2024

Kitao M*, Yakaki K, Tobita H, Agathokleous E, Kishimoto J, Takabayashi A, Tanaka R (2024) Anthocyanins act as a sugar-buffer and an alternative electron sink in response to starch depletion during leaf senescence: a case study on a typical anthocyanic tree species, Acer japonicum. J Exp Bot 75: 3521-3541. 

Sato S, Hirose M, Tanaka R, Ito H, Tamiaki H* (2024) In vitro demetalation of central magnesium in various chlorophyll derivatives using Mg-dechelatase homolog from the Chloroflexi Anaerolineae. Photosyn Res 160: 45-53

2023

Sumida, A*., Inagaki, Y., Kajimoto, T., Katsuno-Miyaura, M., Komiyama, A., Kurachi, N. Miyaura T, Hasegawa, SF, Hara T, Ono K, Yamada M (2023) Allometry of the quasi-pipe (qPipe) model for estimating tree leaf area and tree leaf mass applied to plant functional types. Sci Rep 13: 9954. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37112-1

Dey D, Tanaka R, Ito H* (2023) Structural characterization of the Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase (CAO) enzyme through an in silico approach. J Mol Evol 91:225-235 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-023–9

Wada N,  Kondo I,  Tanaka R,  Kishimoto J,  Miyagi A, Kawai-Yamada M,  Mizokami Y,  Noguchi K* (2023) Dynamic seasonal changes in photosynthesis systems in leaves of Asarum tamaense, an evergreen understorey herbaceous species. Annals Bot 131:423-436 https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac156

Sapeta H, Yokono M, Takabayashi A, Ueno Y, Cordeiro AM, Hara T, Tanaka A, Akimoto S, Oliveira MM*, Tanaka R* (2023) Reversible down-regulation of photosystems I and II leads to fast photosynthesis recovery after long-term drought in Jatropha curcas. J Exp Bot 74: 336-351 https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac423 Fulltext is available at the university archive.

 —-This article was highlighted in the “Insights” section of J. Exp. Bot. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac438 —-

Kohata R, Lim HS, Kanamoto Y, Murakami A, Fujita Y, Tanaka A, Swingley W, Ito H, Tanaka R* (2023) Heterologous complementation systems verify the mosaic distribution of three distinct protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase in the cyanobacterial phylum. J Plant Res 136: 107-115 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10265-022-01423-7

2022

Kitao M*, Yazaki K, Tobita H, Agathokleous E, Kishimoto J, Takabayashi A, Tanaka R (2022) Exposure to strong irradiance exacerbates photoinhibition and suppresses N resorption during leaf senescence in shade-grown seedlings of fullmoon maple (Acer japonicum). Frontiers in Plant Sci 13:1006413 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1006413

Dey D, Nishijima M, Tanaka R, Kurisu G, Tanaka H, *Ito H (2022) Crystal structure and reaction mechanism of a bacterial Mg-dechelatase homolog from the Chloroflexi Anaerolineae. Protein Sci 31:e4430 https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4430

Ito H*, Saito H, Fukui M, Tanaka A, Arakawa K (2022) Poplar leaf abscission through induced chlorophyll breakdown by Mg-dechelatase. Plant Sci. 324:111444 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2022.111444

Tachibana R, Yamagami A, Miyagi S, Nakazawa-Miklasevica M, Matsui M, Sakuta M, Tanaka R, Asami T, Nakano T* (2022) BRZ-INSENSITIVE-PALE GREEN 1 is encoded by chlorophyll biosynthesis enzyme gene that functions in the downstream of brassinosteroid signaling. Biosci Biotech Biochem 86:1041-1048 https://doi.org/10.1093/bbb/zbac071

Matsumae R,  Kameo S,  Tanaka R,  Takabayashi A* (2022) Letter to the Editor: Weak-Acidic Clear-Native Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis for the Separation of the Intact Forms of Thylakoid Protein Complexes. Plant Cell Physiol 63: 883-885 https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcac070

Maeda H, Takahashi K, Ueno Y, Sakata K, Yokoyama A, Yarimizu K, Myouga F, Shinozaki K, Ozawa SI, Takahashi Y, Tanaka A, Ito H, Akimoto S, Takabayashi A, Tanaka R* (2022) Characterization of photosystem II assembly complexes containing ONE-HELIX PROTEIN1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Plant Res 135:361-376

2021

Fukura K, Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Ito H* (2021) Enrichment of chlorophyll catabolic enzymes in grana margins and their cooperation in catabolic reactions.  J Plant Physiol 266: 153535

