Germany-IPR Project

Project overview

Since 2009, collaboration projects between Germany and Japan has kept expanding. We exchange several students and senior researchers occasionally, between Osaka and Bochum. Profs. Matthias Rögner and Thomas Happe are guest professors in our Institute from 2010 until 2015. Our international collaborative grant was awarded to Prof. Michael Hippler in 2014. Since then, we are collaborating very tightly by exchanging Ph.D. students between Münster and Osaka. The Deputy Director of Systems Biology German, University College Dublin, and the Director of Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan, with the objective of promoting cooperation in the fields of academic research, agree to conclude academic exchange.

Recent events

Prof. Kurisu (IPR) paticipated in Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) JAPAN SCIENCE DAYS 2018 on 5th-7th July 2018 in Germany. During the conference, the agreement on academic exchange between the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB and IPR concluded in October 2017 was renewed in accordance with the change of the Director of IPR and the Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, RUB.

Collaborators

Ruhr University Bochum

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rögner
Prof. Dr. Thomas Happe
Prof. Dr. Eckhart Hofmann
Prof. Dr. Danja Schünemann
Dr. Marc Nowaczyk
Dr. Anja Hemschemeier

WWU Munster

Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler
Prof. Dr. Iris Finkemeier
Dr. Christian Fufezan
Dr. Michael Sperling
Dr. Stefan Weinl

IPR, Osaka University

Prof. Dr. Genji Kurisu
Prof. Dr. Toshiharu Hase
Prof. Dr. Haruki Nakamura
Dr. Hidaki Tanaka
Dr. Yong-Ho Lee
Prof. Takahisa Ikegami (currently, Yokohama City Univ.)

School of Science, Osaka University

Dr. Hirozo Oh-oka

Collaborative publication

1. H.Kubota-Kawai, R.Mutoh, K.Shinmura, P. Sétif, MM. Nowaczyk, M. Rögner, T. Ikegami, H. Tanaka, G.Kurisu. X-ray structure of an asymmetrical trimeric ferredoxin-photosystem I complex. Nature Plants, (2018) 4, 218-224 (Press release).
2. A. K. Hochmal, K. Zinzius, R. Charoenwattanasatien, P. Gäbelein, R. Mutoh, H. Tanaka, S. Schulze, G. Liu, M. Scholz, A. Nordhues, J. N. Offenborn, G. Finazzi, C. Fufezan, K. Huang, G. Kurisu, M. Hippler. Calredoxin represents a novel type of calcium-dependent sensor-responder connected to redox regulation in the chloroplast. Nature Commun., (2016) 7, 11847.
3. J. Esselborn, N. Muraki, K. Klein, V. Engelbrecht, N. Metzler-Nolte, U.-P. Apfel, E. Hofmann, G. Kurisu, T. Happe. A structural view of synthetic cofactor integration into [FeFe]-hydrogenases. Chem. Sci., (2016) 7, 959-968 (Highlight at Osaka University HP).
4. R. Mutoh, N. Muraki, K. Shinmura, H. Kubota-Kawai, Y.H. Lee, M.M. Nowaczyk, M. Rögner, T. Hase, T. Ikegami, G. Kurisu. X-ray Structure and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of the Interaction Sites of the Ga-substituted Cyanobacterial Ferredoxin. Biochemistry (2015) 54, 6052-6061.
5. A. Korste, H. Wulfhorst, T. Ikegami, M.M. Nowaczyk, R. Stoll. Solution structure of the NDH-1 complex subunit CupS from Thermosynechococcus elongatus. Biochim Biophys Acta. (2015) 1847, 1212-1219.
6. A. Korste, H. Wulfhorst, T. Ikegami, M.M. Nowaczyk, R. Stoll. 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift assignments of the NDH-1 complex subunit CupS. Biomol NMR Assign. (2015) 9, 169-171.
7. P. Liauw, T. Mashiba, M. Kopczak, K. Wiegand, N. Muraki, H. Kubota, Y. Kawano, M. Ikeuchi, T. Hase, M. Roegner and G. Kurisu. Cloning, expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of the ferredoxin-NAD(P)+ reductase from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F. (2012) 68, 1048-1051.