Publications



2014


O. P. Ernst*, D. T. Lodowski, M. Elstner, P. Hegemann, L. S. Brown, H. Kandori
"Microbial and animal rhodopsins: Structuress, functions, and molecular mechansims"
Chem. Rev. 114, 126-163 (2014)



2013


T. Fukuda, K. Muroda, H. Kandori*
"Detection of a protein-bound water vibration of halorhodopsin in aqueous solution"
BIOPHYSICS, 9, 167-172 (2013)

A. Cheminal, J. Leonard, S. Y. Kim, K.-H. Jung, H. Kandori, S. Haacke*
"Steady state emission of the fluorescent intermediate of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin as a function of light adaptation conditions"
Chem. Phys. Lett. 587, 75-80 (2013)

S. Doki, H. E. Kato, N. Solcan, M. Iwaki, M. Koyama, M. Hattori, N. Iwase, T. Tsukazaki, Y. Sugita, H. Kandori, S. Newstead*, R. Ishitani*, O. Nureki*
"Structural basis for dynamic mechanism of proton-coupled symport by the peptide transporter POT"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 110, 11343-11348 (2013)

T. Tsukamoto, K. Inoue, H. Kandori, Y. Sudo*
"Thermal and spectroscopic characterization of a proton pumping rhodopsin from an extreme thermophile"
J. Biol. Chem. 288, 21581-21592 (2013)

Y. Sudo*, A. Okazaki, H. Ono, J. Yagasaki, S. Sugo, M. Kamiya, L. Reissig, K. Inoue, K. Ihara, H. Kandori, S. Takagi, S. Hayashi
"A Blue-shifted Light-driven Proton Pump for Neural Silencing"
J. Biol. Chem. 288, 20624-20632 (2013)

K. Inoue, H. Ono, R. Abe-Yoshizumi, S. Yoshizawa, H. Ito, K. Kogure, H. Kandori*
"A light-driven sodium ion pump in marine bacteria"
Nature Commun. 4, 1678 (2013)

H. Yamashita, K. Inoue, M. Shibata, T. Uchihashi, J. Sasaki, H. Kandori, T. Ando*
"Role of trimer-trimer interaction of bacteriorhodopsin studied by optical spectroscopy and high-speed atomic force microscopy"
J. Struct. Biol. 184, 2-11 (2013)

S. Tahara, Y. Kato, H. Kandori and H. Ohtani*
"pH-dependent photoreaction pathway of the all-trans form of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin"
J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 2053-2060 (2013)

S. Inada, M. Mizuno, Y. Kato, A. Kawanabe, H. Kandori, Z. Wei, S. Takeuchi, T. Tahara and Y. Mizutani*
"Primary structural response in tryptophan residues of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin to photochromic reactions of the retinal chromophore"
Chem. Phys. 419, 65-73 (2013)

I M. M. Wijaya, Y. Zhang, T. Iwata, J. Yamamoto, K. Hitomi, S. Iwai, E. D. Getzoff and H. Kandori*
"Detection of distinct α-helical rearrangements of CPD photolyase upon substrate binding by FTIR spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 52, 1019-1027 (2013)

D. Yamada and H. Kandori*
"FTIR spectroscopy of flavin-binding photoreceptors"
Methods in Molecular Biology, in press (2013)



2012


L. Reissig, T. Iwata, T. Kikukawa, M. Demura, N. Kamo, H. Kandori and Y. Sudo*
"The influence of halide binding on the hydrogen bonding network in the active site of Salinibacter sensory rhodopsin I"
Biochemistry 51, 8802-8813 (2012).


Y. Furutani, H. Shimizu, Y. Asai, T. Fukuda, S. Oiki, and H. Kandori*
"ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy Revealing the Different Vibrational Modes of the Selectivity Filter Interacting with K+ and Na+ in the Open and Collapsed Conformations of the KcsA Potassium Channel"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 3806-3810(2012).

Y. Furutani*, K. Fujiwara, T. Kimura, T. Kikukawa, M. Demura and H. Kandori
"Dynamics of dangking bonds of water molecules in pharaonis halorhodopsin during chloride ion transportation"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2964-2969 (2012).


H. Ito, M. Sumii, A. Kawanabe, Y. Fan, Y. Furutani, L. S. Brown and H. Kandori*
"Comparative FTIR study of a new fungal rhodopsin"
J. Phys. Chem. B 116, 11881-11889 (2012).


K. Saito, H. Kandori and H. Ishikita*
"Factors that differentiate the H-bond strengths of water near the Schiff base in bacteriorhodopsin and Anabaena sensory rhodopsin"
J. Biol. Chem. 287, 34009-34018 (2012).


D. Yamada, Y. Zhang, T. Iwata, K. Hitomi, E. D. Getzoff and H. Kandori*
"FTIR study of the photoactivation process of Xenopus (6-4) photolyase"
Biochemistry 51, 5774-5783 (2012).


S. Sekharan*, K. Katayama, H. Kandori and K. Morokuma*
"Color vision: "OH-site" rule for seeing red and green"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 10706-10712 (2012).


