M. Kitaoka

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Research Areas

• Enzyme Production and Characterization
• Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
• Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
• Biofuel production and bioconversion
• Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization

Papers (7)

• 2019
  Varied Pathways of Infant Gut-Associated Bifidobacterium to Assimilate Human Milk Oligosaccharides: Prevalence of the Gene Set and Its Correlation with Bifidobacteria-Rich Microbiota Formation10.3390/nu12010071
• 2018
  Sharing of human milk oligosaccharides degradants within bifidobacterial communities in faecal cultures supplemented with Bifidobacterium bifidum10.1038/s41598-018-32080-3
• 2014
  A β1‐6/β1‐3 galactosidase from Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Bl‐04 gives insight into sub‐specificities of β‐galactoside catabolism within Bifidobacterium10.1111/mmi.12815
• 2012Primary author
  Bifidobacterial enzymes involved in the metabolism of human milk oligosaccharides.10.3945/an.111.001420
• 2011
  Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis uses two different β-galactosidases for selectively degrading type-1 and type-2 human milk oligosaccharides.10.1093/glycob/cwr116
• 2011
  Physiology of Consumption of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Infant Gut-associated Bifidobacteria*10.1074/jbc.M111.248138
• 2008
  Bifidobacterium bifidum Lacto-N-Biosidase, a Critical Enzyme for the Degradation of Human Milk Oligosaccharides with a Type 1 Structure10.1128/AEM.00149-08