2005

Onishi A, Hasegawa J, Imai H, Chisaka O, Ueda Y, Honda Y, Tachibana M, Shichida Y (2005) Generation of Knock-in Mice Carrying Third Cones with Spectral Sensitivity Different from S and L Cones. Zoolog Sci. 22(10): 1145-56.

Kassai H, Aiba A, Nakao K, Nakamura K, Katsuki M, Xiong WH, Yau KW, Imai H, Shichida Y, Satomi Y, Takao T, Okano T, Fukada Y (2005) Farnesylation of Retinal Transducin Underlies Its Translocation during Light Adaptation. Neuron. 47(4): 529-39.

Morizumi T, Imai H, Shichida Y (2005) Direct Observation of the Complex Formation of GDP-Bound Transducin with the Rhodopsin Intermediate Having a Visible Absorption Maximum in Rod Outer Segment Membranes. Biochemistry. 44(29): 9936-43.

Kodama T, Imai H, Doi T, Chisaka O, Shichida Y, Fujiyoshi Y (2005) Expression and localization of an exogenous G protein-coupled receptor fused with the rhodopsin C-terminal sequence in the retinal rod cells of knockin mice. Exp Eye Res. 80(6): 859-69.

Koyanagi M, Kubokawa K, Tsukamoto H, Shichida Y, Terakita A (2005) Cephalochordate melanopsin: evolutionary linkage between invertebrate visual cells and vertebrate photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Curr Biol. 15(11): 1065-9.

Furutani Y, Terakita A, Shichida Y, Kandori H (2005) FTIR studies of the photoactivation processes in squid retinochrome. Biochemistry. 44(22): 7988-97.

Tsukamoto H, Terakita A, Shichida Y (2005) A rhodopsin exhibiting binding ability to agonist all-trans-retinal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(18): 6303-8.

Sugawara T, Terai Y, Imai H, Turner GF, Koblmuller S, Sturmbauer C, Shichida Y, Okada N (2005) Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(15): 5448-53.

Terao K, Mikami A, Saito A, Itoh S, Ogawa H, Takenaka G, Sakai T, Onishi A, Teramoto M, Udono T, Emi Y, Kobayashi H, Imai H, Shichida Y, Koike S (2005) Identification of a protanomalous chimpanzee by molecular genetic and electroretinogram analyses. Vision Res. 45(10): 1225-35.

Kuwayama S, Imai H, Morizumi T, Shichida Y (2005) Amino acid residues responsible for the meta-III decay rates in rod and cone visual pigments. Biochemistry. 44(6): 2208-15.

Reviews and Other Publications

Imai H, Kuwayama S, Onishi A, Morizumi T, Chisaka O, Shichida Y (2005) Molecular properties of rod and cone visual pigments from purified chicken cone pigments to mouse rhodopsin in situ. Photochem Photobiol Sci. 4(9): 667-74.

Terakita A (2005) The opsins. Genome Biol. 6(3): 213.

 

2004

Yamashita T, Kai T, Terakita A, Shichida Y (2004) A novel constitutive active mutation in the second cytoplasmic loop of metabotropic glutamate receptor. J. Neurochem. 91(2): 484-92.

Ueyama H, Kuwayama S, Imai H, Oda S, Nishida Y, Tanabe S, Shichida Y, Yamade S (2004) Analysis of L-cone/M-cone visual pigment gene arrays in Japanese males with protan color-vision deficiency. Vision Res. 44(19): 2241-52.

Koyanagi M, Kawano E, Kinugawa Y, Oishi T, Shichida Y, Tamotsu S, Terakita A (2004) Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal. Proc. Natl. Sci. U. S. A. 101(17); 6687-91

Terakita A, Koyanagi M, Tsukamoto H, Yamashita T, Miyata T, Shichida Y (2004)　Counterion displacement in the molecular evolution of the rhodopsin family. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 11(3); 284-9

 

2003

Hirano T, Imai H, Shichida Y (2003)　Effect of anion binding on the thermal reverse reaction of bathoiodopsin: anion stabilizes two forms of iodopsin. Biochemistry. 42(43): 12700-7.

Morizumi T, Imai H, Shichida Y (2003) Two-Step Interaction of Rhodopsin Intermediates with the C-Terminal Region of the Transducin alpha-Subunit. J. Biochem. (Tokyo) 134(2): 259-67.

Furutani Y, Shichida Y, Kandori H (2003) Structural changes of water molecules during the photoactivation processes in bovine rhodopsin. Biochemistry. 42(32): 9619-25.

Furutani Y, Shichida Y, Kandori H (2003) Structural changes in lumirhodopsin and metarhodopsin I studied by their photoreactions at 77K. Biochemistry. 42(28): 8494-500.

Nakashima Y, Kusakabe T, Kusakabe R, Terakita A, Shichida Y, Tsuda M (2003) Origin of the vertebrate visual cycle: genes encoding retinal photoisomerase and two putative visual cycle proteins are expressed in whole brain of a primitive chordate. J Comp. Neurol. 460(2): 180-90.

Reviews and Other Publications

Shichida Y, Yamashita T (2003) Diversity of visual pigments from the viewpoint of G protein activation--comparison with other G protein-coupled receptors. Photochem Photobiol Sci Dec; 2(12): 1237-46.

