2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Isolation of novel-type photosynthesis mutants of Chlamydomonas by phototaxis-based screening
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26650093
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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 |
Plant molecular biology/Plant physiology
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
Hisabori Toru 東京工業大学, 科学技術創成研究院, 教授
Ueki Noriko 東京工業大学, 科学技術創成研究院, 博士研究員
Ide Takahiro 東京工業大学, 資源化学研究所, 博士研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 走光性 / 光合成 / レドックス / 鞭毛 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
For phototrophic microorganisms, it is important to inhabit under suitable light environment for phototaxis. Previously, we found that Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model organism to study photo-behavioral responses, shows positive phototaxis when cell is oxidized, and negative phototaxis when it is reduced. We came up with the idea to use this phenomenon as a new criterion for screening of novel-type photosynthesis mutants. In this research, we isolated three types of phototaxis-sign mutants, and one of them shows significantly high photosynthetic activity.
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| Free Research Field |
細胞運動
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