[1990-1992]
bg-subunit of transducin stimulates ADP-ribosylation of the a-subunit by pertussis toxin.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 167, 1235-1241 (1990).
Hiroshi Ohguro, Yoshitaka Fukada, Tetsuya Saito and Toyoaki Akino.
Functional heterogeneity of bg-subunit of frog transducin.
Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 95B, 763-765 (1990).
Yoshitaka Fukada, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshinori Shichida, Toru Yoshizawa, Achla Trehan, Dennis Mead, Marlene Denny, Alfred E. Asato and Robert S.H. Liu.
Comparative study on the chromophore binding sites of rod and red-sensitive cone visual pigments by use of synthetic retinal isomers and analogs.
Biochemistry, 29, 3133-3140 (1990).
Masasuke Araki, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Localization of iodopsin in the chick retina during in vivo and in vitro cone differentiation.
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., 31, 1466-1473 (1990).
Yoshinori Shichida, Tetsuo Kato, Satoshi Sasayama, Yoshitaka Fukada and Toru Yoshizawa.
Effects of chloride on chicken iodopsin and the chromophore transfer reaction from iodopsin to scotopsin and B-photopsin.
Biochemistry, 29, 5843-5848 (1990).
Yoshitaka Fukada, Koichi Kokame, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshinori Shichida, Toru Yoshizawa, Hugh J. McDowell, Paul A. Hargrave and Krzysztof Palczewski.
Phosphorylation of iodopsin, chicken red-sensitive cone visual pigment.
Biochemistry, 29, 10102-10106 (1990).
Tadashi Oishi, Atsuko Kawata, T. Hayashi, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Immunohistochemical localization of iodopsin in the retinas of the chicken and Japanese quail.
Cell Tissue Res., 261, 397-401 (1990).
Hideki Kandori, Taku Mizukami, Tetsuji Okada, Yasushi Imamoto, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Bathoiodopsin, a primary intermediate of iodopsin at physiological temperature.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 87, 8908-8912 (1990).
Osamu Kuwata, Yasushi Imamoto, Toshiyuki Okano, Koichi Kokame, Daisuke Kojima, Hiroki Matsumoto, Akihiro Morodome, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida, Kunio Yasuda, Yoshiro Shimura and Toru Yoshizawa.
The primary structure of iodopsin, a chicken red-sensitive cone pigment.
FEBS Lett., 272, 128-132 (1990).
Yoshitaka Fukada, Toshifumi Takao, Hiroshi Ohguro, Toru Yoshizawa, Toyoaki Akino and Yasutsugu Shimonishi.
Farnesylated g-subunit of photoreceptor G-protein indispensable for the GTP-binding.
Nature, 346, 658-660 (1990).
Glen R. Loppnow, Mary E. Miley, Richard A. Mathies, Robert S. H. Liu, Hideki Kandori, Yoshinori Shichida, Yoshitaka Fukada and Toru Yoshizawa.
Structure of the retinal chromophore in 7,9-dicis-rhodopsin.
Biochemistry, 29, 8985-8991 (1990).
Toru Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Shichida and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Biochemical and Photochemical analyses of retinal-proteins in chicken cone cells.
Pure & Appl. Chem., 63, 171-176 (1991).
Hiroshi Ohguro, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Toru Yoshizawa and Toyoaki Akino.
Carboxyl methylation and farnesylation of transducin g-subunit synergistically enhance its coupling with metarhodopsin II.
EMBO J., 10, 3669-3674 (1991).
Toshiyuki Okano, Daisuke Kojima, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Primary structure of chicken cone visual pigments; Vertebrate rhodopsins have evolved out of cone visual pigments.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 89, 5932-5936 (1992).
Daisuke Kojima, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Cone visual pigments are present in Gecko rod cells.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 89, 6841-6845 (1992).
Masasuke Araki, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida, Toru Yoshizawa and Fumio Tokunaga.
Differentiation of both rod and cone types of photoreceptors in the in vivo and in vitro developing pineal glands of the quail.
Dev. Brain Res., 65, 85-92 (1992).
Koichi Kokame, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toru Yoshizawa, Toshifumi Takao and Yasutsugu Shimonishi.
Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein a-subunit.
Nature, 359, 749-752 (1992).
Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Photosensitivities of iodopsin and rhodopsins.
Photochem. Photobiol., 56, 995-1001 (1992).
Rika Morishita, Yoshitaka Fukada, Koichi Kokame, Toru Yoshizawa, Katsuyoshi Masuda, Masatake Niwa, Kanefusa Kato and Tomiko Asano.
Identification and isolation of common and tissue-specific geranylgeranylated g subunits of guanine-nucleotide-binding regulatory proteins in various tissues.
Eur. J. Biochem., 210, 1061-1069 (1992).
Atsuko Kawata, Tadashi Oishi, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Photoreceptor cell types in the retina of various vertebrate species: Immunocytochemistry with antibodies against rhodopsin and iodopsin.
Photochem. Photobiol., 56, 1157-1166 (1992).