Publications

2017-2024

Kobayashi, R., Yamamoto, H., Ishibashi, K., Shikanai, T. (2024) Critical role of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in the maintenance of photosystem I activity. Plant J. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16735

Shikanai, T. (2024) Molecular genetic dissection of the regulatory network of proton motive force in chloroplasts. Plant Cell Physiol. doi:10.1093/pcp/pcad157.

Nishimura, Y. (2024) Plastid nucleoids: Insights into their shape and dynamics. Plant Cell Physiol. doi:10.1093/pcp/pcad090.

Bayer-Császár, E., Jörg, A., Härtel, B., Brennicke, A., Takenaka, M. (2024) The Gating Domain of MEF28 is Essential for Editing Two Contiguous Cytidines in nad2 mRNA in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcad087.

Ogawa, Y., Iwano, M., Shikanai, T., Sakamoto, W. (2023) FZL, a dynamin-like protein localized to curved grana edges, is required for efficient photosynthetic electron transfer in Arabidopsis. Frontiers Plant Science 14, 1279699.

Yamamoto, H., Cheuk, A., Shearman, J., Nixon, P.J., Meier, T., Shikanai, T. (2023) Impact of engineering the ATP synthase rotor ring on photosynthesis in tobacco chloroplasts. Plant Physiol., 192, 12211233.

Zhou, Q., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai, T. (2023) Distinct contribution of two cyclic electron transport pathways to P700 oxidation. Plant Physiol.192, 326‒341.

Toma-Fukai, S., Sawada, Y., Maeda, A., Shimizu, H., Shikanai, T., Takenaka M., Shimizu, T. (2023) Structural insight into the activation of an Arabidopsis organellar C-to-U RNA editing enzyme by active site complementation. Plant Cell 35,1888-1900

Maeda A., Takenaka S., Wang T., Frink B., Shikanai T., Takenaka M. (2022) DYW deaminase domain has a distinct preference for neighboring nucleotides of the target RNA editing sites. Plant J.111, 756-767. 11. Basso, L., Sakoda, K., Kobayashi, R., Yamori, W., Shikanai T. (2022) Flavodiiron proteins enhance the rate of CO2 assimilation in Arabidopsis under fluctuating light intensity. Plant Physiol. 189, 375387.

Zhou, Q., Wang, C., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai T. (2022) PTOX-dependent safety valve does not oxidize P700 during photosynthetic induction in the Arabidopsis pgr5 mutant. Plant Physiol. 188, 12641276.

Basso, L., Sakoda, K., Kobayashi, R., Yamori, W., Shikanai T. (2022) Flavodiiron proteins enhance the rate of CO2 assimilation in Arabidopsis under fluctuating light intensity. Plant Physiol. in press.

Maeda A., Takenaka S., Wang T., Frink B., Shikanai T., Takenaka M. (2022) DYW deaminase domain has a distinct preference for neighboring nucleotides of the target RNA editing sites. Plant J.  111, 756-767. 

Zhou, Q., Wang, C., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai T. (2022) PTOX-dependent safety valve does not oxidize P700 during photosynthetic induction in the Arabidopsis pgr5 mutant. Plant Physiol. 188, 1264-1276.

Takenaka, M., Takenaka, S., Barthel, T., Frink, B., Haag, S., Verbitskiy, D., Oldenkott, B., Schallenberg-Rüdinger, M., Feiler, C.G., Weiss, M.S., Palm, G.J., Weber, G. (2021) DYW domain structures imply an unusual regulation principle in plant organellar RNA editing catalysis. Nature Catal. 4, 510–522.

Kato, Y., Odahara, M., Shikanai, T. (2021) Evolution of an assembly factor-based subunit contributed to a novel NDH-PSI supercomplex formation in chloroplasts. Nature comms. 12: 3685.

