論文

2013

  • Naoya Nakamura, Megumi Iwano, Michel Havaux, Akiho Yokota and Yuri Nakajima Munekage (2013) Promotion of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I during the evolution of NADP－malic enzyme-type C4 photosynthesis in the genus Flaveria. 2013 Apr 29. doi: 10.1111/nph. 12296. [Epub ahead of print]

2011

  • Lim S, Ashida H, Watanabe R, Inai K, Kim YS, Mukougawa K, Fukuda H, Tomizawa, KI, Ushiyama KI, Asao H, Tamoi M, Masutani H, Shigeoka S, Yodoi J, Yokota A. (2011) Production of biologically active human thioredoxin 1 protein in lettuce chloroplasts. Plant Mol Biol. 2011 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Akashi K, Yoshida K, Kuwano M, Kajikawa M, Yoshimura K, Hoshiyasu S, Inagaki N, Yokota A. (2011) Dynamic changes in the leaf proteome of a C(3) xerophyte, Citrullus lanatus (wild watermelon), in response to water deficit. Planta. 233(5):947-96
  • Sanda, S., Yoshida, K., Kuwano, M., Kawamura, T., Nakajima-Munekage, Y., Akashi, K. and Yokota, A (2011) Responses of the photosynthetic electron transport system to excess light energy caused by water deficit in wild watermelon. Physiol. Plant. 2011 Mar 25. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2011.01473.x. [Epub ahead of print]

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2010

  • Nakano, T., Ashida, H., Mizohata, E., Matsumura, H., Yokota, A. (2010) An evolutionally conserved Lys122 is essential for function in Rhodospirillum rubrum bona fide RuBisCO and Bacillus subtilis RuBisCO-like protein. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 392, 212-216
  • Munekage, Y. N., Eymery, F., Rumeau, D., Cuine, S., Oguri, M., Nakamura, N., Yokota, A., Genty, B. and Peltier, G. (2010) Elevated expression of PGR5 and NDH-H in bundle sheath chloroplasts in C4 flaveria species. Plant Cell Physiol. 51, 664-668.
  • Yoshihiko Nanasato, Chikahiro Miyake, Kentaro Takahara, Kaori Kohzuma, Yuri Nakajima Munekage, Akiho Yokota and Kinya Akashi (2010) Mechanisms of Drought and High Light Stress Tolerance Studied in a Xerophyte, Citrullus lanatus (Wild Watermelon) in The Chloroplast Basics and Applications, Chapter 23 (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, 363-378 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8531-3_23
  • Nishimura K, Ashida H, Ogawa T, Yokota A. (2010) A DEAD box protein is required for formation of a hidden break in Arabidopsis chloroplast 23S rRNA. Plant J. 63, 766-777
  • Kajikawa, M., Morikawa, K., Abe, Y., Yokota, A. and Akashi, K. (2010) Establishment of a transgenic hairy root system in wild and domesticated watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) for studying root vigor under drought. Plant Cell Rep. 29, 771-778.
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2009

  • Kohzuma, K., Cruz, J. A., Akashi, K., Hoshiyasu, S., Nakajima Munekage, Y., Yokota, A. and Kramer, D. M. (2009) The long-term responses of the photosynthetic proton circuit to drought. Plant Cell Environm. 32, 209-219
  • Tamura, H., Ashida, H., Koga, S., Saito, Y., Yadani, T., Kai, Y., Inoue, T., Yokota, A. and Matsumura, H. (2009) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of 2,3-diketo-5-methylthiopentyl-1-phosphate enolase from Bacillus subtilis. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 65 (Pt 2), 147-150.
  • Saito, Y., Ashida, H., Sakiyama, T., Tandeau de Marsac, N., Danchin, A., Sekowska, A. and Yokota, A. (2009) Structural and functional similarities between a RuBisCO-like protein from bacillus subtilis and photosynthetic RuBisCO. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 13256-13264
  • Ogawa, T., Nishimura, K., Aoki, T., Takase, H., Tomizawa, K.-I., Ashida, H. and Yokota, A. (2009) pfkB-type carbohydrate kinase family protein, NARA5, for massive expressions of plastid-encoded photosynthetic genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 151: 114-128.
  • Haruka Tamura, H., Saito, Y., Ashida, H., Kai, Y., Inoue, T., Yokota, A. and Matsumura, H. (2009) Structure of the apo decarbamylated form of 2,3-diketo-5-methylthiopentyl-1-phosphate enolase from Bacillus subtilis. Acta Crystallograph. Sec. D. 65, 942-951
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2008

