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TANAKA-YOSHIDA Lab, TTECH

Original Articles

Kan Tanaka

Takayuki Shimizu, Rintaro Yasuda, Yui Mukai, Ryo Tanoue, Tomohiro Shimada, Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, *Satoru Watanabe and *Tatsuru Masuda (2020) Proteomic analysis of haem-binding protein from Arabidopsis thaliana and Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Phil. Trans. B. (doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0488) (Published online May 4, 2020).

*Fumi Yagisawa, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tokiaki Takemura, Yuki Kobayashi, Nobuko Sumiya, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Soichi Nakamura, Yuuta Imoto, Osami Misumi, Kan Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2020) ESCRT machinery mediates cytokinetic abscission in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 8: 169 (doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00169) (Published 3 Apr, 2020).

Baifeng Zhou, Sota Takahashi, Tokiaki Takemura, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2020) Establishment of a firefly luciferase reporter assay system in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. (in press).

Kei Sakaki, Keita Ohishi, Tetsu Shimizu, Ikki Kobayashi, Naoki Mori, Kenichi Matsuda, Takeo Tomita, Hidenori Watanabe, Kan Tanaka, Tomohisa Kuzuyama and *Makoto Nishiyama (2020) A suicide enzyme catalyzes multiple reactions for biotin biosynthesis in cyanobacteria. Nature Chem. Biol. 16, 415-422. (doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0461-9) (Published online, Feb 10).

Hazuki Hasegawa, Tatsuhiro Tsurumaki, Ikki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura and *Kan Tanaka (2020) Identification and analysis of a principal sigma factor interacting protein SinA, essential for growth at high temperatures in a cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 66, 66-72. (doi: 10.2323/jgam.2019.05.002)(Published online, Sept 13, 2019).

Sergey Khorobrykh, Tatsuhiro Tsurumaki, Kan Tanaka, *Taina Tyystjärvi and *Esa Tyystjärvi (2020) Measurement of the redox state of the plastoquinone pool in cyanobacteria. FEBS Lett. 594, 367-375. (doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.13605)(Published online, Sept 17, 2019).

Takayuki Shimizu, Sylwia M. Kacprzak, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Akira Nagatani, Satoru Watanabe, Tomohiro Shimada, Kan Tanaka, Yuuki Hayashi, Munehito Arai, Dario Leister, Haruko Okamoto, Matthew J. Terry and *Tatsuru Masuda (2020) The retrograde signaling protein GUN1 regulates tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 116, 24900-24906. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911251116) (Published online, Nov 15, 2019).

Tokiaki Takemura, Sousuke Imamura, Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2019)
Multiple modification of chromosomal loci using URA5.3 selection marker in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 9, Iss 7 (doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3204)(Published online, April 5, 2019).

Imran Pancha, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2019) Overexpression of a glycogenin, CmGLG2, enhances floridean starch accumulation in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Signal. Behav. 14(6), 1596717 (doi: 10.1080/15592324.2019.1596718)(Published online, Apr 2, 2019).

*Genki Akanuma, Tomoaki Tagana, Maho Sawada, Shota Suzuki, Tomohiro Shimada, Kan Tanaka, Fujio Kawamura and *Yasuyuki Kato-Yamada (2019) C-terminal regulatory domain of the ε subunit of FoF1-ATP synthase enhance the ATP-dependent H+ pumping that is involved in the maintenance of cellular membrane potential in Bscillus subtilis. MicrobiologyOpen e00815 (doi: 10.1002/mbo3.815)(online published, Feb 29, 2019).

Tokiaki Takemura, Yuki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura and *Kan Tanaka (2019) Top starch plating method for the efficient cultivation of unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 9, Iss 4 (doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3172)(Published online, Feb 20, 2019).

Tokiaki Takemura, *Sousuke Imamura and *Kan Tanaka (2019) Identification of a chloroplast fatty acid exporter protein, CmFAX1, and triacylglycerol accumulation by its overexpression in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Algal Res. 38(3), 101396. (doi.org: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.101396) (Published online 29, Dec, 2018)

Imran Pancha, Hiroki Shima, Nahoko Higashitani, Kazuhiko Igarashi, Atsushi Higashitani, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2019) Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling modulates starch accumulation via glycogenin phosphorylation status in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant J. 97(3), 485-499. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.14136) (Online published, Oct 23, 2018).

Satoshi Fukuda, Eri Hirasawa, Tokiaki Takemura, Sota Takahashi, Kaumeel Chokshi, Imran Pancha, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2018) Accelerated triacylglycerol production without growth inhibition by overexpression of a glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Scientific Reports 8: 12410. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30809-8)( Oniine published, Aug 17th).

Tokiaki Takemura, Sousuke Imamura, Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2018) Construction of a selectable marker recycling system and the use in epitope tagging of multiple nuclear genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell Physiol. 59(11): 2308-2316. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcy156) (Online published, Aug 7th).

*Sousuke Imamura, Yuhta Nomura, Tokiaki Takemura, Imran Pancha, Keiko Taki, Kazuki Toguchi, Yuzuru Tozawa and Kan Tanaka (2018) The checkpoint kinase TOR (target of rapamycin) regulates expression of a nuclear-encoded chloroplast RelA-SpoT homolog (RSH) and modulates chloroplast ribosomal RNA synthesis in a unicellular red alga. Plant J. 94(2):327-339. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13859. (Online published, Feb 14).

Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2018) Lability in sulfur acidic cultivation medium explains unstable effects of CDK inhibitors on Cyanidioschyzon merolae cell proliferation. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 64(6): 299-302. (doi: 10.2323/jgam.2018.01.002) (published online, June 16) .

