Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  odahara.masaki.6akyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 31 Mar. 2004

  立教大学修士（理学）
• 31 Mar. 2007

  立教大学博士（理学）

Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

• 立教大学, 大学院理学研究科生命理学専攻博士後期課程, 修了
• 立教大学, 大学院理学研究科生命理学専攻博士前期課程, 修了

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• 立教大学, 理学部化学科, 卒業

Research History

• From Sep. 2024, To Present

  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, 特定准教授
• From Apr. 2024, To Aug. 2024

  理化学研究所, 環境資源科学研究センター, 上級研究員
• From Apr. 2018, To Mar. 2024

  理化学研究所, 環境資源科学研究センター バイオ高分子研究チーム, 研究員
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2023

  ERATO, 沼田オルガネラクラスター, グループリーダー
• From 01 Apr. 2013, To 31 Mar. 2018

  RIKKYO UNIVERSITY, College of Science Department of Life Science, Assistant Professor

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-3752-5447

• J-Global ID

  201301071500313981

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/7000004524

Research

Research Interests

• オルガネラ
• ゲノム動態
• 分子遺伝学
• バイオテクノロジー

Research Areas

• Life sciences, Plants: molecular biology and physiology

Papers

• Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Peptide-Polymer Carriers for Mitochondrial Therapeutics.

  Puja Das Karmakar; Masaki Odahara; Keiji Numata

  ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 12 Jan. 2026

  
• Induction of flowering in Arabidopsis through functional peptide-mediated FT mRNA delivery

  Masaki Odahara; Maai Mori; Shougo Ishio; Satoshi Kogawara; Keiji Numata

  Scientific Reports, 01 Jul. 2025, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Low-salinity medium for large-scale biomass production of the marine purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum.

  Shamitha Rao Morey-Yagi; Dao Duy Hanh; Miki Suzuki; Shota Kato; Geoffrey Liou; Yuki Kuroishikawa; Ayaka Yamaguchi; Hiromasa Morishita; Masaki Odahara; Keiji Numata

  PloS one, 2025

  
• Expression of spider silk protein in tobacco improves drought tolerance with minimal effects on its mechanotype.

  Shamitha Rao Morey-Yagi; Yoichi Hashida; Masanori Okamoto; Masaki Odahara; Takehiro Suzuki; Chonprakun Thagun; Choon Pin Foong; Keiji Numata

  The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, Jan. 2025

  
• Development of a Versatile Plant-Derived Mitochondrial Targeting Sequence Based on a Reporter Protein Sorting Analysis and Biological Information.

  Naoya Abe; Masaki Odahara; Shamitha Rao Morey; Keiji Numata

  ACS chemical biology, 20 Dec. 2024

  
• Analysis of marker gene transfer from chloroplasts to mitochondria in heat-shocked and selection-pressured tobacco

  Masaki Odahara; Maai Mori; Keiji Numata

  Plant Gene, Dec. 2024, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Identification of a highly efficient chloroplast-targeting peptide for plastid engineering

  Chonprakun Thagun; Masaki Odahara; Yutaka Kodama; Keiji Numata

  PLOS Biology, 19 Sep. 2024

  
• Design of an Artificial Peptide Inspired by Transmembrane Mitochondrial Protein for Escorting Exogenous DNA into the Mitochondria to Restore their Functions by Simultaneous Multiple Gene Expression

  Naoto Yoshinaga; Takaaki Miyamoto; Masaki Odahara; Noriko Takeda‐Kamiya; Kiminori Toyooka; Seia Nara; Haruna Nishimura; Feng Ling; Masayuki Su'etsugu; Minoru Yoshida; Keiji Numata

  Advanced Functional Materials, Nov. 2023

  
• A multiple shoot induction system for peptide-mediated gene delivery into plastids in Arabidopsis thaliana, Nicotiana benthamiana, and Fragaria× ananassa

  Masaki Odahara; Most Tanziman Ara; Remi Nakagawa; Yoko Horii; Shougo Ishio; Shinjiro Ogita; Keiji Numata

  Plant Biotechnology, 2023, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Functional peptide-mediated plastid transformation in tobacco, rice, and kenaf

  Masaki Odahara; Yoko Horii; Jun Itami; Kenta Watanabe; Keiji Numata

  Frontiers in Plant Science, 23 Sep. 2022, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Non-transgenic Gene Modulation via Spray Delivery of Nucleic Acid/Peptide Complexes into Plant Nuclei and Chloroplasts.

