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  1. PV1 Protein from Plasmodium falciparum Exhibits Chaperone-Like Functions and Cooperates with Hsp100s

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  2. Effect of the disulfide isomerase PDIa4 on the antibody production of Chinese hamster ovary cells

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  3. Purification and characterization of proteins in multifloral honey from kelulut bee (stingless bee)

    Article • Heliyon, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  4. Functional and structural characterization of HspB1/Hsp27 from Chinese hamster ovary cells

    Article • FEBS Open Bio, September 2019, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  5. The N-terminal region of RTP1S plays important roles in dimer formation and odorant receptor-trafficking

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2019, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  6. Bridging human chaperonopathies and microbial chaperonins

    Article • Communications Biology, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  7. Molecular chaperone prefoldin-assisted biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles with improved size distribution and dispersion

    Article • Biomaterials Science, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  8. Assessment, Mitigation, and Control of Potential Gas Leakage in Existing Buildings Not Designed for Gas Installation in Indonesia

    Article • Energies, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  9. Use of Candida rugosa lipase as a biocatalyst for L-lactide ring-opening polymerization and polylactic acid production

    Article • Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  10. Complete Genome Sequence of Petrimonas sp. Strain IBARAKI, Assembled from the Metagenome Data of a Culture Containing Dehalococcoides spp.

    Article • Genome Announcements, May 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  11. Asymmetry in the function and dynamics of the cytosolic group II chaperonin CCT/TRiC

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2017, PLOS

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  12. Split luciferase complementation assay for the analysis of G protein-coupled receptor ligand response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, March 2017, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  13. Expression and characterization of the Plasmodium translocon of the exported proteins component EXP2

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  14. Improvement of enantioselectivity of the B-type halohydrin hydrogen-halide-lyase from Corynebacterium sp. N-1074

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  15. Contribution of the C-Terminal Region of a Group II Chaperonin to its Interaction with Prefoldin and Substrate Transfer

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  16. Genome sequence determination and metagenomic characterization of a Dehalococcoides mixed culture grown on cis-1,2-dichloroethene

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  17. Packaging guest proteins into the encapsulin nanocompartment from Rhodococcus erythropolis N771

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, September 2014, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  18. Single-molecule detection of chaperonin dynamics through polarization rotation modulation of CdSe QD luminescence imaging

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  19. Inter-Ring Communication Is Dispensable in the Reaction Cycle of Group II Chaperonins

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  20. Protein-Folding Systems

    Article • April 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  21. A Bioanode Using Thermostable Alcohol Dehydrogenase for an Ethanol Biofuel Cell Operating at High Temperatures

    Article • Electroanalysis, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  22. Computational prediction and experimental characterization of a “size switch type repacking” during the evolution of dengue envelope protein domain III (ED3)

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  23. Identification of the rate‐limiting step of the peroxygenase reactions catalyzed by the thermophilic cytochrome P450 from Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7

    Article • FEBS Journal, January 2014, Wiley

    PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Professor Masafumi Yohda, Hiroyuki Ohno

  24. Crystal structure of Dengue 4 Envelope protein domain III (ED3)

    Article • January 2014, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  25. Dissection of the ATP-Dependent Conformational Change Cycle of a Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  26. Biochemical characterization and cooperation with co-chaperones of heat shock protein 90 from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  27. Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of hepatitis B virus core protein dimerizedviaa peptide linker containing an EGFP insertion

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, July 2013, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  28. Two arginine residues in the substrate pocket predominantly control the substrate selectivity of thiocyanate hydrolase

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  29. ATP Dependent Rotational Motion of Group II Chaperonin Observed by X-ray Single Molecule Tracking

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2013, PLOS

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  30. High resolution crystal structure of dengue‐3 envelope protein domain III suggests possible molecular mechanisms for serospecific antibody recognition

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  31. Carbonyl Sulfide Hydrolase from Thiobacillus thioparus Strain THI115 Is One of the β-Carbonic Anhydrase Family Enzymes

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  32. Crystal Structutre of Thiobacillus thioparus THI115 Carbonyl Sulfide Hydrolase / Thiocyanate complex

