Metabolic Systems Research Team

Laboratories

Publications

2020

Original Papers

Adams, E., Miyazaki, T., Moon, J.Y., Sawada, Y., Sato, M., Toyooka, K., Hirai, M.Y., Shin, R. (2020) Syringic acid alleviates cesium-induced growth defect in Arabidopsis. Int. J. Mol. Sci.,21: 9116, DOI:10.3390/ijms21239116

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Li,Y., Li,R., Sawada,Y., Boerzhijin,S., Kuwahara,A., Sato,M. and Hirai,M.Y. (2020) Abscisic acid-mediated induction of FLAVIN-CONTAINING MONOOXYGENASE 2 leads to reduced accumulation of methylthioalkyl glucosinolates in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Science, DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110764.

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Abdelrahman,M., Ariyanti,N.A., Sawada,Y., Tsuji,F., Hirata,S., Hang,T.T.M., Okamoto,M., Yamada,Y., Tsugawa,H., Hirai,M.Y. and Shigyo,M. (2020) Metabolome-Based Discrimination Analysis of Shallot Landraces and Bulb Onion Cultivars Associated with Differences in the Amino Acid and Flavonoid Profiles . Molecules, 25; 5300, DOI:10.3390/molecules25225300.

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Kawade,K., Horiguchi,G., Hirose,Y.,Oikawa,A., Hirai,M.Y., Saito,K., Fujita,T. and Tsukaya,H.(2020) Metabolic control of gametophore shoot formation through arginine in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Cell Reports, 32:108127, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108127.

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Uchida,K., Sawada,Y., Ochiai,K., Sato,M., Inaba,J. and Hirai,M.Y. (2020) Identification of a Unique Type of Isoflavone O-methyltransferase, GmIOMT1, based on Multi-omics Analysis of Soybean under Biotic Stress. Plant Cell Physiol, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa112.

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Yoshida,K., Ohtaka,K., Hirai,M.Y. and Hisabori,T. (2020) Biochemical insight into redox regulation of plastidial 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis thaliana. J Biol Chem, DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014263.

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Siriwach,R., Matsuda,F., Yano,K. and Hirai,M.Y. (2020) Drought Stress Responses in Context-Specific Genome-Scale Metabolic Models of Arabidopsis thaliana Metabolites, 10 ; 159, DOI: 10.3390/metabo10040159.

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2019

Original Papers

Izumi,Y., Matsuda, F., Hirayama, A., Ikeda, K., Kita, Y., Horie, K., Saigusa, D., Saito, K., Sawada, Y., Nakanishi, H., Okahashi, N., Takahashi, M., Nakao, M., Hata,K., Hoshi, Y., Morihara, M., Tanabe, K., Bamba, T. and Oda, O. (2019) Inter-laboratory comparison of metabolite measurements for metabolomics data integration. Metabolites, 9 ; 257, DOI: 10.3390/metabo9110257.

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Sarath, E., Ezaki, K., Sasaki, T., Maekawa, Y., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Soejima A. and Tsukaya, H. (2019) Morphological characterization of domatium development in Callicarpa saccate. Annals of Botany, DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcz193.

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Kozuka, T., Sawada, Y., Imai, H., Kanai, M., Hirai, M.Y., Mano, S., Uemura, M., Nishimura, M., Kusaba, M. and Nagatani, A.(2019) Regulation of sugar and storage oil metabolism by phytochrome during de-etiolation Plant Physiology, DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.00535.

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Boerzhijin, S., Makino, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Sotome, I. and Yoshimura, M.(2019) Effect of perforation-mediated modified atmosphere packaging on the quality and bioactive compounds of soft kale (Brassica oleracea L. convar. acephala (DC) Alef. var. sabellica L.) during storage Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 23 ; , DOI: 10.1016/j.fpsl.2019.100427.

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Sawada, Y., Sato, M., Okamoto, M., Masuda, J., Yamaki, S., Tamari, M., Tanokashira, Y., Kishimoto, S., Ohmiya, A., Abe, T. and Hirai, M.Y.(2019) Metabolome-based discrimination of chrysanthemum cultivars for the efficient generation of flower color variations in mutation breeding. Metabolomics, 15 ; 118, DOI: 10.1007/s11306-019-1573-7.

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Sugiyama, R. and Hirai, M.Y.(2019) Atypical Myrosinase as a Mediator of Glucosinolate Functions in Plants. Front Plant Sci., 10 ; 1008, DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01008.

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Nakajima, T., Kawano, Y., Ohtsu, I., Maruyuama-Nakashita, A., Allahham, A., Sato, M., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Yokoyama, T. and Ohkama-Ohtsu, N.(2019) Effects of Thiosulfate as a Sulfur Source on Plant Growth, Metabolites Accumulation and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis and Rice. Plant Cell Physiol., 60 ; 1683-1701, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz082.

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Onda, Y., Inoue, K., Sawada, Y., Shimizu, M., Takahagi, K., Uehara-Yamaguchi, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Garvin, D.F. and Mochida, K.(2019) Genetic Variation for Seed Metabolite Levels in Brachypodium distachyon. Int J. Mol Sci., 20 ; 2348, DOI: 10.3390/ijms20092348.

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Okamura, Y., Tsuzuki, N., Kuroda, S., Sato, A., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Murakami, M.(2019) Interspecific Differences in the Larval Performance of Pieris Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) Are Associated with Differences in the Glucosinolate Profiles of Host Plants. J Insect Sci., 19 ; 2, DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iez035.

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Okamura, Y,. Sato, A., Tsuzuki, N., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Heidel-Fischer, H., Reichelt, M., Murakami, M. and Vogel, H.(2019) Differential regulation of host plant adaptive genes in Pieris butterflies exposed to a range of glucosinolate profiles in their host plants. Sci Rep., 9 ; 7256, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43703-8.

