Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Materials and Life Sciences
Job title
Associate Professor
Degree
Bachelor(The University of Tokyo), Master(The University of Tokyo), Ph. D.(The University of Tokyo)
Research funding number
90332345
J-Global ID
200901000526942076
Profile
1) Replication and morphology of plastids in Arabidopsis thaliana 2) Idioblast formation in Egeria densa(Subject of research) (1) Genetic control of plastid division. (2) Cytological analysis of green algae.
Akane Yamagishi Yuki Egoshi Makoto T Fujiwara Noriyuki Suzuki Tohru Taniguchi Ryuuichi D Itoh Yumiko Suzuki Yoshiro Masuyama Kenji Monde Toyonobu Usuki
CHEMISTRY – A EUROPEAN JOURNAL (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 29(8) e202203396 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
Foeniculoxin is a major phytotoxin produced by Italian strains of Phomopsis foeniculi. The first total synthesis is described utilizing the ene reaction and Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction as key steps. The absolute configuration of the C6' wa...
Ryuuichi D. Itoh Kohdai P. Nakajima Shun Sasaki Hiroki Ishikawa Yusuke Kazama Tomoko Abe Makoto T. Fujiwara
PLANT JOURNAL 107(1) 237-255 Jul 2021 [Refereed]
Stromules are dynamic membrane-bound tubular structures that emanate from plastids. Stromule formation is triggered in response to various stresses and during plant development, suggesting that stromules may have physiological and developmental ro...
Alvin Sanjaya Ryohsuke Muramatsu Shiho Sato Mao Suzuki Shun Sasaki Hiroki Ishikawa Yuki Fujii Makoto Asano Ryuuichi D. Itoh Kengo Kanamaru Sumie Ohbu Tomoko Abe Yusuke Kazama Makoto T. Fujiwara
PLANTS 10(6) 1254-1254 Jun 2021 [Refereed]
In Arabidopsis thaliana, the Ethylene-dependent Gravitropism-deficient and Yellow-green 1 (EGY1) gene encodes a thylakoid membrane-localized protease involved in chloroplast development in leaf mesophyll cells. Recently, EGY1 was also found to be ...
Fujiwara Makoto Itoh Ryuuichi Moriyama Takashi Niwa Yasuo Sato Naoki Abe Tomoko Yoshida Shigeo
Plant and Cell Physiology Supplement 2009(0) 145-145 2009
Amyloplasts are a differentiated form of plastids that serve for synthesis and storage of starch. Amyloplasts have double envelope membranes and divide by binary fission, as the leaf chloroplasts do. So far, research into the molecular mechanisms ...
Fujiwara Makoto Itoh Ryuuichi Ishikawa Masayuki Niwa Yasuo Sato Naoki Yoshida Shigeo Abe Tomoko
Plant and Cell Physiology Supplement 2008(0) 426-426 2008
In vascular plants, non-photosynthetic plastids, such as amyloplasts for starch storage in tubers and root tips and leucoplasts referred to as non-coloured plastids in roots and other non-green tissues, are controlled by distinct mechanisms from t...
Fujiwara Makoto Itoh Ryuuichi Niwa Yasuo Nakamura Ayako Shimada Yukihisa Mller Simon Yoshida Shigeo Sato Naoki
Plant and Cell Physiology Supplement 2005(0) 174-174 2005
Chloroplast division is mediated by the co-ordinated action of a prokaryote-derived division system(s) and a host eukaryote-derived membrane fission system(s). The prokaryotic division system involves two Min proteins, MinD and MinE, which control...
A Nagashima M Hanaoka M Fujiwara T Shikanai K Kanamaru H Takahashi K Tanaka
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY 45 S33-S33 2004
The plastid genome contains more than one hundred genes and the expression is regulated depending on plastid types and environmental conditions. Sigma factors determine the specificity of the eubacteria-type plastid RNA polymerase (PEP), and the r...
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