Dey D, Dhar D, Fortunato H, Obata D, Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Basu S*, Ito H* (2021) Insights into the structure and function of the rate-limiting enzyme of chlorophyll degradation through analysis of a bacterial Mg-dechelatase homolog.  Comput Struct Biotechnol J 19: 5333-5347

Suehiro H, Tanaka R, Ito H* (2021) Distribution and functional analysis of the two types of 8-vinyl reductase involved in chlorophyll biosynthesis in marine cyanobacteria.  Arch Microbiol 203: 3565-3575

Chen Y,  Yamori Y, Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Ito H* (2020) Degradation of the photosystem II core complex is independent of chlorophyll degradation mediated by Stay-Green Mg2+ dechelatase in Arabidopsis. Plant Sci 307: 110902

Kameo S, Aso M, Furukawa R, Yokono M, Fujita T,  Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Takabayashi A* (2021) Substitution of deoxycholate with the amphiphilic polymer amphipol A8-35 improves the stability of large protein complexes during native electrophoresis.  Plant Cell Physiol 62: 348–355

Aso M, Matsumae R, Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Takabayashi A* (2020) Unique peripheral antennas in the photosystems of the streptophyte alga Mesostigma viride. Plant Cell Physiol 62: 436-446

2020

Shin D, Lee S, Kim T-H, Lee J-H, Park J, Lee J, Lee JY, Cho L-H, Choi JY, Lee W, Park J-H, Lee D-W, Ito H, Kim DH, Tanaka A, Cho J-H, Song Y-C, Hwang D, Purugganan MD, Jeon J-S, An G, Nam HG (2020) Natural variations at the Stay-Green gene promoter control lifespan and yield in rice cultivars. Nature Communications 11: 2819

Hu X, Ting J, Hörtensteiner S, Tanaka A, Tanaka R (2020) Subcellular localization of chlorophyllase2 reveals it is not involved in chlorophyll degradation during senescence in Arabidopsis thalina. Plant Sci, 290: 110314 Link

2019

Furukawa R, Aso M, Fujita T, Akimoto S, Tanaka R,Tanaka A, Yokono M, Takabayashi A (2019) Formation of a PSI–PSII megacomplex containing LHCSR and PsbS in the moss Physcomitrella patens. J Plant Res 132: 867–880 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-019-01138-2

Obata D, Takabayashi A, Tanaka R, Tanaka A, Ito H (2019) Horizontal transfer of promiscuous activity from non-photosynthetic bacteria contributed to evolution of chlorophyll degradation pathway. Mol Biol Evol 36: 2830-2841 Link to the paper.

Lim H, Tanaka A, Tanaka R, Ito H (2019) In vitro enzymatic activity assays implicates the existence of the chlorophyll cycle in chlorophyll b-containing cyanobacteria. Plant Cell Physiol 60:2672–2683 Go to the journal web site.

Ono, K., Kimura, M., Matsuura, H., Tanaka, A., Ito, H., (2019). Jasmonate production through chlorophyll a degradation by Stay-Green in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Plant Physiol 238, 53-62.　https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2019.05.004

Yokono M, Takabayashi A, Kishimoto J, Fujita T, Iwai M, Murakami A, Akimoto S, Tanaka A (2019) The PSI-PSII megacomplex in green plants. Plant Cell Physiol. 60(5)1098-1108,  https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz026

Tanaka A, Tanaka R (2019) The biochemistry, physiology, and evolution of the chlorophyll cycle. In Metabolism, Structure and Function of Plant Tetrapyrroles. 

Volume 90 of the ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH (ABR) series. edited by Bernhard Grimm. Elsevier 

2018 

Chen Y., Shimoda Y., Yokono M., Ito H. and Tanaka A. (2018) Mg‐dechelatase is involved in the formation of photosystem II but not in chlorophyll degradation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant J. Published online, https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14174

Yokono M, Satoh S and Tanaka A (2018) Comparative analyses of whole-genome protein sequences from multiple organisms. Sci Rep. 8(1):6800, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25090-8. (Open Access)

Yokono M, Umetani I, Takabayashi A, Akimoto S and Tanaka A (2018) Regulation of excitation energy in Nannochloropsis photosystem II. Photosynth Res. , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-018-0510-3

Tominaga J, Nakahara Y,Horikawa D, Tanaka A, Kondo M, Kamei Y, TakamiT,  Sakamoto W, Unno K,  Sakamoto A and Shimada H (2018) Overexpression of the protein disulfide isomerase AtCYO1 in chloroplasts slows dark-induced senescence in Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biol. 18:80, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-018-1294-5

