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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

Graduating School 【 display / non-display 】

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  1986.03

  Iwate University   Faculty of Agriculture   Agricultural Chemistry   Graduated

Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

Graduate School 【 display / non-display 】

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  1991.03

  Yamagata University  Graduate School, Division of Medicine  Doctor's Course  Unfinished Course

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  1988.03

  Iwate University  Graduate School, Division of Agriculture  Agricultural Chemistry  Master's Course  Completed

Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

Campus Career 【 display / non-display 】

• 2021.04

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  2022.03

  IWATE University   Agri-Innovation Center   [Concurrently]

• 2006.08

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  IWATE University   Professor   [Duty]

• 2000.07

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  2006.07

  IWATE University   Associate Professor (As Old Post Name)   [Duty]

• 1998.07

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  2000.06

  IWATE University   Lecturer   [Duty]

• 1994.06

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  1998.06

  IWATE University   Research Assistant   [Duty]

External Career 【 display / non-display 】

External Career 【 display / non-display 】

• 1991.04

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  1995.05

  Yamagata University   Research Assistant  

Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

• Life Science / Applied molecular and cellular biology

• Life Science / Molecular biology

Course Subject 【 display / non-display 】

Course Subject 【 display / non-display 】

• 2020

  Basic Seminar (For first-year students)

• 2020

  Biochemistry 2

• 2020

  Plant Stress Biology

• 2020

  Advanced Biofunctional Systems

• 2021

  Graduation Research

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Published Papers 【 display / non-display 】

Published Papers 【 display / non-display 】

• Gene expression and metabolite levels converge in the thermogenic spadix of skunk cabbage

  Haruka Tanimoto, Yui Umekawa, Hideyuki Takahashi, Kota Goto, Kikukatsu Ito

  Plant Physiology   195 ( 2 ) 1561 - 1585   2024.02  [Refereed]

  Bulletin of University, Institute, etc.  Multiple authorship

  DOI

• Degradation of mitochondrial alternative oxidase in the appendices of Arum maculatum

  Kikukatsu Ito, Takafumi Ogata, Takanari Seito, Yui Umekawa, Yusuke Kakizaki, Hiroshi Osada, and Anthony L. Moore

  Biochemical Journal     2020.08  [Refereed]

  Bulletin of University, Institute, etc.  Multiple authorship

• Thioredoxin o-mediated reduction of mitochondrial alternative oxidase in the thermogenic skunk cabbage Symplocarpus renifolius

  Yui Umekawa, Kikukatsu Ito

  The Journal of Biochemistry   165 ( 1 ) 57 - 65   2018.12  [Refereed]

  Academic Journal  Multiple authorship

• Data analytic study of the homothermal maintenance mechanism of Skunk Cabbage: Capturing pre-equilibrium characteristics using extended poisson model

  Kawasaki S & Ito K

  Biophysics & Physicobiology   15   235 - 250   2018.09  [Refereed]

  Bulletin of University, Institute, etc.  Multiple authorship

• Exogenous induction of thermogenesis in Arum concinnatum by salicylic acid

  Danae Laina, Ioanna Oikonomou, Konstantina Koutroumpa, Michael Bariotakis, Kiriakos Kotzabasis, Kikukatsu Ito, Roger S. Seymour and Stergios A. Pirintsos

  Functional Plant Biology     2018.08  [Refereed]

  Bulletin of University, Institute, etc.  Multiple authorship

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Review Papers 【 display / non-display 】

Review Papers 【 display / non-display 】

• Thermoregulation in heat-producing skunk cabbage

    5 ( 5 ) 59 - 62   2021.04

  Academic Journal  

• Temperature regulation by thermogenic flowers.

  Roger S. Seymour, Kikukatsu Ito

  Plant Physiology and Development ( Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger )    2017.11

  Academic Journal  

• Heat-production and respiration control in Eastern skunk cabbage.

  Kikukatsu Ito

    84 ( 10 ) 853 - 857   2012.10

  Academic Journal  

• Thermogenic plants

  Onda Y. and Ito, K.

  Bioscience & Industry ( Japan Bioindustry association )  65 ( 11 ) 542 - 543   2007.11

  Others  

• Thermoregulatory system in skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.

  Takanori Ito, Yasuko Ito, Kikukatsu Ito

  KASEAA ( Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry )  44 ( 4 ) 225 - 232   2006.04

  Others  

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Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

Presentations 【 display / non-display 】

• Negative activation energies in homeothermic control in thermogenic plants.

  Poster (General)  Kikukatsu Ito & Yui Umekawa

  2018.06

  　

  　

• Modified Arrhenius model reveals the biochemical basis for thermoregulation of skunk cabbage

  Poster (General) 

  2017.01

  　

  　

• Redox regulation of AOX for homeothermy in skunk cabbage

  Poster (General)  Yui Umekawa, Kikukatsu Ito

  2016.11

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  2016.12

• Isolation and expression analysis of a cDNA encoding for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in thermogenic skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus renifolius.

  Poster (General)  Md Abu Sayed, Yui Umekawa, Kikukatsu Ito

  2016.10

  　

  　

• The homeothermic control based on pre-equilibrium reaction in thermogenic skunk cabbage

  Oral Presentation(General)  Yui Umekawa, Kikukatsu Ito

  2016.10

  　

  　

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Academic Awards Received 【 display / non-display 】

Academic Awards Received 【 display / non-display 】

• 2012.11.28

• Young Investigator Award of The Japanese Biochemical Society, Tohoku Branch

  2004.05

  All winners： ITO KIKUKATSU

• Early Career Scientist Best 6, Gordon Research Conference

  1999.01

  All winners： ITO KIKUKATSU

Industrial Property 【 display / non-display 】

Industrial Property 【 display / non-display 】

• Temperature control method and temperature controller.

  Patent

  Application number EP20040822565  Publication number EP1852765A4  Registration number US8150558 B2

  Application date： 2012.04.03

  Publication date： 2012.04.03