Higashi H., Kato Y., Fujita Y., Iwasaki S., Nakamura M., Nishimura Y., Takenaka M. and Shikanai T. (2021) The pentatricopeptide repeat protein PGR3 regulates the translation of petL and ndhG by binding their 5'UTRs. Plant Cell Physiol. in press. 

Yamamoto H., Sato N. and Shikanai T. (2021) Critical role of NdhA in the incorporation of the peripheral arm into the membrane-embedded part of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex. Plant Cell Physiol. in press.

Takusagawa M., Kobayashi Y., Fukao Y., Hidaka K., Endo M., Sugiyama H., Hamaji T., Kato Y., Miyakawa I., Misumi O., Shikanai T., Nishimura Y., (2021) HBD1 protein with a tandem repeat of two HMG box domains is a DNA clip to organize chloroplast nucleoids in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA in press. （毎日新聞(2021/5/15)に紹介されました！)

Yamamoto, K., Hamaji, T., Kawai-Toyooka, H., Matsuzaki, R., Takahashi, F., Nishimura, Y., Kawachi, M., Noguchi, H., Minakuchi, Y., Umen, J. G., Toyoda, A., Nozaki, H. (2021) Three genomes in the algal genus Volvox reveal fate of a haploid sex-determining region after a transition to homothallism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA in press.

Kneuper, I., Teale, W., Dawson, J., Tsugeki, R., Katifori, E., Palme, K., Ditengou, F. A. (2021) Auxin biosynthesis and cellular efflux act together to regulate leaf vein patterning. J. Exp. Bot., 72, 1151-1165.

Basso L., Yamori W., Szabo I. and Shikanai T. (2020) Collaboration between NDH and KEA3 allows maximally efficient photosynthesis after a long dark adaptation. Plant Physiol. 184, 2078-2090.

Okegawa Y., Basso L, Shikanai T. and Motohashi K. (2020) Cyclic electron transport around photosystem I contributes to photosynthetic induction with Thioredoxin f. Plant Physiol. 184, 1291-1302. 

Yamamoto H. and Shikanai T. (2020) Does the Arabidopsis proton gradient regulation 5 mutant leak protons from the thylakoid membrane? Plant Physiol. 184, 421-427.

Kuciński, J., Chamera, S., Kmera, A., Rowley, M.J., Fujii, S., Khurana, P., Nowotny, M., Wierzbicki, A.T. (2020) Evolutionary history and activity of RNase H1-like proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol. pcaa040

Nishimura, Y., Shikanai, T., Kawamoto, S., Toh-e, A. (2020) Step-wise elimination of α-mitochondrial nucleoids and mitochondrial structure as a basis for the strict uniparental inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans. Sci Rep 10, 2468.

Wang, C., Shikanai, T. (2019) Modification of Activity of the Thylakoid H+/K+ Antiporter KEA3 Disturbs ∆pH-Dependent Regulation of Photosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 181,762-773.

Fujii, S., Wada, H., Kobayashi, K. (2019) Role of Galactolipids in Plastid Differentiation Before and After Light Exposure. Plants 8, 357.

Ishibashi, K., Small, I., Shikanai, T. (2019) Evolutionary Model of Plastidial RNA Editing in Angiosperms Presumed from Genome-Wide Analysis of Amborella trichopoda, Plant Cell Physiol. 60, 2141–215.

Mermod, M., Takusagawa, M., Kurata, T., Kamiya,T., Fujiwara, T., Shikanai,T. (2019) SQUAMOSA promoter-binding protein-like 7 mediates copper deficiency response in the presence of high nitrogen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Rep 38: 835.

Nakano, H., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai, T. (2019) Contribution of NDH-dependent cyclic electron transport around photosystem I to the generation of proton motive force in the weak mutant allele of pgr5. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenergetics 1860, 369-374.

Yamamoto, H., Shikanai, T. (2019) PGR5-dependent cyclic electron flow protects PSI under fluctuating light at donor and acceptor sides. Plant Physiol. 179, 588-600.