  Chonprakun Thagun; Yoko Horii; Maai Mori; Seiya Fujita; Misato Ohtani; Kousuke Tsuchiya; Yutaka Kodama; Masaki Odahara; Keiji Numata

  ACS nano, 22 Mar. 2022

  
• A Synthetic Multidomain Peptide That Drives a Macropinocytosis-Like Mechanism for Cytosolic Transport of Exogenous Proteins into Plants

  Takaaki Miyamoto; Kiminori Toyooka; Jo-Ann Chuah; Masaki Odahara; Mieko Higchi-Takeuchi; Yumi Goto; Yoko Motoda; Takanori Kigawa; Yutaka Kodama; Keiji Numata

  JACS Au, 05 Jan. 2022, Peer-reviewed

  
• Evolution of an assembly factor-based subunit contributed to a novel NDH-PSI supercomplex formation in chloroplasts

  Yoshinobu Kato; Masaki Odahara; Toshiharu Shikanai

  Nature Communications, Dec. 2021, Peer-reviewed

  
• Nanoscale Polyion Complex Vesicles for Delivery of Cargo Proteins and Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Complexes to Plant Cells

  Masaki Odahara; Kenta Watanabe; Riku Kawasaki; Kousuke Tsuchiya; Ayaka Tateishi; Yoko Motoda; Takanori Kigawa; Yutaka Kodama; Keiji Numata

  ACS Applied Nano Materials, 03 Jun. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Ultra-deep sequencing reveals dramatic alteration of organellar genomes in Physcomitrella patens due to biased asymmetric recombination

  Masaki Odahara; Kensuke Nakamura; Yasuhiko Sekine; Taku Oshima

  Communications Biology, May 2021, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Fusion Peptide-Based Biomacromolecule Delivery System for Plant Cells.

  Kenta Watanabe; Masaki Odahara; Takaaki Miyamoto; Keiji Numata

  ACS biomaterials science & engineering, 26 Apr. 2021, Peer-reviewed

  
• Imaging of the Entry Pathway of a Cell-Penetrating Peptide-DNA Complex From the Extracellular Space to Chloroplast Nucleoids Across Multiple Membranes in Arabidopsis Leaves.

  Kazusato Oikawa; Ayaka Tateishi; Masaki Odahara; Yutaka Kodama; Keiji Numata

  Frontiers in plant science, 2021, Peer-reviewed

  
• Holliday junction resolvase MOC1 maintains plastid and mitochondrial genome integrity in algae and bryophytes.

  Yusuke Kobayashi; Masaki Odahara; Yasuhiko Sekine; Takashi Hamaji; Sumire Fujiwara; Yoshiki Nishimura; Shin-Ya Miyagishima

  Plant physiology, 25 Sep. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Efficient callus induction and a temperature condition for flowering and seed setting in kenaf Hibiscus cannabinus.

  Masaki Odahara; Yoko Horii; Mitsuhiro Kimura; Keiji Numata

  Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan), 25 Mar. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Factors Affecting Organelle Genome Stability in Physcomitrella patens.

  Masaki Odahara

  Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 23 Jan. 2020, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

  
• Cell-Penetrating Peptide-Mediated Transformation of Large Plasmid DNA into Escherichia coli.

  Md Monirul Islam; Masaki Odahara; Takeshi Yoshizumi; Kazusato Oikawa; Mitsuhiro Kimura; Masayuki Su'etsugu; Keiji Numata

  ACS synthetic biology, 17 May 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Stepwise evolution of supercomplex formation with photosystem I is required for stabilization of chloroplast NADH dehydrogenase-like complex: Lhca5-dependent supercomplex formation in Physcomitrella patens.

  Yoshinobu Kato; Masaki Odahara; Yoichiro Fukao; Toshiharu Shikanai

  The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, Dec. 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• RECX Interacts with Mitochondrial RECA to Maintain Mitochondrial Genome Stability.

  Odahara M; Sekine Y

  Plant Physiology, May 2018, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• MSH1 maintains organelle genome stability and genetically interacts with RECA and RECG in the moss Physcomitrella patens

  Masaki Odahara; Yoshihito Kishita; Yasuhiko Sekine

  PLANT JOURNAL, Aug. 2017, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• Holliday junction resolvases mediate chloroplast nucleoid segregation

  Yusuke Kobayashi; Osami Misumi; Masaki Odahara; Kota Ishibashi; Masafumi Hirono; Kumi Hidaka; Masayuki Endo; Hiroshi Sugiyama; Hiroshi Iwasaki; Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa; Toshiharu Shikanai; Yoshiki Nishimura

  SCIENCE, May 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Dynamic Interplay between Nucleoid Segregation and Genome Integrity in Chlamydomonas Chloroplasts

  Masaki Odahara; Yusuke Kobayashi; Toshiharu Shikanai; Yoshiki Nishimura

  PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Dec. 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• PCR-based Assay for Genome Integrity after Methyl Methanesulfonate Damage in Physcomitrella patens

  Odahara M; Inouye T; Nishimura Y; Sekine Y

  bio-protocol, 05 Oct. 2016, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• RECA plays a dual role in the maintenance of chloroplast genome stability in Physcomitrella patens

  Masaki Odahara; Takayuki Inouye; Yoshiki Nishimura; Yasuhiko Sekine

  PLANT JOURNAL, Nov. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author

  
• RECG maintains plastid and mitochondrial genome stability by suppressing extensive recombination between short dispersed repeats.