K. Muroda, K. Nakashima, M. Shibata M. Demura and H. Kandori*
"Protein-bound water as the determinant of asymmetric functional conversion between light-driven proton and chloride pumps"
Biochemistry 51, 4677-4684 (2012)

K. Inoue, L. Reissig, M. Sakai, S. Kobayashi, M. Homma, M. Fujii, H. Kandori, and Y. Sudo*
"Absorption spectra and photochemical reactions in a unique photoactive protein, middle rhodopsin MR"
J. Phys. Chem. B 116, 5888-5899 (2012)

T. Kanti Maiti, K. Yamada, K. Inoue and H. Kandori*
"L105K mutant of proteorhodopsin"
Biochemistry 51, 3198-3204 (2012)

K. Yamada, A. Kawanabe, S. Yoshizawa, K. Inoue, K. Kogure and H. Kandori*
"Anomalous pH effect of blue proteorhodopsin"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 800-804 (2012)

K. Katayama, Y. Furutani, H. Imai and H. Kandori*
“Protein-bound water molecules in primate red- and green-sensitive visual pigments”
Biochemistry
51, 1126-1133 (2012).


S. Yoshizawa*, A. Kawanabe, H. Ito, H. Kandori and K. Kogure*
"Diversity and functional analysis of proteorhodopsin in marine Flavobacteria"
Environ. Microbiol.
14, 1240-1248 (2012).

T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi, and H. Kandori*
“Light-induced structural changes of the LOV2 domains in various phototropins revealed by FTIR spectroscopy”
BIOPHYSYCS 7, 89-98 (2012)



2011


Y. Zhang, J. Yamamoto, D. Yamada, T. Iwata, K. Hitomi, T. Todo, E. D. Getzoff, S. Iwai and H. Kandori*
"Substrate Assignment of the (6-4) Photolyase Reaction by FTIR Spectroscopy"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 183, 2774-2777 (2011)

G. Dai, Y. Zhang, J. Tamogami, M. Demura, N. Kamo, H. Kandori and T. Iwasa*
"An Amino Acid Residue (S201) in the Retinal Binding Pocket Regulates the Photoreaction Pathway of Phoborhodopsin"
Biochemistry 50. 7177-7183 (2011)

V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria*, H. Kandori and E. Padros
"Probing specific molecular processes and intermediates by time-resolved Fourier-transform
infrared spectroscopy: Application to the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle"
J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 7972-7983 (2011).

H. Irieda, L. Reissig, A. Kawanabe, M. Homma, H. Kandori and Y. Sudo*
"Structural characteristics around β-ionone ring of the retinal chromophore in Salinibacter sensory rhodopsin I"
Biochemistry 50, 4912-4922 (2011).

T. Iwata, A. Watanabe, M. Iseki, M. Watanabe and H. Kandori*
"Strong donation of the hydrogen bond of tyrosine during photoactivation of the BLUF domain"
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 1015-1019 (2011).

Y. Zhang, T. Iwata, J. Yamamoto, K. Hitomi, S. Iwai, T. Todo, E. D. Getzoff and H. Kandori*
"FTIR study of light-dependent activation and DNA repair processes of (6-4) photolyase"
Biochemistry 50, 3591-3598 (2011).

J. Sasaki, H. Takahashi, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori and J. L. Spudich*
"Sensory rhodopsin-I as a flip-flop: Opposite conformational changes from the same photoisomerization"
Biophys. J. 100, 2178-2183 (2011).

K. Inoue*, Y. Sudo, M. Homma and H. Kandori
"Spectrally silent intermediates during the photochemical reactions of Salinibacter sensory rhodopsin I"
J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 4500-4508 (2011).

M. Shibata, T. Uchihashi, H. Yamashita, H. Kandori and T. Ando*
"Structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin in response to alternate illumination
observed by high-speed atomic force microscopy"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 4410-4413 (2011).

A. Nakatsuma, T. Yamashita, K. Sasaki, A. Kawanabe, K. Inoue, Y. Furutani, Y. Shichida and H. Kandori*
"Chimeric microbial rhodopsins containing the thrid cytoplasmic loop of bovine rhodopsin"
Biophys. J. 100, 1874-1882 (2011).

Y. Furutani, T. Murata and H. Kandori*
"Sodium or lithium ion-binding-induced structural changes in the K-ring of V-ATPase
from Enterococcus hirae revealed by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 2860-2863 (2011).

Y. Sudo*, K. Ihara, S. Kobayashi, D. Suzuki, H. Irieda, T. Kikukawa, H. Kandori and M. Homma
"A microbial rhodopsin with a unique retinal composition shows both sensory rhodopsin II
and bacteriorhodopsin-like properties"
J. Biol. Chem. 286, 5967-5976 (2011).

A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, K.-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
"An inward proton transport using Anabaena sensory rhodopsin"
J. Microbiol. 49, 1-6 (2011).

H. Kandori
“Protein-Controlled Ultrafast Photoisomerization in Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin”
in "Supramolecular Effects on Photochemical and Photophysical Processes", V.
Ramamurthy, Y. Inoue, eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, pp. 571-595 (2011).

