Publications

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Koji Kato, Ryo Nagao, Tian-Yi Jiang, Yoshifumi Ueno, Makio Yokono, Siu Kit Chan, Mai Watanabe, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Jian-Ren Shen, Seiji Akimoto, Naoyuki Miyazaki, Fusamichi Akita (2019). Structure of a cyanobacterial photosystem I tetramer revealed by cryo-electron microscopy. Nature Communications.

Yuu Hirose, Song Chihong, Mai Watanabe, Chinatsu Yonekawa, Kazuyoshi Murata, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Toshihiko Eki (2019). Diverse Chromatic Acclimation Processes Regulating Phycoerythrocyanin and Rod-Shaped Phycobilisome in Cyanobacteria. Molecular Plant.

Yohei Kumagai, Susumu Yoshizawa, Yu Nakajima, Mai Watanabe, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Masahiko Ikeuchi, others (2018). Solar-panel and parasol strategies shape the proteorhodopsin distribution pattern in marine Flavobacteriia. The ISME journal.

Masakazu Saito, Kaichiro Endo, Koichi Kobayashi, Mai Watanabe, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Akio Murakami, Norio Murata, Hajime Wada (2018). High myristic acid content in the cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. PCC 8801 results from substrate specificity of lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids.

Kaori Kohzuma, Yutaka Sato, Hisashi Ito, Ayako Okuzaki, Mai Watanabe, Hideki Kobayashi, Michiharu Nakano, Hiroshi Yamatani, Yu Masuda, Yumi Nagashima, others (2017). The non-Mendelian green cotyledon gene in soybean encodes a small subunit of photosystem II. Plant Physiology.

Atsushi Takabayashi, Saeka Takabayashi, Kaori Takahashi, Mai Watanabe, Hiroko Uchida, Akio Murakami, Tomomichi Fujita, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Ayumi Tanaka (2017). PCoM-DB update: a protein co-migration database for photosynthetic organisms. Plant Cell Physiology.

Yuu Hirose, Naomi Misawa, Chinatsu Yonekawa, Nobuyoshi Nagao, Mai Watanabe, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Toshihiko Eki (2017). Characterization of the genuine type 2 chromatic acclimation in the two Geminocystis cyanobacteria. DNA Research.

Takatomo Fujisawa, Rei Narikawa, Shin-ichi Maeda, Satoru Watanabe, Yu Kanesaki, Koichi Kobayashi, Jiro Nomata, Mitsumasa Hanaoka, Mai Watanabe, Shigeki Ehira, others (2016). CyanoBase: a large-scale update on its 20th anniversary. Nucleic Acids Research.

Koichi Hori, Fumito Maruyama, Takatomo Fujisawa, Tomoaki Togashi, Nozomi Yamamoto, Mitsunori Seo, Syusei Sato, Takuji Yamada, Hiroshi Mori, Naoyuki Tajima, Takashi Moriyama, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Mai Watanabe, Hajime Wada, Koichi Kobayashi, Masakazu Saito, Tatsuru Masuda, Yuko Sasaki-Sekimoto, Kiyoshi Mashiguchi, Koichiro Awai, Mie Shimojima, Shinji Masuda, Masako Iwai, Takashi Nobusawa, Takafumi Narise, Satoshi Kondo, Hikaru Saito, Ryoichi Sato, Masato Murakawa, Yuta Ihara, Yui Oshima-Yamada, Kinuka Ohtaka, Masanori Satoh, Kohei Sonobe, Midori Ishii, Ryosuke Ohtani, Miyu Kanamori-Sato, Rina Honoki, Daichi Miyazaki, Hitoshi Mochizuki, Jumpei Umetsu, Kouichi Higashi, Daisuke Shibata, Yuji Kamiya, Naoki Sato, Yasukazu Nakamura, Satoshi Tabata, Shigeru Ida, Ken Kurokawa, Hiroyuki Ohta (2014). Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation. Nature Communications.

Mai Watanabe, Dmitry A Semchonok, Mariam T Webber-Birungi, Shigeki Ehira, Kumiko Kondo, Rei Narikawa, Masayuki Ohmori, Egbert J Boekema, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2014). Attachment of phycobilisomes in an antenna--photosystem I supercomplex of cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Mai Watanabe, Hisako Kubota, Hajime Wada, Rei Narikawa, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2013). Supercomplex Organizations and Evolution of Photosystems I and II (Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, Cyanophora Paradoxa and Cyanidioschyzon Merolae). Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future.

Mai Watanabe, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2013). Phycobilisome: architecture of a light-harvesting supercomplex. Photosynthesis Research.

Mai Watanabe, Momoko Sato, Kumiko Kondo, Rei Narikawa, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2012). Phycobilisome model with novel skeleton-like structures in a glaucocystophyte Cyanophora paradoxa. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics.

Mai Watanabe, Hisako Kubota, Hajime Wada, Rei Narikawa, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2010). Novel supercomplex organization of photosystem I in Anabaena and Cyanophora paradoxa. Plant and Cell Physiology.

Mai Watanabe, Masako Iwai, Rei Narikawa, Masahiko Ikeuchi (2009). Is the photosystem II complex a monomer or a dimer?. Plant and Cell Physiology.

Mai Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kashino, Kazuhiko Satoh, Hiroyuki Koike, Merope Tsimilli-Michael, Reto J Strasser (2008). Reconstitution of Cyclic Electron Transport in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by a Cell-Free System. Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun.

Yohei Ikeda, Masayuki Komura, Mai Watanabe, Chie Minami, Hiroyuki Koike, Shigeru Itoh, Yasuhiro Kashino, Kazuhiko Satoh (2008). Photosystem I complexes associated with fucoxanthin-chlorophyll-binding proteins from a marine centric diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics.