F Inagaki

Summary

Affiliation: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Microbial survival: the paleome: a sedimentary genetic record of past microbial communities
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval (SUGAR) Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
    Astrobiology 5:141-53. 2005
  2. ncbi Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:2815-20. 2006
  3. ncbi Characterization of C1-metabolizing prokaryotic communities in methane seep habitats at the Kuroshima Knoll, southern Ryukyu Arc, by analyzing pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, mcrA, and 16S rRNA genes
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Yokosuka, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 70:7445-55. 2004
  4. ncbi Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:14164-9. 2006
  5. ncbi Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:1477-82. 2004
  6. ncbi Microbial communities associated with geological horizons in coastal subseafloor sediments from the sea of okhotsk
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:7224-35. 2003
  7. ncbi Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal gold mine
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Extremophiles 7:307-17. 2003
  8. ncbi Archaeology of Archaea: geomicrobiological record of Pleistocene thermal events concealed in a deep-sea subseafloor environment
    F Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, Yokosuka
    Extremophiles 5:385-92. 2001
  9. ncbi Molecular phylogenetic analyses of reverse-transcribed bacterial rRNA obtained from deep-sea cold seep sediments
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Environ Microbiol 4:277-86. 2002
  10. ncbi Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure
    K Takai
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research Program for Deep sea Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:3618-29. 2001

