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IHARA Kunio
 
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Center for Gene Research Associate professor
Graduate School
Graduate School of Science
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Associate professor
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Degree 1

  1. PhD ( Osaka University ) 

Research Interests 11

  1. Archaea

  2. Evolution

  3. Biological Membrane

  4. Structual Biology

  5. Classification

  6. Retinal Proteins

  7. System Biology

  8. Genome

  9. Energy Transfer System

  10. Bioinformatics

  11. Archaea

Research Areas 6

  1. Others / Others  / Genomic microbiology

  2. Life Science / System genome science  / System Genome Biology

  3. Others / Others  / Microbial physiology

  4. Life Science / Structural biochemistry  / Functional Biochemistry

  5. Life Science / Biophysics  / Biophysics

  6. Life Science / Molecular biology  / Molecular Biology

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Current Research Project and SDGs 3

  1. Application and development of next-generation sequencer technology

  2. Evolutionary Biology of the three Domain comparison

  3. Realization of Population Microbiology and Analysis of Interactions between Organisms

Research History 5

  1. Nagoya University   Center for Gene Research Common

    2014.4 - 2018.3

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  2. Nagoya University   Center for Gene Research   Associate professor

    2012.6

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  3. Nagoya University   Center for Gene Research   Assistant

    2007.3

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  4. Nagoya University   Center for Gene Research   Assistant

    1999.12 - 2007.3

  5. Nagoya University   School of Science, Department of Biology   Assistant

    1990.4 - 1999.11

Education 2

  1. Osaka University   Graduate School, Division of Natural Science   Phisyology

    1985.4 - 1989

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    Country: Japan

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  2. Osaka University   Faculty of Science   Department of Bilogy

    1981.4 - 1985.3

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    Country: Japan

Professional Memberships 14

  1. 日本ゲノム微生物学会

  2. Japan Society for Archaea

  3. 極限生物学会

  4. 日本生物物理学会

  5. 日本微生物生態学会

  6. 好塩微生物研究会

  7. Japan Bioenergerics Group

  8. 日本微生物生態学会

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  9. 日本ゲノム微生物学会

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  10. Japan Society for Archaea

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  11. 好塩微生物研究会

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  12. 生物物理学会

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  13. 極限生物学会

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  14. Japan Bioenergerics Group

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Committee Memberships 3

  1. 遺伝子実験施設連絡協議会   組換え生物等安全委員会委員  

    2018.12   

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    組換え生物等委員会 委員

  2. 遺伝子実験施設連絡協議会   幹事  

    2017.12   

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    組換え生物等委員会 委員長

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  3. 遺伝子実験施設連絡協議会   幹事  

    2017.12 - 2023.3   

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Awards 1

  1. 科研費審査委員表彰

    2014   文部科学省  

 

Papers 105

  1. For early diagnosis of young patients with Werner syndrome: Indication for genetic testing. Open Access

    Sato T, Maezawa Y, Kato H, Shoji M, Maeda Y, Kaneko H, Aono K, Kubota Y, Taniguchi T, Oshitari T, Motegi SI, Takami Y, Nakagami H, Taniguchi A, Watanabe K, Takemoto M, Koshizaka M, Kosaki R, Matsuo M, Kaneko H, Ihara K, Oshima J, Yokote K, Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Research Project for Intractable Diseases, Genetic Progeroid Syndrome Research Group

    Geriatrics & gerontology international   Vol. 25 ( 3 ) page: 468 - 470   2025.3

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  2. Construction of transcript regulation mechanism prediction models based on binding motif environment of transcription factor AoXlnR in Aspergillus oryzae. International journal

    Hiroya Oka, Takaaki Kojima, Ryuji Kato, Kunio Ihara, Hideo Nakano

    Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology   Vol. 22 ( 3 ) page: 2450017 - 2450017   2024.6

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    DNA-binding transcription factors (TFs) play a central role in transcriptional regulation mechanisms, mainly through their specific binding to target sites on the genome and regulation of the expression of downstream genes. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis of the function of these TFs will lead to the understanding of various biological mechanisms. However, the functions of TFs in vivo are diverse and complicated, and the identified binding sites on the genome are not necessarily involved in the regulation of downstream gene expression. In this study, we investigated whether DNA structural information around the binding site of TFs can be used to predict the involvement of the binding site in the regulation of the expression of genes located downstream of the binding site. Specifically, we calculated the structural parameters based on the DNA shape around the DNA binding motif located upstream of the gene whose expression is directly regulated by one TF AoXlnR from Aspergillus oryzae, and showed that the presence or absence of expression regulation can be predicted from the sequence information with high accuracy ([Formula: see text]-1.0) by machine learning incorporating these parameters.

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  3. Microevolution toward loss of photosynthesis: Mutations promoting dark-heterotrophic growth and suppressing photosynthetic growth in cyanobacteria

    Shintaro Hida, Marie Nishio, Kazuma Uesaka, Mari Banba, Nobuyuki Takatani, Shinichi Takaichi, Haruki Yamamoto, Kunio Ihara, Yuichi Fujita

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    The prevalence of parasitic plants suggests frequent evolution of photosynthetic capacity loss in the natural environment. However, no studies have observed such evolutionary events as a loss of photosynthetic capacity. Herein, we report mutations that lead to a loss or decrease in photosynthetic growth capacity of dark-adapted variants of the cyanobacteriumLeptolyngbya boryana, which can grow heterotrophically even in the dark. We isolated 28 dark-adapted variants through long-term cultivation (7–49 months) under dark-heterotrophic conditions. All variants showed significantly faster dark-heterotrophic growth than the parental strains, accompanied by the loss of photosynthetic growth capacity in 15 variants. Genome resequencing of the variants revealed that 19 of the 28 variants carried various mutations in a common single gene (LBDG_21500) encoding a protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) RsbU that is involved in the partner switching system (PSS). Phenotypic and transcriptomic analyses of aLBDG_21500-knockout mutant suggested that the PSS, including LBDG_21500, is involved in the global transcriptional regulation of various genes under both photoautotrophic and dark-heterotrophic conditions. We propose the renaming ofLBDG_21500tophsP(phototrophic–heterotrophic switching phosphatase). Our results imply that mutations in the global transcriptional regulatory system serve as the first evolutionary step leading to the loss of photosynthetic capacity.

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    Photosynthetic organisms that grow using minimal resources: light, water, and CO<sub>2</sub>, support most heterotrophic organisms as producers on the Earth. When photosynthetic organisms thrive over long generations under environments where organic compounds are readily available, they may lose the photosynthetic capacity because of the relief of selective pressure to maintain photosynthesis. The prevalence of parasitic plants in the natural environment supports this idea. However, there have been no actual observations of evolutionary processes leading to a loss of photosynthetic growth capacity. The significance of our research is in observing microevolution of a cyanobacterium through a long-term cultivating under dark heterotrophic conditions. In particular, the high frequency of mutations to a gene involved in the global transcriptional regulatory system suggests that such mutations in regulatory systems are regarded as an example of the initial evolutionary processes toward complete loss of photosynthesis.

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  4. Identification of plb1 mutation that extends longevity via activating Sty1 MAPK in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Yasukichi Maekawa, Kotaro Matsui, Keisuke Okamoto, Takafumi Shimasaki, Hokuto Ohtsuka, Motohiro Tani, Kunio Ihara, Hirofumi Aiba

    Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG   Vol. 299 ( 1 ) page: 20 - 20   2024.2

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    To understand the lifespan of higher organisms, including humans, it is important to understand lifespan at the cellular level as a prerequisite. So, fission yeast is a good model organism for the study of lifespan. To identify the novel factors involved in longevity, we are conducting a large-scale screening of long-lived mutant strains that extend chronological lifespan (cell survival in the stationary phase) using fission yeast. One of the newly acquired long-lived mutant strains (No.98 mutant) was selected for analysis and found that the long-lived phenotype was due to a missense mutation (92Phe → Ile) in the plb1+ gene. plb1+ gene in fission yeast is a nonessential gene encoding a homolog of phospholipase B, but its functions under normal growth conditions, as well as phospholipase B activity, remain unresolved. Our analysis of the No.98 mutant revealed that the plb1 mutation reduces the integrity of the cellular membrane and cell wall and activates Sty1 via phosphorylation.

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  5. Deciphering the genomes of motility-deficient mutants of Vibrio alginolyticus 138-2. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Uesaka K, Inaba K, Nishioka N, Kojima S, Homma M, Ihara K

    PeerJ   Vol. 12   page: e17126   2024

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    The motility of Vibrio species plays a pivotal role in their survival and adaptation to diverse environments and is intricately associated with pathogenicity in both humans and aquatic animals. Numerous mutant strains of Vibrio alginolyticus have been generated using UV or EMS mutagenesis to probe flagellar motility using molecular genetic approaches. Identifying these mutations promises to yield valuable insights into motility at the protein structural physiology level. In this study, we determined the complete genomic structure of 4 reference specimens of laboratory V. alginolyticus strains: a precursor strain, V. alginolyticus 138-2, two strains showing defects in the lateral flagellum (VIO5 and YM4), and one strain showing defects in the polar flagellum (YM19). Subsequently, we meticulously ascertained the specific mutation sites within the 18 motility-deficient strains related to the polar flagellum (they fall into three categories: flagellar-deficient, multi-flagellar, and chemotaxis-deficient strains) by whole genome sequencing and mapping to the complete genome of parental strains VIO5 or YM4. The mutant strains had an average of 20.6 (±12.7) mutations, most of which were randomly distributed throughout the genome. However, at least two or more different mutations in six flagellar-related genes were detected in 18 mutants specifically selected as chemotaxis-deficient mutants. Genomic analysis using a large number of mutant strains is a very effective tool to comprehensively identify genes associated with specific phenotypes using forward genetics.

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  6. The GGDEF protein Dgc2 suppresses both motility and biofilm formation in the filamentous cyanobacterium <i>Leptolyngbya boryana</i> Reviewed Open Access

    Kazuma Toida, Wakana Kushida, Hiroki Yamamoto, Kyoka Yamamoto, Kaichi Ishii, Kazuma Uesaka, Robert A. Kanaly, Shinsuke Kutsuna, Kunio Ihara, Yuichi Fujita, Hideo Iwasaki

    Microbiology Spectrum   Vol. 11 ( 5 ) page: e0483722   2023.9

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    Colony pattern formations of bacteria with motility manifest complicated morphological self-organization phenomena. Leptolyngbya boryana is a filamentous cyanobacterium, which has been used as a genetic model organism for studying metabolism including photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. A widely used type strain [wild type (WT) in this article] of this species has not been reported to show any motile activity. However, we isolated a spontaneous mutant strain that shows active motility (gliding activity) to give rise to complicated colony patterns, including comet-like wandering clusters and disk-like rotating vortices on solid media. Whole-genome resequencing identified multiple mutations in the genome of the mutant strain. We confirmed that inactivation of the candidate gene dgc2 ( LBDG_02920 ) in the WT background was sufficient to give rise to motility and morphologically complex colony patterns. This gene encodes a protein containing the GGDEF motif which is conserved at the catalytic domain of diguanylate cyclase (DGC). Although DGC has been reported to be involved in biofilm formation, the dgc2 mutant significantly facilitated biofilm formation, suggesting a role for the dgc2 gene in suppressing both gliding motility and biofilm formation. Thus, Leptolyngbya is expected to be an excellent genetic model for studying dynamic colony pattern formation and to provide novel insights into the role of DGC family genes in biofilm formation.

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    Self-propelled bacteria often exhibit complex collective behaviors, such as formation of dense-moving clusters, which are exemplified by wandering comet-like and rotating disk-like colonies; however, the molecular details of how these structures are formed are scant. We found that a strain of the filamentous cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya deficient in the GGDEF protein gene dgc2 elicits motility and complex and dynamic colony pattern formation, including comet-like and disk-like clusters. Although c-di-GMP has been reported to activate biofilm formation in some bacterial species, disruption of dgc2 unexpectedly enhanced it, suggesting a novel role for this GGDEF protein for inhibiting both colony pattern formation and biofilm formation.

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  7. Two Trk/Ktr/HKT-type potassium transporters, TrkG and TrkH, perform distinct functions in Escherichia coli K-12. Reviewed Open Access

    Tanudjaja E, Hoshi N, Yamamoto K, Ihara K, Furuta T, Tsujii M, Ishimaru Y, Uozumi N

    The Journal of biological chemistry   Vol. 299 ( 2 ) page: 102846   2023.2

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    Escherichia coli K-12 possesses two versions of Trk/Ktr/HKT-type potassium ion (K+) transporters, TrkG and TrkH. The current paradigm is that TrkG and TrkH have largely identical characteristics, and little information is available regarding their functional differences. Here, we show using cation uptake experiments with K+ transporter knockout mutants that TrkG and TrkH have distinct ion transport activities and physiological roles. K+-transport by TrkG required Na+, whereas TrkH-mediated K+ uptake was not affected by Na+. An aspartic acid located five residues away from a critical glycine in the third pore-forming region might be involved in regulation of Na+-dependent activation of TrkG. In addition, we found that TrkG but not TrkH had Na+ uptake activity. Our analysis of K+ transport mutants revealed that TrkH supported cell growth more than TrkG; however, TrkG was able to complement loss of TrkH-mediated K+ uptake in E. coli. Furthermore, we determined that transcription of trkG in E. coli was downregulated but not completely silenced by the xenogeneic silencing factor H-NS (histone-like nucleoid structuring protein or heat-stable nucleoid-structuring protein). Taken together, the transport function of TrkG is clearly distinct from that of TrkH, and TrkG seems to have been accepted by E. coli during evolution as a K+ uptake system that coexists with TrkH.

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  8. Existence of two substates in the O intermediate of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Reviewed Open Access

    Kouyama T, Ihara K

    Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes   Vol. 1864 ( 10 ) page: 183998   2022.10

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    The proton pumping cycle of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is initiated when the retinal chromophore with the 13-trans configuration is photo-isomerized into the 13-cis configuration. To understand the recovery processes of the initial retinal configuration that occur in the late stage of the photocycle, we have performed a comprehensive analysis of absorption kinetics data collected at various pH levels and at different salt concentrations. The result of analysis revealed the following features of the late stages of the trans photocycle. i) Two substates occur in the O intermediate. ii) The visible absorption band of the first substate (O1) appears at a much shorter wavelength than that of the late substate (O2). iii) O1 is in rapid equilibrium with the preceding state (N), but O1 becomes less stable than N when an ionizable residue (X1) with a pKa value of 6.5 (in 2 M KCl) is deprotonated. iv) At a low pH and at a low salt concentration, the decay time constant of O2 is longer than those of the preceding states, but the relationship between these time constants is altered when the medium pH or the salt concentration is increased. On the basis of the present observations and previous studies on the structure of the chromophore in O, we suspect that the retinal chromophore in O1 takes on a distorted 13-cis configuration and the O1-to-O2 transition is accompanied by cis-to-trans isomerization about C13[dbnd]C14 bond.