    Article • February 2013, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  33. Crystal Structutre of Thiobacillus thioparus THI115 Carbonyl Sulfide Hydrolase

    Article • February 2013, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  34. Nonequivalence Observed for the 16-Meric Structure of a Small Heat Shock Protein, SpHsp16.0, from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Article • Structure, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  35. Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of hepatitis B virus core fusion protein corresponding to octahedral particles

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, January 2013, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  36. Molecular Chaperones in Thermophilic Eubacteria and Archaea

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  37. Formation of non-toxic Aβ fibrils by small heat shock protein under heat-stress conditions

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  38. Cooperative Motion of a Multi-Subunit Protein Visualized by X-Ray Single Molecule Tracking

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  39. Three-Dimensional Picometer-Scale Motions in Aqueous Solution Visualized by Diffracted Electron Tracking

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  40. Spectroscopic characterization of the acid–alkaline transition of a thermophilic cytochrome P450

    Article • FEBS Letters, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  41. Structure‐Based Mutational Study of an Archaeal DNA Ligase towards Improvement of Ligation Activity

    Article • ChemBioChem, November 2012, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  42. Structural Studies on the Oligomeric Transition of a Small Heat Shock Protein, StHsp14.0

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  43. An improved bioluminescence‐based signaling assay for odor sensing with a yeast expressing a chimeric olfactory receptor

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Dr Jun Ishii

  44. Amyloid oligomer detection by immobilized molecular chaperone

    Article • Biochemical Engineering Journal, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  45. Chaperonin-Ring's Twist is Critical for Folding Activity of Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  46. Solubilization and folding of a fully active recombinant Gaussia luciferase with native disulfide bonds by using a SEP-Tag

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  47. The N‐terminal replacement of an olfactory receptor for the development of a Yeast‐based biomimetic odor sensor

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Dr Jun Ishii

  48. Properties and Crystal Structure of Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase from Thermus thermophilus HB8

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2011, PLOS

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  49. StHsp14.0, a small heat shock protein of Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7, protects denatured proteins from aggregation in the partially dissociated conformation

    Article • The Journal of Biochemistry, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  50. Dimer structure and conformational variability in the N-terminal region of an archaeal small heat shock protein, StHsp14.0

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  51. Single molecule FRET detection in CdSe-QD donor and Cy5-labeled molecular chaperone acceptor complex by imaging microscopy

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  52. Direct Observation of Torsional Motion of Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  53. Monooxygenation by a thermophilic cytochrome P450 via direct electron donation from NADH

    Article • Metallomics, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Hiromi Yoshida, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  54. Size-selective recognition of gold nanoparticles by a molecular chaperone

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  55. Three-Dimensional Structures of OSW-1 and Its Congener

    Article • Organic Letters, November 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  56. Automated single nucleotide polymorphism typing using bead array in capillary tube

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, October 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  57. Analysis of the interaction mode between hyperthermophilic archaeal group II chaperonin and prefoldin using a platform of chaperonin oligomers of various subunit arrangements

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  58. Biophysical characterization of highly active recombinant Gaussia luciferase expressed in Escherichia coli

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  59. Crystal structure of 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate reductoisomerase from the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima for insights into the coordination of conformational changes and an inhibitor binding

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  60. Thermodynamic Characterization of the Interaction between Prefoldin and Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  61. Crystal structure of Nitrile Hydratase mutant S113A complexed with Trimethylacetonitrile

    Article • April 2010, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  62. Crystal structure of photo-activation state of Nitrile Hydratase mutant S113A

    Article • April 2010, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  63. Crystal structure of Nitrile Hydratase mutant Y72F complexed with Trimethylacetonitrile

    Article • April 2010, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  64. Crystal structure of Nitrile Hydratase complexed with Trimethylacetamide

    Article • April 2010, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  65. Crystal structure of Nitrile Hydratase mutant S113A complexed with Trimethylacetamide

    Article • April 2010, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  66. Crystal Structures of the Lumazine Protein from Photobacterium kishitanii in Complexes with the Authentic Chromophore, 6,7-Dimethyl-8-(1′-d-Ribityl) Lumazine, and Its Analogues, Riboflavin and Flavin Mononucleotide, at High Resolution