Detail Information

Publications37

  1. ncbi Microbial survival: the paleome: a sedimentary genetic record of past microbial communities
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval (SUGAR) Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
    Astrobiology 5:141-53. 2005
    ....
  2. ncbi Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:2815-20. 2006
    ..The recognition of which microbial groups prevail under distinctive subseafloor environments is a significant step toward determining the role these communities play in Earth's essential biogeochemical processes...
  3. ncbi Characterization of C1-metabolizing prokaryotic communities in methane seep habitats at the Kuroshima Knoll, southern Ryukyu Arc, by analyzing pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, mcrA, and 16S rRNA genes
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Yokosuka, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 70:7445-55. 2004
    ....
  4. ncbi Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:14164-9. 2006
    ..Clearly, the Yonaguni Knoll is an exceptional natural laboratory for the study of consequences of CO2 disposal as well as of natural CO2 reservoirs as potential microbial habitats on early Earth and other celestial bodies...
  5. ncbi Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:1477-82. 2004
    ..On the basis of the physiological and molecular characteristics of this isolate, the type species of a novel genus, Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is 42BKTT (= ATCC BAA-797T = JCM 12117T)...
  6. ncbi Microbial communities associated with geological horizons in coastal subseafloor sediments from the sea of okhotsk
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:7224-35. 2003
    ....
  7. ncbi Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal gold mine
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Extremophiles 7:307-17. 2003
    ..The cultivable microbial community detected by enrichment cultivation analysis largely matched that detected by the culture-independent molecular analysis...
  8. ncbi Archaeology of Archaea: geomicrobiological record of Pleistocene thermal events concealed in a deep-sea subseafloor environment
    F Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, Yokosuka
    Extremophiles 5:385-92. 2001
    ....
  9. ncbi Molecular phylogenetic analyses of reverse-transcribed bacterial rRNA obtained from deep-sea cold seep sediments
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center JAMSTEC, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Environ Microbiol 4:277-86. 2002
    ....
  10. ncbi Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure
    K Takai
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research Program for Deep sea Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:3618-29. 2001
    ..The results of the culture-dependent analysis supported in part the view that changes in archaeal community structures in these microhabitats are associated with the geochemical and physical dynamics in the black smoker chimney...
  11. ncbi Microbial diversity in inactive chimney structures from deep-sea hydrothermal systems
    Y Suzuki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 237 0061, Yokosuka, Japan
    Microb Ecol 47:186-96. 2004
    ..These results suggest that inactive chimneys provide a distinct microbial habitat...
  12. ncbi Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing epsilon-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval (SUGAR) Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53:1801-5. 2003
    ..On the basis of its physiological and molecular characteristics, strain OK10(T) (=ATCC BAA-671(T)=JCM 11897(T)) represents the sole species of a new genus, Sulfurimonas, for which the name Sulfurimonas autotrophica is proposed...
  13. ncbi Dehalogenation activities and distribution of reductive dehalogenase homologous genes in marine subsurface sediments
    Taiki Futagami
    Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, Monobe B200, Nankoku, Kochi 783 8502, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 75:6905-9. 2009
    ..These results suggest that dehalorespiration is an important energy-yielding pathway in the subseafloor microbial ecosystem...
  14. ncbi Microbial silica deposition in geothermal hot waters
    F Inagaki
    Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
    Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 60:605-11. 2003
    ..Dissolved silica in geothermal hot water may be a significant component in the maintenance of position and survival of microorganisms in limited niches...
  15. ncbi Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated thermophilic crenarchaeotes from a subsurface gold mine as revealed by analysis of genome fragments
    Takuro Nunoura
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Program, Extremebiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Jokosuka, Japan
    Environ Microbiol 7:1967-84. 2005
    ..The reconstructed phylogenetic tree based on the 23S rRNA gene sequence reinforced the intermediate phylogenetic affiliation of HWCG III bridging the hyperthermophilic and non-thermophilic uncultivated Crenarchaeota...
  16. ncbi Enzymatic and genetic characterization of carbon and energy metabolisms by deep-sea hydrothermal chemolithoautotrophic isolates of Epsilonproteobacteria
    Ken Takai
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval Program, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:7310-20. 2005
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  17. ncbi Variability in microbial community and venting chemistry in a sediment-hosted backarc hydrothermal system: Impacts of subseafloor phase-separation
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Oiwake cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo ku, Japan
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 54:141-55. 2005
    ..Subseafloor phase-separation and -segregation may play a key role in supplying energy and carbon sources to vent-associated chemolithoautotrophs and subvent microbial communities...
  18. ncbi Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Su
    Ken Takai
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Program, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1725-33. 2006
    ..nov. (type strain DSM 1251(T)=ATCC 33889(T)). In addition, an emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas is proposed...
  19. ncbi Microbial community in black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center XBR, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:6789-99. 2006
    ..This report provides important insights into the phylogenetic, physiological, and trophic characteristics of subseafloor microbial ecosystems in warm ridge flank crusts...
  20. ncbi Phylogenetic and enzymatic diversity of deep subseafloor aerobic microorganisms in organics- and methane-rich sediments off Shimokita Peninsula
    Tohru Kobayashi
