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- Weitao Tian; Eva Petrová; Sanae Sakai; Julius Eyiuche Nweze; Anne Daebeler; Roey Angel
Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel methanogens from arid desert biocrust.
ISME communications, Jan. 2026
6, 1, ycag013 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Masaru K Nobu; Shingo Kato; Yoshihiro Takaki; Masayuki Miyazaki; Makoto Miyata; Miyuki Ogawara; Yumi Saito; Sanae Sakai; Yuhei O Tahara; Yoshinori Takano; Eiji Tasumi; Katsuyuki Uematsu; Toshihiro Yoshimura; Takashi Itoh; Moriya Ohkuma; Ken Takai
Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Jul. 2024
74, 7 - Satoshi Wakai; Sanae Sakai; Tatsuo Nozaki; Masayuki Watanabe; Ken Takai
Accelerated Iron Corrosion by Microbial Consortia Enriched from Slime-like Precipitates from a Corroded Metal Apparatus Deployed in a Deep-sea Hydrothermal System
Microbes and Environments, Jun. 2024
39, 5, ME23089
[Reviewed] - Yuto Fukuyama; Shigeru Shimamura; Sanae Sakai; Yuta Michimori; Tomomi Sumida; Yoshito Chikaraishi; Haruyuki Atomi; Takuro Nunoura
Development of a rapid and highly accurate method for 13C tracer-based metabolomics and its application on a hydrogenotrophic methanogen.
ISME communications, Jan. 2024
4, 1, ycad006 - Motoko Igisu; Masayuki Miyazaki; Sanae Sakai; Satoshi Nakagawa; Hiroyuki D. Sakai; Ken Takai
Domain-level Identification of Single Prokaryotic Cells by Optical Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy
Microbes and Environments, 2023
38, 4, n/a, n/a - Shinsuke Kawagucci; Sanae Sakai; Eiji Tasumi; Miho Hirai; Yoshihiro Takaki; Takuro Nunoura; Masafumi Saitoh; Yuichiro Ueno; Naohiro Yoshida; Takazo Shibuya; James Clifford Sample; Tomoyo Okumura; Ken Takai
Deep Subseafloor Biogeochemical Processes and Microbial Populations Potentially Associated with the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake at the Japan Trench Accretionary Wedge (IODP Expedition 343)
Microbes and Environments, 2023
38, 2, n/a, n/a - Ángela Ares; Sanae Sakai; Toshio Sasaki; Shigeru Shimamura; Satoshi Mitarai; Takuro Nunoura
Sequestration and efflux largely account for cadmium and copper resistance in the deep-sea Nitratiruptor sp. SB155-2 (phylum Campylobacterota).
Environmental microbiology, 25 Oct. 2022 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Masaru K Nobu; Masayuki Miyazaki; Eiji Tasumi; Yumi Saito; Sanae Sakai; Miyuki Ogawara; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Ken Takai
Cultivation of previously uncultured microorganisms with a continuous-flow down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) bioreactor, using a syntrophic archaeon culture obtained from deep marine sediment as a case study.
Nature protocols, 14 Sep. 2022 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Masaru K Nobu; Nozomi Nakahara; Yuki Morono; Miyuki Ogawara; Yoshihiro Takaki; Yoshinori Takano; Katsuyuki Uematsu; Tetsuro Ikuta; Motoo Ito; Yohei Matsui; Masayuki Miyazaki; Kazuyoshi Murata; Yumi Saito; Sanae Sakai; Chihong Song; Eiji Tasumi; Yuko Yamanaka; Takashi Yamaguchi; Yoichi Kamagata; Hideyuki Tamaki; Ken Takai
Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface.