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Nakazaki, A., Yamada, K., Kunieda, T., Sugiyama, R., Hirai, M.Y., Tamura, K., Hara-Nishimura, I. and Shimada, T.(2019) Leaf Endoplasmic Reticulum Bodies Identified in Arabidopsis Rosette Leaves Are Involved in Defense against Herbivory. Plant Physiol., 179 ; 1515-1524, DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00984.

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Abdelrahman, M., Hirata, S., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Sato, S., Hirakawa, H., Mine, Y., Tanaka. K. andShigyo, M.(2019) Widely targeted metabolome and transcriptome landscapes of Allium fistulosum-A. cepa chromosome addition lines revealed a flavonoid hot spot on chromosome 5A. Sci Rep., 9 ; 3541, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39856-1.

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Tada, Y., Kawano, R., Komatsubara, S., Nishimura, H., Katsuhara, M., Ozaki, S., Terashima, S., Yano, K., Endo, C., Sato, M., Okamoto, M., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Kurusu, T.(2019) Functional screening of salt tolerance genes from a halophyte Sporobolus virginicus and transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of salt tolerant plants expressing glycine-rich RNA-binding protein. Plant Sci., 278 ; 54-63, DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.10.019.

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2018

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Hirai, M.Y. and Shiraishi, F.(2018) Using metabolome data for mathematical modeling of plant metabolic systems. Curr Opin Biotechnol. , 54 ; 138-144, DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.08.005.

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Watanabe, S., Sato, M., Sawada, Y., Tanaka, M., Matsui, A., Kanno, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Seki, M., Sakamoto, A. and Seo, M.(2018) Arabidopsis molybdenum cofactor sulfurase ABA3 contributes to anthocyanin accumulation and oxidative stress tolerance in ABA-dependent and independent ways. Sci Rep., 8 ; 16592. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34862-1.

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Ferjani, A., Kawade, K., Asaoka, M., Oikawa, A., Okada, T., Mochizuki, A., Maeshima, M., Hirai, M.Y., Saito, K. and Tsukaya, H.(2018) Pyrophosphate inhibits gluconeogenesis by restricting UDP-glucose formation in vivo. Sci Rep., 8 ; 14696, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32894-1.

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Kawade, K., Li, Y., Koga, H., Sawada, Y., Okamoto, M., Kuwahara, A., Tsukaya, H. and Hirai, M.Y.(2018) The cytochrome P450 CYP77A4 is involved in auxin-mediated patterning of the Arabidopsis thaliana embryo. Development., 145 ; 168369, DOI: 10.1242/dev.168369.

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Akashi, H., Okamura, E., Nishihama, R.,Kohchi, T. and Hirai, M.Y.(2018) Identification and Biochemical Characterization of the Serine Biosynthetic Enzyme 3-Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase in Marchantia polymorpha. Front. Plant Sci., DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00956.

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Vergara, F., Itouga, M., Becerra, R.G., Hirai, M.Y., Ordaz-Ortiz, J.J. and Winkler, R.(2018) Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. elevated tolerance to D2O: its use for the production of highly deuterated metabolites. Planta., 247 ; 405-412, DOI: 10.1007/s00425-017-2794-5.

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2017

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Arae, T., Isai, S., Sakai, A., Mineta, K., Hirai, M.Y., Suzuki, Y., Kanaya, S., Yamaguchi, J., Naito, S. and Chiba, Y. (2017) Co-ordinated Regulations of mRNA Synthesis and Decay during Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis Cells. Plant and Cell Physiology, 58 : 1090-1102, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx059.

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Miwa, A., Sawada, Y., Tamaoki, D., Hirai, M.Y., Kimura, M., Sato, K. and Nishiuchi, T. (2017) Nicotinamide mononucleotide and related metabolites induce disease resistance against fungal phytopathogens in Arabidopsis and barley. Scientific Reports, 7 : 6389, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06048-8.

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Vergara, F., Rymen, B., Kuwahara, A., Sawada, Y., Sato, M. and Hirai, M.Y. (2017) Autopolyploidization, geographic origin, and metabolome evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana. Am. J. Bot., 104 ; 905-914, DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600419.

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Okamura, E. and Hirai, M.Y. (2017) Novel regulatory mechanism of serine biosynthesis associated with 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci. Rep., 7 : 3533, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03807-5.

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Sawada, Y., Tsukaya, H., Li, Y., Sato, M., Kawade, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2017) A novel method for single-grain-based metabolic profiling of Arabidopsis seed. Metabolomics, 13 : 75, DOI: 10.1007/s11306-017-1211-1.

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Osanai, T., Kuwahara, A., Otsuki, H., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2017) ACR11 is an activator of plastid-type glutamine synthetase GS2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol., 58 ; 650-657, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx033.

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Takeya, M., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2017) Allosteric inhibition of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylases is determined by a single amino acid residue in cyanobacteria. Sci. Rep., 7 : 41080, DOI: 10.1038/srep41080.

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2016

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Ohtani, M., Morisaki, K., Sawada, Y., Sano, R., Uy, A.L.T., Yamamoto, A., Kurata, T., Nakano, Y., Suzuki, S., Matsuda, M., Hasunuma, T., Hirai, M.Y.and Demura, T. (2016) Primary metabolism during biosynthesis of secondary wall polymers of protoxylem vessel elements. Plant Physiol., 172: 1612-1624, DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01230

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Tomita, Y., Yoshioka, K., Iijima, H., Nakashima, A., Iwata, O., Suzuki, K., Hasunuma, T., Kondo, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2016) Succinate and lactate production from Euglena gracilis during dark, anaerobic conditions. Front. Microbiol., 7 : 2050, DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02050.

