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List of works by Yuji Furutani

A ciliary opsin in the brain of a marine annelid zooplankton is ultraviolet-sensitive, and the sensitivity is tuned by a single amino acid residue

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy Revealing the Different Vibrational Modes of the Selectivity Filter Interacting with K(+) and Na(+) in the Open and Collapsed Conformations of the KcsA Potassium Channel

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

An FTIR study of monkey green- and red-sensitive visual pigments.

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An inward proton transport using Anabaena sensory rhodopsin.

scientific article published on February 2011

Assignment of the hydrogen-out-of-plane and -in-plane vibrations of the retinal chromophore in the K intermediate of pharaonis phoborhodopsin

scientific article published in October 2006

Attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy with chirped-pulse upconversion

scientific article published on 01 December 2014

Characterization of a signaling complex composed of sensory rhodopsin I and its cognate transducer protein from the eubacterium Salinibacter ruber

scientific article published in October 2009

Chimeras of channelrhodopsin-1 and -2 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exhibit distinctive light-induced structural changes from channelrhodopsin-2.

scientific article published on 21 March 2015

Clay mimics color tuning in visual pigments

scientific article published in January 2007

Color change of proteorhodopsin by a single amino acid replacement at a distant cytoplasmic loop.

scientific article published in January 2008

Comparative FTIR study of a new fungal rhodopsin

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Conformational coupling between the cytoplasmic carboxylic acid and the retinal in a fungal light-driven proton pump

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Crystal structure of heliorhodopsin

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Development of a rapid Buffer-exchange system for time-resolved ATR-FTIR spectroscopy with the step-scan mode.

scientific article published on 10 August 2013

Distribution of mammalian-like melanopsin in cyclostome retinas exhibiting a different extent of visual functions

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Dynamics of Dangling Bonds of Water Molecules in pharaonis Halorhodopsin during Chloride Ion Transportation

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Early photocycle structural changes in a bacteriorhodopsin mutant engineered to transmit photosensory signals

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Effects of chloride ion binding on the photochemical properties of salinibacter sensory rhodopsin I.

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Engineering an inward proton transport from a bacterial sensor rhodopsin.

scientific article published in November 2009

FTIR spectroscopy of the K photointermediate of Neurospora rhodopsin: structural changes of the retinal, protein, and water molecules after photoisomerization

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FTIR spectroscopy of the M photointermediate in pharaonis rhoborhodopsin.

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FTIR spectroscopy of the O photointermediate in pharaonis phoborhodopsin.

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FTIR spectroscopy of the complex between pharaonis phoborhodopsin and its transducer protein

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

FTIR study of the L intermediate of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin: structural changes in the cytoplasmic region

scientific article published on 30 August 2008

FTIR study of the photoisomerization processes in the 13-cis and all-trans forms of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin at 77 K.

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FTIR study of the photoreaction of bovine rhodopsin in the presence of hydroxylamine

scientific article published in July 2010

FTIR study of the retinal Schiff base and internal water molecules of proteorhodopsin

scientific article published on 12 April 2007

Functional evaluation of iron oxypyriporphyrin in protein heme pocket.

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Functional importance of the interhelical hydrogen bond between Thr204 and Tyr174 of sensory rhodopsin II and its alteration during the signaling process

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

His166 is the Schiff base proton acceptor in attractant phototaxis receptor sensory rhodopsin I.

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Hydrogen-bonding changes of internal water molecules upon the actions of microbial rhodopsins studied by FTIR spectroscopy

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Infrared spectroscopic studies on the V-ATPase

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Interaction between Na+ ion and carboxylates of the PomA-PomB stator unit studied by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy.

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Internal water molecules of archaeal rhodopsins (Review).

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Internal water molecules of pharaonis phoborhodopsin studied by low-temperature infrared spectroscopy.

scientific article published in December 2001

Large spectral change due to amide modes of a β-sheet upon the formation of an early photointermediate of middle rhodopsin.

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Live-cell single-molecule imaging of the cytokine receptor MPL for analysis of dynamic dimerization.

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Low-temperature FTIR study of Gloeobacter rhodopsin: presence of strongly hydrogen-bonded water and long-range structural protein perturbation upon retinal photoisomerization

scientific article published in April 2010

Molecular insight into intrinsic heme distortion in ligand binding in hemoprotein

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Photochromism of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin

scientific article published on 15 June 2007

Protein-Protein Interaction Changes in an Archaeal Light-Signal Transduction

scientific article published on June 29, 2010

Protein-bound water molecules in primate red- and green-sensitive visual pigments.

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Protein-protein interaction of a Pharaonis halorhodopsin mutant forming a complex with Pharaonis halobacterial transducer protein II detected by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.

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Proton release group of pharaonis phoborhodopsin revealed by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy.

scientific article published in February 2009

Regulation of Photocycle Kinetics of Photoactive Yellow Protein by Modulating Flexibility of the β-Turn

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Retinal Attachment Instability Is Diversified among Mammalian Melanopsins.

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Role of Asp193 in chromophore-protein interaction of pharaonis phoborhodopsin (sensory rhodopsin II).

scientific article published on August 2002

Self-assembly of the chaperonin GroEL nanocage induced at submicellar detergent

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Sodium or lithium ion-binding-induced structural changes in the K-ring of V-ATPase from Enterococcus hirae revealed by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy.

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Strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecule present near the retinal chromophore of Leptosphaeria rhodopsin, the bacteriorhodopsin-like proton pump from a eukaryote

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Strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules in the Schiff base region of rhodopsins.

scientific article published on 28 February 2005

Structural changes in lumirhodopsin and metarhodopsin I studied by their photoreactions at 77 K.

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Structural changes in the Schiff base region of squid rhodopsin upon photoisomerization studied by low-temperature FTIR spectroscopy.

scientific article published in March 2006

Structural changes of sensory rhodopsin I and its transducer protein are dependent on the protonated state of Asp76.

scientific article published on 26 January 2008

Structural changes of the complex between pharaonis phoborhodopsin and its cognate transducer upon formation of the M photointermediate.

scientific article published in March 2005

Structural changes of water in the Schiff base region of bacteriorhodopsin: proposal of a hydration switch model.

scientific article published in March 2003

Structural insights into the nucleotide base specificity of P2X receptors.

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Temperature-dependent interactions between photoactivated pharaonis phoborhodopsin and its transducer

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Vibrational and Molecular Properties of Mg Binding and Ion Selectivity in the Magnesium Channel MgtE

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Vibrational modes of the protonated Schiff base in pharaonis phoborhodopsin

scientific article published on 01 July 2003