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Imamoto lab Journal Club

This is the list of papers presented and discussed in the lab Journal Club during the weekly seminar.

You can also browse content from previous years in the links below.

2025

Rhodopsin-Mimicking Reversible Photo-Switchable Chloride Channels Based on Azobenzene-Appended Semiaza-Bambusurils for Light-Controlled Ion Transport and Cancer Cell Apoptosis.
Lei He, Yuanhong Ma, Yang Zhang, Canhong Zhu, Feihu Yang, Yuancheng Ji, Shengda Liu, Hui Li, Jiayun Xu, Pengfei Zhang, Tengfei Yan, Ofer Reany, Junqiu Liu
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2025 Oct 12:e202519101. doi: 10.1002/anie.202519101.

Programmable protein ligation on cell surfaces.
Christian Kofoed, Girum Erkalo, Nicholas E S Tay, Xuanjia Ye, Yutong Lin, Tom W Muir
Nature. 2025 Sep;645(8081):793-800. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09287-2. Epub 2025 Jul 30.

Super-resolution imaging of native fluorescent photoreceptors in chytrid fungal eyes.
Wayne Busse, Enrico Klotzsch, Yousef Yari Kamrani, Natalie Wordtmann, Simon Kelterborn, Peter Hegemann, Matthias Broser
EMBO J. 2025 Jul;44(14):4088-4103. doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00452-x. Epub 2025 May 27.

Capturing structural intermediates in an animal-like cryptochrome photoreceptor by time-resolved crystallography.
Manuel Maestre-Reyna, Yuhei Hosokawa, Po-Hsun Wang, Martin Saft, Nicolas Caramello, Sylvain Engilberge, Sophie Franz-Badur, Eka Putra Gusti Ngurah Putu, Mai Nakamura, Wen-Jin Wu, Hsiang-Yi Wu, Cheng-Chung Lee, Wei-Cheng Huang, Kai-Fa Huang, Yao-Kai Chang, Cheng-Han Yang, Meng-Iao Fong, Wei-Ting Lin, Kai-Chun Yang, Yuki Ban, Tomoki Imura, Atsuo Kazuoka, Eisho Tanida, Shigeki Owada, Yasumasa Joti, Rie Tanaka, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Jungmin Kang, Fangjia Luo, Kensuke Tono, Stephan Kiontke, Lukas Korf, Yasufumi Umena, Takehiko Tosha, Yoshitaka Bessho, Eriko Nango, So Iwata, Antoine Royant, Ming-Daw Tsai, Junpei Yamamoto, Lars-Oliver Essen
Sci. Adv. 2025 May 16;11(20):eadu7247. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adu7247. Epub 2025 May 16.

A molecular mechanism for bright color variation in parrots.
Roberto Arbore, Soraia Barbosa, Jindřich Brejcha, Yohey Ogawa, Yu Liu , Michaël P J Nicolaï, Paulo Pereira, Stephen J Sabatino, Alison Cloutier, Emily Shui Kei Poon, Cristiana I Marques, Pedro Andrade, Gerben Debruyn, Sandra Afonso, Rita Afonso, Shatadru Ghosh Roy, Uri Abdu, Ricardo J Lopes, Peter Mojzeš, Petr Maršík, Simon Yung Wa Sin, Michael A White, Pedro M Araújo, Joseph C Corbo, Miguel Carneiro
Science. 2024 Nov;386(6721):eadp7710. doi: 10.1126/science.adp7710. Epub 2024 Nov 1.

Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones
Yu Liu, Erica C Hurley, Yohey Ogawa, Maria Gause, Matthew B Toomey, Connie A Myers, Joseph C Corbo
Curr. Biol. 2025 May 19;35(10):2215-2227.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.040. Epub 2025 Apr 17.

Comparative transcriptomic insights into the evolution of vertebrate photoreceptor types
Dario Tommasini, Takeshi Yoshimatsu, Teresa Puthussery, Tom Baden, Karthik Shekhar
Curr. Biol. 2025 May 19;35(10):2228-2239.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.060. Epub 2025 Apr 17.

Structural insights into light-gating of potassium-selective channelrhodopsin.
Takefumi Morizumi, Kyumhyuk Kim, Hai Li, Probal Nag, Tal Dogon, Oleg A Sineshchekov, Yumei Wang, Leonid S Brown, Songhwan Hwang, Han Sun, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Igor Schapiro, Elena G Govorunova, John L Spudich, Oliver P Ernst
Nat. Commun. 2025 Feb 3;16(1):1283. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56491-9.

Synthetic GPCRs for programmable sensing and control of cell behaviour type
Nicholas A Kalogriopoulos, Reika Tei, Yuqi Yan, Peter M Klein, Matthew Ravalin, Bo Cai, Ivan Soltesz, Yulong Li, Alice Y Ting
Nature. 2025 Jan;637(8044):230-239. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08282-3. Epub 2024 Dec 4.