Naoki Tanaka

TL;DR: The genomic and bioinformatic analyses will provide an important foundation for further functional dissection of the rice CDPK gene family and suggest that these kinases are derived from a common ancestor.

TL;DR: Cut190 is the novel-reported PET-degrading enzyme with the potential for industrial applications in polyester degradation, monomer recycling, and PET surface modification and will be a useful tool to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the PET degradation, Ca2+ activation, and stabilization.

TL;DR: Experimental results are presented and discussed, explaining the plausible image of the cold denatured state of proteins, in order to understand more clearly this phenomenon and protein structure transition in general.

TL;DR: Construction of the rice proteome database, the cataloging of rice proteins, and the functional characterization of some of the proteins identified are described, which will aid in the molecular cloning of rice genes and in predicting the function of unknown proteins.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the interactions that promote folding and native-state oligomerisation can also result in high intrinsic amyloidogenicity, and the presence of the remainder of the sequence dramatically reduces the net overall aggregation propensity.