    Extremobiosphere Research Center of Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, 237 0061, Japan
    Extremophiles 12:519-27. 2008
    ..Our results indicate that microbes in the deep subseafloor environment off Shimokita are metabolically active and that the cultivable populations may have a great potential in biotechnology...
  21. ncbi Discriminative detection and enumeration of microbial life in marine subsurface sediments
    Yuki Morono
    Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan
    ISME J 3:503-11. 2009
    ..Our method is hence useful to explore the extent of sub-seafloor life in the future scientific drilling, and moreover widely applicable in the study of microbial ecology...
  22. ncbi Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Oiwake cho, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Environ Microbiol 7:1619-32. 2005
    ..These results provide new insight into the ecophysiological characteristics of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent epsilon-Proteobacteria, which has never been assessed by comparative analysis of the 16S rRNA genes...
  23. ncbi Spatial distribution of marine crenarchaeota group I in the vicinity of deep-sea hydrothermal systems
    Ken Takai
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 70:2404-13. 2004
    ..These profiles were markedly different from the profiles of epsilon-Proteobacteria, which are abundant in the low temperatures of deep-sea hydrothermal environments...
  24. ncbi Phylogenetic diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in active deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney structures
    Tatsunori Nakagawa
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 232:145-52. 2004
    ..Sequence analysis of DSR clones demonstrated a diverse sulfate-reducing prokaryotic community in the active deep-sea hydrothermal chimney structures...
  25. ncbi Isolation and phylogenetic diversity of members of previously uncultivated epsilon-Proteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal fields
    Ken Takai
    Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 218:167-74. 2003
    ..The successful cultivation will enable the subsequent characterization of physiological properties and ecological impacts of a diversity of epsilon-Proteobacteria in the deep-sea hydrothermal environments...
  26. ncbi Thiobacter subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, thermophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a subsurface hot aquifer
    Hisako Hirayama
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:467-72. 2005
    ..On the basis of its physiological and molecular properties, strain C55T (=JCM12421T=DSM 16629T=ATCC BAA-941T) is proposed as the type strain of Thiobacter subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov...
  27. ncbi Isolation and metabolic characteristics of previously uncultured members of the order aquificales in a subsurface gold mine
    Ken Takai
    Sunground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Frontier Research System for Extremophiles, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:3046-54. 2002
    ..Their versatile energy-generating systems may reflect the geochemical conditions of their habitat in the geothermally active subsurface gold mine...
  28. ncbi Archaeal diversity and distribution along thermal and geochemical gradients in hydrothermal sediments at the Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal field in the Southern Okinawa trough
    Takuro Nunoura
    Subsurface Geobiology and Advanced Research Project, Extremobiosphere Research Program, Institute of Biogeosciences, JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 76:1198-211. 2010
    ....
  29. ncbi Bacterial community shift along a subsurface geothermal water stream in a Japanese gold mine
    Hisako Hirayama
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval SUGAR Project, Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC, 2 15 Natsushima cho, Yokosuka 237 0061, Japan
    Extremophiles 9:169-84. 2005
    ....
  30. ncbi Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments
    Julius S Lipp
    Organic Geochemistry Group, Department of Geosciences and MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, PO Box 330 440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
    Nature 454:991-4. 2008
    ..Our estimate of 90 Pg of cellular carbon is consistent, within an order of magnitude, with previous estimates, and underscores the importance of marine subsurface habitats for global biomass budgets...
  31. ncbi Hydrogen-driven subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems (SLiMEs): do they exist and why should we care?
    Kenneth H Nealson
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0740, USA
    Trends Microbiol 13:405-10. 2005
    ....
  32. ncbi Hydrogenivirga caldilitoris gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a coastal hydrothermal field
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:2079-84. 2004
    ..nov., sp. nov. is IBSK3(T) (=JCM 12173(T)=ATCC BAA-821(T))...
  33. ncbi Distributions of microbial activities in deep subseafloor sediments
    Steven D'Hondt
    Ocean Drilling Program Leg 201 Shipboard Scientific Party, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA
    Science 306:2216-21. 2004
    ..In turn, these sedimentary communities may supply dissolved electron donors and nutrients to the underlying crustal biosphere...
  34. ncbi Molecular signals from ancient materials: challenges to deep-biosphere and paleo-environmental research--a response to the comments of Sinninghe Damsté and Coolen
    Fumio Inagaki
    Subground Animalcule Retrieval (SUGAR) Program, Extremobiosphere Research, Center, Japan
    Astrobiology 6:303-7. 2006
  35. ncbi Molecular phylogenetic and chemical analyses of the microbial mats in deep-sea cold seep sediments at the northeastern Japan Sea
    Shizuka Arakawa
    Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, 350-0815, Japan
    Extremophiles 10:311-9. 2006
    ....
  36. ncbi Thioreductor micantisoli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, sulfur-reducing chemolithoautotroph within the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:599-605. 2005
    ..nov. is proposed, with Thioreductor micantisoli sp. nov. as the type species. The type strain is BKB25Ts-Y(T) (=JCM 12457(T)=DSM 16661(T))...
  37. ncbi Nitratiruptor tergarcus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the epsilon-Proteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system in the Mid-Okinawa Trough
    Satoshi Nakagawa
    Laboratory of Marine Microbiology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8502, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:925-33. 2005
    ..nov., sp. nov., with MI55-1(T) (=JCM 12459(T)=DSM 16512(T)) as the type strain, and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., with E9I37-1(T) (=JCM 12458(T)=DSM 16511(T)) as the type strain...