Dr. Tomohiro Watanabe

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology
Keywordsevolution, freshwater lake, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria

Current contact address

CountryJapan
CitySapporo
InstitutionHokkaido University
InstituteInstitute of Low Temperature Science

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Seigo ShimaAbteilung Biochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Watanabe, Tomohiro and Pfeil-Gardiner, Olivia and Kahnt, Jörg and Koch, Jürgen and Shima, Seigo and Murphy, Bonnie J: Three-megadalton complex of methanogenic electron-bifurcating and CO2-fixing enzymes. In: Science, 373, 2021, 1151--1156
2019Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Umezawa, Kazuhiro and Hori, Chiaki and Takasuka, Taichi E and Kato, Yukako and Fukui, Manabu: Genomes of neutrophilic sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotrophs representing 9 proteobacterial species from 8 genera. In: Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 2019, 316
2019Watanabe, Tomohiro and Wagner, Tristan and Huang, Gangfeng and Kahnt, Jörg and Ataka, Kenichi and Ermler, Ulrich and Shima, Seigo: The Bacterial [Fe]-Hydrogenase Paralog HmdII Uses Tetrahydrofolate Derivatives as Substrates. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58, 2019, 3506--3510
2018Ospino, Melody Cabrera and Kojima, Hisaya and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Iwata, Tomoya and Fukui, Manabu: Diversity of anaerobic arsenite-oxidizing bacteria in low-salt environments analyzed with a newly developed PCR-based method. In: Limnology, 19, 2018, 177--183
2017Watanabe, Tomohiro and Miura, Aya and Iwata, Tomoya and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Dominance of Sulfuritalea species in nitrate-depleted water of a stratified freshwater lake and arsenate respiration ability within the genus. In: Environmental microbiology reports, 9, 2017, 522--527
2016Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Identity of major sulfur-cycle prokaryotes in freshwater lake ecosystems revealed by a comprehensive phylogenetic study of the dissimilatory adenylylsulfate reductase. In: Scientific reports, 6, 2016, 1--9
2016Kojima, Hisaya and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Fukui, Manabu: Sulfuricaulis limicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from a lake. In: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 66, 2016, 266--270
2016Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Sulfuriferula thiophila sp. nov., a chemolithoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, and correction of the name Sulfuriferula plumbophilusWatanabe, Kojima and Fukui 2015 to Sulfuriferula plumbiphila corrig.. In: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 66, 2016, 2041--2045
2016Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Shinohara, Arisa and Fukui, Manabu: Sulfurirhabdus autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake. In: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 66, 2016, 113--117
2016Umezawa, Kazuhiro and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Miura, Aya and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: The complete genome sequences of sulfur-oxidizing Gammaproteobacteria Sulfurifustis variabilis skN76 T and Sulfuricaulis limicola HA5 T. In: Standards in genomic sciences, 11, 2016, 1--8
2016Watanabe, Tomohiro and Miura, Aya and Shinohara, Arisa and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Thermithiobacillus plumbiphilus sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from lead sulfide. In: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 66, 2016, 1986--1989
2015Higashioka, Yuriko and Kojima, Hisaya and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Fukui, Manabu: Draft genome sequence of Desulfatitalea tepidiphila S28bFT. In: Genome announcements, 3, 2015, e01326--15
2015Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Draft genome sequence of Mizugakiibacter sediminis skMP5T. In: Genome announcements, 3, 2015, e01185--15
2015Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Draft genome sequence of a sulfur-oxidizing autotroph, Sulfuricella sp. strain T08, isolated from a freshwater lake. In: Genome announcements, 3, 2015, e00498--15
2015Kojima, Hisaya and Ogura, Yoshitoshi and Yamamoto, Nozomi and Togashi, Tomoaki and Mori, Hiroshi and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Nemoto, Fumiko and Kurokawa, Ken and Hayashi, Tetsuya and Fukui, Manabu: Ecophysiology of Thioploca ingrica as revealed by the complete genome sequence supplemented with proteomic evidence. In: The ISME journal, 9, 2015, 1166--1176
2015Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Sulfuriferula multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, reclassification of ‘Thiobacillus plumbophilus’ as Sulfuriferula plumbophilus sp. nov., and description of Sulfuricellaceae fam. nov. and Sulfuricellales ord. nov.. In: International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 65, 2015, 1504--1508
2014Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Complete genomes of freshwater sulfur oxidizers Sulfuricella denitrificans skB26 and Sulfuritalea hydrogenivorans sk43H: genetic insights into the sulfur oxidation pathway of betaproteobacteria. In: Systematic and applied microbiology, 37, 2014, 387--395
2014Kojima, Hisaya and Watanabe, Tomohiro and Iwata, Tomoya and Fukui, Manabu: Identification of major planktonic sulfur oxidizers in stratified freshwater lake. In: PLoS One, 9, 2014, e93877
2013Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Takano, Yoshinori and Fukui, Manabu: Diversity of sulfur-cycle prokaryotes in freshwater lake sediments investigated using aprA as the functional marker gene. In: Systematic and applied microbiology, 36, 2013, 436--443
2012Watanabe, Tomohiro and Kojima, Hisaya and Fukui, Manabu: Draft genome sequence of a psychrotolerant sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Sulfuricella denitrificans skB26, and proteomic insights into cold adaptation. In: Applied and environmental microbiology, 78, 2012, 6545--6549