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Imamoto Yasushi

イマモト ヤスシ | Imamoto Yasushi
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate Professor
Research field  (1): Biophysics
Research keywords  (5): Spectroscopy ,  Arrestin ,  PYP ,  Rhodopsin ,  Photobiology
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (25):
  • 2019 - 2022 細胞を赤外線で操るためのチャネルロドプシンの創製
  • 2016 - 2019 Exploring of non-visual functions mediated by Opn5.
  • 2016 - 2019 アレスチンの受容体選択性と自己会合
  • 2013 - 2016 Molecular and functional properties of Opn5
  • 2012 - 2015 遷移状態に着目した蛋白質の折り畳み・構造変化機構の解明
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Papers (118):
  • Keiichi Kojima, Masataka Yanagawa, Yasushi Imamoto, Yumiko Yamano, Akimori Wada, Yoshinori Shichida, Takahiro Yamashita. Convergent mechanism underlying the acquisition of vertebrate scotopic vision. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2024. 107175-107175
  • Misao Mizuno, Keita Sato, Takahiro Yamashita, Kazumi Sakai, Yasushi Imamoto, Yumiko Yamano, Akimori Wada, Hideyo Ohuchi, Yoshinori Shichida, Yasuhisa Mizutani. Chromophore Structure in an Inactive State of a Novel Photosensor Protein Opn5L1: Resonance Raman Evidence for the Formation of a Deprotonated Adduct at the 11th Carbon Atom. The journal of physical chemistry. B. 2023. 127. 10. 2169-2176
  • Yasushi Imamoto, Keiichi Kojima, Ryo Maeda, Yoshinori Shichida, Toshihiko Oka. Role of Monomer/Tetramer Equilibrium of Rod Visual Arrestin in the Interaction with Phosphorylated Rhodopsin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023. 24. 5. 4963-4963
  • Kazumi Sakai, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Chihiro Fujiyabu, Yasushi Imamoto, Takahiro Yamashita. Convergent evolutionary counterion displacement of bilaterian opsins in ciliary cells. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 2022. 79. 9
  • Kazumi Sakai, Yoshinori Shichida, Yasushi Imamoto, Takahiro Yamashita. Creation of photocyclic vertebrate rhodopsin by single amino acid substitution. eLife. 2022. 11
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MISC (17):
Books (3):
  • 光と生命の事典
    朝倉書店 2016 ISBN:9784254171617
  • Frontiers of photobiology : proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Photobiology, Kyoto, Japan, 7-12 September 1992
    Elsevier Science Publishers 1993 ISBN:0444897216
  • Structures and Functions of Retinal Proteins (Colloque Inserm)
    INSERM,J. Libbey Eurotext 1992 ISBN:0861963555
Lectures and oral presentations  (10):
  • Formation and decay mechanisms of active structure of animal rhodopsins
    (19th International Conference on Retinal Proteins 2022)
  • Structural Change and Dynamics of Rhodopsin Activation
    (2019)
  • Development of Red-Shifted Channelrhodopsin Variants Using Long-Conjugated Retinal Analogues
    (International Conference on Retinal Proteins 2018)
  • Single molecule observation of the activation dynamics of rhodopsin
    (International Symposium on Biophysics of Rhodopsins 2017)
  • Single-molecule Dynamics of Rhodopsin Activation
    (IPR Seminar 2016)
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Education (4):
  • - 1993 Kyoto University
  • - 1993 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Department of Biophysics
  • - 1988 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
  • - 1988 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
Professional career (1):
  • Ph. D
Awards (1):
  • 2015/09 - The Biophysical Society of Japan Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors' Choice Award Mapping of the local environmental changes in proteins by cysteine scanning
Association Membership(s) (3):
日本比較生理生化学会 ,  日本動物学会 ,  日本生物物理学会
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