Research field (3):
Animals: biochemistry, physiology, behavioral science
, Functional biochemistry
, Biophysics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (22):
2017 - 2021 Structure and function of light-driven magnetoreceptors for GPS in animals
2018 - 2020 Establishment of a model cell to study photoresponsive mechanisms to moonlight
2016 - 2018 Development of control method for indoor lighting environment to maintain comfortable and healthy life rhythm
2016 - 2018 Molecular machinery of lunar-synchronous spawning in the brain of a tropical fish
2014 - 2016 Development of a novel protein purification/regulation methodology by using a temperature-sensitive monoclonal antibody.
2011 - 2015 Physiological studies on the transduction system of tidal stimuli in the brain of teleost fish
2012 - 2014 Control of protein localization and activity using photoreceptors
2010 - 2011 A trial of gene-activity regulation by using photoreceptor proteins.
2002 - 2006 Molecular, cellular and in vivo analyses of photoresponses and circadian rhythms in animals
2003 - 2005 遺伝子導入動物から迫る概日時計の新規構成分子
2004 - 2004 時刻情報の生成・制御を支える転写因子群の発現プログラム
2001 - 2003 脳内の時計細胞における概日リズム発振系と光入力系の分子解析
2001 - 2002 鳥類および哺乳類における概日時計の自己発振と光同調の分子メカニズム
1999 - 2002 体内時計の光位相同調とメラトニン出力系の調節メカニズム
1999 - 2000 生物時計や光周性を支える脳内光受容の分子メカニズム
1998 - 1998 脳に存在する生物時計細胞のリアルタイム追跡と光情報伝達機構
1997 - 1998 脳内光受容と生物時計を支える分子基盤
1996 - 1996 GTP結合蛋白質をはじめとする光情報伝達分子群の多様性と進化
1996 - 1996 松果体における光情報変換と概日時計の分子メカニズム
1995 - 1995 GTP結合蛋白質をはじめとする光情報伝達分子群の多様性と進化
脳に存在する生物時計のリアルタイム追跡とプローブ探索
時刻情報の生成・制御を支える転写因子群の発現プログラム
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Papers (92):
Marika Nakagawa, Keiko Okano, Yuya Saratani, Yosuke Shoji, Toshiyuki Okano. Midnight/midday-synchronized expression of cryptochrome genes in the eyes of three teleost species, zebrafish, goldfish, and medaka. Zoological letters. 2022. 8. 1. 8-8
Hiroaki Otsuka, Hiromasa Mitsui, Kota Miura, Keiko Okano, Yasushi Imamoto, Toshiyuki Okano. Rapid Oxidation Following Photoreduction in the Avian Cryptochrome4 Photocycle. Biochemistry. 2020. 59. 38. 3615-3625
Yui Takemura, Masaharu Ito, Yushi Shimizu, Keiko Okano, Toshiyuki Okano. Adaptive light: a lighting control method aligned with dark adaptation of human vision. Scientific reports. 2020. 10. 1. 11204-11204
Keiko Okano, Yuya Saratani, Ayumi Tamasawa, Yosuke Shoji, Riko Toda, Toshiyuki Okano. A photoperiodic time measurement served by the biphasic expression of Cryptochrome1ab in the zebrafish eye. Scientific reports. 2020. 10. 1. 5056-5056
Okano Toshiyuki. 2SEP-03 Diversity, function and molecular application of vertebrate cryptochromes(Light in life: photo-biology of animals, plants, microorganisms and optogenetics,Symposium,The 52th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan(BSJ2014)). Seibutsu Butsuri. 2014. 54. 1. S134