Kenji Nagai *        
Kohei Imura Izumi Iwakura Kaoru Ohta Gen Sazaki Yuki Sudo
Shinsuke Takagi Hiromichi Niikura Satoshi Nishimura Tsuyoshi Fukaminato Yuichi Fujita

* 5Years

Creation of a new light-dependent nitrogenase

Yuichi Fujita

Nagoya University Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences
Associate Professor

URL :http://www.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~shokusei/fujita/fujita.html

Research Theme

Two structurally unrelated enzymes operate in the final stage of chlorophyll biosynthesis. One is the light-dependent protochlorophyllide reductase (LPOR) that requires light for the catalysis and the other is the light-independent (dark-operative) protochlorophyllide reductase (DPOR) that resembles nitrogenase. Nitrogenase is a very important enzyme in agriculture but extremely vulnerable to oxygen. In this study, I will try to create a new light-dependent nitrogenase from LPOR as the structural template.