Publications of Seigo Shima

Ermler, Ulrich, Grabarse, Wolfgang, Shima, Seigo, Goubeaud, Marcel and Thauer, Rudolf K.: (1997) Crystal structure of methyl-coenzyme M reductase: the key enzyme of biological methane formation, Science, Washington, D.C., American Association for the Advancement of Science, 278 (5342), pp. 1457–1462.

Ermler, Ulrich, Merckel, Michael C., Thauer, Rudolf Kurt and Shima, Seigo: (1997) Formylmethanofuran: tetrahydromethanopterin formyltransferase from Methanopyrus kandleri — new insights into salt-dependence and thermostability, Structure, London, Cell Press, 5 (5), pp. 635–646.

Shima, Seigo, Goubeaud, Marcel , Vinzenz, Daniela, Thauer, Rudolf Kurt and Ermler, Ulrich: (1997) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of methyl-coenzyme M reductase from methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, The Journal of Biochemistry, Oxford University Press, 121 (5), pp. 829–830.

Shima, Seigo, Thauer, Rudolf K., Michel, Hartmut and Ermler, Ulrich: (1996) Crystallization and preliminary X‐ray diffraction studies of formylmethanofuran: Tetrahydromethanopterin formyltransferase from Methanopyrus kandleri, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 26 (1), pp. 118–120.

Kunow, J, Shima, Seigo, Vorholt, J. A. and Thauer, R. K.: (1996) Primary structure and properties of the formyltransferase from the mesophilic Methanosarcina barkeri: Comparison with the enzymes from thermophilic and hyperthermophilic methanogens, Archives of Microbiology, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 165 (2), pp. 97–105.

Shima, Seigo, Weiss, David S. and Thauer, Rudolf K.: (1995) Formylmethanofuran: Tetrahydromethanopterin Formyltransferase (Ftr) from the Hyperthermophilic Methanopyrus kandleri, European Journal of Biochemistry, Wiley-Blackwell, England, 230 (3), pp. 906–913.

Shima, Seigo, Yanagi, Miyoko and Saiki, Hiroshi: (1994) The phylogenetic position of Hydrogenobacter acidophilus based on 16S rRNA sequence analysis, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 119 (1-2), pp. 119–122.

Suzuki, K. and Shima, Seigo: (1993) Hydrogenobacter acidophilus: Is its ancestor a missing-link between the Bacteria and the Archaea?, RIKEN review, (3) October, pp. 3–4.

Shima, Seigo: (1993) Cellulases of clostridia: genetics and biochemistry, The Heredity, (43), pp. 56–60.

Shima, S., Igarashi, Y. and Kodama, T.: (1993) Purification and properties of two truncated endoglucanases produced in Escherichia coli harbouring Clostridium cellulolyticum endoglucanase gene celCCD, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 38 (6), pp. 750–754.

Shima, Seigo and Suzuki, Ken-ichiro: (1993) Hydrogenobacter acidophilus sp. nov., a Thermoacidophilic, Aerobic, Hydrogen-Oxidizing Bacterium Requiring Elemental Sulfur for Growth, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, 43 (4), pp. 703–708.

Shima, S., IGARASHI, Y and KODAMA, T: (1991) NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF THE ENDOGLUCANASE-ENCODING GENE, CELCCD, OF CLOSTRIDIUM-CELLULOLYTICUM, GENE, 104 (1), pp. 33–38.

Shima, S., IGARASHI, Y and KODAMA, T: (1991) MOLECULAR-CLONING OF A NEW ENDOGLUCANASE GENE FROM CLOSTRIDIUM-CELLULOLYTICUM AND ITS EXPRESSION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI, APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, 35 (2), pp. 233–236.

Shima, Seigo: (1990) Production of organic materials by electric energy: Utilization of hydrogen bacteria., Nogyodenka, (43), pp. 13–16.

Shima, Seigo: (1990) Application of energy-conversion enzymes for hydrogen production and electrodes of fuel cells, Energy forum No. 432, (112).

Shima, Seigo, Kato, Junichi, Igarashi, Yasuo and Kodama, Tohru: (1989) Cloning and expression of a Clostridium cellobioparum cellulase gene and its excretion from Escherichia coli JM109, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering, 68 (2), pp. 75–78.

Shima, Seigo: (1985) Utilization of root-nodule bacteria and its ecological problems, Nogyodenka, (38), pp. 15–17.

Ermler, Ulrich, Grabarse, Wolfgang, Shima, Seigo, Goubeaud, Marcel and Thauer, Rudolf K. : (1998) Mechanismus der mikrobiellen Methanbildung, Biospektrum, Heidelberg, Germany, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.

Wagner, T., Ermler, U. and Shima, Seigo: (2018) Tungsten-containing formylmethanofuran dehydrogenas, in Messerschmidt, A. Ed., Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (online), John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Wagner, T., Watanabe, Tomohiro and Shima, Seigo: (2018) Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis, in Stams, A. J. M. and Sousa, D. Z. Eds, Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Series. Biogenesis of Hydrocarbons, Germany, Springer.