Yasuko Kawase, Sousuke Imamura, and Kan Tanaka (2017) A MYB-type transcription factor MYB2 represses light-harvesting protein genes in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. FEBS Lett. (on line published) (DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12763). [ Link ]

Tomohiro Shimada, Kan Tanaka, and Akira Ishihama (2017) The Whole Set of the Constitutive Promoters Recognized by Four Minor Sigma Subunits of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179181. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179181). [ Link ]

Sho Yamaguchi, Yuuki Kawada, Hidetaka Yuge, Kan Tanaka, and Sousuke Imamura (2017) Development of New Carbon Resources: Production of Important Chemicals from Algal Residue. Scientific Reports　(DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00979-y).　 [Link]

Ryota Sugimoto, Natsumi Saito, Tomohiro Shimada and Kan Tanaka (2017) Identification of YbhA as the pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP) phosphatase in Escherichia coli: Importance of PLP homeostasis on the bacterial growth. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. (in press)

Sousuke Imamura, Keiko Taki and Kan Tanaka (2017) Construction of a rapamycin-susceptible strain of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae for analysis of target of rapamycin (TOR) function. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. (in press)

Ikki Kobayashi, Satoru Watanabe, Yu Kanesaki, Tomohiro Shimada, Hirofumi Yoshikawa and Kan Tanaka (2017) Conserved two-component Hik34-Rre1 module directly activates heat-stress inducible transcription of major chaperone and other genes in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Mol. Microbiol. (DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13624). [ link ]

Kobayashi, Y. and Tanaka, K. (2016) Extraction and Measurement of Abscisic Acid in a Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 6(23): e2033. (DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2033). [ link ]

Yuki Kobayashi and Kan Tanaka (2016) Transcriptional regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthetic genes explains abscisic acid-induced heme accumulation in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Plant Sci. (online published) (DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01300). [ link ]

Tomohiro Shimada and Kan Tanaka (2016) Use of a Bacterial Luciferase Monitoring System to Estimate Real-time Dynamics of Intracellular Metabolism in Escherichia coli. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 82, 5960-5968. (doi: 10.1128/AEM.01400-16 ). [ link ]

Tomohiro Shimada, Kan Tanaka, and Akira Ishihama (2016) Transcription factor DecR (YbaO) controls detoxification of L-cysteine in Escherichia coli. Microbiology 162, 1698-1707. (doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000337). [ link ]

Noriko Ueki, Takahiro Ide, Shota Mochiji, Yuki Kobayashi, Ryutaro Tokutsu, Norikazu Ohnishi, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Kan Tanaka, Jun Minagawa, Toru Hisabori, Masafumi Hirono, and Ken-ichi Wakabayashi (2016) Eyespot-dependent determination of the phototactic sign in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 5299-5304. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1525538113). [ link ]

Yuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ando, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, and Kan Tanaka (2016) Abscisic acid participates in the control of cell-cycle initiation through heme homeostasis in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.
Plant Cell Physiol. 57, 953-960. (DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw054). [ link ]

Sousuke Imamura, Yasuko Kawase, Ikki Kobayashi, Mie Shimojima, Hiroyuki Ohta, and Kan Tanaka (2016) TOR (target of rapamycin) is a key regulator of triacylglycerol accumulation in microalgae. Plant SIgnal. Behav. 11:3, e1149285, (DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2016.1149285). [ link ]

Sousuke Imamura, Yasuko Kawase, Ikki Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Sone, Atsuko Era, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Mie Shimojima, Hiroyuki Ohta, and Kan Tanaka (2015) Target of rapamycin (TOR) plays a critical role in triacylglycerol accumulation in microalgae. Plant Mol. Biol. 89, 309-318. (DOI: 10.1007/s11103-015-0370-6) [ link ]

Nobuko Sumiya, Yasuko Kawase, Junpei Hayakawa, Mami Matsuda, Mami Nakamura, Atsuko Era, Kan Tanaka, Akihiko Kondo, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Sousuke Imamura, Shin-ya Miyagishima (2015) Expression of cyanobacterial acyl-ACP reductase elevates the triacylglycerol level in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell Physiol. 56, 1962-1980. (doi:10.1093/pcp/pcv120 )[ link ]

Takayuki Fujiwara, Yu Kanesaki, Shunsuke Hirooka, Atsuko Era, Nobuko Sumiya, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Kan Tanaka, Shin-ya Miyagishima (2015) A nitrogen source-dependent inducible and repressible gene expression system in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Plant Sci. 6:657. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00657) [ link ]

Keiko Taki, Toshiyuki Sone, Yuki Kobayashi, Satoru Watanabe, Sousuke Imamura, and Kan Tanaka (2015) Construction of a URA5.3 deletion strain of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: A backgroundless host strain for transformation experiments. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 61, 211-214. (doi: 10.2323/jgam.61.211)[ link ]

Tomohiro Shimada, Natsumi Saito, Michihisa Maeda, Kan Tanaka, and Akira Ishihama (2015) Expanded roles of Lrp in transcription regulation of the Escherichia coli genome: Genomic SELEX screening of the regulation targets. Microbial Genomics 2015 1. (DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000001) [link]

Gaku Fujii, Sousuke Imamura, Atsuko Era, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, and Kan Tanaka (2015) The nuclear-encoded sigma factor SIG4 directly activates transcription of chloroplast psbA and ycf17 genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 362 (10): fnv063 (10.1093/femsle/fnv063) [link]

Yu Kanesaki, Sousuke Imamura, Motomichi Matsuzaki, and Kan Tanaka (2015) Identification of centromere regions in chromosomes of a unicellular red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae. FEBS Lett. 589, 1219-1224 (10.1016/j.febslet.2015.04.009) [link]

Yuu Hirose, Mitsunori Katayama, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Naomi Misawa, Erica Iioka, Wataru Suda, Kenshiro Oshima, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kan Tanaka, Toshihiko Eki, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Yo Kikuchi, Makoto Ishida, and Masahira Hattori (2015) Complete genome sequence of cyanobacterium Geminocystis sp. NIES-3709 that harbors phycoerythrin-rich phycobilisome. Genome Announc. 2015 3:e00385-15.[link]

Yuu Hirose, Mitsunori Katayama, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Naomi Misawa, Erica Iioka, Wataru Suda, Kenshiro Oshima, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kan Tanaka, Toshihiko Eki, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Yo Kikuchi, Makoto Ishida, and Masahira Hattori (2015) Complete genome sequence of cyanobacterium Geminocystis sp. NIES-3708, which performs type II complementary chromatic acclimation. Genome Announc. 2015 3:e00357-15. [link]

Takashi Osanai, Akira Oikawa, Hiroko Iijima, Ayuko Kuwahara, Munehiko Asayama, Kan Tanaka, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Kazuki Saito and Masami Yokota Hirai (2014) Metabolomic analysis reveals rewiring of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 primary metabolism by ntcA-overexpression. Environ. Microbiol. 16, 3304-3317. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12554. Epub 2014 Aug 29) [PubMed]

Mio Ohnuma, Takashi Yokoyama, Takayuki Inouye, Yasuhiko Sekine, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2014) Optimization of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-mediated DNA introduction conditions for transient gene expression in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 60, 156-159. (doi: 10.10.2323/jgam.60.156)[link]

