Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry 77(4) 874-876 2013年 [査読有り]
A highly efficient nuclear transformation method was established for the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum using an electroporation system that drives multi-sequence pulses to introduce foreign DNAs into the cells. By optimizing pulse condi...
Plant and Cell Physiology 54(8) 1316-1325 2013年 [査読有り]
Lichens are drought-resistant symbiotic organisms of mycobiont fungi and photobiont green algae or cyanobacteria, and have an efficient mechanism to dissipate excess captured light energy into heat in a picosecond time range to avoid photoinhibiti...
Photosynthesis Research 111(1-2) 9-18 2012年3月 [査読有り]
In this study, gene sequences coding for the light-harvesting (LH) 2 polypeptides from a thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum are reported and characterization of the LH2 complex is described. Three sets of pucBA genes hav...
Plant and Cell Physiology 53(1) 237-243 2012年1月 [査読有り]
Thylakoid membranes contain two types of quinones, benzoquinone (plastoquinone) and naphthoquinone, which are involved in photosynthetic electron transfer. Unlike the benzoquinone, the chemical species of naphthoquinone present (phylloquinone, men...