Doctor (Engineering)

Life Science / Applied microbiology

日本生物工学会

リグニン学会

日本農芸化学会

The Catabolic System of Acetovanillone and Acetosyringone in Sphingobium sp. Strain SYK-6 Useful for Upgrading Aromatic Compounds Obtained through Chemical Lignin Depolymerization.

Yudai Higuchi, Naofumi Kamimura, Hiroki Takenami, Yusei Kikuiri, Chieko Yasuta, Kenta Tanatani, Toru Shobuda, Yuichiro Otsuka, Masaya Nakamura, Tomonori Sonoki, Eiji Masai

Applied and environmental microbiology   2022.8

Pseudomonas sp. NGC7 as a microbial chassis for glucose-free muconate production from a variety of lignin-derived aromatics and its application to the production from sugar cane bagasse alkaline extract.

Miho Akutsu, Nanase Abe, Chiho Sakamoto, Yuki Kurimoto, Haruka Sugita, Makoto Tanaka, Yudai Higuchi, Kimitoshi Sakamoto, Naofumi Kamimura, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Eiji Masai, Tomonori Sonoki

2022.6

LsdD has a critical role in the dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol catabolism among eight lignostilbene α,β-dioxygenase isozymes in Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6

Naofumi Kamimura, Yusaku Hirose, Ryuto Masuba, Ryo Kato, Kenji Takahashi, Yudai Higuchi, Shojiro Hishiyama, Eiji Masai

International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation   159   105208   2021.3

Roles of two glutathione S-transferases in the final step of the β-aryl ether cleavage pathway in Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6

Yudai Higuchi, Daisuke Sato, Naofumi Kamimura, Eiji Masai

Scientific Reports   10 ( 1 )   20614   2020.11

Discovery of novel enzyme genes involved in the conversion of an arylglycerol-β-aryl ether metabolite and their use in generating a metabolic pathway for lignin valorization.

Yudai Higuchi, Ryo Kato, Koichiro Tsubota, Naofumi Kamimura, Nicholas J. Westwood, Eiji Masai

Metabolic Engineering   55   258 - 267   2019.9

Lignin valorization: emerging approaches

Yudai Higuchi, Kenji Takahashi, Naofumi Kamimura, Eiji Masai（ Role： Contributor ,  Chapter 9: Bacterial enzymes for the cleavage of lignin β-aryl ether bonds: properties and applications）

The Royal Society of Chemistry  2018.4 

Stereoinversion via alcohol dehydrogenases enables complete catabolism of β-1-type lignin-derived aromatic isomers

Ryo Kato, Kodai Maekawa, Shota Kobayashi, Shojiro Hishiyama, Rui Katahira, Miki Nambo, Yudai Higuchi, Eugene Kuatsjah, Gregg T. Beckham, Naofumi Kamimura, Eiji Masai

bioRxiv   2023.1

リグニンからの芳香族ポリマー原料の選択的生産：サルファイトリグニンからのバニリン酸生産へのPseudomonas sp. NGC7株の適用

鎌田 真未, 安田 智恵子, 樋口 雄大, 吉田 曉弘, 坂本 千穂, 大関 さおり, 上村 直史, 政井 英司, 園木 和典

創立100周年記念 第74回日本生物工学会大会 トピックス集   2022.11

Bacterial catabolic system of acetovanillone and acetosyringone useful for upgrading aromatic compounds obtained through chemical lignin depolymerization

Yudai Higuchi, Naofumi Kamimura, Hiroki Takenami, Yusei Kikuiri, Chieko Yasuta, Kenta Tanatani, Toru Shobuda, Yuichiro Otsuka, Masaya Nakamura, Tomonori Sonoki, Eiji Masai

2022.4

Roles of two glutathione S-transferases in the final step of the β-aryl ether cleavage pathway in Sphingobium sp. strain SYK-6

Yudai Higuchi, Daisuke Sato, Naofumi Kamimura, Eiji Masai

2020.7

Bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived aromatics: New findings in a recent decade: Update on bacterial lignin catabolism

Naofumi Kamimura, Kenji Takahashi, Kosuke Mori, Takuma Araki, Masaya Fujita, Yudai Higuchi, Eiji Masai

Environmental Microbiology Reports   9 ( 6 )   679 - 705   2017.12

第57回新潟生化学懇話会 ポスター奨励賞

2016.06