Tomohiro Shimada, Yukiko Yamazaki, Kan Tanaka and Akira Ishihama (2014) The whole set of constitutive promoters recognized by RNA polymerase RpoD holoenzyme of Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE 9, e90447. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090447)[PubMed]

Satoru Watanabe, Jun Sato, Sousuke Imamura, Mio Ohnuma, Yusaku Ohba, Taku Chibazakura, Kan Tanaka and Hirofumi Yoshikawa (2014) Stable Expression of a GFP-reporter Gene in the Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 78, 175-177. (doi:10.1080/09168451.2014.877823)[link]

Gaku Fujii, Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2013) Nuclear-encoded chloroplast RNA polymerase sigma factor SIG2 activates chloroplast-encoded phycobilisome genes in a red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae. FEBS Lett. 587, 3354-3359. (doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.08.031) [link]

Takehiko Kanazawa, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Takayuki Kohchi, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2013) Characterization of Four Nuclear-Encoded Plastid RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor Genes in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha: Blue-Light and Multiple-Stress Responsive SIG5 was Acquired Early in the Emergence of Terrestrial Plants. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 1736-1748. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pct119) [link]

Sousuke Imamura, Aiko Ishiwata, Satoru Watanabe, Hirofumi Yoshikawa and Kan Tanaka (2013) Expression of budding yeast FKBP12 confers rapamycin susceptibility to the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 439, 264-269. (doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.08.045) [link]

Takashi Osanai, Syuko Kuwahara, Hiroko Iijima, Kiminori Toyooka, Mayuko Sato, Kan Tanaka, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Kazuki Saito, Masami Hirai (2013) Pleiotropic effect of sigE overexpression on cell morphology, photosynthesis, and hydrogen production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant J. 76, 456-465. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.12310)[link]

Takayuki Fujiwara, Kan Tanaka, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Tatsuya Hirano (2013) Spatiotemporal dynamics of condensins I and II: Evolutionary insights from the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Mol. Biol. Cell 24, 2515-2527. (doi: 10.1091/mbc.E13-04-0208)[link]

Takashi Osanai, Keiji Numata, Akira Oikawa, Ayuko Kuwahara, Hiroko Iijima, Yoshiharu Doi, Kan Tanaka, Kazuki Saito and Masami Yokota Hirai (2013) Increased Bioplastic Production with An RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor SigE during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res. 6, 525-535. (doi:10.1093/dnares/dst028)[link]

Takashi Osanai, Akira Oikawa, Tomokazu Shirai, Ayuko Kuwahara, Hiroko Iijima, Kan Tanaka, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Akihiko Kondo, Kazuki Saito and Masami Yokota Hirai (2013) Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry Reveals the Distribution of Carbon Metabolites during Nitrogen Starvation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Environ. Microbiol. 16, 512-524. (doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12170)[link]

Satoru Watanabe, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Yusaku Ohba, Tomohiro Ono, Mio Ohnuma, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Shigeru Taketani and Kan Tanaka (2013) Mitochondrial localization of ferrochelatase in a red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 1289-1295. (10.1093/pcp/pct077) [link]

Zeenat B. Noordally, Kenyu Ishii, Kelly A. Atkins, Sarah J. Wetherill, Jelena Kusakina, Eleanor J. Walton, Maiko Kato, Miyuki Azuma, Kan Tanaka, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Antony N. Dodd (2013) Circadian Control of Chloroplast Transcription by a Nuclear-Encoded Timing Signal. Science 339, 1316-1319. (doi: 10.1126/science.1230397) [link]

Kan Tanaka and Mitsumasa Hanaoka (2013) Hypothesis and theory: The early days of plastid retrograde signaling with respect to replication and transcription. Front. Plant Physiol. 3, 301. (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00301) [link]

Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Maiko Kato, Misato Anma and Kan Tanaka (2012) SIG1, a Sigma Factor for the Chloroplast RNA Polymerase, Differently Associates with Multiple DNA Regions in the Chloroplast Chromosomes in Vivo. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 13, 12182-12194. (doi:10.3390/ijms131012182 ) [link]

Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Naoki Takai, Norimune Hosokawa, Masayuki Fujiwara, Yuki Akimoto, Nami Kobori, Hideo Iwasaki, Takao Kondo and Kan Tanaka (2012) RpaB, another response regulator operating circadian clock-dependent transcriptional regulation in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Biol. Chem. 287, 26321-26327. [link]

Yu Kanesaki, Sousuke Imamura, Ayumi Minoda and Kan Tanaka (2012) External light condition and cell cycle phases coordinate accumulation of chloroplast and mitochondrial transcripts in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 19, 289-303. [OPEN ACCESS].

Mio Suzuki, Yoshifumi Eda, Shiaki Ohsawa, Yu Kanesaki, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Kan Tanaka, Yasuyuki Muramatsu, Jun Yoshikawa, Ikuo Sato, Takaaki Fujii and Seigo Amachi (2012) Possible Involvement of a Novel Multicopper Oxidase in Iodide Oxidation by α-Proteobacterium Strain Q-1. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 78(11), 3941-3949. DOI:10.1128/AEM.00084-12.[PubMed]

Shunsuke Hirooka, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kazuhiko Enami, Takehiko Kanazawa, Toshiyuki Sone, Yuta Imoto, Akikazu Ando, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2012) Nuclear-encoded plastid sigma factor SIG6 exclusively contributes to chloroplast differentiation in plastid differentiation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Cytologia 77(1), 73-82.[link]

Kazuhiko Enami, Kan Tanaka and Mitsumasa Hanaoka (2012) Retrograde signals arise from reciprocal crosstalk within plastids. Plant Signal. Behav. 7, 142-144.[link]

Masahiko Imashimizu, Kan Tanaka and Nobuo Shimamoto (2011) Comparative study of cyanobacterial and E. coli RNA polymerases: Misincorporation, abortive transcription, and dependence on divalent cations. Genet. Res. Internat. 2011, Article ID 572689, doi: 10.4061/2011/572689. [link]

Takashi Osanai, Akira Oikawa, Miyuki Azuma, Kan Tanaka, Kazuki Saito, Masami Yokota Hirai and Masahiko Ikeuchi (2011) Genetic engineering of the group 2 sigma factor SigE widely activates the expression of sugar catabolic genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. J. Biol. Chem. 286, 30962-30971. [PubMed]

