Naoki Sato   Masayuki Ishikawa   Makoto Fujiwara   Kintake Sonoike   
Genome informatics. International Conference on Genome Informatics 16(2) 56-68 2005年 [査読有り]
Chloroplasts originate from ancient cyanobacteria-like endosymbiont. Several tens of chloroplast proteins are encoded by the chloroplast genome, while more than hundreds are encoded by the nuclear genome in plants and algae, but the exact number a...
Makoto T Fujiwara   Ayako Nakamura   Ryuuichi Itoh   Yukihisa Shimada   Shigeo Yoshida   Simon Geir Møller   
Journal of cell science 117(Pt 11) 2399-410 2004年5月 [査読有り]
Chloroplast division is mediated by the coordinated action of a prokaryote-derived division system(s) and a host eukaryote-derived membrane fission system(s). The evolutionary conserved prokaryote-derived system comprises several nucleus-encoded p...
Jodi Maple   Makoto T Fujiwara   Nobutaka Kitahata   Tracy Lawson   Neil R Baker   Shigeo Yoshida   Simon Geir Møller   
Current biology : CB 14(9) 776-81 2004年5月 [査読有り]
Plastids are vital plant organelles involved in many essential biological processes. Plastids are not created de novo but divide by binary fission mediated by nuclear-encoded proteins of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic origin. Although several pla...
Transcription in higher plant plastids is performed by two types of RNA polymerases called NEP and PEP, and expression of photosynthesis genes in chloroplasts is largely dependent on PEP, a eubacteria-type multi-subunit enzyme. The transcription s...
Ayako Nakamura   Kanako Higuchi   Hideki Goda   Makoto T Fujiwara   Shinichiro Sawa   Tomokazu Koshiba   Yukihisa Shimada   Shigeo Yoshida   
Plant physiology 133(4) 1843-53 2003年12月 [査読有り]
Despite numerous physiological studies addressing the interactions between brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. We studied the expression of IAA5 and IAA19 in response to treatment with indo...
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...