2015

Diversity of Active States in TMT Opsins Sakai K, Yamashita T, Imamoto Y, Shichida Y PLoS One. 2015 Oct 22;10(10):e0141238.

Diversification of non-visual photopigment parapinopsin in spectral sensitivity for diverse pineal functions Koyanagi M, Wada S, Kawano-Yamashita E, Hara Y, Kuraku S, Kosaka S, Kawakami K, Tamotsu S, Tsukamoto H, Shichida Y, Terakita A BMC Biol. 2015 Sep 15;13(1):73.

Helical rearrangement of photoactivated rhodopsin in monomeric and dimeric forms probed by high-angle X-ray scattering. Imamoto Y, Kojima K, Oka T, Maeda R, Shichida Y Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2015 Oct 28;14(11):1965-73.

Origin of the low thermal isomerization rate of rhodopsin chromophore Yanagawa M, Kojima K, Yamashita T, Imamoto Y, Matsuyama T, Nakanishi K, Yamano Y, Wada A, Sako Y, Shichida Y Sci Rep. 2015 Jun 10;5:11081.

Reviews and Other Publications

山下高廣、七田芳則 (2015)「代謝型グルタミン酸受容体の分子構造と機能」Clinical Neuroscience（中外医学社） 33, 25-7.

 

2014

Contribution of Glutamic Acid in the Conserved E/DRY Triad to the Functional Properties of Rhodopsin Sato K, Yamashita T, Shichida Y Biochemistry 2014 Jul 1

Intramolecular Interactions That Induces Helical Rearrangement upon Rhodopsin Activation: Light-Induced Structural Changes in Metarhodopsin IIa Probed by Cysteine S-H Stretching Vibrations Yamazaki Y, Nagata T, Terakita A, Kandori H, Shichida Y, Imamoto Y. J Biol Chem 2014 Apr 1

Chimeric proton-pumping rhodopsins containing the cytoplasmic loop of bovine rhodopsin Sasaki K, Yamashita T, Yoshida K, Inoue K, Shichida Y, Kandori H PLoS One 2014 Mar 12;9(3):e91323.

Single-Molecule Observation of the Ligand-Induced Population Shift of Rhodopsin, A G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Maeda R, Hiroshima M, Yamashita†a T, Wada A, Nishimura S, Sako S, Shichida Y, Imamoto Y Biophysical Journal Vol. 106, 4 (2014) p. 915-924

Mapping of the local environmental changes in proteins by cysteine scanning Yamazaki Y, Nagata T, Terakita A, Kandori H, Shichida Y, Imamoto Y BIOPHYSICS Vol. 10 (2014) p. 1-7

Evolution of mammalian Opn5 as a specialized UV-absorbing pigment by a single amino acid mutation Yamashita T, Ono K, Ohuchi H, Yumoto A, Gotoh H, Tomonari S, Sakai K, Fujita H, Imamoto Y, Noji S, Nakamura K, Shichida Y J Biol Chem 2014 Feb 14;289(7):3991-4000.

Rod Visual Pigment Optimizes Active State to Achieve Efficient G protein Activation as Compared to Cone Visual Pigments Kojima K, Imamoto Y, Maeda R, Yamashita T, Shichida Y J Biol Chem 2014 Feb 21;289(8):5061-73.

Cone visual pigments Imamoto Y, Shichida Y Biochim Biophys Acta 2014 May;1837(5):664-73.

 

2013

Different phosphorylation rates among vertebrate cone visual pigments with different spectral sensitivities. Tsutsui K, Tachibanaki S, Shimauchi-Matsukawa Y, Shichida Y, Kawamura S Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2013 Nov 1;440(4):630-4.

Ultrafast carbonyl motion of the photoactive yellow protein chromophore probed by femtosecond circular dichroism. Mendonca L, Hache F, Changenet-Barret P, Plaza P, Chosrowjan H, Taniguchi S, Imamoto Y. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2013 Oct 2;135(39):14637-43.

Ultrafast time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy of PYP by a sub-8 fs pulse laser at 400 nm. Liu J, Yabushita A, Taniguchi S, Chosrowjan H, Imamoto Y, Sueda K, Miyanaga N, Kobayashi T. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2013 May 2;117(17):4818-26.

