Ph. D. (Engeneering), Shinshu University

Applied biochemistry, Applied biochemistry

Applied biochemistry, Plant Biochemistry

Applied biochemistry, Plant Molecular Biology

2019
Porfessor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University

2008 - 2019
Assciate Porfessor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University

2005 - 2008
Senior Assistant Porfessor, Faculty of Textile Science andTechnology, Shinshu University

2003 - 2004
Assistant Porfessor, Research Center for Human and Environmental Sciences, Shinshu University

1996 - 2003
Assistant Porfessor, Gene Research Center, Shinshu University

1993 - 1996
Assistant Porfessor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University

2005 - 2006, University of Michigan, Visiting Research Scholor

1988 - 1992, Kyoto University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science

Production of cinnamates and benzoates glucose esters by bioconversion using Escherichia coli expressing a glucosyltransferase from sweet potato.
Kobayashi, Y., Dorjjugder, N., Taguchi, G.
Plant Biotechnol., 41, 295-302, Sep. 2024, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

A novel N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphatase deacetylase that is essential for chitin utilization in the chitinolytic bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis
Ichioka, R., Kitazawa, Y., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
J. Appl. Microbiol., 135, lxae117, May 2024, Refereed

A novel endo-type chitinase possessing chitobiase activity derived from the chitinolytic bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis SAY3^T
Okazaki, S., Komatsu, A., Nakano, M., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, 87(12), 1543-1550, Dec. 2023, Refereed

Multi‐enzyme machinery for chitin degradation in the chitinolytic bacterium Chitiniphilus shinanonensis SAY3^T
Sato, H., Sonoda, N., Nakano, M., Matsuyama, Y., Shizume, A., Arai, R., Nogawa, M., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY, 80, 360, Sep. 2023, Refereed

Production of flavonoid 7-O-glucosides by bioconversion using Escherichia coli expressing a 7-O-glucosyltransferase from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
Nasanjargal Dorjjugder, Goro Taguchi
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 194, 3320-3329, 2022, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

Enzymatic basis for stepwise C-glycosylation in the formation of flavonoid di-C-glycosides in sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)
Feng, C.Y., Li, S.-S., Taguchi, G., Wu, Q., Yin, D.-D., Gu, Z.-Y., Wu, J., Xu, W.-Z., Liu, C., Wang, L.-S.
Plant J, 106(2), 351-365, 2021, Refereed

Production of flavonol and flavone 6-C-glucosides by bioconversion in Escherichia coli expressing a C-glucosyltransferase from wasabi (Eutrema japonicum)
Nasanjargal Dorjjugder, Mayu Hatano, Goro Taguchi
Biotechnology Letters, 43(9), 1913-1919, 2021, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

Biochemical characterization of the jasmonic acid methyltransferase gene from wasabi (Eutrema japonicum)
Koeduka,T., Suzuki, H., Taguchi, G., Matsui, K.
Plant Biotechnol., 37, 389-392, 2020, Refereed

Identification and characterization of apigenin 6-C-glucosyltransferase involved in biosynthesis of isosaponarin in wasabi (Eutrema japonicum).
Mashima, K, Hatano, M, Suzuki, H, Shimosaka, M, Taguchi G.
Plant Cell Physiol., 60(12), 2733-2743, 2019, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

Identification and characterization of a rhamnosyltransferase involved in rutin biosynthesis in Fagopyrum esculentum (common buckwheat)
Koja, E., Ohata, S., Maruyama, Y., Suzuki, H., Shimosaka, M., Taguchi, G.
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 82(10), 1790-1802, 2018, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

C-Glycosyltransferases catalyzing the formation of di- C-glucosyl flavonoids in citrus plants.
Ito, T., Fujimoto, S., Suito, F., Shimosaka, M., Taguchi, G.
Plant J, 91(2), 187-198, 2017, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

Taste characterization of the fruit body derived from a novel strain belonging to the genus Pleurotus
Yoshihito Azumi, Kahori Doi, Kana Kogiso, Goro Taguchi, Makoto Shimosaka, Kenji Ouchi, Satoshi Inatomi
Mushroom Sci Biotechnol, 24(3), 129-135, 2016, Refereed

pFungiway: a series of plasmid vectors used for gene manipulation in fungi.
Nishikawa, R., Yoshida, M.,Noda,T., Okuhara, T., Taguchi, G., Inatomi, S., Shimosaka, M.
Annals of Microbiology, 66(2), 825–832, 2016

