[1999-2002]
a purified from bovine retinas.
NeuroReport, 10, 2999-3002 (1999).
Atsushi Nakamura, Daisuke Kojima, Hiroo Imai, Akihisa Terakita, Toshiyuki Okano, Yoshinori Shichida and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Chimeric nature of pinopsin between rod and cone visual pigments.
Biochemistry, 38, 14738-14745 (1999).
Hiroaki Mano, Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Exo-rhodopsin: A novel rhodopsin expressed in the zebrafish pineal gland.
Mol. Brain Res., 73, 110-118 (1999).
Keiko Okano, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki Okano, Takaharu Seki, Atsuko Masuda,
Yoshitaka Fukada and Tadashi Oishi.
Immunocytochemical localization of visual pigments and HPLC analysis of retinal in the pineal, deep brain and skin of several species of anuran amphibians.
in: "Recent Progress in Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology" (H.B.Kwon, J.M.P.Joss and S.Ishii, eds.), pp. 365-369, Hanrimwon, Seoul, ROK (1999).
Kamon Sanada, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yuko Harada, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Role of circadian activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in chicken pineal clock oscillation.
J. Neurosci., 20, 986-991 (2000).
Daisuke Kojima, Hiroaki Mano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Vertebrate ancient-long opsin: A green-sensitive photoreceptive molecule present in zebrafish deep brain and retinal horizontal cells.
J. Neurosci., 20, 2845-2851 (2000).
Keiko Okano, Toshiyuki Okano, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Atsuko Masuda, Yoshitaka Fukada and Tadashi Oishi.
Diversity of opsin immunoreactivities in the extraretinal tissues of four anuran amphibians.
J. Exp. Zool., 286, 136-142 (2000).
Atsuko Matsushita, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki Okano, Takaoki Kasahara and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Colocalization of pinopsin with two types of G-protein a-subunits in the chicken pineal gland.
Cell Tissue Res., 299, 245-251 (2000).
Takaoki Kasahara, Toshiyuki Okano, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Kazumitsu Yamazaki and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Rod-type transducin a-subunit mediates a phototransduction pathway in the chicken pineal gland.
J. Neurochem., 75, 217-224 (2000).
Yuko Harada, Kamon Sanada and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Circadian activation of bullfrog retinal mitogen-activated protein kinase associates with oscillator function.
J. Biol. Chem., 275, 37078-37085 (2000).
Yasutaka Wada, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Phototransduction molecules in the pigeon deep brain.
J. Comp. Neurol., 428, 138-144 (2000).
Tsuyoshi Hirota, Satoshi Kagiwada, Takaoki Kasahara, Toshiyuki Okano, Masayuki Murata and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Effect of brefeldin A on melatonin secretion of chick pineal cells.
J. Biochem., 129, 51-59 (2001).
Atsushi Nakamura, Daisuke Kojima, Toshiyuki Okano, Hiroo Imai, Akihisa Terakita, Yoshinori Shichida and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Regulatory mechanism for stability of meta II intermediate of pinopsin.
J. Biochem., 129, 329-334 (2001).
Tomoko Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki Okano, Koichi Kokame, Osamu Hisatomi, Fumio Tokunaga, Tadashi Oishi and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Immunohistochemical localization of opsins and alpha-subunit of transducin in the pineal complex and deep brain of the Japanese grass lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides.
Zool. Sci., 18, 325-330 (2001).
Yuichiro Hayashi, Kamon Sanada and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Circadian and photic regulation of MAP kinase by Ras- and protein phosphatase-dependent pathways in the chick pineal gland.
FEBS Lett., 491, 71-75 (2001).
Toshiyuki Okano, Momoko Sasaki and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Cloning of mouse BMAL2 and its daily expression profile in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: A remarkable acceleration of Bmal2 sequence divergence after Bmal gene duplication.
Neurosci. Lett., 300, 111-114 (2001).
Masao Doi, Yoshito Nakajima, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Light-induced phase-delay of the chicken pineal circadian clock is associated with the
induction of cE4bp4, a potential transcriptional repressor of cPer2 gene.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98, 8089-8094 (2001).
Toshiyuki Okano, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Keiko Okano, Tsuyoshi Hirota, Takaoki Kasahara, Momoko Sasaki, Yoko Takanaka and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Chicken pineal clock genes: Implication of BMAL2 as a bidirectional regulator in
circadian clock oscillation.
Genes Cells, 6, 825-836 (2001).
Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Chicken pineal Cry genes: Light-dependent up-regulation of cCry1 and cCry2 transcripts.
Neurosci. Lett., 313, 13-16 (2001).
Kamon Sanada, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylates and negatively regulates basic helix-loop- helix-PAS transcription factor BMAL1.
J. Biol. Chem., 277, 267-271 (2002).
Yoko Takanaka, Toshiyuki Okano, Kazuyuki Yamamoto and Yoshitaka Fukada.
A negative regulatory element required for light-dependent pinopsin gene expression.
J. Neurosci., 22, 4357-63 (2002).
Masao Doi, Yoshito Nakajima, Toshiyuki Okano and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Light-dependent changes in the chick pineal temperature and the expression of cHsp90a gene: A potential contribution of in vivo temperature change to the photic-entrainment of the chick pineal circadian clock.
Zool. Sci., 19, 633-641 (2002).
Takaoki Kasahara, Toshiyuki Okano, Tatsuya Haga and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Opsin-G11-mediated signaling pathway for photic entrainment of the chicken pineal circadian clock.
J. Neurosci., 22, 7321-7325 (2002).
Tsuyoshi Hirota, Toshiyuki Okano, Koichi Kokame, Hiroko Ikejima-Shirotani, Toshiyuki Miyata, and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Glucose down-regulates Per1 and Per2 mRNA levels and induces circadian gene expression in cultured rat-1 fibroblasts.
J. Biol. Chem., 277, 44244-44251 (2002).
Yoichi Asaoka, Hiroaki Mano, Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Pineal expression-promoting element (PIPE), a cis-acting element, directs pineal-specific gene expression in zebrafish.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 99, 15456-15461 (2002).