The manuscript of iMusta4SLC (Higuchi, A., (2018) iMusta4SLC: Database for the structural property and variations of solute carrier transporters.) has been published on Biophysics and Physicobiology.

Collaborative research with Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (Ohtaka-Maruyama C. (2018) Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons) has been published on Science.

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

O. T. Kim, K. Yura and N. Go (2006) on Nucleic Acids Research is cited by Qin W.H. et al (2018) “A structural dissection of protein–RNA interactions based on different RNA base areas of interfaces“ on the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Collaborative research with Chiba lab next door (Tamura et al. (2018) Starfish Apaf-1 activates effector caspase-3/9 upon apoptosis of aged egg) has been published on Scientific Reports.

iMusta4SLC, an integrated data website for Solute Carrier Proteins (SLC), has been launched.

CoDP, the website to evaluate the impact of amino acid variation on human MSH6, has recovered.

S. Kaneko, H. Ichinose, Z. Fujimoto, A. Kuno, K. Yura, M. Go, H. Mizuno, I. Kusakabe, and H. Kobayashi (2004) on Journal of Biological Chemistry is cited by Suzuki et al., (2018) “Enhanced Azidolysis by the Formation of Stable Ser–His Catalytic Dyad in a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 10 Xylanase Mutant” on Journal of Applied Glycoscience.

Yura, K. and Hayward, S. (2009) on Bioinformatics is cited by Ptak et al., (2017) “Chain-chain complexation and heme binding in haemoglobin with respect to the hydrophobic core structure” on Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems.

Hijikata et al. (2015) on Meta Gene is cited by Dinca, AA et al. (2017) “Identification of novel mitochondrial localization signals in human Tafazzin, the cause of the inherited cardiomyopathic disorder Barth syndrome” on Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.