Purification, molecular cloning and functional characterization of flavonoid-C-glucosyltransferases from Fagopyrum esculentum M. (buckwheat) cotyledon.
Nagatomo, Y., Usui, S., Ito, T., Kato, A., Shimosaka, M., Taguchi, G.
Plant J, 80(3), 437-448, 2014, Refereed
Last, Corresponding

Production of C-glucosides of flavonoids and related compounds by Escherichia coli expressing buckwheat C- glucosyltransferases
Ito, T., Fujimoto, S., Shimosaka, M., Taguchi, G.
Plant Biotechnol., 31(5), 519-524, 2014
Last, Corresponding

Characterization of a gene coding for a putative adenosine deaminase-related growth factor by RNA interference in the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes.
Sekiya, S., Yamada, M., Shibata, K., Okuhara, T., Yoshida, M., Inatomi, S., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 115(4), 360-365, 2013
Corresponding

Cloning and characterization of a gene coding for a major extracellular chitosanase from the koji mold, Aspergillus oryzae
Akihiro Sugita, A., Sugii, A., Sato, K., Zhang, X.-Y., Dai, A.-L., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 76, 193-195, 2012

Structural basis for modification of flavonol and naphthol glucoconjugates by Nicotiana tabacum malonyltransferase (NtMaT1).
Manjasetty, B.A., Yu, X.-H., Panjikar, S., Taguchi, G., Chance, M.R., Liu, C.-J.
Planta, 236, 781-793, 2012, Refereed

Contribution of CoA ligases to benzenoid biosynthesis in petunia flowers.
Klempien, A., Kaminaga, Y., Qualley, A., Nagegowda, D. A., Widhalm, J. R., Orlova, I., Kumar-Shasany, A., Taguchi, G., Kish, C.M., Cooper, B.R., D’Auria, J.C., Rhodes, D., Pichersky, E., Dudareva, N.
Plant Cell, 24, 2015-2030, 2012

Heterologous Expression and Functional Characterization of a Novel Chitinase from the Chitinolytic Bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis
Huang L., Shizume, A., Nogawa, M., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 76, 517-522, 2012

Isolation of genes coding for chitin-degrading enzymes in the novel chitinolytic bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis, and characterization of a gene coding for a family 19 chitinase.
Huang L., Garbulewska, E., Sato, K., Kato , Y., Shizume, A., Nogawa, M., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka, M.
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 113, 293-299, 12 Feb. 2011

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of the vegetative dikaryotic mycelium of cultivated mushroomFlammulina velutipes
Okamoto, T., Yamada, M., Sekiya,S., Okuhara, T., Taguchi, G., Inatomi, S., Shimosaka, M.
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 74(11), 2327-2329, Nov. 2010

Malonylation is a key reaction in the metabolism of xenobiotic phenolic glucosides in Arabidopsis and tobacco
Taguchi, G., Ubukata,T., Nozue, H., Kobayashi, Y., Takahi, M., Yamamoto, H., Hayashida, N.
Plant J., 63(6), 1031-1041, Sep. 2010
Lead, Corresponding

Analysis of a change in bacterial community in different environments with addition of chitin or chitosan
Sato K., Azama Y., Nogawa M., Taguchi G., Shimosaka M.
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 109(5), 472-478, May 2010

Construction and analysis of a bacterial community exhibiting a strong chitinolytic activity
Sato, K., Kato, Y., Fukamachi, A., Nogawa, M., Taguchi, G., Shimosaka M.
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 74(3), 636-640, Mar. 2010

Suppression of Arogenate Dehydratase1 reveals that phenylalanine is synthesized predominantly via the arogenate pathway in petunia petals.
MaedaH, Shasany AK, Schnepp J, Orlova I, Taguchi G, Cooper BR, Rhodes D, Pichersky E, Dudareva N.
Plant Cell, 22(3), 832-849, Mar. 2010

