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chalcone isomerase‐like protein enhances flavonoid production and flower pigmentation by Morita, Yasumasa, Takagi, Kyoko, Fukuchi‐Mizutani, Masako, Ishiguro, Kanako, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Nitasaka, Eiji, Nakayama, Masayoshi, Saito, Norio, Kagami, Takashi, Hoshino, Atsushi, Iida, Shigeru

“…Flavonoids are major pigments in plants, and their biosynthetic pathway is one of the best‐studied metabolic pathways. Here we have identified three mutations…”
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Genetic engineering of novel bluer-colored chrysanthemums produced by accumulation of delphinidin-based anthocyanins by Noda, Naonobu, Aida, Ryutaro, Kishimoto, Sanae, Ishiguro, Kanako, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Ohmiya, Akemi

“…Chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) have no purple-, violet- or blue-flowered cultivars because they lack delphinidin-based anthocyanins. This…”
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Localization of a flavonoid biosynthetic polyphenol oxidase in vacuoles by Ono, Eiichiro, Hatayama, Masayoshi, Isono, Yuri, Sato, Takuya, Watanabe, Ryoko, Yonekura-Sakakibara, Keiko, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Kusumi, Takaaki, Nishino, Tokuzo, Nakayama, Toru

“…Aureusidin synthase, a polyphenol oxidase (PPO), specifically catalyzes the oxidative formation of aurones from chalcones, which are plant flavonoids, and is…”
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Engineering of the Rose Flavonoid Biosynthetic Pathway Successfully Generated Blue-Hued Flowers Accumulating Delphinidin by Katsumoto, Yukihisa, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Fukui, Yuko, Brugliera, Filippa, Holton, Timothy A., Karan, Mirko, Nakamura, Noriko, Yonekura-Sakakibara, Keiko, Togami, Junichi, Pigeaire, Alix, Tao, Guo-Qing, Nehra, Narender S., Lu, Chin-Yi, Dyson, Barry K., Tsuda, Shinzo, Ashikari, Toshihiko, Kusumi, Takaaki, Mason, John G., Tanaka, Yoshikazu

“…Flower color is mainly determined by anthocyanins. Rosa hybrida lacks violet to blue flower varieties due to the absence of delphinidin-based anthocyanins,…”
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Yellow flowers generated by expression of the aurone biosynthetic pathway by Ono, E, Fukuchi-Mizutani, M, Nakamura, N, Fukui, Y, Yonekura-Sakakibara, K, Yamaguchi, M, Nakayama, T, Tanaka, T, Kusumi, T, Tanaka, Y

“…Flower color is most often conferred by colored flavonoid pigments. Aurone flavonoids confer a bright yellow color on flowers such as snapdragon (Antirrhinum…”
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Local Differentiation of Sugar Donor Specificity of Flavonoid Glycosyltransferase in Lamiales by Noguchi, Akio, Horikawa, Manabu, Fukui, Yuko, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Iuchi-Okada, Asako, Ishiguro, Masaji, Kiso, Yoshinobu, Nakayama, Toru, Ono, Eiichiro

“…Flavonoids are most commonly conjugated with various sugar moieties by UDP-sugar:glycosyltransferases (UGTs) in a lineage-specific manner. Generally, the…”
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Formation of two methylenedioxy bridges by a Sesamum CYP81Q protein yielding a furofuran lignan, (+)-sesamin by Ono, E, Nakai, M, Fukui, Y, Tomimori, N, Fukuchi-Mizutani, M, Saito, M, Satake, H, Tanaka, T, Katsuta, M, Umezawa, T

“…(+)-Sesamin, a furofuran class lignan, is widespread in vascular plants and represented by Sesamum spp. (+)-Sesamin has been of rapidly growing interest…”
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Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Novel UDP-Glucose:Anthocyanin 3′-O-Glucosyltransferase, a Key Enzyme for Blue Anthocyanin Biosynthesis, from Gentian by Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Hiroaki Okuhara, Yuko Fukui, Masahiro Nakao, Katsumoto, Yukihisa, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Takaaki Kusumi, Hase, Toshiharu, Yoshikazu Tanaka

“…Gentian (Gentiana triflora) blue petals predominantly contain an unusually blue and stable anthocyanin, delphinidin…”
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cDNA cloning, gene expression and subcellular localization of anthocyanin 5‐aromatic acyltransferase from Gentiana triflora by Fujiwara, Hiroyuki, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Yonekura‐Sakakibara, Keiko, Fukuchi‐Mizutani, Masako, Nakao, Masahiro, Fukui, Yuko, Yamaguchi, Masaatsu, Ashikari, Toshihiko, Kusumi, Takaaki