Nature, Jan. 2020
577, 7791, 519, 525 - Nozomi Nakahara; Masaru K Nobu; Yoshihiro Takaki; Masayuki Miyazaki; Eiji Tasumi; Sanae Sakai; Miyuki Ogawara; Naoko Yoshida; Hideyuki Tamaki; Yuko Yamanaka; Arata Katayama; Takashi Yamaguchi; Ken Takai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Aggregatilinea lenta gen. nov., sp. nov., a slow-growing, facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from subseafloor sediment, and proposal of the new order Aggregatilineales ord. nov. within the class Anaerolineae of the phylum Chloroflexi.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Apr. 2019
69, 4, 1185, 1194 - Sanae Sakai; Yoshihiro Takaki; Masayuki Miyazaki; Miyuki Ogawara; Katsunori Yanagawa; Junichi Miyazaki; Ken Takai
Methanofervidicoccus abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, isolated from a hydrothermal vent chimney in the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, the Caribbean Sea.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Apr. 2019
69, 4, 1225, 1230 - Philip Eickenbusch; Ken Takai; Olivier Sissman; Shino Suzuki; Catriona Menzies; Sanae Sakai; Pierre Sansjofre; Eiji Tasumi; Stefano M Bernasconi; Clemens Glombitza; Bo Barker Jørgensen; Yuki Morono; Mark Alexander Lever
Origin of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Convergent Margin.
Frontiers in microbiology, 2019
10, 1729, 1729 - Akira Ijiri; Fumio Inagaki; Yusuke Kubo; Rishi R Adhikari; Shohei Hattori; Tatsuhiko Hoshino; Hiroyuki Imachi; Shinsuke Kawagucci; Yuki Morono; Yoko Ohtomo; Shuhei Ono; Sanae Sakai; Ken Takai; Tomohiro Toki; David T Wang; Marcos Y Yoshinaga; Gail L Arnold; Juichiro Ashi; David H Case; Tomas Feseker; Kai-Uwe Hinrichs; Yojiro Ikegawa; Minoru Ikehara; Jens Kallmeyer; Hidenori Kumagai; Mark A Lever; Sumito Morita; Ko-Ichi Nakamura; Yuki Nakamura; Manabu Nishizawa; Victoria J Orphan; Hans Røy; Frauke Schmidt; Atsushi Tani; Wataru Tanikawa; Takeshi Terada; Hitoshi Tomaru; Takeshi Tsuji; Urumu Tsunogai; Yasuhiko T Yamaguchi; Naohiro Yoshida
Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex.
Science advances, Jun. 2018
4, 6, eaao4631 - Shingo Kato; Sanae Sakai; Miho Hirai; Eiji Tasumi; Manabu Nishizawa; Katsuhiko Suzuki; Ken Takai
Long-Term Cultivation and Metagenomics Reveal Ecophysiology of Previously Uncultivated Thermophiles Involved in Biogeochemical Nitrogen Cycle.
Microbes and environments, 29 Mar. 2018
33, 1, 107, 110 - Katsunori Yanagawa; Akira Ijiri; Anja Breuker; Sanae Sakai; Youko Miyoshi; Shinsuke Kawagucci; Takuroh Noguchi; Miho Hirai; Axel Schippers; Jun-Ichiro Ishibashi; Yoshihiro Takaki; Michinari Sunamura; Tetsuro Urabe; Takuro Nunoura; Ken Takai
Defining boundaries for the distribution of microbial communities beneath the sediment-buried, hydrothermally active seafloor.
The ISME journal, Feb. 2017
11, 2, 529, 542 - Manabu Nishizawa; Sanae Sakai; Uta Konno; Nozomi Nakahara; Yoshihiro Takaki; Yumi Saito; Hiroyuki Imachi; Eiji Tasumi; Akiko Makabe; Keisuke Koba; Ken Takai
Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotope Effects of Ammonia Oxidation by Thermophilic Thaumarchaeota from a Geothermal Water Stream.