Kazuhiko Enami, Tomoki Ozawa, Noriko Motohashi, Masayuki Nakamura, Kan Tanaka and Mitsumasa Hanaoka (2011) Plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signals are essential for expression of nuclear starch biosynthesis genes during amyloplast differentiation in tobacco BY-2 cultured cells. Plant Physiol. 157, 518-530. [PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2011) A tetrapyrrole-regulated ubiquitin ligase controls algal nuclear DNA replication. Nature Cell Biol. 13, 483-487.[PubMed]

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Mio Ohnuma, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2011) Optimization of cryopreservation conditions for the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 57, 137-143.[PubMed]

Miyuki Azuma, Takashi Osanai, Masami Yokota Hirai and Kan Tanaka (2011) A response regulator Rre37 and an RNA polymerase sigma factor SigE represent two parallel pathways to activate sugar catabolism in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Plant Cell Physiol. 52, 404-412.[PubMed]

Watanabe, S., Ohnuma, M., Sato, J., Yoshikawa, H. and Tanaka, K. (2011) Utility of a GFP reporter system in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 57, 69-72.[PubMed]

Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Takayuki Kawakami and Kan Tanaka (2010) Chloroplast isolation and run-on transcription assay in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 20. 42-52.

Yuki Kobayashi, Mio Ohnuma, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Kan Tanaka and Mitsumasa Hanaoka (2010) The basics of cultivation and molecular genetic analysis of the unicellular red algaCyanidioschyzon merolae. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 20. 53-61.

Minoda, A., Weber, A. P. M., Tanaka, K. and Miyagishima, S. (2010) Nucleus-independent control of the Rubisco operon by the plastid-encoded transcription factor Ycf30 in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Physiol. 154, 1532-1540.[PubMed]

Imamura, S., Terashita, M., Ohnuma, M., Maruyama, S., Minoda, A., Weber, A.P.M., Inouye, T., Sekine, Y., Fujita, Y., Omata, T. and Tanaka, K. (2010) Nitrate assimilatory genes and their transcriptional regulation in a unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: Genetic evidence for nitrite reduction by a sulfite reductase-like enzyme. Plant Cell Physiol. 51, 707-717.[link]

Fujiwara, T., Kuroiwa, H., Yagisawa, F., Ohnuma, M., Yoshida, Y., Yoshida, M., Nishida, K., Misumi, O., Watanabe, S., Tanaka, K. and Kuroiwa, T. (2010) The coiled-coil protein VIG1 is essential for tethering vacuoles to mitochondria during vacuole inheritance of Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell, 22, 772-781.[PubMed]

Yu Kanesaki, Yuki Kobayashi, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2009) Mg-Protoporphyrin IX signaling in Cyanidioschyzon meroale: Multiple pathways may involve the retrograde signaling in plant cells. Plant Signal. Behav. 4, 85-88.[PubMed]

Yoshiyuki Takashi, Yuki Kobayashi, Kan Tanaka and Katsunori Tamura (2009) Arabidopsis replication protein A 70a is required for DNA damage response and telomere length homeostasis. Plant Cell Physiol. 50, 1965-1976.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Yu Kanesaki, Mio Ohnuma, Takayuki Inouye, Yasuhiko Sekine, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2009) R2R3-type MYB transcription factor, CmMYB1, is a central nitrogen assimilation regulator in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 12548-12553. [PubMed]

Mio Ohnuma, Osami Misumi, Takayuki Fujiwara, Satoru Watanabe, Kan Tanaka and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2009) Transient gene suppression in a red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Protoplasma 236, 107-112. [PubMed]

Takashi Osanai, Masahiko Imashimizu, Asako Seki, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Masahiko Ikeuchi and Kan Tanaka (2009) ChlH, the H subunit of Mg-chelatase, is an anti-sigma factor for SigE in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 6860-6865. [PubMed]

Takayuki Fujiwara, Osami Misumi, Kousuke Tashiro, Yamato Yoshida, Keiji Nishida, Fumi Yagisawa, Sousuke Imamura, Masaki Yoshida, Toshiyuki Mori, Kan Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2009) Periodic gene expression during the highly synchronized cell nucleus and organelle division cycles in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 16, 59-72. [PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi, Yu Kanesaki, Ayumi Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2009) Tetrapyrrole signal as a cell cycle coordinator from organelle to nuclear DNA replication in plant cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 803-807. [PubMed]

This report was featured in Science Signaling (AAAS online journal) as EDITOR'S CHOICE:

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and also in Nature Japan WebSite as TOKUSHU-article:

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Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2008) The plant-specific TFIIB-related protein, pBrp, is a general transcription factor for RNA polymerase I. EMBO J. 27, 2317-2327. [PubMed]

Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2008) Dynamics of RpaB-promoter interaction during high light stress, revealed by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Plant J. 56, 327-335.

Shinichiro Maruyama, Motomichi Matsuzaki, Haruko Kuroiwa, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Kan Tanaka, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Hisayoshi Nozaki (2008) Centromere structure highlighted by the 100%-complete Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome. Plant Signal. Behav. 3, 140-141.

Kiyohito Fujita, Kan Tanaka, Yoshito Sadaie and Niji Ohta (2008) Functional analysis of the plastid and nuclear encoded CbbX proteins of Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Genes Genet. Syst. 83, 135-142.

Kiyohito Fujita, Shigeki Ehira, Kan Tanaka, Kei Asai and Niji Ohta (2008) Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the plastid and cbbX genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Genes Genet. Syst. 83, 127-133.

Mio Ohnuma, Takashi Yokoyama, Takayuki Inouye, Yasuhiko Sekine and Kan Tanaka (2008) Polyethyleneglycol (PEG)-mediated transient gene expression in a red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Plant Cell Physiol. 49, 117-120.

Asako Seki, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Yuki Akimoto, Susumu Masuda, Hideo Iwasaki and Kan Tanaka (2007) Induction of a group 2 sigma factor, RpoD3, by high light and the underlying mechanism in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Biol. Chem. 282(51), 36887-36894.

Hisayoshi Nozaki, Yoshihiro Takano, Osami Misumi, Kimihiro Terasawa, Motomichi Matsuzaki, Shinichiro Maruyama, Susumu Takio, Katsunori Tamura, Sung Jin Chung, Soichi Nakamura, Haruko Kuroiwa, Kan Tanaka, Naoki Sato, and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2007) The first 100% eukaryotic genome sequences from the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. BMC Biol. 5, 28.

