Nobukiyo Tanaka

The paper identifies three new glycoside hydrolase families of β-1,2-glucanases and reveals their functional and structural relationships within a superfamily.

This study identifies a beta-galactosidase from Bacteroides xylanisolvens that hydrolyzes beta-1,2-galactooligosaccharides, revealing its unique substrate specificity through structural and biochemical analysis.

The paper functionally and structurally analyzes the cyclization domain of a cyclic β-1,2-glucan synthase, revealing it produces cyclic β-1,2-glucans through transglycosylation without hydrolysis and proposes it belongs to a new glycoside hydrolase family.