Tatsuru Masuda
Dr. Masuda is a Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research centers on regulating photosynthetic tetrapyrrole pigments, such as chlorophylls and hemes. Because of their unique properties in photosynthesis and respiration, the strict regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis in plant cells is the heart of chloroplast biogenesis. By taking biochemical and molecular biological approaches, he discovered a coordinated transcriptional system of photosynthesis-related genes essential for assembling functional photosynthetic apparatus. By modulating this transcriptional system, he established a technology to produce functional chloroplasts even in non-photosynthetic plant tissues. He also developed a new methodology for heme detection, which became a standard assay in most organisms. He studies novel aspects of heme functions in plant cells.
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