List of publication (from 2005)

Yu Tanaka†, Haruka Nagano†, Mei Okano, Takuya Kishimoto, Ayaka Tatsukawa, Hirofumi Kunitake, Atsushi Fukumoto, Yojiro Anzai, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Isolation of hydrazide-alkenes with different amino-acid origins from an azoxy-alkene-producing mutant of Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4”
Journal of Natural Products
, 86, 2185-2192 (2023).

Yuya Misaki, Tomomi Hirashima, Karin Fujii, Asahi Hirata, Yutaro Hoshino, Miho Sumiyoshi, Sachiko Masaki, Toshihiro Suzuki, Kuninobu Inada, Hiroki Koyama, Hisato Kuniyoshi, and Kenji Arakawa.
“4-Methoxy-2,2’-bipyrrole-5-carbaldehyde, a biosynthetic intermediate of bipyrrole-containing natural products from the Streptomyces culture, arrests the strobilation of moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea
Frontiers in Marine Science
,10, 1198136 (2023).

Mingge Zhang, Bao Shuang, and Kenji Arakawa.
“New lankamycin derivative with a branched-chain sugar from a blocked mutant of chalcose
biosynthesis in Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4”
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 80, 129125 (2023).

Islam A.T.M. Rafuqul, Keita Shinzato, Hiroki Miyaoka, Kenji Komaguchi, Kanae Koike, Kenji Arakawa, Kenji Kitamura, Nobukazu Tanaka.
”Isolation and characterization of blackish-brown BY2-melanin accumulated in cultured tobacco
BY-2 cells”
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 87, 395-410 (2023).

Aoi Takeuchi, Asahi Hirata, Aiko Teshima, Miu Ueki, Takumi Satoh, Kenichi, Matsuda, Toshiyuki Wakimoto, Kenji Arakawa, Morio Ishikawa, and Toshihiro Suzuki.
“Characterization of the surugamide biosynthetic gene cluster of TUA-NUK25, a Streptomyces diastaticus strain isolated from Kusaya and its effects on salt-dependent growth”
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 87, 320-329 (2023).

Ahmed Taha Ayoub, Natsumi Nishiura, Aiko Teshima, Mohamed Ali Elrefaiy, Rukman Muslimin, Kiep Minh Do, Takeshi Kodama, Cody Wayne Lewis, Gordon Chan, Hiroyuki Morita, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Bio-inspored computational design of lankacidin derivatives for the improvement of antitumor activity”
Future Medicinal Chemistry, 14, 1349-1360 (2022).

Ayaka Tatsukawa, Yu Tanaka, Haruka Nagano, Atsushi Fukumoto, Yojiro Anzai, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Isolation, biosynthetic investigation, and biological evaluation of maniwamycin G, an azoxyalkene compound from Streptomyces sp. TOHO-M025”
Journal of Natural Products
, 85, 1867-1871 (2022).

Yuya Misaki, Yuzuru Takahashi, Keisuke Hara, Satoshi Tatsuno, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Three 4-monosubstituted butyrolactones from a regulatory gene mutant of Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4”
J. Biosci. Bioeng.,133, 329-334 (2022).

Kenji Arakawa and Toshihiro Suzuki.
“Regulation of secondary metabolites through signaling molecules in Streptomyces
in Natural Products from Actinomycetes – Diversity, Ecology and Drug Discovery -, Eds Ravishankar V. Rai and Jamuna A. Bai, pp. 167-184, Springer Nature (2022).

Kazuya Yamanaka, Hibiki Fukumoto, Naoki Yoshimura, Kenji Arakawa, Yasuo Kato, Yoshimitsu Hamano, and Tadao Oikawa.
“Discovery of a poly-amino acid antibiotic solely comprising of L-beta-lysine by potential producer prioritization-guided genome mining”
ACS Chemical Biology, 17, 171-180 (2022).

