2016 - 2019 Identification of putative replication origin(s) and its application in unicellular red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae
2013 - 2016 Regulation mechanism of cyanobacterial multi-copy chromosome.
Papers (74)：
Kazuma Ohdate, Minori Sakata, Kaisei Maeda, Yutaka Sakamaki, Kaori Nimura-Matsune, Ryudo Ohbayashi, Wolfgang R. Hess, Satoru Watanabe. Discovery of novel replication proteins for large plasmids in cyanobacteria and their potential applications in genetic engineering. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2024. 15
Yutaka Sakamaki, Kaisei Maeda, Kaori Nimura-Matsune, Taku Chibazakura, Satoru Watanabe. Characterization of a cyanobacterial rep protein with broad-host range and its utilization for expression vectors. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023. 14
Aya Sato, Misaki Takamatsu, Satona Kobayashi, Michio Ogawa, Yuh Shiwa, Satoru Watanabe, Taku Chibazakura, Hirofumi Yoshikawa. Novel heat shock response mechanism mediated by the initiation nucleotide of transcription. The Journal of general and applied microbiology. 2022. 68. 2. 95-108
Bairagi N, Watanabe S, Nimura-Matsune K, Tanaka K, Tsurumaki T, Nakanishi S, Tanaka K. Conserved Two-Component Hik2-Rre1 Signalling is Activated Under Temperature Upshift and Plastoquinone-Reducing Conditions in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Plant Cell Physiol. 2021
Maeda K, Okuda Y, Enomoto G, Watanabe S, Ikeuchi M. Biosynthesis system of Synechan, a sulfated exopolysaccharide, in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. eLife. 2021
Satoru Watanabe, Shunsuke Saito, Yasuhiro Suezaki, Takeshi Seguchi, Ryudo Ohbayashi. Specific binding of DnaA to the DnaA box motif in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. The Journal of general and applied microbiology. 2020
Variety of dependency on DnaA protein for DNA replication among cyanobacterial lineages
(15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes 2015)
Identification of the associated genes for substrain-specific phenotypes of a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
(15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes 2015)
Cell division-uncoupled DNA replication and metabolism in cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942.
(15th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes 2015)