R. S. H. Liu, L.-Y. Yang, Y.-P. Zhao, A. Kawanabe and H. Kandori
“Supramolecular Effects on Mechanisms of Photoisomerization: Hula-Twist, Bicycle-Pedal and One-Bond-Flip”
in "Supramolecular Effects on Photochemical and Photophysical Processes", V.
Ramamurthy, Y. Inoue, eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, pp. 547-570 (2011).



2010


T. Iwata, Y. Zhang, K. Hitomi, E. D. Getzoff and  H. Kandori*
"Key dynamics of conserved asparagine in a cryptochrome/photolyase family protein by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 49, 8882-8891 (2010).

S. Kawaguchi, O. Kambara, M. Shibata, H. Kandori and K. Tominaga*
"Low-frequency dynamics of bacteriorhodopsin studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy"
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 12,10255-10262 (2010).

K. Katayama, Y. Furutani and H. Kandori*
"FTIR study of the photoreaction of bovine rhodopsin in the presence of hydroxylamine"
J Phys Chem B. 114, 9039-9046 (2010).

S. Neya*, M. Suzuki, T. Hoshino, H. Ode, K. Imai, T., Komatsu, A. Ikezaki, M. Nakamura, Y. Furutani
and H. Kandori
"Molecular insight into intrinsic heme distortion in ligand binding in hemoprotein"
Biochemistry 49, 5642-5650 (2010).

V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria, Y. Furutani. T. Ota, K. Ido and H. Kandori*
"Protein fluctuations as the possible origin of the thermal activation of rod photoreceptors in the dark"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 5693-5703 (2010).

K. Hashimoto, A. R. Choi, Y. Furutani, K.-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
"Low-temperature FTIR study of Gloeobacter rhodopsin: Presence of strongly hydrogen-bonded water and
long-range structural protein perturbation upon retinal photoisomerization"
Biochemistry 49, 3343-3350 (2010).

K. Yamada, A. Kawanabe and H. Kandori*
"Importance of alanine at position 178 in proteorhodopsin for absorption of prevalent ambient light in the marine environment"
Biochemistry 49, 2416-2423 (2010).

M. Shibata, H. Yamashita, T. Uchihashi, H. Kandori and T. Ando*
"High-speed atomic force microscopy shows dynamic molecular processes in photoactivated bacteriorhodopsin"
Nature Nanotechnol. 5, 208-212 (2010).

J. Yagasaki, D. Suzuki, K. Ihara, K. Inoue, T. Kikukawa, M. Sakai, M. Fujii, M. Homma, H. Kandori* and Y. Sudo*
"Spectroscopic studies of a sensory rhodopsin I homologue from the archaeon Haloarcula vallismortis"
Biochemistry 49, 1183-1190 (2010).

K. Katayama, Y. Furutani, H. Imai* and H. Kandori*
"An FTIR study of monkey green- and red-sensitive visual pigments"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 891-894 (2010).

H. Kandori
"Hydrogen Bonds of Protein-Bound Water Molecules in Rhodopsins" in "Hydrogen Bonding and Transfer in the Excited State",
K.-L. Han, G.-J. Zhao, eds., pp. 377-391, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex (2010).


H. Kandori, Y. Sudo and Y. Furutani
"Protein-Protein Interaction Changes in an Archaeal Light-Signal Transduction"
J. Biomed. Biotech. in press (2010).




2009


Y. Sudo, Y. Kitade, Y. Furutani, M. Kojima, S. Kojima, M. Homma* and H. Kandori*
"Interaction between Na+ Ion and Carboxylates of the PomA-PomB Stator Unit Studied by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 48, 11699-11705 (2009).

Y. Sudo*, A. Okada, D. Suzuki, K. Inoue, H. Irieda, M. Sakai, M. Fujii, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori and M. Homma
"Characterization of a Signaling Complex Composed of Sensory Rhodopsin I and Its Cognate Transducer Protein from the Eubacterium Salinibacter ruber"
Biochemistry 48, 10136-10145 (2009).

A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, K.-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
"Engineering an inward proton transport from a bacterial sensor rhodopsin"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 16439-16444 (2009).

M. Mizuno, M. Shibata, J. Yamada, H. Kandori and Y. Mizutani*
"Picosecond time-resolved ultrafast resonance Raman spectroscopy of bacteriorhodopsin: Primary protein response to the photoisomerization of retinal"
J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 12121-12128 (2009).

T. Koyama, T. Iwata, A. Yamamoto, Y. Sato, D. Matsuoka, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
"Different Role of the Jα Helix in the Light-Induced Activation of the LOV2 Domains in Various Phototropins"
Biochemistry 48, 7621-7628 (2009).

D. Suzuki, Y. Furutani, K. Inoue, T. Kikukawa, M. Sakai, M. Fujii, H. Kandori, M. Homma and Y. Sudo*
"Effect of Chloride Ion Binding on the Photochemical Properties of Salinibacter Sensory Rhodopsin I"
J. Mol. Biol. 392, 48-62 (2009).

