Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Genomics
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
Nitrogen fixation
- Creation of nitrogen-fixing plants
- Oxygen paradox in photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria
Circadian Rhythm in Arabidopsis
Research Materials
- Cyanobacteria
- Arabidopsis thaliana
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
Associate Professor
Takafumi Yamashino
Assistant Professor
Haruki Yamamoto
Research scientists
Mari Banba
Kazuma Uesaka
Akiko Tomitani
Secretary
Satomi Morita
Technician
Asako Segawa
Graduate student
- D3
- Sara Bakri
- D3
- German Alonso Tolo
- D3
- Kentaro Usui
- M2
- Ji Won Kim
- M2
- Seiya Izawa
- M2
- Takafumi Ueno
- M2
- Marina Kishi
- M2
- Yui Shimizu
- M2
- Kandai Yamada
- M1
- Ami Inazawa
- M1
- Chiri Nishiyama
- M1
- Kai Funahashi
Undergraduate
- B4
- Yuki Koga
- B4
- Wakuto Itome
- B4
- Ryo Kobayashi
- B4
- Ryota Sano
- B4
- Hitomi Sugizaki
- B4
- Riina Tsuge
- B4
- Yusuke Suzuki
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.