Reiko Motohashi, Takanori Yamazaki, Fumiyoshi Myouga, Takuya Ito, Masakazu Satou, Koichi Ito, Masakazu Satou, Masatomo Kobayashi, Noriko Nagata, Shigeo Yoshida, Akitomo Nagashima, Kan Tanaka, Seiji Takahashi and Kazuo Shinozaki (2007) Chloroplast ribosome release factor 1 (AtcpRF1) is essential for chloroplast development. Plant Mol. Biol. 64, 481-497.

Tsutomu Yoshimura, Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Makoto Shirai and Munehiko Asayama (2007) Cooperation of group 2 sigma factors, SigD and SigE for light-induced transcription in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 581, 1495-1500.

Masae Matsui, Tsutomu Yoshimura, Yuuko Wakabayashi, Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi, Munehiko Asayama, and Makoto Shirai (2007) Interference expression at levels of the transcript and protein among group 1, 2, and 3 sigma factor genes in a cyanobacterium. Microbes Environ. 22, 32-43.

Shinichiro Maruyama, Haruko Kuroiwa, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Kan Tanaka and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2007) Centromere dynamics in the primitive red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant J. 49 (6), 1122-1129.

2006

Takashi Osanai, Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Makoto Shirai, Iwane Suzuki, Norio Murata and Kan Tanaka (2006) Nirogen control of sugar catabolic gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res. 13, 185-195.

Asako Seki, Takayuki Nakano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Koji Matsumoto, Masahiko Ikeuchi and Kan Tanaka (2006) Light-responsive transcriptional regulation of the suf promoters involved in Fe-S cluster biogenesis in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 580, 5044-5048.

Masaru Terashita, Shinichiro Maruyama and Kan Tanaka (2006) Cytoplasmic localization of the single glutamine synthetase in a unicellular red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 70, 2313-2315.

Masahiko Imashimizu, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Asako Seki, Katsuhiko Murakami and Kan Tanaka (2006) The cyanobacterial principal s factor region 1.1 is involved in DNA binding in the free form and in transcription activity as holoenzyme. FEBS Lett. 580(14), 3439-3444.

Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Makoto Shirai and Munehiko Asayama (2006) Growth phase-dependent activation of nitrogen-related genes by a control network of group 1 and group 2 sigma factors in a cyanobacterium. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 2668-2675.

2005

Jean-Jacques Favory, Masanori Kobayashi, Kan Tanaka, Gilles Peltier, Martin Kreis, Jean-Gabriel Valay and Silva Lerbs-Mache (2005) Specific function of a plastid sigma factor for ndhF gene transcription. Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 5991-5999.

Takashi Osanai, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata and Kan Tanaka (2005) Identification of PamA as a PII-binding membrane protein important in nitrogen-related and sugar-catabolic gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 34684-34690.

Ayumi Minoda, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kirina Nagasawa, Makoto Horiuchi, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2005) Microarray profiling of plastid gene expression in a unicellular red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Mol. Biol. 59, 375-385.

Takashi Osanai, Takayuki Nakano, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Minoru Kanehisa, Munehiko Asayama, Makoto Shirai, Iwane Suzuki, Norio Murata and Kan Tanaka (2005) Positive regulation of sugar catabolic pathways in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by the group 2 sigma factor SigE. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (35), 30653-30659.

K. Koga, T. Harada, H. Shimizu and K. Tanaka (2005) Bacterial luciferase activity and the intracellular redox pool in Escherichia coli. Mol. Genet. Genomics 274, 180-188.

Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kengo Kanamaru, Makoto Fujiwara, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2005) A Switch in RNA Polymerase Usage Mediated by tRNAGlu During Chloroplast Development. EMBO Rep. 6 (6), 545-550.

2004

Ayumi Minoda, Rei Sakagami, Fumi Yagisawa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka (2004) Improvement of culture conditions and evidence for nuclear transformation by homologous recombination in a red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Plant Cell Physiol. 45 (6), 667-671.

Fumi Yagisawa, Keiji Nishida, Yukio Okano, Ayumi Minoda, Kan Tanaka and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2004) Isolation of cycloheximide-resistant mutants of Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Cytologia 69 (1), 97-100.

Akitomo Nagashima, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Toshiharu Shikanai, Makoto Fujiwara, Kengo Kanamaru, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2004) The multiple-stress responsive plastid sigma factor, SIG5, directs activation of the psbD light responsive promoter (LRP) in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 45, 357-368.

Motomichi Matsuzaki, Osami Misumi, Tadasu Shin-I, Shinichiro Maruyama, Manabu Takahara, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Toshiyuki Mori, Keiji Nishida, Fumi Yagisawa, Keishin Nishida, Yamato Yoshida, Yoshiki Nishimura, Syunsuke Nakao, Tamaki Kobayashi, Yu Momoyama, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Ayumi Minoda, Masako Sano, Hisayo Nomoto, Kazuko Oishi, Hiroko Hayashi, Fumiko Ohta, Masako Sano, Hisayo Nomoto, Kazuko Oishi, Hiroko Hayashi, Fumiko Ohta, Satoko Nishizaka, Shinobu Haga, Sachiko Miura, Tomomi Morishita, Yukihiro Kabeya, Kimihiro Terasawa, Yutaka Suzuki, Yasuyuki Ishii, Syuichi Asakawa, Hiroyoshi Takano, Niji Ohta, Haruko Kuroiwa, Kan Tanaka, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Sumio Sugano, Naoki Sato, Hisayoshi Nozaki, Naotake Ogasawara, Yuji Kohara and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2004) Genome sequence of the ultra-small unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D. Nature 428, 653-657.

Akitomo Nagashima, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Reiko Motohashi, Motoaki Seki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kengo Kanamaru, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2004) DNA Microarray analysis of Plastid Gene Expression in an Arabidopsis Mutant Deficient in a Plastid Transcription Factor Sigma, SIG2. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68 (3) 694-704.

Munehiko Asayama, Sousuke Imamura, Satoshi Yoshihara, Ai Miyazaki, Naoko Yoshida, Takashi Sazuka, Takakazu Kaneko, Osamu Ohara, Satoshi Tabata, Takashi Osanai, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi and Makoto Shirai (2004) SigC, the group 2 sigma factor of RNA polymerase, contributes to the late-stage gene expression and nitrogen promoter regulation in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68 (3), 477-487.

2003

Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Kengo Kanamaru, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2003) Molecular genetic analysis of chloroplast gene promoters dependent on SIG2, a nucleus-encoded sigma factor for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase, in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 7090-7098.

Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi and Makoto Shirai (2003) Antagonistic dark/light-induced SigB/SigD, group 2 sigma factors, expression through redox potential and their roles in cyanobacteria. FEBS Lett. 554, 357-362.

Emi Nakazato, Hideya Fukuzawa, Satoshi Tabata, Hideo Takahashi and Kan Tanaka (2003) Identification and expression analysis of cDNA encoding a chloroplast recombination protein REC1, the chloroplast RecA homologue in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 67, 2608-2613.

Masahiko Imashimizu, Shoko Fujiwara, Ryohei Tanigawa, Kan Tanaka, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Yuji Nakajima, Junichi Higo and Mikio Tsuzuki (2003) Thymine at –5 is crucial for cpc promoter activity of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6714. J. Bacteriol. 185, 6477-6480.

Nami Katayama, Hiroyoshi Takano, Motoji Sugiyama, Susumu Takio, Atsushi Sakai, Kan Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa and Kanji Ono (2003) Effects of antibiotics that inhibit the bacterial peptidoglycan synthesis pathway on moss chloroplast division. Plant Cell Physiol. 44, 776-781.

Niji Ohta, Motomichi Matsuzaki, Osami Misumi, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Hisayoshi Nozaki, Kan Tanaka, Tadasu Shin-I, Yuji Kohara and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2003) Complete sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanodioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 10, 67-77.

Sousuke Imamura, Satoshi Yoshihara, Serina Nakano, Noriko Shiozaki, Akiko Yamada, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi, Munehiko Asayama and Makoto Shirai (2003) Purification, characterization, and gene expression of all sigma factors of RNA polymerase in a cyanobacterium. J. Mol. Biol. 325, 857-872.

Critical papers before 2003

Ryohei Tanigawa, Masao Shirokane, Shin-ichi Maeda, Tatuso Omata, Kan Tanaka, and Hideo Takahashi (2002) Transcriptional activation of NtcA-dependent promoters of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 by 2-oxoglutarate in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 4251-4255.

Asako Goto-Seki, Masao Shirokane, Susumu Masuda, Kan Tanaka, and Hideo Takahashi (1999) Specificity crosstalk among group 1 and group 2 sigma factors in cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942: in vitro specificity and a phylogenetic analysis. Mol. Microbiol. 34, 473-484.

Kan Tanaka, Yuzuru Tozawa, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Akira Nagatani, Kyo Wakasa, and Hideo Takahashi (1997) Characterization of three cDNA species encoding plastid RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis thaliana: Evidence for the sigma factor heterogeneity in higher plant plastids. FEBS Lett. 413, 309-313.

Kan Tanaka, Kosuke Oikawa, Niji Ohta, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, and Hideo Takahashi (1996) Nuclear encoding of a chloroplast RNA polymerase sigma subunit in a red alga. Science 272, 1932-1935.
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Kan Tanaka, Yuko Takayanagi, Nobuyuki Fujita, Akira Ishihama, and Hideo Takahashi (1993) Heterogeneity of the principal σ factor in Escherichia coli: The rpoS gene product, σ38, is a second principal σ factor of RNA polymerase in stationary-phase Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 3511-3515.

Kan Tanaka, Tetsuo Shiina and Hideo Takahashi (1988) Multiple principal sigma factor homologs in eubacteria: Identification of the “rpoD Box.” Science 242, 1040-1042.

Sousuke Imamura

Tokiaki Takemura, Sousuke Imamura, Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2019)
Multiple modification of chromosomal loci using URA5.3 selection marker in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 9, Iss 7 (doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3204)(Published online, April 5, 2019).

Imran Pancha, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2019) Overexpression of a glycogenin, CmGLG2, enhances floridean starch accumulation in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Signal. Behav. (doi: 10.1080/15592324.2019.1596718)(Published online, Apr 2, 2019).

Tokiaki Takemura, Yuki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura and *Kan Tanaka (2019) Top starch plating method for the efficient cultivation of unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 9, Iss 4 (doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3172)(Published online, Feb 20, 2019).

Tokiaki Takemura, *Sousuke Imamura and *Kan Tanaka (2019) Identification of a chloroplast fatty acid exporter protein, CmFAX1, and triacylglycerol accumulation by its overexpression in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Algal Res. 38(3), 101396. (doi.org: 10.1016/j.algal.2018.101396) (Published online 29, Dec, 2018)

Imran Pancha, Hiroki Shima, Nahoko Higashitani, Kazuhiko Igarashi, Atsushi Higashitani, Kan Tanaka and *Sousuke Imamura (2019) Target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling modulates starch accumulation via glycogenin phosphorylation status in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant J. 97(3), 485-499. (doi: 10.1111/tpj.14136) (Online published, Oct 23, 2018).

Yasuko Kawase, Sousuke Imamura, and Kan Tanaka (2017) A MYB-type transcription factor MYB2 represses light-harvesting protein genes in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. FEBS Lett. (on line published) (DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12763). [ Link ]

Sho Yamaguchi, Yuuki Kawada, Hidetaka Yuge, Kan Tanaka, and Sousuke Imamura (2017) Development of New Carbon Resources: Production of Important Chemicals from Algal Residue. Scientific Reports (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00979-y). [Link]

Sousuke Imamura, Keiko Taki and Kan Tanaka (2017) Construction of a rapamycin-susceptible strain of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae for analysis of target of rapamycin (TOR) function. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. (in press)

Sousuke Imamura, Yasuko Kawase, Ikki Kobayashi, Mie Shimojima, Hiroyuki Ohta, and Kan Tanaka (2016) TOR (target of rapamycin) is a key regulator of triacylglycerol accumulation in microalgae. Plant SIgnal. Behav. 11:3, e1149285, (DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2016.1149285). [ link ]

Satoru Watanabe, Jun Sato, Sousuke Imamura, Mio Ohnuma, Yusaku Ohba, Taku Chibazakura, Kan Tanaka and Hirofumi Yoshikawa (2014) Stable Expression of a GFP-reporter Gene in the Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 78, 175-177. (doi:10.1080/09168451.2014.877823)[link]

Yu Kanesaki, Sousuke Imamura, Ayumi Minoda and Kan Tanaka (2012) External light condition and cell cycle phases coordinate accumulation of chloroplast and mitochondrial transcripts in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 19, 289-303. [OPEN ACCESS].

Sousuke Imamura, Daisuke Hagiwara, Fumi Suzuki, Norihide Kurano and Shigeaki Harayama. (2012) Genetic transformation of Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea, an aliphatic hydrocarbon-producing green alga. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 58, 1-10 [OPEN access].

