Wataru Saburi, Takanori Nihira, Hiroyuki Nakai, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Haruhide Mori. Discovery of solabiose phosphorylase and its application for enzymatic synthesis of solabiose from sucrose and lactose. Scientific Reports. 2022. 12. 1
Kazuhiro Chiku, Riku Tsukasaki, Yu Teshima, Mitsuru Yoshida, Hiroki Aramasa, Takanori Nihira, Hiroyuki Nakai, Hiroshi Ono, Motomitsu Kitaoka. Alkoxycarbonyl elimination of 3-O-substituted glucose and fructose by heat treatment under neutral pH. Carbohydrate research. 2020. 496. 108129-108129
Koichi Abe, Masahiro Nakajima, Tetsuro Yamashita, Hiroki Matsunaga, Shinji Kamisuki, Takanori Nihira, Yuta Takahashi, Naohisa Sugimoto, Akimasa Miyanaga, Hiroyuki Nakai, et al. Biochemical and structural analyses of a bacterial endo-β-1,2-glucanase reveal a new glycoside hydrolase family. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2017. 292. 18. 7487-7506
Masahiro Nakajima, Nobukiyo Tanaka, Nayuta Furukawa, Takanori Nihira, Yuki Kodutsumi, Yuta Takahashi, Naohisa Sugimoto, Akimasa Miyanaga, Shinya Fushinobu, Hayao Taguchi, et al. Mechanistic insight into the substrate specificity of 1,2-β-oligoglucan phosphorylase from Lachnoclostridium phytofermentans. Scientific reports. 2017. 7. 42671-42671
Tomohiro Tsuda, Takanori Nihira, Kazuhiro Chiku, Erika Suzuki, Takatoshi Arakawa, Mamoru Nishimoto, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Hiroyuki Nakai, Shinya Fushinobu. Characterization and crystal structure determination of β-1,2-mannobiose phosphorylase from Listeria innocua. FEBS letters. 2015. 589. 24 Pt B. 3816-21