*各年アルファベット順. 

最近の主な業績

• Nishihara, A., Tsukatani, Y., Azai, C., and Nobu, M.K. (2024) Illuminating the coevolution of photosynthesis and Bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(25), e2322120121. doi:10.1073/pnas.2322120121. [Abstract]
• Kawai, S., Shimamura, S., Shimane, Y., and Tsukatani, Y. (2022) Proteomic time-course analysis of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium, Chloroflexus aurantiacus, during the transition from respiration to phototrophy. Microorganisms, 10(7):1288. doi:10.3390/microorganisms10071288. [Open Access]
• Tsukatani, Y., Harada, J., Kurosawa, K., Tanaka, K., and Tamiaki, H. (2022) Incomplete hydrogenation by geranylgeranyl reductase from a proteobacterial phototroph Halorhodospira halochloris, resulting in the production of bacteriochlorophyll with a tetrahydrogeranylgeranyl tail. Journal of Bacteriology, 204(3), e00605-21. doi:10.1128/jb.00605-21. [Open Access]
• Madigan, M.T., Resnick, S.M., Kempher, M.L., Dolnalkova, A.C., Takaichi, S., Wang-Otomo, Z., Toyoda, A., Kurokawa, K., Mori, H., and Tsukatani, Y. (2019) Blastochloris tepida, sp. nov., a thermophilic species of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing genus Blastochloris. Archives of Microbiology, 201, 1351-1359. doi:10.1007/s00203-019-01701-4. [Abstruct]
• Azai, C., Kobayashi, M., Mizoguchi, T., Tamiaki, H., Terauchi, K., and Tsukatani, Y. (2018) Rapid C8-vinyl reduction of divinyl-chlorophyllide a by BciA from Rhodobacter capsulatus. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 353, 661-666. doi:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.09.010. [Abstruct]
• 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. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(18), 12716-12726. doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.546739. [Open Access]
• Tsukatani, Y., Yamamoto, H., Harada, J., Yoshitomi, T., Nomata, J., Kasahara, M., Mizoguchi, T., Fujita, Y., and Tamiaki, H. (2013) An unexpectedly branched biosynthetic pathway for bacteriochlorophyll b capable of absorbing near-infrared light. Scientific Reports, 3, 1217. doi:10.1038/srep01217. [Open Access]
• Tsukatani, Y., Romberger, S.P., Golbeck, J.H., and Bryant, D.A. (2012) Isolation and characterization of a homodimeric type-I reaction center complex from “Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum,” an aerobic chlorophototroph. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 287(8), 5720-5732. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.323329. [Open Access]
• Garcia Costas, A.M., Tsukatani, Y., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Schouten, S., Welander, P.V., Summons, R.E., and Bryant, D.A. (2012) Identification of the bacteriochlorophylls, carotenoids, quinones, lipids, and hopanoids of “Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum.” Journal of Bacteriology, 194(5), 1158-1168. doi:10.1128/JB.06421-11. [Open Access]
• Azai, C., Tsukatani, Y., Harada, J., and Oh-Oka, H. (2009) Sulfur oxidation in mutants of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum devoid of cytochrome c-554 and SoxB. Photosynthesis Research, 100, 57-65. doi:10.1007/s11120-009-9426-2. [Abstruct]
• Tsukatani, Y., Azai, C., Kondo, T., Itoh, S., and Oh-Oka, H. (2008) Parallel electron donation pathways to cytochrome cz in the type I homodimeric photosynthetic reaction center complex of Chlorobium tepidum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1777(9), 1211-1217. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2008.05.002. [Open Access]
• Tsukatani, Y., Miyamoto, R., Itoh, S., and Oh-Oka, H. (2004) Function of a PscD subunit in a homodimeric reaction center complex of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum studied by insertional gene inactivation: Regulation of energy transfer and ferredoxin-mediated NADP+ reduction on the cytoplasmic side. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279(49), 51122-51130. doi:10.1074/jbc.M410432200. [Open Access]

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