[1996-1998]
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Daisuke Kojima, Tomonori Oura, Osamu Hisatomi, Fumio Tokunaga, Yoshitaka Fukada, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Shichida.
Molecular properties of chimerical mutants of Gecko blue and bovine rhodopsin.
Biochemistry, 35, 2625-2629 (1996).
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Hiroshi Ohguro, Kouichi Kitamura, Kenji Konari, Hitoshi Sohma, Yoshitaka Fukada and Toyoaki Akino.
The differences in the expression of visual pigments and transducin in photoreceptor cell differentiation.
Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 178, 233-240 (1996).
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Osamu Shouno, Koichi Kokame, Masasuke Araki, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi, Masayuki Murata, Toru Yoshizawa and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Preparation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies specific for lauroylated isoform of bovine transducin
a-subunit: Immunohistochemical analysis of bovine retinas.
J. Neurochem., 66, 2188-2196 (1996).
Kamon Sanada, Fumiko Shimizu, Kimihiko Kameyama, Kazuko Haga, Tatsuya Haga and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Calcium-bound recoverin targets rhodopsin kinase to membranes to inhibit rhodopsin phosphorylation.
FEBS Lett., 384, 227-230 (1996).
Hidekazu Tanaka, Che-Hui Kuo, Takahiko Matsuda, Yoshitaka Fukada, Fumio Hayashi, Yun Ding, Yasuyuki Irie and Naomasa Miki.
MEKA/Phosducin attenuates hydrophobicity of transducin bg subunits without binding to farnesyl moiety.
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 223, 587-591 (1996).
Shoko Nishimura, Jun Sasaki, Hideki Kandori, Takahiko Matsuda, Yoshitaka Fukada and Akio Maeda.
Structural changes in the peptide backbone in complex formation between activated rhodopsin and transducin studied by FTIR spectroscopy.
Biochemistry, 35, 13267-13271 (1996).
Toshiyuki Okano, Kazumitsu Yamazaki, Takaoki Kasahara and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Molecular cloning of heterotrimeric G-protein a-subunits in chicken pineal gland.
J. Mol. Evol., 44, 91-97 (1997).
Kanjun Hirunagi, Shizufumi Ebihara, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoko Takanaka and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Immuno-electron microscopic investigation for the subcellular localization of pinopsin in the pineal organ of the chicken.
Cell Tissue Res. 289, 235-241 (1997).
Toshiyuki Okano, Yoko Takanaka, Atsushi Nakamura, Kanjun Hirunagi, Akihito Adachi, Shizufumi Ebihara and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Immunocytochemical identification of pinopsin in pineal glands of chicken and pigeon.
Mol. Brain Res. 50, 190-196 (1997).
Shuji Tachibanaki, Hiroo Imai, Taku Mizukami, Tetsuji Okada, Yasushi Imamoto, Takahiko Matsuda, Yoshitaka Fukada, Akihisa Terakita and Yoshinori Shichida.
Presence of two rhodopsin intermediates responsible for transducin activation.
Biochemistry, 36, 14173-14180 (1997).
Yoko Takanaka, Toshiyuki Okano, Masayuki Iigo and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Light-dependent expression of pinopsin gene in chicken pineal gland.
J. Neurochem., 70, 908-913 (1998).
Yasutaka Wada, Toshiyuki Okano, Akihito Adachi, Shizufumi Ebihara and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Identification of rhodopsin in the pigeon deep brain.
FEBS Lett., 424, 53-56 (1998).
Tomoko Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki Okano, Tadashi Oishi and Yoshitaka Fukada.
A deep brain photoreceptive molecule in the toad hypothalamus.
FEBS Lett., 424, 69-72 (1998).
Kanta Mizusawa, Masayuki Iigo, Hiroaki Suetake, Yasutoshi Yoshiura, Koichiro Gen, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshitaka Fukada and Katsumi Aida.
Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding the retinal arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase of the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.
Zool. Sci., 15, 345-351 (1998).
Takahiko Matsuda, Yuichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Ueda, Tomiko Asano, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Tomoko Doi, Toshifumi Takao, Yasutsugu Shimonishi and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Specific isoprenyl group linked to transducin g-subunit is a determinant of unique signaling properties among G proteins.
Biochemistry, 37, 9843-9850 (1998).