Ohtaka-Maruyama C., Okamoto, M., Endo, K., Oshima, M., Kaneko, N., Yura, K., Okada, H., Miyata, T., Maeda, N. (2018) “Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons” on Science is cited by Molnar Z. et al. (2019) “New insights into the development of the human cerebral cortex” on Journal of Anatomy.

Yoshihara, S., Geng, X., Okamoto, S., Yura, K., et al. (2001)”Mutational Analysis of Genes Involved in Pilus Structure, Motilityand Transformation Competency in the Unicellular Motile CyanobacteriumSynechocystis sp. PCC6803″  is cited by Allen, CJ. et al “Cyanobacteria Respond to Low Levels of Ethylene” on Frontiers in Plant Science.

Kim O.T.P., Yura K., Go N. (2006) “Amino acid residue doublet propensity in the protein-RNA interface and its application to RNA interface prediction” is cited by MacRae AJ., et al “A two-step probing method to compare lysine accessibility across macromolecular complex conformations” on RNA Biology.

Kato YS, Yagi T, Harris SA, Ohki SY, Yura K, Shimizu Y, Honda S, Kamiya R, Burgess SA, Tanokura M. (2014) “Structure of the microtubule-binding domain of flagellar dynein” (Structure 22:1628–1638) is cited by Lacey, SE et al.”Cryo-EM of dynein microtubule-binding domains shows how an axonemal dynein distorts the microtubules”  on eLife.

Two new juniors have joined the lab. Visit the member list of the lab.

The manuscript (Yamauchi et al (2019) Engineered functional recovery of microbial Rhodopsin without retinal-binding lysine) reporting the functional recovery of rhodopsin without retinal-binding lysine, which is often found in the genome sequences, has been published on Photochemistry and Photobiology.

Yura, K., Miyata, Y., et al., (2008) on RNA editing of Takakia lepidozioides chloroplast is cited by Liu et al (2019) “Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes” on Nature Communications.

New school year has started in 1st April and the lab. member changes.

The manuscript of analysing the correlation between dynamic structure and variation residues on ABC transporter (Sakamoto, M., et al., (2019) Relationship between conformation shift and disease related variation sites in ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins) has been published on Biophysics and Physicobiology.

The manuscript of the molecular dynamics simulations of SLC proteins (Mouhib, H., Higuchi, A. et al., Impact of pathogenic mutations of the GLUT1 glucose transporter on channel dynamics using ConsDYN enhanced sampling.) is  now on F1000Research.