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  9. Two substates in the O intermediate of the light-driven proton pump archaerhodopsin-2. Reviewed Open Access

    Kouyama T, Ihara K

    Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes   Vol. 1864 ( 7 ) page: 183919   2022.7

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    The proton pumping cycle of archaerhodopsin-2 (aR2) was investigated over a wide pH range and at different salt concentrations. We have found that two substates, which are spectroscopically and kinetically distinguishable, occur in the O intermediate. The first O-intermediate (O1) absorbs maximumly at ~580 nm, whereas the late O-intermediate (O2) absorbs maximumly at 605 nm. At neutral pH, O1 is in rapid equilibrium with the N intermediate. When the medium pH is increased, O1 becomes less stable than N and, in proportion to the amount of O1 in the dynamic equilibrium between N and O1, the formation rate of O2 decreases. By contrast, the decay rate of O2 increases ~100 folds when the pH of a low-salt membrane suspension is increased from 5.5 to 7.5 or when the salt concentration is increased to 2 M KCl. Together with our recent study on two substates in the O intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin (bR), the present study suggests that the thermally activated re-isomerization of the retinylidene chromophore into the initial all-trans configuration takes place in the O1-to-O2 transition; that is, O1 contains a distorted 13-cis chromophore. It is also found that the pKa value of the key ionizable residue (Asp101aR2, Asp96bR) in the proton uptake channel is elevated in the O1 state of aR2 as compared to the O1 state of bR. This implies that the structural property of O1 in the aR2 photocycle can be investigated over a wide pH range.

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  10. Mutations in the stator protein PomA affect switching of rotational direction in bacterial flagellar motor Reviewed Open Access

    Hiroyuki Terashima, Kiyoshiro Hori, Kunio Ihara, Michio Homma, Seiji Kojima

    Scientific Reports   Vol. 12 ( 1 ) page: 2979   2022.2

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    The flagellar motor rotates bi-directionally in counter-clockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) directions. The motor consists of a stator and a rotor. Recent structural studies have revealed that the stator is composed of a pentameric ring of A subunits and a dimer axis of B subunits. Highly conserved charged and neighboring residues of the A subunit interacts with the rotor, generating torque through a gear-like mechanism. The rotational direction is controlled by chemotaxis signaling transmitted to the rotor, with less evidence for the stator being involved. In this study, we report novel mutations that affect the switching of the rotational direction at the putative interaction site of the stator to generate rotational force. Our results highlight an aspect of flagellar motor function that appropriate switching of the interaction states between the stator and rotor is critical for controlling the rotational direction.

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  11. A slight bending of an α-helix in FliM creates a counterclockwise-locked structure of the flagellar motor in Vibrio. Reviewed

    Takekawa N, Nishikino T, Yamashita T, Hori K, Onoue Y, Ihara K, Kojima S, Homma M, Imada K

    Journal of biochemistry   Vol. 170 ( 4 ) page: 531 - 538   2021.12

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    Many bacteria swim by rotating flagella. The chemotaxis system controls the direction of flagellar rotation. Vibrio alginolyticus, which has a single polar flagellum, swims smoothly by rotating the flagellar motor counterclockwise (CCW) in response to attractants. In response to repellents, the motor frequently switches its rotational direction between CCW and clockwise (CW). We isolated a mutant strain that swims with a CW-locked rotation of the flagellum, which pulls rather than pushes the cell. This CW phenotype arises from a R49P substitution in FliM, which is the component in the C-ring of the motor that binds the chemotaxis signalling protein, phosphorylated CheY. However, this phenotype is independent of CheY, indicating that the mutation produces a CW conformation of the C-ring in the absence of CheY. The crystal structure of FliM with the R49P substitution showed a conformational change in the N-terminal α-helix of the middle domain of FliM (FliMM). This helix should mediates FliM-FliM interaction. The structural models of wild type and mutant C-ring showed that the relatively small conformational change in FliMM induces a drastic rearrangement of the conformation of the FliMM domain that generates a CW conformation of the C-ring.

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  12. Identification of ksg1 mutation showing long-lived phenotype in fission yeast. Reviewed Open Access

    Matsui K, Okamoto K, Hasegawa T, Ohtsuka H, Shimasaki T, Ihara K, Goto Y, Aoki K, Aiba H

    Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms   Vol. 26 ( 12 ) page: 967 - 978   2021.12

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    Fission yeast is a good model organism for the study of lifespan. To elucidate the mechanism, we screened for long-lived mutants. We found a nonsense mutation in the ksg1+ gene, which encodes an ortholog of mammalian PDK1 (phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase). The mutation was in the PH domain of Ksg1 and caused defect in membrane localization and protein stability. Analysis of the ksg1 mutant revealed that the reduced amounts and/or activity of the Ksg1 protein are responsible for the increased lifespan. Ksg1 is essential for growth and known to phosphorylate multiple substrates, but the substrate responsible for the long-lived phenotype of ksg1 mutation is not yet known. Genetic analysis showed that deletion of pck2 suppressed the long-lived phenotype of ksg1 mutant, suggesting that Pck2 might be involved in the lifespan extension caused by ksg1 mutation.

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  13. Identification of sur2 mutation affecting the lifespan of fission yeast. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Tatsuhiro Kurauchi, Kotaro Matsui, Takafumi Shimasaki, Hokuto Ohtsuka, Satoshi Tsubouchi, Kunio Ihara, Motohiro Tani, Hirofumi Aiba

    FEMS microbiology letters   Vol. 368 ( 12 )   2021.6

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    Yeast is a suitable model system to analyze the mechanism of lifespan. In this study, to identify novel factors involved in chronological lifespan, we isolated a mutant with a long chronological lifespan and found a missense mutation in the sur2+ gene, which encodes a homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae sphingolipid C4-hydroxylase in fission yeast. Characterization of the mutant revealed that loss of sur2 function resulted in an extended chronological lifespan. The effect of caloric restriction, a well-known signal for extending lifespan, is thought to be dependent on the sur2+ gene.

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  14. Loss of cell wall integrity genes cpxA and mrcB causes flocculation in Escherichia coli. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Keita Sugawara, Hayato Toyoda, Mami Kimura, Shunsuke Hayasaka, Hiromi Saito, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Kunio Ihara, Tomoaki Ida, Takaaki Akaike, Eiji Ando, Mamoru Hyodo, Yoshihiro Hayakawa, Shin Hamamoto, Nobuyuki Uozumi

    The Biochemical journal   Vol. 478 ( 1 ) page: 41 - 59   2021.1

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    Flocculation has been recognized for hundreds of years as an important phenomenon in brewing and wastewater treatment. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. The lack of a distinct phenotype to differentiate between slow-growing mutants and floc-forming mutants prevents the isolation of floc-related gene by conventional mutant screening. To overcome this, we performed a two-step Escherichia coli mutant screen. The initial screen of E. coli for mutants conferring floc production during high salt treatment yielded a mutant containing point mutations in 61 genes. The following screen of the corresponding single-gene mutants identified two genes, mrcB, encoding a peptidoglycan-synthesizing enzyme and cpxA, encoding a histidine kinase of a two-component signal transduction system that contributed to salt tolerance and flocculation prevention. Both single mutants formed flocs during high salt shock, these flocs contained cytosolic proteins. ΔcpxA exhibited decreased growth with increasing floc production and addition of magnesium to ΔcpxA suppressed floc production effectively. In contrast, the growth of ΔmrcB was inconsistent under high salt conditions. In both strains, flocculation was accompanied by the release of membrane vesicles containing inner and outer membrane proteins. Of 25 histidine kinase mutants tested, ΔcpxA produced the highest amount of proteins in floc. Expression of cpxP was up-regulated by high salt in ΔcpxA, suggesting that high salinity and activation of CpxR might promote floc formation. The finding that ΔmrcB or ΔcpxA conferred floc production indicates that cell envelope stress triggered by unfavorable environmental conditions cause the initiation of flocculation in E. coli.

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  15. Randomized phase II study comparing the efficacy and safety of SOX versus mFOLFOX6 as neoadjuvant chemotherapy without radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer (KSCC1301). Reviewed Open Access

    Miwa K, Oki E, Enomoto M, Ihara K, Ando K, Fujita F, Tominaga M, Mori S, Nakayama G, Shimokawa M, Saeki H, Baba H, Mori M, Akagi Y

    BMC cancer   Vol. 21 ( 1 ) page: 23   2021.1

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    Background: Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT), the current standard of care for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), is associated with many radiotherapy (RT)-related side effects. We aimed to evaluate whether S-1 and oxaliplatin (SOX) or folinic acid, 5-FU, and oxaliplatin (mFOLFOX6) can be as effective as neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) regimens for LARC without RT. Methods: Patients with untreated resectable LARC were randomly assigned to receive SOX or mFOLFOX6. The NAC protocol period was 3 months. The primary endpoint was 3-year disease-free survival (DFS), and the secondary endpoints included pathological effects, surgical completion rate, 3-year survival, and safety. Results: From September 2013 to October 2015, 56 and 54 patients were enrolled in the SOX and mFOLFOX6 arms, respectively. The 3-year DFS rates were 69.4% (95% confidence interval [CI] 54.9–83.6) and 73.4% (95% CI 58.7–83.6) in the SOX and mFOLFOX6 arms, respectively; no significant differences were found between the arms (log-rank test; P = 0.5315, hazard ratio: 0.808, 95% CI 0.414–1.578). The 3-year survival rates were 92.3 and 91.8% in the SOX and mFOLFOX6 arms, respectively. The surgical completion rate was 98.1% overall, 100% in the SOX arm, and 96.0% in the mFOLFOX6 arm. The incidences of pathological response rates ≥grade 1b were 41.5 and 43.8% in the SOX and mFOLFOX6 arms, respectively. Both treatments were manageable and tolerable. Conclusion: We demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of SOX and mFOLFOX6, both of which may be new neoadjuvant treatment candidates in previously untreated LARC cases. Trial registration: Date of enrolment of the first participant to the trial: 3rd Oct 2013; This study was registered in the UMIN clinical trials registry on 14th Aug, 2013. (Prospectively registered, UMIN-CTR number UMIN000011486). https://upload.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr/ctr.cgi?function=brows&recptno=R000013441&language=J

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  16. Haloarcula mannanilytica sp. nov., a galactomannan-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt Reviewed Open Access

    Shigeaki Enomoto, Yasuhiro Shimane, Kunio Ihara, Masahiro Kamekura, Takashi Itoh, Moriya Ohkuma, Naoko Takahashi-Ando, Yasumasa Fukushima, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Ron Usami, Ken Takai, Hiroaki Minegishi

    International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology   Vol. 70 ( 12 ) page: 6331 - 6337   2020.12

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    © 2020 The Authors. A mannan-degrading halophilic archaeal strain, MD130-1T, was isolated from a commercial salt sample. Cells were motile, rod-shaped, and stained Gram-negative. Colonies were pink pigmented. Strain MD130-1T was able to grow at 1.5–4.6 M NaCl (optimum, 3.6 M) at pH 6.0–8.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and at 25–50 °C (optimum, 40 °C). The DNA G+C content was 62.1 mol% (genome). The orthologous 16S rRNA gene sequence showed the highest similarity (99.4%) to those of Haloarcula japonica JCM 7785T and Haloarcula hispanica JCM 8911T. The values of genome relatedness between strain MD130-1T and Haloarcula species were 84.33–85.96% in ANIb and 30.4–32.9% using GGDC formula 2. The polar lipids of strain MD130-1T were phosphatidylg-lycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester and triglycosyl diether-2. Based on the results of phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses, the strain represents a new species of the genus Haloarcula, for which the name Haloarcula mannanilytica sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MD130-1T (=JCM 33835T=KCTC 4287T) isolated from commercial salt made in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan.

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  17. Energetics and kinetics of substrate analog-coupled staphylococcal nuclease folding revealed by a statistical mechanical approach. Reviewed Open Access

    Mizukami T, Furuzawa S, Itoh SG, Segawa S, Ikura T, Ihara K, Okumura H, Roder H, Maki K

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   Vol. 117 ( 33 ) page: 19953 - 19962   2020.8

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    Protein conformational changes associated with ligand binding, especially those involving intrinsically disordered proteins, are mediated by tightly coupled intra-and intermolecular events. Such reactions are often discussed in terms of two limiting kinetic mech-anisms, conformational selection (CS), where folding precedes binding, and induced fit (IF), where binding precedes folding. It has been shown that coupled folding/binding reactions can pro-ceed along both CS and IF pathways with the flux ratio depending on conditions such as ligand concentration. However, the struc-tural and energetic basis of such complex reactions remains poorly understood. Therefore, we used experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to explore structural and energetic as-pects of the coupled-folding/binding reaction of staphylococcal nuclease in the presence of the substrate analog adenosine-3 ',5 '-diphosphate. Optically monitored equilibrium and kinetic data, combined with a statistical mechanical model, gave deeper insight into the relative importance of specific and Coulombic protein- ligand interactions in governing the reaction mechanism. We also investigated structural aspects of the reaction at the residue level using NMR and all-atom replica-permutation molecular dynamics simulations. Both approaches yielded clear evidence for accumula-tion of a transient protein-ligand encounter complex early in the reaction under IF-dominant conditions. Quantitative analysis of the equilibrium/kinetic folding revealed that the ligand-dependent CS-to-IF shift resulted from stabilization of the compact transition state primarily by weakly ligand-dependent Coulombic interactions with smaller contributions from specific binding energies. At a more macroscopic level, the CS-to-IF shift was represented as a displace-ment of the reaction "route" on the free energy surface, which was consistent with a flux analysis.