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of antifungal lipopeptide producing fungus Coleophoma empetri.
Yamada, M., Yawata, K., Orino, Y., Ueda, S., Isogai, Y., Taguchi, G. Shimosaka, M, Hashimoto,S.
Current Genetics, 55(6), 623-630, Dec. 2009

Chitiniphilus shinanonensis gen. nov., sp nov., a novel chitin-degrading bacterium belonging to Betaproteobacteria
Sato, K., Kato, Y.,Taguchi, G., Nogawa, M., Yokota, A., Shimosaka, M.
J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol., 55(2), 147-153, May 2009

Construction of a Practical SCAR Marker Linked toClubroot Resistance in Chinese Cabbage, with Intensive Analysis of HC352b Genes
Hayashida, N., Takabatake, Y., Nakazawa, N., Aruga, D., Nakanishi, H., Taguchi, G., Sakamoto, K., Matsumoto, E.
J. Japan. Soc. Hort. Sci., 77(2), 150-154, Apr. 2008

Mapping of isolate-specific QTLs for clubroot resistance in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis).
Sakamoto, K., Saito, A., Taguchi, G., Hayashida, N., Matsumoto, E.
Theor. Appl. Genet., 117, 759-767, 2008

Characterization of a gene conferring red fluorescence isolated from an environmental DNA library constructed from soil bacteria.
Lan, X.-Q., Sato, K. Taguchi, G., Zhou,Z.-Y., Shimoaka, M.
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 72, 1908-1914, 2008

Isolation and characterization of a gene coding for chitin deacetylase specifically expressed during fruiting body development in the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes and its expression in the yeast Pichia pastoris
Yamada, M., Kurano, M., Inatomi, S., Taguchi, G., Okazaki, M., Shimosaka,M.
FEMS Microbiol Lett., 289, 130-137, 2008

Convergent evolution in the BAHD family of acyl transferases: identification and characterization of anthocyanin acyl transferases from Arabidopsis thaliana
Luo, J; Nishiyama, Y; Fuell, C; Taguchi, G; Elliott, K; Hill, L; Tanaka, Y; Kitayama, M; Yamazaki, M; Bailey, P; Parr, A; Michael, AJ; Saito, K;Martin, C
Plant J., 50(4), 678-695, 2007

Isolation and analysis of genes specifically expressed during fruiting body development in the basidiomyceteFlammulina velutipesby fluorescence differential display
Masato Yamada;Sou Sakuraba;Kou Shibata;Goro Taguchi;Satoshi Inatomi;Mitsuo Okazaki;Makoto Shimosaka
FEMS Microbiol. Lett., 254(1), 165-172, 2006

Molecular cloning, characterization, and downregulation of an acyltransferase that catalyzes the malonylation of flavonoid and naphthol glucosides in tobacco cells.
Goro Taguchi, Yoshihiro Shitchi, Sakiko Shirasawa, Hirobumi Yamamoto, Nobuaki Hayashida
Plant J., 42, 481-491, May 2005
Lead, Corresponding

Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana mutant pcb2 which accumulates divinyl chlorophylls.
Hiromitsu Nakanishi, Hatsumi Nozue, Kenji Suzuki, Yasuko Kaneko, Goro Taguchi, Nobuaki Hayashida
Plant Cell Physiol., 46(3), 467-473, Mar. 2005

Collection and analysis of Arabidopsis color mutants.
Hiromitsu Nakanishi, Kenji Suzuki, Takashi Jouke, Ritsuko Kodaira, Goro Taguchi, Mitsuo Okazaki, Nobuaki Hayashida
Endocytobiosis Cell Res, 15(1), 328-338, 2004

Metabolism of administered (2RS)-naringenin in flavonoidproducing cultured cells of Sophora flavescens
Hirobumi Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuribayashi, Yasuharu Seshima, Ping Zhao, Isao Kouno, Goro Taguchi, Koichiro Shimomura
Plant Biotech., 21(5), 355-359, 2004