Rukman Muslimin, Natsumi Nishiura, Aiko Teshima, Kiep Minh Do, Takeshi Kodama, Hiroyuki Morita, Cody Wayne Lewis, Gordon Chan, Ahmed Taha Ayoub, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Chemoenzymatic synthesis, computational investigation, and antitumor activity of monocyclic lankacidin derivatives”
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 53, 116551 (2022).

Yuya Misaki, Yosi Nindita, Kota Fujita, Amirudin Akhmad Fauzi, Kenji Arakawa.
“Overexpression of SRO_3163, a homolog of Streptomyces antibiotic regulatory protein, induces the production of novel cyclohexene-containing enamide in Streptomyces rochei
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 86, 177-184 (2022).

Aiko Tanaka, Maarten H. Ryder, Takamasa Suzuki, Kazuma Uesaka, Nobuo Yamaguchi, Tomoko Amimoto, Motoyasu Otani, Osamu Nakayachi, Kenji Arakawa, Nobukazu Tanaka, and Daigo Takemoto.
“Production of agrocinopine A by Ipomoea batatas agrocinopine synthase in transgenic tobacco and its effect on the rhizosphere microbial community”
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 35, 73-84 (2022).

Aiko Teshima, Hisashi Kondo, Yu Tanaka, Yosi Nindita, Yuya Misaki, Yuji Konaka, Yasuhuri Itakura, Tsugumi Tonokawa, Haruyasu Kinashi, and Kenji Arakawa.
“Substrate specificity of two cytochrome P450 monooxygenases involved in lankamycin biosynthesis”
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 85, 115-125 (2021).

Aiko Teshima, Nozomi Hadae, Naoto Tsuda, and Kenji Arakawa.
gFunctional analysis of P450 monooxygenase SrrO in the biosynthesis of butenolide-type signaling molecules in Streptomyces rocheih
Biomolecules, 10, 1237 (2020).

Yuya Misaki, Shouji Yamamoto, Toshihiro Suzuki, Miyuki Iwakuni, Hiroaki Sasaki, Yuzuru Takahashi, Kuninobu Inada, Haruyasu Kinashi, and Kenji Arakawa
.
gSrrB, a pseudo-receptor protein, acts as a negative regulator for lankacidin and lankamycin production in Streptomyces rocheih
Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1089 (2020).

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Ryo Furuta, Kenji Arakawa, Aiko Teshima.
gRelationship between dispersion-forming capability of poly(4-vinylaniline) colloids and antimicrobial activityh
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 596, 124736 (2020).

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Ryo Furuta, Aiko Teshima.
gInfluence of the morphology and size of polystyrene synthesized through soap-free emulsion polymerization on antimicrobial activityh
Materials Today Communications, 20, 100572 (2019).

Yosi Nindita, Zhisheng Cao, Amirudin Akhmad Fauzi, Aiko Teshima, Yuya Misaki, Rukman Muslimin, Yingjie Yang, Yuh Shiwa, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Michihira Tagami, Alexander Lezhava, Jun Ishikawa, Makoto Kuroda, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Kuninobu Inada, Haruyasu Kinashi, Kenji Arakawa.
gThe genome sequence of Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4, which carries a linear chromosome and three characteristic linear plasmidsh
Scientific Reports, 9, 10973 (2019).

Ahmed Taha Ayoub, Mohamed Ali Elrefaiy, Kenji Arakawa.
gComputational prediction of the mode of binding of antitumor lankacidin C to tubulinh
ACS Omega, 4, 4461-4471 (2019).

Naoya Toyoda, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Aiko Teshima.
gPreparation of PVA/polymer colloid nanocomposite hydrogel using PS-PNVA particlesh
Chem. Lett., 48, 378-381 (2019).

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Yuya Takahashi, Miho Sumiyoshi.
gAntimicrobial activities of low molecular weight polymers synthesized through soap-free emulsion polymerizationh
Eur. Polym. J., 109, 532-536 (2018).

