Md Mehedi Iqbal, Masahiko Nishimura, Md. Nurul Haider, and Susumu Yoshizawa. Microbial communities on eelgrass (Zostera marina) thriving in Tokyo Bay and the possible source of leaf-attached microbes, 13. Frontiers in Microbiology. (2023)

Zeshu Yu, Shin-ichi Ito, Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Susumu Yoshizawa, Jun Inoue, Sachihiko Itoh, Ryuji Yukami, Kazuo Ishikawa, Chenying Guo, Minoru Ijichi, Susumu Hyodo. Comparison of species-specific qPCR and metabarcoding methods to detect small pelagic fish distribution from open ocean environmental DNA. PLOS ONE, 17(9): e0273670. (2022).

Yosuke Nishimura and Susumu Yoshizawa. The OceanDNA MAG catalog contains over 50,000 prokaryotic genomes originated from various marine environments. Scientific Data, 9, Article number:305. (2022)

Toshiaki Hosaka, Takashi Nomura, Minoru Kubo, Takanori Nakane, Luo Fangjia, Shun-ichi Sekine, Takuhiro Ito, Kazutaka Murayama, Kentaro Ihara, Haruhiko Ehara, Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Kazushige Katsura, Ryogo Akasaka, Tamao Hisano, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Rie Tanaka, Toshi Arima, Ayumi Yamashita, Michihiro Sugahara, Hisashi Naitow, Yoshinori Matsuura, Susumu Yoshizawa, Kensuke Tono, Shigeki Owada, Osamu Nureki, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, So Iwata, Eriko Nango, Mikako Shirouzu. Conformational alterations in unidirectional ion transport of a light-driven chloride pump revealed using X-ray free electron lasers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(9), 2117433119. (2022)

Md Mehedi Iqbal, Masahiko Nishimura, Md Nurul Haider, Masayoshi Sano, Minoru Ijichi, Kazuhiro Kogure, Susumu Yoshizawa. Diversity and Composition of Microbial Communities in an Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Microbes and Environments, 36(4), ME21037. (2021)

Masuzu Kikuchi, Keiichi Kojima, Shin Nakao, Susumu Yoshizawa, Shiho Kawanishi, Atsushi Shibukawa, Takashi Kikukawa and Yuki Sudo. Functional expression of the eukaryotic proton pump rhodopsin OmR2 in Escherichia coli and its photochemical characterization. Scientific Reports, 11:14765. (2021)

Keiichi Kojima, Susumu Yoshizawa, Masumi Hasegawa, Masaki Nakama, Marie Kurihara, Takashi Kikukawa and Yuki Sudo. Lokiarchaeota archaeon schizorhodopsin-2 (LaSzR2) is an inward proton pump displaying a characteristic feature of acid-induced spectral blue-shift. Scientific Reports, 10:20857. (2020)

Yu Nakajima, Keiichi Kojima, Yuichiro Kashiyama, Satoko Doi, Ryosuke Nakai, Yuki Sudo, Kazuhiro Kogure and Susumu Yoshizaw. Bacterium Lacking a Known Gene for Retinal Biosynthesis Constructs Functional Rhodopsins. Microbes and Environments, 35(4). (2020)

Masumi Hasegawa, Toshiaki Hosaka, Keiichi Kojima, Yosuke Nishimura, Yu Nakajima, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, Mikako Shirouzu, Yuki Sudo and Susumu Yoshizawa. A unique clade of light-driven proton-pumping rhodopsins evolved in the cyanobacterial lineage. Scientific Reports, 10:16752. (2020)

Keiichi Kojima, Tetsuya Ueta, Tomoyasu Noji, Keisuke Saito, Kanae Kanehara, Susumu Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Ishikita and Yuki Sudo. Vectorial Proton Transport Mechanism of RxR, a Phylogenetically Distinct and Thermally Stable Microbial Rhodopsin. Scientific Reports, 10:282. (2020)