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Yusuke Sugihara, Akio Kawasaki, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Potencies of Phosphine Peptide Inhibitors of Mammalian Thimet Oligopeptidase and Neurolysin on Two Bacterial Pz Peptidases.” Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry 71, 594-594 (2007)

Masakazu Yoshikawa, Kensuke Kawamura, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Evaluation of the Recognition Ability of Molecularly Imprinted Proteins by Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Spectroscopy.” Membrane, 32, 40-44 (2007)

Akio Kawasaki, Hiroaki Nakano, Midori Umekawa, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Tetsuya Shimizu, Toru Nakatsu, Hiroaki Kato, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Crystallization and preliminary X-ray cystallographic studies of Pz peptidase A from Geobacillus collagenovorans MO-1. Acta Crystallographica, F63, 142-144 (2007)

Masakazu Yoshikawa, Kensuke Kawamura, Akinori Ejima, Takashi Aoki, Shinichi Sakurai, Kyoko Hayashi, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Green polymers from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans DSM465- candidates for molecularly imprinted materials.”  Macromolecular Bioscience, 6, 210–215 (2006)

Yasunori Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Decomposition of Extremely Hard-to-Degrade Animal Proteins by Thermophilic Bacteria” Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 102, 73-81 (2006)

Yuichi Itoi, Mano Horinaka, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Characteristic features in the structure and collagen-binding ability of a thermophilic collagenolytic protease from thermophile Geobacillus collagenovorans MO-1.” Journal of Bacteriology, 188, 6572-6579 (2006)

Makoto Akioka, Hiroaki Nakano, Aya Horikiri, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Tetsuya Shimizu, Toru Nakatsu, Hiroaki Kato, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Overexpression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray cystallographic studies of a proline-specific aminopeptidase from Aneurinibacillus sp. strain AM-1.” Acta Crystallographica, F62, 1266-1268 (2006)

Ryoma Miyake, Yasushi Shigeri, Yoshiro Tatsu, Noboru Yumoto, Midori Umekawa, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, and Kunihiko Watanabe. “Two thimet oligopeptidase-like Pz peptidases produced by a collagen-degrading thermophile Geobacillus collagenovorans MO-1.” Journal of Bacteriology, 187, 4140-4148 (2005)

K. Watanabe.  “Collagenolytic proteases from bacteria.” Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 63, 520-526 (2004)

A. Murai, Y. Tsujimoto, H. Matsui and K. Watanabe.  “An Aneurinibacillus sp. strain AM-1 produces a proline-specific aminopeptidase useful for collagen degradation.”  Journal of Applied Microbiology, 96, 810-818 (2004)

Masakazu Yoshikawa, Kensuke Kawamura, Akinori Ejima, Takashi Aoki, Kunihiko Watanabe, Michael D. Guiver, Gilles P. Robertson. “Thermostable natural protein polymers from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans DSM465 as membrane materials for vapor permeation.” Membrane, 26, 384-387 (2004)

Masafumi Hitomi, Hiroshi Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui and Kunihiko Watanabe.  “Identification of a helix-turn-helix motif of Bacillus thermoglucosidasius HrcA essential for binding to the CIRCE element and thermostability of the HrcA-CIRCE complex, indicating a role as a thermosensor.”  Journal of Bacteriology, 185, 381-385 (2003)

Y. Tsujimoto, A. Watanabe, K. Nakano, K. Watanabe, H. Matsui, K. Tsuji, T. Tsukihara, and Y. Suzuki. “Gene cloning, expression and crystallization of a thermostable exo-inulinase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus KP1289.”  Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 62, 180-185 (2003)