Yuki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka. (2011) A tetrapyrrole-regulated ubiquitin ligase controls algal nuclear DNA replication. Nature Cell Biol. 13, 483-487.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Masaru Terashita, Mio Ohnuma, Shinichiro Maruyama, Ayumi Minoda, Andreas P.M. Weber, Takayuki Inouye, Yasuhiko Sekine, Yuichi Fujita, Tatsuo Omata and Kan Tanaka. (2010) Nitrate assimilatory genes and their transcriptional regulation in a unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: Genetic evidence for nitrite reduction by a sulfite reductase-like enzyme. Plant Cell Physiol. 51, 707-717.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Yu Kanesaki, Mio Ohnuma, Takayuki Inouye, Yasuhiko Sekine, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa and Kan Tanaka. (2009) R2R3-type MYB transcription factor, CmMYB1, is a central nitrogen assimilation regulator in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106, 12548-12553.[PubMed]

Takashi Osanai, Masahiko Imashimizu, Asako Seki, Shusei Sato, Satoshi Tabata, Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Masahiko Ikeuchi and Kan Tanaka. (2009) ChlH, the H subunit of the Mg-chelatase, is an anti-σ factor for SigE in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106, 6860-6865.[PubMed]

Takayuki Fujiwara, Osami Misumi, Kousuke Tashiro, Yamato Yoshida, Keiji Nishida, Fumi Yagisawa, Sousuke Imamura, Masaki Yoshida, Toshiyuki Mori, Kan Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa. (2009) Periodic gene expression patterns during the highly synchronized cell nucleus and organelle division cycles in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. DNA Res. 16, 59-71.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka. (2008) The plant-specific TFIIB-related protein, pBrp, is a general transcription factor for RNA polymerase I. EMBO J. 27, 2317-2327.[PubMed]

Munehiko Asayama and Sousuke Imamura. (2008) Stringent promoter recognition and autoregulation by the group 3 σ-factor SigF in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, 5297-5305.[PubMed]

Tsutomu Yoshimura, Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Makoto Shirai and Munehiko Asayama. (2007) Cooperation of group 2 σ factors, SigD and SigE for light-induced transcription in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FEBS Lett. 581, 1495-1500.[PubMed]

Masae Matsui, Tsutomu Yoshimura, Yuko Wakabayashi, Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi, Munehiko Asayama and Makoto Shirai. (2007) Interference expression at levels of the transcript and protein among group 1, 2, and 3 sigma factor genes in a cyanobacterium. Microbes Environ. 22, 32-43.[link]

Yoshiki Kubota, Akio Miyao, Hirohiko Hirochika, Yuzuru Tozawa, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Yuichi Tsunoyama, Yasuo Niwa, Sousuke Imamura, Makoto Shirai and Munehiko Asayama. (2007) Two novel nuclear genes, OsSIG5 and OsSIG6, encoding potential plastid sigma factors of RNA polymerase in rice: Tissue-specific and light-responsive gene expression. Plant Cell Physiol. 48, 186-192.[PubMed]

Takashi Osanai, Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Makoto Shirai, Iwane Suzuki, Norio Murata and Kan Tanaka. (2006) Nitrogen induction of sugar catabolic gene expression in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res. 13, 185-195.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Kan Tanaka, Makoto Shirai and Munehiko Asayama. (2006) Growth phase-dependent activation of nitrogen-related genes by a control network of group 1 and group 2 sigma factors in a cyanobacterium. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 2668-2675.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, and Makoto Shirai. (2004) In vitro transcription analysis by reconstituted cyanobacterial RNA polymerase: Roles of group 1 and 2 sigma factors and a core subunit, RpoC2. Genes Cells 9, 1175-1187.[PubMed]

Munehiko Asayama, Sousuke Imamura, Satoshi Yoshihara, Ai Miyazaki, Naoko Yoshida, Takashi Sazuka, Takakazu Kaneko, Osamu Ohara, Satoshi Tabata, Takashi Osanai, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi and Makoto Shirai. (2004) SigC, the group 2 sigma factor of RNA polymerase, contributes to the late-stage gene expression and nitrogen promoter recognition in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68, 477-487.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Munehiko Asayama, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi and Makoto Shirai. (2003) Antagonistic dark-/light-induced SigB/SigD, group 2 sigma factors, expression through redox potential and their roles in cyanobacteria. FEBS Lett. 554, 357-362.[PubMed]

Sousuke Imamura, Satoshi Yoshihara, Serina Nakano, Noriko Shiozaki, Akiko Yamada, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi, Munehiko Asayama and Makoto Shirai. (2003) Purification, characterization, and gene expression of all sigma factors of RNA polymerase in a cyanobacterium. J. Mol. Biol. 325, 857-872.[PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi

*Fumi Yagisawa, Takayuki Fujiwara, Tokiaki Takemura, Yuki Kobayashi, Nobuko Sumiya, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Soichi Nakamura, Yuuta Imoto, Osami Misumi, Kan Tanaka, Haruko Kuroiwa and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa (2020) ESCRT machinery mediates cytokinetic abscission in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 8: 169 (doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00169) (Published 3 Apr, 2020).

Tokiaki Takemura, Sousuke Imamura, Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2018) Construction of a selectable marker recycling system and the use in epitope tagging of multiple nuclear genes in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Plant Cell Physiol. 59(11): 2308-2316. (doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcy156) (Online published, Aug 7th).

Yuki Kobayashi and *Kan Tanaka (2018) Lability in sulfur acidic cultivation medium explains unstable effects of CDK inhibitors on Cyanidioschyzon merolae cell proliferation. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 64(6): 299-302. (doi: 10.2323/jgam.2018.01.002) (published online, June 16) .

