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2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Analyses of the photosynthetic oxygen evolving system that sustains the global environment - Reaction mechanisms, acquisition and succession processes

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 17GS0314
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Creative Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

MIMURO Mamoru  Kyoto University, 大学院・人間環境学研究科, 教授 (40142004)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TANAKA Ayumi  北海道大学, 低温科学研究所, 教授 (10197402)
NOGUCHI Takumi  筑波大学, 大学院・数理物質科学研究科, 准教授 (60241246)
MURAKAMI Akio  神戸大学, 内海域環境教育研究センター, 准教授 (50304134)
SEKINE Yasuhiko  立教大学, 理学部, 准教授 (80222074)
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2009
Keywords酸素発生 / 光合成 / 葉緑体 / 進化中間体
Research Abstract

We analyzed the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving system that sustains the global environments. Our main targets for analysis of reaction mechanisms, acquisition and succession processes. As for acquisition processes, we investigated the change of photosynthetic pigments and following optimization processes of protein complexes. This process was a typical succession from anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria to cyanobacteria. On the reaction mechanism, we changed a ligand to Mn cluster and other amino acids that were supposed to be involved to reaction processes, and found that biding of water molecules to a specific Mn atom. We further found the proton release cycle. On the succession processes, we studied the requisites for transfer of cyanobacterial genes to chloroplast genes. By the five-year study, we published many papers that would be a milestone for study of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving system in the world.

  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (15 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 15 results) Presentation (5 results) Book (2 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Redox potential of pheophytin a in photosystem II of two cyanobacterial species having different chlorophyll species.2010

    • Author(s)
      S.I. Allakhverdiev, T. Tomo, Y. Shimada, H. Kindo, R. Nagao, V.V. Klimov, M. Mimuro
    • Journal Title

      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107

      Pages: 3924-3929

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Participation of chlorophyll b reductase in the initial step of the degradation of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes in Arabidopsis.2009

    • Author(s)
      Y. Horie, H. Ito, M. Kusaba, R. Tanaka, A. Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      J. Biol. Chem. 284

      Pages: 17449-17456

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] FTIR evidence that the PsbP extrinsic protein induces protein conformational changes around the oxygen-evolving Mn cluster in photosystem II.2009

    • Author(s)
      M. Tomita, K. Ifuku, F. Sato, T. Noguchi
    • Journal Title

      Biochemistry 48

      Pages: 6318-6325

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Monitoring proton release during photosynthetic water oxidation in photosystem II by means of isotope-edited infrared spectroscopy.2009

    • Author(s)
      H. Suzuki, M. Sugiura, T. Noguchi
    • Journal Title

      J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131

      Pages: 7849-7857

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identification of transcribed and persistent variants of the psbA gene carried by plastid minicircles in a dinoflagellate.2009

    • Author(s)
      S. Iida, A. Kobiyama, T. Ogata, A. Murakami
    • Journal Title

      Curr. Genet. 55

      Pages: 583-591

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Suppression of repeat-mediated gross mitochondrial genome rearrangements by RecA in the moss Physcomitrella patens.2009

    • Author(s)
      M. Odahara, H. Kuroiwa, T. Kuroiwa, Y. Sekine
    • Journal Title

      Plant Cell 21

      Pages: 1182-1194

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] R2R3-type MYB transcription factor, CmMYB1, is a central nitrogen assimilation regulator in Cyanidioschyzon merolae.2009

    • Author(s)
      S. Imamura, Y. Kanesaki, M. Ohnuma, T. Inouye, Y. Sekine, T. Fujiwara, T. Kuroiwa, K. Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106

      Pages: 12548-12553

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina.2008

    • Author(s)
      W.D. Swingley, M. Chen, P.C. Cheung, A.L. Conrad, L.C. Dejesa, J. Hao, B.M. Honchak, L.E. Karbach, A. Kurdoglu, S. Lahiri, S.D. Mastrian, H. Miyashita, L. Page, P. Ramakrishna, S. Satoh, W.M. Sattley, Y. Shimada, H.L. Taylor, T. Tomo, T. Tsuchiya, Zi T. WW.D. Swingley, M. Chen, P.C. Cheung, A.L. Conrad, L.C. Dejes
    • Journal Title

      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105

      Pages: 2005-2010

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identification of a novel vinyl reductase gene essential for the biosynthesis of monovinyl chlorophyll in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.2008