Kato, Y., Odahara, M., Fukao, Y., Shikanai, T. (2018) Stepwise evolution of supercomplex formation with photosystem I is required for stabilization of chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex: Lhca5-dependent supercomplex formation in Physcomitrella patens. Plant J. 96, 937-948.

Wang, C., Takahashi, H., Shikanai, T. (2018) PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 5 contributes to ferredoxin-dependent cyclic phosphorylation in ruptured chloroplasts. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Bioenergetics 1859, 1173-1179.

Kamimura, Y., Tanaka, H., Kobayashi, Y., Shikanai, T., Nishimura, Y. (2018) Chloroplast nucleoids as a transformable network revealed by live-imaging with a microfluidic device. Communications Biology 1, 47.

Araki, R., Mermod, M., Yamasaki, H., Kamiya, T., Fujiwara, T., Shikanai, T. (2018) SPL7 locally regulates copper-homeostasis-related genes in Arabidopsis. J. Plant Physiol. 224-225, 137-143.

Otani, T., Kato, Y., Shikanai, T. (2018) Specific substitutions of light-harvesting complex I proteins associated with photosystem I are required for supercomplex formation with chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex. Plant J. 94, 122-130.

Kato, Y., Sugimoto, K., Shikanai, T. (2018) NDH-PSI supercomplex assembly precedes full assembly of the NDH complex in chloroplast. Plant Physiol. 176, 1728-1738.

Kobayashi, Y., Misumi, O., Odahara, M., Ishibashi, K., Hirono, M., Hidaka, K., Endo, M., Sugiyama, H., Iwasaki, H., Kuroiwa, T., Shikanai, T., Nishimura, Y. (2017) Holliday junction resolvases mediate chloroplast nucleoid segregation. Science 356, 631-634.

Otani, T., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai, T. (2017) Stromal loop of Lhca6 is responsible for the linker function required for the NDH-PSI supercomplex formation. Plant Cell Physiol.58, 851-861.

Wang, C., Yamamoto, H., Narumiya, F., Munekage, Y.N., Finazzi, G., Szabo, I., Shikanai, T. (2017) Fine-tuned regulation of the K+/H+ antiporter KEA3 is required to optimize photosynthesis during induction. Plant J., 89, 540-553.

Shikanai, T., Yamamoto, H. (2017) Contribution of cyclic and pseudo-cyclic electron transport to the formation of proton motive force in chloroplasts. Mol. Plant, 10, 20-29.

Bayer-Császár E., Haag, S., Jörg A., Glass F., Härtel, B., Obata, T., Meyer, E. H., Brennicke, A., Takenaka, M. (2017) The conserved domain in MORF proteins has distinct affinities to the PPR and E elements in PPR RNA editing factors, BBA Gene Regul. Mech., 1860, 813-828.

Haag, S., Schindler, M., Berndt, L., Brennicke, A., Takenaka, M., Weber, G. (2017) Crystal structures of the Arabidopsis organellar RNA editing factors MORF1 and MORF9. Nucleic Acids Res. , 45, 4915–4928.

2011-2016

Yamamoto, H., Takahashi, S., Badger M.R., Shikanai T. (2016) Artificial remodeling of alternative electron flow by flavodiiron proteins in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 16012.

Shikanai, T. (2016) Regulatory network of proton motive force: Contribution of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I. Photosynthesis Res., 129, 253–260

Yamori W., Shikanai T. (2016) Physiological functions of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in sustaining photosynthesis and plant growth. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 67, 81-106

Peltier G., Aro E.-M., Shikanai T. (2016) NDH-1 and NDH-2 plastoquinone reductases in oxygenic photosynthesis. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 67, 55-80

Kobayashi, Y., Takusagawa, M., Harada, N., Fukao, Y., Yamaoka, S., Kohchi, T., Hori, K., Ohta, H., Shikanai, T., Nishimura Y. (2016) Eukaryotic components remodeled chloroplast nucleoid organization during the green plant evolution. Genome Biol. Evol., 8, 1-16.

