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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  (14):
  • 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 (52):
  • Yusuke Tsukatani, Chihiro Azai, Tomoyasu Noji, Shigeru Kawai, Saori Sugimoto, Shigeru Shimamura, Yasuhiro Shimane, Jiro Harada, Tadashi Mizoguchi, Hitoshi Tamiaki, et al. Genes for the type-I reaction center and galactolipid synthesis are required for chlorophyll a accumulation in a purple photosynthetic bacterium. Plant & cell physiology. 2024
  • Arisa Nishihara, Yusuke Tsukatani, Chihiro Azai, Masaru K. Nobu. Illuminating the coevolution of photosynthesis and Bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024. 121. 25
  • 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
  • 浅井智広. 緑色硫黄細菌の光合成による水素およびメタンの生成. 触媒(Catalysts and Catalysis). 2023. 65. 5. 282-286
  • 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. 5. 100101-100101
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MISC (4):
  • 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
  • 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
  • Preparations of membrances from anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. Low temperature science. 2008. 67. 205-208
Books (5):
  • Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria
    Elsevier 2024 ISBN:9780443159824
  • 独立栄養微生物によるCO<SUB>2</SUB>資源化技術
    シーエムシー出版 2023 ISBN:9784781317564
  • 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  (163):
  • Construction of F<SUB>X</SUB>-less Mutant Photosynthetic Reaction Center Complex in the Green Sulfur Bacterium <I>Chlorobaculum tepidum</I>
    (The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists 2024)
  • 嫌気的な生化学的操作のいろは
    (第三回光合成タンパク質勉強会 2023)
  • Relationship between light-harvesting function and microscopic structural heterogeneity in the photosynthetic antenna chlorosome
    (The 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)
  • 遺伝子から紐解く光合成とバクテリアと地球の共進化
    (第13回日本光合成学会年会 2023)
  • 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)
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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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