Shinji Masuda

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Affiliation: Professor, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Degree: Doctor of Science(Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Researcher number: 30373369
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901027857328993
researchmap Member ID: 5000085881

External link: http://www.photobiolab.bio.titech.ac.jp/~official/labhp/index.html

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Research History

2003 - 2004

:理化学研究所フロンティア研究システム基礎科学特別研究員
2003 - 2004

:RIKEN Photodynamics Research Center Frontier Research System Special Postdoctral fellow at RIKEN
2004

-:東京工業大学生命理工学研究科助手
2004

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2000 - 2003

:日本学術振興会特別研究員 (PD)
2000 - 2003

:JSPP JSPP Special Postdoctoral fellow
2000 - 2002

:インディアナ大学生物学科客員研究員
2000 - 2002

:Indiana University Department of Biology

Papers

119

Significance of the plastidial stringent response for plant growth on soil

Mina Goto, Sousuke Imamura, Kazuhiro Takaya, Shinji Masuda

Plant Growth Regulation, Jan 29, 2024
Complete Loss of RelA and SpoT Homologs in Arabidopsis Reveals the Importance of the Plastidial Stringent Response in the Interplay between Chloroplast Metabolism and Plant Defense Response

Masataka Inazu, Takanari Nemoto, Yuto Omata, Sae Suzuki, Sumire Ono, Yuri Kanno, Mitsunori Seo, Akira Oikawa, Shinji Masuda

Plant And Cell Physiology, Oct 31, 2023
Arabidopsis mutants lacking DLDG1 and non‐photochemical quenching‐related proteins reveal the regulatory role of DLDG1 in chloroplast pH homeostasis

Kasane Suzuki, Shinji Masuda

FEBS Letters, Jul, 2023
Polysulfide metabolizing enzymes influence SqrR-mediated sulfide-induced transcription by impacting intracellular polysulfide dynamics

Takayuki Shimizu, Tomoaki Ida, Giuliano T Antelo, Yuta Ihara, Joseph N Fakhoury, Shinji Masuda, David P Giedroc, Takaaki Akaike, Daiana A Capdevila, Tatsuru Masuda

PNAS Nexus, Mar 3, 2023 Peer-reviewed
The Sulfide-Responsive SqrR/BigR Homologous Regulator YgaV of Escherichia coli Controls Expression of Anaerobic Respiratory Genes and Antibiotic Tolerance

Rajalakshmi Balasubramanian, Koichi Hori, Takayuki Shimizu, Shingo Kasamatsu, Kae Okamura, Kan Tanaka, Hideshi Ihara, Shinji Masuda

Antioxidants, Nov 28, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvited
Regulation of ppGpp Synthesis and Its Impact on Chloroplast Biogenesis During Early Leaf Development in Rice.

Kazuhiro Ito, Doshun Ito, Mina Goto, Sae Suzuki, Shinji Masuda, Koh Iba, Kensuke Kusumi

Plant & cell physiology, Apr 16, 2022
Metabolic changes contributing to large biomass production in the Arabidopsis ppGpp-accumulating mutant under nitrogen deficiency.

Mina Goto, Akira Oikawa, Shinji Masuda

Planta, 255(2) 48-48, Jan 25, 2022
Lack of plastid‐encoded Ycf10, a homolog of the nuclear‐encoded DLDG1 and the cyanobacterial PxcA, enhances the induction of non‐photochemical quenching in tobacco

Mai Duy Luu Trinh, Akira Hashimoto, Masaru Kono, Shinichi Takaichi, Yoichi Nakahira, Shinji Masuda

Plant Direct, 5(12), Dec, 2021
Femtosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Study of Signaling State of a BLUF Protein PixD from the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis: Hydrogen-Bond Rearrangement Completes during Forward Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

Tomotsumi Fujisawa, Shinji Masuda, Satoshi Takeuchi, Tahei Tahara

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125(44) 12154-12165, Nov 11, 2021
【生命を支える超硫黄分子の代謝と革新的な計測技術】硫化水素・超硫黄分子のセンシング機構

清水隆之, 増田真二

生化学, 93(5) 637-642, Oct, 2021
Plastidial (p)ppGpp Synthesis by the Ca2+-Dependent RelA-SpoT Homolog Regulates the Adaptation of Chloroplast Gene Expression to Darkness in Arabidopsis

Ono, S., Suzuki, S., Ito, D., Tagawa, S., Shiina, T., Masuda, S.

Plant & cell physiology, 61(12), Feb 4, 2021
The evolutionary conserved iron-sulfur protein TCR controls P700 oxidation in photosystem I

Mai Duy Luu Trinh, Daichi Miyazaki, Sumire Ono, Jiro Nomata, Masaru Kono, Hiroyuki Mino, Tatsuya Niwa, Yuki Okegawa, Ken Motohashi, Hideki Taguchi …

iScience, 24(2) 102059-102059, Feb, 2021
In vivo localization and oligomerization of pixd and pixe for controlling phototaxis in the cyanobacterium synechocystis sp. Pcc 6803

Sugimoto, Y., Masuda, S.

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, 67(2), 2021
Photoreaction mechanisms of flavoprotein photoreceptors and their applications

Iwata, T., Masuda, S.

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1293, 2021
Repressor activity of SqrR, a master regulator of persulfide-responsive genes, is regulated by heme coordination

Takayuki Shimizu, Yuuki Hayashi, Munehito Arai, Shawn E McGlynn, Tatsuru Masuda, Shinji Masuda

Plant and Cell Physiology, 62(1), Nov 10, 2020
ppGpp functions as an alarmone in metazoa

Doshun Ito, Hinata Kawamura, Akira Oikawa, Yuta Ihara, Toshio Shibata, Nobuhiro Nakamura, Tsunaki Asano, Shun-Ichiro Kawabata, Takashi Suzuki, Shinji Masuda

COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, 3(1), Nov, 2020
The (PATAN)-CheY-Like Response Regulator PixE Interacts with the Motor ATPase PilB1 to Control Negative Phototaxis in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Annik Jakob, Hiroshi Nakamura, Atsuko Kobayashi, Yuki Sugimoto, Annegret Wilde, Shinji Masuda

Plant and Cell Physiology, 61(2) 296-307, Feb 1, 2020
Regulation of light-induced H⁺ extrusion and uptake by cyanobacterial homologs of the plastidial FLAP1, DLDG1, and Ycf10 in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

Inago, H., Sato, R., Masuda, S.

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 1861(10), 2020
Anaerobic energy dissipation by glycosylated carotenoids in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum

Azai, C., Harada, J., Fujimoto, S., Masuda, S., Kosumi, D.

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 403, 2020
DAY-LENGTH-DEPENDENT DELAYED-GREENING1, the Arabidopsis Homolog of the Cyanobacterial H+-Extrusion Protein, Is Essential for Chloroplast pH Regulation and Optimization of Non-Photochemical Quenching.

Kyohei Harada, Takatoshi Arizono, Ryoichi Sato, Mai Duy Luu Trinh, Akira Hashimoto, Masaru Kono, Masaru Tsujii, Nobuyuki Uozumi, Shinichi Takaichi, Shinji Masuda

Plant & cell physiology, 60(12) 2660-2671, Dec 1, 2019 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

108

Molecular basis of transcriptional regulation by the novel persulfide-responsive transcriptional factor SqrR identified from a hydrogen sulfide-utilizing photosynthetic bacterium

清水隆之, 増田真二

硫酸と工業, 71(7) 95-102, Jul, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Sensory Mechanism of H₂S and Reactive-sulfur-species through Polysulfidation of Cysteine Residues

MASUDA Shinji, SHIMIZU Takayuki

Seibutsu Butsuri, 58(3) 163-164, 2018 Peer-reviewed
硫化水素に応答した遺伝子発現制御

清水隆之, 増田真二

バイオサイエンスとインダストリー, 75 516-517, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvited
車軸藻植物門クレブソルミディウムのゲノム解読と他植物との比較解析

HORI KOICHI, YAMAMOTO MARE, UMEZU JUMPEI, TOGASHI TOMOAKI, MADOKA YUKA, SHIMOJIMA MIE, SEO MITSUNORI, KONDO SATOSHI, OTAKA KINUKA, TOUSHI NORIAKI …

日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 55th 388, Mar 11, 2014
車軸藻植物門クレブソルミディウムのゲノム解析と脂質代謝系の進化過程の解析