  • Yokota, A. and Shigeoka, S. (2008) Engineering photosynthetic pathways, In Bioengineering and Molecular Biology of Plant Pathways, Volume 1 (Eds., H.J. Bohnert and H.T. Nguyen)　in Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Elsevier, Executive Editor, N.G. Lewis), pp. 81-105, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Yoshimura, K., Masuda, A., Kuwano, M., Akashi, K. and Yokota, A. (2008) Programmed proteome response for drought avoidance/tolerance in the root of a C3 xerophyte, wild watermelon under water deficits. Plant Cell Physiol. 49, 226-241
  • Yabuta, Y., Tamoi, M., Yamamoto, K., Tomizawa, K., Yokota, A. and Shigeoka, S. (2008) Molecular designing of photosynthesis-elevated chloroplasts for mass accumulation of a foreign protein. Plant Cell Physiol. 49(3): 375-385
  • Tamura, H., Saito, Y., Ashida, H., Inoue, T., Kai, Y., Yokota, A. and Matsumura, H. (2007) Crystal structure of 5-methylthioribose 1-phosphate isomerase product complex from Bacillus subtilis: Implications for catalytic mechanism. Protein Sci. 17, 126-135.
  • Ashida, H.,* Saito, H.,* Kojima, C. and Yokota, A. (2008) Enzymatic Characterization of 5-Methylthioribulose-1-phosphate Dehydratase of the Methionine Salvage Pathway from Bacillus subtilis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 72, 959-967. (*Equally contributed)
  • Shimizu, M., Goto, M., Hanai, M., Shimizu, T., Izawa, N., Kanamoto, H., Tomizawa, K., Yokota, A. and Kobayashi, H. (2008) Selectable tolerance to herbicides by mutated acetolactate synthase genes integrated into the chloroplast genome of tobacco. Plant Physiol. 147, 1976-1983.
  • Nishimura, K., Ogawa, T., Ashida, H. and Akiho Yokota. (2008) Molecular mechanisms of RuBisCO biosynthesis in higher plants. Plant Biotech. 25, 285-290
  • Ashida, H., Saito, Y., Nakano, T., Tandeau de Marsac, N., Sekowska, A., Danchin, A. and Yokota (2008) A.RuBisCO-like proteins as the enolase enzyme in the methionine salvage pathway: functional and evolutionary relationships between RuBisCO-like proteins and photosynthetic RuBisCO. J Exp Bot. 59,1543-1554
  • Munekage N.Y., Genty B., Peltier G. (2008) Effect of PGR5 impairment on photosynthesis and growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 49, 1688-98.
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2007

  • Saito, Y., Ashida, H., Kojima, C., Tamura, H., Matsumura, H., Kai, Y. And Yokota, A. (2007) Enzymatic characterization of 5-methylthioribose 1-phosphate isomerase from Bacillus subtilis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 71, 2021-2028.
  • Takahara, K., Akashi, K. and Yokota, A. (2007) Continuous spectrophotometric assays for three regulatory enzymes of the arginine biosynthetic pathway. Anal. Biochem. 368, 138-147.
  • Kitajima, S., Shimaoka, T., Kurioka, M. and Yokota, A. (2007) Irreversible crosslinking of heme to the distal tryptophan of stromal ascorbate peroxidase in response to rapid inactivation by H2O2. FEBS J. 274, 3013-3020.
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2006

