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Contents
Contribution
Insights into the UN SDGs for young university students
Mutsuyoshi Nishimura
Former ambassador to the OECD
Former ambassador to the UN Climate Change Negotiations

FeatureESD Teacher Education Projects for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Okayama
University Drives ESD in New Directions

News・ Two Okayama University students attend One Young World (OYW) 2018 as Japanese
representatives
・ Okayama University announces its plan to offer the SiEED program designed to enhance students’abilities to identify unknown problems and create unknown solutions.
・ President Makino and two others visit the University of Michigan: Two universities agree tostrengthen their mutual collaboration, with the 70th anniversary of opening of the University ofMichigan’s Okayama Field Station (2020) approaching.
・ President Makino and Prof. Seno attend events to celebrate 150th anniversary of Wayne State
University and agree to promote mutual cooperation between the two research universities

Research Highlights
・ The importance of coral-algal symbiosis in terms of coral calcification
・ DNA as a ‘reservoir’ of phosphorus nutrient:
Plants recycle DNA in chloroplasts as a source of phosphorus under starvation
・ In-situ photo-irradiation solid-state NMR for detecting the functional changes of photoreceptorprotein structure

TopicsRadio Message from International Students (World Heartful Message)

Further information
About Okayama University

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Contribution

Insights into the UN SDGs for young university students
Mutsuyoshi Nishimura
Former ambassador to the OECD
Former ambassador to the UN Climate Change Negotiations

I would like to draw your attention to Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “Ensure
access to water and sanitation for all”. It is because most Japanese people remain unaware of what it isfor. Most Japanese take water supply and clean sanitation for granted due partly because Japan is blessedwith abundant water resources. Japanese penchant for cleanness has made the “wash-let” toilet a must in
all households, and this in a matter of decades.
So we remain ignorant of why this historic UN document ranks the goal of water and sanitation quite
high on the list. Just look at the dire reality:-

Three out of ten people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack accessto safely managed sanitation facilities.

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At least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation.

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Women and girls are responsible for water collection in 80 per cent of households without access to wateron premises.
Most Japanese people can never imagine how humiliating and shaming it is for a little girl to go hiding into
the bushes when needed. We never think about her anxiety. It never occurs to us that this is an issue ofhuman dignity. Yet, as the above facts tell us, almost 900 million people, young boys and girls in Africa
and elsewhere don’t have closed toilets in their schools. This is the sad reality for all those boys and girls,
all enthused with learning in their schools to which they walk miles every day.
Then in Goal 4 the SDGs refers to “Quality Education”.
empowering women and girls in Goal 5.

I am glad it also discusses gender equality and

I am glad because those coincide exactly with what enlightening voices I heard from an Indian advocateand visionary actions achieved by a professor in Bangladesh.
Several years ago, I had a chance to join a discussion in a group of experts and academics debating thepossible global population explosion and resulting challenges for human welfare and earth sustainability.
I was struck by the opinion of an Indian philanthropist. This elderly gentleman who devoted his wholeprofessional life to public work related to poverty eradication and development was exposing his life-longconviction that educating young girls and women is the only solution to avert a global population crisis
and a way forward to affordability.
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Bangladeshi university professor called Muhammad Yunus who started “Grameen Bank” in 1976, a
microfinance and community development bank.
His lending policy is unique and legendary. They make small loans to impoverished villagers without
requiring collateral, something bankers would never normally do. His microloans were almost all given topoor women in villages to help them start tiny businesses. Just as an illustration, his microcredit would
allow a woman to buy an old sawing machine and start a business of repairing closes of fellow villager; aseminal capitalistic step in the value-adding process started, and poverty started to be dealt with slowly
but surely. The fact that 30 years later in 2006, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizespeaks volumes.
I just spelled out only some examples that show how SDGs are on the ball. SDGs are an excellent
compilation of challenges for all of us to rise up to. And human endeavor abounds on a global scale, albeit
with no small number of failures. But this should not discourage nations, local communities, civil societies,
academic communities, and above all young people from rising to the challenge.
Most particularly young university students are today obligated to prove to the world and mostparticularly poorer part of the world that education works. In particular, that education works to reducepoverty. It works to reduce man-made stress to transfer a pristine planet to the generations to come. The
UN SDGs are not just an additional reader. They are beacons of light for you to act.