HORI KOICHI, MARUYAMA FUMITO, FUJISAWA TAKANORI, TOGASHI TOMOAKI, YAMAMOTO MARE, MADOKA YUKA, SHIMOJIMA MIE, SEO MITSUNORI, SATO SHUSEI, YAMADA TAKUJI …

日本植物学会大会研究発表記録, 77th 126, Aug 20, 2013
車軸藻綱クレブソルミディウムのゲノム解析と植物の陸上化要因の予測

HORI KOICHI, MARUYAMA FUMITO, FUJISAWA TAKANORI, TOGASHI TOMOAKI, YAMAMOTO MARE, SEO MITSUNORI, SATO SHUSEI, YAMADA TAKUJI, MORI HIROSHI, TAJIMA NAOYUKI …

日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 54th 220, Mar 14, 2013
OPDAのシグナル伝達機構解明を目的としたシロイヌナズナ変異体の単離と解析

佐藤雅典, 戸梶賀仁, 永野惇, 永野惇, 西村いくこ, 林誠, 西村幹夫, 太田啓之, 増田真二

日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 54th, 2013
The Stringent Response of Photosynthetic Organisms

21(3) 106-111, Dec, 2011
Prolamellar bodies formed by cyanobacterial protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in Arabidopsis

Shinji Masuda, Rei Ikeda, Tatsuru Masuda, Haruki Hashimoto, Tohru Tsuchiya, Hiroko Kojima, Jiro Nomata, Yuichi Fujita, Mamoru Mimuro, Hiroyuki Ohta …

PLANT JOURNAL, 58(6) 952-960, Jun, 2009
Prolamellar bodies formed by cyanobacterial protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in Arabidopsis

Shinji Masuda, Rei Ikeda, Tatsuru Masuda, Haruki Hashimoto, Tohru Tsuchiya, Hiroko Kojima, Jiro Nomata, Yuichi Fujita, Mamoru Mimuro, Hiroyuki Ohta …

PLANT JOURNAL, 58(6) 952-960, Jun, 2009
ゴマMGDG合成酵素遺伝子の単離と機能解析

渡辺隆英, 下嶋美恵, 小泉遼太, 増田真二, 増田恭次郎, 山本将之, 山田恭司, 太田啓之

日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 50th 313, Mar 16, 2009
Induction mechanism of stress-responsive transcription factor genes HsfA2 and DREB2A by OPDA

Tokaji Yoshihito, Masuda Shinji, Nishizawa-Yokoi Ayako, Shigeoka Shigeru, Ohta Hiroyuki

Plant and Cell Physiology Supplement, 50th 846-846, 2009
Crucial role in light signal transduction for the conserved Met93 of the BLUF protein PixD/Slr1694

Shinji Masuda, Koji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ohta, Taka-Aki Ono

Plant and Cell Physiology, 49(10) 1600-1606, Oct, 2008
Crucial role in light signal transduction for the conserved Met93 of the BLUF protein PixD/Slr1694

Shinji Masuda, Koji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ohta, Taka-Aki Ono

Plant and Cell Physiology, 49(10) 1600-1606, Oct, 2008
Expression profiling of four RelA/SpoT-like proteins, homologues of bacterial stringent factors, in Arabidopsis thaliana

Kazuki Mizusawa, Shinji Masuda, Hiroyuki Ohta

PLANTA, 228(4) 553-562, Sep, 2008
Expression profiling of four RelA/SpoT-like proteins, homologues of bacterial stringent factors, in Arabidopsis thaliana

Kazuki Mizusawa, Shinji Masuda, Hiroyuki Ohta

PLANTA, 228(4) 553-562, Sep, 2008
The bacterial stringent response, conserved in chloroplasts, controls plant fertilization

Shinji Masuda, Kazuki Mizusawa, Takakuni Narisawa, Yuzuru Tozawa, Hiroyuki Ohta, Ken-ichiro Takamiya

PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, 49(2) 135-141, Feb, 2008
The bacterial stringent response, conserved in chloroplasts, controls plant fertilization

Shinji Masuda, Kazuki Mizusawa, Takakuni Narisawa, Yuzuru Tozawa, Hiroyuki Ohta, Ken-ichiro Takamiya

PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, 49(2) 135-141, Feb, 2008
Possible targets of "magic spots" in plant signalling

Shinji Masuda, Yuzuru Tozawa, Hiroyuki Ohta

Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3(11) 1021-1023, 2008
Possible targets of “magic spots” in plant signaling.

