Yuling Chen   Tomoya Asano   Makoto T. Fujiwara   Shigeo Yoshida   Yasunori Machida   Yasushi Yoshioka   
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY 50(5) 956-969 2009年5月 [査読有り]
Plastids are maintained in cells by proliferating prior to cell division and being partitioned to each daughter cell during cell division. It is unclear, however, whether cells without plastids are generated when plastid division is suppressed. Th...
Masayuki Ishikawa   Makoto Fujiwara   Kintake Sonoike   Naoki Sato   
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY 50(4) 773-788 2009年4月 [査読有り]
Chloroplasts are descendents of a cyanobacterial endosymbiont, but many chloroplast protein genes of endosymbiont origin are encoded by the nucleus. The chloroplastcyanobacteria relationship is a typical target of orthogenomics, an analytical meth...
Kazama Y   Saito H   Fujiwara M   Matsuyama T   Hayashi Y   Ryuto H   Fukunishi N   Abe T   
Takashi Moriyama   Kimihiro Terasawa   Makoto Fujiwara   Naoki Sato   
FEBS JOURNAL 275(11) 2899-2918 2008年6月 [査読有り]
DNA polymerase gamma, a mitochondrial replication enzyme of yeasts and animals, is not present in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Recently, DNA polymerases with distant homology to bacterial DNA polymerase I were reported in rice, Arabidopsis, and toba...
Makoto T. Fujiwara   Haruki Hashimoto   Yusuke Kazama   Tomoko Abe   Shigeo Yoshida   Naoki Sato   Ryuuichi D. Itoh   
PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY 49(3) 345-361 2008年3月 [査読有り]
Chloroplast division comprises a sequence of events that facilitate symmetric binary fission and that involve prokaryotic-like stromal division factors such as tubulin-like GTPase FtsZ and the division site regulator MinD. In Arabidopsis, a nuclea...
葉緑体分裂には、進化的に保存されたバクテリア様分裂因子群と真核生物特有のダイナミン様タンパク質が関わる。バクテリア様因子のうちMinDとMinEの二種はバクテリアでは細胞分裂の位置決定に関わる。最近、シロイヌナズナMinE相同因子(AtMinE1)が第三の葉緑体分裂因子として機能すること、またシロイヌナズナ葉緑体分裂異常変異体arc11 (accumulation and replication of chloroplasts 11)がMinD相同...