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, March 2010, ASM Journals

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  67. Kinetic and structural studies on roles of the serine ligand and a strictly conserved tyrosine residue in nitrile hydratase

    Article • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  68. Adaptation of a hyperthermophilic group II chaperonin to relatively moderate temperatures

    Article • Protein Engineering Design and Selection, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  69. Quantification and improvement of error rate during ligase detection reaction

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  70. Hyperthermophilic archaeal prefoldin shows refolding activity at low temperature

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  71. The Intra Dynamics of Group II Chaperonin Detected by Diffracted X-Ray Tracking Method

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  72. Gene expression informatics with an automatic histogram-type membership function for non-uniform data

    Article • Chem-Bio Informatics Journal, January 2010, Chem-Bio Informatics Society

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  73. Structure and Function of Small Heat Shock Proteins from the Magnetotactic Bacterium Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1

    Article • KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU, January 2010, Society of Polymer Science, Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Takuo Yasunaga

  74. Semi-quantitative discrimination of HBV mutants using allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization with Handy Bio-Strand

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  75. A Dried Tofu-Supplemented Diet Affects mRNA Expression of Inflammatory Cytokines in Human Blood

    Article • Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, January 2010, Center for Academic Publications Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  76. Structure and characterization of amidase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771: Insight into the molecular mechanism of substrate recognition

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  77. Structure and function of archaeal prefoldin, a co-chaperone of group II chaperonin

    Article • Frontiers in Bioscience, January 2010, Frontiers in Bioscience

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  78. Crystal structure of Rhodococcus sp. N771 Amidase

    Article • November 2009, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  79. Formation of non-toxic amyloid-like fibrils in the presence of small heat shock protein

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  80. Crystal Structures of the Lumazine Protein from Photobacterium kishitanii in Complexes with the Authentic Chromophore, 6,7-Dimethyl- 8-(1′-d-Ribityl) Lumazine, and Its Analogues, Riboflavin and Flavin Mononucleotide, at High Resolution

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, October 2009, ASM Journals

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  81. Structural Basis for Catalytic Activation of Thiocyanate Hydrolase Involving Metal-Ligated Cysteine Modification

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  82. Crystallization and heavy-atom derivatization of StHsp14.0, a small heat-shock protein fromSulfolobus tokodaii

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, September 2009, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  83. Thermodynamic and structural analysis of highly stabilized BPTIs by single and double mutations

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  84. Energy transfer in hybrid CdSe quantum dots vs. labelled molecular chaperone systems by imaging microscopy

    Article • physica status solidi c, April 2009, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  85. Cyclic RGD peptide-labeled upconversion nanophosphors for tumor cell-targeted imaging

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, March 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  86. Construction and characterization of the hetero-oligomer of the group II chaperonin from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1

    Article • Extremophiles, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  87. Trastuzumab-induced CCL20 and interleukin-8 mRNA in human whole blood ex vivo

    Article • Investigational New Drugs, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  88. Interaction between Molecular Chaperone Prefoldin with Group II Chaperonin in the Presence of Nucleotides: Implication for Substrate Transfer Mechanism from Prefoldin to Chaperonin

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  89. Formation of highly toxic soluble amyloid beta oligomers by the molecular chaperone prefoldin

    Article • FEBS Journal, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  90. Structural and Molecular Characterization of the Prefoldin β Subunit from Thermococcus Strain KS-1

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  91. Catalytic Mechanism of Nitrile Hydratase Proposed by Time-resolved X-ray Crystallography Using a Novel Substrate,tert-Butylisonitrile

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2008, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  92. Sequential Action of ATP-dependent Subunit Conformational Change and Interaction between Helical Protrusions in the Closure of the Built-in Lid of Group II Chaperonins

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2008, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  93. Crystal structure of an extensively simplified variant of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor in which over one-third of the residues are alanines

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  94. Crystal structure of PH1733, an aspartate racemase homologue, from pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  95. Quantitative discrimination of 16 S rRNA genes of Dehalococcoides species by MagSNiPer, a quantitative single‐nucleotide‐polymorphism genotyping method