Hamaji, T., Mogi, Y., Ferris, P.J., Mori, T., Miyagishima, S., Kabeya, Y., Nishimura, Y., Toyoda, A., Noguchi, H., Fujiwara, A., Olson, B.J., Marriage, T. N., Nishii, I., Umen, J., Nozaki, H. (2016) Sequence of the Gonium pectorale mating locus reveals a complex and dynamic history of changes in volvocine algal mating haplotypes G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 6, 1179-1189

Boehm, C. R., Ueda, M., Nishimura, Y., Shikanai, T., Haseloff, J. (2016) A cyan fluorescent reporter expressed from the chloroplast genome of Marchantia polymorpha. Plant Cell Physiol., 57, 291-299.

Shikanai T. (2015) Chloroplast NDH: a different enzyme with a structure similar to that of respiratory NADH dehydrogenase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1857, 1015-1022

Tsugeki, R., Terada, S. (2015) The Arabidopsis ortholog of the DEAH-box ATPase Prp16 influences auxin-mediated development. Plant Signaling Behavior, 10, e1074369.

Wang, C., Yamamoto, H., Shikanai, T. (2015) Role of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in regulating proton motive force. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1847, 931-938. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.11.013.

Shikanai, T. (2015) RNA editing in plants: machinery and flexibility of the site recognition. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1847, 779-785.  doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.12.010.

Tsugeki, R., Tanaka-Sato, N., Maruyama, N., Terada, S., Kojima, M., Sakakibara, H., Okada, K. (2015) CLUMSY VEIN, the Arabidopsis DEAH-box Prp16 ortholog, is required for auxin-mediated development. Plant J., 81, 183-197.

Odahara, M., Inouye, T., Nishimura, Y., Sekine, Y. (2015) RECA plays a dual role in the maintenance of chloroplast genome stability in Physcomitrella patens. Plant J., 84, 516-526.

Ishizaki, K., Nishihama, R., Ueda, M., Inoue, K., Ishida, S., Nishimura, Y., Shikanai, T., Kohchi, T. (2015) Development of Gateway binary vector series with four different selection markers for the liverwort Marchantia polycorpha. PLoS ONE, 10, e0138876.

Ueda, M., Tanaka, A., Sugimoto, K., Shikanai, T., Nishimura, Y. (2014) chlB requirement for chlorophyll biosynthesis under short photoperiod in Marchantia polymorpha L. Genome Biol. Evol., 6, 620-628.

Shikanai, T. (2014) Central role of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in the regulation of photosynthesis. Curr. Opin. Biotech., 26, 25-30.

Kobayashi, Y., Harada, N., Nishimura, Y., Saito, T., Nakamura, M., Fujiwara, T., Kuroiwa, T., Misumi, O. (2014) Algae sense exact temperatures: small heat shock proteins are expressed at the survival threshold temperature in Cyanidioschyzon merolae and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genome Biol. Evol., 6, 2731-2740.

Yamamoto H. and Shikanai T. (2014) In planta mutagenesis of Src homology 3 domain-like fold of NdhS, a ferredoxin-binding subunit of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex in Arabidopsis: A conserved Arg193 plays a critical role in ferredoxin binding. J. Biol. Chem. in press.

Taira Y., Okegawa Y., Sugimoto K., Abe M., Miyoshi H. and Shikanai T. (2013) Antimycin A-like molecules inhibit cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in ruptured chloroplasts. FEBS Open Bio. in press.

Shikanai T. (2013) Central role of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in the regulation of photosynthesis. Curr. Opin. Biotech. in press.

Ueda M., Takami T., Peng L., Ishizaki K., Kohchi T., Shikanai T. and Nishimura Y. (2013) Subfunctionalization of sigma factors during the evolution of land plants based on mutant analysis of liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha L.) MpSIG1. Genome Biol Evol. 5, 1836-1848. 

