YOSHIDA Makoto

Professional Career

2002.04～2005.03：JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
2005.04～2006.03：Researcher, National Food Research Institute,NARO
2006.04～2006.10：JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
2006.11～2011.03：Assistant Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2011.04～2017.09：Associate Professor(Tenured), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2017.10～present：Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Academic Degrees

2002 M.Agr. , Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2005 Ph.D. , Department of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests

Basidiomycete, Wood decomposition, Carbohydrate-degrading enzymes, Biomass conversion

Publications

• Umezawa, K., Niikura, M., Kojima, Y., Goodell, B., Yoshida, M. Transcriptome analysis of the brown rot fungus Gloeophyllum trabeum during lignocellulose degradation. PLoS One.15(12):e0243984. 2020.
• He, Q., Kobayashi, K., Kusumi, R., Kimura, S., Enomoto, Y., Yoshida, M., Kim, U.J., Wada, M. In Vitro Synthesis of Branchless Linear (1 → 6)-α-d-Glucan by Glucosyltransferase K: Mechanical and Swelling Properties of Its Hydrogels Crosslinked with Diglycidyl Ethers. ACS Omega. 5(48): 31272–31280. 2020.
• Takeda, K., Kusuoka, R., Birrell, J.A., Yoshida, M., Igarashi, K., Nakamura, N. Bioelectrocatalysis based on direct electron transfer of fungal pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent dehydrogenase lacking the cytochrome domain. Electrochimica Acta 2020, 359:136982
• Kojima, Y., Várnai, A., Eijsink,V.G.H, Yoshida, M. The Role of Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases in Wood Rotting Basidiomycetes. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology (Trends Glycosci Glycotechnol) 32(188):E135-E143, 2020
• Zhu, Y., Plaza, N., Kojima, Y., Yoshida, M., Zhang, J., Jellison, J., Pingali, S.V., O’Neill, H., Goodell, B. Nanostructural Analysis of Enzymatic and Non-enzymatic Brown Rot Fungal Deconstruction of the Lignocellulose Cell Wall. Frontiers in Microbiology (Frontiers Microbiol) 11: 1389. 2020
• Shinoda, K., Yano, M., Yoh, M., Yoshida, M., Makabe, A., Yamagata, Y., Houlton, B.Z., Koba. K. Control of the Nitrogen Isotope Composition of the Fungal Biomass: Evidence of Microbial Nitrogen Use Efficiency. Microbes and Environments. 34, 5-12 (2019) doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME18082
• Takeda, K., Umezawa, K., Várnai, A., Eijsink, VG., Igarashi, K., Yoshida, M., Nakamura, N. Fungal PQQ-dependent dehydrogenases and their potential in biocatalysis. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol.). 49:113-121, 2018
• Tamaru, Y., Yoshida, M., Eltis, LD., Goodell, B. Multiple iron reduction by methoxylated phenolic lignin structures and the generation of reactive oxygen species by lignocellulose surfaces. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Int. J. Biol. Macromol.). 128:340-346. 2019
• Zhang, Y., Yoshida, M., Vadlani, P.V. Biosynthesis of D-lactic acid from lignocellulosic biomass. Biotechnology Letters (Biotechnol. Lett.). 40:1167-1179, 2018
• Isobe, K., Ikutani, J., Fang, Y., Yoh, M., Mo, J., Suwa, Y., Yoshida, M., Senoo, K., Otsuka, S., Koba, K. Highly abundant acidophilic ammonia-oxidizing archaea causes high rates of nitrification and nitrate leaching in nitrogen-saturated forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (Soil Biol. Biochem.). 122:220-227, 2018