Takaaki B. Narita

Dictyostelium hybrid polyketide synthase, SteelyA, produces 4-methyl-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol and induces spore maturation

Takaaki B. Narita, Kota Koide, Naoki Morita et al. · FEMS Microbiology Letters · 2011 · 30 citations

Engineering, Genetics, Molecular Biology +19

Effects of deletion of the receptor CrlA on Dictyostelium aggregation and MPBD-mediated responses are strain dependent and not evident in strain Ax2

Takaaki B. Narita, Pauline Schaap, Tamao Saito · FEMS Microbiology Letters · 2017 · 30 citations · Full text

Strain Ax2, Genetics, Molecular Biology +21

The Hybrid Type Polyketide Synthase SteelyA Is Required for cAMP Signalling in Early Dictyostelium Development

Takaaki B. Narita, Zhihui Chen, Pauline Schaap et al. · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 21 citations · Full text

Loss of the Polyketide Synthase StlB Results in Stalk Cell Overproduction in Polysphondylium violaceum

Takaaki B. Narita, Yoshinori Kawabe, Koryu Kin et al. · Genome Biology and Evolution · 2020 · 17 citations · Full text

Steely Enzymes Are Involved in Prestalk and Prespore Pattern Formation

Yukie Sato, Haruna N. KAGAMI, Takaaki B. Narita et al. · Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry · 2013 · 11 citations

Molecular Regulation, Molecular Biology, Biosynthesis +18