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FeatureESD Teacher Education Projects for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals:
Okayama University Drives ESD in New Directions

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), which UNESCO leads and coordinates globally since 2005,
is currently promoted worldwide through the Global Action Programme (GAP) on ESD as well as throughthe Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education under Target 4.7. ESD is also a vital means of
implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and a key enabler of all the Sustainable
Development Goals.
Okayama University is the only university in Asia to hold the UNITWIN/UNESCO chair programme on
ESD and is a key member of the Okayama Regional Centre of Expertise on ESD (RCE Okayama)
established by the United Nations University.

Okayama University has energetically promoted teacher

education for ESD, and in November 2014 at the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, the university
cooperated with the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions (INTEI) associated with
the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability at York University Canada toorganize the Eighth International Conference of the network.
Building on these achievements, Okayama University launched the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Programme (2017-2019), “Formation of International Center of Excellence
to Promote Teacher Education on ESD” with the aim for seven countries in Asia (China, Indonesia, Japan,
Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Republic of Korea) to establish core institutions on teacher education
for ESD, create academic networks for ESD, and foster future generations of ESD researchers.
In order to further promote international collaboration foradvancing teacher education on ESD in Asia-Pacific region,
Okayama University and UNESCO Bangkok jointly organized
the “Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of Teacher Education on
ESD: Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
through Education” in Okayama on 27-29 November 2018.
The meeting brought together people from the education sector
from 19 countries in the Asia-Pacific region who are involved in

Okayama University President
explains the aims of the meeting.

Hirofumi

Makinotraining of teachers and leaders in charge of implementing ESD.
The participants worked on the development of “Development of Asia-Pacific Frameworks for Teacher
Education Programme on ESD”, which will provide goals for teacher education for ESD. The frameworks
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ESD” in Okayama on 22-25 November 2019, which is a gateway to the GAP 2030 on ESD.

Participants at the meetingGroup photograph of the participants.

Further information
Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of Teacher Education for ESD
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/news/index_id8279.html
JSPS Core-to-Core Programme
http://ceteesd.ed.okayama-u.ac.jp/

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News

Two Okayama University students attend One Young World (OYW) 2018 as Japanese
representatives

Ms. Wakana Abe, a senior in the Faculty of Letters and Ms.
Hiromi Ouchida, a senior in the Matching Program (MP) Course
attended the One Young World (OYW) 2018, which was held in
The Hague, the Netherlands from October 17 to 20, as Japanesedelegation members. As an official OYW partner, Okayama
University has sent its two student representatives and Vice
President for Global Engagement Strategy, Mr. Atsufumi Yokoi
as an observer for four consecutive years since the youth summit

An opening ceremony was held at Peace Palace

held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2015 (followed by OYW 2016 in
Ottawa, Canada and OYW 2017 in Bogotá, Colombia, SouthAmerica).
During the summit, Ms. Abe and Ms. Ouchida participated invarious events, including plenary sessions, workshops andnetworking events, and discussed various topics within theframework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals,

Opening speech by Queen Maxima of The
Netherlands

including climate change, war and peace, education, humanrights, leadership and global business. At plenary sessions, theylistened to speeches by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr.
Muhammad Yunus, Unilever CEO Dr. Paul Polman, and world
leaders and representatives from various countries. They also
learned about the latest global industry-academia-government
collaboration initiatives. For example, they learned about Lead
2030, a program designed to support activities and projects ofyoung people helping to achieve SDGs with collaboration of the

A scene of the venue

United Nations, the world youth summit One Young World andworld-leading companies through a presentation by Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, the UN SecretaryGeneral’s Envoy on Youth, who leads the Young Leaders Initiative, an effort to achieve SDGs.

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Further information
Okayama University (Japanese page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/tp/news/news_id8068.html

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News

Okayama University announces its plan to offer the SiEED program designed toenhance students’ abilities to identify unknown problems and create unknown
solutions.

