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  1. Kato S, Tahara Y, Nishimura Y, Uemastu K, Arai T, Nakane D, Ihara A, Nishizaka T, Iwasaki W, Itoh T, Miyata M, Ohkuma M. Cell surface architecture of the cultivated DPANN archaeon Nanobdella aerobiophila. J. Bacteriol. 206:e00351-23 (2024) [link][Full text][bioRxiv]
  2. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdellota phyl. nov.. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. (2023) [link]
  3. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdellia. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. (2023) [link]
  4. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdellales. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. (2023) [link]
  5. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdellaceae. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. (2023) [link]
  6. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdella. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. (2023) [link]
  7. Nakano S, Furutani H, Kato S, Kouduka M, Yamazaki T, Suzuki Y. Bullet-shaped magnetosomes and metagenomics-based magnetosome gene profiles in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney. Front. Microbiol 14:1174899 (2023) [link]
  8. Kato S, Itoh T, Wu L, Ma J, Ohkuma M. Complete genome sequence of Vulcanisaeta souniana strain IC-059, a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from hot spring water in Japan. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. e01080-22 (2023) [link]
  9. Kato S, Masuda S, Shibata A, Shirasu K, Ohkuma M. Insights into ecological roles of uncultivated bacteria in hot spring sediment from long-read metagenomics. Front. Microbiol. 13:1045931 (2022) [link]
  10. Itoh T, Kato S, Sorokin DY. Natronolimnohabitans. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (2022) [link]
  11. Kanno N, Kato S, Ohkuma M, Matsui M, Iwasaki W, Shigeto S. Nondestructive microbial discrimination using single-cell Raman spectra and Random Forest machine learning algorithm. STAR Protocols 3:101812 (2022) [link]
  12. Kato S, Ogasawara A, Itoh T, Sakai, HD, Shimizu M, Yuki M, Kaneko M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdella aerobiophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, obligate ectosymbiotic archaeon, and proposal of Nanobdellaceae fam. nov., Nanobdellales ord. nov. and Nanobdellia class. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 72:005489 (2022) [link][Press release]
  13. Takamiya H, Kouduka M, Furutani H, Mukai H, Nakagawa K, Yamamoto T, Kato S, Kodama Y, Tomioka N, Ito M, Suzuki Y. Copper-nanocoated ultra-small cells in grain boundaries inside an extinct vent chimney. Front. Microbiol 13:864205 (2022) [link]
  14. Kato S, Itoh T, Iino T, Ohkuma M. Sideroxyarcus emersonii gen. nov. sp. nov., a neutrophilic, microaerobic iron- and thiosulfate-oxidizing bacterium isolated from iron-rich wetland sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 72:005347 (2022) [link]
  15. Sakai HD, Nur N, Kato S, Yuki M, Shimizu M, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Suwanto A, Kurosawa N. Insight into the symbiotic lifestyle of DPANN archaea revealed by cultivation and genome analyses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 119:e2115449119 (2022) [link]
  16. Kanno N, Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Shigeto S. Resonance Raman analysis of intracellular vitamin B12 analogues in methanogenic archaea. Anal. Sci. Adv. doi: 10.1002/ansa.202100042 (2022) [link]
  17. Kato S, Ohkuma M. A single bacterium capable of oxidation and reduction of iron at circumneutral pH. Microbiol. Spectr. 9: e00161-21 (2021) [link][Press release][Kagaku-do]
  18. Omokawa H, Kurosawa N, Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Sakai HD. Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Sulfolobales Archaeon Strain, HS-7, Isolated from the Unzen Hot Spring in Japan. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. 10:e00582-21 (2021) [link]
  19. Kanno N, Kato S, Ohkuma M, Matsui M, Iwasaki W, Shigeto S. Machine learning-assisted single-cell Raman fingerprinting for in situ and nondestructive classification of prokaryotes. iScience DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102975:102975 (2021) [link]