  • Mukougawa K, Kanamoto H, Kobayashi T, Yokota A, Kohchi T. (2006) Metabolic engineering to produce phytochromes with phytochromobilin, phycocyanobilin, or phycoerythrobilin chromophore in Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett. 580, 1333-1338.
  • Kanamoto H, Yamashita A, Asao H, Okumura S, Takase H, Hattori M, Yokota A, Tomizawa K. (2006) Efficient and Stable Transformation of Lactuca sativa L. cv. Cisco (lettuce) Plastids. Transgenic Res. 15, 205-217.
  • Kitajima, S., Tomizawa, K.-I., Shigeoka, S. and Yokota, A. (2006) An inserted loop region of stromal ascorbate peroxidase is involved in its hydrogen peroxide-mediated inactivation. FEBS J. 273, 2704-2710.
  • Carre-Mlouka, A., Mejean, A., Quillardet, P., Ashida, H., Saito, Y., Yokota, A., Callebaut, I., Sekowska, A., Dittmann, E., Bouchier, C. and Tandeau de Marsac, N. (2006) A New Rubisco-like Protein Coexists with a Photosynthetic Rubisco in the Planktonic Cyanobacteria Microcystis. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 24462-24471.
  • Yokota, A., Takahara, K. and Akashi, K. (2006) Water stress, in Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants (Eds., K. V. Madhava Rao, A. S. Raghavendra and K. Janardhan Reddy), 15-39, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Chiyoda, S., Linley, P. J., Yamato, K. T., Fukuzawa, H., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2006) Simple and efficient plastid transformation system for the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. suspension-culture cells. Transgenic Res. 2006 Nov 11; [Epub ahead of print]
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2005

  • Ashida, H., Danchin, A. and Yokota, A. (2005) Was photosynthetic RuBisCO recruited by acquisitive evolution from RuBisCO-like proteins involved in sulfur metabolism? Res. Microbiol. 156, 611-618.
  • Akashi, K., Morikawa, K. and Yokota, A. (2005) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system for the drought and excess light stress-tolerant wild watermelon (Citrullus lanatus). Plant Biotechnol. 22, 13-18.
  • Nanasato, Y., Akashi, K. and Yokota, A. (2005) Co-expression of cytochrome b561 and ascorbate oxidase in leaves of wild watermelon under drought and high light conditions. Plant Cell Physiol. 46, 1515-1524.
  • Takahara, K., Akashi, K. and Yokota, A. (2005) Purification and characterization of glutamate N-acetyltransferase involved in citrulline accumulation in wild watermelon. FEBS J. 272, 5353-5364.
  • Muramoto T, Kami C, Kataoka H, Iwata N, Linley PJ, Mukougawa K,　Yokota A, and Kohchi T. (2005) The tomato photomorphogenetic mutant, aurea, is deficient in phytochromobilin synthase for phytochrome chromophore biosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 46, 661-665.
  • Munekage Y, Shikanai T. (2005) Cyclic electron transport through Photosystem I. Plant Biotechnology. 22, 361-369.
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2004

  • Kami, C., Mukougawa, K., Muramoto, T., Yokota, A., Shinomura, T., Lagarias, J. C. and Kohchi, T. (2004) Complementation of phytochrome chromophore-deficient Arabidopsis by expression of phycocyanobilin:ferredoxin oxidoreductase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 1099-1104.
  • Shikata, M., Matsuda, Y., Ando, K., Nishii, A., Takemura, M., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2004) Characterization of Arabidopsis ZIM, a member of a novel plant-specific GATA factor gene family. J. Exp. Bot. 55, 631-639
  • Sekowska, A., Denervaud, V., Ashida, H., Michoud, K., Haas, D., Yokota, A. and Danchin, A. (2004) Bacterial variations on the methionine salvage pathway. BMC Microbiol. 4, 9.
  • Shimaoka, T., Ohnishi, M., Sazuka, T., Mitsuhashi, N., Hara-Nishimura, I., Shimazaki, K., Maeshima, M., Yokota, A., Tomizawa, K. and Mimura, T. (2004) Isolation of intact vacuoles and proteomic analysis of tonoplast from suspension-cultured cells of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 45, 672-683.
  • Akashi, K., Nishimura, N., Ishida, Y. and Yokota, A. (2004) Potent hydroxyl radical-scavenging activity of drought-induced type-2 metallothionein in wild watermelon. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 323, 72-78.
  • Kato, Y., Murakami, S., Yamamoto, Y., Chatani, H., Kondo, Y., Nakano, T., Yokota, A. and Sato F. (2004) The DNA-binding protease, CND41, and the degradation of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in senescent leaves of tobacco. Planta 220, 97-104.
  • Hattan, J., Kanamoto, H., Takemura, M., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2004) Molecular characterization of the cytoplasmic interacting protein of the receptor kinase IRK expressed in the inflorescence and root apices of Arabidopsis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68, 2598-2606.
  • Munekage Y, Hashimoto M, Miyake C, Tomizawa K, Endo T, Tasaka M, Shikanai T. (2004) Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I is essential for photosynthesis. Nature. 429, 579-82.
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2003

