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Organelle Biology Lab
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A lab that explores how chloroplasts are formed and how proteins are transported into them.
AboutAbout the lab
How are chloroplasts formed, and how do they support plants?
The Organelle Biology Lab studies how chloroplasts are formed and how they support the life activities of plants.
Plastids, typified by chloroplasts, are intracellular organelles specific to plants and algae, and the lab investigates the functions and biosynthesis of the proteins that work in them.
The lab approaches its research from various angles, including plant molecular cell biology, plant physiology, protein chemistry, and structural biology, in collaboration with groups in Japan and abroad.
The lab belongs to the Institute for Protein Research at Osaka University, and graduate students join the research by entering the Department of Biological Sciences in the Graduate School of Science.
Key terms
- Plastid
- An intracellular organelle specific to plants and algae, typified by the chloroplast
- Organelle
- The term for a small structure inside a cell. The chloroplast is one of them
- Cytosol
- The part of the cell outside organelles such as chloroplasts
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's central theme is the question of how chloroplasts are formed and how they support the life activities of plants. In plant chloroplasts, more than 2,000 types of proteins are placed in the right locations at the right times according to their functions, allowing chloroplasts to perform the roles plants need, such as photosynthetic reactions.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Organelle Biology Lab are faculty, collaborative researchers, technical assistants, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2024
- Associate ProfessorMasato Nakai
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Chloroplast in leaf of Anemone sp TEM 12000x” and3k and caper437 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Transport of chloroplast proteins and their conversion into functional molecules: “Lime chloroplasts” Mjolk1 / CC0 (cropped)
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