Special Postdoctral Researcher
Ph. D
- Special Postdoctral Researcher, Molecular Bioregulation Research Team
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science - #N401 4F Bioscience Building, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
E-mail: sakuya.nakamura [at] riken.jp (Please replace [at] to @)
Personal History
- 2019.3 Ph.D, Department of Molecular and Chemical Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- 2016.4 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
- 2019.4 Visiting Research Scientist, Molecular Bioregulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
- 2019.4 JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
- 2022.4 Special Postdoctral Researcher
Keywords
- Autophagy, Photolesion, Chlorophagy, Chloroplast, Arabidopsis thaliana
Awards
- 2018.11 International Symposium on Photosynthesis and Chloroplast Biogenesis 2018 Best Poster Award
Publications
Original papers
- Kusano S*, Nakamura S, Izumi M*, Hagihara S* (2022) “Development of 1,8-naphthalimide dyes for rapid imaging of subcellular compartments in plants”, Chemical communications, 58 (11): 1685-1688, DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05798g
- Nakamura S, Hagihara S, Otomo K, Ishida H, Hidema J, Nemoto T, Izumi M* (2021) “Autophagy contributes to quality control of leaf mitochondria”, Plant Cell Physiology, 62 (2): 229-247, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa162
- Yoshitake Y, Nakamura S, Shinozaki D, Izumi M, Yoshimoto K, Ohta H, Shimojima M* (2021) “RCB-mediated chlorophagy caused by oversupply of nitrogen suppresses phosphate-starvation stress in plants”, Plant Physiology, 185: 2, 318-330, DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaa030
- Yoshimura M, Kim FS, Takise R, Kusano S, Nakamura S, Izumi M, Yagi A, Itami K, Hagihara S* (2021) “Development of potent inhibitors for strigolactone receptor DWARF 14”, Chemical Communications, 56, 14917, DOI:10.1039/D0CC01989E
- Nakamura S, Izumi M* (2020) Chlorophagy does not require PLANT U-BOX4-mediated ubiquitination. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 16: No. 3, e1861769, DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2020.1861769
- Kikuchi Y, Nakamura S, Woodson JD, Ishida H, Ling Q, Hidema J, Jarvis RP, Hagihara S, Izumi M* (2020) Chloroplast autophagy and ubiquitination combine to manage oxidative damage and starvation responses. Plant Physiology 183: 1531–1544, DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00237
- Nakamura S, Izumi M* (2019) Chlorophagy is ATG gene-dependent microautophagy process, Plant Signaling & Behavior 14: 1554469, DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2018.1558679
- Nakamura S, Hidema J, Sakamoto W, Ishida H, Izumi M* (2018) Selective elimination of membrane-damaged chloroplasts via microautophagy, Plant Physiology, 177: 1007-1026, DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00444
- Izumi M*¸ Nakamura S (2017) Partial or entire: distinct responses of two types of chloroplast autophagy. Plant Signaling & Behavior 12: e1393137, DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2017.1393137
- Izumi M*, Nakamura S (2017) Vacuolar digestion of entire damaged chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana is accomplished by chlorophagy. Autophagy 13: 1239-1240, DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2017.1310360
- Izumi M, Ishida H, Nakamura S, Hidema J* (2017) Entire photodamaged chloroplasts are transported to the central vacuole by autophagy. The Plant Cell 29: 377-394, DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00637
Review papers
- Nakamura S, Hagihara S, Izumi M* (2021) “Mitophagy in Plants”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1865 (8), 129916, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.129916
- Izumi M*, Nakamura S, Li N (2019) Autophagic turnover of chloroplasts: its roles and regulatory mechanisms in response to sugar starvation. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 280, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00280
- Nakamura S, Izumi M* (2018) Regulation of chlorophagy during photoinhibition and senescence: lessons from mitophagy. Plant Cell & Physiology, 59:1135-1143, DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcy096
- Izumi M*, Nakamura S (2018) Chloroplast Protein Turnover: The Influence of Extraplastidic Processes, Including Autophagy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19: 828, DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030828