  20. Kato S, Ohnishi M, Nagamori M, Yuki M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M, Itoh T. Conexivisphaera calida gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur- and iron-reducing archaeon, and proposal of Conexivisphaeraceae fam. nov., Conexivisphaerales ord. nov., and Conexivisphaeria class. nov. in the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004595 (2020) [link]
  21. Kato S, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Complete Genome Sequence of Athalassotoga saccharophila Strain NAS-01, a Deep-Branching Thermophilic Lineage in the Phylum Thermotogae. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. 9:e00322-20 (2020) [link]
  22. Usui A, Hino H, Suzushima D, Tomioka N, Suzuki Y, Sunamura M, Kato S, Kashiwabara T, Kikuchi S, Uramoto G, Suzuki K and Yamaoka K. Modern precipitation of hydrogenetic ferromanganese minerals during on-site 15-year exposure tests. Sci. Rep. 10:3558 (2020) [link]
  23. Itoh T, Miura T, Sakai H, Kato S, Ohkuma M, Takashina T. Sulfuracidifex tepidarius gen. nov., sp. nov. and transfer of Sulfolobus metallicus Huber and Stetter 1992 in the genus Sulfuracidifex as Sulfuracidifex metallicus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 70:1837-1842 (2020) [link]
  24. Kato S, Itoh T, Yuki M, Nagamori M, Ohnishi M, Uematsu K, Suzuki K, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic sulfur- and iron-reducing thaumarchaeote from a terrestrial acidic hot spring. ISME J. 13:2465-2474 (2019) [link][Full text][Press release]
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  25. Kato S, Hirai M, Ohkuma M, Suzuki K. Microbial metabolisms in an abyssal ferromanganese crust from the Takuyo-Daigo Seamount as revealed by metagenomics. PLOS ONE 14(11): e0224888 (2019) [link]
  26. Kato S, Nakano S, Kouduka M, Hirai M, Suzuki K, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Suzuki Y. Metabolic potential of as-yet-uncultured archaeal lineages of Candidatus Hydrothermarchaeota thriving in deep-sea metal sulfide deposits. Microbes Environ. 34:293-303 (2019) [link]
  27. Kato S, Okumura T, Uematsu K, Hirai M, Iijima K, Usui A, Suzuki K. Heterogeneity of microbial communities on deep-sea ferromanganese crusts in the Takuyo-Daigo Seamount. Microbes Environ. 33:366-377 (2018) [link]
  28. Kato S, Yuki M, Itoh T, Ohkuma M. Complete genome sequence of Ferriphaselus amnicola strain OYT1, a neutrophilic, stalk-forming, iron- oxidizing bacterium. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. 7:e00911-18 (2018) [link]
  29. Kato S, Shibuya T, Takaki Y, Hirai M, Nunoura T, Suzuki K. Genome-enabled metabolic reconstruction of dominant chemosynthetic colonizers in deep-sea massive sulfide deposits. Environ. Microbiol. 20:862-877 (2018) [link]
  30. Kato S, Sakai S, Hirai M, Tasumi E, Nishizawa M, Suzuki K, Takai K. Long-term cultivation and metagenomics reveal ecophysiology of previously uncultivated thermophiles involved in biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Microbes Environ. 33:107-110 (2018) [link]
  31. Ino K, Hernsdorf AW, Konno U, Kouduka M, Yanagawa K, Kato S, Sunamura M, Hirota A, Togo YS, Ito K, Fukuda A, Iwatsuki T, Mizuno T, Komatsu DD, Tsunogai U, Ishimura T, Amano Y, Thomas BC, Banfield JF, Suzuki Y. Ecological and genomic profiling of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea in a deep granitic environment. ISME J 12: 31–47 (2018) [link]
  32. Kato S*, Miyazaki M*, Kikuchi S, Kashiwabara T, Saito Y, Tasumi E, Suzuki K, Takai K, Cao LTT, Ohashi A, Imachi H. Biotic manganese oxidation coupled with methane oxidation using a continuous-flow bioreactor system under marine conditions. Water Sci. Technol. 76: 1781-1795 (2017) [link] *Equal contribution
  33. Chiu BK, Kato S, McAllister SM, Field EK, Chan CS. Novel pelagic iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria from the Chesapeake Bay oxic-anoxic transition zone. Front. Microbiol. 8:1280. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01280 (2017) [link]
