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  1. Functional importance of the oligomer formation of the cyanobacterial H+ pump Gloeobacter rhodopsin

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  2. Quantitation of the neural silencing activity of anion channelrhodopsins in Caenorhabditis elegans and their applicability for long-term illumination

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  3. Correction to “High Thermal Stability of Oligomeric Assemblies of Thermophilic Rhodopsin in a Lipid Environment”

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  4. Implications for the impairment of the rapid channel closing of Proteomonas sulcata anion channelrhodopsin 1 at high Cl− concentrations

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  5. High Thermal Stability of Oligomeric Assemblies of Thermophilic Rhodopsin in a Lipid Environment

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, June 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  6. Production of a Light-Gated Proton Channel by Replacing the Retinal Chromophore with Its Synthetic Vinylene Derivative

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, May 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  7. Presence of a Haloarchaeal Halorhodopsin-Like Cl− Pump in Marine Bacteria

    Article • Microbes and Environments, January 2018, Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  8. Spectroscopic characteristics ofRubricoccus marinusxenorhodopsin (RmXeR) and a putative model for its inward H+transport mechanism

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  9. Comparative evaluation of the stability of seven-transmembrane microbial rhodopsins to various physicochemical stimuli

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2017, Elsevier

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  10. Demonstration of a Light-Driven SO42– Transporter and Its Spectroscopic Characteristics

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  11. A phylogenetically distinctive and extremely heat stable light-driven proton pump from the eubacterium Rubrobacter xylanophilus DSM 9941T

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  12. Implications for the Light-Driven Chloride Ion Transport Mechanism of Nonlabens marinus Rhodopsin 3 by Its Photochemical Characteristics

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  13. An inhibitory role of Arg-84 in anion channelrhodopsin-2 expressed in Escherichia coli

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

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

    Article • Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  15. X-ray Crystallographic Structure of Thermophilic Rhodopsin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2016, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  16. Probing the Cl − -pumping photocycle of pharaonis halorhodopsin: Examinations with bacterioruberin, an intrinsic dye, and membrane potential-induced modulation of the photocycle

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, August 2015, Elsevier

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  17. Converting a Light-Driven Proton Pump into a Light-Gated Proton Channel

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  18. Structural and functional roles of the N- and C-terminal extended modules in channelrhodopsin-1

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  19. Retinal Proteins in Thermophilic Bacteria

    Article • Seibutsu Butsuri, January 2015, Biophysical Society of Japan

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  20. Irreversible Trimer to Monomer Transition of Thermophilic Rhodopsin upon Thermal Stimulation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  21. Molecular and evolutionary aspects of microbial sensory rhodopsins

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, May 2014, Elsevier

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  22. Sensory Rhodopsins

    Article • January 2014, Wiley

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  23. Role of S-Palmitoylation on IFITM5 for the Interaction with FKBP11 in Osteoblast Cells

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  24. Thermal and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Proton Pumping Rhodopsin from an Extreme Thermophile

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2013, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  25. Salt bridge in the conserved His-Asp cluster inGloeobacterrhodopsin contributes to trimer formation

    Article • FEBS Letters, January 2013, Wiley

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  26. Homotrimer Formation and Dissociation of pharaonis Halorhodopsin in Detergent System

    Article • Biophysical Journal, June 2012, Elsevier

    Takashi Tsukamoto

  27. Expression of salinarum halorhodopsin in Escherichia coli cells: Solubilization in the presence of retinal yields the natural state

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, December 2011, Elsevier

    Takashi Tsukamoto