Takashi Itoh

TL;DR: The highly enantioselective catalytic hydroxylation of 3-substituted oxindoles was achieved by using a phase-transfer catalyst with molecular oxygen as an oxidant to convert to an optically active compound 8, which was a synthetic precursor of alkaloid CPC-1.

TL;DR: A novel barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon was isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney at the Myojin Knoll in the Ogasawara-Bonin Arc, Japan and was a strictly anaerobic chemoorganotroph capable of utilizing proteinaceous substrates in the presence of elemental sulfur or ferrous iron.

TL;DR: The phenotypic characterization and phylogenetic data support the placement of isolates C23T and HBSQ001 in a novel species in a new genus within the Halobacteriaceae, for which the name Haloquadratum walsbyi is proposed.

TL;DR: Comparative analysis of phenotypic properties and DNA-DNA hybridization between strain XF10T and the Natrinema species supported the conclusion that strain Xf10T is a novel species within the genus NatRinema.

TL;DR: The full sequence of the rpoB' gene may provide a supplementary tool for determining the phylogenetic position of new isolates, and Phylogenetic trees reconstructed from nucleotide sequences and deduced amino acid sequences by the maximum-likelihood method demonstrated that multiple species/strains in most genera individually formed cohesive clusters.