  34. Nitahara S*, Kato S*, Usui A, Urabe T, Suzuki K & Yamagishi A. Archaeal and bacterial communities in deep-sea hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts on old seamounts of the northwestern Pacific. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0173071. (2017) [link] *Equal contribution
  35. Mino S, Nakagawa S, Makita H, Toki T, Miyazaki J, Sievert SM, Polz MF, Inagaki F, Godfroy A, Kato S, Watanabe H, Nunoura T, Nakamura K, Imachi H, Watsuji TO, Kojima S, Takai K, Sawabe T. Endemicity of the cosmopolitan mesophilic chemolithoautotroph Sulfurimonas at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. ISME J 11: 909-919 (2017) [link]
  36. Usui A, Nishi K, Sato H, Nakasato Y, Thornton B, Kashiwabara T, Tokumaru A, Sakaguchi A, Yamaoka K, Kato S, Nitahara S, Suzuki K, Iijima K, Urabe T. Continuous growth of hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts since 17 Myr ago on Takuyo-Daigo Seamount, NW Pacific, at water depths of 800–5500 m. Ore Geology Reviews 87: 71-87 (2017) [link]
  37. Field EK, Kato S, Findlay AJ, MacDonald DJ, Chiu BK, Luther III GW, Chan CS. Planktonic marine iron oxidizers drive iron mineralization under low-oxygen conditions. Geobiology 14: 499-508. (2016) [link]
  38. Kato S, Yamagishi A. A novel large filamentous deltaproteobacterium on hydrothermally inactive sulfide chimneys of the Southern Mariana Trough. Deep-Sea Res. Part I 110: 99-105. (2016) [link]
  39. Itoh T, Onishi M, Kato S, Iino T, Sakamoto M, Kudo T, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Athalassotoga saccharophila gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring of Japan, and proposal of Mesoaciditogales ord. nov., Mesoaciditogaceae fam. nov. in the phylum Thermotogae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 66: 1045-1051 (2016)[link]
  40. Kato S, Ohkuma M, Powell DH, Krepski ST, Oshima K, Hattori M, Shapiro N, Woyke T and Chan CS. Comparative genomic insights into ecophysiology of neutrophilic, microaerophilic iron oxidizing bacteria. Front. Microbiol. 6:1265. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01265 (2015)[link]
  41. Kato S, Ikehata K, Shibuya T, Urabe T, Ohkuma M and Yamagishi A. Potential for biogeochemical cycling of sulfur, iron and carbon within massive sulfide deposits below the seafloor. Environ. Microbiol. 17(5): 1817-1835. (2015) [link]
  42. Kato S. Ecophysiology of neutrophilic iron-oxidizing microorganisms and its significance in global biogeochemical cycling. Chikyukagaku (Geochemistry) (in Japanese with English abstract) 49(1): 1-17. (2015) [link]　
  43. Kato S, Suzuki K, Shibuya T, Ishibashi J, Ohkuma M, Yamagishi A. Experimental assessment of microbial effects on chemical interactions between seafloor massive sulfides and seawater at 4°C. In: Subseafloor biosphere linked to global hydrothermal systems: TAIGA concept (eds Ishibashi J, Okino K, Sunamura M). Tokyo: Springer Japan. pp 95-103. (2015) [link]
  44. Kato S, Ohkuma M, Yamagishi A. Intra-field variation of prokaryotic communities on and below the seafloor in the back-arc hydrothermal system of the Southern Mariana Trough. In: Subseafloor biosphere linked to global hydrothermal systems: TAIGA concept (eds Ishibashi J, Okino K, Sunamura M). Tokyo: Springer Japan. pp 301-311. (2015) [link]
  45. Suzuki K, Kato S, Shibuya T, Hirose T, Fuchida S, Kumar YR, Yoshizaki M, Masaki Y, Nakamura K, Kobayashi K, Masuda H, Yamagishi A, Urabe T. Development of hydrothermal and frictional experimental systems to simulate sub-seafloor water-rock-microbe interactions. In: Subseafloor biosphere linked to global hydrothermal systems: TAIGA concept (eds Ishibashi J, Okino K, Sunamura M). Tokyo: Springer Japan. pp 71-85. (2015) [link]
  46. Kato S, Krepski S, Chan C, Itoh T and Ohkuma M. Ferriphaselus amnicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a neutrophilic, stalk-forming, iron-oxidizing bacterium isolated from an iron-rich groundwater seep. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 64(Pt3): 921-925. (2014) [link]
  47. Kato S, Chan C, Itoh T and Ohkuma M. Functional gene analysis of freshwater iron-rich flocs at circumneutral pH and isolation of a stalk-forming microaerophilic iron-oxidizing bacterium. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 79(17): 5283-5290. (2013) [link]
  48. Kato S, Nakawake M, Kita J, Yamanaka T, Utsumi M, Okamura K, Ishibashi J, Ohkuma M and Yamagishi A. Characteristics of microbial communities in crustal fluids in a deep-sea hydrothermal field of the Suiyo Seamount. Front. Microbiol. 4:85. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00085 (2013) [link]
  49. Mino S, Maikita H, Toki T, Miyazaki J, Kato S, Watanabe H, Imachi H, Watsuji T, Nunoura T, Kojima S, Sawabe T, Takai K, Nakagawa S. Biogeography of Persephonella in deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Western Pacific. Front. Microbiol. 4:107. doi: 110.3389/fmicb.2013.00107 (2013) [link]
  50. Kato S, Shibuya T, Nakamura K, Suzuki K, Rejishkumar V.J., Yamagishi A. Elemental dissolution from basaltic rocks at 340ºC and 40MPa in a flow-type hydrothermal apparatus. Geochemical J 47:89-92. (2013) [link]
  51. Kato S, Nakamura K, Toki T, Ishibashi J, Tsunogai U, Hirota A, Ohkuma M and Yamagishi A. Iron-based microbial ecosystem on and below the seafloor: a case study of hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough. Front. Microbiol. 3:89. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00089 (2012) [link]
  52. Kato S, Nakawake M, Ohkuma M, Yamagishi A. Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of cbbM genes encoding RubisCO form II in a deep-sea hydrothermal field revealed by newly designed PCR primers. Extremophiles 16(2): 277-283. (2012) [link] [Erratum]
  53. Kato S, Kikuchi S, Kashiwabara T, Takahashi Y, Suzuki K, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Yamagishi A. Prokaryotic abundance and community composition in a freshwater iron-rich microbial mat at circumneutral pH. Geomicrobiology Journal 29(10):896–905. (2012) [link]
  54. Nitahara S, Kato S, Urabe T, Usui A & Yamagishi A. Molecular characterization of the microbial community in hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts of the takuyo-daigo seamount, northwest Pacific. FEMS Microbiology Letters 321: 121-129. (2011) [link]
  55. Kato S, Itoh T & Yamagishi A. Archaeal diversity in a terrestrial acidic spring field revealed by a novel PCR primer targeting archaeal 16S rRNA genes. FEMS Microbiology Letters 319: 34-43. (2011) [link]
  56. Kato S, Takano Y, Kakegawa T, Oba H, Inoue K, Kobayashi C, Utsumi M, Marumo K, Kobayashi K, Ito Y et al. Biogeography and biodiversity in sulfide structures of active and inactive vents at deep-sea hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76: 2968-2979. (2010) [link]
  57. Suzuki K, Nakamura K, Kato S & Yamagishi A. Experimental approach to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the biogeochemistry of a seafloor hydrothermal system. Journal of Geography (in Japanese with English abstract) 118: 1131-1159. (2009) [link][PDF]
  58. Kato S, Yanagawa K, Sunamura M, Takano Y, Ishibashi J, Kakegawa T, Utsumi M, Yamanaka T, Toki T, Noguchi T et al. Abundance of Zetaproteobacteria within crustal fluids in back-arc hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough. Environ. Microbiol. 11: 3210-3222. (2009) [link]
  59. Kato S, Hara K, Kasai H, Teramura T, Sunamura M, Ishibashi J, Kakegawa T, Yamanaka T, Kimura H, Marumo K et al. Spatial distribution, diversity and composition of bacterial communities in sub-seafloor fluids at a deep-sea hydrothermal field of the Suiyo Seamount. Deep-Sea Res. Part I 56: 1844-1855. (2009) [link]
  60. Kato S, Kobayashi C, Kakegawa T & Yamagishi A. Microbial communities in iron-silica-rich microbial mats at deep-sea hydrothermal fields of the Southern Mariana Trough. Environ. Microbiol. 11: 2094-2111. (2009) [link]

Non-peer reviewed papers

  1. Kato S, Yamagishi A. Prokaryotes In Metal Deposits On The Deep Seafloor. In: Deep Sea: Biodiversity, Human Dimension and Ecological Significance (eds Nigel T. Wilson). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-63321-637-2. pp.103-134. (2014) [link]
  2. Kato S, Yamagishi A. Microbial Biodiversity and Biogeography on the Deep Seafloor. In: Changing Diversity in Changing Environment (eds Grillo O, Venora G). InTech. (2011) [link]
  3. Kato S & Yamagishi A. Microbial ecosystem in marine hydrothermal system in the early and present earth. Viva Origino 38: 46-55. (2010) [link][PDF]
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