On

December 6, Okayama University

and Stripe

International Inc. held a joint press conference in Tokyo toannounce a plan to offer the SiEED program, which isdesigned to promote the creation of new businesses in
Okayama by providing students with a new learning forum
where they can be inspired to create a better future.
The speakers at the press conference were Okayama
University’s President Hirofumi Makino; Dr. Yasutomo

Director Nasu, President Makino, President Ishikawa,
Mr. Hokamura and Mr. Yamashita (from left)

Nasu, Director of the Office for Innovative Medicine at theOrganization for Research Promotion & Collaboration, whoheads the SiEED Program Working Group; Mr. Yasuharu
Ishikawa, President, CEO and Representative Director of
Stripe International Inc.; Mr. Hitoshi Hokamura, Partner at
Scrum Ventures and former Chairman of Evernote Japan,
who serves as an executive advisor for this program; and Mr.
Tetsuya Yamashita, Liaison Officer for 500 Kobe
Accelerator, who serves as the program director. They all

President Makino talks about the background andpurpose of the program opening

vigorously expressed their thoughts and aspirations about
the SiEED Program, an innovative education program thatwill begin to be offered in April 2019.
Mr. Ishikawa said, “I’ve been conducting my business withthe hope of spreading something good across society.
Through the SiEED program, I’d like to help develop
people.” President Makino said, “I’d like our faculty andstudents to change their mindsets through this program.

Director Nasu stating his feelings about the program

We will continue to develop students into globallycompetent individuals.”

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Okayama University will offer four liberal arts education
courses under this program in the first and second semesterof the academic year 2019.

A discussion by the speakers

Further information
Okayama University (English page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/news/index_id8272.html
Okayama University (Japanese page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/tp/news/news_id8141.html

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News

President Makino and two others visit the University of Michigan: Two universities
agree to strengthen their mutual collaboration, with the 70th anniversary of
opening of the University of Michigan’s Okayama Field Station (2020) approaching.

On October 29, President Hirofumi Makino, Vice President for
Global Engagement Strategy Atsufumi Yokoi, and Professor
Masaharu Senoo, Dean of

the Graduate School ofInterdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems,
visited the University of Michigan.
The year 2020 will mark the 70th anniversary of opening of
the University of Michigan’s Okayama Field Station, which
was the only American center of Japanese studies establishedin Japan back then.

Five months prior to this visit, on June

Commemorative photo with Senior Associate Dean
Joseph C. Kolars and others.

1, Dr. Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Director of the University ofMichigan Center for Japanese Studies, and his companion
visited Okayama University to discuss possible futureinteraction and collaboration between the two universities
with President Makino and other university officials. The
purpose of this visit in October was to discuss a variety ofissues to further promote interaction and collaboration
between the two universities.
President Makino and two others visited various institutions

At the Japan Center for Michigan University.
Professor Senoo, Vice President Yokoi, Director
Tsutsui and President Makino.(from left)of the University of Michigan, including the University ofMichigan Health System (UMHS), which has a partnershipagreement with Okayama University’s Medical School, theUniversity of Michigan Medical Center and the University ofMichigan Center for Japanese Studies, to discuss with officials
at each institution how to promote interaction andcollaboration for a better future for the two universities.
President Makino reading the note of McArthur's
supreme commander hold by University ofMichigan

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Further information
Okayama University (English page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/news/index_id8275.html

Okayama University (Japanese page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/tp/news/news_id8156.html
Presentation by President Makino at The President's
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News

President Makino and Prof. Seno attend events to celebrate 150th anniversary ofWayne State University and agree to promote mutual cooperation between the two
research universities

President Hirofumi Makino and Professor Masaharu Seno,
Dean of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science andEngineering in Health Systems were invited to attend theevents to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Wayne State
University(WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. Under a partnershipagreement, Okayama University and WSU have collaborated
in a variety of ways.
The anniversary events were held for three days from October
24 to 26. On the first day, a welcome reception was hosted by

Celebrate the summit between the two university
president (Associate Vice President Ezzeddine,
President Makino, President Wilson and Professor
Seno (from left))

Dr. Ahmad Ezzeddine, Associate Vice President for
Educational Outreach and International Programs andSenior Associate to the President for Special Initiatives at
WSU and Mrs. Ezzeddine. At the reception, participants
including the president and vice president from Riga
Technical

University(Latvia),

WSU’s

other

partner

institution, shared information about their education,
research, and social contribution activities. This reception
helped strengthen networks among partner institutions.