Masuda, S, Tozawa, Y, Ohta, H

Plant Signaling Behavior., 3 1021-1023, 2008

Books and Other Publications

バイオ系のための基礎科学問題集

講談社サイエンティフィック, 2007
Comparative spectroscopic studies of sensor of blue-light using FAD (BLUF) proteins, AppA of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and YcgF of Escherichia coli.

Photosynthesis: Fundamental aspects to global perspectives (van der Est and Bruce, D. Edts) Allen Press, 2005
The antirepressor AppA uses the novel flavin-binding BLUF domain as blue-light-absorbing photoreceptor to control photosystem synthesis.

Handbook of Photosensory Receptors (Briggs, W. R., and Spudich, J., Eds.) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2005
Comparative spectroscopic studies of sensor of blue-light using FAD (BLUF) proteins, AppA of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and YcgF of Escherichia coli.

Photosynthesis: Fundamental aspects to global perspectives (van der Est and Bruce, D. Edts) Allen Press, 2005
The antirepressor AppA uses the novel flavin-binding BLUF domain as blue-light-absorbing photoreceptor to control photosystem synthesis.

Handbook of Photosensory Receptors (Briggs, W. R., and Spudich, J., Eds.) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2005
Characterization of photosynthetic regulatory genes, regA and regB: Studies among different species

Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (Garab, G., ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998
Characterization of photosynthetic regulatory genes, regA and regB: Studies among different species

Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects (Garab, G., ed.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998

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硫化水素によるシグナル伝達

科学研究費助成事業, 学術変革領域研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Sep, 2021 - Mar, 2026

増田真二, 清水隆之
Management of international relation and facility for promotion of research on sulfur biology

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Sep, 2021 - Mar, 2026
酸素発生型光合成を制御する新規プロトン膜透過機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025

増田真二
真核生物におけるppGppの機能解明を目指した分子プローブの開発

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(B), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2024

清尾康志, 増田真二
Elucidation and characterization of a novel starvation-response in animals controlled by nucleic-acid molecules

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2019 - Mar, 2023
酸素発生型光合成生物に保存された新規プロトン濃度最適化機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

増田真二
酸素発生型光合成生物に保存された新規プロトン濃度最適化機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

増田真二
新規ポリサルファ応答性転写因子による低酸素誘導型光合成の制御

科学研究費助成事業, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

増田真二
Molecular Basis of light-dependent signal transduction in cells

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Masuda Shinji, Kobayashi Atsuko, Fujisawa Tomotsumi
The stringent response in animals

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018

Masuda Shinji
Applications of Near-Infrared Raman Optical Activity to Photoreceptor Proteins

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Unno Masashi, MASUDA Shinji, TAMOGAMI Jun, KOMATSU Naoki
Creation of a new light-dependent gene expression system

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2016

Masuda Shinji, Tanaka Mikiko, Asano Tsunaki
植物の栄養応答における葉緑体場の代謝制御

科学研究費助成事業, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

増田真二
青色光に依存したシアノバクテリア光走性の分子メカニズム

科学研究費助成事業, 新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

増田真二
Creation of bacterial "lipid body" for biofuel production

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

MASUDA Shinji, HARADA Jiro
Applications of Near-Infrared Raman Optical Activity to Biological Samples

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2013

UNNO Masashi, KAMO Naoki, MASUDA Shinji
Molecular mechanisms of plastid stringent response that regulates physiology of higher plants

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2012

MASUDA Shinji
Development of the new method to control the molecular motor enzyme

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010 - 2011

HISABORI Toru, MASUDA Shinji, IKEUCHI Masahiko, TAKEUCHI Shoji
Function of the photo-induced triplet radical pair in the photo-sensor BLUF protein

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 - 2011

MINO Hiroyuki, ONO Takaaki, MASUDA Shinji
Roles of bacterial stringent response, conserved in chloroplast, for plant physiology

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2009 - 2010

MASUDA Shinji

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