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  18. The role of ROC75 as a daytime component of the circadian oscillator in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Reviewed Open Access

    Matsuo Takuya, Iida Takahiro, Ohmura Ayumi, Gururaj Malavika, Kato Daisaku, Mutoh Risa, Ihara Kunio, Ishiura Masahiro

    PLOS GENETICS   Vol. 16 ( 6 ) page: e1008814 - e1008814   2020.6

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  19. Presynaptic MAST kinase controls opposing postsynaptic responses to convey stimulus valence in Caenorhabditis elegans. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Shunji Nakano, Muneki Ikeda, Yuki Tsukada, Xianfeng Fei, Takamasa Suzuki, Yusuke Niino, Rhea Ahluwalia, Ayana Sano, Rumi Kondo, Kunio Ihara, Atsushi Miyawaki, Koichi Hashimoto, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Ikue Mori

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   Vol. 117 ( 3 ) page: 1638 - 1647   2020.1

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    Presynaptic plasticity is known to modulate the strength of synaptic transmission. However, it remains unknown whether regulation in presynaptic neurons can evoke excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic responses. We report here that the Caenorhabditis elegans homologs of MAST kinase, Stomatin, and Diacylglycerol kinase act in a thermosensory neuron to elicit in its postsynaptic neuron an excitatory or inhibitory response that correlates with the valence of thermal stimuli. By monitoring neural activity of the valence-coding interneuron in freely behaving animals, we show that the alteration between excitatory and inhibitory responses of the interneuron is mediated by controlling the balance of two opposing signals released from the presynaptic neuron. These alternative transmissions further generate opposing behavioral outputs necessary for the navigation on thermal gradients. Our findings suggest that valence-encoding interneuronal activity is determined by a presynaptic mechanism whereby MAST kinase, Stomatin, and Diacylglycerol kinase influence presynaptic outputs.

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  20. gas1 mutation extends chronological lifespan via Pmk1 and Sty1 MAPKs in Schizosaccharomyces pombe Reviewed

    Imai Yuki, Shimasaki Takafumi, Enokimura Chihiro, Ohtsuka Hokuto, Tsubouchi Satoshi, Ihara Kunio, Aiba Hirofumi

    BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY     page: 1-8   2019.10

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  21. The mechanosensitive channel YbdG from <i>Escherichia coli</i> has a role in adaptation to osmotic up-shock. Reviewed

    Amemiya S, Toyoda H, Kimura M, Saito H, Kobayashi H, Ihara K, Kamagata K, Kawabata R, Kato S, Nakashimada Y, Furuta T, Hamamoto S, Uozumi N

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  22. Cholecystokinin induces crowing in chickens Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Shimmura Tsuyoshi, Tamura Mai, Ohashi Shosei, Sasaki Asuka, TakamichiYamanaka, Nakao Nobuhiro, Ihara Kunio, Okamura Shinsaku, TakashiYoshimura

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS   Vol. 9 ( 1 ) page: 3978   2019.3

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  23. Comprehensive investigation of the gene expression system regulated by an Aspergillus oryzae transcription factor XlnR using integrated mining of gSELEX-Seq and microarray data. Reviewed

    Oka H, Kojima T, Ihara K, Kobayashi T, Nakano H

    BMC genomics   Vol. 20 ( 1 ) page: 16   2019.1

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  24. Obesity and mental health improvement following nutritional education focusing on gut microbiota composition in Japanese women: a randomised controlled trial. Reviewed

    Uemura M, Hayashi F, Ishioka K, Ihara K, Yasuda K, Okazaki K, Omata J, Suzutani T, Hirakawa Y, Chiang C, Aoyama A, Ohira T

    European journal of nutrition     2018.12

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  25. Three-Step Isomerization of the Retinal Chromophore during the Anion Pumping Cycle of Halorhodopsin Reviewed International journal

    Kouyama Tsutomu, Ihara Kunio, Maki Kosuke, Chan Siu Kit

    BIOCHEMISTRY   Vol. 57 ( 41 ) page: 6013 - 6026   2018.10

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  26. Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia vietnamiensis Strain RS1, a Nitrogen-Fixing Endophyte Isolated from Sweet Potato. Reviewed International journal Open Access

    Rina Shinjo, Kazuma Uesaka, Kunio Ihara, Shunsuke Sakazaki, Katsuya Yano, Motohiko Kondo, Aiko Tanaka

    Microbiology resource announcements   Vol. 7 ( 3 )   2018.7

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    Burkholderia vietnamiensis strain RS1 is an endophytic bacterium with nitrogen-fixing ability that was isolated from tuberous roots of sweet potato. Here, we present its draft genome of 6,542,727 bases that contains a cluster of genes associated with nitrogen fixation. This genome sequence will provide important insights into the plant growth-promoting potential of endophytic bacteria.

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  27. In vivo transposon tagging in the nonheterocystous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana

    Tomatsu Chie, Uesaka Kazuma, Yamakawa Hisanori, Tsuchiya Tohru, Ihara Kunio, Fujita Yuichi

    FEBS LETTERS   Vol. 592 ( 10 ) page: 1634-1642   2018.5

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  28. Co-expression of the calcitonin receptor gene in the hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons in female rats Reviewed

    Assadullah, Nahoko Ieda, Narumi Kawai, Hirotaka Ishii, Kunio Ihara, Naoko Inoue, Yoshihisa Uenoyama, Hiroko Tsukamura

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  29. SLO potassium channels antagonize premature decision making in <i>C. elegans</i>. Reviewed

    Aoki I, Tateyama M, Shimomura T, Ihara K, Kubo Y, Nakano S, Mori I

    Communications biology   Vol. 1   page: 123   2018

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  30. Fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus in Japanese children and adolescents: Multi-institutional joint research of the Japanese study group of insulin therapy for childhood and adolescent diabetes

    Shiga K., Urakami T., Suzuki J., Igarashi Y., Tajima H., Amemiya S., Sugihara S., Takahashi I., Tanahashi Y., Matsuo K., Iwamoto J., Yatsuga S., Endo A., Takemoto K., Hamada J., Ihara K., Ohki Y., Takaya R., Mochizuki T., Kawamura T., Horita Y., Furujo M., Inoue M., Hasegawa K., Adachi M., Okajima M., Shimura K., Ohtsu S., Kitsuda K., Ito Y., Hori T., Ishii K., Kawada Y., Nakajima H., Ito I., Nakamura K., Miyagawa S., Jinno K., Horikawa R., Yoshida T., Fukami M., Mori T., Kobayashi K., Konda S., Sasaki N., Kikuchi T., Musha I., Aizu K., Mochizuki H., Hotsubo T., Sato K., Yamamoto Y., Kadowaki H., Nishii A., Matsui K., Yokota I., Miyoshi T., Takubo N., Hara Y., Matsuura N., Miyamoto S., Soneda S., Takahashi T., Tsubouchi K., Tatematsu T., Minamitani K., Ogawa E., Izumi Y., Sasaki G., Tachikawa E., Uchigata Y., Yasuda Y., Sasaki K., Kitanaka S., Isojima T., Fujiwara I., Kanno J., Kotani Y., Ayabe T., Shimura N., Ichikawa J., Hanaki K., Nagaishi J., Kanzaki S., Fujimoto M., Ito J., Mizuno H., Abe Y., Nagasaki K., Ogawa Y., Kadotani S., Kashihara Y., Okuno M., Ogata T., Ohtaka K., Miyako K., Kohno H., Fujisawa T., Suga S., Koike A.

    Endocrine Journal   Vol. 65 ( 8 ) page: 795 - 803   2018

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    Fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus (FT1DM) is a subtype of type 1 diabetes mellitus characterized by a remarkably abrupt onset. In Japan, FT1DM accounts for approximately 20% of acute-onset adult type 1 diabetes mellitus cases; however, reports of pediatric-onset FT1DM are rare. We aimed to determine the frequency and clinical characteristics of FT1DM in Japanese children and adolescents by conducting a 2-phase questionnaire survey among the members of the Japanese Study Group of Insulin Therapy for Childhood and Adolescent Diabetes (JSGIT) regarding their clinical experience with FT1DM. Responses were obtained from 54 of the 79 participating hospitals (68.4%). Of these, 8 hospitals managed a total of 15 pediatric patients with FT1DM (4 patients in each of 2 hospitals, 2 patients in 1 hospital, and 1 patient in each of 5 hospitals). The distribution of patient age was biphasic, with peaks in children younger than 5 years and older than 8 years of age. The clinical characteristics of FT1DM in this population (such as the duration from onset of symptoms to diagnosis, severity of symptoms, preceding flu-like episodes, and abnormal laboratory data) did not differ from those of patients with adult-onset FT1DM. The frequency of pediatric-onset FT1DM is low compared with that of adult-onset FT1DM. The genetic background and susceptibility patterns of pediatric patients with FT1DM may differ from those typical of adults with FT1DM, but both age groups share similar clinical characteristics.

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  31. Incidence rate and characteristics of symptomatic vitamin d deficiency in children: A nationwide survey in Japan Open Access

    Kubota T., Nakayama H., Kitaoka T., Nakamura Y., Fukumoto S., Fujiwara I., Hasegawa Y., Ihara K., Kitanaka S., Koyama S., Kusuda S., Mizuno H., Nagasaki K., Oba K., Sakamoto Y., Takubo N., Shimizu T., Tanahashi Y., Hasegawa K., Tsukahara H., Yorifuji T., Michigami T., Ozono K.

    Endocrine Journal   Vol. 65 ( 6 ) page: 593 - 599   2018

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    There is concern that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among children in Japan as well as worldwide. We conducted a nationwide epidemiologic survey of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency to observe its incidence rate among Japanese children. A questionnaire inquiring the number of new patients with vitamin D deficiency rickets and/or hypocalcemia for 3 years was sent to 855 randomly selected hospitals with a pediatrics department in Japan. In this survey, we found that 250 children were diagnosed with symptomatic vitamin D deficiency. The estimated number of patients with symptomatic vitamin D deficiency per year was 183 (95% confidence interval (CI): 145–222). The overall annual incidence rate among children under 15 years of age was 1.1 per 100,000 population (95% CI: 0.9–1.4). The second survey has provided detailed information on 89 patients with symptomatic vitamin D deficiency under 5 years of age in hospitals in the current research group. The nationwide and second surveys estimated the overall annual incidence rate of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in children under 5 years of age to be 3.5 (2.7–4.2) per 100,000 population. The second survey revealed 83% had bowed legs, 88% had exclusive breastfeeding, 49% had a restricted and/or unbalanced diet and 31% had insufficient sun exposure among the 89 patients. This is the first nationwide survey on definitive clinical vitamin D deficiency in children in Japan. Elucidating the frequency and characteristics of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency among children is useful to develop preventative public health strategies.

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  32. Salinarchaeum chitinilyticum sp nov., a chitin-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt

    Minegishi Hiroaki, Enomoto Shigeaki, Echigo Akinobu, Shimane Yasuhiro, Kondo Yusuke, Inoma Ayumi, Kamekura Masahiro, Takai Ken, Itoh Takashi, Ohkuma Moriya, Ihara Kunio, Takahashi-Ando Naoko, Fukushima Yasumasa, Ishii Shigeru, Yoshida Yasuhiko, Usami Ron

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY   Vol. 67 ( 7 ) page: 2274-2278   2017.7

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  33. Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Early Diverging Green Alga <i>Palmophyllum crassum</i>.

    Furukawa R, Kunugi M, Ihara K, Takabayashi A, Tanaka A

    Genome announcements   Vol. 5 ( 10 )   2017.3

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  34. Transcriptional regulation of CmpR, the LysR family protein involved in CO2-responsive gene regulation in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus Reviewed

    Lu-Lu Pan1, Kiyoshi Onai2, Kazuma Uesaka1, Kunio Ihara2, Takumi Natsume1, Nobuyuki Takatani1, Masahiro Ishiura2 and Tatsuo Omata1*

    Biomedical Genetics and Genomics   Vol. 1 ( 5 ) page: 1-6   2017.1

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  35. Identification of a novel protein kinase that affects the chronological lifespan in fission yeast

    Kurauchi Tatsuhiro, Hashizume Aya, Imai Yuki, Hayashi Kanako, Tsubouchi Satoshi, Ihara Kunio, Ohtsuka Hokuto, Aiba Hirofumi

    FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS   Vol. 364 ( 2 )   2017.1

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  36. Exome-wide association study identifies clec3b missense variant p.s106g as being associated with extreme longevity in east asian populations Reviewed

    Tanisawa K.

    Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences   Vol. 72 ( 3 ) page: 309-318   2017

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  37. Photochemical characterization of actinorhodopsin and its functional existence in the natural host. Reviewed

    Nakamura S, Kikukawa T, Tamogami J, Kamiya M, Aizawa T, Hahn MW, Ihara K, Kamo N, Demura M.

    Biochim Biophys Acta.   Vol. 1857 ( 12 ) page: 1900-1908   2016.12

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  38. A simple method for isolation and construction of markerless cyanobacterial mutants defective in acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase. Reviewed

    Kojima K, Keta S, Uesaka K, Kato A, Takatani N, Ihara K, Omata T, Aichi M.

    Appl Microbiol Biotechnol.   Vol. 100 ( 23 ) page: 10107-10113   2016.12

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  39. Haloparvum alkalitolerans sp. nov., alkali-tolerant haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt. Reviewed

    Kondo Y, Minegishi H, Echigo A, Shimane Y, Kamekura M, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Tanaka A, Takahashi-Ando N, Fukushima Y, Yoshida Y, Ihara K, Usami R.

    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol.   Vol. 66 ( 12 ) page: 5314-5319   2016.12

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  40. Shifting transcriptional machinery is required for long-term memory maintenance and modification in Drosophila mushroom bodies. Reviewed

    Hirano Y, Ihara K, Masuda T, Yamamoto T, Iwata I, Takahashi A, Awata H, Nakamura N, Takakura M, Suzuki Y, Horiuchi J, Okuno H, Saitoe M.

    Nat Commun.   Vol. 7   page: 13471   2016.11

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  41. Complete Genome Sequence of Kosakonia sacchari Strain BO-1, an Endophytic Diazotroph Isolated from a Sweet Potato. Reviewed

    Shinjo R, Uesaka K, Ihara K, Loshakova K, Mizuno Y, Yano K, Tanaka A.

    Genome Announc.   Vol. 4 ( 5 ) page: e00868-16   2016.9

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  42. A Robust Analytical Pipeline for Genome-Wide Identification of the Genes Regulated by a Transcription Factor: Combinatorial Analysis Performed Using gSELEX-Seq and RNA-Seq. Reviewed

    Kojima T, Kunitake E, Ihara K, Kobayashi T, Nakano H.

    PLoS One.   Vol. 11 ( 7 ) page: e0159011   2016.7

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  43. Crystal Structure of the 11-cis Isomer of Pharaonis Halorhodopsin: Structural Constraints on Interconversions among Different Isomeric States. Reviewed

    Chan SK, Kawaguchi H, Kubo H, Murakami M, Ihara K, Maki K, Kouyama T.