Fujii S, Sato N and Shikanai T. (2013) Mutagenesis of Individual Pentatricopeptide Repeat Motifs Affects RNA Binding Activity and Reveals Functional Partitioning of Arabidopsis PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION3. Plant Cell. 25, 3079-3088. 

Sugimoto K, Okegawa Y, Tohri A, Long TA, Covert SF, Hisabori T and Shikanai T. (2013) A Single Amino Acid Alteration in PGR5 Confers Resistance to Antimycin A in Cyclic Electron Transport around PSI. Plant Cell Physiol. 54, 1525-34.

Shikanai T and Fujii S. (2013) Function of PPR proteins in plastid gene expression. RNA Biol. 30. 

Tameshige, T., Fujita, H., Watanabe, K., Toyokura, K., Kondo, M., Tatematsu, K., Matsumoto, N., Tsugeki, R., Kawaguchi, M., Nishimura, M., Okada, K. (2013) Pattern dynamics in adaxial-abaxial specific gene expression are modulated by a plastid retrograde signal during Arabidopsis leaf development. PLOS Genetics, 9, e1003655. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003655.

Ueda M., Kuniyoshi T., Yamamoto Y., Sugimoto K., Ishizaki K., Kohchi T., Nishimura Y. and Shikanai T. (2012) Composition and physiological function of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex in Marchantia polymorpha. Plant J. 72, 683-693. 

Nishikawa Y., Yamamoto H., Okegawa Y., Wada S., Sato N., Taira Y., Sugimoto K., Makino A. and Shikanai T. (2012) PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transport around PSI contributes to the redox homeostasis in chloroplasts rather than CO2 fixation and biomass production in rice. Plant Cell Physiol. 53, 2117-2126. 

Nishimura Y, Shikanai T, Nakamura S, Kawai-Yamada M, Uchimiya H. (2012) Gsp1 Triggers the Sexual Developmental Program Including Inheritance of Chloroplast DNA and Mitochondrial DNA in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell doi:10.1105/tpc.112.097865. 

Okuda, K. and Shikanai, T. (2012) A pentatricopeptide repeat protein acts as a site-specificity factor at multiple RNA editing sites with unrelated cis-acting elements in plastids. Nucl. Acids Res, 40: 5052-5064. 

Nakata, M., Matsumoto, N., Tsugeki, R., Rikirsch, E., Laux, T., Okada, K. (2012) Roles of the middle domain-specific WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX genes in early development of leaves in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 24, 519-535. 

Peng, L., Fukao, Y., Fujiwara, M. and Shikanai, T. (2012) Multistep assembly of chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like subcomplex A requires several nucleus-encoded proteins, including CRR41 and CRR42, in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 24, 202-214. 

Toyokura, K., Watanabe, K., Oiwaka, A., Kusano, M., Tameshige, T., Tatematsu, K., Matsumoto, N., Tsugeki, R., Saito, K and Okada, K. (2011) Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase is involved in the robust patterning of Arabidopsis leaves along the adaxial-abaxial axis. Plant Cell Physiol., 52, 1340-1353. 

Yamamoto, H., Peng, L., Fukao, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2011) An Src homology 3 domain-like fold protein forms a ferredoxin binding site for the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 23, 1480-93. 

Peng, L., Yamamoto, H. and Shikanai, T. (2011) Structure and biogenesis of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1807, 945-53. 

Peng, L. and Shikanai, T. (2011) Supercomplex formation with photosystem I is required for the stabilization of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol, 155, 1629-39. 

Peng, L., Fukao, Y., Myouga, F., Motohashi, R., Shinozaki, K. and Shikanai, T. (2011) A chaperonin subunit with unique structures is essential for folding of a specific substrate. PLoS Biol, 9, e1001040. 

Ifuku, K., Endo, T., Shikanai, T. and Aro, E. M. (2011) Structure of the chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex: nomenclature for nuclear-encoded subunits. Plant Cell Physiol, 

Cai, W., Okuda, K., Peng, L. and Shikanai, T. (2011) PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION 3 recognizes multiple targets with limited similarity and mediates translation and RNA stabilization in plastids. Plant J, 67, 318-27. 