    Article • Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  96. Detection and identification of Dehalococcoides species responsible for in situ dechlorination of trichloroethene to ethene enhanced by hydrogen‐releasing compounds

    Article • Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  97. Novel catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N771

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, August 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  98. Solubilization of heme proteins in low polar solvents by chemical modification on a protein's surface

    Article • Polymers for Advanced Technologies, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  99. Characterization of a sHsp of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, SpHsp15.8, and the implication of its functional mechanism by comparison with another sHsp, SpHsp16.0

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  100. Overexpression of prefoldin from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 endowed Escherichia coli with organic solvent tolerance

    Article • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  101. Modulation of Redox Potential and Alteration in Reactivity via the Peroxide Shunt Pathway by Mutation of Cytochrome P450 around the Proximal Heme Ligand

    Article • Biochemistry, March 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  102. Functional Characterization of Recombinant Prefoldin Complexes from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Thermococcus sp. Strain KS-1

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  103. Cloning and functional characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana d‐amino acid aminotransferase – d‐aspartate behavior during germination

    Article • FEBS Journal, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  104. Structure and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Archaeal Prefoldin: The Molecular Mechanism for Binding and Recognition of Nonnative Substrate Proteins

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  105. Classification and characterization of human full-length cDNA clones that are difficult to sequence

    Article • Chem-Bio Informatics Journal, January 2008, Chem-Bio Informatics Society

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  106. A novel vector for positive selection of inserts harboring an open reading frame by translational coupling

    Article • BioTechniques, December 2007, Future Science

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  107. Role of the IXI/V motif in oligomer assembly and function of StHsp14.0, a small heat shock protein from the acidothermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  108. Single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping of CYP2C19 using a new automated system

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  109. Complex formation of CdSe/ZnS/TOPO nanocrystal vs. molecular chaperone in aqueous solution by hydrophobic interaction

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  110. Dynamics of group II chaperonin and prefoldin probed by 13C NMR spectroscopy

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  111. Structure of aspartate racemase complexed with a dual substrate analogue, citric acid, and implications for the reaction mechanism

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, September 2007, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  112. Development of the Handy Bio-Strand and its application to genotyping of OPRM1 (A118G)

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, August 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  113. Development of an automated SNP analysis method using a paramagnetic beads handling robot

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  114. The electrochemical properties of thermophilic cytochrome P450 CYP119A2 at extremely high temperatures in poly(ethylene oxide)

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  115. Structure of Thiocyanate Hydrolase: A New Nitrile Hydratase Family Protein with a Novel Five-coordinate Cobalt(III) Center

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  116. Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Characterization of Cytochrome P450st‐DDAB Films on a Plastic‐Formed Carbon Electrode

    Article • Electroanalysis, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  117. Pretreatment of polyamide monofilament with hydrochloric acid improves sensitivity of three-dimensional microarray, Bio-Strand

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  118. Localization of Prefoldin Interaction Sites in the Hyperthermophilic Group II Chaperonin and Correlations between Binding Rate and Protein Transfer Rate

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  119. Comparative analysis of the protein folding activities of two chaperonin subunits of Thermococcus strain KS-1: the effects of beryllium fluoride

    Article • Extremophiles, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Takuo Yasunaga

  120. A novel method for direct electrochemistry of a thermoacidophilic cytochrome P450

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, August 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  121. Functional expression of thiocyanate hydrolase is promoted by its activator protein, P15K

    Article • FEBS Letters, July 2006, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  122. Roles of conserved basic amino acid residues and activation mechanism of the hyperthermophilic aspartate racemase at high temperature

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, May 2006, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  123. Contribution of the C-terminal region to the thermostability of the archaeal group II chaperonin from Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1

    Article • Extremophiles, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  124. Effect of antipsychotic drugs on DISC1 and dysbindin expression in mouse frontal cortex and hippocampus

    Article • Journal of Neural Transmission, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  125. Stability of Thermophilic Cytochrome P450 Modified with Poly(ethylene oxide) in Ionic Liquid