    Biochemistry.   Vol. 55 ( 29 ) page: 4092-4104   2016.7

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  44. FliH and FliI ensure efficient energy coupling of flagellar type III protein export in Salmonella. Reviewed

    Minamino T, Kinoshita M, Inoue Y, Morimoto YV, Ihara K, Koya S, Hara N, Nishioka N, Kojima S, Homma M, Namba K.

    Microbiologyopen   Vol. 5 ( 3 ) page: 424-435   2016.6

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  45. Evolution of Green Plants Accompanied Changes in Light-Harvesting Systems. Reviewed

    Kunugi M, Satoh S, Ihara K, Shibata K, Yamagishi Y, Kogame K, Obokata J, Takabayashi A, Tanaka A.

    Plant Cell Physiol.   Vol. 57 ( 6 ) page: 1231-1243   2016.6

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  46. Identification of a Cyanobacterial RND-Type Efflux System Involved in Export of Free Fatty Acids. Reviewed

    Kato A, Takatani N, Use K, Uesaka K, Ikeda K, Chang Y, Kojima K, Aichi M, Ihara K, Nakahigashi K, Maeda S, Omata T.

    Plant Cell Physiol.   Vol. 56 ( 12 ) page: 2467-2477   2015.12

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  47. Structural and functional roles of the N- and C-terminal extended modules in channelrhodopsin-1. Reviewed

    Doi S, Mori A, Tsukamoto T, Reissig L, Ihara K, Sudo Y.

    Photochem Photobiol Sci.   Vol. 14 ( 9 ) page: 1628-36   2015.9

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  49. Probing the Cl--pumping photocycle of pharaonis halorhodopsin: Examinations with bacterioruberin, an intrinsic dye, and membrane potential-induced modulation of the photocycle. Reviewed

    Kikukawa T, Kusakabe C, Kokubo A, Tsukamoto T, Kamiya M, Aizawa T, Ihara K, Kamo N, Demura M.

    Biochim Biophys Acta.   Vol. 1847 ( 8 ) page: 748-758   2015.8

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  50. A genetic mechanism for female-limited Batesian mimicry in Papilio butterfly. Reviewed

    Nishikawa H, Iijima T, Kajitani R, Yamaguchi J, Ando T, Suzuki Y, Sugano S, Fujiyama A, Kosugi S, Hirakawa H, Tabata S, Ozaki K, Morimoto H, Ihara K, Obara M, Hori H, Itoh T, Fujiwara H.

    Nat Genet.   Vol. 47 ( 4 ) page: 405-409   2015.4

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  51. Loss of cytochrome cM stimulates cyanobacterial heterotrophic growth in the dark Reviewed

    Yuto Hiraide, Kenshiro Oshima, Takatomo Fujisawa, Kazuma Uesaka, Yuu Hirose, Ryoma Tsujimoto, Haruki Yamamoto, Shinobu Okamoto, Yasukazu Nakamura, Kazuki Terauchi, Tatsuo Omata, Kunio Ihara, Masahira Hattori, and Yuichi Fujita

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    Although cyanobacteria are photoautotrophs, they have heterotrophic metabolism that enables them to survive in their natural habitat. However, cyanobacterial species that grow heterotrophically in the dark are rare. It remains largely unknown how cyanobacteria regulate heterotrophic activity. The cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana grows heterotrophically with glucose in the dark. A dark-adapted variant dg5 isolated from the wild-type (WT) exhibits enhanced heterotrophic growth in the dark. We sequenced the genomes of dg5 and WT to identify the mutation(s) of dg5. The WT genome consists of a circular chromosome (6,176,364 bp), a circular plasmid pLBA (77,793 bp), and two linear plasmids pLBX (504,942 bp) and pLBY (44,369 bp). Genome comparison revealed three mutation sites. Phenotype analysis of mutants isolated from WT by introducing these mutations individually revealed that the relevant mutation is a single adenine insertion causing a frameshift of cytM encoding cytochrome cM. The respiratory oxygen consumption of the cytM-lacking mutant grown in the dark was significantly higher than that of WT. We isolated a cytM-lacking mutant, ΔcytM, from another cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and ΔcytM grew in the dark with a doubling time of 33 h in contrast to no growth of WT. The respiratory oxygen consumption of ΔcytM grown in the dark was about 2-fold higher than that of wild type. These results suggest a suppressive role(s) of cytochrome cM in regulation of heterotrophic activity.

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  52. Crystal Structure of Cruxrhodopsin-3 from Haloarcula vallismortis. Reviewed

    Chan SK, Kitajima-Ihara T, Fujii R, Gotoh T, Murakami M, Ihara K, Kouyama T.

    PLoS One   Vol. 9 ( 9 ) page: e108362   2014.9

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    Cruxrhodopsin-3 (cR3), a retinylidene protein found in the claret membrane of Haloarcula vallismortis, functions as a light-driven proton pump. In this study, the membrane fusion method was applied to crystallize cR3 into a crystal belonging to space group P321. Diffraction data at 2.1 Å resolution show that cR3 forms a trimeric assembly with bacterioruberin bound to the crevice between neighboring subunits. Although the structure of the proton-release pathway is conserved among proton-pumping archaeal rhodopsins, cR3 possesses the following peculiar structural features: 1) The DE loop is long enough to interact with a neighboring subunit, strengthening the trimeric assembly; 2) Three positive charges are distributed at the cytoplasmic end of helix F, affecting the higher order structure of cR3; 3) The cytoplasmic vicinity of retinal is more rigid in cR3 than in bacteriorhodopsin, affecting the early reaction step in the proton-pumping cycle; 4) the cytoplasmic part of helix E is greatly bent, influencing the proton uptake process. Meanwhile, it was observed that the photobleaching of retinal, which scarcely occurred in the membrane state, became significant when the trimeric assembly of cR3 was dissociated into monomers in the presence of an excess amount of detergent. On the basis of these observations, we discuss structural factors affecting the photostabilities of ion-pumping rhodopsins.

    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108362. eCollection 2014.

  53. Transcriptome Analysis of Reaction Wood in Gymnosperms by Next-Generation Sequencing Reviewed

    Saori Sato, Masato Yoshida, Hideto Hiraide, Kunio Ihara, Hiroyuki Yamamoto

    American Journal of Plant Sciences   Vol. 5   page: 2785-2798   2014.8

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    Special xylem tissue called compression wood is formed on the lower side of inclined stems
    when gymnosperms grow on a slope. We investigated the molecular mechanism of compression
    wood formation. Transcriptome analysis by next-generation sequencing (NGS) was applied to the
    xylem of Chamaecyparis obtusa to develop a catalog of general gene expression in differentiating
    xylem during compression and normal wood formation. The sequencing output generated
    234,924,605 reads and 40,602 contigs (mean size = 529 bp). Based on a sequence similarity
    search with known proteins, 54.2% (22,005) of the contigs showed homology with sequences in
    the databases. Of these annotated contigs, 19,293 contigs were assigned to Gene Ontology categories.
    Differential gene expression between the compression and normal wood libraries was
    analyzed by mapping the reads from each library to the assembled contigs. In total, 2875 contigs
    were identified as differentially expressed, including 1207 that were up-regulated and 1668 that
    were down-regulated in compression wood. We selected 30 genes and compared the transcript
    abundance between compression and normal wood by quantitative polymerase chain reaction
    analysis to validate the NGS results. We found that 27 of the 30 genes showed the same expression
    patterns as the original NGS results.

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  54. Searching for genomic region of high-fat diet-induced type 2 diabetes in mouse chromosome 2 by analysis of congenic strains. Reviewed

    Kobayashi M, Ohno T, Ihara K, Murai A, Kumazawa M, Hoshino H, Iwanaga K, Iwai H, Hamana Y, Ito M, Ohno K, Horio F.

    PLoS One   Vol. 9 ( 5 ) page: e96271   2014.5

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  55. Mutation in the a-subunit of F(1)F(O)-ATPase causes an increased motility phenotype through the sodium-driven flagella of Vibrio.

    Terashima H, Terauchi T, Ihara K, Nishioka N, Kojima S, Homma M.

    J Biochem.   Vol. 154 ( 2 ) page: 177-184   2013.8

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  56. A blue-shifted light-driven proton pump for neural silencing

    Sudo Y, Okazaki A, Ono H, Yagasaki J, Sugo S, Kamiya M, Reissig L, Inoue K, Ihara K, Kandori H, Takagi S, Hayashi S.

    J Biol Chem.   Vol. 288 ( 28 ) page: 20624-20632   2013.7

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  57. Crystal structure of deltarhodopsin-3 from Haloterrigena thermotolerans

    Zhang J, Mizuno K, Murata Y, Koide H, Murakami M, Ihara K, Kouyama T.

    Proteins.   Vol. 81 ( 9 ) page: 1585-1592   2013.6

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  58. Exome sequencing of senescence-accelerated mice (SAM) reveals deleterious mutations in degenerative disease-causing genes. Reviewed

    Tanisawa K, Mikami E, Fuku N, Honda Y, Honda S, Ohsawa I, Ito M, Endo S, Ihara K, Ohno K, Kishimoto Y, Ishigami A, Maruyama N, Sawabe M, Iseki H, Okazaki Y, Hasegawa-Ishii S, Takei S, Shimada A, Hosokawa M, Mori M, Higuchi K, Takeda T, Higuchi M, Tanaka M.

    BMC Genomics   Vol. 14   page: 248   2013.4

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  59. Large deformation of helix F during the photoreaction cycle of Pharaonis halorhodopsin in complex with azide. Reviewed

    Nakanishi T, Kanada S, Murakami M, Ihara K, Kouyama T.

    Biophys J.   Vol. 104 ( 2 ) page: 377-385   2013.2

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  60. A Novel dnaJ Family Gene, sflA, Encodes an Inhibitor of Flagellation in Marine Vibrio Species.

    Kitaoka M, Nishigaki T, Ihara K, Nishioka N, Kojima S, Homma M.

    Journal of Bacteriology   Vol. 195 ( 4 ) page: 816-822   2013.2

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  61. Crystal structure of the O intermediate of the Leu93->Ala mutant of bacteriorhodopsin.

    Zhang J, Yamazaki Y, Hikake M, Murakami M, Ihara K, Kouyama T.

    Proteins   Vol. 80 ( 10 ) page: 2384-2396   2012.10

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  62. MarR-type transcriptional regulator ChlR activates expression of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis genes in response to low-oxygen conditions in cyanobacteria.

    Aoki R, Takeda T, Omata T, Ihara K, Fujita Y.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry   Vol. 287 ( 16 ) page: 13500-13507   2012.4

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  63. Crystal structures of an O-like blue form and an anion-free yellow form of pharaonis halorhodopsin. Reviewed

    Kanada S, Takeguchi Y, Murakami M, Ihara K, Kouyama T.

    Journal of Molecular Biology   Vol. 413 ( 1 ) page: 162-176   2011.10

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  64. Gene orders in the upstream of 16S rRNA genes divide genera of the family Halobacteriaceae into two groups Reviewed

    Minegishi, H. Kamekura, M. Kitajima-Ihara, T. Nakasone, K. Echigo, A. Shimane, Y. Usami, R. Itoh, T. Ihara, K.

    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol     2011.3

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    In many prokaryotic species, 16S rRNA genes are present in multiple copies, and their sequences in general do not differ significantly owing to the concerted evolution. The genus Haloarcula of the family Halobacteriaceae comprises nine validly published species, and all of them possess two to four, highly heterogeneous, 16S rRNA genes. Existence of heterogeneous multiple 16S rRNA genes makes it difficult to reconstruct a biological phylogenetic tree using their sequences data. If the orthologous gene is able to be discriminated from paralogous genes, a tree reconstructed from orthologous genes will reflect a simple biological phylogenetic relationship. At present, however, we have no means to distinguish the orthologous rRNA operon from paralogous one in the members of Halobacteriaceae.In this paper, we found that dihydroorotate oxidase gene, pyrD, was present in the immediate upstream of one 16S rRNA gene, in ten strains of Halobacteriaceae whose genome sequences have been determined, and the direction of pyrD was the opposite of that of the 16S rRNA genes. In two other strains whose genome sequences have been determined, the pyrD was present in far separated positions. We designed PCR primer sets to amplify DNA fragments encompassing from the conserved region of pyrD to a conserved region of tRNA-Ala genes or 23S rRNA genes to determine the 16S rRNA gene sequences preceded by pyrD, and to see if the pyrD is conserved in the immediate upstream of rRNA operon(s) in the type strains of the types species of 28 genera of Halobacteriaceae. Seventeen type strains, including the ten strains mentioned above, gave amplified DNA fragments of approximately 4,000 bp, while eleven type strains including the two strains mentioned above, did not give any PCR products. These eleven strains are members of the Clade I, which was originally defined by Walsh et al. (2004) and expanded by Minegishi et al. (2010). Analysis of contig sequences of three strains belonging to the Clade I also revealed the absence of the pyrD in the immediate upstream of any 16S rRNA genes. It may be scientifically sound to hypothesize that during the evolution of members of Halobacteriaceae, pyrD transposition event happened in one group, and this was followed by subsequent speciation processes in each group, yielding species/genera of the Clade I group and "the rest" of the present family Halobacteriaceae.

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  65. A Microbial Rhodopsin with a Unique Retinal Composition Shows Both Sensory Rhodopsin II and Bacteriorhodopsin-like Properties Reviewed

    Sudo, Y. Ihara, K. Kobayashi, S. Suzuki, D. Irieda, H. Kikukawa, T. Kandori, H. Homma, M.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry   Vol. 286 ( 8 ) page: 5967-5976   2011.2

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    Rhodopsins possess retinal chromophore surrounded by seven transmembrane alpha-helices, are widespread in prokaryotes and in eukaryotes, and can be utilized as optogenetic tools. Although rhodopsins work as distinctly different photo-receptors in various organisms, they can be roughly divided according to their two basic functions, light-energy conversion and light-signal transduction. In microbes, light-driven proton transporters functioning as light-energy converters have been modified by evolution to produce sensory receptors that relay signals to transducer proteins to control motility. In this study, we cloned and characterized two newly identified microbial rhodopsins from Haloquadratum walsbyi. One of them has photochemical properties and a proton pumping activity similar to the well known proton pump bacteriorhodopsin (BR). The other, named middle rhodopsin (MR), is evolutionarily transitional between BR and the phototactic sensory rhodopsin II (SRII), having an SRII-like absorption maximum, a BR-like photocycle, and a unique retinal composition. The wild-type MR does not have a light-induced proton pumping activity. On the other hand, a mutant MR with two key hydrogen-bonding residues located at the interaction surface with the transducer protein HtrII shows robust phototaxis responses similar to SRII, indicating that MR is potentially capable of the signaling. These results demonstrate that color tuning and insertion of the critical threonine residue occurred early in the evolution of sensory rhodopsins. MR may be a missing link in the evolution from type 1 rhodopsins (microorganisms) to type 2 rhodopsins (animals), because it is the first microbial rhodopsin known to have 11-cis-retinal similar to type 2 rhodopsins.

