Shin ichi Yokobori

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Affiliation: Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science
Country: Japan

Publications

  1. ncbi Complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi (Chordata, Urochordata)
    S i Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Genetics 153:1851-62. 1999
  2. ncbi Complete nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial genomes of two solitary entoprocts, Loxocorone allax and Loxosomella aloxiata: implications for lophotrochozoan phylogeny
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory for Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 47:612-28. 2008
  3. ncbi Mitochondrial genome structure and evolution in the living fossil vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and extant cephalopods
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:898-910. 2007
  4. ncbi Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Doliolum nationalis with implications for evolution of urochordates
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 34:273-83. 2005
  5. ncbi Long-term conservation of six duplicated structural genes in cephalopod mitochondrial genomes
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory for Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan
    Mol Biol Evol 21:2034-46. 2004
  6. ncbi Mitochondrial genome of Ciona savignyi (Urochordata, Ascidiacea, Enterogona): comparison of gene arrangement and tRNA genes with Halocynthia roretzi mitochondrial genome
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    J Mol Evol 57:574-87. 2003
  7. ncbi Gain and loss of an intron in a protein-coding gene in Archaea: the case of an archaeal RNA pseudouridine synthase gene
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    BMC Evol Biol 9:198. 2009
  8. ncbi Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov., isolated from the stratosphere
    Yinjie Yang
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60:776-9. 2010
  9. ncbi A bacterial elongation factor G homologue exclusively functions in ribosome recycling in the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi
    Takuma Suematsu
    Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Mol Microbiol 75:1445-54. 2010
  10. ncbi Structural analysis of the plasmid pTA1 isolated from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum
    Kan Yamashiro
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Extremophiles 10:327-35. 2006

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Publications16

  1. ncbi Complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi (Chordata, Urochordata)
    S i Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Genetics 153:1851-62. 1999
    ..The amino acid sequences of Halocynthia mt-proteins deduced from their gene sequences are quite different from those in other metazoans, indicating that the substitution rate in Halocynthia mt-protein genes is also accelerated...
  2. ncbi Complete nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial genomes of two solitary entoprocts, Loxocorone allax and Loxosomella aloxiata: implications for lophotrochozoan phylogeny
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory for Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 47:612-28. 2008
    ..Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the sequences of mt protein-coding genes suggested a possible close relationship between Entoprocta and Phoronida, and a close relationship among Brachiopoda, Annelida, and Echiura...
  3. ncbi Mitochondrial genome structure and evolution in the living fossil vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and extant cephalopods
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory of Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:898-910. 2007
    ..Therefore, it is reasonable to recognize three major groups in Coleoidea--Vampyromorpha, Octopoda, and Decapodiformes...
  4. ncbi Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Doliolum nationalis with implications for evolution of urochordates
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 34:273-83. 2005
    ..Given the paraphyletic nature of ascidians, it seems likely that the common ancestor of ascidians and thaliaceans was sessile, as are the present-day ascidians, and that the thaliaceans subsequently evolved a pelagic lifestyle...
  5. ncbi Long-term conservation of six duplicated structural genes in cephalopod mitochondrial genomes
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory for Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo, Japan
    Mol Biol Evol 21:2034-46. 2004
    ..Molecular phylogenetic analyses of mt protein genes are suggestive, although not statistically significantly so, of a monophyletic relationship between W. scintillans and T. pacificus...
  6. ncbi Mitochondrial genome of Ciona savignyi (Urochordata, Ascidiacea, Enterogona): comparison of gene arrangement and tRNA genes with Halocynthia roretzi mitochondrial genome
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    J Mol Evol 57:574-87. 2003
    ..Only three gene boundaries are shared between the Halocynthia and the Ciona mt genomes. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on amino acid sequences of mt protein genes failed to demonstrate the monophyly of the chordates...
  7. ncbi Gain and loss of an intron in a protein-coding gene in Archaea: the case of an archaeal RNA pseudouridine synthase gene
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    BMC Evol Biol 9:198. 2009
    ..However, the exact timing of the intron insertion was not determined and verification of the putative secondary loss of the intron in some lineages was not performed...
  8. ncbi Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov., isolated from the stratosphere
    Yinjie Yang
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60:776-9. 2010
    ..Therefore, we propose a new species of the genus Deinococcus, Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov. (type strain, ST0316(T) =JCM 11751(T) =DSM 21230(T))...
  9. ncbi A bacterial elongation factor G homologue exclusively functions in ribosome recycling in the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi
    Takuma Suematsu
    Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Mol Microbiol 75:1445-54. 2010
    ..These results indicate that two B. burgdorferi EF-G paralogues are close relatives to mitochondrial EF-G paralogues rather than the conventional bacterial EF-G, in both their phylogenetic and biochemical features...
  10. ncbi Structural analysis of the plasmid pTA1 isolated from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum
    Kan Yamashiro
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Extremophiles 10:327-35. 2006
    ..The phylogenetic analysis suggested that plasmid pTA1 is possibly originated from the chromosomal DNA of Thermoplasma...
  11. ncbi Extremely thermophilic translation system in the common ancestor commonote: ancestral mutants of Glycyl-tRNA synthetase from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus
    Hideaki Shimizu
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    J Mol Biol 369:1060-9. 2007
    ..Six mutants showed higher thermostability than wild-type enzyme and seven mutants showed higher activity than wild-type enzyme at 70 degrees C, suggesting an extremely thermophilic translation system in the common ancestor Commonote...
  12. ncbi Thermostability of ancestral mutants of Caldococcus noboribetus isocitrate dehydrogenase
    Hisako Iwabata
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 243:393-8. 2005
    ..The results are compatible with the hyperthermophilic universal ancestor (commonote) hypothesis. Incorporation of ancestral residues into a modern-day protein sequence can be used to improve protein thermostability...
  13. ncbi Multiple origins of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: molecular phylogeny of photosymbiotic and non-symbiotic colonial ascidians inferred from 18S rDNA sequences
    Shin ichi Yokobori
    Laboratory for Cellular Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Life Science, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:8-19. 2006
    ..The results strongly support the hypothesis that establishment of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis occurred independently in the Didemnidae lineage at least once in each of the genera that possess symbiotic species...
  14. ncbi Deinococcus aerius sp. nov., isolated from the high atmosphere
    Yinjie Yang
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59:1862-6. 2009
    ..Therefore, a novel species of the genus Deinococcus, Deinococcus aerius sp. nov. (type strain, TR0125T=JCM 11750T=DSM 21212T), is proposed to accommodate this isolate...
  15. ncbi An actin homolog of the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum that retains the ancient characteristics of eukaryotic actin
    Futoshi Hara
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    J Bacteriol 189:2039-45. 2007
    ..However, the low specificity of Ta0583 for nucleotide triphosphates indicates that Ta0583 is more primitive than eukaryotic actin. Taken together, our results suggest that Ta0583 retains the ancient characteristics of eukaryotic actin...
  16. ncbi Phylogeny-based design of a B-subunit of DNA gyrase and its ATPase domain using a small set of homologous amino acid sequences
    Satoshi Akanuma
    Department of Molecular Biology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432 1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192 0392, Japan
    J Mol Biol 412:212-25. 2011
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