 

2002

Hirano T, Lim IT, Kim DM, Zheng XG, Yoshihara K, Oyama Y, Imai H, Shichida Y, Ishiguro M (2002) Constraints of opsin structure on the ligand-binding site: studies with ring-fused retinals. Photochem. Photobiol. 76(6): 606-15

Kuwayama S, Imai H, Hirano T, Terakita A, Shichida Y (2002) Conserved proline residue at position 189 in cone visual pigments as a determinant of molecular properties different from rhodopsins. Biochemistry. 41(51): 15245-52

Koyanagi M, Terakita A, Kubokawa K, Shichida Y (2002) Amphioxus homologs of Go-coupled rhodopsin and peropsin having 11-cis- and all-trans-retinals as their chromophores. FEBS Lett. 531(3): 525-8.

Ueyama H, Kuwayama S, Imai H, Tanabe S, Oda S, Nishida Y, Wada A, Shichida Y, Yamade S (2002) Novel missense mutations in red/green opsin genes in congenital color-vision deficiencies. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 294(2): 205-9.

Okada T, Fujiyoshi Y, Silow M, Navarro J, Landau EM, Shichida Y (2002) Functional role of internal water molecules in rhodopsin revealed by X-ray crystallography. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99(9): 5982-7.

Nagata T, Oura T, Terakita A, Kandori H, Shichida Y (2002) Isomer-specific interaction of the retinal chromophore with threonine-118 in rhodopsin. J. Phys. Chem. 106(10): 1969-75.

Onishi A, Koike S, Ida-Hosonuma M, Imai H, Shichida Y, Takenaka O, Hanazawa A, Komatsu H, Mikami A, Goto S, Suryobroto B, Farajallah A, Varavudhi P, Eakavhibata C, Kitahara K, Yamamori T (2002) Variations in long- and middle-wavelength-sensitive opsin gene loci in crab-eating monkeys. Vision Res. 42(3): 281-92.

Terakita A, Yamashita T, Nimbari N, Kojima D, Shichida Y (2002) Functional interaction between bovine rhodopsin and G protein transducin. J. Biol. Chem. 277(1): 40-6.

Reviews and Other Publications

Terakita A (2002) Insight into Rhodopsin Diversity from Viewpoint of Counterion. Journal of photoscience. 9(2): 33-6.

 

2001

Kandori H, Furutani Y, Shimono K, Shichida Y, Kamo N (2001) Internal water molecules of pharaonis phoborhodopsin studied by low-temperature infrared spectroscopy. Biochemistry. 40(51): 15693-8

Wada A, Tsutsumi M, Inatomi Y, Imai H, Shichida Y, Ito M (2001) Retionids and related compounds. Part 26. Synthesis of (11-Z)-8, 18-propano- and methano-retinals and conformational study of the rhodopsin choromophore J. Chem. Soc., Trans, 1(19): 2430-9.

Kandori H, Shimono K, Sudo Y, Iwamoto M, Shichida Y, Kamo N (2001) Structural changes of pharaonis phoborhodopsin upon photoisomerization of the retinal chromophore: Infrared spectral comparison with bacteriorhodopsin. Biochemistry. 40(31): 9238-46.

Yamashita T, Terakita A, Shichida Y (2001) The second cytoplasmic loop of metabotropic glutamate receptor functions at the third loop position of rhodopsin. J Biochem (Tokyo). 130(1): 149-55.

Katagiri N, Terakita A, Shichida Y, Katagiri Y (2001) Demonstration of a rhodopsin-retinochrome system in the stalk eye of a marine gastropod immunohistochemistry. J.Comp. Neurology. 433(3): 380-9.

Kandori H, Yamazaki Y, Shichida Y, Raap J, Lugtenburg J, Belenky M, Herzfeld J (2001) Tight Asp85-Thr89 association during the pump switch of bacteriorhodopsin. Proc. Natl.Acad. Sci. USA. 98(4): 1571-6.

Kandori H, Furutani Y, Nishimura S, Shichida Y, Chosrowjan H, Shibata Y, Mataga N (2001) Excited state dynamics of rhodopsin probed by femtosecondfluorescence spectroscopy. Chem. Phys. Lett. 334 (4-6): 271-6.

Nakamura A, Kojima D, Okano T, Imai H, Terakita A, Shichida Y, Fukada Y (2001) Regulatory mechanism for stability of meta II intermediate of pinopsin. J. Biochem (Tokyo). 129(2): 329-34.

Imai H, Hirano T, Kandori H, Terakita A, Shichida Y (2001) Difference in molecular structure of rod and cone visual pigments studied by Fouriertransform infrared spectroscopy.　Biochemistry. 40(9): 2879-86.

Hirano T, Imai H, Kandori H, Shichida Y (2001) Chloride effect on iodopsin studied by low-temperature visible and infrared spectroscopies. Biochemistry. 40(5): 1385-92.

Reviews and Other Publications

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Kandori H, Shichida Y, Yoshizawa T (2001) Photoisomerization in rhodopsin. Biochemistry (Moscow) 66(11):1197-209.