T. Mizuno*, K. Suzuki, T. Imai, Y. Kitade, Y. Furutani, M. Kudou, M. Oda, H. Kandori, K. Tsumoto and T. Tanaka*
"Manipulation of Protein-Complex Function by Using an Engineered Heterotrimeric Coiled-Coil Switch"
Org. Biomol. Chem. 7, 3102-3111 (2009).

K. Nakashima, T. Nakamura, S. Takeuchi, M. Shibata, M. Demura, T. Tahara and H. Kandori*
“Property of Anion Binding Site of pharaonis Halorhodopsin Studied by Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy and Low-Temperature FTIR Spectroscopy”
J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 8429-8434 (2009).

M. Yoshitsugu, J. Yamada, and H. Kandori*
"Color-Changing Mutation in the E-F Loop of Propeorhodopsin"
Biochemistry 48, 4324-4330 (2009).

V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria* and H. Kandori
"Spectroscopic and Kinetic Evidence on How Bacteriorhodopsin Accomplishes Vectorial Proton Transport under Functional Conditions"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 5891-5901 (2009).

Y. Furutani, H. Kandori*, M. Kawano*, K. Nakabayashi, M. Yoshizawa and M. Fujita*
“In situ Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Studies on the
Photoinduced Host-Guest Electron Transfer that Precedes Unusual Host-mediated Alkane Photooxidation”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 4764-4768 (2009).

Y. Kitade, Y. Furutani, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
“Proton Release Group of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin Revealed by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy”
Biochemistry 48, 1596-1603 (2009).

T. Iwata, M. L. Paddock, M. Y. Okamura and H. Kandori*
“Identification of FTIR Bands due to Internal Water Molecules around the
Quinone Binding Sites in the Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaerroides”
Biochemistry 48, 1220-1229 (2009).

A. Yamamoto, T. Iwata, Y. Sato, D. Matsuoka, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
"Light Signal Transduction Pathway from the Flavin Chromophore to the Jα Helix of Arabidopsis Phototropin1"
Biophys. J. 96, 2771-2778 (2009).

A. Kawanabe and H. Kandori*
"Photoreactions and Structural Changes of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin"
Sensors 9, 9544-9607 (2009).



2008


D. Suzuki, Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, H. Takahashi, M. Homma and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes of Salinibacter Sensory Rhodopsin I upon Formation of the K and M Photointermediates"Biochemistry 47, 12750-12759 (2008).

S. Neya,* M. Suzuki, H. Ode, T. Hoshino, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori, H. Hori, K. Imai and T. Komatsu
"Functional Evaluation of Iron Oxypyriporphyrin in Protein Heme Pocket"
Inorg. Chem. 47,
10771-10778 (2008).

A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, S. R. Yoon, K-H. Jung, and H. Kandori*
"FTIR Study of the L Intermediate of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin: Structural
Changes in the Cytoplasmic Region"
Biochemistry 47,
10033-10040 (2008).

T. Nakamura, S. Takeuchi, M. Shibata, M. Demura, H. Kandori and T. Tahara*
"Ultrafast Pump-Probe Study of the Primary Photoreaction Process in
pharaonis Halorhodopsin: Halide-Ion Dependence and Isomerization Dynamics"
J. Phys. Chem B 112, 12795-12800 (2008).

T. Kitajima-Ihara, Y. Furutani, D. Suzuki, K. Ihara, H. Kandori, M. Homma and Y. Sudo*
"Salinibacter Sensory Rhodopsin: Sensory Rhodopsin I-like Protein from a Eubacterium"

J. Biol. Chem. 283, 23533-23541 (2008).

M. Ito, Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, T. Okitsu, A.Wada, M. Homma, JL. Spudich and H. Kandori*
"Steric Constraint in the Primary Photoproduct of Sensory Rhodopsin II
Is a prerequisite for Light-Signal Transfer to HtrII"
Biochemistry 47,
6208-6215 (2008).

V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria, Y. Furutani and H. Kandori*
"Active Internal Waters in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle. A Comparative Study
of the L and M Intermediates at Room and Cryogenic Temperatures by Infrared Spectroscopy"Biochemistry 47, 4071-4081 (2008).

M. Yoshitugu, M. Shibata, D. Ikeda, Y. Furutani and H. Kandori*
"Color Change of Proteorhodopsin by a Single Amino Acid Replacement at a Distant Cytoplasmic Loop"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47, 3923-3926, (2008).

Y. Furutani, M. Ito, Y. Sudo, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Protein-Protein Interaction of a pharaonis Halorhodopsin Mutant Forming a Complex
with pharaonis Halobacterial Transducer Protein II Detected by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy"

Photochem. Photobiol. 84, 874-879 (2008).

A. Wada, A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori and H. Ohtani*

"Quantum Yields for the Light Adaptations in Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin and Bacteriorhodopsin"
Chem. Phys. Lett. 453, 105-108, (2008).

Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, M. Iwamoto, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes in the O-decay Accelerated Mutants of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"

Biochemistry 47, 2866-2874 (2008).