Applied and environmental microbiology, 01 Aug. 2016
82, 15, 4492, 504 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Takaaki Kubota; Masayuki Miyazaki; Yayoi Saito; Ken Takai
Sedimentibacter acidaminivorans sp. nov., an anaerobic, amino-acid-utilizing bacterium isolated from marine subsurface sediment.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Mar. 2016
66, 3, 1293, 1300 - Masayuki Miyazaki; Sanae Sakai; Kirsti M Ritalahti; Yayoi Saito; Yuko Yamanaka; Yumi Saito; Akihiko Tame; Katsuyuki Uematsu; Frank E Löffler; Ken Takai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Sphaerochaeta multiformis sp. nov., an anaerobic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from subseafloor sediment, and emended description of the genus Sphaerochaeta.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Dec. 2014
64, Pt 12, 4147, 4154 - Masayuki Miyazaki; Sanae Sakai; Yuko Yamanaka; Yumi Saito; Ken Takai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Spirochaeta psychrophila sp. nov., a psychrophilic spirochaete isolated from subseafloor sediment, and emended description of the genus Spirochaeta.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Aug. 2014
64, Pt 8, 2798, 2804 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Julius S Lipp; Masayuki Miyazaki; Yumi Saito; Yuko Yamanaka; Kai-Uwe Hinrichs; Fumio Inagaki; Ken Takai
Pelolinea submarina gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, filamentous bacterium of the phylum Chloroflexi isolated from subseafloor sediment.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Mar. 2014
64, Pt 3, 812, 818 - Nishizawa Manabu; Sakai Sanae; Takai Ken
Nitrogen and oxygen stable isotopic systematics of ammonia oxidation by thermophilic Archaea
Abstracts of Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan, 2014
61, 100 - Yoko Ohtomo; Akira Ijiri; Yojiro Ikegawa; Masazumi Tsutsumi; Hiroyuki Imachi; Go-Ichiro Uramoto; Tatsuhiko Hoshino; Yuki Morono; Sanae Sakai; Yumi Saito; Wataru Tanikawa; Takehiro Hirose; Fumio Inagaki
Biological CO2 conversion to acetate in subsurface coal-sand formation using a high-pressure reactor system.
Frontiers in microbiology, 2013
4, 361, 361 - Sanae Sakai; Masayuki Ehara; I-Cheng Tseng; Takashi Yamaguchi; Suzanna L Bräuer; Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz; Stephen H Zinder; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanolinea mesophila sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil, and proposal of the archaeal family Methanoregulaceae fam. nov. within the order Methanomicrobiales.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Jun. 2012
62, Pt 6, 1389, 1395 - Yuto Yashiro; Sanae Sakai; Masayuki Ehara; Masayuki Miyazaki; Takashi Yamaguchi; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanoregula formicica sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon isolated from methanogenic sludge.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Jan. 2011
61, Pt 1, 53, 59 - Sanae Sakai; Yoshihiro Takaki; Shigeru Shimamura; Mitsuo Sekine; Takahisa Tajima; Hiroki Kosugi; Natsuko Ichikawa; Eiji Tasumi; Aiko T Hiraki; Ai Shimizu; Yumiko Kato; Rika Nishiko; Koji Mori; Nobuyuki Fujita; Hiroyuki Imachi; Ken Takai
Genome sequence of a mesophilic hydrogenotrophic methanogen Methanocella paludicola, the first cultivated representative of the order Methanocellales.
PloS one, 2011
6, 7, e22898 - Sanae Sakai; Ralf Conrad; Werner Liesack; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanocella arvoryzae sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen isolated from rice field soil.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Dec. 2010
60, Pt 12, 2918, 2923 - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi; Yuji Sekiguchi; I-Cheng Tseng; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Hideki Harada; Yoichi Kamagata
Cultivation of methanogens under low-hydrogen conditions by using the coculture method.
