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

Sara Bakri

D2

Kentaro Usui

M2

Kandai Yamada

M2

Takahiro Arase

M2

Shoya Takahashi

M2

Mayu Chikada

M2

Takeshi Hada

M2

Ji Won Kim

M1

Seiya Izawa

M1

Takafumi Ueno

M1

Marina Kishi

M1

Yui Shimizu

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Undergraduate

B4

Ami Inazawa

B4

Koki Kakinuma

B4

Haruna Sakurai

B4

Nana Suehisa

B4

Chiri Nishiyama

B4

Kai Funahashi

B4

Yusuke Suzuki

B4

Yuki Koga

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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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