List of publication (from 2005)

Rukman Muslimin†, Alimuddin Ali†, Sho Ogaki, Nurjannah, Ummu Kalsum Alam, Sisun Choi, Eung-Soo Kim, and Kenji Arakawa*.
“Detection of seco-macrotetrolides caused by regiospecific hydrolysis in Indonesian Streptomyces strains isolated at the karst area in Sulawesi Island7434AN4”
Tetrahedron
160, 134045 (2024).

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.
“Functional analysis of P450 monooxygenase SrrO in the biosynthesis of butenolide-type signaling molecules in Streptomyces rochei
Biomolecules, 10, 1237 (2020).

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

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

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Ryo Furuta, Aiko Teshima.
“Influence of the morphology and size of polystyrene synthesized through soap-free emulsion polymerization on antimicrobial activity”
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.
“The genome sequence of Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4, which carries a linear chromosome and three characteristic linear plasmids”
Scientific Reports, 9, 10973 (2019).

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

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

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

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kenji Arakawa, Ryo Furuta, Aiko Teshima.
“Antimicrobial activities of polymers synthesized through soap-free emulsion polymerization using a cationic initiator and styrene derivative monomers”
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.
“Quinoprotein dehydrogenase functions at the final oxidation step of lankacidin biosynthesis in Streptomyces rochei 7434AN4”
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 126, 145-152 (2018).

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

Natsumi Tsujita, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Hiroki Koyama, Noriyuki Yanaka, Kenji Arakawa, Hisato Kuniyoshi.
“Molecular characterization of aspartylglucosaminidase, a lysosomal hydrolase upregulated during strobilation in the moon jellyfish, Aurelia aurita
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.
“A flavanone derivative from the Asian medicinal herb (Perilla frutescens) potently suppresses IgE-mediated immediate hypersensitivity reactions”
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.
“Antitumor activity of lankacidin antibiotics is due to microtubule stabilization via a paclitaxel-like mechanism”
J. Med. Chem., 59, 9532-9540 (2016).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kenji Arakawa.
“Diversity between PKS and FAS”
Nature Chem. Biol., 8, 604-605 (2012).

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

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

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

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

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

Kenji Arakawa.
“Characterization of the biosynthetic gene clusters located on the Streptomyces linear plasmid”
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.
“The structure of ribosome-lankacidin complex reveals ribosomal sites for synergistic antibiotics”
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107, 1983-1988 (2010).

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

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

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

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

Kenji Arakawa, Susumu Mochizuki, Kohei Yamada, Takenori Noma, Haruyasu Kinashi.
Gamma-Butyrolactone autoregulator-receptor system involved in lankacidin and lankamycin production and morphological differentiation in Streptomyces rochei
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 rochei
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).

 

西浦 菜摘, 荒川 賢治.
抗腫瘍活性化合物ランカサイジンの誘導体のin silico 評価
バイオサイエンスとインダストリー,
80 [4], 318-320 (2022).

見崎 裕也, 荒川 賢治.
転写制御因子の改変による放線菌二次代謝活性化
アグリバイオ,
5 [1], 62-65 (2021).

見崎 裕也, 荒川 賢治.
「ゲノム情報を利活用した休眠二次代謝の活性化」
生物工学会誌, 98 [5], 257 (2020).

稲田
晋宣, 荒川 賢治.
「生理活性天然物を創出する放線菌遺伝資源の利活用」
アグリバイオ, 4 [3], 216-219 (2020).

鈴木
敏弘, 圭佑, 荒川 賢治.
土壌放線菌で初めて見いだされたキノン補酵素要求性デヒドロゲナーゼの機能」
アグリバイオ, 3 [9], 984-987 (2019)

手島 愛子, 見崎 裕也, 荒川 賢治.
制御因子およびシグナル分子に注目した放線菌二次代謝生合成の合理的活性化戦略
アグリバイオ, 3 [4], 391-394 (2019).

手島 愛子, 荒川 賢治.
「微生物における共存と二次代謝生産」
生物工学会誌, 97 [3], 138 (2019).

圭佑, 鈴木 敏弘, 荒川 賢治.
「抗生物質生合成を司るピロロキノリンキノン要求性デヒドロゲナーゼ」
バイオサイエンスとインダストリー,77 [2], 119-121 (2019).

手島 愛子, 見崎 裕也, 荒川 賢治.
「悉皆的ゲノムマイニングを指向した放線菌二次代謝生合成・誘導制御の分子基盤の統合深化」
アグリバイオ, 2 [14], 1392-1395 (2018).

國武 博文, 岸本 拓也, 達川 綾香, 木梨 陽康, 福本 , 安齊 洋次郎, 荒川 賢治.
「二次代謝生合成・制御系の合目的改変により取得したアゾキシアルケン化合物 KA57-A の生合成及び生物活性」
第59回天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集, pp. 657-662 (2017).

波多江 希,津田 直人,木梨 陽康,荒川 賢治.
「放線菌Streptomyces rochei の抗生物質生産を誘導するシグナル分子SRBの単離・構造決定および生合成」
第58回天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集, pp. 575-580 (2016).

荒川 賢治.
放線菌のシグナル分子制御系改変による休眠二次代謝の誘導
バイオサイエンスとインダストリー,74 [1], 40-42 (2016)

荒川 賢治.
Streptomyces属放線菌の抗生物質生産をナノモルオーダーで誘導するシグナル分子」
化学と生物,52 [11], 712-713 (2014).

荒川賢治, 曹志生, 鈴木敏弘, 近藤寿志, 殿川亜未, 小中勇二, 板倉康浩, 鈴木夏実, 木梨陽康
「14員環マクロライド抗生物質ランカマイシンの生合成経路」
第53回天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集, pp. 475-480 (2011).

荒川賢治.
土の中に潜む放線菌生物資源の発掘」
生物工学会誌, 89 [2], 82 (2011).

荒川賢治, 木梨陽康
「線状プラスミド上の抗生物質生合成クラスターの解析とその応用」
バイオサイエンスとインダストリー, 66 [9], 504-508 (2008).

荒川賢治.
「ポリエーテル系抗生物質生合成研究の最近の進歩」
ファルマシア, 44 [5], 453-454 (2008).

荒川賢治, 児玉和也, 鈴木夏実, 井手彩洋子, 木梨陽康, 株本浩樹, 有澤章
「14員環マクロライド抗生物質ランカマイシンのスターターユニットおよび水酸化反応の解析」
第48回天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集, pp. 451-456 (2006).

荒川賢治, 望月進, 杉野文規, 石井達也, 児玉和也, 木梨陽康
「ランカサイジン生合成遺伝子群の機能解析および大員環形成機構の解明」
第46回天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集, pp. 485-490 (2004).

  

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