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Ueda, S., Kawamura, Y., Iijima, H., Nakajima, M., Shirai, T., Okamoto, M., Kondo, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2016) Anionic metabolite biosynthesis enhanced by potassium under dark, anaerobic conditions in cyanobacteria. Sci. Rep., 6 : 32354, DOI: 10.1038/srep32354.

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Iijima, H., Shirai, T., Okamoto, M., Pinto, F., Tamagnini. P., Hasunuma, T., Kondo, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2016) Metabolomics-based analysis revealing the alteration of primary carbon metabolism by the genetic manipulation of a hydrogenase HoxH in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Algal Res., 18 : 305-313., DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2016.06.026.

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Yamada, M., Iwanaga, M., Sriyudthsak, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Shiraishi, F. (2016) Investigation of kinetic-order sensitivities in metabolic reaction networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology., 415 : 32-40., DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.12.001.

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Miyawaki, A., Sriyudthsak, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Shiraishi, F. (2016) A new parametric method to smooth time-series data of metabolites in metabolic networks. Mathematical Biosciences., 282 : 21-33., DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2016.09.011.

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Sriyudthsak, K., Mejia, R.F., Arita, M. and Hirai, M.Y. (2016) PASMet: a web-based platform for prediction, modelling and analyses of metabolic systems. Nucleic Acids Res., 44(W1) : W205-W211., DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw415.(Epub 2016 May 12.)

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Sriyudthsak, K., Shiraishi, F. and Hirai, M.Y. (2016) Mathematical modeling and dynamic simulation of metabolic reaction systems using metabolome time series data. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences., 3 : 1-11., DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00015.

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Osanai, T., Iijima, H. and Hirai, M.Y. (2016) Understanding sugar catabolism in unicellular cyanobacteria toward the application in biofuel and biomaterial production. Subcellular Biochemistry., 86 : 511-523., DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25979-6_20.

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Kawahigashi, H., Kasuga, S., Sawada, Y., Yonemaru, J.-i., Ando, T., Kanamori, H., Wu, J., Mizuno, H., Momma, M., Fujimoto, Z., Hirai, M.Y. and Matsumoto, T. (2016) The sorghum gene for leaf color changes upon wounding (P) encodes a flavanone 4-reductase in the 3-deoxyanthocyanidin biosynthesis pathway. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics., 6 : 1439-1447., DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.026104.

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Nakabayashi, R., Sawada, Y., Aoyagi, M., Yamada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Sakurai, T., Kamoi, T., Rowan, D.D. and Saito, K. (2016) Chemical assignment of structural isomers of sulfur-containing metabolites in garlic by liquid chromatography Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Journal of Nutrition., 146 : 397S-402S. DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.202317.(Epub 2016 Jan 13.)

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2015

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Abdelrahman, M., Sawada, Y., Nakabayashi, R., Sato, S., Hirakawa, H., El-Sayed, M., Hirai, M.Y., Saito, K., Yamauchi, N. and Shigyo, M. (2015) Integrating transcriptome and target metabolome variability in doubled haploids of Allium cepa for abiotic stress protection. Molecular Breeding., 35 : 195., DOI: 10.1007/s11032-015-0378-2.

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Tsukaya, H., Sawada, Y., Oikawa, A., Shiratake, K., Isuzugawa, K., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2015) Intraspecific comparative analyses of metabolites between diploid and tetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana and Pyrus communis. New Negatives in Plant Science., 1-2 : 53-61., DOI: 10.1016/j.neps.2015.06.001.

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Onda, Y., Hashimoto, K., Yoshida, T., Sakurai, T., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Toyooka, K., Mochida, K. and Shinozaki, K. (2015) Determination of growth stages and metabolic profiles in Brachypodium distachyon for comparison of developmental context with Triticeae crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences., 282, pii 20150964., DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0964.

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Kusuda, H., Koga, W., Kusano, M., Oikawa, A., Saito, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Yoshida, K.T. (2015) Ectopic expression of myo-inositol 3-phosphate synthase induces a wide range of metabolic changes and confers salt tolerance in rice. Plant Science., 232 : 49-56., DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.12.009. (Epub 2014 Dec 18.)

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Furuhashi, T., Ogawa, T., Nakai, R., Nakazawa, M., Okazawa, A., Padermschoke, A., Nishio, K., Hirai, M.Y., Arita, M. and Ohta, D. (2015) Wax ester and lipophilic compound profiling of Euglena gracilis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: toward understanding of wax ester fermentation under hypoxia. Metabolomics., 11 : 175-183., DOI: 10.1007/s11306-014-0687-1.

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Kuwahara, A., Arisaka, S., Takeya, M., Iijima, H., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2015) Modification of photosynthetic electron transport and amino acid levels by overexpression of a circadian-related histidine kinase hik8 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803., Front. Microbiol., 6 : 1150., DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01150.

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Osanai, T., Shirai, T., Iijima, H., Nakaya, Y., Okamoto, M., Kondo, A. and Hirai, M.Y. (2015) Genetic manipulation of a metabolic enzyme and a transcriptional regulator increasing succinate excretion from unicellular cyanobacterium., Front. Microbiol., 6 : 1064., DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01064.

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Iijima, H., Shirai, T., Okamoto, M., Kondo, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2015) Changes in primary metabolism under light and dark conditions in response to overproduction of a response regulator RpaA in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803., Front. Microbiol., 6 : 888., DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00888.

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Iijima, H., Nakaya, Y., Kuwahara, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T. (2015) Seawater cultivation of freshwater cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 drastically alters amino acid composition and glycogen metabolism., Front. Microbiol., 6 : 362., DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00326.