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2005-2010

Takami, T., Shibata, M., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2010) De novo biosynthesis of fatty acids plays critical roles in the response of the photosynthetic machinery to low temperature in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol, 51, 1265-75. 

Takami, T., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2010) Arabidopsis CFD is an ortholog of Chlamydomonas Ccs1 that is required for c-type heme assembly in chloroplasts. Plant Biotechnology, 27, 401-408. 

Peng, L., Cai, W. and Shikanai, T. (2010) Chloroplast stromal proteins, CRR6 and CRR7, are required for assembly of the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subcomplex A in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 63, 203-11. 

Okuda, K., Hammani, K., Tanz, S. K., Peng, L., Fukao, Y., Myouga, F., Motohashi, R., Shinozaki, K., Small, I. and Shikanai, T. (2010) The pentatricopeptide repeat protein OTP82 is required for RNA editing of plastid ndhB and ndhG transcripts. Plant J, 61, 339-49. 

Okegawa, Y., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2010) Physiological links among alternative electron transport pathways that reduce and oxidize plastoquinone in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 

Tsugeki, R., Ditengou, F. A., Palme, K., Okada, K. (2010) NO VEIN facilitates auxin-mediated development in Arabidopsis. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 5, 1249-1251.

Tsugeki, R., Ditengou, F. A., Sumi, Y., Teale, W., Palme, K., Okada, K. (2009) NO VEIN mediates auxin-dependent specification and patterning in the Arabidopsis embryo, shoot and root. Plant Cell, 21, 3133-3151.

Yamasaki, H., Hayashi, M., Fukazawa, M., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2009) SQUAMOSA Promoter Binding Protein-Like7 Is a Central Regulator for Copper Homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21, 347-61. 

Peng, L., Fukao, Y., Fujiwara, M., Takami, T. and Shikanai, T. (2009) Efficient operation of NAD(P)H dehydrogenase requires supercomplex formation with photosystem I via minor LHCI in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21, 3623-40. 

Okuda, K., Chateigner-Boutin, A. L., Nakamura, T., Delannoy, E., Sugita, M., Myouga, F., Motohashi, R., Shinozaki, K., Small, I. and Shikanai, T. (2009) Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins with the DYW motif have distinct molecular functions in RNA editing and RNA cleavage in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Cell, 21, 146-56. 

Yamasaki, H., Pilon, M. and Shikanai, T. (2008) How do plants respond to copper deficiency? Plant Signal Behav, 3, 231-2. 

Shimizu, H., Peng, L., Myouga, F., Motohashi, R., Shinozaki, K. and Shikanai, T. (2008) CRR23/NdhL is a subunit of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol, 49, 835-42. 

Shikanai, T. and Obokata, J. (2008) Machinery of RNA editing in plant organelles. . In ‚ÄúRNA and DNA editing: Molecular mechanisms and their integration into biological system.‚Äù, 99-119. 

Peng, L., Shimizu, H. and Shikanai, T. (2008) The chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex interacts with photosystem I in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem, 283, 34873-9. 

Okuda, K., Habata, Y., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2008) Amino acid sequence variations in Nicotiana CRR4 orthologs determine the species-specific efficiency of RNA editing in plastids. Nucleic Acids Res, 36, 6155-64. 

Okegawa, Y., Kagawa, Y., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2008) Characterization of factors affecting the activity of photosystem I cyclic electron transport in chloroplasts. Plant Cell Physiol, 49, 825-34. 

Yamasaki, H., Abdel-Ghany, S. E., Cohu, C. M., Kobayashi, Y., Shikanai, T. and Pilon, M. (2007) Regulation of copper homeostasis by micro-RNA in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem, 282, 16369-78. 

Shimizu, H. and Shikanai, T. (2007) Dihydrodipicolinate reductase-like protein, CRR1, is essential for chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 52, 539-47. 