  • Nakahara, K., Yamamoto, H. and Yokota, A. (2003) Purification and characterization of class-I and class II fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolases from the cyanobactrium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Plant Cell Physiol. 44, 326-333.
  • Kitajima, S., Ueda, M., Sano, S., Miyake, C., Kohchi, T., Tomizawa, K., Shigeoka, S. and Yokota, A. (2002) Stable form of ascorbate peroxidase from the red alga Galdieria partita similar to both chloroplastic and cytosolic isoforms of higher plants. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 66, 2367-2375.
  • Shimaoka, T., Miyake, C. and Yokota, A. (2003) Mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by dehydroascorbate reductase from spinach chloroplasts. Eur. J. Biochem. 270, 921-928.
  • Mizohata, E., Anwaruzzaman, M., Okuno, H., Tomizawa, K., Shigeoka, S., Kai, Y. and Yokota, A. (2003) Chemical modification of arginine residues alleviates the decline in activity during catalysis of spinach ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 301, 591-597.
  • Hyodo, H., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2003) Active gene expression of a xyloglucan endotransglucosidase/hydrolase gene, XTH9, in inflorescence apices is related to cell elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol Biol. 52, 473-482.
  • Fujita, H., Takemura, M., Tani, E., Nemoto, K., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2003) An Arabidopsis MADS-box protein, AGL24, is specifically bound to and phosphorylated by meristematic receptor-like kinase (MRLK). Plant Cell Physiol., 44, 735-742.
  • Ashida, H., Saito, Y., Kojima, C., Kobayashi, K., Ogasawara, N. and Yokota, A. (2003) A functional link between RuBisCO-like protein of Bacillus and photosyntheic RuBisCO. Science, 302, 286-290.
  • Shikata, M., Takemura, M., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2003) Arabidopsis ZIM, a plant-specific GATA factor, can function as a transcriptional activator. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 67, 2495-2497.
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2002

  • Yokota, A., Kawasaki, S., Iwano, M., Nakamura, C., Miyake, C. and Akashi, K. (2002) Citrulline and DRIP-1 protein (ArgE homologue) in drought tolerance of wild watermelon. Annal. Bot. 89: 825-832.
  • Kanamoto, H., Jun-Ichi Hattan, Takemura, M., Yokota, A. and T. Kohchi (2002) Molecular cloning and characterization of a gene coding for a putative receptor-like protein kinase with a leucine-rich repeat expressed in inflorescence and root apices from Arabidopsis. Plant Biotech. 19, 113-120.
  • Miyake, C., Yonekura, K., Kobayashi, Y. and Yokota, A. (2002) Cyclic Electron Flow within PSII Functions in Intact Chloroplasts from Spinach Leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 43: 951-957.
  • Okano, Y., Mizohata, E., Xie, Y., Matsumura, H., Sugawara, H., Inoue, T., Yokota, A. and Kai, Y. (2002) X-ray structure of Galdieria Rubisco complexed with one sulfate ion per active site. FEBS Lett. 527, 33-36.
  • Muramoto T., Tsurui, N., Terry, M. J., Yokota, A. and Kohchi, T. (2002) Expression and biochemical properties of a ferredoxin-dependent heme oxygenase required for phytochrome chromophore synthesis. Plant Physiol. 130, 1958-1966.
  • Makino, A., Miyake, C. and Yokota, A. (2002) Physiological functions of the water-water cycle (Mehler reaction) and the cyclic electron flow around PSI in rice leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 43, 1017-1026.
  • Munekage Y, Hojo M, Meurer J, Endo T, Tasaka M, Shikanai T. (2002) PGR5 is involved in cyclic electron flow around photosystem I and is essential for photoprotection in Arabidopsis. Cell. 110, 361-71.
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2001