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Sriyudthsak, K., Uno, H., Gunawan, R. and Shiraishi, F.(2015) Using dynamic sensitivities to characterize metabolic reaction systems. Mathematical Bioscience., 269 : 153-163., DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2015.09.002. (Epub 2015 Sep 16.)

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Nakaya, Y., Iijima, H., Takanobu, J., Watanabe, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai, T.(2015) One day of nitrogen starvation reveals the effect of sigE and rre37 overexpression on the expression of genes related to carbon and nitrogen metabolism in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.J Biosci Bioeng., 120 : 128-134., DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.12.020. (Epub 2015 Jan 29.)

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2014

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Mizuno, H., Yazawa, T., Kasuga, S., Sawada, Y., Ogata, J., Ando, T., Kanamori, H., Yonemaru, J.-i., Wu, J., Hirai, M.Y., Matsumoto, T. and Kawahigashi, H. (2014) Expression level of a flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase gene determines pathogen-induced color variation in sorghum. BMC Research Notes., 7 : 761., DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-761.

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Sato, Y., Kawagoe, T., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Kudoh, H. (2014) Frequency-dependent herbivory by a leaf beetle, Phaedon brassicae, on hairy and glabrous plants of Arabidopsis halleri subsp gemmifera. Evolutionary Ecology., 28 : 545-559.

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Tawaraya, K., Horie, R., Saito, S., Wagatsuma, T., Saito, K. and Oikawa, A. (2014) Metabolite Profiling of Root Exudates of Common Bean under Phosphorus Deficiency. Metabolites., 4 : 599-611., DOI: 10.3390/metabo4030599.

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Satou, M., Enoki, H., Oikawa, A., Ohta, D., Saito, K., Hachiya, T., Sakakibara, H., Kusano, M., Fukushima, A., Saito, K., Kobayashi, M., Nagata, N., Myouga, F., Shinozaki, K. and Motohashi, R. (2014) Integrated analysis of transcriptome and metabolome of Arabidopsis albino or pale green mutants with disrupted nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins. Plant Mol Biol., 85 : 411-428., DOI: 10.1007/s11103-014-0194-9. (Epub 2014 May 3.)

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Furuhashi, T., Kojima, M., Sakakibara, H., Fukushima, A., Hirai, M.Y. and Furuhashi, K. (2014) Morphological and plant hormonal changes during parasitization by Cuscuta japonica on Momordica charantia. Journal of Plant Interactions., 9 : 220-232., DOI: 10.1080/17429145.2013.816790.

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Osanai, T., Shirai, T., Iijima, H., Suzuki, I., Kondo, A. and Hirai, M.Y. (2014) Alteration of cyanobacterial sugar and amino acid metabolism by overexpression hik8, encoding a KaiC-associated histidine kinase. Environmental Microbiology., 17 : 2430-2440., DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12715. (Epub 2015 Jan 27.)

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Iijima, H., Watanabe, A., Takanobu, J., Hirai, M.Y. and Osanai,T. (2014) rre37 overexpression alters gene expression related to the tricarboxylic acid cycle and pyruvate metabolism in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The Scientific World Journal., Volume 2014, ArticleID 921976., DOI: 10.1155/2014/921976. (Epub 2014 Dec 28.)

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Sriyudthsak, K., Sawada, Y., Chiba, Y., Yamashita, Y., Kanaya, S., Onouchi, H., Fujiwara, T., Naito, S., Voit, E.O., Shiraishi, F. and Hirai, M.Y.(2014) A U-system approach for predicting metabolic behaviors and responses based on an alleged metabolic reaction network. BMC. Syst. Biol., 8 Suppl5 : S4., DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-8-S5-S4. (Epub 2014 Dec 12.)

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Osanai, T., Oikawa, A., Iijima, H., Kuwahara, A., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y.(2014) Metabolomic Analysis Reveals Rewiring of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Primary Metabolism by ntcA-overexpression. Environ Microbiol., 16 : 3304-3317., DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12554. (Epub 2014 Aug 29.)

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Sriyudthsak, K., Iwata, M., Hirai, M.Y. and Shiraishi, F. (2014) PENDISC: A Simple Method for Constructing a Mathematical Model from Time-Series Data of Metabolite Concentrations. Bull. Math. Biol., 76 : 1333-1351., DOI: 10.1007/s11538-014-9960-8. (Epub 2014 May 7.)

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Osanai, T., Oikawa, A., Numata, K., Kuwahara, A., Iijima, H., Doi, Y., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y.(2014) Pathway-Level Acceleration of Glycogen Catabolism by Response Regulator Rre37 in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Physiol., 164 : 1831-1841., DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.232025. (Epub 2014 Feb 12.)

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Iwata, M., Sriyudthsak, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Shiraishi, F.(2014) Estimation of kinetic parameters in an S-system equation model for a metabolic reaction system using the Newton-Raphson method.Math Biosci., 248 : 11-21., DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2013.11.002. (Epub 2013 Nov 27.)

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Joseph, A., Aikawa, S., Sasaki, K., Teramura, H., Hasunuma, T., Matsuda, F., Osanai, T., Hirai, M.Y. and Kondo, A.(2014) Rre37 stimulates accumulation of 2-oxoglutarate and glycogen under nitrogen starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett., 588 : 466-471., DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.12.008. (Epub 2013 Dec 24.)