  Odahara M; Masuda Y; Sato M; Wakazaki M; Harada C; Toyooka K; Sekine Y

  PLoS Genetics, 13 Mar. 2015, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Suppression of Repeat-Mediated Gross Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangements by RecA in the Moss Physcomitrella patens

  Masaki Odahara; Haruko Kuroiwa; Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa; Yasuhiko Sekine

  PLANT CELL, Apr. 2009, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  
• Expression and complementation analyses of a chloroplast-localized homolog of bacterial RecA in the moss Physcomitrella patens

  Takayuki Inouye; Masaki Odahara; Tomomichi Fujita; Mitsuyasu Hasebe; Yasuhiko Sekine

  BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY, May 2008, Peer-reviewed

  
• The mitochondrial genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens sheds new light on mitochondrial evolution in land plants

  Kimihiro Terasawa; Masaki Odahara; Yukihiro Kabeya; Tatsuhiko Kikugawa; Yasuhiko Sekine; Makoto Fujiwara; Naoki Sato

  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, Mar. 2007, Peer-reviewed

  
• Involvement of mitochondrial-targeted RecA in the repair of mitochondrial DNA in the moss, Physcomitrella patens

  Masaki Odahara; Takayuki Inouye; Tomomichi Fujita; Mitsuyasu Hasebe; Yasuhiko Sekine

  GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS, Feb. 2007, Peer-reviewed, Lead author

  

Misc.

• 機能性ペプチドによる大腸菌細胞内への巨大DNAの導入

  小田原真樹; 沼田圭司

  バイオサイエンスとインダストリー, Nov. 2019, Invited

  
• 葉緑体とミトコンドリアのゲノム安定性維持におけるヒメツリガネゴケMSH1の役割

  小田原真樹; 木下善仁; 勝田小夜子; 原田千鶴; 関根靖彦

  日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 11 Mar. 2014

  
• Maintenance of chloroplast genome stability by a homolog of RecA

  Masaki Odahara; Takayuki Inouye; Yoshiki Nishimura; Yasuhiko Sekine

  GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS, Dec. 2012

  
• Suppression of genome rearrangements in plant organelle

  Masaki Odahara; Yuichi Masuda; Yasuhiko Sekine

  GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS, Dec. 2009

  
• ヒメツリガネゴケミトコンドリア移行型RecAタンパク質の機能解析

  小田原真樹; 井上貴之; 黒岩晴子; 藤田知道; 長谷部光泰; 黒岩常祥; 関根靖彦

  日本植物生理学会年会要旨集, 15 Mar. 2008

  
• 植物ミトコンドリア移行型recA破壊株に見られたミトコンドリアゲノム再編成

  小田原真樹; 井上貴之; 黒岩晴子; 黒岩常祥; 関根靖彦

  生物の科学別冊, 2007, Invited

  
• Mitochondrial genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens sheds new light on the mitochondrial evolution in land plants

  TERASAWA Kimihiro; ODAHARA Masaki; KABEYA Yukihiro; KIKUGAWA Tatsuhiko; SEKINE Yasuhiko; FUJIWARA Makoto; SATO Naoki

  Journal of plant research, 01 Dec. 2006

  
• Increased DNA rearrangements in the mitochondrial genome of plant mitochondrial recA disruptant

  Masaki Odahara; Takayuki Inouye; Haruko Kuroiwa; Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa; Yasuhiko Sekine

  GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS, Dec. 2006

  
• Role of a RecA homologue functioning in the moss Physcomitrella patens chloroplasts in DNA recombination/repair.

  Takayuki Inouye; Masaki Odahara; Yasuhiko Sekine

  GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS, Dec. 2006

  
• ヒメツリガネゴケミトコンドリア移行型RecAホモログはミトコンドリアゲノムの反復配列間における組換え反応を抑制し,ゲノムの安定化に寄与する

  小田原真樹; 井上貴之; 藤田知道; 長谷部光泰; 黒岩晴子; 黒岩常祥; 関根靖彦

  日本分子生物学会年会講演要旨集, 25 Nov. 2005

  

Awards

• 07 Sep. 2017

  平瀬賞（日本植物形態学会）

Academic, Social Contribution

Committee Memberships

• From Jan. 2023, To Present

  Frontiers in Plant Science Review Editor