Sato T, Shimoda Y, Matsuda K, Tanaka A and Ito H (2018) Mg-dechelation of chlorophyll a by Stay-Green activates chlorophyll b degradation through expressing Non-Yellow Coloring 1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Plant Physiol. 222: 94-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2018.01.010

Myouga F, Takahashi K, Tanaka R, Nagata N, Kiss A.Z, Funk C, Nomura Y, Nakagami H, Jansson S and Shinozaki K (2018) Stable Accumulation of Photosystem II Requires ONE-HELIX PROTEIN1 (OHP1) of the Light Harvesting-Like Family. Plant Physiol. 176: 2277-2291, https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01782

Yamatani H, Kohzuma K, Nakano M, Takami T, Kato Y, Hayashi Y, Monden Y, Okumoto Y, Abe T, Kumamaru T, Tanaka A, Sakamoto W, and Kusaba M (2018) Impairment of Lhca4, a subunit of LHCI, causes high accumulationof chlorophyll and the stay-green phenotype in rice. J Exp Bot. 69(5): 1027-1035, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx468 

2017

Kato Y,  Yokono M,  Akimoto S,  Takabayashi A, Tanaka A and Tanaka R (2017) Deficiency of the Stroma-Lamellar Protein LIL8/PSB33 Affects Energy Transfer Around PSI in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 58(11):2026-2039, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcx124

Umetani I, Kunugi M, Yokono M and Takabayashi A (2017) Evidence of the supercomplex organization of photosystem II and light-harvesting complexes in Nannochloropsis granulata. Photosyn. Res. 134:1-13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-017-0438-z

Iwai M, Yokono M (2017) Light-harvesting antenna complexes in the moss Physcomitrella patens: implications for the evolutionary transition from green algae to land plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 23(37):94-101, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.002

Kohzuma K, Sato Y, Ito H, Okuzaki A, Watanabe M, Kobayashi H, Nakano M, Yamatani H, Masuda Y, Nagashima Y, Fukuoka H, Yamada T, Kanazawa A, Kitamura K, Tabei Y, Ikeuchi M, Sakamoto W, Tanaka A and Kusaba M (2017) The non-Mendelian green cotyledon gene in soybean encodes a small subunit of photosystem II. Plant Physiol. 174(3):2138-2147, doi: 10.1104/pp.16.01589

Hu X, Kato Y, Sumida A, Tanaka A and Tanaka R (2017) The SUFBC2D Complex is Required for the Biogenesis of All Major Classes of Plastid Fe-S Proteins. Plant J. 90(2):235–248, doi: 10.1111/tpj.13483.

Hu X, Page MT, Sumida A, Tanaka A, Terry MJ and Tanaka R (2017) The iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis protein SUFB is required for chlorophyll synthesis, but not phytochrome signaling. Plant J. 89(6):1184-1194, doi: 10.1111/tpj.13455.

Furukawa R, Kunugi M, Ihara K, Takabayashi A, Tanaka A (2017) Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Early-Divergent Green Alga Palmophyllum crassum. Genome Announcements v.5(10):e01745-16., doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01745-16

2016

Takabayashi A, Takabayashi S, Takahashi K, Watanabe M, Uchida H, Murakami A, Fujita T, Ikeuchi M and Tanaka A (2016) PCoM-DB Update: a Protein Co-Migration Database for photosynthetic organisms. Plant Cell Physiol. 58(1):e10, doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcw219

Bai L, Fujishiro T, Huang G, Koch J, Takabayashi A, Yokono M, Tanaka A, Xu T, Hu X, Ermler U and Shima S (2016) Towards artificial methanogenesis: biosynthesis of the [Fe]-hydrogenase cofactor and characterization of the semisynthetic hydrogenase. Faraday Discussions 198:37-58, doi:10.1039/C6FD00209A

Matsuda K, Shimoda Y, Tanaka A, Ito H (2016) Chlorophyll a is a favorable substrate for Chlamydomonas Mg-dechelatase encoded by STAY-GREEN. Plant Physiol Biochem. 109: 365-373,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.10.020

Shimoda Y, Ito H and Tanaka A (2016) Arabidopsis STAY-GREEN, Mendel’s Green Cotyledon Gene, Encodes Magnesium-Dechelatase. Plant Cell 28(9):2147-2160, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.16.00428

Ishikawa N, Takabayashi A, Sato F, Endo T. (2016) Accumulation of the components of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I in C4 plants, with respect to the requirements for ATP. Photosynth Res. 2016 129(3):261-277, doi: 10.1007/s11120-016-0251-0

Ishikawa N, Takabayashi A, Noguchi K, Tazoe Y, Yamamoto H, von Caemmerer S, Sato F, Endo T.(2016) NDH-Mediated Cyclic Electron Flow Around Photosystem I is Crucial for C4 Photosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol.57(10):2020-2028, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcw127

Espinas N A, Kobayashi K, Sato Y, Mochizuki N, Takahashi K, Tanaka R, and Masuda, T (2016) Allocation of Heme Is Differentially Regulated by Ferrochelatase Isoforms in Arabidopsis Cells. Frontiers in Plant Science 7(e0144), 69, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01326

Takabayashi A, Niwata A and Tanaka A (2016) Direct interaction with ACR11 is necessary for post-transcriptional control of GLU1-encoded ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase in leaves. Scientific Reports 6:29668, doi:10.1038/srep29668

Jia T, Ito H and Tanaka A (2016) Simultaneous regulation of antenna size and photosystem I/II stoichiometry in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta 244(5):1041-1053, doi: 10.1007/s00425-016-2568-5

Kunugi M, Satoh S, Ihara K, Shibata K, Yamagishi Y, Kogame K, Obokata J, Takabayashi A and Tanaka A (2016) Evolution of Green Plants Accompanied Changes in Light-Harvesting Systems. Plant Cell Physiol. 57(6):1231-1243, doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcw071

2015

Sato R, Ito H and Tanaka A (2015) Chlorophyll b degradation by chlorophyll b reductase under high-light conditions. Photosynth. Res. 126(2):249-259, doi: 10.1007/s11120-015-0145-6

Yokono M, Nagao R, Tomo T and Akimoto S (2015) Regulation of excitation energy transfer in diatom PSII dimer: How does it change the destination of excitation energy? Biochim Biophys Acta 1847(10):1274-1282,  doi: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2015.07.006

Yokono M, Takabayashi A, Akimoto S and Tanaka A (2015) A megacomplex composed of both photosystem reaction centres in higher plants. Nature Commun. 6:6675, doi:10.1038/ncomms7675

Jia T, Ito H and Tanaka A (2015) The Chlorophyll b Reductase NOL Participates in Regulating the Antenna Size of Photosystem II in Arabidopsis Thaliana. Procedia Chem. 14: 422-427, doi:10.1016/j.proche.2015.03.057

Hu X, Makita S, Schelbert S, Sano S, Ochiai M, Tsuchiya T, Hasegawa S.F, Hortensteiner S, Tanaka A, and Tanaka R (2015) Reexamination of chlorophyllase function implies its involvement in defense against chewing herbivores. Plant Physiol. 167(3): 660-670, doi:10.1104/pp.114.252023

Jia T, Ito H, Hu X and Tanaka A (2015) Accumulation of NON-YELLOW COLORING 1 protein of the chlorophyll cycle requires chlorophyll b in Arabidopsis thaliana.  Plant J. 81(4): 586-596, doi:10.1111/tpj.12753

2014 

Lin YP, Lee TY, Tanaka A and Charng YY (2014)  Analysis of an Arabidopsis heat-sensitive mutant reveals that chlorophyll synthase is involved in reutilization of chlorophyllide during chlorophyll turnover. Plant J. (2014) 80(1):14-26, doi: 10.1111/tpj.12611

Harada J, Mizoguchi T, Tsukatani Y, Yokono M, Tanaka A and Tamiaki H (2014) Chlorophyllide a oxidoreductase works as one of the divinyl reductases specifically involved in bacteriochlorophyll a biosynthesis. J Biol Chem. 289(18):12716-12726, doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.546739

Ueda M, Tanaka A, Sugimoto K, Shikanai T and Nishimura Y (2014) chlB requirement for chlorophyll biosynthesis under short photoperiod in Marchantia polymorpha L. Genome Biol Evol. 6(3):620-628, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu045

Ito H and Tanaka A (2014) Evolution of a new chlorophyll metabolic pathway driven by the dynamic changes in enzyme promiscuous activity. Plant Cell Physiol. 55(3): 593-603, doi: 10.1093/pcp/pct203

Takahashi K, Takabayashi A, Tanaka A and Tanaka R (2014) Functional analysis of light-harvesting-like protein 3 (LIL3) and its light-harvesting chlorophyll-binding motif in Arabidopsis.  J Biol Chem. 289(2): 987-999, doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.525428

2013

Yamada N, Tanaka A and Horiguchi T (2013) cPPB-aE is discovered from photosynthetic benthic dinoflagellates. J. Phycol. 50: 101-107, DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12064

Satoh S,  Mimuro M and Tanaka A (2013) Construction of a Phylogenetic Tree of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes Based on Average Similarities of Whole Genome Sequences.PLoS ONE 8(7): e70290. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070290 [Open Access]

Hu X, Tanaka A, and Tanaka R (2013) Simple extraction methods that prevent the artifactual conversion of chlorophyll to chlorophyllide during pigment isolation from leaf samples. Plant Methods  9:19 https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-4811-9-19 [Open Access]

Kusaba M, Tanaka A and Tanaka R (2013) Stay-Green Plants: What do they tell us about the molecular mechanism of leaf senescence. Photosynth Res. 117: 221-234, doi: 10.1007/s11120-013-9862-x.

Kunugi M, Takabayashi A and Tanaka A (2013) Evolutionary changes in chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) structure contribute to the acquisition of a new light-harvesting complex in Micromonas. J Biol Chem. 288:19330-19341, doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.462663

Takabayashi A, Kadoya R, Kuwano M, Kurihara K, Ito H, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2013) Protein co-migration database (PCoM -DB) for Arabidopsis thylakoids and Synechocystis cells. SpringerPlus 2:148. https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-148 [Open Access]

Harada J, Mizoguchi T, Satoh S, Tsukatani Y, Yokono M, Noguchi M, Tanaka A and Tamiaki H (2013) Specific Gene bciD for C7-Methyl Oxidation in Bacteriochlorophyll e Biosynthesis of Brown-Colored Green Sulfur Bacteria PLoS ONE 8: e60026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060026 [Open Access]

Yamatani H, Sato Y, Masuda Y, Kato Y, Morita R, Fukunaga K, Nagamura Y, Nishimura M, Sakamoto W, Tanaka A and Kusaba K (2013) NYC4, the rice ortholog of Arabidopsis THF1, is involved in the degradation of chlorophyll-protein complexes during leaf senescence. Plant J. 74(4):652-662, doi: 10.1111/tpj.12154. 

2012

Yokono M, Tomo T, Nagao R, Ito H, Tanaka A and Akimoto S (2012) Alterations in photosynthetic pigments and amino acid composition of D1 protein change energy distribution in photosystem II. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1817(5): 754-759, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.02.009

Tomo T, Kusakabe H, Nagao R, Ito H, Tanaka A, Akimoto S, Mimuro M and Okazaki S (2012) Luminescence of singlet oxygen in photosystem II complexes isolated from cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 containing monovinyl or divinyl chlorophyll a. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1817(8): 1299-1305, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.02.018

Shimoda Y, Ito H and Tanaka A (2012) Conversion of chlorophyll b to chlorophyll a precedes magnesium dechelation for protection against necrosis in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 72(3): 501-511, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.05095.x

Nakajima S, Ito H, Tanaka R and Tanaka A. (2012) Chlorophyll b reductase plays an essential role in maturation and storability of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. Plant Physiol. 160(1): 261-273,  doi:  10.1104/pp.112.196881

Sakuraba Y, Balazadeh S, Tanaka R, Mueller-Roeber B and Tanaka A. (2012) Overproduction of chlorophyll b retards senescence through transcriptional re-programming in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 53(3): 505-517, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcs006

Tanaka R, Takabayashi A, Ito H and Tanaka A (2012) Chlorophyll metabolism in photosynthetic organisms. in Handbook of Porphyrin Science, edited by Karl M Kadish, Kevin M Smith and Roger Guilard, World Scientific, Singapore  20: 213-242

2011

Takabayashi A, Kurihara K, Kuwano M, Kasahara Y, Tanaka R, Tanaka A (2011) The Oligomeric States of the Photosystems and the Light-harvesting Complexes in the Chlorophyll b-less Mutant. Plant Cell Physiol. 52: 2103–2114

Ito H and Tanaka A (2011) Evolution of a divinyl chlorophyll-based photosystem in Prochlorococcus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108: 18014-18019

Meguro M, Ito H, Takabayashi A, Tanaka R, and Tanaka A (2011) Identification of the 7-hydroxymethyl chlorophyll a reductase of the chlorophyll cycle in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 23: 3442-3453

Ishida S, Morita KI, Kishine M, Takabayashi A, Murakami R, Takeda S, Shimamoto K, Sato F and Endo T (2011) Allocation of absorbed light energy in Photosystem II to thermal dissipations in the presence or absence of PsbS subunits of rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 52: 1822-1831

Tanaka R, Kobayashi K and Masuda T (2011) Tetrapyrrole metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Arabidopsis Book 9: e0145 [Open Access]

Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2011) Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes.  Biophys Biochim Acta 1807: 968-976.

2010 

Tanaka R, Rothbart M, Oka S, Takabayashi A, Takahashi K, Shibata M, Myouga F, Motohashi R, Shinozaki K, Grimm B and Tanaka A (2010) LIL3, a light-harvesting-like protein, plays an essential role in chlorophyll and tocopherol biosynthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(38): 16721-16725, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1004699107

Kato K, Tanaka R, Sano S, Tanaka A, Hosaka H, (2010) Identification of a gene essential for protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase activity in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107: 16649-16654

Sakuraba Y, Yokono M, Akimoto S, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2010) Deregulated chlorophyll b synthesis reduces the energy transfer rate between photosynthetic pigments and induces photodamage in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 51: 1055-1065

Fujii M, Takano Y, Kojima H, Hoshino T, Tanaka R and Fukui M (2010) Microbial community structure, pigment composition, and nitrogen source of red snow in Antarctica. Microb Ecol. 59: 466-475

Nagane T, Tanaka A and Tanaka R (2010) Involvement of AtNAP1 in the regulation of chlorophyll degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta 231: 939-949 [Deposited in Hokkaido Uni Collection of Scholarly Papers]

Tanaka R, Ito H and Tanaka A (2010) Regulation and Functions of the Chlorophyll Cycle in The Chloroplast: Basics and Applications, ed by Rebeiz C. A., Benning, C, Bohnert, H. J., Daniell, J. K., Hoober, J. K., Lichtenthaler, H. K., Portis, A. R., Tripathy, B. C.  Springer pp55-77

Mochizuki N, Tanaka R, Grimm B, Masuda T, Moulin M, Smith AG, Tanaka A, Terry MJ.  (2010) The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle. Trends Plant Sci 15: 488-498

2009 

Sakuraba Y, Tanaka R, Yamasato A and Tanaka A. (2009)  Determination of a chloroplast degron in the regulatory domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase. J Biol Chem 284: 36689-36699

Horie Y, Ito H, Kusaba M, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2009) Participation of chlorophyll b reductase in the initial step of the degradation of light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein complexes in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem 284: 17449-17456

Chikaraishi Y, Tanaka R, Tanaka A and Ohkouchi N (2009) Fractionation of hydrogen isotopes during phytol biosynthesis. Organic Geochemistry 40: 569-73

Hirashima M, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2009) Light-independent cell death induced by accumulation of pheophorbide a in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol 50: 719-729

Tomo T., Akimoto S., Ito H., Tsuchiya T., Fukuya M., Tanaka A. and Mimuro M. (2009) Replacement of chlorophyll with di-vinyl chlorophyll in the antenna and reaction center complexes of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Characterization of spectral and photochemical properties. Biochim Biophys Acta 1787: 191-200

Kobayashi Y., Kanesaki Y., Tanaka A., Kuroiwa H., Kuroiwa T. and Tanaka K. (2009) Tetrapyrrole signal as a cell-cycle coordinator from organelle to nuclear DNA replication in plant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106: 803-807

Tanaka R (2009) クロロフィルおよびクロロフィル代謝経路中間体の抽出・定量法 (in Japanese)、 低温科学

2008

Sato Y, Morita R, Katsuma S, Nishimura M, Tanaka A and Kusaba M (2008) Two Short-Chain Dehydrogenase/Reductases, NON-YELLOW COLORING 1 and NYC1-LIKE, are Required for Chlorophyll b and Light-Harvesting Complex II Degradation during Senescence in Rice. Plant J 57: 120-131

Mochizuki N, Tanaka R, Tanaka A, Masuda T and Nagatani A (2008) The steady-state level of Mg-protoporphyrin IX is not a determinant of plastid-to-nucleus signaling in Arabidopsis.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105: 15184-15189

Yamasato A, Tanaka R and Tanaka A  (2008) Loss of the N-terminal domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase induces photodamage during greening of Arabidopsis seedlings. BMC Plant Biology 8:64

Kanematsu S, Sakuraba Y, Tanaka A, Tanaka R  (2008) Characterization of Arabidopsis mutants defective in the regulation of chlorophyllide a oxygenase. Photochem Photobiol Sci 7: 1196-1205

Yokono M, Akimoto S and Tanaka A (2008) Seasonal changes of excitation energy transfer and thylakoid stacking in the evergreen tree Taxus cuspidata: how does it divert excess energy from photosynthetic reaction center? Biochim Biophys Acta 1777(4): 379-387

Ito H, Yokono M, Tanaka R Tanaka A  (2008)  Identification of a novel vinyl reductase gene essential for the biosynthesis of monovinyl chlorophyll in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803.  J Biol Chem. 283: 9002-9011

Sakuraba Y, Yamasato A, Tanaka R, Tanaka A (2008) Analysis of the N-terminal domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase by random mutagenesis. Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis, 1049-1054

2007 

Nagata N, Tanaka R and Tanaka A  (2007)  The major route for chlorophyll synthesis includes [3,8-divinyl]-chlorophyllide a reduction in Arabidopsis thaliana.  Plant Cell Physiol. 48: 1803-1808

Sakuraba Y, Yamasato A, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2007) Functional analysis of N-terminal domains of Arabidopsis chlorophyllide a oxygenase.  Plant Physiol Biochem. 45: 740-749

Moharekar S, Moharekar S, Tanaka R, Ogawa K I, Tanaka A and Hara T (2007) Great promoting effect of high irradiance from germination on flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana – a process of photo-acclimation. Photosynthetica 45: 259-265

Kusaba M, Ito H, Morita R, Iida S, Sato Y, Kawasaki S, Tanaka R, Hirochika H, Nishimura M, Tanaka A (2007) A short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase is involved in LHCII and grana degradation during leaf senescence in rice. Plant Cell 19: 1362-1375

D Aarti P, Tanaka R Ito H and Tanaka A (2007) High Light inhibits Chlorophyll Biosynthesis at the Level of 5-Aminolevulinate Synthesis During Deetiolation in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Cotyledons. Photochem. Photobiol. 83: 171-176

Nakagawara E, Sakuraba Y, Yamasato A, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2007) Clp protease controls chlorophyll b synthesis by regulating the level of chlorophyllide a oxygenase. Plant J. 49:800-809

Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2007) Tetrapyrrole Biosynthesis in Higher Plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 58: 321-346

Tanaka A (2007) Photosynthetic activity in winter needles of the evergreen tree Taxus cuspidata at low temperatures. Tree Physiology 27: 641–648

2006 

Takahashi H, Watanabe A, Tanaka A, Hashida SN, Kawai-Yamada M, Sonoike K and Uchimiya H (2006) Chloroplast NAD kinase is essential for energy transduction through the xanthophyll cycle in photosynthesis. Plant Cell Physiol. 47:1678-82

Satoh S, Tanaka, A (2006) Identification of chlorophyllide a oxygenase in Prochlorococcus genome by comparative genomic approach. Plant Cell Physiol. 47: 1622-1629

D. Aarti, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2006) Effects of oxidative stress on chlorophyll biosynthesis in cucumber (Cucumis sativus) cotyledons. Physiol Plant 128: 186-197

Hirashima M, Satoh S, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2006) Pigment shuffling in antenna systems achieved by expressing prokaryotic chlorophyllide a oxygenase in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem 281: 15385-15393

Tanaka A, Tanaka R (2006) Chlorophyll metabolism.  Curr Opin Plant Biol. 9: 248-255

2005

Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2005) Effects of chlorophyllide a oxygenase overexpression on light acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Photosynth Res. 85: 327-340

Akimoto S, Yokono M, Ohmae M, Yamazaki I, Nagata N, Tanaka R, Tanaka A and Mimuro M (2005) Excitation energy transfer in the antenna system with divinyl-chlorophylls in the vinyl reductase-expressing Arabidopsis. Chem Phys Lett 409: 167-171

Yamasato A, Nagata N, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2005) The N-terminal domain of chlorophyllide a oxygenase confers protein instability in response to chlorophyll b accumulation Plant Cell 17:1585-1597

Nagata N, Tanaka R, Satoh S and Tanaka A (2005) Identification of a vinyl reductase gene for chlorophyll synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and implications for the evolution of Prochlorococcus species. Plant Cell 17:233-240

2004

Nagata N, Satoh S, Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2004) Domain structures of chlorophyllide a oxygenase of green plants and Prochlorothrix hollandica in relation to catalytic functions. Planta 218: 1019-1025

Eggink LL, LoBrutto R, Brune DC, Brusslan J, Yamasato A, Tanaka A and Hoober JK (2004) Synthesis of chlorophyll b: Localization of chlorophyllide a oxygenase and discovery of a stable radical in the catalytic subunit. BMC Plant Biology 4:5