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Ryo Furuta, Aiko Teshima.
gAntimicrobial activities of polymers synthesized through soap-free emulsion polymerization using a cationic initiator and styrene derivative monomersh
Chem. Lett., 47, 1402-1404 (2018). DOI: 10.1246/cl.180762

Yusuke Yamauchi, Yosi Nindita, Keisuke Hara, Asako Umeshiro, Yu Yabuuchi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Haruyasu Kinashi, Kenji Arakawa.
gQuinoprotein dehydrogenase functions at the final oxidation step of lankacidin biosynthesis in Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4h
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 126, 145-152 (2018).

Kenji Arakawa.
gManipulation of metabolic pathway controlled by signaling molecules, inducers of antibiotic production, for genome mining in Streptomyces spp.h
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek., 111, 743-751 (2018).

Natsumi Tsujita, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Hiroki Koyama, Noriyuki Yanaka, Kenji Arakawa, Hisato Kuniyoshi.
gMolecular characterization of aspartylglucosaminidase, a lysosomal hydrolase upregulated during strobilation in the moon jellyfish, Aurelia auritah
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 81, 938-950 (2017).

Rikiya Kamei, Takashi Fujimura, Miki Matsuda, Kotaro Kakihara, Noriko Hirakawa, Kenji Baba, Kazuhisa Ono, Kenji Arakawa, Seiji Kawamoto.
gA flavanone derivative from the Asian medicinal herb (Perilla frutescens) potently suppresses IgE-mediated immediate hypersensitivity reactionsh
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 483, 674-679 (2017).

Ahmed Taha Ayoub, Rabab M. Abou El-Magd, Jack Xiao, Cody Wayne Lewis, Tatiana Martins Tilli, Kenji Arakawa, Yosi Nindita, Gordon Chan, Luxin Sun, Mark Glover, Mariusz Klobukowski, Jack Tuszynski.
gAntitumor activity of lankacidin antibiotics is due to microtubule stabilization via a paclitaxel-like mechanismh
J. Med. Chem., 59, 9532-9540 (2016).

Hirofumi Kunitake, Takahiro Hiramatsu, Haruyasu Kinashi, Kenji Arakawa.
gIsolation and biosynthesis of an azoxyalkene compound produced by a multiple gene disruptant of Streptomyces rocheih
ChemBioChem,16, 2237-2243 (2015).

Yosi Nindita, Zhisheng Cao, Yingjie Yang, Kenji Arakawa, Yuh Shiwa, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Michihira Tagami, Alexander Lezhava, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gThe tap-tpg gene pair on the linear plasmid functions to maintain a linear topology of the chromosome in Streptomyces rocheih
Mol. Microbiol., 95, 846-858 (2015).

Zhisheng Cao, Ryuhei Yoshida, Haruyasu Kinashi, Kenji Arakawa.
gBlockage of the early step of lankacidin biosynthesis caused a large production of pentamycin, citreodiol, and epi-citreodiol in Streptomyces rocheih
J. Antibiot., 68, 328-333 (2015).

Kenji Arakawa.
gGenetic and biochemical analysis of the antibiotic biosynthetic gene clusters on the Streptomyces linear plasmidh
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 78, 183-189 (2014).

Yosi Nindita, Tomoya Nishikawa, Kenji Arakawa, Guojun Wang, Kozo Ochi, Zhongjun Qin, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gChromosome circularization of the model Streptomyces species, Streptomycescoelicolor A3(2)h
FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 347, 149-155 (2013).

Hisato Kuniyoshi, Izumi Okumura, Rie Kuroda, Kenji Arakawa, Jun Shoji, Tamio Saito, Hiroyuki Osada.
gIndomethacin induces transition from asexual stage to sexual state in the moon jellyfish, Aurelia auritah
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 76, 1397-1400 (2012).

Kenji Arakawa, Naoto Tsuda, Akihiro Taniguchi, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gThe butenolide signaling molecules SRB1 and SRB2 induce lankacidin and lankamycin production in Streptomycesrocheih
ChemBioChem,13, 1447-1457 (2012).

Zhisheng Cao, Gholam Khodakaramian, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gIsolation of borrelidin as a phytotoxic compound from a potato pathogenic Streptomyces strainh
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 76, 353-357 (2012).

