Academic Staff and Fellows
- SAGA Yoshitaka
- Professor Doctor of Engineering
- Department/Science Graduate school/Science
We focus on the mechanisms of photobiological reactions, such as photosynthesis, at the molecular level. In addition, we develop photofunctional nanomaterials that will contribute to solve energy and environmental issues.
Elucidation of photosynthetic mechanism at the molecular level
| Research Area | Photobiological Chemistry |
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| Research Interests | (1)Biochemical and Biophysical Studies on Structure-Function Relationship of Photosynthetic Proteins (2)Contol of photofunctions of Natural Photosynthetic Systems (3)Development of Artificial Photosynthetic Systems (4)Utilization of biomass by photochemical methodology |
| Selected Publications |
(1) Y. Saga, K. Hamanishi, T. Yamamoto, K。 Hinago, Y. Nagasawa Conversion of B800 bacteriochlorophyll a to 3-acetyl chlorophyll a in light-harvesting complexes 3 by in situ oxidation Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2023) 127, 2683-2689. (2) Y. Saga, K. Hamanishi Effects of detergents on the spectral features of B820 bacteriochlorophyll a in light-harvesting complexes 3 ACS Omega (2022) 7, 29231-29235. (3) Y. Saga, Y. Otsuka, A. Tanaka, Y. Masaoka, T. Hidaka, Y. Nagasawa Energy transfer dynamics in light-harvesting complex 2 variants possessing oxidized B800 bacteriochlorophyll a Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2021) 125, 6830–6836. (4) E. Elias, N. Liguori, Y. Saga, J. Schäfers, R. Croce Functional harvesting of far-red light in plant antenna complexes incorporating chlorophyll d Biomacromolecules (2021) 22, 3313–3322. |
| Research and Achievements | |
| Education (Undergraduate Course) |
The University of Tokyo |
| Education (Master's/Doctral Course) |
The University of Tokyo |
Biological Chemistry Laboratory
saga（at）chem.kindai.ac.jp
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