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Wataru Sakamoto

Wataru Sakamoto

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
10608
World Ranking
11034
National Ranking
760

Overview

Wataru Sakamoto is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology and plant science, with additional work relating to pulmonary and respiratory medicine, renewable energy, sustainability, and genetics.

Their scholarly output includes a significant number of publications across multiple research topics. The main research themes they have explored are photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, algal biology and biofuel production, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, protist diversity and phylogeny, light effects on plants, and bioenergy crop production and management.

Frequent publication venues for Wataru Sakamoto include Plant and Cell Physiology, where they have published twelve times, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY with four publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) also with four, eLife with two, and Frontiers in Plant Science with two.

The following recent papers illustrate their research focus and publication record:

  • Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity, 2021, Cell
  • Genetic analysis of chlorophyll synthesis and degradation regulated by BALANCE of CHLOROPHYLL METABOLISM, 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • RAD-seq-Based High-Density Linkage Map Construction and QTL Mapping of Biomass-Related Traits in Sorghum using the Japanese Landrace Takakibi NOG, 2020, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Structural basis for VIPP1 oligomerization and maintenance of thylakoid membrane integrity, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • DOMINANT AWN INHIBITOR Encodes the ALOG Protein Originating from Gene Duplication and Inhibits AWN Elongation by Suppressing Cell Proliferation and Elongation in Sorghum, 2022, Plant and Cell Physiology

Sakamoto has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Hiromi Kajiya-Kanegae, Shin-Ichiro Ozawa, Tsuneaki Takami, Hideki Takanashi, and Hiroyoshi Iwata, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Coordinated Regulation and Complex Formation of YELLOW VARIEGATED1 and YELLOW VARIEGATED2, Chloroplastic FtsH Metalloproteases Involved in the Repair Cycle of Photosystem II in Arabidopsis Thylakoid Membranes

    Wataru Sakamoto;Adi Zaltsman;Zach Adam;Yuichiro Takahashi

  • Protein Degradation Machineries in Plastids

    Wataru Sakamoto

  • The VAR1 locus of Arabidopsis encodes a chloroplastic FtsH and is responsible for leaf variegation in the mutant alleles.

    Wataru Sakamoto;Takayuki Tamura;Yuko Hanba-Tomita;Minoru Murata

  • The YELLOW VARIEGATED (VAR2) locus encodes a homologue of FtsH, an ATP-dependent protease in Arabidopsis.

    Katsuaki Takechi;Sodmergen;Minoru Murata;Fusao Motoyoshi

  • Cloning and molecular analysis of the Arabidopsis gene Terminal Flower 1

    S. Ohshima;M. Murata;W. Sakamoto;Y. Ogura

  • Chloroplast Biogenesis: Control of Plastid Development, Protein Import, Division and Inheritance

    Wataru Sakamoto;Shin-ya Miyagishima;Paul Jarvis

  • Ceramidases, roles in sphingolipid metabolism and in health and disease.

    Nicolas Coant;Wataru Sakamoto;Cungui Mao;Yusuf A. Hannun

  • Functional characterization of key structural genes in rice flavonoid biosynthesis

    Chun Hat Shih;Hung Chu;Lee Kwan Tang;Wataru Sakamoto

  • The Variegated Mutants Lacking Chloroplastic FtsHs Are Defective in D1 Degradation and Accumulate Reactive Oxygen Species

    Yusuke Kato;Eiko Miura;Kunio Ido;Kentaro Ifuku

  • Widespread Endogenization of Genome Sequences of Non-Retroviral RNA Viruses into Plant Genomes

    Sotaro Chiba;Hideki Kondo;Akio Tani;Daisuke Saisho

  • Highly Oxidized Peroxisomes Are Selectively Degraded via Autophagy in Arabidopsis

    Michitaro Shibata;Michitaro Shibata;Kazusato Oikawa;Kohki Yoshimoto;Kohki Yoshimoto;Maki Kondo

  • Altered mitochondrial gene expression in a maternal distorted leaf mutant of Arabidopsis induced by chloroplast mutator.

    Wataru Sakamoto;Hideki Kondo;Minoru Murata;Fusao Motoyoshi

  • Functional divergence of the TFL1‐like gene family in Arabidopsis revealed by characterization of a novel homologue

    Naozumi Mimida;Koji Goto;Yasushi Kobayashi;Takashi Araki

  • Protein quality control in chloroplasts: a current model of D1 protein degradation in the photosystem II repair cycle.

    Yusuke Kato;Wataru Sakamoto

  • Cooperative D1 Degradation in the Photosystem II Repair Mediated by Chloroplastic Proteases in Arabidopsis

    Yusuke Kato;Xuwu Sun;Lixin Zhang;Wataru Sakamoto

  • The Purple leaf (Pl) locus of rice: the Pl(w) allele has a complex organization and includes two genes encoding basic helix-loop-helix proteins involved in anthocyanin biosynthesis.

    Wataru Sakamoto;Taku Ohmori;Keisuke Kageyama;Chikara Miyazaki

  • The Balance between Protein Synthesis and Degradation in Chloroplasts Determines Leaf Variegation in Arabidopsis yellow variegated Mutants

    Eiko Miura;Yusuke Kato;Ryo Matsushima;Verónica Albrecht

  • Putative phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana induced by oxidative stress

    Manabu Sugimoto;Wataru Sakamoto

  • Leaf-variegated mutations and their responsible genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Wataru Sakamoto

  • In vivo analysis of Chlamydomonas chloroplast petD gene expression using stable transformation of beta-glucuronidase translational fusions.

    Wataru Sakamoto;Karen L. Kindle;David B. Stern

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuhiro Tsutsumi
Nobuhiro Tsutsumi University of Tokyo
Hideki Kondo
Hideki Kondo Okayama University
David B. Stern
David B. Stern Boyce Thompson Institute
Makoto Kusaba
Makoto Kusaba Hiroshima University
Ayumi Tanaka
Ayumi Tanaka Hokkaido University
Mikio Nishimura
Mikio Nishimura National Institute for Basic Biology
Maki Kondo
Maki Kondo National Institute for Basic Biology
Miyako Kusano
Miyako Kusano University of Tsukuba
Zach Adam
Zach Adam Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Masahiro Yano
Masahiro Yano National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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