Nobuo Ogawa
Post-Doctoral Fellow
I am working on phosphate metabolism in yeast.
I discovered all of "the phosphate-regulated genes" by using yeast DNA microarrays.
These genes are believed to be involved in the phosphate metabolism,
and I've been trying to identify all of their functions to make a global picture
of phosphate metabolism in yeast. My recent interesting finding is that five
of the phosphate-regulated genes (PHM1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) encode the enzymes
involved in synthesis and degradation of inorganic polyphosphate which is a
mysterious polymer in the cell. I hope many of you are getting interested in
the phosphate world!
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