Morita-Yamamuro C, Tsutsui T, Tanaka A and Yamaguchi J (2004) Knock-out of the Plastid Ribosomal Protein S21 Causes Impaired Photosynthesis and Sugar-Response during Germination and Seedling Development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. 45: 781-788

Nagata N, Tanaka R, Satoh S, Minagawa J and Tanaka A (2004) Isolation and Characterization of a Gene for Chlorophyllide a Oxygenase from Prochlorothrix hollandica. Endocytobiosis Cell Res. 15: 321-327

Mimuro M and Tanaka A (2004) The in vivo and in vitro reconstitution of pigment-protein complexes, and its implication in acquiring a new system. Photosyn res. 81:129-137

Tanaka A., Hirashima, M. and Tanaka R (2004) Chlorophyll Metabolism and Plant Growth (in Japanese) 化学と生物 42: 93-98

2003

Tanaka R, Hirashima M, Satoh S, and Tanaka A (2003) The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death gene ACD1 is involved in oxygenation of pheophorbide a: Inhibition of the pheophorbide a oxygenase activity does not lead to the “Stay-Green” phenotype in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 44: 1266-1274

Moharekar ST, Lokhande (Moharekar) SD, Hara T, Tanaka R, Tanaka A and Chavan P D (2003) Effects of salicylic acid on chlorophyll and carotenoid contents of wheat and moong seedlings. Photosynthetica 41: 315-317

Matsuki S, Ogawa K, Tanaka A and Hara T (2003) Morphological and photosynthetic responses of Quercus crispula seedlings to high-light conditions. Tree Physiol. 23: 769-775

Duncan J, Bibby T, Tanaka A and Barber J (2003) Exploring the ability of chlorophyll b binding to the CP43′ protein induced under iron deprivation in a mutant of Synechocystis PCC 6803 containing the cao gene. FEBS Letters 541: 171-175

Masuda T, Tanaka A and Melis A (2003) Chlorophyll antenna size adjustments by irradiance in Dunaliella salina involve coordinate regulation of chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) and Lhcb gene expression. Plant Molecular Biology 51: 757–771

2002 

Satoh, S. and Tanaka, A. (2002) Chlorophyll b inhibits the formation of photosystem I trimer in Synechocystis sp PCC6803. FEBS Letters 528:235-24

2001 

Tanaka R, Koshino Y, Sawa S, Ishiguro S, Okada K and Tanaka A (2001) Overexpression of chlorophyllide a oxygenase (CAO) enlarges the antenna size of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J 26: 365-374

Satoh S, Ikeuchi M, Mimuro M and Tanaka A (2001) Chlorophyll b expressed in cyanobacteria functions as a light-harvesting antenna in photosystem I through flexibility of the proteins. J Biol Chem. 276, 4293-4297

2000 

Papenbrock J, Mock H-P, Tanaka R, Kruse E and Grimm B (2000) Role of magnesium chelatase activity in the early steps of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway. Plant Physiol. 122: 1161-1170

Oster U,Tanaka R, Tanaka A and Rüdiger W (2000) Cloning and functional expression of the gene encoding the key enzyme for chlorophyll b biosynthesis (CAO) from Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 21: 305-310

Maki Y, Tanaka A and Wada A (2000) Stoichiometric analysis of barley plastid ribosomal proteins. Plant Cell Physiol. 41:289-299

Tanaka R and Tanaka A (2000) Chlorophyll b is not just an accessory pigment but a regulator of the photosynthetic antenna. Porphyrins. 9, 240-245

1999

Tomitani A, Okada K, Miyashita H, Matthijs H. C. P., Ohno T and Tanaka A (1999) Chlorophyll b and phycobilins in the common ancestor of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts. Nature 400:159-162

Tanaka R, Oster U, Kruse E, Rüdiger W and Grimm B (1999) Reduced activity of geranylgeranyl reductase leads to loss of chlorophyll and tocopherol and to partially geranylgeranylated chlorophyll in transgenic tobacco plants expressing antisense RNA for geranylgeranyl reductase. Plant Physiol. 120: 695-704

1998

Tanaka A., Ito H., Tanaka R., Tanaka K.N, Yoshida K. and Okada K. (1998) Chlorophyll a oxygenase is involved in chlorophyll a formation from chlorophyll a. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 12719-12723

Sato N, Wada A and Tanaka A (1998) Ribosomal proteins in the Cyanobacterium Anabena variabilis strain M3: Presence of L25 protein. Plant Cell Physiol. 39: 1367-1371