    Article • Chemistry Letters, January 2006, Chemical Society of Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  126. Mutational Study on αGln90 of Fe-Type Nitrile Hydratase fromRhodococcussp. N771

    Article • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  127. Construction of a Positive Selection Marker by a Lethal Gene with the Amber Stop Codon(s) Regulator

    Article • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  128. Effect of Supporting Electrolytes on the Redox Potential for Thermophilic Cytochrome P450 in Poly (ethylene oxide)-For Utilization as a Catalyst for the Biocathode

    Article • KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU, January 2006, Society of Polymer Science, Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  129. Thiocyanate Hydrolase Is a Cobalt-Containing Metalloenzyme with a Cysteine-Sulfinic Acid Ligand

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  130. Characterization of Archaeal Group II Chaperonin-ADP-Metal Fluoride Complexes

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 2005, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  131. Characterization of a Thermostable Enzyme with Phosphomannomutase/Phosphoglucomutase Activities from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

    Article • The Journal of Biochemistry, August 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  132. Interaction of a Small Heat Shock Protein of the Fission Yeast,Schizosaccharomyces pombe, with a Denatured Protein at Elevated Temperature

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, July 2005, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  133. Topological relation of chick thalamofugal visual projections with hyper pallium revealed by three color tracers

    Article • Neuroscience Research, July 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  134. Facilitated release of substrate protein from prefoldin by chaperonin

    Article • FEBS Letters, June 2005, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  135. MagSNiPer: A new single nucleotide polymorphism typing method based on single base extension, magnetic separation, and chemiluminescence

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  136. Development of an automation system for single nucleotide polymorphisms genotyping using bio-strand, a new three-dimensional microarray

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, February 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  137. Molecular characterization of the group II chaperonin from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

    Article • Extremophiles, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  138. Structure and direct electrochemistry of cytochrome P450 from the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, PhD Nobuhumi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohno

  139. Kinetics and Binding Sites for Interaction of the Prefoldin with a Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2004, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  140. Development of an integrated automation system with a magnetic bead‐mediated nucleic acid purification device for genetic analysis and gene manipulation

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, April 2004, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  141. Refolding of proteins by hexadecamers and monomers of the α and β subunits of group II chaperonin from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Thermococcus strain KS-1

    Article • Biochemical Engineering Journal, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  142. Role of the Helical Protrusion in the Conformational Change and Molecular Chaperone Activity of the Archaeal Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, February 2004, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  143. Role of the N-terminal region of the crenarchaeal sHsp, StHsp14.0, in thermal-induced disassembly of the complex and molecular chaperone activity

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, February 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  144. Crystal Structures of the Group II Chaperonin from Thermococcus strain KS-1: Steric Hindrance by the Substituted Amino Acid, and Inter-subunit Rearrangement between Two Crystal Forms

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  145. Expression and biochemical characterization of two small heat shock proteins from the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7

    Article • Protein Science, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  146. ATP Binding Is Critical for the Conformational Change from an Open to Closed State in Archaeal Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2003, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  147. Chaperonin-mediated stabilization and ATP-triggered release of semiconductor nanoparticles

    Article • Nature, June 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  148. A novel chiral thiol reagent for automated precolumn derivatization and high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioseparation of amino acids and its application to the aspartate racemase assay

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  149. Rapid multiplex single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping based on single base extension reactions and color-coded beads

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, October 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  150. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of archaeal group II chaperonin α-subunit fromThermococcusstrain KS-1

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, September 2002, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  151. Structural insight into gene duplication, gene fusion and domain swapping in the evolution of PLP‐independent amino acid racemases

    Article • FEBS Letters, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  152. Recent developments in laboratory automation using magnetic particles for genome analysis

    Article • Pharmacogenomics, September 2002, Future Medicine

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  153. Corrigendum to “Inversion of the anatomical lateralization of the chick thalamofugal visual pathway by light experience” [Neurosci. Lett. 318 (2002) 113–116]

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, September 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  154. Two kinds of archaeal group II chaperonin subunits with different thermostability in Thermococcus strain KS‐1