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  66. Photochemistry of a putative new class of sensory rhodopsin (SRIII) coded by xop2 of Haloarcular marismortui Reviewed

    Nakao, Y. Kikukawa, T. Shimono, K. Tamogami, J. Kimitsuki, N. Nara, T. Unno, M. Ihara, K. Kamo, N.

    Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology   Vol. 102 ( 1 ) page: 45-54   2011.1

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    Baliga et al. (2004) [1] reported the existence of a functionally unpredictable opsin gene, named xop2, in Haloarcula marismortui, a holophilic archaeon. Ihara et al. [38] performed molecular phylogenetic analysis and determined that the product of xop2 belonged to a new class of opsins in the sensory rhodopsins. This microbial rhodopsin was therefore named H. marismortui sensory rhodopsin III (HmSRIII). Here, we functionally expressed HmSRIII in Escherichia coli cell membranes to examine the photochemistry. The wavelength of maximum absorption (lambda(max)) for HmSRIII was 506 nm. We observed a very slow photocycle that completed in similar to 50 s. Intermediates were defined as M (lambda(max) similar to 380 nm), N (lambda(max) similar to 460 nm) and O (lambda(max) similar to 530 nm) 0.01 s after the flash excitation. The nomenclature for these intermediates was based on their locations along the absorption maxima of bacteriorhodopsin. Analysis of laser-flash-photolysis data in the presence and absence of azide gave the following results: (1) an equilibrium between N and 0 was attained, (2) the direct product of the M-decay was 0 but not N, and (3) the last photo-intermediate (HmSRIII') had a lambda(max) similar to that of the original, and its decay rate was very slow. Resonance Raman spectroscopy revealed that this N-intermediate had 13-cis retinal conformation. Proton uptake occurred during the course of M-decay, whereas proton release occurred during the course of O-decay (or exactly N-O equilibrium). Very weak proton-pumping activity was observed whose direction is the same as that of bacteriorhodopsin, a typical light-driven proton pump. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  67. Spectroscopic studies of a sensory rhodopsin I homologue from the archaeon Haloarcula vallismortis. Reviewed

    Yagasaki J, Suzuki D, Ihara K, Inoue K, Kikukawa T, Sakai M, Fujii M, Homma M, Kandori H, Sudo Y.

    Biochemistry   Vol. 49 ( 6 ) page: 1183-1190   2010.2

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    Sensory rhodopsin I (SRI) functions as a dual receptor regulating both negative and positive phototaxis. It transmits light signals through changes in protein-protein interactions with its transducer protein, HtrI. The phototaxis function of Halobacterium salinarum SRI (HsSRI) has been well characterized using genetic and molecular techniques, whereas that of Salinibacter ruber SRI (SrSRI) has not. SrSRI has the advantage of high protein stability compared with HsSRI and, therefore, provided new information about structural changes and Cl(-) binding of SRI. However, nothing is known about the functional role of SrSRI in phototaxis behavior. In this study, we expressed a SRI homologue from the archaeon Haloarcula vallismortis (HvSRI) as a recombinant protein which uses all-trans-retinal as a chromophore. Functionally important residues of HsSRI are completely conserved in HvSRI (unlike in SrSRI), and HvSRI is extremely stable in buffers without Cl(-). Taking advantage of the high stability, we characterized the photochemical properties of HvSRI under acidic and basic conditions and observed the effects of Cl(-) on the protein under both conditions. Fourier transform infrared results revealed that the structural changes in HvSRI were quite similar to those in HsSRI and SrSRI. Thus, HvSRI can become a useful protein model for improving our understanding of the molecular mechanism of the dual photosensing by SRI.

  68. *Crystal structure of the light-driven chloride pump halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis Reviewed

    Tsutomu Kouyama; Soun Kanada; Yu Takeguchi; Akihiro Narusawa; Midori Murakami; Kunio Ihara

    J. Mol. Biology   Vol. 396 ( 3 ) page: 564-579   2010.2

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    The light-driven chloride pump halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis (phR) crystallised into the monoclinic space group C2, with a phR trimer per the asymmetric unit. Diffraction data at 2.0-A resolution showed that the carotenoid bacterioruberin binds to crevices between adjacent protein subunits in the trimeric assembly. Besides seven transmembrane helices (A to G) that characterise archaeal rhodopsins, the phR protomer possesses an amphipathic alpha-helix (A') at the N-terminus. This helix, together with a long loop between helices B and C, forms a hydrophobic cap that covers the extracellular surface and prevents a rapid ion exchange between the active centre and the extracellular medium. The retinal bound to Lys256 in helix G takes on an all-trans configuration with the Schiff base being hydrogen-bonded to a water molecule. The Schiff base also interacts with Asp252 and a chloride ion, the latter being fixed by two polar groups (Thr126 and Ser130) in helix C. In the anion uptake pathway, four ionisable residues (Arg123, Glu234, Arg176 and His100) and seven water molecules are aligned to form a long hydrogen-bonding network. Conversely, the cytoplasmic half is filled mostly by hydrophobic residues, forming a large energetic barrier against the transport of anion. The height of this barrier would be lowered substantially if the cytoplasmic half functions as a proton/HCl antiporter. Interestingly, there is a long cavity extending from the main-chain carbonyl of Lys256 to Thr71 in helix B. This cavity, which is commonly seen in halobacterial light-driven proton pumps, is one possible pathway that is utilised for a water-mediated proton transfer from the cytoplasmic medium to the anion, which is relocated to the cytoplasmic channel during the photocycle. Copyright (c) 2009. Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  69. *Halorubrum chaoviator sp. nov., a haloarchaeon isolated from sea salt in Baja California, Mexico, Western Australia and Naxos, Greece. Reviewed

    Mancinelli R. L., Landheim R., Sanchez-Porro C., Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer M., Gruber C., Legat A., Ventosa A., Radax C., Ihara K., White M. R. andStan-Lotter H.

    Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.   Vol. 59   page: 1908-1913   2009.8

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    Three halophilic isolates, strains Halo-G*T, AUS-1 and Naxos II, were compared. Halo-G* was isolated from an evaporitic salt crystal from Baja California, Mexico, whereas AUS-1 and Naxos II were isolated from salt pools in Western Australia and the Greek island of Naxos, respectively. Halo-G*T had been exposed previously to conditions of outer space and survived 2 weeks on the Biopan facility. Chemotaxonomic and molecular comparisons suggested high similarity between the three strains. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the strains clustered with Halorubrum species, showing sequence similarities of 99.2-97.1%. The DNA-DNA hybridization values of strain Halo-G*T and strains AUS-1 and Naxos II are 73 and 75%, respectively, indicating that they constitute a single species. The DNA relatedness between strain Halo-G*T and the type strains of 13 closely related species of the genus Halorubrum ranged from 39 to 2%, suggesting that the three isolates constitute a different genospecies. The G+C content of the DNA of the three strains was 65.5-66.5 mol%. All three strains contained C20C20 derivatives of diethers of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglyceromethylphosphate and phosphatidylglycerolsulfate, together with a sulfated glycolipid. On the basis of these results, a novel species that includes the three strains is proposed, with the name Halorubrum chaoviator sp. nov. The type strain is strain Halo-G*T (=DSM 19316T=NCIMB 14426T=ATCC BAA-1602T).

  70. A photochromic photoreceptor from a eubacterium. Invited

    Suzuki D, Kitajima-Ihara T, Furutani Y, Ihara K, Kandori H, Homma M, Sudo Y.

    Commun. Integr. Biol.   Vol. 1   page: 150-152   2008.10

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    Sensory rhodopsin I (SRI) is one of the most interesting photo- sensory receptors because of its function in using the photochromic reaction to mediate opposing signals which depend on the color of light. It was initially thought that SRI exists only in the archaea, but we recently reported for the first time a newly functional SRI from a eubacterium, Salinibacter ruber (SrSRI). The amino acid sequence of SrSRI shows 43% identity with the well-known SRI (HsSRI) and contains most of the amino acid residues identified as necessary for SRI function. The photochemical properties of SrSRI are similar to those of HsSRI. In addition, SrSRI is a highly stable protein, even in dilute salt conditions. Thus, SrSRI could be a key protein for characterizing its association with the SrSRI transducer protein, SrHtrI, and for elucidating structural changes of SRI and HtrI that occur during their function. Recently, new approaches to manipulate cellular functions with rhodopsins have been established. SRI can activate and deactivate a kinase, CheA, by the photochromic reaction. Kinases are key molecules for signal transduction in various organisms, and SRI could potentially manipulate their cellular functions.

  71. Salinibacter sensory rhodopsin: sensory rhodopsin I-like protein from a eubacterium. Reviewed

    Kitajima-Ihara T, Furutani Y, Suzuki D, Ihara K, Kandori H, Homma M, Sudo Y.

    Journal of Biological Chemistry   Vol. 283   page: 23533-23541   2008.8

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    Halobacterium salinarum sensory rhodopsin I (HsSRI), a dual receptor regulating both negative and positive phototaxis in haloarchaea, transmits light signals through changes in protein-protein interactions with its transducer, halobacterial transducer protein I (HtrI). Haloarchaea also have another sensor pigment, sensory rhodopsin II (SRII), which functions as a receptor regulating negative phototaxis. Compared with HsSRI, the signal relay mechanism of SRII is well characterized because SRII from Natronomonus pharaonis (NpSRII) is much more stable than HsSRI and HsSRII, especially in dilute salt solutions and is much more resistant to detergents. Two genes encoding SRI homologs were identified from the genome sequence of the eubacterium Salinibacter ruber. Those sequences are distantly related to HsSRI ( approximately 40% identity) and contain most of the amino acid residues identified as necessary for its function. To determine whether those genes encode functional protein(s), we cloned and expressed them in Escherichia coli. One of them (SrSRI) was expressed well as a recombinant protein having all-trans retinal as a chromophore. UV-Vis, low-temperature UV-Vis, pH-titration, and flash photolysis experiments revealed that the photochemical properties of SrSRI are similar to those of HsSRI. In addition to the expression system, the high stability of SrSRI makes it possible to prepare large amounts of protein and enables studies of mutant proteins that will allow new approaches to investigate the photosignaling process of SRI-HtrI.

  72. *A halorhodopsin-overproducing mutant isolated from an extremely haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis. Reviewed

    Ihara K, Narusawa A, Maruyama K, Takeguchi M, Kouyama T.

    FEBS Letter   Vol. 582   page: 2931-2936   2008.8

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    The halorhodopsin (hR)-overproducing mutant strain KM-1 was isolated from the extremely haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis type strain DSM2160(T). hR-enriched membranes were easily obtained by washing the cells with distilled water. The membranes were claret colored owing to two pigments: hR and bacterioruberin. The hR component in the absorption spectra changed from blue to purple upon the addition of Cl(-) and had a K(m) value of 1.7 mM. Overexpression of hR in strain KM-1 might be caused by the point mutation Asp324-->Asn in the bacteriorhodopsin activator homologues of N. pharaonis. The mutation changed the hR-expression pattern from inducible to constitutive in the late exponential phase.

  73. Halide binding by the D212N mutant of Bacteriorhodopsin affects hydrogen bonding of water in the active site. Reviewed

    Shibata M, Yoshitsugu M, Mizuide N, Ihara K, Kandori H.

    Biochemistry   Vol. 46 ( 25 ) page: 7525-7535   2007.6

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  74. Hydrogen-bonding interaction of the protonated schiff base with halides in a chloride-pumping bacteriorhodopsin mutant. Reviewed

    Shibata M,Ihara K,Kandori H.

    Biochemistry   Vol. 45 ( 35 ) page: 10633-10640   2006.9

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    Bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and halorhodopsin (HR) are light-driven proton and chloride ion pumps, respectively, in Halobacterium salinarum. The amino acid identity of these proteins is about 25%, suggesting that each has been optimized for their own functions during evolution. However, it is known that the BR mutants, D85T and D85S, can pump chloride ions. This fact implies that the Schiff base region is important in determining ionic selectivity. The X-ray crystallographic structure of D85S(Br(-)) showed the presence of a bromide ion in the Schiff base region (Facciotti, M. T., Cheung, V. S., Nguyen, D., Rouhani, S., and Glaeser, R. M. (2003) Biophys. J. 85, 451-458). In this article, we report on the study of hydrogen bonds of the Schiff base and water molecules in D85S in the absence and presence of various halides, assigning their N-D and O-D stretching vibrations in D(2)O, respectively, in low-temperature Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. We found that the hydrogen bond of the Schiff base in D85S(Cl(-)) is much stronger than that in HR, being as strong as that in wild-type BR. Similar halide dependence in D85S and in solution implies that the Schiff base forms a direct hydrogen bond with a halide, consistent with the X-ray structure. Photoisomerization causes a weakened hydrogen bond of the Schiff base, and halide dependence on the stretching frequency is lost. These spectral features are similar to those in the photocycle of proton-pumping BR, though the weakened hydrogen bond is more significant for BR. However, the spectral features of water bands in D85S are closer to chloride-pumping HR because O-D stretching vibrations of water are observed only at >2500 cm(-)(1). Unlike in BR, we did not observe strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules for halide-pumping D85S mutants. This observation agrees with our recent hypothesis that strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules are required for the proton-pumping activity of archaeal rhodopsins. Hydrogen-bond

  75. Comparative study of archaeal light driven proton pumps Invited

    Ihara K

    12th International Conference on Reinal Protein satellite meeting ; Structure, Fuction, and Evolution of Rhodopsins -Mechanism of proton transfer and color tuning     page: 10-11   2006.6

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  76. Comparative study of archaeal light driven proton pumps for functional expression in Escherichia coli. Invited

    Ihara K

    12th International Conference on Reinal Protein     page: p092b   2006.6

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  77. Crystal structure of archaerhodopsin-1 and -2: Common structural motif in archaeal light-driven proton pumps Reviewed

    Enami N, Yoshimura K, Murakami M., Okunmura H., Ihara K. and Kouyama T.

