User:Zui Fujimoto

Zui FUJIMOTO is a research scientist in National Agriculture and Food Research Organization(NARO), Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo. His research interests are the structural insights into protein functions of agricultural and food chemical use. He acts as a Responsible Curator for the Glycoside Hydrolase Family 66 (GH66) page. He has determined the crystal structures of

• GH10 endo-1,4-β-xylanase [1]
• GH13 α-amylase [2, 3]
• GH27 α-galactosidase [4, 5] and β-L-arabinopyranosidase [6]
• GH31 α-1,6-glucosyltransferase [7]

• GH43 exo-1,5-α-L-arabinofuranosidase [8]
• GH62 α-L-arabinofuranosidase [9]
• GH66 dextranase [10] and cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase[11, 12]
• GH78 α-L-rhamnosidase [13]
• GH79 β-glucuronidase [14]
• GT5 starch synthase [15]

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4. Fujimoto Z, Kaneko S, Momma M, Kobayashi H, and Mizuno H. Crystal structure of rice alpha-galactosidase complexed with D-galactose. J Biol Chem. 2003 May 30;278(22):20313-8. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M302292200 |
7. Fujimoto Z, Suzuki N, Kishine N, Ichinose H, Momma M, Kimura A, and Funane K. Carbohydrate-binding architecture of the multi-modular α-1,6-glucosyltransferase from Paenibacillus sp. 598K, which produces α-1,6-glucosyl-α-glucosaccharides from starch. Biochem J. 2017 Aug 7;474(16):2763-2778. DOI:10.1042/BCJ20170152 |
8. Fujimoto Z, Ichinose H, Maehara T, Honda M, Kitaoka M, and Kaneko S. Crystal structure of an Exo-1,5-{alpha}-L-arabinofuranosidase from Streptomyces avermitilis provides insights into the mechanism of substrate discrimination between exo- and endo-type enzymes in glycoside hydrolase family 43. J Biol Chem. 2010 Oct 29;285(44):34134-43. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M110.164251 |
9. Maehara T, Fujimoto Z, Ichinose H, Michikawa M, Harazono K, and Kaneko S. Crystal structure and characterization of the glycoside hydrolase family 62 α-L-arabinofuranosidase from Streptomyces coelicolor. J Biol Chem. 2014 Mar 14;289(11):7962-72. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M113.540542 |
10. Suzuki N, Kim YM, Fujimoto Z, Momma M, Okuyama M, Mori H, Funane K, and Kimura A. Structural elucidation of dextran degradation mechanism by streptococcus mutans dextranase belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 66. J Biol Chem. 2012 Jun 8;287(24):19916-26. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M112.342444 |
11. Suzuki N, Fujimoto Z, Kim YM, Momma M, Kishine N, Suzuki R, Suzuki S, Kitamura S, Kobayashi M, Kimura A, and Funane K. Structural elucidation of the cyclization mechanism of α-1,6-glucan by Bacillus circulans T-3040 cycloisomaltooligosaccharide glucanotransferase. J Biol Chem. 2014 Apr 25;289(17):12040-12051. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M114.547992 |
13. Fujimoto Z, Jackson A, Michikawa M, Maehara T, Momma M, Henrissat B, Gilbert HJ, and Kaneko S. The structure of a Streptomyces avermitilis α-L-rhamnosidase reveals a novel carbohydrate-binding module CBM67 within the six-domain arrangement. J Biol Chem. 2013 Apr 26;288(17):12376-85. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M113.460097 |