Applied and environmental microbiology, Jul. 2009
75, 14, 4892, 6 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Nagai; Takashi Yamaguchi; Ken Takai
Methanofollis ethanolicus sp. nov., an ethanol-utilizing methanogen isolated from a lotus field.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Apr. 2009
59, Pt 4, 800, 5 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Hisako Hirayama; Satoshi Nakagawa; Takuro Nunoura; Ken Takai; Koki Horikoshi
Exilispira thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic spirochaete isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Oct. 2008
58, Pt 10, 2258, 65 - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi; Satoshi Hanada; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Hideki Harada; Yoichi Kamagata
Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Apr. 2008
58, Pt 4, 929, 36 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Yuji Sekiguchi; Satoshi Hanada; Yoichi Kamagata; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Hideki Harada
Methanolinea tarda gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon isolated from a methanogenic digester sludge.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Jan. 2008
58, Pt 1, 294, 301 - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi; Yuji Sekiguchi; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Hideki Harada; Yoichi Kamagata
Isolation of key methanogens for global methane emission from rice paddy fields: a novel isolate affiliated with the clone cluster rice cluster I.
Applied and environmental microbiology, Jul. 2007
73, 13, 4326, 31 - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai; Akiyoshi Ohashi; Hideki Harada; Satoshi Hanada; Yoichi Kamagata; Yuji Sekiguchi
Pelotomaculum propionicicum sp. nov., an anaerobic, mesophilic, obligately syntrophic, propionate-oxidizing bacterium.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, Jul. 2007
57, Pt 7, 1487, 1492 - SAKAI Sanae; IMACHI Hiroyuki; SEKIGUCHI Yuji; OHASHI Akiyoshi; HARADA Hideki; KAMAGATA Yoichi
嫌気共生培養系を利用した未培養系統分類群に属するメタン生成古細菌の分離・培養
Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment, 2006
29, 7, 389, 397
[Reviewed] - K Syutsubo; Y Nagaya; S Sakai; A Miya
Behavior of cellulose-degrading bacteria in thermophilic anaerobic digestion process.
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, 2005
52, 1-2, 79, 84
Misc.
- Sanae Sakai
Methanofervidicoccus
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 14 Dec. 2022
1, 4
[Reviewed] - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanocellaceae
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 30 Sep. 2016
1, 1
[Reviewed], [Invited] - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai
Methanoregulaceae
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 30 Sep. 2016
1, 4
[Reviewed], [Invited] - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanocellales
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 30 Sep. 2016
1, 1
[Reviewed], [Invited] - Sanae Sakai; Hiroyuki Imachi
Methanocella
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 30 Sep. 2016
1, 6
[Reviewed] - Hiroyuki Imachi; Sanae Sakai
Methanolinea
Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, 30 Sep. 2016
1, 4
[Reviewed] - Sanae Sakai; Ralf Conrad; Hiroyuki Imachi
The Family Methanocellaceae
The Prokaryotes, 2014
209, 214
[Reviewed], [Invited] - 酒井早苗; 高木善弘; 島村繁; 市川夏子; 田島誉久; 関根光雄; 小杉大樹; 田角栄二; 平木愛子; 清水愛; 加藤裕美子; 森浩二; 藤田信之; 井町寛之; 高井研
水素資化性メタン生成古細菌Methanocella paludicolaのゲノム解析
日本微生物生態学会講演要旨集, 2009
25th - 酒井 早苗; 井町 寛之
水田土壌のメタン生成キープレイヤー--Rice Cluster I メタン生成古細菌を"嫌気共生培養法"で純粋分離に成功
化学と生物 : 日本農芸化学会会誌 : 生命・食・環境 / 日本農芸化学会 編, Dec. 2007
45, 12, 814, 816 - Imachi Hiroyuki; Sakai Sanae
Isolation and characterization of a methanogenic Archaea, a first cultured representative of Rice Cluster I
Soil Microorganisms, 2006
60, 2, 85, 89 - 極限微生物学会誌
水素濃度をコントロールしてメタン生成古細菌を分離する―嫌気共生培養系を用いた新規分離培養法―
Journal of Japanese Society for Extremophiles, 2005
4, 2, 71, 73
