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1. Escherichia coli host engineering through ribosome engineering
- Kitahara K, Yasutake Y, Miyazaki K (2012) Mutational robustness of 16S ribosomal RNA, shown by experimental horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109(47):19220-19225.
- Kitahara K, Miyazaki K (2011) Specific inhibition of bacterial RNase T2 by helix 41 of 16S ribosomal RNA. Nat Commun 2:549
2.Functional metagenomics for gene discovery
- Uchiyama T, Miyazaki K (2013) Metagenomic screening for aromatic compound-responsive transcriptional regulators. PLOS ONE 8(9):e75795.
- Uchiyama T, Miyazaki K, Yaoi K (2013) Characterization of a novel β-glucosidase from a compost microbial metagenome with strong transglycosylation activity. J Biol Chem 288(25):18325-18334.
- Verma D, Kawarabayasi Y, Miyazaki K, Satyanarayana T (2013) Cloning, expression and characteristics of a novel alkalistable and thermostable xylanase encoding gene (mxyl) retrieved from compost-soil metagenome. PLOS ONE 8(1):e52459.
- Uchiyama T, Miyazaki K (2010) Product-induced gene expression, a product-responsive reporter assay used to screen metagenomic libraries for enzyme-encoding genes. Appl Environ Microbiol 76(21):7029-7035.
- Suenaga H, Koyama Y, Miyakoshi M, Miyazaki R, Yano H, Sota M, Ohtsubo Y, Tsuda, M, Miyazaki K (2009) Novel organization of aromatic degradation pathway genes in a microbial community as revealed by metagenomic analysis. ISME J 3(12):1335-1348.
- Suenaga H, Ohnuki T, Miyazaki K (2007) Functional screening of a metagenomic library for genes involved in microbial degradation of aromatic compounds. Environ Microbiol 9(9):2289-2297.
3.Directed enzyme evolution
- Tsukuda M, Miyazaki K (2013) Directed evolution study unveiling key sequence factors that affect translation efficiency in Escherichia coli. J Biosci Bioeng 116(5):540-545.
- Miyazaki K, Takenouchi M, Kondo H, Noro N, Suzuki M, Tsuda S (2006) Thermal stabilization of Bacillus subtilis family-11 xylanase by directed evolution. J Biol Chem 281(15):10236-10242.
- Miyazaki K, Takenouchi M (2002) Creating random mutagenesis libraries using megaprimer PCR of whole plasmid. Biotechniques 33(5):1033-1034, 1036-1038.
- Miyazaki K, Wintrode PL, Grayling RA, Rubingh DN, Arnold FH (2000) Directed evolution study of temperature adaptation in a psychrophilic enzyme. J Mol Biol 297(4):1015-1026.
- Miyazaki K, Arnold FH (1999) Exploring nonnatural evolutionary pathways by saturation mutagenesis: rapid improvement of protein function. J Mol Evol 49(6):716-720.
