Shigeyuki Kakizawa

The paper expresses MreB isoforms from Haloplasma in a synthetic bacterium to study motility, finding distinct movement patterns and force directions.

This study evolves a minimal genome bacterium to grow at a lower temperature, revealing genetic and non-genetic adaptation mechanisms.

This paper introduces a highly efficient transformation method for the minimal Mycoplasma cell JCVI-syn3B, achieving transformation efficiencies up to 4.4 x 10^-2 with minimal DNA and cell amounts.

The paper demonstrates that expressing two bacterial actins in a synthetic minimal bacterium enables swimming motility, suggesting that bacterial actins can generate helical cell shapes and movement.