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Awards

Dr. Kensuke Kawade was awarded at FY2013 Special Postdoctoral & Foreign Postdoctoral Researchers’ Poster Presentation of Research Results. "Homeostasis of organ functions modulated by amino acid metabolism"

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2013

Original Papers

  • Abe, H., Tateishi, K., Seo, S., Kugimiya, S., Hirai, M.Y., Sawada, Y., Murata, Y., Yara, K., Shimoda, T. and Kobayashi, M. (2013) Disarming the jasmonate-dependent plant defense makes non-host Arabidopsis plants accessible to the American serpentine leafminer. Plant Physiol., 163 : 1242-1253., DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.222802. (Epub 2013 Sep 10.)
  • Kawade, K., Horiguchi, G., Ishikawa, N., Hirai, M.Y. and Tsukaya, H. (2013)Promotion of chloroplast proliferation upon enhanced post-mitotic cell expansion in leaves. BMC Plant Biol., 13 : 143., DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-143. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Araki, R., Hasumi, A, Nishizawa, O.I., Sasaki, K., Kuwahara, A., Sawada, Y., Totoki, Y., Toyoda, A, Sakaki, Y., Li, Y., Saito, K., Ogawa, T. and Hirai, M.Y. (2013) Novel bioresources for studies of Brassica oleracea: identification of a kale MYB transcription factor responsible for glucosinolate production. Plant Biotechnol J., 11 : 1017-1027., DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12095. (Epub 2013 Jul 30.)
  • Katsuragi, T., Ono, N., Yasumoto, K., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Hirai, M.Y., Sriyudthsak, K., Sawada, Y., Yamashita, Y., Chiba, Y., Onouchi, H., Fujiwara, T., Naito, S., Shiraishi, F. and Kanaya, S. (2013) SS-mPMG and SS-GA: tools for finding pathways and dynamic simulation of metabolic networks. Plant Cell Physiol., 54 : 728-739., DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct052. (Epub 2013 Apr 9.)

Osanai, T., Kuwahara, A., Iijima, H., Toyooka, K., Sato, M., Tanaka, K., Ikeuchi, M., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y.(2013) Pleiotropic effect of sigE overexpression on cell morphology, photosynthesis, and hydrogen production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The Plant Journal., 76 : 456-465., DOI: 0.1111/tpj.12310. (Epub 2013 Aug 13.)
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Osanai, T., Numata, K., Oikawa, A., Kuwahara, A., Iijima, H., Doi, Y., Tanaka, K., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y.(2013) Increased Bioplastic Production with an RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor SigE during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res., 20 : 525-535., DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dst028. (Epub 2013 Jul 15.)
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Osanai, T., Oikawa, A., Shirai, T., Kuwahara, A., Iijima, H., Tanaka, K., Ikeuchi, M., Kondo, A., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y.(2013) Capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry reveals the distribution of carbon metabolites during nitrogen starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Environmental Microbiology., 16 : 512-524., DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12170. (Epub 2013 Jun 25.)
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Li, Y., Sawada, Y., Hirai, A., Sato, M., Kuwahara, K., Yan, X. and Hirai, M.Y (2013) Novel insights into the function of Arabidopsis R2R3-MYB transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol., 54 : 1335-1344., DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct085.(Epub 2013 Jun 20.)
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Sawada, Y. and Hirai, M.Y. (2013) Integrated LC-MS/MS system for plant metabolomics. CSBJ., 4 : e201301011., DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201301011.
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Kawade, K., Horiguchi, G., Usami, T., Hirai, M.Y. and Tsukaya, H. (2013) ANGUSTIFOLIA3 Signaling Coordinates Proliferation between Clonally Distinct Cells in Leaves. Curr Biol., 23 : 788-792., DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.044. (Epub 2013 Apr 18.)
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Chiba, Y., Mineta, K., Hirai, M.Y., Suzuki, Y., Kanaya, S., Takahashi, H., Onouchi, H., Yamaguchi, J. and Naito, S. (2013) Changes in mRNA Stability Associated with Cold Stress in Arabidopsis Cells. Plant Cell Physiol., 54 : 180-194., DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs164. (Epub 2012 Dec 4.)
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Okazaki, Y., Otsuki, H., Narisawa, T., Kobayashi, M., Sawai, S., Kamide, Y., Kusano, M., Aoki, T., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2013) A new class of plant lipid is essential for protection against phosphorus depletion. Nature Commun., 4 : 1510., DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2512
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Okazaki, Y., Kamide, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2013) Plant lipidomics based on hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled to ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Metabolomics., 9 : 121–131. (Epub 2011 May 31.)
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Nakabayashi, R., Sawada, Y., Yamada, Y., Suzuki, M., Hirai, M.Y., Sakurai, T. and Saito, K. (2013) Combination of liquid chromatography-fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance-mass spectrometry with (13)c-labeling for chemical assignment of sulfur-containing metabolites in onion bulbs. Analytical Chemistry., 85 : 1310–1315., DOI: 10.1021/ac302733c. (Epub 2013 Jan 17.)
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Sriyudthsak, K., Shiraishi, F. and Hirai, M.Y. (2013) Identification of a metabolic reaction network from time-series data of metabolite concentrations.PLoS One., 8 : e51212., DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051212. (Epub 2013 Jan 10.)
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Sakurai, T., Yamada, Y., Sawada, Y., Matsuda, F., Akiyama, K., Shinozaki, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2013) PRIMe Update: Innovative Content for Plant Metabolomics and Integration of Gene Expression and Metabolite Accumulation. Plant Cell Physiol., 54 : e5., DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs184. (Epub 2013 Jan 3.)
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2012

Original Papers

Sawada, Y., Nakabayashi, R., Yamada, Y., Suzuki, M., Sato, M., Sakata, A., Akiyama, K., Sakurai, T., Matsuda, F., Aoki, T., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2012) RIKEN tandem mass spectral database (ReSpect) for phytochemicals: A plant-specific MS/MS-based data resource and database. Phytochemistry. (Epub 3 Aug. )
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Wada, M., Takahashi, H., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Nakamura, K., Hirai, M.Y., Ohta, D. and Kanaya, S. (2012) Prediction of operon-like gene clusters in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome based on co-expression analysis of neighboring genes. Gene. 503, 56-64
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Kamiya, T., Yamagami, M., Hirai, M.Y. and Fujiwara, T. (2012) Establishment of an in planta magnesium monitoring system using CAX3 promoter-luciferase in Arabidopsis. J .Exp. Bot., 63: 355-363
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Awards

Kawade Kensuke : The Botanical Society of Japan, The encouragement award for young researchers, 2012.

