Taro Ozaki

2.2k total citations
69 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Taro Ozaki is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Taro Ozaki has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Pharmacology, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Taro Ozaki's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (62 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (31 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (14 papers). Taro Ozaki is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (62 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (31 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (14 papers). Taro Ozaki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Taro Ozaki's co-authors include Hideaki Oikawa, Atsushi Minami, Chengwei Liu, Hiroyasu Onaka, Shumpei Asamizu, Makoto Nishiyama, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, Shinichi Nishimura, Hideaki Kakeya and Ryosuke Sugiyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Taro Ozaki

65 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers

Taro Ozaki
Mikko Metsä‐Ketelä Finland
Jeffrey D. Rudolf United States
Zixin Deng China
Toshihiko Nogawa Japan
Yongxiang Song China
Yiguang Zhu China
Courtney M. Starks United States
Miho Izumikawa Japan
Junko Hashimoto Japan
Shu‐Shan Gao China
Mikko Metsä‐Ketelä Finland
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All Works

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Ozaki, Taro, et al.. (2025). Ketosynthase Domain Catalyzes β-Lactonization in the Biosynthesis of the HMG-CoA Synthase Inhibitor Hymeglusin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(29). 25136–25141. 1 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, Hitoshi Sekiya, Akihiro Sugawara, et al.. (2025). Vinigrol Tricyclic Scaffold Biosynthesis Employs an Atypical Terpene Cyclase and a Multipotent Cyclization Cascade. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(49). 45168–45177.
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Matsui, Hiroto, Takashi Yamamoto, Taro Ozaki, et al.. (2025). Discovery and Theoretical Studies of Nonenzymatic Polyketide Dimerizations of Chaetophenols. Organic Letters. 27(5). 1095–1099.
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Sato, Yukari, Akihiro Sugawara, Ashaimaa Y. Moussa, et al.. (2025). Biosynthesis of Circumdatins Employs an Anthranilate Tailoring Pathway for NRPS Substrate Supplies. Organic Letters. 27(26). 7170–7175. 1 indexed citations
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Sugawara, Akihiro, et al.. (2024). Genome mining of labdane-related diterpenoids: Discovery of the two-enzyme pathway leading to (−)-sandaracopimaradiene in the fungus Arthrinium sacchari. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 20. 714–720. 2 indexed citations
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Katayama, Takuya, et al.. (2024). Subcellular compartmentalized localization of transmembrane proteins essential for production of fungal cyclic peptide cyclochlorotine. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 88(11). 1279–1288. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Yaping, Taro Ozaki, Atsushi Minami, & Hideaki Oikawa. (2023). Oxidative bicyclic ring system formation involving indole diterpene biosynthesis: Remarkable substrate tolerance of a prenyltransferase and flavoprotein oxidase. Tetrahedron Letters. 117. 154374–154374. 2 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, Akihiro Sugawara, Yu Pei Tan, et al.. (2023). A new 3,6-dialkyl-α-pyrone produced by the heterologous expression of a PKS-NRPS hybrid enzyme derived from a Pestalotiopsis endophyte. Tetrahedron Letters. 134. 154865–154865. 5 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, et al.. (2023). Identification and Functional Characterization of Fungal Chalcone Synthase and Chalcone Isomerase. Journal of Natural Products. 86(2). 398–405. 14 indexed citations
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Sugawara, Akihiro, et al.. (2022). Discovery of a Cyclic Depsipeptide from Chaetomium mollipilium by the Genome Mining Approach. Organic Letters. 24(19). 3504–3509. 9 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, et al.. (2022). Elucidation of Late-Stage Biosynthesis of Phomoidride: Proposal of Cyclization Mechanism Affording Characteristic Nine-Membered Ring of Fungal Dimeric Anhydride. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(46). 20998–21004. 7 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, Atsushi Minami, & Hideaki Oikawa. (2022). Recent advances in the biosynthesis of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides of fungal origin. The Journal of Antibiotics. 76(1). 3–13. 19 indexed citations
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Jiang, Lan, Xue Zhang, Guoliang Zhu, et al.. (2021). Genome-Based Discovery of Enantiomeric Pentacyclic Sesterterpenes Catalyzed by Fungal Bifunctional Terpene Synthases. Organic Letters. 23(12). 4645–4650. 31 indexed citations
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Hoshino, Shotaro, Hidenori Takahashi, Yohei Katsuyama, et al.. (2020). Acyltransferase that catalyses the condensation of polyketide and peptide moieties of goadvionin hybrid lipopeptides. Nature Chemistry. 12(9). 869–877. 46 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, Makoto Nishiyama, & Tomohisa Kuzuyama. (2013). Novel Tryptophan Metabolism by a Potential Gene Cluster That Is Widely Distributed among Actinomycetes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(14). 9946–9956. 32 indexed citations
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Kitagawa, Wataru, Taro Ozaki, Taiki Nishioka, et al.. (2013). Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the Aurachin RE Biosynthesis Gene Cluster Afford a New Cytochrome P450 for Quinoline N‐Hydroxylation. ChemBioChem. 14(9). 1085–1093. 29 indexed citations
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Ozaki, Taro, Satoshi Mishima, Makoto Nishiyama, & Tomohisa Kuzuyama. (2009). NovQ is a prenyltransferase capable of catalyzing the addition of a dimethylallyl group to both phenylpropanoids and flavonoids. The Journal of Antibiotics. 62(7). 385–392. 58 indexed citations

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