simple and effective gap-repair cloning using short tracts of flanking homology in fission yeast.

Yuzy Matsuo, Hayafumi Kishimoto, Tomitaka Horiuchi, Katsuhiro Tanae, Makoto Kawamukai.

Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem 74(3) 685-689 2010

A subunit of decaprenyl diphosphate synthase stabilizes octaprenyl diphosphate synthase in Escherichia coli by forming a high-molecular weight complex.

Tie-Zhong Cui, Tomohiro Kaino, Makoto Kawamukai.

FEBS Lett 584(4) 652-656 2010

Books etc

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RAS function and protein Kinase cascades in 「The GTPase Superfamily」

John Wiley & Sons 1993

Association Memberships

Japan Society for Bioscience(440) , Biotechnology(400) , and Agrochemistry(384) , The Molecular Biology Society of Japan(2391) , The Japanese Biochemical Soceity(2) , The Society for Bioscience and Bioengineering(44) , The American Society for Cell Biology(97) , American Society for Microbiologyl(1)

Works

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Microbial Production of ubiquinone-10

1996 - 2000

Research Grants & Projects

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Analysis of sexual development in fission yeast

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Project Year: 1989

Biosynthesis of ubiquinone and its production by genetic engineering

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Project Year: 1987

Molecular Biology of the microbe that degrade chitin and chitosan

Public/Private Cooperative Joint Researches

Project Year: 1987

Gene analysis of Shiitake mushroom

Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Biosciences

Project Year: 1995

Biosynthesis and production of ubiquinone

Patents

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Method of forming ubiquinone-10

US Patent 6103488

Process for producing coenzymeQ10

United States Patent 6461842

Process for producing coenzymeQ10

United States Patent 6762037