Journal articles, Book chapters
20, Lewis Isaac Chan*, Kimiho Omae*, Charlotte Rebecca Brown*, Kazuaki Amikura*, Chinenye Loveth Ekemezie, Jessica Clark, Kenji Nishide, Karla Helena-Bueno, Pawel Palmowski, Andrew Porter, Shino Suzuki, and Sergey V Melnikov (2025) The evolution lifecycle of ribosome hibernation factors bioRxiv. LINK
(*Equally contribution)
19, Yuna Nakagawa, Kazuaki Amikura, Kimiho Omae, Shino Suzuki (2025) A Novel Insertion Site for Group I Introns in tRNA Genes of Patescibacteria. bioRxiv. LINK
18, Kazuaki Amikura†, Shun'ichi Ishii, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Shino Suzuki† (2025) Evolutionary Flexibility of Ribosome Biogenesis in Bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(11), msaf288 LINK プレスリリース(RIKEN) プレスリリース(JAMSTEC)
(†Corresponding author)
17, Li-Tao Guo*, Kazuaki Amikura*, Han-Kai Jiang*, Takahito Mukai, Xian Fu, Yane-Shih Wang, Patrick O'Donoghue, Dieter Söll, Jeffery M Tharp (2022) Ancestral Archaea Expanded the Genetic Code with Pyrrolysine. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 298(11), 102521 LINK, Editor's Pick Highlight
(*Equally contribution) (Selected for Editor's Pick article)
16, Haolin Zhang, Xuemei Gong, Qianqian Zhao, Takahito Mukai, Oscar Vargas-Rodriguez, Huiming Zhang, Yuxing Zhang, Paul Wassel, Kazuaki Amikura, Julie Maupin-Furlow, Yan Ren, Xun Xu, Yuri I Wolf, Kira S Makarova, Eugene V Koonin, Yue Shen, Dieter Söll, Xian Fu (2022) The tRNA discriminator base defines the mutual orthogonality of two distinct pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNAPyl pairs in the same organism. Nucleic Acids Research, 50, 8, 4601-4615 LINK
15, Kazuaki Amikura, Keita Hibi, Yoshihiro Shimizu (2022) Efficient and precise protein synthesis in a cell-free system using a set of in vitro transcribed tRNAs with nucleotide modifications. In Cell-free Gene Expression, Methods in Molecular Biology, 151-168 LINK
14, Takahito Mukai, Kazuaki Amikura, Xian Fu, Dieter Söll and Ana Crnkovic (2022) Indirect routes to aminoacyl-tRNA: The diversity of prokaryotic cysteine encoding systems. Frontiers in Genetics, 794509 LINK
13, Kazuaki Amikura†, Hiroshi Ito, and Miho S. Kitazawa (2021) Discovery of spatial pattern of prickles on stem of Rosa hybrida `Red Queen' and mathematical model of the pattern. Scientific Reports, 11, 13857 LINK, Twitter
(†Corresponding author)
12, Rainer Nikolay, Tarek Hilal, Sabine Schmidt, Bo Qin, David Schwefel, Carlos H. Vieira-Vieira, Thorsten Mielke, Jörg Bürger, Justus Loerke, Kazuaki Amikura, Timo Flügel, Takuya Ueda, Matthias Selbach, Elke Deuerling, Christian M.T. Spahn (2021) Snapshot of native pre-50S ribosomes reveal a biogenesis factor network and evolutionary specialization. Molecular Cell, 81(6):1200-1215 LINK
11, Christina Z. Chung*, Kazuaki Amikura* and Dieter Söll (2020) Using genetic code expansion for protein biochemical studies. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, 598577 LINK