Kobayashi, Y. and Tanaka, K. (2016). Extraction and Measurement of Abscisic Acid in a Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Bio-protocol 6(23): e2033. (DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2033). [ link ]

Yuki Kobayashi and Kan Tanaka (2016) Transcriptional regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthetic genes explains abscisic acid-induced heme accumulation in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae. Front. Plant Sci. (online published) (DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01300). [ link ]

Noriko Ueki, Takahiro Ide, Shota Mochiji, Yuki Kobayashi, Ryutaro Tokutsu, Norikazu Ohnishi, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Kan Tanaka, Jun Minagawa, Toru Hisabori, Masafumi Hirono, and Ken-ichi Wakabayashi (2016) Eyespot-dependent determination of the phototactic sign in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 5299-5304. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1525538113). [ link ]

Yuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ando, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, and Kan Tanaka (2016) Abscisic acid participates in the control of cell-cycle initiation through heme homeostasis in the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.
Plant Cell Physiol. 57, 953-960. (DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw054). [ link ]

Keiko Taki, Toshiyuki Sone, Yuki Kobayashi, Satoru Watanabe, Sousuke Imamura, and Kan Tanaka (2015) Construction of a URA5.3 deletion strain of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae: A backgroundless host strain for transformation experiments. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 61, 211-214. (doi: 10.2323/jgam.61.211)[ link ]

Yuki Kobayashi, Sousuke Imamura, Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2011) A tetrapyrrole-regulated ubiquitin ligase controls algal nuclear DNA replication. Nature Cell Biol. 13, 483-487.[PubMed]

（小林勇気，田中　寛．葉緑体に由来するテトラピロールシグナルはサイクリンのポリユビキチン化を阻害することで核におけるDNA複製を開始させる，ライフサイエンス新着論文レビュー[リンク]（オンラインでの紹介記事））

Yuki Kobayashi, Mio Ohnuma, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Kan Tanaka and Mitsumasa Hanaoka (2010) The basics of cultivation and molecular genetic analysis of the unicellular red algaCyanidioschyzon merolae. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 20. 53-61.

Nancy R. Gough, Wait for Me. Sci. Signal. 2, ec27 (2009).

and also in Nature Japan WebSite as TOKUSHU-article:

NatureJapan 特集記事「パラサイトな存在の葉緑体が、核ゲノムを支配していた！」

Yukihiro Kabeya, Yuki Kobayashi, Hiromichi Suzuki, Jun Itoh, Mamoru Sugita. (2007) Transcription of plastid genes is modulated by two nuclear-encoded a subunits of plastid RNA polymerase in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Plant J. 52, 730-741. [PubMed]

Takahiro Nakamura, Chika Sugiura, Yuki Kobayashi, Mamoru Sugita. (2005) Transcript profiling in plastid arginine tRNA-CCG gene knockout moss: construction of Physcomitrella patens plastid DNA microarray. Plant Biol. 7, 258-265.[PubMed]

Chika Sugiura, Yuki Kobayashi, Setuyuki Aoki, Chieko Sugita, Mamoru Sugita. (2003) Complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the moss Physcomitrella patens: evidence for the loss and relocation of rpoA from the chloroplast to the nucleus. Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 5324-5331.[PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi, Yuko Dokiya, Yoshinori Kumazawa, Mamoru Sugita. (2002) Non-AUG translation initiation of RNA encoding plastid-targeted phage-type RNA polymerase in Nicotiana sylvestris. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 299, 57-61.[PubMed]

Yuki Miyata, Chika Sugiura, Yuki Kobayashi, Mituru Hagiwara, Mamoru Sugita. (2002) Chloroplast ribosomal S14 protein transcript is edited to Create a translation initiation codon in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1576, 346-349.[PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi, Yuko Dokiya, Mamoru Sugita. (2001) Dual targeting of phage-type RNA polymerase to both mitochondria and plastids is due to alternative translation initiation in single transcripts. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 289, 1106-1113.[PubMed]

Yuki Kobayashi, Yuko Dokiya, Masahiro Sugiura, Yasuo Niwa, Mamoru sugita. (2001) Genomic organization and organ-specific expression of a nuclear gene encoding phage-type RNA polymerase in Nicotiana sylvestris. Gene 279, 33-40.[PubMed]

Review & Other Articles (English)

Sousuke Imamura and Kan Tanaka (2017) Nitrogen Metabolism. in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. A New Model Eukaryote for Cell and Organelle Biology (Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Shinya Miyagishima, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Naoki Sato, Hisayoshi Nozaki, Kan Tanaka, Osami Misumi, eds.), Springer. (ISBN 978-981-10-6100-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6101-1).

Yuki Kobayashi, Yu Kanesaki, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, and Kan Tanaka (2017) Control of Cell Nuclear DNA Replication by Chloroplast and Mitochondrion. in Cyanidioschyzon merolae. A New Model Eukaryote for Cell and Organelle Biology (Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Shinya Miyagishima, Sachihiro Matsunaga, Naoki Sato, Hisayoshi Nozaki, Kan Tanaka, Osami Misumi, eds.), Springer. (ISBN 978-981-10-6100-4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6101-1).

Sho Yamaguchi *, Ken Motokura, Kan Tanaka, and Sousuke Imamura (2017) Catalytic Processes for Utilizing Carbohydrates derived from Algal Biomass. Catalysis (in press).

Mitsumasa Hanaoka and Kan Tanaka (2010) Coordination of nuclear and plastid gene expression in red and green plants. In Red Algae in Genomic Age, Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology 13, 171-190. Joseph Sechbach, David J. Chapman and Andreas Weber (eds.), Springer Science.

Sousuke Imamura and Munehiko Asayama. (2009) Sigma factors for cyanobacterial transcription. Gene Regul. Syst. Biol. 3, 65-87.[PubMed]

Takashi Osanai, Miyuki Azuma, Yukie Amaya, and Kan Tanaka (2008) Changes in transcript profiles in response to nitrogen starvation in unicellular cyanobacteria. In Adaptive Gene Regulations – from Microorganisms to Organelles, Fujiwara, M., Tanaka, K., and Takahashi, H. (eds), Research Signpost, Keralla, India, 15-35.

Masahiko Imashimizu, Nobuo Shimamoto, and Kan Tanaka (2008) The basal transcription machinery of cyanobacteria. In Adaptive Gene Regulations – from Microorganisms to Organelles, Fujiwara, M., Tanaka, K., and Takahashi, H. (eds), Research Signpost, Keralla, India, 1-14.

Takashi Osanai, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Kan Tanaka (2008) Group 2 sigma factors in cyanobacteria. Physiol. Plant. 133, 490-506.

Takashi Osanai, Miyuki Azuma, and Kan Tanaka (2007) Sugar catabolism regulated by light- and nitrogen-status in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 6 (5), 508-514.

Kengo Kanamaru and Kan Tanaka (2004) Roles of chloroplast RNA polymerase sigma factors in chloroplast development and stress responses in higher plants. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 68 (11), 2215-2223.

Kengo Kanamaru and Kan Tanaka (2004) Function of a nuclear-encoded sigma factor in chloroplasts; SIG2-dependent expression of some plastid-encoded tRNA genes including trnE in Arabidopsis thaliana. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 15, 218-234.

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