Celebrate the summit at medical school (President
Makino, Director Matherly, Professor Seno, Professor
Ratnam and Manager Assarian (from left))

On the final day, through the good offices of WSU’s President
Roy Masao Wilson, President Makino and Prof. Seno held ameeting with Dr. Ezzeddine in the morning. During themeeting, they discussed how to strengthen mutual relations
to further develop the two universities and agreed to promotemutual cooperation in a wide variety of areas.
President Makino also had an opportunity to discuss things
with President Wilson. The discussions with President Wilson
and other responsible officials at WSU helped deepen the

Celebrate the summit at IBio (Professor Seno,
President Makino and Vice President Lanier (fromleft))

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current situation and future prospects of WSU. Okayama
University will further enhance mutual relations with WSU
and make its education, research, and social contribution
activities more global.

A monument built inside the Wayne State University
campus. 1868 of the founding year is engraved.

Further information
Okayama University (English page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/news/index_id8178.html
Okayama University (Japanese page)
http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/tp/news/news_id8076.html

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Research Highlights

The importance of coral-algal symbiosis in terms of coral calcification
Reef building corals are well known for their vigorous calcification, which supports high biodiversity incoral reefs and is enabled by their symbiotic relationship with photosynthesizing zooxanthellae.
However, mechanisms confirming interaction between symbiont photosynthesis and coral calcification
have not been fully elucidated.
Mayuri Inoue and colleagues at Okayama University, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, University of the
Ryukyus, Geological Survey of Japan, The University of Tokyo, and Universität Münster measured
chemical components and isotopic compositions in the skeletons of primary polyp of Acropora digitiferawith and without zooxanthellae and found that only uraniumcalcium ratio (U/Ca; used as a proxy for calcification fluid pH) was
systematically different between symbiont and asymbiont primarypolyps.
The researchers conducted three culture experiments using
symbiont and asymbiont primary polyps for a period of 10 days inwhich temperature, salinity and, pCO 2 were controlled.. Then
multiple geochemical tracers (U/Ca, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, δ18O, δ13C,

and δ44Ca) in skeletons of cultured corals were analyzed.
As a result of analyzing multiple geochemical tracers, a clear andsystematic decrease in skeletal U/Ca ratio, which is used as a proxyfor calcification fluid pH, was observed, indicating a higher pH of
the fluid in symbiotic compared to asymbiotic polyps.
This study clarified that the critical effect on coral calcification
caused by symbiotic algae is the increase of pH of the calcifying
fluid by photosynthesis. Therefore coral bleaching caused byenvironmental stresses, such as global warming, would lead toa reduction of coral calcification and hence growth of coral

Figure caption: Growth, U/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios ofsymbiont and asymbiont primary polyps reared under
the temperature controlled experiment.

reefs.

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Reference:・ Authors: Mayuri Inoue, Takashi Nakamura, Yasuaki Tanaka, Atsushi Suzuki, Yusuke Yokoyama, Hodaka
Kawahata, Kazuhiko Sakai and Nikolaus Gussone.
・ Title of original paper: A simple role of coral-algal symbiosis in coral calcification based on multiple
geochemical tracers
・ Journal, volume, pages and year: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 235, 76-88 (2018).
・ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.016
・ Journal website:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.05.016
・ Affiliations: Division of Earth Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama
University
・ Department website: https://www.gnst.okayama-u.ac.jp/en/
・ Okayama University Scientific Achievement Repository:
http://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/56411

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Research Highlights

DNA as a ‘reservoir’ of phosphorus nutrient:
Plants recycle DNA in chloroplasts as a source of phosphorus under starvation