    J.Mol. Biol.   Vol. 358 ( 3 ) page: 675-685   2006.5

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    Archaerhodopsin-1 and -2 (aR-1 and aR-2) are light-driven proton pumps found in Halorubrum sp. aus-1 and -2, which share 55-58% sequence identity with bacteriorhodopsin (bR), a proton pump found in Halobacterium salinarum. In this study, aR-1 and aR-2 were crystallized into 3D crystals belonging to P4(3)2(1)2 (a = b = 128.1 A, c = 117.6 A) and C222(1) (a = 122.9 A, b = 139.5 A, c = 108.1 A), respectively. In both the crystals, the asymmetric unit contains two protein molecules with slightly different conformations. Each subunit is composed of seven helical segments as seen in bR but, unlike bR, aR-1 as well as aR-2 has a unique omega loop near the N terminus. It is found that the proton pathway in the extracellular half (i.e. the proton release channel) is more opened in aR-2 than in aR-1 or bR. This structural difference accounts for a large variation in the pKa of the acid purple-to-blue transition among the three proton pumps. All the aromatic residues surrounding the retinal polyene chain are conserved among the three proton pumps, confirming a previous argument that these residues are required for the stereo-specificity of the retinal isomerization. In the cytoplasmic half, the region surrounded by helices B, C and G is highly conserved, while the structural conservation is very low for residues extruded from helices E and F. Structural conservation of the hydrophobic residues located on the proton uptake pathway suggests that their precise arrangement is necessary to prevent a backward flow of proton in the presence of a large pH gradient and membrane potential. An empty cavity is commonly seen in the vicinity of Leu93 contacting the retinal C13 methyl. Existence of such a cavity is required to allow a large rotation of the side-chain of Leu93 at the early stage of the photocycle, which has been shown to accompany water translocation across the Schiff base.

  78. *A light-driven proton pump from Haloterrigene turkmenica: functional expression in Escherichia coli membrane and coupling with a H+ co-transporter. Reviewed

    Kamo N., Hashiba T., Kikukawa T., Araiso T., Ihara K. and Nara T.

    Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.   Vol. 341   page: 285-290   2006.1

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  79. *Internal water molecules of light-driven chloride pump proteins. Reviewed

    Shibata M., Muneda N., Ihara K., Sasaki T., Demura M. , and Kandori H.

    Chem. Phys. Lett.   Vol. 392   page: 330-333   2004

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  80. Search for the retinal-type photosynthetic microorganisms from the japanease sea. Invited

    K.Ihara, K. Sugiura, and S. Ito

    Ann. Report Interdiscipl. Res. Inst. Environ. Sci   Vol. 22   page: 51-60   2003

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  81. Halomicrobium mukohataei gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended description of Halomicrobium mukoataei Reviewed

    Oren, A, R. Elevi, S. Watanabe, T. Tamura, and K.Ihara

    Int. J. System. Evol. Microbiol.   Vol. 52   page: 1831-1835   2002

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  82. Cytochrom aa3 and its gene duplication in Haloferax volcanii. Reviewed

    Tanaka, M., Ogawa, N., Ihara, K., Sugiyama, Y. and Mukohata, Y.

    J. Bacteriol.   Vol. 184   page: 840-845   2002

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  83. Gene clusters encoding ATP synthase of Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1.

    R. Yatsunami, M. Iwamoto, K. Ihara, and S.Nakamura

    Nuceic Acids. Symposium Series   Vol. 44   page: 51-52   2001

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  84. Function of a kaiC homologus gene found in an extremely halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium salinarum.

    Ihara K, Yokota H, Ishiura M.

    Halophiles 2001 International Conference on Halophilic Microorganisms     page: L49   2001

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  85. Evolution of the Archaeal Rhodopsins : Evolution Rate Changes by Gene Duplication and Functional Differentiation Reviewed

    Journal of Molecular Biology   Vol. 285   page: 163-174   1999

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  86. Molecular cloning of A1-ATPase gene from extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1

    R.Yatsunami, M. Iwamoto, K. Ihara and S. Nakamura

    Nucleic Acids Symposium Series   Vol. 42   page: 75-76   1999

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  87. Halobacterial Rhodopsins Reviewed

    Journal of Biochemistry   Vol. 125   page: 649-657   1999

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  88. Haloarcula argentinensis sp. nov. and Haloarcula mukohataei sp. nov. Two new extremely halophilic archaea collected in Argentina. Reviewed

    Ihara K, Watanabe S, Tamura T

    International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology   Vol. 47 ( 1 ) page: 73-77   1997

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  89. Identification of proteolipid from an extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum as an N, N'-dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide binding subunit of ATP synthase Reviewed

    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics   Vol. 341 ( 2 ) page: 267-272   1997

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  90. Novel Bacterial Rhodopsins from Holoarcula vallismortis Reviewed

    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications   Vol. 220   page: 341   1996

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  91. 高度好塩性古細菌 Invited

    月刊 地球   Vol. 17 ( 7 ) page: 490   1995

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  92. 蘇れ!2億年の眠りから Invited

    科学朝日   Vol. 55 ( 11 ) page: 100   1995

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  93. Met-145 is a key residue in the dark adaptation of bacteriorhodopsin homologs. Reviewed

    Biophysical Journal   Vol. 67   page: 1187-1191   1994

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  94. The novel ion pump rhodopsins from Haloarcula form a family independent from both the bacteriorhodopsin and archae-rhodopsin families/tribes. Reviewed

    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics   Vol. 315 ( 1 ) page: 127-132   1994

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  95. Halobacterial A-ATP synthase in relation to V-ATPase. Invited Reviewed

    J. exp. Biol.   Vol. 172   page: 475-485   1992

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  96. Photophosphorylation Elements in Halobacteria : An A-type ATP Synthase and Bacterial Rhodopsins. Invited

    J. Bioenerg. Biomembr.   Vol. 24 ( 6 ) page: 547-553   1992

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  97. The ATP synthase of Halobacterium salinarium(halobium)is an archaebacterial type as revealed from the amino acid sequences of its two Reviewed

    K.Ihara and Y. Mukohata

    Arch. Biochem. Biophys.   Vol. 286   page: 111-116   1991

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  98. "The ATP synthase in extreme halophilic archaebacteria and its relatives. " Invited Reviewed

    Mukohata, Y., K. Ihara, M. Yoshida, Y. Sugiyama

    New era of bioenergetics     page: 169-196   1991

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  99. Australian Halobactreia and their retinal-protein ion pumps. Reviewed

    Photochem. and Photobiol.   Vol. 54   page: 1   1991

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  100. Close evolutionary relatedness of archaebacteria with eukaryotes. Reviewed

    Proc. Jpn. Acad.   Vol. 66B   page: 4   1990

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  101. An australian halobacterium contains a novel proton pump retinal protein archaerhodopsin. Reviewed

    Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.   Vol. 151   page: 3   1988

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  102. Proteoliposomes with right-side-out oriented purple membrane/bacteriorhodopsin require cations inside for proton pumping. Reviewed

    FEBS Lett   Vol. 240 ( 1 ) page: 2   1988

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  103. The halobacterial proton-translocating ATP synthase relates to the eukaryotic anion-sensitive proton ATPase. Reviewed

    Arch. Biochem. Biophys.   Vol. 259   page: 2   1987

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  104. Bacteriorhodopsin regenerated from the blue membrane and cationic dye.

    Mukohata Y., Ihara K.

    Retinal Proteins     page: 195-204   1987

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  105. A H+-translocating ATP synthase in H. halobium Invited

    Energy Transduction in ATPases     page: 481-488   1987

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  1. ゼブラフィッシュ実験ガイド 第17 章

    日比正彦、清水貴史、橋本寿司、井原邦夫( Role: Joint author ,  第17章 実験に必要な手続き)

    朝倉書店  2020.11  ( ISBN:978-4-254-17173-0

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    Total pages:135   Responsible for pages:8   Language:Japanese Book type:Textbook, survey, introduction

  2. オプトジェネティクス─光工学と遺伝学による行動制御技術の最前線

    井原邦夫、神山勉( Role: Sole author)

    株式会社エヌ・ティー・エス 刊  2013.4 

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  3. 古細菌の生物学 第13章、電子伝達系とATPアーゼ

    若木高善、井原邦夫( Role: Joint author)

    東京大学出版会  1998 

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  4. 古細菌の生物学 第12章、高度好塩菌のエナジェテイックス

    井原邦夫( Role: Joint author)

    東京大学出版会  1998 

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  5. 極限環境微生物ハンドブック・好塩性古細菌

    向畑恭男, 井原邦夫( Role: Joint author)

    サイエンスフォーラム  1990 

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  6. Situation of archaebacterial ATPase among ion-translocating ATPase.

    Bioenergetics ; molecular biology. biochemistry and pathology  1990 

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  1. Three-Step Isomerization of the Retinal Chromophore during the Anion Pumping Cycle of Halorhodopsin Reviewed

    Kouyama Tsutomu, Ihara Kunio, Maki Kosuke, Chan Siu Kit

    BIOCHEMISTRY   Vol. 57 ( 41 ) page: 6013-6026   2018.10

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    DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00631

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  1. 高度好塩性好アルカリ性古細菌の研究室の培養条件には、何らかの選 択圧が存在する

    松尾佳祐、上坂一馬、井原邦夫

    第18回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2024.3.12  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:千葉県木更津市  

  2. 高度好塩性好アルカリ性古細菌 Natronomonas pharaonis の大量ゲノム解析から見えてきた ゲノム多様性による環境適応の一例

    松尾佳祐、井原邦夫

    第35 回日本 Archaea 研究会  2023.6.30  日本 Archaea 研究会

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    Event date: 2023.6 - 2023.7

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:八王子  

    Other Link: http://archaea.kenkyuukai.jp/images/sys/information/20230628182945-25B46F4A1327ABF9A69899B891B1940941456D4D9DC4431FBC7601C2CE2B1BE5.pdf

  3. 大量ゲノム解析から見えてきた凍結保存試料におけるゲノム多様性

    松尾佳祐 、上坂一馬 、井原邦夫

    第34 回 日本Archaea研究会講演会  2022.7.15  日本Archaea研究会

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    Venue:福岡県 九州大学 西新プラザ 大会議室   Country:Japan  

  4. シアノバクテリア Leptolyngbya boryana の光合成依存的な窒素固定⽣育に関わる遺伝子群の探索

    馬場真理、上坂一馬、戸松千映、山本治樹、井原邦夫、藤田祐一

    第16回 日本ゲノム微生物学会  2022.3.3 

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  5. ⼤量ゲノム解析に基づいた UVC 光照射法による変異導⼊効率の評価

    松尾佳祐、上坂一馬、井原邦夫

    第16回 日本ゲノム微生物学会  2022.3.3 

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  6. Tn挿入ライブラリからゲノム変異を網羅的に検出するワークフローの開発

    上坂一馬、馬場真理、藤田祐一、井原邦夫

    第16回 日本ゲノム微生物学会  2022.3.3 

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  7. Is the introduction of genomic mutations by UVc irradiation an effective method?

    2021.11.25 

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  8. Existence of two substates in the O intermediate of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle

    2021.11.26 

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  9. 高度好塩性好アルカリ性古細菌 Natronomonas pharaonisを用いた大量変異導入と全ゲノムシーケンスい解析の実験系の開発

    松尾佳祐、上坂一馬、井原邦夫

    日本Archaea研究会 第33回講演会  2021.7.17  日本Archaea研究会

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    Venue:オンライン(理化学研究所バイオリソースセンター)   Country:Japan  

  10. 嫌気環境で生育不良を示すシアノバクテリアSynechocystis sp. PCC 6803 変異株の網羅的遺伝子発現解析

    藤島 百花、上坂 一馬 、平田 香織、藤田 祐一 、井原 邦 、寺内 一姫

    第15回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2021.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Venue:名古屋  

  11. ゲノムから見直す微生物分類の再考—Vibrio alginolyticusの場合—

    上坂一馬1・西岡典子2、小嶋誠司2、本間道夫2、井原邦夫1

    第15回日本ゲノム微生物学会  2021.3.6  日本微生物ゲノム学会

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    Venue:オンライン(九州大学)  

  12. 経時寿命が延長する分裂酵母変異株のスクリーニングと新規寿命関連因子の同定

    松井 滉太朗、岡本 啓佑、長谷川 朋香 、島崎 嵩史 、大塚 北斗、井原 邦夫 、 中村 彰伸、後藤 祐平 、青木 一洋 、饗場 浩文

    第14回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2021.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Venue:名古屋  

  13. 近縁微生物ゲノムが存在する場合の簡易ゲノムフィニッシング手法

    上坂 一馬、井原 邦夫

    第14回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2021.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Venue:名古屋  

  14. 微生物ゲノムライブラリーを手軽で格安に作る-1コインゲノム解析を目指して

    井原 邦夫 、上坂 一馬

    第14回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2020.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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  15. ショートリードを活用した効率的な微生物ゲノムアセンブリワークフローの提案

    上坂 一馬、井原 邦夫

    第13回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2019.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Venue:八王子市(東京都立大学)  

  16. 糸状性シアノバクテリアLeptolyngbya boryanaの運動性を制御する新たな因子

    戸井田 一磨、上坂 一馬、井原 邦夫、藤田 祐一 、岩崎 秀雄

    第13回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2019.3.6  日本ゲノム微生物学会

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    Venue:八王子市(東京都立大学)  

  17. ゲノム構造変化を感度良く検出する方法:SV-Quest

    上坂一馬、井原邦夫

    第12回 日本ゲノム微生物学会年会 

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  18. ゲノムシーケンスにもとづく微生物分類手法;好塩性古細菌を例として

    井原邦夫、上坂一馬、谷村要、中邨真之、越後輝敦、峯岸宏明

    第30回 日本Archaea研究会 

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    Venue:東北大学 川内北キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  19. 高度好塩菌Haloarcula属3株の完全ゲノム構造解析から原核生物における種分化を考える International conference

    谷村 要、越後 輝敦、 峯岸 宏明、井原 邦夫

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会 

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    Venue:慶應義塾大学 湘南藤沢キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  20. IBBP(Inter Bio-Backup Project)を利用した微生物遺伝子資源の保存 International conference

    井原邦夫、中邨真之

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会 

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  21. ショートリードデータのアセンブルによる微生物ゲノム構造決定のワークフロー構築 International conference

    上坂一馬、藤田祐一、井原邦夫、小俣達男

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会 

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  22. 高度好塩性古細菌 Haloarcula argentinensis, Ha. tradensis, Ha. salaria のゲノム構造比較に基づいた”種”分化の理解

