2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Organelle communication of endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia
| Project/Area Number |
23657133
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Cell biology
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
KITADA Sakae 九州工業大学, 大学院・情報工学研究院, 准教授 (20284482)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | ボルバキア / オルガネラ / ミトコンドリア / 共生 / 昆虫 |
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| Research Abstract |
Although Wolbachia are intracellar symbiotic bacteria in mainly insect cells, it is unknown how the bacteria stably inhabit in eucaryotic cells. Here we identified three unique genes, named Wolbachia hypothetical protein 1 (WOP1)、WOP2、WOP3, form bioinformatics analyses with BRAST comparison between five genomes of Wolbachia. The genes seemed to express in the massage level under co-culture with insect cell lines.
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