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Kazunori Okada, Kazuaki Ohara, Kazufumi Yazaki, Kouhei Nozaki, Naonori Uchida, Makoto Kawamukai, Hideaki Nojiri and Hisakazu Yamane, The AtPPT1 gene encoding 4-hydroxybenzoate polyprenyl diphosphate transferase in ubiquinone biosynthesis is required for embryo development in Arabidopsis thaliana.Plant Mol. Biol.55:567-577 (2004)

Tomohiro Kainou, Kazunori Okada, Kengo Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Nakagwa, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. Dimer formation of octaprenyl diphosphate synthase (IspB) is essential for chain length determination of ubiquinone. J. Biol. Chem. 276 (11), 7876-7883, (2001)

Kazunori Okada, Takeshi Saito, Tsuyoshi Nakagwa, Makoto Kawamukai and Yuji Kamiya. Five geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases expressed in different organs are localized into three subcellular compartments in Arabidopsis. Plan Physiol. 122:1045-1056 (2000)

Kazunori Okada, Tomohiro Kainou, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. Biological significance of the side chain length of ubiquinone in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS lett. 431:241-244 (1998)

Kazunori Okada, Tomohiro Kainou, Katsunori Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. Molecular cloning and mutational analysis of the ddsA gene encoding decaprenyl diphosphate synthase from Gluconobacter suboxydans. Eur. J. Biochem. 255(1): 52-59 (1998)

Kazunori Okada, Yasuhiro Kamiya, XuFen Zhu, Kengo Suzuki, Katsunori Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. Cloning of the sdsA gene encoding solanesyl diphosphate synthase from Rhodobacter capsulatus and its functional expression in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Bacteriol. 179:5992-5998 (1997)

Kazunori Okada, Masaru Minehira, XuFen Zhu, Kengo Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. The ispB gene encoding octaprenyl diphosphate synthase is essential for growth of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol 179:3058-3060 (1997)

XuFen Zhu, Kengo Suzuki, Takeshi Saito, Kazunori Okada, Katsunori Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Hideyuki Matsuda and Makoto Kawamukai. Geranyl geranyl pyrophosphate synthase encoded by the newly isolated gene GGPS6 from Arabidopsis thaliana is localized in mitochondria. Plant Mol Biol. 35:331-341   (1997)

Kengo Suzuki, Kazunori Okada, Yasuhiro Kamiya, XuFen Zhu, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kawamukai and Hideyuki Matsuda. Analysis of the decaprenyl diphoshate synthase (dps) gene in fission yeast suggests a role of ubiquinone as an antioxidant. J. Biochem. 121:496-505 (1997)

XuFen Zhu, Kengo Suzuki, Kazunori Okada, Katsunori Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kawamukai and Hideyuki Matsuda. Cloning and functional expression of a novel geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana in Escherichia coli. Plant Cell Physiol. 38:357-361 (1997)

Kazunori Okada, Kengo Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kamiya, XuFen Zhu, Shingo Fujisakai, Yukinobu Nishimura, Tokuzo Nishino, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kawamukai, Hideyuki Matsuda. Polyprenyl diphosphate synthase essentially defines the length of the side chain of ubiquinone. Biochim. Biophys.Acta. 1302/3:217-223 (1996)

XuFen Zhu, Mihoko Yuasa, Kazunori Okada, Kengo Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kawamukai and Hideyuki Matsuda. Production of ubiquinone in Escherichia coli by expression of various genes responsible for ubiquinone biosynthesis. J. Ferment. Bioeng. 79(5):493-495. (1995).

Ken-ichi Asai, Shingo Fujisaki, Yukinobu Nishimura, Tokuzo Nishino, Kazunori Okada, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Makoto Kawamukai and Hideyuki Matsuda. The identification of Escherichia coli ispB (cel) gene encoding the octaprenyl diphosphate synthase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 202:340-345. (1994).

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 Analysis of the genes encoding polyprenyl diphosphate synthase that determines the length of the side cahin of ubiquinone and their utilization for ubiquinone production (1998)