    谷村 要、越後 輝敦、 峯岸 宏明、井原 邦夫

    第29回日本Archaea研究会講演会 

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    Venue:東洋大学 白山キャンパス 8号館7階 125記念ホール   Country:Japan  

  23. Folding or Not folding in the membrane of Escherichia coli International conference

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  24. FTIR studies of the hydrogen-bonding interaction of the protonated Schiff base with halides in a chloride-punping bacteriorhodopsin mutant International conference

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    Country:Japan  

  25. Comparative study of archaeal light driven prton pumps for functional expression in Escherichia coli

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  26. 新規光プロトンポンプ、デルタロドプシンを発現した大腸菌における光リン酸化反応

    井原 邦夫、橋場剛、奈良敏文,加茂直樹

    第31回 日本生体エネルギー研究会 

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  27. ロドプシンがプロトンをポンプするためには強い水素結合を形成した内部結合水が必要である

    神取秀樹、古谷祐詞、柴田幹大、住井昌代、水出紀子、宗田法和、池田大亮、川鍋 陽、加茂直樹、出村 誠、井原邦夫、K.-H. Jung、L. S. Brown

    第43回 生物物理学会 

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  28. クロライドイオンをポンプするバクテリオロドプシン変異体の低温赤外分光

    柴田幹大,井原邦夫,神取秀樹

    第43回 生物物理学会 

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  29. 好塩性アーキアにおけるアーキア型ロドプシン遺伝子群の分布と発現

    井原邦夫

    第43回 生物物理学会 

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  30. 2.5Å分解能のアーキロドプシン-2結晶のX線結晶構造解析

    吉村恵子, 江波信生, 井原邦夫, 神山勉

    第43回 生物物理学会 

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  31. Light-driven proton pump in H. turkmenica

    Naoki Kamo, Tsuyoshi Hashiba, Takashi Kikukawa, Tsunehisa Araiso, Kunio Ihara, Toshifumi Nara

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  32. バクテリオロドプシンと類似蛋白質の構造比較

    吉村恵子,江波信生,奥村英夫,村上緑,井原邦夫,神山勉

    第42回 生物物理学会 

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  33. アーキロドプシンとバクテリオロドプシンの構造比較

    吉村恵子,江波信生,奥村英夫,村上緑,井原邦夫,神山勉

    2004年日本物理学会秋期大会 

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  34. 光駆動塩素イオンポンプタンパク質、ハロロドプシン( HR ) 中の内部結合水の構造解析

    柴田幹大、宗田法和、井原邦夫、佐々木貴規、出村誠、神取秀樹

    第31回生体分子科学討論会 

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  35. 高度好塩性古細菌Haloarcula属のレチナールタンパク質ファミリー

    井原邦夫、下野和美、加茂直樹

    第17回 日本Archaea研究会 

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  36. CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF ARCHAERHODOPSIN-2 FROM HALORUBRUM sp. AUS-2 International conference

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  37. 好熱菌由来クエン酸合成酵素の熱安定化構造

    村上 緑、井原 邦夫、神山 勉

    第42回 生物物理学会 

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  38. 高度好塩性古細菌Haloarcula属のレチナールタンパク質ファミリー

    井原邦夫

    第42 生物物理学会 

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  39. Crystal Structures of Archaerhodopsin-1 and –2 International conference

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  40. 古細菌型レチナールタンパク質の比較解析

    井原邦夫

    第29回 日本生体エネルギー研究会 

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  41. Phylogenetic Analysis of Archaeal Type Rhodopsins

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  42. 古細菌型レチナールタンパク質の比較解析

    井原邦夫

    第41回 生物物理学会 

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  43. 古細菌型レチナールタンパク質ファミリーの比較解析

    井原邦夫

    分子研研究会 「ロドプシンの分子科学」 

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  44. 海洋性起源のレチナール型光合成微生物の日本近海における分布と純粋培養法の確立

    井原邦夫

    環境総合科学研究所 招待講演 

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  45. 古細菌ロドプシンの多様性と共通性

    井原邦夫

    名工大神取研セミナー 

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  46. バクテリオロドプシンの145番目のメチオニンを小さな側鎖のアミノ酸に変化させると、115番目のアスパラギン酸のpK値が大きく減少する

    井原 邦夫, 伊藤 繁, 向畑 恭男

    第40回 生物物理学会 

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  47. 高度好塩性古細菌Halobacterium salinarumに存在するA型ATPaseは、ATP合成酵素として機能している

    井原邦夫

    第15回 日本Archaea研究会 

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  48. 高度好塩性古細菌に存在する藍藻時計遺伝子の機能推定

    井原 邦夫 , 横田はるみ、石浦正寛

    第39回 生物物理学会 

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  49. 高度好塩性古細菌に存在する藍藻時計遺伝子の機能推定

    井原 邦夫 , 横田はるみ、石浦正寛

    第14回 日本古細菌研究会 

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  50. Function of a kaiC homologous gene found in an extremely halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium salinarum International conference

    Halophiles 2001 

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  51. 高度好塩性古細菌に存在する藍藻時計遺伝子の機能推定

    井原 邦夫, 横田はるみ、石浦正寛

    第27回 日本生体エネルギー研究会 

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  52. ゲノムシーケンスにもとづく微生物分類手法;好塩性古細菌を例として International conference

    井原邦夫, 上坂一馬, 谷村要, 中邨真之, 越後輝敦, 峯岸宏明

    第30回 日本Archaea研究会  2017.9.1 

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  53. IBBP(Inter Bio-Backup Project)を利用した微生物遺伝子資源の保存

    井原邦夫, 中邨真之

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2017.3.2 

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  54. ゲノム構造変化を感度良く検出する方法:SV-Quest International conference

    上坂一馬, 井原邦夫

    第12回 日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2018.3.5 

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  55. 高度好塩菌Haloarcula属3株の完全ゲノム構造解析から原核生物における種分化を考える

    谷村 要, 越後 輝敦, 峯岸 宏明, 井原 邦夫

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2017.3.2 

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  56. ショートリードデータのアセンブルによる微生物ゲノム構造決定のワークフロー構築

    上坂一馬, 藤田祐一, 井原邦夫, 小俣達男

    第11回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会  2017.3.2 

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KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) 15

  1. 酵母に学ぶ細胞寿命制御基盤

    Grant number:23H02125  2023.4 - 2026.3

    科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    饗場 浩文, 井原 邦夫

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    「寿命がいかにして決まるのか?」を解明することは高齢化社会を迎えた現代において生物学が取り組むべき重要課題の1つである。ヒトに代表される高等動物の寿命を理解するためには、その前提として細胞レベルで寿命を理解することが必須である。そこで申請者は微生物の専門家の立場から、分裂酵母をモデルにこの問題に取り組む。とりわけ、新規の寿命制御シグナルとして発見した硫黄制限と同シグナルによる寿命延長機構の解明、ならびに未知の寿命制御因子の探索と機能解析に焦点を絞り、普遍的な細胞寿命制御機構の総合的理解を目指す。

  2. 酵母に学ぶ細胞寿命制御基盤

    Grant number:23K26818  2023.4 - 2026.3

    科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    饗場 浩文, 井原 邦夫

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    高等生物の寿命を理解するためには、まず細胞レベルでの寿命を理解することが重要である。そこで、微生物研究者の利点を生かして高等動物の寿命因子との共通性が指摘されている分裂酵母をモデルに用いて細胞寿命の理解に取り組む。特に未知の寿命因子と寿命延長シグナルを分裂酵母で探索し、それらの作用機構を理解することで、寿命創薬ターゲットの開発に繋がる成果を得たい。これらの知見をもとに、将来ヒトの寿命制御にまで展開可能な寿命制御の基盤・理論を構築したい。
    分裂酵母の長寿命因子Eclファミリーの内、解析の遅れていたEcl3について以下の成果を得た。(1)Ecl3は培地のリン酸枯渇で転写誘導される。誘導は転写因子Pho7が行う。(2)リン酸枯渇は細胞周期をG1期で停止させ、性分化(接合)を誘導する。(3)Eclファミリー欠失株では、リン酸枯渇時に性分化が起こらない。その理由はCDKインヒビターRum1がEclファミリー欠失株では蓄積せず、正常なG1期停止が起こらないからである。
    以上の解析結果により、Ecl1, Ecl2, Ecl3のそれぞれに関して、発現誘導シグナルの同定が進んだ。その結果、Eclファミリーは栄養枯渇を始めとする異なるストレス刺激に応答して誘導され、細胞がストレス条件下(飢餓状態)で生存率を維持するために、役割分担をしつつ機能する因子であることが明らかとなった。
    Eclファミリーの生物種を超えた保存性と機能について理解を深めるため、昆虫病原性真菌Metarhizium robertsiiのEcl1ホモログCOH1について解析を行い、COH1が分裂酵母内でEcl1の機能を相補できることを明らかにし、真菌類に保存されたEclファミリーの存在意義について議論をした。
    長寿命変異株の解析では、これまでに取得した独立変異株について遺伝学的解析を得て、全ゲノムシークエンス解析を行い原因遺伝子の同定を進めている。原因遺伝子候補が同定できたものから順次機能解析を進める予定である。
    長寿命因子Eclファミリーは、高発現すると細胞寿命を延ばすが、その具体的機構について不明な点が多かった。解析が遅れていたEcl3について、染色体の近傍遺伝子の配置ならびにPho7転写因子の網羅的結合サイトの解析データを基に、培地中のリン酸の枯渇がEcl3の発現シグナルであることを発見した。さらに、リン酸枯渇は細胞周期をG1期に停止させ接合を開始させるが、Eclファミリーが欠失した株では、G1期停止が正常に起こらず接合も充分に起こらないことが明らかになった。さらにこれは、CDKインヒビターであるRum1が野生株ではリン酸枯渇によって蓄積するものの、Eclファミリー欠失株では蓄積しないことが原因であることを示唆することができた。
    以上、Ecl3について、誘導シグナル並びに関与する細胞機能が明らかになったことにより、各種栄養枯渇に遭遇した際に、細胞がその生存率を維持する機構としてEclファミリーが機能する可能性を提唱できた。今後、3つあるEcl因子群の役割分担と機能の差異を詳細に検討すること、並びに細胞内で各Eclファミリーが何と相互作用しつつ機能を発揮するのかを解析することで、長寿命因子Eclファミリーの総合的理解に繋げ、細胞寿命の制御機構に関する知見を得たいと考えている。
    Eclファミリーの機能解析に関しては、3つの因子の役割分担と機能の差異を解析する。具体的にはEclファミリーの3重欠失株、2重欠失株、1重欠失株を揃え、各種ストレスシグナルへの応答を詳細に解析することで、3つの因子の役割分担、機能の差異を明らかにする。細胞内での相互作用因子については、網羅的相互作用因子の解析と並行して、Eclファミリーが関与する細胞機能(経時寿命延長、オートファジー、性分化、翻訳活性低下)などに焦点を当て、相互作用因子候補を選び出し、相互作用の有無を検討する。これら成果を元に、Eclファミリーの具体的作用機構を明らかにする。
    長寿命変異株の解析では、これまでに取得した独立変異株について遺伝学的解析を得て、1遺伝子変異によることが明らかになったものについては、全ゲノムシークエンス解析を行い原因遺伝子を同定する。原因遺伝子候補が同定でき次第、当該遺伝子変異による長寿命化の理由を解析する。特に、焦点を当てる遺伝子候補として、ヒトを含む高等動物にまで保存されている因子、これまでに解析がされておらず機能不明の因子、分裂酵母の生存に必須の因子を想定している。

  3. 長期にわたる暗所従属栄養に適応したシアノバクテリアの光合成喪失の進化プロセス

    Grant number:22K19146  2022.6 - 2025.3

    科学研究費助成事業  挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    藤田 祐一, 井原 邦夫