“…Summary Acylation of anthocyanins with hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives is one of the most important and less understood modification reactions during…”
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Cloning of β-Primeverosidase from Tea Leaves, a Key Enzyme in Tea Aroma Formation by MIZUTANI, Masaharu, NAKANISHI, Hidemitsu, EMA, Jun-Ichi, MA, Seung-Jin, NOGUCHI, Etsuko, INOHARA-OCHIAI, Misa, FUKUCHI-MIZUTANI, Masako, NAKAO, Masahiro, SAKATA, Kanzo

“…A β-primeverosidase from tea (Camellia sinensis) plants is a unique disaccharide-specific glycosidase, which hydrolyzes aroma precursors of β-primeverosides…”
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cDNA cloning and characterization of UDP-glucose: Anthocyanidin 3- O-glucosyltransferase in Iris hollandica by Yoshihara, Noriko, Imayama, Teruyuki, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Okuhara, Hiroaki, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Ino, Ikuo, Yabuya, Tsutomu

“…In anthocyanin biosynthesis, UDP-glucose: anthocyanidin 3- O-glucosyltransferase (3GT) catalyzes the transfer of the glucosyl moiety from UDP-glucose to the…”
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Molecular Cloning and Biochemical Characterization of a Novel Anthocyanin 5-O-Glucosyltransferase by mRNA Differential Display for Plant Forms Regarding Anthocyanin by Yamazaki, Mami, Gong, Zhizhong, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Fukui, Yuko, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Kusumi, Takaaki, Saito, Kazuki

“…UDP-glucose: anthocyanin 5-O-glucosyltransferase (5-GT) is responsible for the modification of anthocyanins to more stable molecules in complexes for…”
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Isolation and characterization of a cDNA clone of UDP-glucose: anthocyanin 5- O-glucosyltransferase in Iris hollandica by Imayama, Teruyuki, Yoshihara, Noriko, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Ino, Ikuo, Yabuya, Tsutomu

“…UDP-glucose: anthocyanin 5- O-glucosyltransferase (5GT) catalyzes the transfer of the glucosyl moiety from UDP-glucose to the 5-hydroxyl group of anthocyanin…”
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Characterization of cDNA clones encoding anthocyanin 3- p-coumaroyltransferase from Iris hollandica by Yoshihara, Noriko, Imayama, Teruyuki, Matsuo, Yuichiro, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Ino, Ikuo, Yabuya, Tsutomu

“…Among anthocyanin modifications, acylation is very important for increasing water solubility and stabilizing anthocyanins, and two cDNA clones, Ih3AT1 and…”
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Microsomal electron transfer in higher plants: cloning and heterologous expression of NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase from Arabidopsis by Fukuchi-Mizutani, M, Mizutani, M, Tanaka, Y, Kusumi, T, Ohta, D

“…AtCBR, a cDNA encoding NADH-cytochrome (Cyt) b5 reductase, and AtB5-A and AtB5-B, two cDNAs encoding Cyt b5, were isolated from Arabidopsis. The primary…”
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Molecular and biochemical characterization of a novel hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA: Anthocyanin 3-O-glucoside-6"-O-acyltransferase from Perilla frutescens by Yonekura Sakakibara, K. (Suntory Ltd., Osaka (Japan)), Tanaka, Y, Fukuchi Mizutani, M, Fujiwara, H, Fukui, Y, Ashikari, T, Murakami, Y, Yamaguchi, M, Kusumi, T

“…We have isolated and characterized a cDNA, PfAT208, encoding hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA: anthocyanin 3-O-glucoside-6″-O-acyltransferase (3AT) from Perilla…”
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Characterization of Δ9 acyl-lipid desaturase homologues from Arabidopsis thaliana by FUKUCHI-MIZUTANI, M, TASAKA, Y, TANAKA, Y, ASHIKARI, T, KUSUMI, T, MURATA, N

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Molecular cloning and characterization of Rosa hybrida dihydroflavonol 4-reductase gene by Tanaka, Y, Fukui, Y, Fukuchi-Mizutani, M, Holton, T A, Higgins, E, Kusumi, T

“…A full length cDNA clone encoding rose dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR) was isolated from a cDNA library derived from rose petals by screening with the cDNA…”
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Nursing students with special educational needs in Japan by Ikematsu, Yuko, Mizutani, Masako, Tozaka, Hiroaki, Mori, Sachiko, Egawa, Koji, Endo, Midori, Yokouchi, Mitsuko

“…To reveal the prevalence of nursing students with special educational needs in Japan. A mail survey of 833 nursing programs was conducted. Nurse educators were…”
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Molecular and biochemical characterization of torenia flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase and flavone synthase II and modification of flower color by modulating the expression of these genes by Ueyama, Yukiko, Suzuki, Ken-ichi, Fukuchi-Mizutani, Masako, Fukui, Yuko, Miyazaki, Kiyoshi, Ohkawa, Hideo, Kusumi, Takaaki, Tanaka, Yoshikazu

“…Cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes play important roles in the biosynthesis of flavonoids that determine flower color. Three P450s, flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase…”
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