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Name: Norimoto Murai
Title: Professor
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Department: Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology Department
Organization: LSU AgCenter
Address 1: LSU Campus
302 Life Sciences Bldg.
Address 2: Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone Number: (225) 578-1380
Fax Number:
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Areas of Specialization/Research
Seed Storage Protein Gene Regulation (bean phaseolin and rice glutelin):
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Spatial and temporal control of gene expression
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cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements
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trans-acting transcriptional activator/repressor proteins
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Promoter mutant isolation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Structural Analysis and Nutritional Improvement of bean phaseolin:
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Structure-based protein design and computer simulation
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Heterologous protein expression and structural analysis
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Methionine/lysine enhancement and protein digestibility
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Protein folding, glycosylation, trimer formation and packaging
Crop Improvement through Transgenic Research (Rice, Bean, Cotton, and Sugarcane)
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Leguminous protein expression in transgenic rice and beans
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Enhanced resistance to herbicide, disease and insect pests
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Medicinal protein production |
Publications/Presentations/Patents
Dyer, J. M., Nelson, J. W., and Murai, N. 1995. Extensive modification for methionine enhancement in the ß-barrels do not alter structural stability of the bean seed storage protein phaseolin. J Protein Chem. 14, 665-678.
Zheng, Z., K. Sumi, K. Tanaka, and Murai, N. 1995. The bean seed storage protein ß-phaseolin is synthesized, processed and accumulated in the vacuolar type-II protein bodies of transgenic rice endosperms. Plant Physiol. 109, 777-786.
Kawagoe, Y., and Murai, N. 1992. Four distinct nuclear proteins recognize in vitro the proximal promoter of bean seed storage protein ß-phaseolin gene conferring spatial and temporal control. Plant J. 2: 927-936.
Sathasivan, K., Haughn, G. W., and Murai, N. 1991. The molecular basis of imidazolinone herbicide resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana var. Columbia. Plant Physiology. 97: 1044-1050.
Murai, N., Li, Z., Kawagoe, Y., and Hayashimoto, A. 1991. Transposition of the maize activator element in transgenic rice plants. Nucl. Acids Res., 19: 617-622.
Murai, N., Sutton, D. W., Murray, M. G., Slightom, J. L., Merlo, D. J., Reichert, N. A., Sengupta-Gopalan, C., Stock, C. A., Baker, R. F., Kemp, J. D., and Hall, T. C. 1983. Phaseolin gene from bean is expressed after transfer to sunflower via tumor-inducing plasmid vectors. Science 222: 476-482. |
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