Y. Furutani, H. Takahashi, J. Sasaki, Y. Sudo, J. L. Spudich, and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes of Sensory Rhodopsin I
and its Transducer Protein Are Dependent on the Protonated State of Asp76"
Biochemistry 47, 2875-2883 (2008).

A. Yamamoto, T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi, H. Kandori*
"Role of Phe1010 in Light-Induced Structural Changes of the neo1-LOV2
Domain of Adiantum"
Biochemistry 47, 922-928 (2008).

S. Neya,* A. Takahashi, H. Ode, T. Hoshino, A. Ikezaki, Y. Ohgo, M. Takahashi, Y. Furutani,
V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria, H. Kandori, H. Hiramatsu, T. Kitagawa, J. Teraoka, N. Funasaki and M. Nakamura
“Electronic Properties in a Five-Coordinate Azido Complex of Nonplanar Ion(III) Porphyrin:
Revisiting to Quantum Mechanical Spin Admixing"

Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 81, 136-141 (2008)

D. Suzuki, T. Kitajima-Ihara, Y. Furutani, K. Ihara, H. Kandori, M. Homma, and Y. Sudo*
“A Photochromic Photoreceptor from a Eubacterium”
Communicative & Integrative Biology 1, 1-3 (2008).


Y. Furutani, Y. Sudo, and H. Kandori
"FTIR Studies of Protein-Protein Interaction Changes
between pharaonis Phoborhodopsin and its Cognate Transducer Protein"
Curr. Top. Biochem. Res. 10, 63-77 (2008).



2007


Y. Furutani, K. Ido, M. Sasaki, M. Ogawa and H. Kandori*
"Clay Mimics Color Tuning in Visual Pigments"
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 8010-8012, (2007).


Y. Sato, M. Nabeno, T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi, M. Sakurai and H. Kandori*
"Heterogeneous Environment of the S-H Group of Cys966 near the Flavin Chromophore
in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Neochrome1"
Biochemistry 46, 10258-10265 (2007).


A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, K.-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
"Photochromism of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 8644-8649 (2007).


S. Neya*, A. Takahashi, H. Ode, T. Hoshino, M. Hata, A. Ikezaki, Y. Ohgo, M. Takahashi,
H. Hiramatsu, T. Kitagawa, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori, N. Funasaki and M. Nakamura
"Magnetic and Infrared Properties of the Azide Complex of 2,7,12,17-[Tetrapropylporphycenato]iron(III):
A Novel Admixing Mechanism of the S = 5/2 and S = 3/2 States."
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 3188-3194 (2007).


M. Shibata, M. Yoshitsugu, N. Mizuide, K. Ihara and H. Kandori*
"Halide Binding by the D212N Mutant of Bacteriorhodopsin Affects Hydrogen Bonding
of Water in the Active Site."
Biochemistry 46, 7525-35 (2007).


T. Iwata, A. Yamamoto, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
"Hydration and temperature similarly affect light-induced protein structural changes
in the chromophoric domain of phototropin. "
Biochemistry 46, 7016-21 (2007).


V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria
* and H. Kandori
"Bayesian Maximum Entropy (Two-Dimensional) Lifetime Distribution Reconstruction
from Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Data"
Appl. Spectrosc. 61, 428-43 (2007).


D. Ikeda
, Y. Furutani and H. Kandori*
"FTIR Study of theRetinal Schiff Base and Internal Water Molecules of Proteorhodopsin"
Biochemistry 46, 5365-73 (2007).

Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, J. L. Spudich*, and H. Kandori*
"Early Photocycle Structural Changes in a Bacteriorhodopsin Mutant Engineered to Transmit Photosensory Signals"
J. Biol. Chem. 282, 15550-15558 (2007).


A. Peralvarez-Marin, V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria, J. L. Bourdelande, E. Querol, H. Kandori and E. Padros*
"Inter-helical Hydrogen Bonds Are Essential Elements for Intra-protein Signal Transduction:
The Role of Asp115 in Bacteriorhodopsin Transport Function"
J. Mol. Biol. 368, 666-76 (2007).


V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria* and H. Kandori
"Practical Aspectsof the Maximum Entropy Inversion
of the Laplace Transform for Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Exponential Data"
Appl. Spectrosc. 61, 74-84 (2007).

D. Matsuoka, T. Iwata, K. Zikihara, H. Kandori and S. Tokutomi*
"Primary Processes during the Light-Signal Transduction of Phototropin"
Photochem. Photobiol. 83, 1-9 (2007).




2006


T. Iwata, D. Nozaki, Y. Sato, K. Sato, Y. Nishina,
K. Shiga, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
“Identification of the C=O Stretching Vibrations of FMN and Peptide
Backbone by 13C-Labeling of the LOV2 domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3”
Biochemistry, 45, 15384-15391 (2006).

Y. Furutani, M. Sumii, Y. Fan, L. Shi, S. A. Waschuk, L. S. Brown*, and H. Kandori*
"Conformational Coupling between the Cytoplasmic Carboxylic Acid and the Retinal
in a Fungal Light-Driven Proton Pump"
Biochemistry, 45, 15349-15358 (2006).