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2011

Original Papers

Osanai. T., Oikawa, A., Azuma, M., Tanaka, K., Saito, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Ikeuchi, M. (2011) Genetic engineering of group 2 sigma factor SigE widely activates expressions of sugar catabolic genes in Synechocystis species PCC 6803. J. Biol. Chem., 286:30962-30971.
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Izawa, T., Mihara. M., Suzuki, Y., Gupta, M., Itoh, H., Nagano, AJ., Motoyama, R., Sawada, Y., Yano, M., Hirai, M.Y., Makino, A. and Nagamura, Y. (2011) Os-GIGANTEA confers robust diurnal rhythms on the global transcriptome of rice in the field. Plant Cell., 23:1741-1755.
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Stotz, H.U., Sawada, Y., Shimada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Sasaki, E., Krischke, M., Brown, P.D., Saito, K. and Kamiya, Y. (2011) Role of camalexin, indole glucosinolates, and side chain modification of glucosinolate-derived isothiocyanates in defense of Arabidopsis against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Plant J., 67:81-93.
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Azuma, M., Osanai, T., Hirai, M.Y. and Tanaka, K. (2011) A response regulator Rre37 and an RNA polymerase sigma factor SigE represent two parallel pathways to activate sugar catabolism in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Cell Physiol., 52:404-412.
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Ide, Y., Kusano, M., Oikawa, A., Fukushima, A., Tomatsu, H., Saito, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Fujiwara, T. (2011) Effects of molybdenum deficiency and defects in molybdate transporter MOT1 on transcript accumulation and nitrogen/sulphur metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. J .Exp. Bot., 62:1483-1497.
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Ohkama-Ohtsu, N., Sasaki-Sekimoto, Y., Oikawa, A., Jikumaru, Y., Shinoda, S., Inoue, E., Kamide, Y., Yokoyama, T., Hirai, M.Y., Shirasu, K., Kamiya, Y., Oliver, D.J. and Saito, K. (2011) 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid-glutathione conjugate is transported into the vacuole in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol., 52:205-209.
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Hanada, K., Sawada, Y., Kuromori, T., Klausnitzer, R., Saito, K., Toyoda, T., Shinozaki, K., Li, W. H. and Hirai, M. Y. (2011) Functional compensation of primary and secondary metabolites by duplicate genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, Mol Biol Evol., 28:377-382.
Open Access

Review Papers

Redestig, H., Szymanski, J., Hirai, M.Y., Selbig, J., Willmitzer, L., Nikoloski, Z. and Saito, K. (2011) Data integration, metabolic networks and systems biology. in Annual Plant Reviews Volume 43: Biology of Plant Metabolomics. ed. Hall, R.D. (Wiley) pp. 261-316.
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Invited Oral Presentation in International Meeting

Sriyudthsak, K., Okamura, E., Sawada, Y. & Hirai, M.Y. An omics approach to elucidating amino acid metabolism in plant. 12th International Congress on Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, Beijing, August 4th, 2011

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2010

Original Papers

Horai, H., Arita, M., Kanaya, S., Nihei, Y., Ikeda, T., Suwa, K., Ojima, Y., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, S., Aoshima, K., Oda, Y., Kakazu, Y., Kusano, M., Tohge, T., Matsuda, F., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Nakanishi, H., Ikeda, K., Akimoto, N., Maoka, T., Takahashi, H., Ara, T., Sakurai, N., Suzuki, H., Shibata, D., Neumann, S., Iida, T., Tanaka, K., Funatsu, K., Matsuura, F., Soga, T., Taguchi, R., Saito, K. and Nishioka, T. (2010) MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences. J. Mass. Spectrom., 45:703-714.
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Hirai, M.Y., Sawada, Y., Kanaya, S., Kuromori, T., Kobayashi, M., Klausnitzer, R., Hanada, K., Akiyama, K., Sakurai, T., Saito, K. and Shinozaki, K.(2010) Toward genome-wide metabolotyping and elucidation of metabolic system: metabolic profiling of large-scale bioresources, J plant Res., 123:291-298
Open Access

Kusano, M., Fukushima, A., Redestig, H., Kobayashi, M., Otsuki, H., Onouchi, H., Naito, S., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2010) Comparative metabolomics charts the impact of genotype-dependent methionine accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Amino Acids., 39:1013-1021
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Maruyama-Nakashita, A., Hirai, M.Y., Funada, S. and Fueki, S. (2010) Exogenous application of 5-aminolevulinic acid increases the transcript levels of sulfur transport and assimilatory genes, sulfate uptake, and cysteine and glutathione contents in Arabidopsis thaliana. Soil Science & Plant Nutrition., 56:281-288.
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Kasajima, I., Ide, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Fujiwara, T. (2010) WRKY6 is involved in the response to boron deficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiol. Plant., 139: 80-92.
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Baek, D., Pathange, P., Chung, J-S., Jiang, J., Gao, L., Oikawa, A., Hirai, M.Y., Saito, K., Pare, P.W. and Shi, H. (2010) A Stress-inducible Sulfotransferase Sulfonates Salicylic Acid and Confers Pathogen Resistance in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell & Environment., 33:1383-1392.
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Matsuda, F., Hirai, M.Y., Sasaki, E., Akiyama, K., Yonekura-Sakakibara, K., Provart, N.J., Sakurai, T., Shimada, Y. and Saito, K. (2010) AtMetExpress development: A phytochemical atlas of Arabidopsis thaliana development. Plant Physiol., 152:566-578.
Open Access