    • Author(s)
      H. Ito, M. Yokono, R. Tanaka, A. Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      J. Biol. Chem. 283

      Pages: 9002-9011

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Monitoring water reactions during the S-state cycle of the photosynthetic water-oxidizing center: Detection of the DOD bending vibrations by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.2008

    • Author(s)
      H. Suzuki, M. Sugiura, T. Noguchi
    • Journal Title

      Biochemistry 47

      Pages: 11024-11030

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The D1 and D2 proteins of dinoflagellates: unusually accumulated mutations which influence on PSII photoreaction. Photosynth.2008

    • Author(s)
      S. Iida, A. Kobiyama, T. Ogata, A. Murakami
    • Journal Title

      Res. 98

      Pages: 415-425

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identification of the special pair of photosystem II in the chlorophyll d-dominated cyanobacterium.2007

    • Author(s)
      T. Tomo, T. Okubo, S. Akimoto, M. Yokono, H. Miyashita, T. Tsuchiya, T. Noguchi, M. Mimuro
    • Journal Title

      Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104

      Pages: 7283-7288

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in higher plants.2007

    • Author(s)
      R. Tanaka, A. Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. 58

      Pages: 321-346

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Permuted tRNA genes expressed via a circular RNA intermediate in Cyanidioschyzon merolae.2007

    • Author(s)
      A. Soma, A. Onodera, J. Sugahara, A. Kanai, N. Yachie, M. Tomita, F. Kawamura, Y. Sekine
    • Journal Title

      Science 318

      Pages: 450-453

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Fluorescence properties of the chlorophyll d-dominated cyanobacterium Acaryochloris sp. strain Awaji.2006

    • Author(s)
      S. Akimoto, A. Murakami, M. Yokono, K. Koyama, T. Tsuchiya, H. Miyashita, I. Yamazaki, M. Mimuro
    • Journal Title

      J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 178

      Pages: 122-129

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] ペリディニン型渦鞭毛藻におけるPSIIコアタンパク質の変異性2009

    • Author(s)
      飯田聡子, 小檜山篤志, 緒方武比古, 村上明男
    • Organizer
      第50回植物生理学会年会
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋
    • Year and Date
      20090321-20090324
  • [Presentation] ゲノムデータに基づくオルガネラ移行シグナル配列の獲得過程の予測2008

    • Author(s)
      堀孝一, 関根靖彦
    • Organizer
      日本進化学会第10回東京大会ワークショップ「ゲノム・トランスクリプトーム情報から植物の進化に迫る」
    • Place of Presentation
      東京
    • Year and Date
      20080822-20080824
  • [Presentation] Regulation and function of chlorophyll metabolism.2008

    • Author(s)
      A. Tanaka
    • Organizer
      Gordon Research Conferences, Mitochondria & Chloroplasts
    • Place of Presentation
      Biddeford, ME (USA)
    • Year and Date
      20080810-20080815
  • [Presentation] Components and photochemical reactions in photosystem II of the Chl d-dominated cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina.2007

    • Author(s)
      M. Mimuro, T. Tomo, T. Tsuchiya, T. Okubo, T. Noguchi, S. Akimoto
    • Organizer
      7th International symposium on tetrapyrrole photoreceptors in photosynthetic organisms
    • Place of Presentation
      Kyoto (Japan)
    • Year and Date
      20071209-20071214
  • [Presentation] FTIR study on the proton release pattern during water oxidation in photosystem II core complexes from Thermosynechococcus elongatus2007

    • Author(s)
      H. Suzuki, M. Sugiura, T. Noguchi
    • Organizer
      Photosynthesis 2007
    • Place of Presentation
      Glasgow (UK)
    • Year and Date
      20070722-20070727
  • [Book] 科学雑誌「ニュートン」「光合成」特集号の監修2008

    • Author(s)
      三室守, 野口巧
    • Total Pages
      14-51
  • [Book] Recent progress of bio/chemiluminescence and fluorescence analysis in photosynthesis.2005

    • Author(s)
      N. Wada, M. Mimuro
    • Total Pages
      127-147
    • Publisher
      Research Signpost
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] アシフルオロフェンに対する耐性を付与する活性を有するプロトポルフィリノーゲンオキシダーゼ及びその遺伝子2005

    • Inventor(s)
      田中歩, 田中亮一, 加登一成, 深川尊子
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      日本曹達株式会社,国立大学法人北海道大学
    • Industrial Property Number
      特願2005-278942
    • Filing Date
      2005-09-26

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