M. Shibata, Y. Saito, M. Demura and H. Kandori*
"Deprotonation of Glu234 during the photocycle of Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin"
Chem. Phys. Lett., 432, 545-547 (2006).

Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori and J. L. Spudich
"Functional importance of the interhelical hydrogen bond between THR204 and TYR174
of sensory rhodopsin II and its alteration during the signaling process"
J. Biol. Chem., 281, 34239-34245 (2006).

Y. Furutani, Y. Sudo, A. Wada, M. Ito, K. Shimono, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Assignment of the Hydrogen-Out-Of-Plane and In-Plane Vibrations of the
Retinal Chromophore in the K Intermediate of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"
Biochemistry, 45, 11836-11843 (2006).

K. Zikihara, T. Iwata, D. Matsuoka, H. Kandori,
Takeshi Todo, and Satoru Tokutomi
“Photoreaction Cycle of the Light, Oxygen, and Voltage Domain in FKF1
Determined by Low-Temperature Absorption Spectroscopy”
Biochemistry, 45, 10828-10837 (2006)

N. Mizuide
, M. Shibata, N. Friedman, M. Sheves, M. Belenky, J. Herzfeld and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes in Bacteriorhodopsin Following Retinal Photoisomerization from the 13-cis Form"
Biochemistry, 45, 10674-10681 (2006).

M. Shibata
, K. Ihara and H. Kandori*
"Hydrogen-Bonding Interaction of the Protonated Schiff Base with Halides
in a Chloride-Pumping Bacteriorhodopsin Mutant"
Biochemistry, 45, 10633-10640 (2006).

N. Muneda, M. Shibata, M. Demura and H. Kandori*
"Internal Water Molecules of the Proton-Pumping Halorhodopsin in the Presence of Azide"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 6294-6295 (2006).

K. Kamada
, Y. Furutani, Y. Sudo, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Temperature-Dependent Interactions
between Photoactivated Pharaonis Phoborhodopsin and Its Transducer"
Biochemistry, 45, 4859-4866 (2006).

A. Kawanabe, Y. Furutani, K.-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
"FTIR Study of the Photoisomerization Processes
in the 13-cis and All-trans Forms of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin at 77 K"
Biochemistry, 45, 4362-4370 (2006).

Y. Furutani, D. Ikeda, M. Shibata and H. Kandori*
"Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Water Molecule is Observed
only in the Alkaline Form of Proteorhodopsin"
Chem. Phys.
, 324, 705-708 (2006).

V. A. Lorenz-Fonfria* and H. Kandori.
"Transformation of Time-Resolved Spectra to Lifetime-Resolved Spectra by
Maximum Entropy Inversion of the Laplace Transform."
Appl. Spectrosc. 60, 407-416 (2006).

T. Ota, Y. Furutani, A. Terakita, Y. Shichida and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes in the Schiff Base Region of Squid Rhodopsin
upon Photoisomerization Studied by Low-Temperature FTIR Spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 45, 2845-2851 (2006).

T. Hirano, N. Fujioka, H. Imai, H. Kandori, A. Wada, M. Ito and Y. Shichida*
 "Assignment of the Vibrational Modes of the Chromophore of Iodopsin and
Bathoiodopsin: Low-Temperature Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of
13C- and 2H-Labeled Iodopsins"
 Biochemistry 45, 1285-1294 (2006).

T. Iwata and H. Kandori
"Photochemistry in Phototropin, a Blue Light Sensor Protein in Plants"
J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 53, 67-73 (2006).

H. Kandori*
"Retinal binding proteins"
in "cis-trans Isomerization in Biochemistry", C. Dugave ed., pp. 53-75,
Wiley-VCH Freiburg (2006).



2005


Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, A. Wada, M. Ito, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Steric Constraint in the Primary Photoproduct of an Archaeal Rhodopsin from
Regiospecific Perturbation of C-C Stretching Vibration of the Retinyl Chromophore

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 16036-16037 (2005).

M. Sumii, Y. Furutani, S. A. Waschuck, L. S. Brown and H. Kandori*
 "Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Water Molecule Present near the Retinal Chromophore
 of Leptosphaeria Rhodopsin, the Bacteriorhodopsin-like Proton Pump from a Eukaryote"
 Biochemistry 44, 15159-15166 (2005).

H. Kandori, H. Nakamura, Y. Yamazaki and T. Mogi*
 "Redox-induced Protein Structural Changesin Cytochrome bo Revealed by
 Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy and 13C-Tyr-labeling"
 J. Biol. Chem. 280, 32821-32826 (2005).

Y. Furutani, A. Kawanabe, K-H. Jung and H. Kandori*
 "FTIR Spectroscopy of the All-trans Form of Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin at 77K:
 Hydrogen Bond of a Water between the Schiff Base and Asp75"
 Biochemistry 44, 12287-96 (2005).

M. Shibata, N. Muneda, T. Sasaki, K. Shimono, N. Kamo, M. Demura and H. Kandori*
 "Hydrogen-Bonding Alterations of the Protonated Schiff Base and Water Molecule
 in the Chloride Pump of Natronobacterium pharaonis"
 Biochemistry 44, 12279-86 (2005).

