Division of Cold-response Biology

Shin-ichiro EJIRI

• Specialty：Molecular Biology

  　　

• Research Interests：
  
  1. Mechanism of cold responce in crops.
  2. Translational control and its application.

• Recent Publications：
  
  1. Kamiie, K., Nomura, Y., Kobayashi, S., Taira, H., Kobayashi, K., Matsuzawa, H., Yamashita, T., Kidou, S. and Ejiri, S. (2002)
     Cloning and expression of silk gland elongation factor 1γ in Escherichia coli. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 66: 558-565.
     
  2. Ejiri, S. (2002)
     Moonlighting functions of polypeptide elongation factor 1: From actin bundling to zinc finger protein R1-associated nuclear localization. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 66: 1-21.
     
  3. Kobayashi, S., Kidou, S. and Ejiri, S. (2001)
     Detection and characterization of glutathione S-transferase activity in rice EF-1ββ'γ and EF-1γ expressed in E.coli. Biochem. Biophysi. Res. Commun. 288: 509-514.　[Summary]
     
  4. Kamiie, K., Taira, H., Kobayashi, K., Yamashita, T., Kidou, S. and Ejiri, S. (1999)
     Expression of elongation factor 1β' in Escherichia coli and its interaction with elongation factor 1α from silk gland. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 63: 666-671.
  5. Nakamura, H., Tokairin, Y., Hidaka, S., Ejiri, S. and Tsutsumi, K. (1999)
     Structural variations of the aldolase gene region in different rice cultivars. Breeding Sci. 49: 33-37.
  6. Kidou, S., Tsukamoto, S., Kobayashi, S. and Ejiri, S. (1998) Isolation and characterization of a rice cDNA encoding the γ-subunit of translation elongation factor 1B (eEF1Bγ). FEBS Lett. 434: 382-386.
  7. Terui, Y., Tsutsumi, K., Kidou, S., Sawazaki, T., Kuroiwa, Y., Yamaki, M. and Ejiri, S. (1998)
     A novel variant of translation elongation factor-1β: isolation and characterization of the rice gene encoding EF-1β2. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1442: 369-372.