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    光合成独立栄養生物は、光合成によって生産者として地球の生態系を支えている。光合成生物の中には、寄生植物のように、光合成を喪失し従属栄養という栄養形態へと進化した“非光合成”生物が高い頻度で観察されるが、光合成がどのように失われるのか、光合成喪失に至る進化の過程を観察した例はない。Leptolyngbya boryanaはグルコースを炭素源として完全暗所でも生育できる糸状性シアノバクテリアである。研究代表者は、L. boryanaを完全暗所で従属栄養的に継続して培養している。本研究では、暗所適応株のゲノム解析を行い、光合成を失う進化プロセスの複数の具体像を得、光合成喪失過程の一般化を試みる。
    寄生植物や菌従属栄養植物に代表されるように、光合成生物の異なる系統で光合成能力の喪失現象が多数観察されており、このことは光合成生物が自然環境下で 光合成能力を喪失する進化が頻繁に起きていることを示唆している。しかし、光合成能力が失われるような進化を直接観察した報告はない。暗所でもグルコースを利用して従属栄養的に生育できる能力をもつシアノバクテリアLeptolyngbya boryanaを暗黒下での従属栄養条件下で長期培養(6~49ヶ月)することにより得られた暗所適応株のゲノム解析を進めている。また、1993年に単離したオレンジ色を呈する暗所適応株(BR1-0)を暗所で継代培養を続けている。この系統では継代開始から8年後(BR1-8)および22年後(BR1-22)の段階で凍結保存しており、これらを復活させ、ゲノムを調製し、暗所適応に伴う変異蓄積を継時的に追跡することが可能である。このBR1系統では、光合成生育能を喪失したのは最初のオレンジ色の株として単離された段階であり、その原因変異は、二成分制御系のレスポンスレギュレータRpaBの1アミノ酸置換であることがわかった。先の最長49ヶ月の暗所培養による暗所適応株の結果では、パートナースイッチング系で作用するPP2Cホスファターゼへの変異が高い頻度で生じていた。これらの結果を合わせると、微小進化実験は、転写制御系の変異が光合成喪失に至る進化の最初の一歩となることを示唆している。さらに、BR1系列の時間軸に伴う変異蓄積は、光合成を必要としない環境における光合成生物の進化に関する初めての具体的事例となる。
    オレンジ色を呈する暗所適応株(BR1-0)には5箇所の変異が生じていたが、これらの中で光合成生育の喪失の原因となった変異を特定するために、それぞれの変異部位を含む約2 kbの野生型ゲノム断片をPCRで増幅し、得られた断片を連結したベクターによるBR1-0の形質転換を行い、光合成生育の回復を指標にスクリーニングした。その結果、LBDG_00060の断片で形質転換を行った場合のみ光合成的に生育する緑のコロニーが出現した。LBDG_00060は、二成分制御系のレスポンスレギュレーターRpaBをコードしており、シアノバクテリアにおいて必須の制御系と考えられている。BR1-0の形質をもたらす原因変異はRpaBにおいて一アミノ酸置換G94Dを引き起こす1塩基置換であった。この塩基置換をあらためて野生型に導入した結果、BR1-0とほぼ同じオレンジ色のコロニーが得られ、光合成的生育能を喪失しており、形質がBR1-0とほぼ一致していた。このことは、RpaBの一アミノ酸置換G94Dが光合成生育の喪失をもたらすことを明確に示している。また、この遺伝子の欠失変異株の単離も試みたが、そのような変異株を単離することはできなかった。また、BR1-0及びD94Gを有する変異株は、暗所での従属栄養生育が大幅に向上しており、このことは、RpaBは単に光合成生育に関わる遺伝子群のみならず、暗所従属栄養生育に関わる遺伝子群を含めたグローバルな転写制御に関わっていることを示唆している。これまで広く用いられてきたほとんどのモデルシアノバクテリアは、暗所での従属栄養能を欠いているため、このような変異を見出すことがむずかしいことから、L. boryanaは光合成喪失に至る進化を追跡するための理想的な新たなモデルシアノバクテリアとなりうる。
    親株からBR1-0への進化過程で光合成生育能を失う形質をもたらした原因変異は、RpaBの一アミノ酸置換を引き起こす一塩基置換であることがわかった。この変異が生じた後の約30年間の暗所従属栄養条件下で生育を継続する中でどのような変異が蓄積していったのか、変異蓄積プロファイルを作成する。特に、これらの中間状態の暗所適応株のRpaBを野生型に戻すことで、光合成生育が回復するのか確認することにより、暗所従属栄養条件下での進化において、さらに直接的に光合成生育を喪失させる変異が生じているのかどうか、確認する。また、L. boryanaにおいてRpaBが直接発現を制御しているターゲット遺伝子について情報を得る必要がある。先の研究で見出した、パートナースイッチングシステムを構成するホスファターゼRsbUの変異が光合成生育能の大幅低下をもたらすということを考え合わせると、光合成自体に直接関わらない制御系の遺伝子への変異が、光合成の喪失につながる初期変異となるという新しい視点をもたらしている。これらの現状を踏まえて、今後、以下のように研究を推進することを策定している:
    I. RpaBが制御するターゲット遺伝子群の特定 RNA-seq解析を通して、RpaBが制御するターゲット遺伝子群を特定し、どのような転写プロファイルにより光合成生育能が失われ、従属栄養生育能が促進されるのかを明らかにする。
    II. BR1-0系列の擬似復帰変異株の解析 BR1-0から光合成生育を回復した擬復帰変異株をこれまでに5株単離した。これら擬似復帰変異株のゲノム解析を行い、サプレッサー変異を特定する。
    III. 変異蓄積プロファイルの作成 BR1系列の各段階での適応株に対してRpaBを野生型に復帰させることで、光合成を必要としない環境における変異蓄積プロファイルの具体例とする。

  4. Experimental and theoretical survey of diverse far-red O2-evolving photosynthesis

    Grant number:20K06684  2020.4 - 2024.3

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  5. Elucidation of the regulatory basis of cell lifespan

    Grant number:20H02898  2020.4 - 2023.3

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    Aiba Hirofumi

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    The following results were obtained by analyzing the function of the longevity gene Ecl1 and its family genes discovered in fission yeast. (1) Sulfur depletion, which was identified as a new signal for life span extension, induces transcription of the Ecl1 gene, but also induces autophagy. (2) We found that autophagy induction by the above sulfur depletion did not occur in strains in which all Ecl family genes (ecl1, ecl2, and ecl3) were deleted. Therefore, the Ecl family genes were found to be necessary for the enhancement of autophagy by sulfur depletion.
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  6. Structural analyses of reaction states of ion-pumping rhodopsin

    Grant number:19K06582  2019.4 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Kouyama Tsutomu

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    In bacteriorhodopsin (bR), the proton pumping cycle is initiated by the photo-isomerization of the retinal chromophore with the 13-trans configuration into the 13-cis configuration, and thermal re-isomerization into the initial trans configuration occurs in the final step of the reaction cycle. We have shown that the O intermediate formed during the photo cycle has two substates (O1 and O2) with different spectral characteristics, and thermally activated isomerization of retinal into the all-trans configurotion occurs at the O1→O2 transition. We also observed that the blue all-trans isomer at acidic pH has similar spectroscopic properties to the O2 intermediate, and discussed the possibility that that the mechanism of the retinal re-isomerization taking place in the late stage of the proton pumping cycle is analogous to that of thermal isomerization during dark adaptation in bR, which involves red shifted intermediates (isomers of blue membrane).

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  7. Investigation of microbial systems using NGS driven powerful forward genetics.

    Grant number:19K06627  2019.4 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Ihara Kunio

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    To achieve our purpose, we have attempted to construct a random mutation library with a sufficient number of mutations. In the process, we confirmed through mass genome analysis that mutagenic treatments such as UV irradiation or EMS mutagen
    treatment, which had been thought to efficiently introduce mutations, did not introduce so many mutations even under low survival rate conditions (up to an average of 0.5 mutations/genome in the case of UV mutagenesis). Even with this low mutation rate, it was found that selection under some stress condition like phosphate deficiency increased the number of mutations introduced in the genome. In addition, mass genome analysis of more than 1,000 strains of one type of microorganism revealed the existence of potential genomic diversity in cryopreserved strains.

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  8. Logical analysis of cis-element function in a gene expression regulatory mechanism

    Grant number:19K05766  2019.4 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Kojima Takaaki

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    With the aim of establishing a basic technology to comprehensively understand the regulatory mechanism of expression by transcription factors in the industrial microorganism Aspergillus oryzae, the regulatory mechanisms of various transcription factors from A. oryzae were analyzed. As a result, the binding consensus sequences of KojR, CreA, and AraR were successfully identified. In addition, the machine learning approach logically demonstrated that not only the binding site but also the surrounding DNA sequence environment may be involved in the transcriptional regulatory mechanism of AoXlnR in regulating the expression of genes located downstream of the binding site.

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  9. Loss of photosynthesis and stimulation of heterotrophy: trophic evolution through long-term cultivation

    Grant number:18K19173  2018.6 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

    Yuichi Fujita

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    To observe the evolutionary process of loss of photosynthetic capacity in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms, the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana, which has the ability to grow heterotrophically in the dark using glucose as an energy and carbon sources, was cultured under dark heterotrophic conditions for a long time. We isolated many dark-adapted variants with significantly reduced or lost photosynthetic growth ability and significantly stimulated dark heterotrophic growth ability. Genome resequencing analysis revealed that many of the variants had diverse mutations in the rsbU gene encoding serine phosphatase. Mutants in which rsbU was singly disrupted were isolated to confirm that loss of function of rsbU leads the dark-adapted phenotype. These results suggested that in L. boryana a partner-switching system involving RsbU regulates the gene expression to be suitable for photosynthetic and heterotrophic conditions.

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  10. Mechanisms of ultra-fast excitation energy dissipation in lichens, algae, mosses and plant under drought stress and its application

    Grant number:17K07440  2017.4 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Itoh Shigeru

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    Excess solar light absorbed into photosynthetic system is known to be dissipated to heat to prevent damages of the system by the “so called nonphotochemical quenching mechanism (NPQ)” and then the produced heat is dissipated by transpiration of water. The light stress under dry condition, therefore, cannot be avoided by the sjmple NPQ mechanism so that most of plants die under sunshine under drought conditions. However, some photosynthetic organisms are known to survive even under drying conditions under strong sunshine. It is due to the drought-induced NPQ mechanism (d-NPQ). We identified this mechanism and showed that a new strong energy-quencher state is formed inside photosynthetic reaction center-II of these organisms. A new "d-NPQ" mechanism became visible and detectable only after the development of picosecond fluorescence measurement analysis. We identified it in more than 50 lichens, mosses, algae, cyanobacteria and plants, and discssued its identification and usage.

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  11. Structural analyses of reaction states of ion-pumping rhodopsins

    Grant number:16K07267  2016.4 - 2020.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Kouyama Tsutomu

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    The anion pumping cycle of halorhodopsin is initiated when the all-trans/15-anti isomer of retinal is photo-isomerized into the 13-cis/15-anti configuration. A previous study suggested that a reaction state with 13-cis/15-syn retinal occurred during the anion release process, i.e., after the N state with the 13-cis/15-anti retinal and before the O state with all-trans/15-anti retinal. In this study, we found that the 13-cis isomer (HR'), in which the absorption spectrum was blue-shifted by 8 nm as compared with that of the trans isomer (HR), accumulated significantly when pHR-rich claret membranes in 4 M NaBr was illuminated with continuous light. It was suggested that the branching of the trans photocycle into the 13-cis isomer (HR’) occurs during the decay of an O-like state (O’) with 13-cis/15-syn retinal. At a high bromide ion concentration, the anion pumping cycle is described by the scheme: HR -(hν)-> K -> L1 -> N -> N’ -> O’ -> HR’-> HR.

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  12. A study on semaphorin-regulated diverse cellular events

    Grant number:25291044  2013.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Takagi Shin, IHARA Kunio

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    In this study we have studied regulation of vesicle transport by the semaphorin signal in the nematode C. elegans. Through genetic as well as cell-biological analyses, we have demonstrated that semaphorin negatively regulates endocytosis in ray epidermal cells. We also revealed that the synaptotagmin1/Stonin2 system, a well-known regulator of synaptic vesicle recycling in neurons, plays a critical role in vesicle transport in ray epidermal cells. Our study shows importance of participation of the semaphorin-regulated vesicle transport in regulation of the cell shape.

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  13. The molecular basis of circadian clock in algae

    Grant number:25440179  2013.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Matsuo Takuya, Ishiura Masahiro, Ihara Kunio

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    From cyanobacteria to human, most organisms on the earth have the circadian clock. In this study, we investigated a molecular basis of the clock by using Chlamydomonas, a freshwater alga, as a model. We revealed molecular mechanisms of resetting of the algal clock by light, and common and different features of clocks between algae and land plants.

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  14. 光駆動性塩素イオンポンプの構造・機能解析

    Grant number:21570164  2009.4 - 2012.3

    科学研究費補助金  基盤研究(C)

    井原 邦夫

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  15. 光駆動性イオンポンプの時間分解構造解析

    Grant number:21023013  2009.4 - 2011.3

    科学研究費補助金  特定領域研

    井原 邦夫

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Teaching Experience (On-campus) 10

  1. 基礎生化学IIa

    2021

  2. 生物学基礎I

    2021

  3. 基礎生物学演習

    2021

  4. 現代の生命科学

    2021

  5. 生物学実験法および実験IV(分担)

    2020

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    大腸菌を宿主としてオワンクラゲの蛍光タンパク質GFPを発現させ、それをt-ブタノール溶液と硫酸アンモニウム溶液を用いた3相分配法並びに疎水結合クロマトグラフィー法により精製し、精製した度合いを紫外ー可視領域の分光解析によって評価する。

  6. 基礎生化学II

    2016

  7. 現代の生命科学

    2016

  8. 基礎生物学演習I

    2016

  9. 現代の生命科学

    2014

  10. 基礎生物学演習I

    2014

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Teaching Experience (Off-campus) 3

  1. 現代の生命科学

    Nagoya University)

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  2. 基礎生物学演習I

    Nagoya University)

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  3. 基礎生化学II

    Nagoya University)

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Social Contribution 13

  1. 多治見北高校講演会

    Role(s):Lecturer

    多治見北高校   2022.11

  2. SSH事業 「遺伝子実験の技術〜DNAの抽出と解析〜」

    Role(s):Lecturer, Demonstrator

    一宮高校SSH  2022.8

  3. SSH事業 「 大腸菌とファージを用いた感染攻防の観察とPCR法とシーケンス技術を使った変異体検 出の理解」

    Role(s):Lecturer, Demonstrator

    一宮高校SSH  2021.8

  4. 社会人サポータ講習会 (名古屋西高校)

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2019.12

  5. SSH事業 「PCR法による品種推定 ーコメの品種判定を例に挙げて」

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2019.8

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    Audience: High school students

    Type:Other

  6. SSH事業 「遺伝子実験の技術~DNA抽出とシーケンサー」

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2018.8

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    Audience: High school students

    Type:Other

  7. SSH事業 「ワークショップ 髪からDNAを取り出す」

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2017.5 - 2017.8

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    Audience: High school students

    Type:Other

  8. SSH事業 「ワークショップ 髪からDNAを取り出す」

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2017.5 - 2017.8

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    Audience: High school students

    Type:Other

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  9. SSH重点枠事業「ワークショップ 乳製品に存在する発酵微生物を知る」

    2016.8

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    高校の先生と生徒、計36 名に対して、乳製品を持ち寄ってもらい、(1)乳製品の一部を牛乳に接種することでヨーグルトができること、(2)乳製品の一部をMRS寒天培地にまくことで菌のコロニーを作らせること、(3)乳製品から直接DNAを取り出して、PCRにより16S rRNA遺伝子を増幅し、塩基配列を決めることで、菌を同定すること。
    を行い、研究の”考え方”を学んだ。

  10. SSH重点枠事業「実習:光タンパク質を取り出す」

    2015.8

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    高校の先生と生徒、計20 名に遺伝子組換え大腸菌(GFPを導入)の作製と大腸菌で発現したGFPを精製する実験の指導を行った。同時に、組換えDNA実験の基本に関して学習した。

  11. 出前授業

    2013.6

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    明和高校で大学の最先端研究の話を出来るだけ分かりやすく講義する。

  12. SSH「自然科学部交流会」

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2012.11

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    Type:Lecture

    高校生の自然科学に関する研究発表会に参加し、色々なコメント、議論を通じて論理的な考え方を養い、問題解決の為の実験計画に対してアドバイスをする。
    次世代シーケンサーの話題に関して、基礎的な所から最先端の所までを簡単に講演した。

  13. Jr.サイエンス教室

    Role(s):Demonstrator

    2000.2

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    Type:University open house

    小学生高学年、中学生を対象に、遺伝現象の担い手であるDNAが細胞のどこにあるのか?を顕微鏡で観察し、実際にDNAを取り出す作業をすることで、生命科学の片鱗に触れる。

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Academic Activities 1

  1. 第14回日本ゲノム微生物学会年会

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc.

    2020.3

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