D. Nozaki, T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Unique Temperature Dependence in the Adduct Formation between FMN and Cysteine
  S-H Group in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 Chem. Phys. Lett. 410, 59-63 (2005).

Y. Furutani, A. Terakita, Y. Shichida and H. Kandori*
 "FTIR Studies of the Photoactivation Processes in Squid Retinochrome"
 Biochemistry 44, 7988-7997 (2005).

T. Iwata, D. Nozaki, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Comparative Investigation of the LOV1 and LOV2 Domains in Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 Biochemistry 44, 7427-7434 (2005).

M. Shibata and H. Kandori*
 "FTIR Studies of Internal Water Molecules in the Schiff Base Region of Bacteriorhodopsin"
 Biochemistry 44, 7406-7413 (2005).

Y. Furutani, K. Kamada, Y. Sudo, K. Shimono, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes of the Complex between pharaonis Phoborhodopsin and Its Cognate
Transducer upon Formation of the M Photointermediate"
Biochemistry 44, 2909-2915 (2005).

Y. Sato, T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Reactive Cysteine is Protonated in the Triplet Excited State of the LOV2 Domain
  in Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 1088-1089 (2005).

D. Nozaki, T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Water Structural Changes in the Activation Process of the LOV2 Domain of
  Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 J. Mol. Struct. 735/736, 259-265 (2005).

Y. Furutani, M. Shibata and H. Kandori*
 "Strongly Hydrogen-Bonded Water Molecules in the Schiff Base Region of Rhodopsins"
 Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 4, 661-666 (2005).

T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Mechanism of Photoactivation in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 Recent Res. Devel. Biochem. 6, 1-26 (2005).



2004


S. Hayashi, E. Tajkhorshid, H. Kandori and K. Schulten*
"Role of Hydrogen-Bond Network in Energy Strage of Bacteriorhodopsin's Light-Driven Proton
Pump Revealed by ab Initio Normal-Mode Analysis"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 10516-10517 (2004).


Y. Furutani
, A. G. Bezarra Jr, S. Waschuk, M. Sumii, L. S. Brown and H. Kandori*
 "FTIR Spectroscopy of the K Photointermediate of Neurospora Rhodopsin;
  Structural Changes of the Retinal, Protein, and Water Molecules after Photoisomerization."
 Biochemistry 43, 9636-9646 (2004).

T. Tanimoto, M. Shibata, M. Belenky, J. Herzfeld and H. Kandori*
 "Altered Hydrogen Bonding of Arg82 during the Proton Pump Cycle of Bacteriorhodopsin:
  A Low-Temperature Polarized FTIR Spectroscopic Study"
 Biochemistry 43, 9439-9447 (2004).

M. Shibata, N. Muneda, K. Ihara, T. Sasaki, M. Demura and H. Kandori*
 "Internal Water Molecules of Light-Driven Chloride Pump Proteins"
 Chem. Phys. Lett. 392, 330-333 (2004).

D. Nozaki, T. Iwata, T. Ishikawa, T. Todo, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
 "Role of Gln1029 in the Photoactivation Processes of the LOV2 Domain in Adiantum Phytochrome3"
 Biochemistry 43, 8373-8379 (2004).

Y. Furutani, M. Iwamoto, K. Shimono, A. Wada, M. Ito, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
 "FTIR Spectroscopy of the O Photointermediate in pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"
 Biochemistry 43, 5204-5212 (2004). 

H. Kandori*
 "Hydration Switch Model for the Proton Transfer in the Schiff Base Region of Bacteriorhodopsin"
 Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1658, 72-79 (2004).

Y. Sudo, H. Kandori and N. Kamo*
 "Molecular Mechanism of Protein-Protein Interaction of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin/Transducer and
  Photo-Signal Transfer Reaction by Complex"
 Recent Res. Devel. Biophys. 3, 1-16 (2004).



2003


Y. Sudo, Y. Furutani, K. Shimono, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Hydrogen Bonding Alteration of Thr-204 in the Complex between pharaonis\ Phoborhodopsin and Its Transducer Protein"
Biochemistry 42, 14166-14172 (2003).

M. Shibata, T. Tanimoto and H. Kandori*
"Water Molecules in the Schiff Base Region of Bacteriorhodopsin"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 13312-13313 (2003).

Y. Furutani, Y. Shichida and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes of Water Molecules during the Photoactivation Process in Bovine Rhodopsin"
Biochemistry 42, 9619-9625 (2003).

Y. Furutani, H. Kandori* and Y. Shichida
"Structural Changes in Lumirhodopsin and Metarhodopsin I Studied by Their Photoreactions at 77K"
Biochemistry 42, 8494-8500 (2003).

T. Iwata
, D. Nozaki, S. Tokutomi, T. Kagawa, M. Wada and H. Kandori*
"Light-Induced Structural Changes in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3
Studied by Low-Temperature FTIR and UV-Visible Spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 42, 8183-8191 (2003).

K. Shimono, Y. Furutani, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Vibrational Models of the Protonated Schiff Base in pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"
Biochemistry 42, 7801-7806.