(*Equally contribution)
10, Keita Hibi, Kazuaki Amikura, Naoki Sugiura, Keiko Masuda, Satoshi Ohno, Takashi Yokogawa, Takuya Ueda, Yoshihiro Shimizu (2020) Reconstituted cell-free protein synthesis using in vitro transcribed tRNAs. Communications Biology, 3, 350 LINK, ニュース
9, Masaru Shimojo*, Kazuaki Amikura*, Keiko Masuda, Takashi Kanamori, Takuya Ueda, Yoshihiro Shimizu (2020) In vitro reconstitution of functional small ribosomal subunit assembly for comprehensive analysis of ribosomal elements in E. coli. Communications Biology, 3, 142, LINK, プレスリリース
(*Equally contribution)
8, Jeffery M Tharp, Omer Ad, Kazuaki Amikura, Fred R Ward, Emma M Garcia, Jamie H.D. Cate, Alanna Schepartz, Dieter Söll (2020) Initiation of Protein Synthesis with Non‐canonical Amino Acids In Vivo. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59(8), 3122-3126, LINK
7, Daichi Tamaru*, Kazuaki Amikura*†, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Knud H Nierhaus, and Takuya Ueda (2018) Reconstitution of 30S ribosomal subunits in vitro using ribosome biogenesis factors. RNA, 24, 1512-1519, LINK
(*Equally contribution, †Corresponding author)
6, Takumi Furusato, Fumihiro Horie, Hideaki Matsubayashi, Kazuaki Amikura, Yutetsu Kuruma, Takuya Ueda (2018) De novo Synthesis of Basal Bacterial Cell Division Proteins FtsZ, FtsA, and ZipA Inside Giant Vesicles. ACS Synthetic Biology, 7(4), 953-961, LINK
5, Takashi Kanamori, Takashi Nagaike, Yutetsu Kuruma, Kazuaki Amikura, Takuya Ueda (2017) Cell-free translation system: Development in biochemistry and advance in synthetic biology. Journal of Japanese Biochemical Society, 89(2), 211-220, LINK
4, Akio Kawahara-Kobayashi, Mitsuhiro Hitotsuyanagi, Kazuaki Amikura, and Daisuke Kiga (2014) Experimental Evolution of a Green Fluorescent Protein Composed of 19 Unique Amino Acids Without Tryptophan. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 44(2), pp 75-86, LINK
3, Kazuaki Amikura, Yoko Sakai, Shun Asami, and Daisuke Kiga (2014) Multiple Amino Acid-Excluded Genetic Codes for Protein Engineering Using Multiple Sets of tRNA Variants. ACS Synthetic Biology, 3(3), p140-144, LINK
2, Kazuaki Amikura and Daisuke Kiga (2013) Reassignment of codons from Arg to Ala by multiple tRNAAla variants. Viva Origino, 41, p20-23, LINK
1, Kazuaki Amikura and Daisuke Kiga (2013) The number of amino acids in a genetic code. RSC Advances, vol. 3, p12512-12517, LINK
Others (in Japanese)
8, 網藏和晃 (2024)リボソームの起源, 「生命起源の事典」生命の起原および進化学会（監修）, 朝倉書店, 5-9
7, 網藏和晃 (2023) 極小の生命体“CPR/DPANN”群とリボソーム バイオミディア, 生物工学会誌, 101巻 3号 P138 LINK
6, 網藏和晃 (2020) 海外だより ~The stay-at-home order~ 生物物理, Vol. 60, No. 4, LINK
5, 網蔵和晃, 上田卓也 (2017) 無細胞タンパク質合成系による生命システムの再構成 人工細胞の創製とその応用, シーエムシー出版, P1-7
4, 網蔵和晃, 木賀大介 (2015) 生命の文字に着目した進化分子工学 理大 科学フォーラム, 377号, 11月号, P14-17
3, 網蔵和晃, 鮎川翔太郎 (2014) 合成生物学の国際コンテストiGEMへの参加 現代化学, No.520, 7月号, p35-38
2, 網蔵和晃, 木賀大介 (2014) アミノ酸の種類がなぜ20種類なのか？ 高分子, Vol63, No6, P392-393
1, 網蔵和晃 (2010) ”もやしもん”のすすめ～"微生物"たちは身近にいる～ Rikejo, 講談社, 12月号, P49