Takayoshi Fujiwara, Toshiaki Hosaka, Masumi Hasegawa-Takano, Yosuke Nishimura, Kento Tominaga, Kaho Mori, Satoshi Nishino, Yuno Takahashi, Tomomi Uchikubo-Kamo, Kazuharu Hanada, Takashi Maoka, Shinichi Takaichi, Keiichi Inoue*, Mikako Shirouzu*, Susumu Yoshizawa*. Carotenoids bind rhodopsins and act as photocycle-accelerating pigments in marine Bacteroidota. Nature Microbiology. (2025)

Can Huang, Chunqi Jiang, Yuki Sato-Takabe, Yoko Makabe-Kobayashi, Yuya Tsukamoto, Susumu Yoshizawa, Koji Hamasaki. Oceaniferula spumae sp. nov., a novel Verrucomicrobiota bacterium, isolated from sea foam at Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa, Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 75(7). (2025) 

Yuya Nagata, Norio Miyamoto, Keita Sato, Yosuke Nishimura, Yuki Tanioka, Yuji Yamanaka, Susumu Yoshizawa, Kuto Takahashi, Kohei Obayashi, Hisao Tsukamoto, Ken Takai, Hideyo Ohuchi, Takahiro Yamashita, Yuki Sudo, Keiichi Kojima. A repertoire of visible light–sensitive opsins in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris hybisae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(7). (2025) 

Masaki Nakama, Tomoyasu Noji, Keiichi Kojima, Susumu Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Ishikita, Yuki Sudo. Roles of basic amino acid residues in substrate binding and transport of the light-driven anion pump Synechocystis halorhodopsin (SyHR). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(4). (2025) 

Keisuke Nakazawa, Daiki Mineo, Takuya Harayama, Susumu Yoshizawa, Shinichi Takaichi, Kenjiro Sugiyama. Product Speculation from Carotenogenic Gene Cluster of Nonlabens spongiae Genome, and Identification of Myxol and Functional Analysis of Each Gene. Genes. 16(2), 202. (2025) 

Satoshi Hiraoka, Minoru Ijichi, Hirohiko Takeshima, Yohei Kumagai, Ching‐Chia Yang, Yoko Makabe‐Kobayashi, Hideki Fukuda, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki, Kazuhiro Kogure, Takuhei Shiozaki. Probe Capture Enrichment Sequencing of amoA Genes Improves the Detection of Diverse Ammonia‐Oxidising Archaeal and Bacterial Populations. Molecular Ecology Resources. E14041. (2025) 

Masumi Hasegawa-Takano, Toshiaki Hosaka, Keiichi Kojima, Yosuke Nishimura, Marie Kurihara, Yu Nakajima, Yoshiko Ishizuka-Katsura, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, Mikako Shirouzu, Yuki Sudo, Susumu Yoshizawa. Cyanorhodopsin-II represents a yellow-absorbing proton-pumping rhodopsin clade within cyanobacteria. The ISME journal. 18(1), wrae175. (2024) 

Jiwei Yang, Shoma Matsushita, Fei Xia, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki. Rapid, easy, sensitive, low-cost and on-site detection of environmental DNA and RNA using CRISPR-Cas13. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15:1408–1421. (2024)

Md Mehedi Iqbal, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuya Tsukamoto, and Susumu Yoshizawa. Changes in microbial community structure related to biodegradation of eelgrass (Zostera marina). Science of The Total Environment, 930. (2024)

Mako Takada, Chunqi Jiang, Youta Sugai, Masumi Hasegawa-Takano, Takayoshi Fujiwara, Yuya Tsukamoto, Yu Nakajima, Yosuke Nishimura, Susumu Yoshizawa. Draft genome sequences of three rhodopsin possessing Croceitalea sp. strains, isolated from the sea surface microlayer in Japan. Microbiology Resource Announcements. (2024)