Yusuke Tsukatani

Osaka University Ph.D.(Science) 2005
Tokyo Metropolitan University M. Sc. 2002
Tokyo Metropolitan University B. Sc. 2000

I am presently interested in structure and function of chlorosomes, electron transfer in chlorosomes, electron transfer in and around reaction centers, sulfur metabolism in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum and the filamentous anoxygenic phototroph Chloroflexus aurantiacus.

List of publications

1. Masuda, S., Tsukatani, Y., Kimura, Y., Nagashima, K. V. P., Shimada, K., and Matsuura, K.
   Mutational analyses of the photosynthetic reaction center-bound triheme cytochrome subunit and cytochrome c2 in the purple bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum.
   Biochemistry vol. 41, pp11211-11217 (2002)
2. Tsukatani, Y., Matsuura, K., Masuda, S., Shimada, K., Hiraishi, A., and Nagashima, K. V. P.
   Phylogenetic distribution of unusual triheme to tetraheme cytochrome subunit in the reaction center complex of purple photosynthetic bacteria.
   Photosynth. Res. vol. 79, 83-91 (2004)
3. Alric, J., Tsukatani, Y., Yoshida, M., Matsuura, K., Shimada, K., Hienerwadel, R., Schoepp-Cothenet, B., Nitschke, W., Nagashima, K. V. P., and Verméglio, A.
   Structural and functional characterization of the unusual triheme cytochrome bound to the reaction center of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum.
   J. Biol. Chem. vol. 279 pp26090-26097 (2004)
4. Tsukatani, Y., Miyamoto, R., Itoh, S., and Oh-oka, H.
   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.
   J. Biol. Chem. vol. 279 pp51122-51130 (2004)
5. Tsukatani, Y., Miyamoto, R., Itoh, S., and Oh-oka, H.
   Soluble cytochrome c-554, CycA, is not essential for photosynthetic electron transfer in Chlorobium tepidum.
   FEBS letters vol. 580 pp2191-2194 (2006)