Jun-Ichiro Mukai

Mukai won the agricultural chemistry prize (Japan) [2] for A Digestive Endonuclease of Silkworm [3] in 1967. Mukai is a co-author of Fritz Albert Lipmann.[4]

Mukai was born as a son of Sannoju Mukai. After graduating Kumamoto Prefectural Seiseikou High School in Kumamoto, he admitted to Kyushu University. He received Ph.D. from Kyushu University.[5] After that, he became an assistant professor, then professor of Kyushu University. After retirement of Kyushu University, he was a professor of a junior college in Kumamoto, but died on January 5, 1998.

• Enzymology of 3'-Squiggled Nucleotides, The Roots of Modern Biochemistry (1988), Fritz Lippmann's Squiggle and its Consequences

• The use of purified micrococcal nuclease in identifying the nucleotide terminus bearing a free 5'-monophosphate (1964)
• Species-specificity of nucleotide composition of ribonucleic acids from different silkworms (1965)
• A deoxyribonuclease I from rice bran (1965)
• An endonuclease from silkworm ? Purification and mode of action (1965)
• Further purification of micrococcal nuclease from the strain SA-B (1965)
• Effect of 2-thiouracil on flower initiation in rice and wheat plants grown under aseptic conditions (1966)
• A ribonuclease from UV-induced mutant of Rhizopus niveus (1966)
• An improved paper chromatographic separation of four ribonucleosides, their 3′(2′)-phosphates and 3′(2′),5′-diphosphates (1966)
• Action of silkworm endonuclease on oligoribonucleotides terminating in 3′-phosphate (1967)
• Purification and properties of acid ribonucleases from posterior silk gland of silkworm (1967)
• Mode of Action and Base Specificity of a Nuclease from Silkworm (1968)
• Paper chromatography of diribonucleoside monophosphates (1968)
• A Red, Fluorescent Protein from Silkworm (1969)
• A biliprotein from the digestive juice of Bombyx Mori L. Its purification and partial structural study of the chromophore (1971)
• Use of silkworm endonuclease in sequencing larger oligonucleotides (1972)
• Silkworm Nuclease-Its Nature and Promise (1972)
• Comparison of larval and pupal alkaline endonucleases in silkworm, Bombyx mori L. (1973)
• l-Leucine, a natural inhibitor of silkworm larval nuclease (1974)
• Acceptor Specificity of ATP: Nucleoside-5'-Phosphate Pyrophosphotransferase from Streptoniyces adephospholyticus (1978)
• NAD-and FAD-3′-pyrophosphates—enzymic synthesis and inertness (1978)
• Mapping of deoxydi- and trinucleotides liberated by the action of endonucleases from the silkworm and Aspergillus oryzae (1978)
• Streptomyces nucleotide 3′-pyrophosphokinase. Synthesis of deoxynucleotide-3′-pyrophosphates and 3′-pyrophosphoryl→3′-OH transfer activity (1978)
• Guanosine-3'-diphosphate Synthesis by Nucleotide Pyrophosphokinase-Ribonuclease Reaction (1979)
• Synthesis of deoxynucleoside-5′-tri-3′-diphosphates by Streptomyces adephospholyticus ATP: Nucleotide pyrophosphokinase (1980)
• Regulatory Effects of Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleoside 5' -Di(tri)-phosphate-3'-diphosphates on Eucaryote Protein Synthesis (1981)
• Effects of purine and pyrimidine nucleoside 5′-di (tri) phosphate-3′-diphosphates on the Escherichia coli cell-free transcription and translation activity (1982)
• Guanosine 3′-Diphosphate, a Stimulant of Glucocorticoidal Tyrosine Aminotransferase Induction in Isolated Rat Liver Cells (1982)
• Several nucleoside‐3' and/or 5'‐polyphosphates stimulate β‐galactosidase induction in escherichia coli (1982)
• Enzymic synthesis and cofactor activity of 3'-pyrophospho-coenzyme A (1983)
• Enhanced Cofactor and Allosteric Effector Activity of 3′-Pyrophospho Coenzyme A and Its Acetate (1988)
• An In-One-Bottle Enzymic Preparation of 3′- Phosphoadenosine 5′-Phosphosulfate (1989)
• Streptomyces nucleotide 3′-pyrophosphokinase are insensitive to stringent control (1989)
• Gene Cloning and Enhanced Production of Streptomyces morookaensis Nucleotide 3’- Pyrophosphokinase (1989)
• Questionable Plasmid Involvement in Streptomyces ATP Nucleotide 3’-Pyrophosphokinase Formation (1991)
• Nucleotide 2′,3′-Cyclic Monophosphokinase Action of Streptomyces Nucleotide 3′-Pyrophosphokinase (1991)
• Alternative Synthesis of Guanosine 5'-Diphosphate 3'-Diphosphate and Adenosine 5'-Diphosphate 3'-Diphosphate from Adenosine 5'-Tetraphosphate by Streptomyces ATP Nucleotide 3'-Pyrophosphokinase Catalysis (1992)
• Expression of ATP Nucleotide 3′-Pyrophosphokinase Gene from Streptomyces in Escherichia Coli and its Effects on Host Cells (1995)
• Nucleic Acid Reacts With Methlmercury, A Causative Agent of Minamata Disease (1997)

• The Roots of Modern Biochemistry: Fritz Lippmann's Squiggle and its Consequences
• Cell Control Engineering Class Home Page, Episode 1 Water Research and Science
• Semantic Scholar