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.)

Ruhr University Bochum

Collaborative Publication

  1. 1.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


  1. 2.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

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  1. 3.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


  1. 4.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


  1. 5.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


  1. 6.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

WWU Münster

School of Science, Osaka University

Dr. Hirozo Oh-oka



Collaborations between between Bochum and Osaka are supported by Osaka University

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.