Shikanai, T. (2007) The NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in photosynthetic organisms: Subunit composition and physiological function. Func. Plant Sci. Biotech, 1, 129-137. 

Shikanai, T. (2007) Cyclic electron transport around photosystem I: genetic approaches. Annu Rev Plant Biol, 58, 199-217. 

Okuda, K., Myouga, F., Motohashi, R., Shinozaki, K. and Shikanai, T. (2007) Conserved domain structure of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins involved in chloroplast RNA editing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104, 8178-83. 

Okegawa, Y., Long, T. A., Iwano, M., Takayama, S., Kobayashi, Y., Covert, S. F. and Shikanai, T. (2007) A balanced PGR5 level is required for chloroplast development and optimum operation of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I. Plant Cell Physiol, 48, 1462-71. 

Shikanai, T. (2006) RNA editing in plant organelles: machinery, physiological function and evolution. Cell Mol Life Sci, 63, 698-708. 

Okuda, K., Nakamura, T., Sugita, M., Shimizu, T. and Shikanai, T. (2006) A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is a site recognition factor in chloroplast RNA editing. J Biol Chem, 281, 37661-7. 

Muraoka, R., Okuda, K., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2006) A eukaryotic factor required for accumulation of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol, 142, 1683-9. 

Munshi, M. K., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2006) Chlororespiratory reduction 6 is a novel factor required for accumulation of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol, 141, 737-44. 

Okegawa, Y., Tsuyama, M., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2005) The pgr1 mutation in the Rieske subunit of the cytochrome b6f complex does not affect PGR5-dependent cyclic electron transport around photosystem I. J Biol Chem, 280, 28332-6. 

Kotera, E., Tasaka, M. and Shikanai, T. (2005) A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts. Nature, 433, 326-30. 

Kamruzzaman Munshi, M., Kobayashi, Y. and Shikanai, T. (2005) Identification of a novel protein, CRR7, required for the stabilization of the chloroplast NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 44, 1036-44. 

Hojo, M., Tasaka, H. and Shikanai, T. (2005) Physiological requirements of the nonmevalonate pathway for photo-acclimation in Arabidopsis. Plant Biotechnology, 22, 39-45. 

Abdel-Ghany, S. E., Muller-Moule, P., Niyogi, K. K., Pilon, M. and Shikanai, T. (2005) Two P-type ATPases are required for copper delivery in Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts. Plant Cell, 17, 1233-51. 

Koshino-Kimura, Y., Wada, T., Tachibana, T., Tsugeki, R., Ishiguro, S. and Okada, K. Regulation of CAPRICE transcription by MYB proteins for root epidermis differentiation in Arabidopsis. (2005) Plant Cell Physiol., 46, 817-826.

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-2004

Yamazaki, H., Tasaka, M. and Shikanai, T. (2004) PPR motifs of the nucleus-encoded factor, PGR3, function in the selective and distinct steps of chloroplast gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 38, 152-63. 

Munekage, Y., Hashimoto, M., Miyake, C., Tomizawa, K., Endo, T., Tasaka, M. and Shikanai, T. (2004) Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I is essential for photosynthesis. Nature, 429, 579-82. 

Shikanai, T., Muller-Moule, P., Munekage, Y., Niyogi, K. K. and Pilon, M. (2003) PAA1, a P-type ATPase of Arabidopsis, functions in copper transport in chloroplasts. Plant Cell, 15, 1333-46. 

Hashimoto, M., Endo, T., Peltier, G., Tasaka, M. and Shikanai, T. (2003) A nucleus-encoded factor, CRR2, is essential for the expression of chloroplast ndhB in Arabidopsis. Plant J, 36, 541-9. 

Shikanai, T., Munekage, Y. and Kimura, K. (2002) Regulation of proton-to-electron stoichiometry in photosynthetic electron transport: physiological function in photoprotection. J Plant Res, 115, 3-10. 

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