[1993-1995]
bg subunits of G-proteins.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 191, 1097-1104 (1993).
Kimihiko Kameyama, Kazuko Haga, Tatsuya Haga, Kenji Kontani, Toshiaki Katada and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Activation by G protein bg subunits of b-adrenergic and muscarinic receptor kinase.
J. Biol. Chem., 268, 7753-7758 (1993).
Koichi Kokame, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida, Morio Okada, Yoshihito Honda and Toru Yoshizawa.
Identification of the a-subunits of rod and cone transducin in chicken photoreceptor cells.
Exp. Eye Res., 57, 135-140 (1993).
Tomiko Asano, Rika Morishita, Takahiko Matsuda, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toru Yoshizawa and Kanefusa Kato.
Purification of four forms of the bg subunit complex of G proteins containing different g subunits.
J. Biol. Chem., 268, 20512-20519 (1993).
Yoshinori Shichida, Tetsuji Okada, Hideki Kandori, Yoshitaka Fukada and Toru Yoshizawa.
Nanosecond laser photolysis of iodopsin, a chicken red-sensitive cone visual pigment.
Biochemistry, 32, 10832-10838 (1993).
Yoshitaka Fukada, Takahiko Matsuda, Koichi Kokame, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Toyoaki Akino and Toru Yoshizawa.
Effects of carboxyl methylation of photoreceptor G protein g-subunit in visual transduction.
J. Biol. Chem., 269, 5163-5170 (1994).
Steven W. Lin, Yasushi Imamoto, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida, Toru Yoshizawa and Richard A. Mathies.
What makes red visual pigments red? A resonance Raman microprobe study of retinal chromophore structure in iodopsin.
Biochemistry, 33, 2151-2160 (1994).
Hiroko Masuda, Tadashi Oishi, Masumi Ohtani, Masanao Michinomae, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida and Toru Yoshizawa.
Visual pigments in the pineal complex of the Japanese quail, Japanese grass lizard and bullfrog: Immunocytochemistry and HPLC analysis.
Tissue & Cell, 26, 101-113 (1994).
Tetsuji Okada, Takahiko Matsuda, Hideki Kandori, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Shichida.
Circular dichroism of metaiodopsin II and its binding to transducin: A comparative study between meta II intermediates of iodopsin and rhodopsin.
Biochemistry, 33, 4940-4946 (1994).
Yoshinori Shichida, Hiroo Imai, Yasushi Imamoto, Yoshitaka Fukada and Toru Yoshizawa.
Is chicken green-sensitive cone visual pigment a rhodopsin-like pigment? A comparative study of the molecular properties between chicken green and rhodopsin.
Biochemistry, 33, 9040-9044 (1994).
Satoshi Tamotsu, Tadashi Oishi, K. Nakao, Yoshitaka Fukada, Yoshinori Shichida,
Toru Yoshizawa and Yukitomo Morita.
Localization of iodopsin and rod-opsin immunoreactivity in the retina and pineal complex of the river lamprey, Lampetra japonica.
Cell Tissue Res., 278, 1-10 (1994).
Toshiyuki Okano, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Pinopsin is a chicken pineal photoreceptive molecule.
Nature, 372, 94-97 (1994).
Tomoko Yoshikawa, Yumi Yashiro, Tadashi Oishi, Koichi Kokame and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Immunoreactivities to rhodopsin and rod/cone transducin antisera in the retina, pineal complex and deep brain of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana.
Zool. Sci., 11, 675-680 (1994).
Takahiko Matsuda, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Masayuki Murata, Tomiko Asano, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Characterization of interactions between transducin a/bg-subunits and lipid membranes.
J. Biol. Chem., 269, 30358-30363 (1994).
Daisuke Kojima, Hiroo Imai, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshitaka Fukada, Frederick Crescitelli, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Shichida.
Purification and low temperature spectroscopy of gecko visual pigments green and blue.
Biochemistry, 34, 1096-1106 (1995).
Kamon Sanada, Koichi Kokame, Toru Yoshizawa, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Role of heterogeneous N-terminal acylation of recoverin in rhodopsin phosphorylation.
J. Biol. Chem., 270, 15459-15462 (1995).
Rika Morishita, Hiroshi Nakayama, Toshiaki Isobe, Takahiko Matsuda, Yuichi Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshitaka Fukada, Keiko Mizuno, Shigeo Ohno, Osamu Kozawa, Kanefusa Kato and Tomiko Asano.
Primary structure of a g subunit of G protein, g12, and its phosphorylation by protein kinase C.
J. Biol. Chem., 270, 29469-29475 (1995).