Research field (5):
Landscape science
, Environmental agriculture
, Applied biochemistry
, Applied microbiology
, Structural biochemistry
Research keywords (3):
応用生物化学
, 構造生物化学
, 応用微生物学
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2019 - 2023 Studies of chitin degradation mechanism of Paenibacillus sp.
2016 - 2019 Understanding of the molecular mechanism of chitinolysis by Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7 and the bacterial cell surface display system.
2013 - 2016 Elucidation of the catalytic mechanism of bacterial cell-surface-expressed chitinase ChiW and chitin oligosaccharide production by using the high transglycosylation activity of ChiW.
2011 - 2013 Cold adaptation of thermostable enzymes by surface loops' mutagenesis
Papers (64):
Takafumi Itoh, Tomoki Ogawa, Takao Hibi, Hisashi Kimoto. Characterization of the extracellular domain of sensor histidine kinase NagS from Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7: nagS interacts with oligosaccharide binding protein NagB1 in complexes with N, N'-diacetylchitobiose. Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 2024. 88. 3. 294-304
Takafumi Itoh, Tomoki Ogawa, Takao Hibi, Hisashi Kimoto. Characterization of the extracellular domain of sensor histidine kinase NagS from Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7: nagS interacts with oligosaccharide binding protein NagB1 in complexes with N, N'-diacetylchitobiose. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. 2024. 88. 3. 294-304
Niphawan Panti, Vipavee Cherdvorapong, Takafumi Itoh, Takao Hibi, Wassana Suyotha, Shigekazu Yano, Mamoru Wakayama. Functional analysis of α-1,3-glucanase domain structure from Streptomyces thermodiastaticus HF3-3. The Journal of general and applied microbiology. 2021. 67. 3. 85-91
Takafumi Itoh, Misaki Yaguchi, Akari Nakaichi, Moe Yoda, Takao Hibi, Hisashi Kimoto. Structural characterization of two solute-binding proteins for N,N'-diacetylchitobiose/N,N',N''-triacetylchitotoriose of the gram-positive bacterium, Paenibacillus sp. str. FPU-7. Journal of structural biology: X. 2021. 5. 100049-100049
Takafumi Itoh, Hisashi Kimoto. Bacterial Chitinase System as a Model of Chitin Biodegradation. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 2019. 1142. 131-151