Cloning and characterization of a glucosyltransferase that reacts on 7-hydroxyl group of flavonol and 3-hydroxyl group of coumarin from tobacco cells.
Goro Taguchi, Takahisa Ubukata, Nobuaki Hayashida, Hirobumi Yamamoto, Mitsuo Okazaki
Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 420(1), 95-102, Nov. 2003
Lead, Corresponding

Evolution of substrate recognition across a multigene family of glycosyltransferases in Arabidopsis.
E.K. Lim, S. Baldauf, Y. Li, L. Elias, D. Worrall, S.P. Spencer, R.G. Jackson, G. Taguchi, J. Ross, D.J. Bowles
GLYCOBIOLOGY, 13, 139-145, 2003

Exogenously added naphthols induce three glucosyltransferases, and are accumulated as glucosides in tobacco cells.
Goro Taguchi, Minako Nakamura, Nobuaki Hayashida, Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Science, 164, 231-240, 2003
Lead

Molecular cloning and heterologous expression of novel glucosyltransferases from tobacco cultured cells that have broad substrate specificity and are induced by salicylic acid and auxin.
G. Taguchi, T. Yazawa, N. Hayashida, M. Okazaki
Eur. J. Biochem., 268, 4086-4094, Aug. 2001
Lead

Increases of secondary metabolite production in various plant cell cultures by co-cultivation with cork.
H. Yamamoto, A. Yato,K. Yazaki, H. Hayashi, G. Taguchi, K. Inoue
Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem., 65, 853-860, 2001

Plant hormone regulation on scopoletin metabolism from culture medium into tobacco cells
Goro Taguchi, Kotarou Yoshizawa, Ritsuko Kodaira, Nobuaki Hayashida, Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Science, 160, 905-911, 2001
Lead

Scopoletin Uptake from Culture Medium and Accumulation in the Vacuoles after Conversion to Scopolin in 2,4-D-Treated Tobacco Cells.
Goro Taguchi, Shinobu Fujikawa, Teruyoshi Yazawa, Ritsuko Kodaira, Nobuaki Hayashida, Makoto Shimosaka, Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Science, 151(2), 153-161, 2000
Lead

Purification and characterization of UDP-glucose: hydroxycoumarin 7-O-glucosyltransferase, with broad substrate specificity from tobacco cultured cells
Goro Taguchi, Hirofumi Imura, Yoshio Maeda, Ritsuko Kodaira, Nobuaki Hayashida, Makoto Shimosaka, Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Science, 157(1), 105-112, 2000
Lead

Effects of methyl jasmonate and elicitor on the activation of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and the accumulation of scopoletin and scopolin in tobacco cell cultures
Manisha Sharan, Goro Taguchi, Keiichi Gonda, Takashi Jouke, Makoto Shimosaka, Nobuaki Hayashida,Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Science, 132(1), 13-19, 1998

Effect of methyl jasmonate and elicitor on PAL gene expression in tobacco cultured cells.
Goro Taguchi, Manisha Sharan, Keiichi Gonda, Kuninori Yanagisawa, Makoto Shimosaka, Nobuaki Hayashida, Mitsuo Okazaki
J. Plant Biochem. Biotech., 7(2), 79-84, 1998

A temperature-sensitive osmophilic mutant of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii
S. Yoshikawa, Y. Togawa, N. Mitsui, K. Chikara, G. Taguchi, M. Shimosaka, M. Okazaki
Biotechnol. Lett., 18(6), 655-658, Jun. 1996

Cloning of theSAT1 gene concerned with salt tolerance of the yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii.
K. Ushio, H. Otsuka, S. Yoshikawa, G. Taguchi, M. Shimosaka, N. Mitsui, M. Okazaki
J. Ferment. Bioeng., 82(1), 16-21, 1996

Cloning and characterization of mycovirus double-stranded RNA from the plant pathogenic fungus, Fusarium solani f. sp. robiniae.
M. Nogawa, T. Kageyama, A.Nakatani,G. Taguchi, M. Shimosaka, M. Okazaki
Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 60(5), 784-788, 1996

Transformation of tobacco cultured cell by particle bombardment : Expression of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase gene in transgenic tobacco cells.
Nobuo Nagai, Kuninori Yanagisawa, Kazuko Mizuno, Hirofumi Imura, Goro Taguchi, Makoto Shimosaka, Daisuke Shibata, Mitsuo Okazaki
Plant Tissue Culture Letters, 12(2), 165-171, 1995

