Research Subjects

Chlorophyll biosynthesis

• Loss of photosynthetic growth ability in cyanobacteria
• Biochemistry and physiology of dark-operative protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (DPOR)
• Adaptation to low oxygen environments

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Nitrogen fixation

• Creation of nitrogen-fixing plants
• Oxygen paradox in photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria

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Circadian Rhythm in Arabidopsis

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Research Materials

• Cyanobacteria
• Arabidopsis thaliana

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Members

Professor

Professor Yuichi FUJITA

1991
Ph.D. Osaka University
1990-1992
JSPS Fellow, Osaka University
1992-2002
Assistant Professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
2002-2016
Associate Professor, Nagoya University
2008-2011
PRESTO researcher (JST)
2016-present
Professor, Nagoya University

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Associate Professor

Takafumi Yamashino

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Assistant Professor

Haruki Yamamoto

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Research scientists

Mari Banba

Kazuma Uesaka

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Secretary

Keiko Itoh

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Technician

Asako Segawa

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Graduate student

D3

Yoshiki Morimoto

D2

Sara Bakri

D1

Kentaro Usui

M2

Mikihiro Ichiko

M2

Kandai Yamada

M2

Nao Umeoka

M2

Kyoka Obata

M2

Kaiya Miyazaki

M2

Kotomi Yamamoto

M1

Takahiro Arase

M1

Shoya Takahashi

M1

Mayu Chikada

M1

Takeshi Hada

M1

Ji Won Kim

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Undergraduate

B4

Seiya Izawa

B4

Takafumi Ueno

B4

Sorachi Katayama

B4

Marina Kishi

B4

Yui Shimizu

B4

Yusuke Suzuki

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Selected papers by Yuichi Fujita

Tsujimoto, R., Kotani, H., Yokomizo, K., Yamakawa, H., Nonaka, A., and Fujita, Y. (2018) Functional expression of an oxygen-labile nitrogenase in an oxygenic photosynthetic organism. Sci. Rep. 8, 7380.

Tsujimoto, R., Kamiya, N., and Fujita, Y. (2016) Identification of a cis-element in nitrogen fixation genes recognized by CnfR in the nonheterocystous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana. Mol. Microbiol. 101, 411–424.

Fujita, Y., Tsujimoto, R. and Aoki, R. (2015) Evolutionary aspects and regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in cyanobacteria under aerobic and anaerobic environments. Life, 5, 1172-1203.

Tsujimoto, R., Kamiya, N., and Fujita, Y. (2014) Transcriptional regulators ChlR and CnfR are essential for diazotrophic growth of nonheterocystous cyanobacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 6762-6767.

Aoki, R., Takeda, T., Omata, T., Ihara, K. and Fujita, Y. (2012) MarR-type transcriptional regulator ChlR activates expression of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis genes in response to low-oxygen conditions in cyanobacteria. J. Biol. Chem. 287, 13500-13507.

Muraki, N., Nomata, J., Ebata, K., Mizoguchi, T., Shiba, T., Tamiaki, H., Kurisu, G. and Fujita, Y. (2010) X-ray crystal structure of the light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase. Nature 465, 110-114.

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