  • Kohchi, T., Mukougawa, K., Frankenberg, N., Masuda, M., Yokota, A. and Lagarias, J. C. (2001) The Arabidopsis HY2 gene encodes phytochromobilin synthase, a ferredoxin-dependent biliverdin reductase. Plant Cell 13, 425-436.
  • Sano, H., Ueda, M., Kitajima, S., Takeda, T., Shigeoka, S., Kurano, N., Miyachi, S., Miyake, C. and Yokota, A. (2001) Characterization of ascorbate peroxidase from unicellular red alga Galdieria partita. Plant Cell Physiol. 42,433-440.
  • Miyake, C and Yokota, A. (2001) Cyclic flow of electrons within PSII in thylakoid membranes. Plant Cell Physiol. 42, 508-515.
  • Nishiyama, Y., Yamamoto, H., Allakhverdiev, S. I., Inaba, M., Yokota, A. and Murata, N. (2001) Oxidative stress inhibits the repair of photodamage to the photosynthetic machinary. EMBO J. 20, 5587-5594.
  • Akashi, K., Miyake, C. and Yokota, A. (2001) Citrulline, a novel compatible solute in drought-tolerant wild watermelon leaves, is an efficient hydroxyl radical scavenger. FEBS Lett. 508, 438-442.
  • Mizohata, E., Matsumura, H., Okano, Y., Kumei, M., Takuma, H., Onodera, J., Kato, K., Shibata, N., Inoue, T., Yokota, A. and Kai, Y. (2002) Crystal structure of activated ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii complexed with 2-carboxyarabinitol-1,5-bisphosphate. J Mol Biol. 316, 679-691.
  • Mizohata, E., Kumei, M., Matsumura, H., Shimaoka, T., Miyake, C., Inoue, T., Yokota, A. and Kai Y. (2001) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of glutathione-dependent dehydroascorbate reductase from spinach chloroplasts. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 57(Pt 11),1726-1728..
  • Munekage Y, Takeda S, Endo T, Jahns P, Hashimoto T, Shikanai T. (2001) Cytochrome b(6)f mutation specifically affects thermal dissipation of absorbed light energy in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 28, 351-9.
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2000

  • Miyake, C. and Yokota, A. (2000) Determination of the rate of photoreduction of O2 in the water-water cycle in watermelon leaves and enhancement of the rate by limitation of photosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 41, 335-343.
  • Hyodo, H., Takemura, M., Yokota, A., Ohyama, K., Kohchi, T., (2000). Systematic isolation of genes highly transcribed in inflorescence apices in Arabidopsis thaliana from an equalized cDNA library. Biosci. Biotech., Biochem., 64, 1538-1541.
  • Nishii, A., Takemura, M., Fujita, H., Shikata, M., Yokota, A., Kohchi, T., (2000).　Characterization of a novel gene coding a putative single zinc-finger protein, ZIM, expressed during the reproductive phase in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 64, 1402-1409.
  • Kawasaki1, S., Miyake, C., Kohchi, T., Fujii, S., Uchida, M. and Yokota, A. (2000) Responses of wild watermelon to drought stress: Accumulation of an ArgE homologue and citrulline in leaves during water deficits. Plant Cell Physiol. 41, 864-873.
  • Uemura, K., Shibata, N., Anwaruzzaman, Fujiwara, M., Higuchi, T., Kobayashi, H., Kai, Y. and Yokota, A. (2000) A role of structural intersubunit microheterogeneity in regulation of activity in hysteresis of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. J. Biochem., 128, 591-599. Shimaoka, T., Yokota, A. and Miyake, C. (2000) Purification and characterization of chloroplast dehydroascorbate reductase from spinach leaves. Plant Cell Physiol. 41, 1110-1118.
  • Shirano, Y., Shimada, H., Kanamaru, K., Fujiwara, M., Tanaka, K., Takahashi, H., Unno, K., Sato, S., Tabata, S., Hayashi, H., Miyake, C., Yokota, A. and Shibata, D. (2000) Chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana requires the nuclear-encoded transcription factor sigma B. FEBS Lett. 485, 178-182
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