Crystal Structure of Squid Rhodopsin with Intracellularly Extended Cytoplasmic Region

Tatsuro Shimamura, Kenji Hiraki, Naoko Takahashi, +6

Journal of Biological Chemistry

On the three visual pigments in the retina of the firefly squid, Watasenia scintillans

Masatsugu Seidou, Michio Sugahara, Hisatoshi Uchiyama, +5

Journal of Comparative Physiology A

BiologyBioluminescenceOphthalmologyFirefly SquidPigment +4

Phase transitions of the purple membrane and the brown holo-membrane X-ray diffraction, circular dichroism spectrum and absorption spectrum studies

Kenji Hiraki, Toshiaki Hamanaka, Toshio Mitsui, +1

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

X-ray CrystallographyPhase TransitionsMembrane FormationEngineeringNatural Sciences +9

4-Hydroxyretinal, a new visual pigment chromophore found in the bioluminescent squid, Watasenia scintillans

Shinji Matsui, Masatsugu Seidou, Isamu Uchiyama, +4

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects

BiologyEngineeringBioluminescenceOphthalmologyMedicine +6

N‐Glycan structures of squid rhodopsin

Noriko Takahashi, Katsuyoshi Masuda, Kenji Hiraki, +4

European Journal of Biochemistry

BiosynthesisBioorganic ChemistryMajor GlycansBiochemistryBiotransformation +13

Volatile anesthetics cause conformational changes of bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane

Shinya Nishimura, Takashi Mashimo, Kenji Hiraki, +3

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes

BiochemistryAnesthetic MechanismMembrane BiologyMicrobiologyMedicine +2

Formation of the two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of bacteriorhodopsin in reconstituted brown membrane

Kenji Hiraki, Toshiaki Hamanaka, Toshio Mitsui, +1

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure

Reconstituted Brown MembraneTwo-dimensional Hexagonal LatticeMembrane StructureMembrane FormationBiochemistry +6

On some physicochemical properties of sucrose esters and the stability they confer to membrane proteins

Daniel Abran, François Boucher, Toshiaki Hamanaka, +8

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Membrane FormationBiochemistryMembrane CharacterizationSucrose EstersPolysaccharide +4

Retinal-protein interactions in bacteriorhodopsin monomers, dispersed in the detergent L-1690

TAKAYUKI NAITÔ, Yûji Kitô, Masamichi Kobayashi, +2

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

Retinal-protein InteractionsBiochemistryBacteriophageBacteriologyMicrobiology

Bacteriorhodopsin analogues regenerated with enantiomers of 5,6-epoxyretinal

Kenji Hiraki, Toshiaki Hamanaka, Kazuo Yoshihara, +1

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

Bioorganic ChemistryBacteriophageMicrobiologyAntimicrobial CompoundBacteriorhodopsin Analogues