Tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in higher plants

R Tanaka, A Tanaka - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Tetrapyrroles play vital roles in various biological processes, including photosynthesis and
respiration. Higher plants contain four classes of tetrapyrroles, namely, chlorophyll, heme, …

Chlorophyll metabolism

A Tanaka, R Tanaka - Current opinion in plant biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Since the 1970s, researchers have proposed several regulatory pathways governing
chlorophyll metabolism, but only recently have the underlying molecular mechanisms been …

The cell biology of tetrapyrroles: a life and death struggle

N Mochizuki, R Tanaka, B Grimm, T Masuda… - Trends in plant …, 2010 - cell.com
Tetrapyrroles such as chlorophyll and heme are co-factors for essential proteins involved in
a wide variety of crucial cellular functions. Nearly 2% of the proteins encoded by the …

Chlorophyll a oxygenase (CAO) is involved in chlorophyll b formation from chlorophyll a

A Tanaka, H Ito, R Tanaka… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Chlorophyll b is an ubiquitous accessory pigment in land plants, green algae, and prochlorophytes.
Its biosynthesis plays a key role in the adaptation to various light environments. We …

Rice NON-YELLOW COLORING1 is involved in light-harvesting complex II and grana degradation during leaf senescence

…, R Tanaka, H Hirochika, M Nishimura, A Tanaka - The Plant …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Chlorophyll degradation is an aspect of leaf senescence, which is an active process to
salvage nutrients from old tissues. non-yellow coloring1 (nyc1) is a rice (Oryza sativa) stay-green …

Identification of a Vinyl Reductase Gene for Chlorophyll Synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana and Implications for the Evolution of Prochlorococcus Species

N Nagata, R Tanaka, S Satoh, A Tanaka - The Plant Cell, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Chlorophyll metabolism has been extensively studied with various organisms, and almost
all of the chlorophyll biosynthetic genes have been identified in higher plants. However, only …

Two short‐chain dehydrogenase/reductases, NON‐YELLOW COLORING 1 and NYC1‐LIKE, are required for chlorophyll b and light‐harvesting complex II …

…, R Morita, S Katsuma, M Nishimura, A Tanaka… - The Plant …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Yellowing, which is related to the degradation of chlorophyll and chlorophyll–protein complexes,
is a notable phenomenon during leaf senescence. NON‐YELLOW COLORING1 (NYC1…

Cloning and functional expression of the gene encoding the key enzyme for chlorophyll b biosynthesis (CAO) from Arabidopsis thaliana

U Oster, R Tanaka, A Tanaka, W Rüdiger - The Plant Journal, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Chlorophyll (Chl) biosynthesis and degradation are the only biochemical processes on Earth
that can be directly observed from satellites or other planets. The bulk of the Chls is found …

[HTML][HTML] Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes

R Tanaka, A Tanaka - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2011 - Elsevier
Chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b are the major constituents of the photosynthetic apparatus in
land plants and green algae. Chlorophyll a is essential in photochemistry, while chlorophyll …

Arabidopsis STAY-GREEN, Mendel's Green Cotyledon Gene, Encodes Magnesium-Dechelatase

Y Shimoda, H Ito, A Tanaka - The Plant Cell, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Pheophytin a is an essential component of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms because the
primary charge separation between chlorophyll a and pheophytin a is the first step in the …