Efficiencies of Activation of Transducin by Cone and Rod Visual Pigments Imamoto Y, Seki I, Yamashita T, Shichida Y Biochemistry 2013 Apr 9

Glutamate acts as a partial inverse agonist to metabotropic glutamate receptor with a single amino acid mutation in the transmembrane domain Yanagawa M, Yamashita T, Shichida Y J Biol Chem 2013 Apr 5;288(14):9593-601

Chloride-dependent spectral tuning mechanism of L-group cone visual pigments Yamashita T, Nakamura S, Tsutsui K, Morizumi T, Shichida Y Biochemistry 2013 Feb 19;52(7):1192-7

Reviews and Other Publications

柳川正隆、七田芳則 (2013)「Ｇタンパク質共役型受容体の進化」生体の科学 第64巻　第4号　2013年8月15日

T. Yamashita and Y. Shichida(2013)Molecular aspect of evolution and diversity of animal photoreception. Evolution and Senses Springer p.1-22.

 

2012

Morizumi T, Sato K, Shichida Y. (2012) Spectroscopic Analysis of Chloride Effect on the Active Intermediates of Primate L group Cone Visual Pigment. Biochemistry 2012 Dec 18;51(50):10017-23.

Matsuyama T, Yamashita T, Imamoto Y, Shichida Y. (2012) Photochemical properties of mammalian melanopsin. Biochemistry 2012 Jul 10;51(27):5454-62.

Sato K, Yamashita T, Imamoto Y, Shichida Y. (2012) Comparative studies on the late bleaching processes of four kinds of cone visual pigments and rod visual pigment. Biochemistry 2012 May 29;51(21):4300-8.

Kimata N, Yamashita T, Matsuyama T, Imamoto Y, Shichida Y. (2012) The C-terminus of G protein a subunit controls the affinity of nucleotides. Biochemistry 2012 Apr 3;51(13):2768-74.

Ohuchi H, Yamashita T, Tomonari S, Fujita-Yanagibayashi S, Sakai K, Noji S, Shichida Y. (2012) A non-mammalian type opsin 5 functions dually in the photoreceptive and non-photoreceptive organs of birds. PLoS One 2012;7(2):e31534.

Sakai K, Imamoto Y, Su CY, Tsukamoto H, Yamashita T, Terakita A, Yau KW, Shichida Y. (2012) Photochemical Nature of Parietopsin. Biochemistry 2012 Mar 6;51(9):1933-41.

Nagata T, Koyanagi M, Tsukamoto H, Saeki, Isono K, Shichida Y, Tokunaga F, Kinoshita M, Arikawa K, Terakita A. (2012) Depth perception from image defocus in a jumping spider. Science 2012 Jan 27;335(6067):469-71.

Reviews and Other Publications

七田芳則、山下高廣 (2012)「多様な光環境への動物の適応メカニズム」生き物たちのつづれ織り上 京都大学学術出版会 p.154-63.

 

2011

Sato K, Yamashita T, Ohuchi H, Shichida Y. (2011) Vertebrate Ancient-Long Opsin Has Molecular Properties Intermediate between Those of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Visual Pigments. Biochemistry 2011 Dec 6;50(48):10484-90.

Yanagawa M, Yamashita T, Shichida Y. (2011) Comparative fluorescence resonance energy transfer analysis of metabotropic glutamate receptors: Implications about the dimeric arrangement and rearrangement upon ligand bindings. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jul 1;286(26):22971-81.

Nakatsuma A, Yamashita T, Sasaki K, Kawanabe A, Inoue K, Furutani Y, Shichida Y, Kandori H. (2011) Chimeric microbial rhodopsins containing the third cytoplasmic loop of bovine rhodopsin. Biophys J. 2011 Apr 20;100(8):1874-82.

Kawano-Yamashita E, Koyanagi M, Shichida Y, Oishi T, Tamotsu S, Terakita A. (2011) Beta-arrestin functionally regulates the non-bleaching pigment parapinopsin in lamprey pineal. PLoS One. 2011 Jan 31;6(1):e16402.

Reviews and Other Publications

山下高廣(2011)「脊椎動物新規紫外光受容タンパク質～ヒトも紫外線を感じる？～」 生物物理51, 186-7.

柳川正隆、七田芳則 (2011) Gタンパク質共役型受容体の二量体化による機能制御メカニズム 生化学 第83巻 第10号 949-956