Press Release

How genes hide their function (18/Aug/2010)

Invited Oral Presentation in International Meeting

Hirai, M.Y. An omics approach to understanding plant metabolism. International Symposium on Plant Membrane Transport. Tokyo, March 12 – 13, 2010

Hirai, M.Y. Omics approach to elucidation of plant metabolism. 2010 International Symposium on Agricultural Biotechnology: Application and New Development on Metabolomics, Taipei, October 28, 2010

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2009

Original Papers

Matsuda, F., Redestig, H., Sawada, Y., Shinbo, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Kanaya, S. and Saito, K. (2009) Visualization of metabolite identifier information. Plant Biotechology 26: 479-483.
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Takahashi, H., Kawazoe, M., Wada, M., Hirai, A., Nakamura, K., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Sawada, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Kanaya, S. (2009) KNApSAcK gene classification system for Arabidopsis thaliana: Comparative genomic analysis of unicellular to seed plants. Plant Biotechnology 26: 509-516.
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Sawada, Y., Toyooka, K., Kuwahara, A., Sakata, A., Nagano, M., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2009) Arabidopsis bile acid: sodium symporter family protein 5 is involved in methionine-derived glucosinolate biosynthesis. Plant and Cell Physiology 50: 1579-1586
Open Access

Sawada, Y., Kuwahara, A., Nagano, M., Narisawa, T., Sakata, A., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2009) Omics-based approaches to methionine side-chain elongation in Arabidopsis: characterization of the genes encoding methylthioalkylmalate isomerase and methylthioalkylmalate dehydrogenase. Plant and Cell Physiology 50: 1181-1190
Open Access

Matsuda, F., Shinbo, Y., Oikawa, A., Hirai, M.Y., Fiehn, O., Kanaya, S. and Saito, K. (2009) Assessment of metabolome annotation quality: a method for evaluating the false discovery rate of elemental composition searches. PLoS ONE 4: e7490
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Okazaki, Y., Shimojima, M., Sawada, Y., Toyooka, K., Narisawa, T., Mochida, K., Tanaka, H., Matsuda, F., Hirai, A., Hirai, M.Y., Ohta, H. and Saito, K. (2009) A chloroplastic UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from arabidopsis is the committed enzyme for the first step of sulfolipid biosynthesis. Plant Cell 21: 892-909
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Sawada, Y., Akiyama, K., Sakata, A., Kuwahara, A., Otsuki, H., Sakurai, T., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2009) Widely targeted metabolomics based on large-scale MS/MS data for elucidating metabolite accumulation patterns in plants. Plant Cell Physiol. 50:37-47
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Review Papers

Fujiwara, T., Maruyama-Nakashita, A, Ide, Y. and Hirai, M.Y. (2009) Toward comprehensive understanding of regulatory network of sulfur metabolism.,Conference Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Plant Sulfur Metabolism

Araki, R., Sawada, Y., Hirai, A., Suzuki, A., Saito, K. and Hirai, M.Y. (2009) Could PMG transcription factors become an indicator for the productivity of methionine-derived glucosinolates in crop cultivation? in Sulfur Metabolism in Plants. eds. Sirko, A., De Kok, L. J., Haneklaus, S., Hawkesford, M. J., Rennenberg, H., Saito, K., Schnug, E., & Stulen, I. (Backhuys Publishers, Leiden), pp.235-238.

Hirai, M.Y., Sawada, Y., Araki, R. and Saito, K. (2009) Omics-based identification of the genes involved in glucosinolate biosynthesis. in Sulfur Metabolism in Plants. eds. Sirko, A., De Kok, L. J., Haneklaus, S., Hawkesford, M. J., Rennenberg, H.., Saito, K., Schnug, E., & Stulen, I. (Backhuys Publishers, Leiden), pp. 239-244.

Hirai, M.Y. (2009) A robust omics-based approach for the identification of glucosinolate biosynthetic genes. Phytochemistry Reviews 8:15-23
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Invited Oral Presentation in International Meeting

Hirai, M.Y. Omics-based understanding of plant metabolism — Met-derived glucosinolate biosynthesis as a case study. 2nd Conference on Glucosinolates - Taking the Field into the Next Decade, Elsinore, Denmark, May 24 – 27, 2009

Hirai, M.Y. Amino acid metabolism as an entry point to secondary metabolism. 11th International Congress on Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, Vienna, Austria, August 3, 2009

Hirai, M.Y. Omics approach to elucidation of glucosinolate metabolism. 2009 Annual Autumn Conference of the Korean Society for Horticultural Science, Seoul, Korea, October 24, 2009

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2008

Original Papers

Akiyama, K., Chikayama, E., Yuasa, H., Shimada, Y., Tohge, T., Shinozaki, K., Hirai, M.Y., Sakurai, T., Kikuchi, J. and Saito, K. (2008) PRIMe: a Web site that assembles tools for metabolomics and transcriptomics. In Silico Biol 8: 339-345
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Goda, H., Sasaki, E., Akiyama, K., Maruyama-Nakashita, A., Nakabayashi, K., Li, W., Ogawa, M., Yamauchi, Y., Preston, J., Aoki, K., Kiba, T., Takatsuto, S., Fujioka, S., Asami, T., Nakano, T., Kato, H., Mizuno, T., Sakakibara, H., Yamaguchi, S., Nambara, E., Kamiya, Y., Takahashi, H., Hirai, MY., Sakurai, T., Shinozaki, K., Saito, K., Yoshida, S., Shimada, Y. (2008) The AtGenExpress hormone- and chemical-treatment data set: Experimental design, data evaluation, model data analysis, and data access. Plant J. 55, 526-542
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Review Papers

Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2008) Analysis of systemic sulphur metabolism in plants by using integrated "-omics" strategies. Molecular BioSystems, 4: 967-973
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Saito, K., Hirai, M.Y., and Yonekura-Sakakibara, K. (2008) Decoding genes with coexpression networks and metabolomics - 'majority report by precogs'. Trends in Plant Science, 13: 36-43.
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2007

Original Papers

Morioka, R., Kanaya, S., Hirai, M.Y., Yano, M., Ogasawara, N. and Saito, K. (2007) Predicting state transitions in the transcriptome and metabolome using a linear dynamical system model. BMC bioinformatics, 8: 343.
Open Access

Hirai, M.Y., Sugiyama, K., Sawada, Y., Tohge, T., Obayashi, T., Suzuki, A., Araki, R, Sakurai, N., Suzuki, H., Aoki, K., Goda, H., Nishizawa, OI., Shibata, D. and Saito, K. (2007) Omics-based identification of Arabidopsis Myb transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis, Proc. Natl. Acad. USA, 104,6478-6483.
Open Access

Review Papers

Tohge, T., Nishiyama, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Yano, M., Nakajima, J.-i., Awazuhara, M., Inoue, E., Takahashi, H., Goodenowe, D.B., Kitayama, M., Noji, M., Yamazaki, M. and Saito, K. (2007) Identification of Genes Involved in Anthocyanin Accumulation by Integrated Analysis of Metabolome and Transcriptome in Pap1-Overexpressing Arabidopsis Plants, In "Concepts in Plant Metabolomics" Nikolau, B. J. & Wurtele, E. S. eds: pp. 159-168, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

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2006

Original Papers

Higashi, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Fujiwara, T., Naito, S., Noji, M. and Saito, K. (2006) Proteomic and transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis seeds: molecular evidence for successive processing of seed proteins and its implication in the stress response to sulfur nutrition. Plant J., 48, 557-571.
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Yano, M., Kanaya, S., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Kurokawa, K., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito K. (2006) Integrated Data Mining of Transcriptome and Metabolome Based on BL-SOM. Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry, 7, 125-136.
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Review Papers

Hirai, M.Y., Tohge, T. and Saito, K. (2006) Systems-based analysis of plant metabolism by integration of metabolomics with transcriptomics, In "Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 57 Plant Metabolomics" Kazuki Saito, Richard A. Dixon, Lothar Willmitzer eds: pp. 199-210, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

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2005

Original Papers

Hirai, M.Y., Klein, M., Fujikawa, Y., Yano, M., Goodenowe, D.B., Yamazaki, Y., Kanaya, S., Nakamura, Y., Kitayama, M., Suzuki, H., Sakurai, N., Shibata, D., Tokuhisa, J., Reichelt, M., Gershenzon, J., Papenbrock, J. and Saito, K. (2005) Elucidation of gene-to-gene and metabolite-to-gene networks in Arabidopsis by integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics. J Biol Chem. 280, 25590-25595.
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Sasaki-Sekimoto, Y., Taki, N., Obayashi, T., Aono, M., Matsumoto, F., Sakurai, N., Suzuki, H., Hirai, M.Y., Noji, M., Saito, K., Masuda, T., Takamiya, K., Shibata, D. and Ohta, H. (2005) Coordinated activation of metabolic pathways for antioxidants and defense compounds by jasmonates and their roles in stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 44, 653-668.
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Review Papers

Yano, M., Hirai, M.Y., Kusano, M., Kitayama, M., Kanaya, S. and Saito, K. (2005) Studies for elucidation of jasmonate signaling in the response of Arabidopsis to sulfur deficiency, In "Sulfur Transport and Assimilation in Plants in the Post Genomics Eras" Saito, K., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I. , Hawkesford, M.J., Schnug, E., Sirko, A., Rennenberg, H. eds. Pp. 165-167, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden .

Higashi, Y., Hirai, M.Y., Fujiwara, T., Naito, S., Noji, M. and Saito, K. (2005) Proteomics of Arabidopsis seeds grown under sulfur-deficient condition, In "Sulfur Transport and Assimilation in Plants in the Post Genomics Eras" Saito, K., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I. , Hawkesford, M.J., Schnug, E., Sirko, A., Rennenberg, H. eds. Pp. 177-178, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden .

Morioka, R., Kanaya, S., Yano, M., Minato, K., Nakamura, Y., Hirai, M.Y. and Saito, K. (2005) Statistical analysis of the adaptation process of Arabidopsis thaliana to the sulfur deficiency, In "Sulfur Transport and Assimilation in Plants in the Post Genomics Eras" Saito, K., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I. , Hawkesford, M.J., Schnug, E., Sirko, A., Rennenberg, H. eds. Pp. 177-178, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden .

Nakamura, Y., Shinbo, Y., Asahi, H., Altaf-Ul-Amin, M., Kurosawa, K., Oikawa, A., Kimura, A., Ogura, T., Morishita, Y., Sakurai, N., Suzuki, H., Nishi, T., Hirai, M.Y., Yano, M., Saito, K., Ohta, D., Shibata, D., Kitayama, M. and Kanaya, S. (2005) METABOLIX: Metabolite profiling system based on mass spectrometry, In "Sulfur Transport and Assimilation in Plants in the Post Genomics Eras" Saito, K., De Kok, L.J., Stulen, I., Hawkesford, M.J., Schnug, E., Sirko, A., Rennenberg, H. eds. Pp. 179-182, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden .