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Fujita Yuichi

フジタ ユウイチ | Fujita Yuichi
Affiliation and department：
Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences

About Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences


Job title： Professor
Homepage URL  (1)： https://www.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~microbio/index.html
Research field  (2)： Plants: molecular biology and physiology ,  Applied microbiology
Research keywords  (5)： nitrogen fixation ,  photosynthesis ,  biochemistry ,  plant physiology ,  evolution
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (33)：
  • 2021 - 2030 再生可能多糖類植物由来プラスチックによる資源循環社会共創拠点
  • 2024 - 2026 Novel function of chlorophyll and individual assembly of photosystems using a cyanobacterium with high capacity to dark heterotrophic growth
  • 2022 - 2025 Microevolution of cyanobacteria in dark heterotrophic conditions
  • 2020 - 2024 Structural basis of the iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis, and the establishment of ex-situ reconstitution system
  • 2022 - 2024 Visualization of nitrogenase in cyanobacteria at gene, protein and activity levels: Path to unveiling the regulation mechanism of nitrogen fixation
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Papers (94)：
  • Taro Matsuo, Kumiko Ito-Miwa, Yosuke Hoshino, Yuri I. Fujii, Satomi Kanno, Kazuhiro J. Fujimoto, Rio Tsuji, Shinnosuke Takeda, Chieko Onami, Chihiro Arai, et al. Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria’s light-harvesting system. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2025
  • Yoshiki Morimoto, Kazuma Uesaka, Yuichi Fujita, Haruki Yamamoto. A nitrogenase-like enzyme is involved in the novel anaerobic assimilation pathway of a sulfonate, isethionate, in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus. mSphere. 2024. 9. 9
  • Kentaro Usui, Haruki Yamamoto, Hitoshi Mori, Yuichi Fujita. Extracellular vesicle-mediated secretion of chlorophyll biosynthetic intermediates in the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana. Plant and Cell Physiology. 2024. 66. 2. 214-228
  • Shintaro Hida, Marie Nishio, Kazuma Uesaka, Mari Banba, Nobuyuki Takatani, Shinichi Takaichi, Haruki Yamamoto, Kunio Ihara, Yuichi Fujita. Microevolution toward loss of photosynthesis: Mutations promoting dark-heterotrophic growth and suppressing photosynthetic growth in cyanobacteria. 2024
  • Kazuma Uesaka, Mari Banba, Sotaro Chiba, Yuichi Fujita. Restoration of the functional nif gene cluster by complex recombination events during heterocyst development in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. NIES-4101. Plant and Cell Physiology. 2024
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MISC (23)：
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Patents (3)：
  • 生物窒素固定制御因子及びその利用
  • シアノバクテリアにおける完全暗所従属栄養能に関連する遺伝子及びその利用
  • バクテリオクロロフィルbの大量産生菌の作成方法とその産生菌
Books (23)：
  • Cyanobacterial physiology : from fundamentals to biotechnology
    Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier 2022 ISBN:9780323961066
  • Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes: Environmental and Applied Aspects
    Springer 2017 ISBN:3319462598
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Chlorophylls (version 3.0)
    John Wiley & Sons 2015
  • 「光合成のエネルギー変換と物質変換」第21章 窒素の固定
    化学同人 2015
  • 「低温科学」第67巻「光合成研究法」第5章, 8.「光合成細菌<i>Rhodobacter capsulatus</i>における大量発現系と形質転換」
    北海道大学低温科学研究所 2009
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Lectures and oral presentations  (48)：
  • Genome analysis of cyanobacteria grown in the dark for 31 years
    (2025)
  • Genome analysis of dark-adapted variants of the cyanobacterium <i>Leptolyngbya boryana</i>: Mutations that suppress photosynthetic growth and promote dark heterotrophic growth
    (2nd Asia-Oceania International Congress on Photosynthesis 2024)
  • Microevolution toward loss of photosynthesis: Mutations promoting dark-heterotrophic growth and suppressing photosynthetic growth in cyanobacteria
    (IPR Seminar, Enzymes & Photosynthesis - Key for a green and sustainable future - 2024)
  • Mutations promoting dark heterotrophic growth and suppressing photosynthetic growth in the cyanobacterium <i>Leptolyngbya boryana</i>
    (US-Japan Binational Photosynthesis Workshop 2023)
  • シアノバクテリア<i>Leptolyngbya boryana</i>の暗所継続培養による暗所従属栄養能促進と光合成生育能欠失
    (ラン藻ゲノム交流会 2019)
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Education (2)：
  • - 1991 Osaka University Graduate School, Division of Natural Science
  • 1982 - 1986 Osaka University Faculty of Science
Professional career (1)：
  • 理学博士 (大阪大学)
Work history (8)：
  • 2016/10/01 - 現在 Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
  • 2007/04 - 2016/09/30 Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
  • 2008/04 - 2012/03/31 Nagoya University
  • 2008/10 - 2012/03 JST戦略的創造研究推進事業さきがけ「光の利用と物質材料・生命機能」研究者
  • 2002/04 - 2007/03 Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
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Committee career (12)：
  • 2023/01 - 2025/02 Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists Plant and Cell Physiology Special Issue Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms Guest Editor for
  • 2023/10 - 2024/09 Organizing Committee of 2nd Asia-Oceania International Congress on Photosynthesis (AOICP) AOICP Organizing Committee
  • 2022/03 - 2024/03 日本植物生理学会 監事
  • 2020/04 - 2024/03 日本光合成学会 常任幹事
  • 2022/09 - 2023/09 ICTPPO2023 (International Conference on Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms 2023) Organizing committee
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Awards (1)：
  • 1995/03 - Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists Plant and Cell Physiology Award Fujita, Y., Takahashi, Y., Chuganji, M. and Matsubara, H. (1992) The nifH-like (frxC) gene is involved in the biosynthesis of chlorophyll in the filamentous cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum. Plant Cell Physiol. 33, 81-92.
Association Membership(s) (7)：
The Protein Society ,  International Society of Photosynthesis Research ,  日本農芸化学会 ,  Society of Genome Microbiology, Japan ,  日本生化学会 ,  日本光合成学会 ,  日本植物生理学会
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