Yoshiki Tanaka

The paper reports the crystal and cryo-EM structures of a xylose transporter in the PTS system, revealing its mechanism for recognizing and transporting D-xylose.

cycle_finder detects both tandem and interspersed repeats from short-read data without reference sequences, outperforming existing tools in recall and precision.

The paper identifies and maps eliminated repetitive DNA sequences in the Japanese hagfish, revealing evolutionary mechanisms of chromosome elimination through genomic and cytogenetic analysis.