Kimiho Omae

The paper introduces the SAR11 Genome Atlas, a resource integrating SAR11 genomes and functional data to support ecological and genomic analysis of oceanic bacteria.

This study investigates the function of the unknome in SAR11 clade bacteria, identifying genes involved in substrate uptake, nucleotide utilization, and antiviral defense, providing insights into their ecological success.

The paper analyzes 46,015 bacterial genomes to show hibernation factors evolved from large proteins, reduced in size, and were lost in over 10% of species, with some bacteria borrowing factors from others.

The paper introduces two phylogenetic methods, ASA and SEV, to identify functionally related gene pairs in prokaryotic genomes by considering evolutionary history, showing improved performance over existing methods.

The paper investigates structural convergence in fusion enzymes from different gene fusions, showing similar dimeric structures despite distinct overall architectures and amino acid sequences.

The paper identifies a novel group I intron insertion site in tRNA genes of Patescibacteria and maps its phylogenetic distribution across bacterial phyla.

The paper identifies a novel subclass of MgtE Mg2+ channels and demonstrates that de novo protein design can stabilize and enable structural analysis of otherwise unstable homologs.