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CHIHIRO AZAI

アザイ チヒロ | CHIHIRO AZAI
Affiliation and department:
Homepage URL  (1): http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/lifescience/bioinfo/terauchi/index.html
Research field  (9): Applied biochemistry ,  Applied microbiology ,  Evolutionary biology ,  Plants: molecular biology and physiology ,  Biophysics ,  Functional biochemistry ,  Structural biochemistry ,  Molecular biology ,  Genomics
Research keywords  (1): Photosynthesis, Electron transfer, Molecular evolution, Photosynthetic bacteria
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (11):
  • 2021 - 2026 光合成における超硫黄分子の貢献
  • 2022 - 2025 超高速1分子スペクトル分光法で探る生体光反応の機能的ロバスト性
  • 2021 - 2024 Exploring photoprotective function of carotenoid under strictly anaerobic conditions
  • 2020 - 2022 Development of photosynthetic methane production by hydrogen production in green sulfur bacteria
  • 2019 - 2021 Identification of pH-dependent electron transfer reactions in homodimeric reaction center complex
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Papers (43):
  • Akihiro Kimura, Hirotaka Kitoh-Nishioka, Hirozo Oh-oka, Shigeru Itoh, Chihiro Azai. Experimental and Theoretical Mutation of Exciton States on the Smallest Type-I Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex of a Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaclum tepidum. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2024
  • Hiraku Kishimoto, Chihiro Azai, Tomoya Yamamoto, Risa Mutoh, Tetsuko Nakaniwa, Hideaki Tanaka, Yohei Miyanoiri, Genji Kurisu, Hirozo Oh-oka. Soluble domains of cytochrome c-556 and Rieske iron-sulfur protein from Chlorobaculum tepidum: Crystal structures and interaction analysis. Current Research in Structural Biology. 2023. (in press). 100101-100101
  • Hirozo Oh-oka, Jiro Harada, Chihiro Azai. Photosynthesis | Green Bacteria - Energy Transfer and Electron Transport. Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry III. 2021. 2. 333-351
  • Chihiro Azai, Jiro Harada, Shogo Fujimoto, Shinji Masuda, Daisuke Kosumi. Anaerobic energy dissipation by glycosylated carotenoids in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 2020. 403. 112828-112828
  • Risa Kojima, Hayata Yamamoto, Chihiro Azai, Chiasa Uragami, Hideki Hashimoto, Daisuke Kosumi, Hirozo Oh-oka. Energy transfer and primary charge separation upon selective femtosecond excitation at 810 nm in the reaction center complex from Heliobacterium modesticaldum. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 2020. 401. 112758
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MISC (11):
  • 高橋実佳, 中庭哲津子, 武藤梨沙, 武藤梨沙, 寺内一姫, 田中秀明, 大岡宏造, 栗栖源嗣, 浅井智広. Numerical Modeling for Electron Transfer Reactions in the Bacterial Type-I Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. 日本植物生理学会年会(Web). 2021. 62nd
  • 浅井 智広. 天然は非対称がお好き?. カーボン・エネルギーコントロール社会協議会. 2019. 1. 75
  • 浅井 智広. 最強の矛「酸素」と戦う. 新学術領域研究「革新的光物質変換」ニュースレター. 2018. 1. 12
  • 寺本高啓, 浅井智広, 吉村真史, 寺内一姫, 太田俊明. 軟X線顕微鏡による生きたシアノバクテリア中の細胞内元素分布の可視化. 日本放射光学会年会・放射光科学合同シンポジウム(Web). 2018. 31st
  • 浅井 智広. もっと光を!異分野をつなぐ光合成研究のおもしろさ. 実験医学. 2016. 34. 9. 1487
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Books (3):
  • 光合成細菌 : 酸素を出さない光合成
    裳華房 2020 ISBN:9784785358709
  • 光合成のエネルギー利用と環境応用
    シーエムシー出版 2014 ISBN:9784781309279
  • 低温科学 第67巻『光合成研究法』
    北海道大学 低温科学研究所 2009
Lectures and oral presentations  (158):
  • Electrostatic Binding of Water-soluble Subunits on the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of Green Sulfur Bacteria
    (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists)
  • Sulfur-Dependent Photoinhibition in Anaerobic Culture of Green Sulfur Bacteria
    (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists 2023)
  • Light harvesting mechanism of the smallest type-I reaction center of green sulfur bacteria: mutational modifications and theoretical analysis
    (The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists 2023)
  • 原核生物のゲノム情報から紐解く光合成の起源と進化
    (第2回原核光合成生物シンポジウム 2023)
  • 緑色硫黄細菌で見つかった嫌気的な光エネルギー散逸過程
    (藍藻の分子生物学2022 2022)
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Education (3):
  • - 2010 Osaka University Graduate School of Science Department of Biological Sciences
  • - 2007 Osaka University Graduate School of Science Department of Biological Sciences
  • - 2005 Kobe University Faculty of Science Department of Biology
Professional career (1):
  • Doctor of Science (Osaka University)
Work history (5):
  • 2023/04 - 現在 Chuo University Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering Associate Professor
  • 2018/04 - 2023/03 Ritsumeikan University Department of Bioinformatics, College of Llife Sciences Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
  • 2013/04 - 2018/03 Ritsumeikan University Department of Bioinformatics, College of Llife Sciences Assistant Professor
  • 2011/04 - 2013/03 Nagoya University Graduate School of Science Research Fellow (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2009/04 - 2011/03 Osaka University Graduate School of Science Research Fellow (DC) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Awards (3):
  • 2013/08 - International Society of Photosynthesis Research The 16th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research Poster Award
  • 2012/06 - 日本光合成学会 第3回日本光合成学会大会 優秀発表賞
  • 2011/06 - 日本光合成学会 第2回日本光合成学会大会 優秀発表賞
Association Membership(s) (4):
International Society of Photosynthesis Research ,  The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists ,  The Japanese Society of Photosynthesis Research ,  The Biophysical Society of Japan
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