It is well known that nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) are the three macro-nutrients necessary
for plant growth, and are the main components of fertilizer. Among them, phosphorus has recently
received global attention as it is derived from limited rock mining, and its overloading gives rise to waterpollution. To resolve these problems, it is important for a deeper understanding of how crops (plants)
efficiently use phosphorus. In cells phosphorus is incorporated as inorganic phosphate, and major
phosphate-containing macromolecules include nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), phospholipids, andphosphoproteins.
In this study, Wataru Sakamoto and colleagues focused on DNAs kept in ‘endosymbiotic organelles’,namely, chloroplasts and mitochondria. These small organelles are considered to evolve from theendosymbiosis of ancestral bacteria, which happened in ca. 1.5 billion years ago. To support this evolution,
it is known that remnant DNAs exist in these organelles. These organelle DNAs exist highly abundantly
in chloroplasts, that accounts for more than 30% of total DNA in leaves. Sakamoto’s group hypothesizedthat these extra DNAs in organelles could be degraded and recycled.
In this report they describe the enzyme called DPD1, that
degrades organelle DNAs in a model plant, Arabidopsis andin poplar trees. DPD1 is well conserved among seed plants
and degrades abundant chloroplast DNAs, when plants
undergo ‘senescence’ or ‘leaf fall’, in which leaves degrade
numerous macronutrients and recycle them in their uppertissues. Interestingly, Arabidopsis mutants lacking DPD1,
when placed under phosphate-limited conditions, sufferedfrom poor growth, produced less seeds, and disturbed lessphosphorus relocation to upper tissues (Figure 1).
The results obtained in this research revisit the old
implication envisioned by Friedrich Miescher, a Swissbiochemist who first identified DNA biochemically in the late
19th century. He recognized DNA as a molecule enriched

Figure 1. Purple leaf coloring observed as a typical symptomof phosphorus starvation. The Arabidopsis mutant lacking
DPD1 nuclease (dpd1-1) displays purple leaves upon
phosphorus starvation (right), where as the wild-type
Arabidopsis plant (Col) does not. The results indicate that
DPD1 acts in providing internal phosphorus, when plants arelimited by external phosphorus.

with phosphorus, unlike protein, and noted that DNA (he originally called it ‘nuclein’) might be aphosphor-storing molecule. Needless to say, DNA is well known to code genes, but his original thought on
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DNA as a phosphor-storing molecule may thus be applicable to abundant organelle DNAs.
The findings uncover an elaborate way of adaptation to harsh environments in plants, which may lead tothe improvement of crops connected to efficient phosphate use (Figure 2).

Figure 2. A proposed model of DPD1 exonuclease involved in leaf senescence and phosphorus deprivation. By degrading excessive
chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs), the degradation products may act in providing additional phospho-compounds to the upper tissues. The
degradation products may also act in stimulating nuclear gene expression, that would lead to what is known as the response to phosphatestarvation.

Reference:・ Authors: Tsuneaki Takami, Norikazu Ohnishi, Yuko Kurita, Shoko Iwamura, Miwa
Kusaba, Tetsuro Mimura, and Wataru Sakamoto

Ohnishi, Makoto

・ Title of original paper: Organelle DNA degradation contributes to the efficient use of phosphate in seedplants・ Journal, volume, pages and year: Nature Plants 4, 1044-1055 (2018).
・ Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1038/s41477-018-029
・ Journal website:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0291-x
・ Affiliations: Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University
・ Department website:
http://www.rib.okayama-u.ac.jp/
・ Okayama University Scientific Achievement Repository:
http://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/56412

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Research Highlights

In-situ photo-irradiation solid-state NMR for detecting the functional changes ofphotoreceptor-protein structure

Microbial rhodopsin is an attractive target protein inbiophysical chemistry in order to understand therelationships between structure, dynamics, and functions.
Although a microbial rhodopsin “phoborhodopsin” is anegative phototaxis receptor protein with a retinal
chromophore whose function has been well studied by
Yuki Sudo, the structure of the chromophore, especiallyintheshort-lived

photo-intermediates,

are

not

understood (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Structure of photoborhodopsin with 7 transmembrane α-helices and its retinal chromophore.