Role of malic acid in solubilizing excess berberine accumulating in vacuoles ofCoptis japonica.
Hideharu Sato, Goro Taguchi, Hiroshi Fukui, Mamoru Tabata
Phytochemistry, 31, 3451-3454, 1992

Recent advances in plant-based bioproduction.
Fujiyama K, Muranaka T, Okazawa A, Seki H, Taguchi G, Yasumoto S
J. Biosci. Bioeng., 138, 1 - 12, Jan. 2024, Refereed

Molecular Breeding and Nutritional Aspects of Buckwheat (Zhou et al. Eds)
Goro Taguchi, Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Buckwheat. (Chapter 30)
Academic Press (Elsevier), 377-386 2016

Recent Res. Devel. Biotech.&Bioeng. 2
H. Yamamoto, K. Yazaki, H. Hayashi, G. Taguchi, A. Yato, K. Inoue, Joint work, Effect of cork tissues on the production of secondary metabolites in various plantcell cultures.
273-281 1999

Analysis of genes coding for chitinolytic enzymes in the bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis – chiG, chiJ, and chiK coding for unique chitin-degrading enzymes –
Moe Nakano, Jiayi Yu, Lanxiang Huang, Masahiro Nogawa, Goro Taguchi, Makoto Shimosaka:
10th International Conference of the Asian Pacific Chitin Chitosan Symposium, 2013

Analysis of genes coding for chitinolytic enzymes in the bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis – Development of gene disruption by an allelic exchange system –
Norie Sonoda, Jiayi Yu, Arisa Shizume, Masahiro Nogawa, Goro Taguchi, Makoto Shimosaka
10th International Conference of the Asian Pacific Chitin Chitosan Symposium, 2013

Isolation and characterization of genes encoding chitin-degrading enzymes in the novel chitinolytic bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis;
Makoto Shimosaka, Lanxiang Huang, Norie Sonoda, Moe Nakano, Masahiro Nogawa, Goro Taguchi
10th International Conference of the Asian Pacific Chitin Chitosan Symposium, 2013

Isolation of Genes Coding for Chitin-Degrading Enzymes in the Chitinolytic Bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis and Characterization of a Gene Coding for a Novel Chitinaese
Lanxiang HUANG, Masahiro NOGAWA, Goro TAGUCHI, and Makoto SHIMOSAKA
6th International Conference on Advanced Fiber/Textile Materials, 2011

Analysis of genes coding for chitin-degrading enzymes from the bacterium Chitiniphilus shinanonensis
L. Huang, M. Nogawa, G.Taguchi, M. Shimosaka
International Conference of Future Textile 2010, 2010

Degradation of chitin by a novel bacterium
Chitiniphilus shinanonensis originated from a bacterial community expressing a chitinolytic activity
K. Sato, A. Shizume, H. Aoyama, Y. Kato, M. Nogawa, G. Taguchi, M. Shimosaka
5th International Conference on Adovanced Fiber/Textile Materials 2009 in Ueda., 2009

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Chitinolytic Bacterium, 
-Construction of Stable Chitinolytic Microbial Community-.
K. Sato, H. Aoyama, Y. Kato, M. Nogawa, G. Taguchi, A. Yokota, M. Shimosaka
7th East Asian Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies (EASPAT 2009), 2009

An approach to improving plant productivity by use of a LED unit equipped with control modules.
H. Nozue, A. Shimada, Y. Yabuuchi, T. Itoh, J. Kinoshita, H. Jibu, I. Umayahara, G. Taguchi, M. Nozue
6th International Symposium on Light in Horticulture., 2009

Analysis of Bacterial Consortium Growing on Chitin Flake by Using Metagenomic Approach
K. Sato, Y. Azama, R. Kodaira, G. Taguchi, M. Shimosaka
4th International Conference on Advanced Fiber/Textile Materials 2007 in Ueda (ICAFTM2007), 2007

Japanese Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry

Japanase Society for Plant Biotechnology

The Society for Biotechnology, Japan

The Japanase Society of Plant Physiologists