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Takuji Tanaka
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Research
Latest papers
Identifying microbial proteins and changes in proteome in spontaneously fermented pulse protein isolates.
Food chemistry. Molecular sciences · 2025
Microbial protein production during fermentation of starch-rich legume flours using Aspergillus oryzae and Lactobacillus plantarum starter cultures.
Journal of bioscience and bioengineering · 2025 · senior author
Submerged fermentation of lentil protein isolate and its impact on protein functionality, nutrition, and volatile profiles.
Journal of food science · 2024
Latest funding
- $99,000
Directed Evolution of Lactococcus lactis Xaa-Pro dipeptidase based on the rationales given through X-ray crystallographic studies
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $1,650,000
Canadian Agri-food Protein Training, Utilization and Research Enhancement (CAPTURE)
NSERC · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $168,000
Protein structure-based enhancement of enzyme performance for food and bioproduct applications using X-ray crystallography, protein modification and metabolic engineering methods
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
29 publications.
Identifying microbial proteins and changes in proteome in spontaneously fermented pulse protein isolates.
Das PP, Xu C, Lu Y, Liu E, Jafarian Z, Tanaka T, Korber D, Nickerson M, Rajagopalan N
Microbial protein production during fermentation of starch-rich legume flours using Aspergillus oryzae and Lactobacillus plantarum starter cultures.
Kryachko Y, Arasaratnam L, House JD, Ai Y, Nickerson MT, Korber DR, Tanaka T
Submerged fermentation of lentil protein isolate and its impact on protein functionality, nutrition, and volatile profiles.
Shi D, Stone AK, Jafarian Z, Liu E, Xu C, Bhagwat A, Lu Y, Gao P, Polley B, Bhowmik P, Rajagopalan N, Tanaka T, Korber DR, Nickerson MT
Structural basis for the allosteric behaviour and substrate specificity of Lactococcus lactis Prolidase.
Xu S, Grochulski P, Tanaka T
Snapshot of proteomic changes in Aspergillus oryzae during various stages of fermentative processing of pea protein isolate.
Das PP, Xu C, Lu Y, Khorsandi A, Tanaka T, Korber D, Nickerson M, Rajagopalan N
Improving the alkaline stability of pepsin through rational protein design using renin, an alkaline-stable aspartic protease, as a structural and functional reference.
Grahame DAS, Dupuis JH, Bryksa BC, Tanaka T, Yada RY
Development of redox potential-driven fermentation process for recombinant protein expression.
Guo J, Wu Y, Tanaka T, Lin YH
Production of glycerol by Lactobacillus plantarum NRRL B-4496 and formation of hexamine during fermentation of pea protein enriched flour.
Kryachko Y, Batbayar B, Tanaka T, Nickerson MT, Korber DR
Comparative bioinformatic and structural analyses of pepsin and renin.
Grahame DSA, Dupuis JH, Bryksa BC, Tanaka T, Yada RY
Protein quality and physicochemical properties of commercial cricket and mealworm powders.
Stone AK, Tanaka T, Nickerson MT
Directed Evolution of Lactococcus lactis Xaa-Pro dipeptidase based on the rationales given through X-ray crystallographic studies
Principal investigators: Tanaka, Takuji
Keywords: flavour enhancing; bitterness; peptides; x-ray crystallography; directed evolution; rationale redesign; protein engineering; metabolic engineering; structure-function relationships; proteinases
Canadian Agri-food Protein Training, Utilization and Research Enhancement (CAPTURE)
Principal investigators: Nickerson, Michael MT
Keywords: flavour reduction; food ingredients; ingredient supply chains; plant proteins; protein functionality; protein modification; protein nutrition; wet fractionation
Protein structure-based enhancement of enzyme performance for food and bioproduct applications using X-ray crystallography, protein modification and metabolic engineering methods
Principal investigators: Tanaka, Takuji
Bioconversion of agriculture by-products through creation of nutritious feeds for food insect culture
Principal investigators: Tanaka, Takuji
Structure-function relationship studies on unique allosteric prolidase, which may lead value-added foods, using X-ray cristallography and protein engineering techniques
Principal investigators: Tanaka, Takuji
Structure-function relationships of proline-specific peptidases of lactic acid bacteria.
Principal investigators: Tanaka, Takuji
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Darren Korber and Michael Nickerson: 2 shared papers
- Darren Korber and Takuji Tanaka: 2 shared papers
- Michael Nickerson and Takuji Tanaka: 2 shared papers
- Yen-Han Lin and Takuji Tanaka: 1 shared paper
- Yongfeng Ai and Michael Nickerson: 1 shared paper
- Yongfeng Ai and Takuji Tanaka: 1 shared paper
- Food and Bioproduct Sciences
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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