Now, Akira Naito, Izuru Kawamura and colleagues at Yokohama National University, Kobe
Pharmaceutical University, Hokkaido University, and Okayama University have shown that in-situ photoirradiation solid-state NMR can detect several early photo-intermediates with structure of chromophorein phoborhodopsin.
Phoborhodopsin with 13C stable isotope-labeled retinal wasreconstituted into lipid bilayers. The sample was packed into an
NMR tube, and the sample was photo-irradiated under the
magic angle spinning condition, which is a high-resolution
technique. The in-situ photo-irradiation solid-state NMR
apparatus allows irradiation of the samples with extremely highefficiency and enables observation of short-lived photointermediates in the stationary trapped state (Fig. 2).

Fig.2. In situ photo-irradiation solid-state NMR apparatus
with magic angle spinning arrangement.

The chemical shifts of the 13C NMR signal of 13C labeled retinals
were carefully detected and analyzed under photo-irradiation. Consequently, short-lived M- and Ointermediates were detected with a newly detected N’-intermediate, which turned out to have beentransformed from the M-intermediate (Fig. 3).
The structures of retinals for the short-lived M-, O- and N’-intermediates were revealed to be (13-cis, 15syn), (13-trans, 15-syn) and (13-cis), respectively. This challenging photo-irradiation NMR spectroscopy
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relation with function. Eventually, it will lead to understanding the photoactivation mechanism at themolecular level.

Fig. 3. Photoreaction cycle of retinal of phoborhosdopsin. NMR signals of
short-lived M-, O- and N’ intermediates were observed in the first time inthis research highlight.

Highlighted paper・ Y. Makino, I. Kawamura, T. Okitsu, A. Wada, N. Kamo, Y. Sudo, K. Ueda, A. Naito. (2018) Retinal
configuration of ppR intermediates revealed by photoirradiation solid-state NMR and DFT. Biophys. J.
115, 72-83.
Related publications

・ Y. Sudo and J. L. Spudich (2006) Three strategically placed hydrogen-bonding residues convert a proton
pump into a sensory receptor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 103, 16129–16134.
・ Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori, and J.L. Spudich. (2006) Functional Importance of the InterhelicalHydrogen Bond between Thr204 and Tyr174 of Sensory Rhodopsin II and Its Alteration during the
Signaling Process. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 34239-34245.
・ H. Yomoda, Y. Makino, Y. Tomonaga, T. Hidaka, I. Kawamura, T. Okitsu, A. Wada, Y. Sudo, A. Naito. Color
Discriminating Retinal Configurations of Sensory Rhodopsin I by Photo-Irradiation Solid State NMR
Spectroscopy. (2014) Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53 (27) 6960-6964.
・ Y. Tomonaga, T. Hidaka, I. Kawamura, T. Nishio, K. Osawa, T. Okitsu, A. Wada, Y. Sudo, N. Kamo, A.
Ramamoorthy, A. Naito.
・ An Active Photo-Receptor Intermediate Revealed by in-situ Photo-Irradiated Solid-State NMR
Spectroscopy. (2011) Biophys. J. 101 (10) L50-52.
・ Okayama University Scientific Achievement Repository: http://ousar.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/56413

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TopicsRadio Message from International Students (World Heartful Message)
Okayama University was broadcasted an internet radio
program in which international students who have cometo study at Okayama University from countries all over
the world talked on topics such as their life asinternational students, what it is like to live in Okayama
City, and their research themes. The broadcasts were
produced in English or the native languages of thestudents.
Mr. Nguyen Dang Qui of the Graduate School ofEnvironmental and Life Sciences from Republic ofVietnam talked about his research and plans for the
future.

Mr. Nguyen Dang Qui (right)

Further information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjhwTtQ3TpM

Radio Message from International Students
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Okayama University is one of the largest comprehensive universities inJapan with roots going back to the Medical Training Place sponsored by the
Lord of Okayama and established in 1870. Now with 1,300 faculty and13,000 students, the University offers courses in specialties ranging frommedicine and pharmacy to humanities and physical sciences.
Okayama University is located in the heart of Japan approximately 3 hours
west of Tokyo by Shinkansen.
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