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2002, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  155. Crystal Structure of Aspartate Racemase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 and Its Implications for Molecular Mechanism of PLP-independent Racemization

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  156. Pyrococcus Prefoldin Stabilizes Protein-Folding Intermediates and Transfers Them to Chaperonins for Correct Folding

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, March 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  157. Inversion of the anatomical lateralization of chick thalamofugal visual pathway by light experience

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  158. Archaeal group II chaperonin mediates protein folding in the cis-cavity without a detachable GroES-like co-chaperonin11Edited by W. Baumeister

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, January 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda, Takuo Yasunaga

  159. Rapid Multiplex Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping Based on Single Base Extension Reactions and Color-Coded Beads

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  160. Glycine at the 65th Position Plays an Essential Role in ATP-Dependent Protein Folding by Archael Group II Chaperonin

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  161. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of aspartate racemase fromPyrococcus horikoshiiOT3

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, October 2001, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  162. Crystal Structure of Chaperonin-60 from Paracoccus denitrificans

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  163. Natural chaperonin of the hyperthermophilic archaeum, Thermococcus strain KS‐1: a hetero‐oligomeric chaperonin with variable subunit composition

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2001, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  164. Natural chaperonin of the hyperthermophilic archaeum, Thermococcus strain KS-1: a hetero-oligomeric chaperonin with variable subunit composition

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2001, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  165. Occurrence of -Amino Acids and a Pyridoxal 5′-Phosphate-Dependent Aspartate Racemase in the Acidothermophilic Archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, February 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  166. Fe-type nitrile hydratase

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, February 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  167. Small heat shock protein of a hyperthermophilic archaeum, Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1, exists as a spherical 24 mer and its expression is highly induced under heat-stress conditions

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  168. Development of a novel method for operating magnetic particles, Magtration Technology, and its use for automating nucleic acid purification

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  169. Development of a Novel Method for Operating Magnetic Particles, Magtration Technology, and Its Use for Automating Nucleic Acid Purification.

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  170. Small Heat Shock Protein of a Hyperthermophilic Archaeum, Thermococcus sp. Strain KS-1, Exists as a Spherical 24 mer and Its Expression Is Highly Induced under Heat-Stress Conditions

    Article • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  171. Arginine 56 mutation in the β subunit of nitrile hydratase: importance of hydrogen bonding to the non-heme iron center

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, July 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  172. Affinity Purification of Fusion Chaperonin Cpn60-(His)6 from Thermophilic Bacterium Bacillus Strain MS and Its Use in Facilitating Protein Refolding and Preventing Heat Denaturation

    Article • Biotechnology Progress, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  173. Structural and functional characterization of homo-oligomeric complexes of α and β chaperonin subunits from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Thermococcus strain KS-1

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  174. Preparation ofThermus thermophilus holo-chaperonin-immobilized microspheres with high ability to facilitate protein refolding

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, April 2000, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  175. Preparation of Thermus thermophilus holo-chaperonin-immobilized microspheres with high ability to facilitate protein refolding

    Article • Biotechnology and Bioengineering, April 2000, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  176. Cobalt‐substituted Fe‐type nitrile hydratase of Rhodococcus sp. N‐771

    Article • FEBS Letters, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  177. Post‐translational modification is essential for catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase

    Article • Protein Science, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  178. Molecular chaperone system of archaea

    Article • Seibutsu Butsuri, January 2000, Biophysical Society of Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  179. Tertiary and Quaternary Structures of Photoreactive Fe-Type Nitrile Hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771:  Roles of Hydration Water Molecules in Stabilizing the Structures and the Structural Origin of the Substrate Specificity of the Enzyme...