Kenji Arakawa.
gDiversity between PKS and FASh
Nature Chem. Biol., 8, 604-605 (2012).

Yingjie Yang, Toru Kurokawa, Yoshifumi Takahama, Yosi Nindita, Susumu Mochizuki, Kenji Arakawa, Satoru Endo, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gpSLA2-M of Streptomycesrochei is a composite linear plasmid characterized by self-defense genes and homology with pSLA2-Lh
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 75, 1147-1153 (2011).

Kenji Arakawa, Zhisheng Cao, Natsumi Suzuki, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gIsolation, structural elucidation, and biosynthesis of 15-norlankamycin derivatives produced by a type-II thioesterase disruptant of Streptomycesrocheih
Tetrahedron, 67, 5199-5205 (2011).

Matthew J. Belousoff, Tal Shapira, Anat Bashan, Ella Zimmerman, Haim Rozenberg, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi, Ada Yonath.
gCrystal structure of the synergistic antibiotic pair, lankamycin and lankacidin, in complex with the large ribosomal subunith,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108, 2717-2722 (2011).

Heinz G. Floss*, Tin-Wein Yu, Kenji Arakawa.
gThe biosynthesis of 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid (AHBA), the precursor of mC7N-units in ansamycin and mitomycin antibiotics - A reviewh
J. Antibiot., 64, 35-44 (2011).

Toshihiro Suzuki, Susumu Mochizuki, Shouji Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gRegulation of lankamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces rochei by two SARP genes, srrY and srrZh
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 74, 819-827 (2010).

Kenji Arakawa.
gCharacterization of the biosynthetic gene clusters located on the Streptomyces linear plasmidh
Actinomycetol., 24, 24-30 (2010).

Tamar Auerbach, Inbal Mermershtain, Chen Davidovich, Anat Bashan, Matthew Belousoff, Itai Wekselman, Ella Zimmerman, Liqun Xiong, Dorota Klepacki, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi,  Alexander Mankin, Ada Yonath.
gThe structure of ribosome-lankacidin complex reveals ribosomal sites for synergistic antibioticsh
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 1983-1988 (2010).

Satoshi Tatsuno, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gExtensive mutational analysis of modular-iterative mixed polyketide biosynthesis of lankacidin in Streptomycesrocheih
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 73, 2712-2719 (2009).

Kenji Arakawa, Toshihiro Suzuki, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gGene disruption analysis of two glycosylation steps in lankamycin biosynthesis in Streptomycesrocheih
Actinomycetol., 22, 35-41 (2008).

Shouji Yamamoto, Yuxi He, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gGamma-Butyrolactone-dependent expression of the SARP gene srrY plays a central role in the regulatory cascade leading to lankacidin and lankamycin production in Streptomyces rocheih
J. Bacteriol., 190, 1308-1316 (2008).

Satoshi Tatsuno, Kenji Arakawa, Haruyasu Kinashi.
gAnalysis of modular-iterative mixed biosynthesis of lankacidin by heterologous expression and gene fusionh
J. Antibiot., 60, 700-708 (2007).

Kenji Arakawa, Susumu Mochizuki, Kohei Yamada, Takenori Noma, Haruyasu Kinashi.
hGamma-Butyrolactone autoregulator-receptor system involved in lankacidin and lankamycin production and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces rocheih
Microbiology, 153, 1817-1827 (2007).

Kenji Arakawa
, Kazuya Kodama, Satoshi Tatsuno, Sayoko Ide, Haruyasu Kinashi.
"Analysis of the loading and hydroxylation steps in lankamycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces rocheih
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., 50, 1946-1952 (2006).

Kenji Arakawa, Fuminori Sugino, Kazuya Kodama, Tatsuya Ishii, Haruyasu Kinashi.
"Cyclization mechanism for the synthesis of macrocyclic antibiotic lankacidin in Streptomyces rochei"
Chem. Biol., 12, 249-256 (2005).

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