    Article • Biochemistry, July 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  180. Heat-inactivated proteins are rescued by the DnaK⋅J-GrpE set and ClpB chaperones

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  181. An enzyme controlled by light: the molecular mechanism of photoreactivity in nitrile hydratase

    Article • Trends in Biotechnology, June 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  182. Novel non-heme iron center of nitrile hydratase with a claw setting of oxygen atoms

    Article • Nature Structural Biology, May 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  183. Characterization of Homo-oligomeric Complexes of α and β Chaperonin Subunits from the Acidothermophilic Archaeon,Sulfolobussp. Strain 7

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  184. Protein refolding system using holo-chaperonin from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus

    Article • Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering, January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  185. F0F1-ATPase Genes from an Archaebacterium,Methanosarcina barkeri

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, December 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  186. Structural and functional characterization of homo-oligomeric complexes of α and β chaperonin subunits from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Thermococcus strain KS-1 1 1Edited by W. Baumeister

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, October 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  187. K+ is an indispensable cofactor for GrpE stimulation of ATPase activity of DnaK·DnaJ complex from Thermus thermophilus

    Article • FEBS Letters, August 1997, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  188. Rapid construction of a transcription map for a cosmid contig of Arabidopsis thaliana genome using a novel cDNA selection method

    Article • The Plant Journal, August 1997, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  189. Purification and Molecular Cloning of the Group II Chaperonin from the Acidothermophilic Archaeon,SulfolobusSp. Strain 7

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, July 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  190. X-ray crystallographic analysis of photoreactive nitrile hydratase

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, July 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  191. The Stabilizing Residues and the Functional Domains in the Hyperthermophilic V-ATPase ofDesulfurococcus

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, May 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  192. Activity Regulation of Photoreactive Nitrile Hydratase by Nitric Oxide

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 1997, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  193. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of chaperonin-60 from Paracoccus denitrificans

    Article • Journal of Crystal Growth, October 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  194. Location of the Non-Heme Iron Center on the α Subunit of Photoreactive Nitrile Hydratase fromRhodococcussp. N-771

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, April 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  195. The role of capillary electrophoresis in human genome analysis.

    Article • SEIBUTSU BUTSURI KAGAKU, January 1996, Japanese Electrophoresis Society

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  196. Evaluation of an automated DNA sequencing system developed in RIKEN

    Article • October 1995

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  197. Solid-Phase Nested Deletion: A New Subcloning-less Method for Generating Nested Deletions

    Article • DNA Research, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  198. Effects of Linear Polyacrylamide Concentrations and Applied Voltages on the Separation of Oligonucleotides and DNA Sequencing Fragments by Capillary Electrophoresis

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, December 1994, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  199. High‐resolution separation of oligonucleotides and DNA sequencing reaction products by capillary electrophoresis with linear polyacrylamide and laser‐induced fluorescence detection

    Article • Journal of Microcolumn Separations, November 1994, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  200. Molecular Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the Gene Coding Photosensitive Nitrile Hydratase

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, June 1994, Wiley

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  201. High Speed Polymerase Chain Reaction in Constant Flow

    Article • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  202. Distribution and purification of aspartate racemase in lactic acid bacteria

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, July 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  203. Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing of the aspartate racemase gene from lactic acid bacteria Streptococcus thermophilus

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression, June 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  204. Biotechnological applications of thermophilic ATP synthase: membrane electronics and genetics

    Article • Journal of Membrane Science, February 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  205. Gene Structure and Function of Thermophilic ATP Synthase

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  206. Intracellular distribution of a 32-KDa calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding protein from human placenta.

    Article • Cell Structure and Function, January 1989, Japan Society for Cell Biology

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  207. ANISOTROPIC WEAR OF FERRITE SLIDING ON CoCr TAPE

    Article • Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan, January 1989, The Magnetics Society of Japan

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  208. Site-directed mutagenesis of stable adenosine triphosphate synthase

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, March 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  209. Sequence and over-expression of subunits of adenosine triphosphate synthase in thermophilic bacterium PS3

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, March 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  210. Single-turn perpendicular thin film heads

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, September 1987, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  211. Invitro mutated β subunits from the F1-ATPase of the thermophilic bacterium, PS3, containing glutamine in place of glutamic acid in positions 190 or 201 assembles with the α and γ subunits to produce inactive complexes

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, July 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  212. The synthesis of enzyme-bound ATP by the F1-ATPase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3 in the presence of organic solvents

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, July 1986, Elsevier

    Professor Masafumi Yohda

  213. Performance validation of a functionally distributed energy management architecture

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Masafumi Yohda