Y. Furutani, Y. Sudo, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"FTIR Spectroscopy of the Complex between pharaonis Phoborhodopsin and
its Transducer Protein"
Biochemistry 42, 4837-4842 (2003).

M. Iwamoto, Y. Furutani, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"Proton Transfer Reaction in the F86D and F86E Mutants of pharaonis
Phoborhodopsin (Sensory Rhodopsin II)"
Biochemistry 42, 2790-2796 (2003).

T. Tanimoto
, Y. Furutani and H. Kandori*
"Structural Changes of Water in the Schiff Base Region of Bacteriorhodopsin:
Proposal of a Hydration Switch Model"
Biochemistry 42, 2300-2306 (2003).



2002


Y. Furutani, M. Iwamoto, K. Shimono, N. Kamo and H. Kandori*
"FTIR Spectroscopy of the M Photointermediate in pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"
Biophys. J. 83, 3482-3489 (2002).

T. Iwata, S. Tokutomi and H. Kandori*
"Photoreaction of the Cysteine S-H Group in the LOV2 Domain of Adiantum Phytochrome3"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 11840-11841 (2002).

M. Iwamoto, Y. Furutani, Y. Sudo, K. Shimono, H. Kandori and N. Kamo*
"Role of Asp193 in Chromophore-Protein Interaction of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin (Sensory Rhodopsin II)"
Biophys. J. 83, 1130-1135 (2002).

K. Shimono, Y. Furutani, H. Kandori*, and N. Kamo
"A pharaonis Phoborhodopsin Mutant with the Same Retinal Binding Site Residues as in Bacteriorhodopsin"
Biochemistry 41, 6504-6509 (2002).

H. Kandori*, M. Belenky and J. Herzfeld
"Vibrational Frequency and Dipolar Orientation of the Protonated Schiff Base in
Bacteriorhodopsin before and after Photoisomerization"
Biochemistry 41, 6026-6031 (2002).

H. Kandori*, K. Shimono, Y. Shichida and N. Kamo
"Interaction of Asn105 with the Retinal Chromophore during
Photoisomerization of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin"
Biochemistry 41, 4554-4559 (2002).

H. Kandori*, T. Ichioka and M. Sasaki
"Photoisomerization of the Rhodopsin Chromophore in Clay Interlayers at 77 K"
Chem. Phys. Lett. 354, 251-255 (2002).

H. Kandori*, H. Tomioka and H. Sasabe
"Excited-State Dynamics of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin Probed by
Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 2091-2095 (2002).

T. Nagata, T. Oura, A. Terakita, H. Kandori and Y. Shichida*
"Isomer-Specific Interaction of the Retinal Chromophore with Threonine-118 in Rhodopsin"
J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 1969-1975 (2002).

Y. Furutani and H. Kandori
"Internal Water Molecules of Archaeal Rhodopsins"
Mol. Membr. Biol. 19, 257-265 (2002).



2001


H. Kandori*, Y. Furutani, K. Shimono, Y. Shichida and N. Kamo
"Internal Water Molecules of pharaonis Phoborhodopsin Studied by
Low-Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 40, 15693-15698 (2001). [Pub-Med]
  
H. Kandori*, K. Shimono, Y. Sudo, M. Iwamoto, Y. Shichida and N. Kamo
 "Structural Changes of
pharaonis Phoborhodopsin upon Photoisomerization
  of the Retinal Chromophore: Infrared Spectral Comparison with Bacteriorhodopsin"
 
Biochemistry 40, 9238-9246 (2001). [Pub-Med]
  

H. Imai, T. Hirano, H. Kandori, A. Terakita and Y. Shichida*
 "Difference in Molecular Structure of Rod and Cone Visual Pigments
  Studied by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy"
  Biochemistry 40, 2879-2886 (2001). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori*, Y. Yamazaki, Y. Shichida, J. Raap, J. Lugtenburg, M. Belenky and J. Herzfeld
 "Tight Asp85-Thr89 Association during the Pump Switch of Bacteriorhodopsin"
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 1571-1576 (2001). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori, Y. Furutani, S. Nishimura, Y. Shichida, H. Chosrowjan, Y. Shibata and N. Mataga*
 "Excited-State Dynamics of Rhodopsin Probed by Femtosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
 Chem. Phys. Lett. 334, 271-276 (2001). [Abstract]

T. Hirano, H. Imai, H. Kandori and Y. Shichida*
 "Chloride Effect on Iodopsin Studied by Low-Temperature Visible and Infrared Spectroscopies"
  Biochemistry 40, 1385-1392 (2001). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori*, Y. Shichida and T. Yoshizawa
 "Photoisomerization in Rhodopsin"
 Biochemistry (Moscow) 66, 1197-1209 (2001). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori
 "FTIR Spectroscopy Monitors Internal Water Molecules of Proteins At Work"
 Recent Research Development in Phys. Chem. 5, 161-183 (2001).


2000


H. Kandori* and Y. Shichida
"Direct Observation of the Bridged Water Stretching Vibrations Inside a Protein"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 11745-11746 (2000).

A. Maeda*, F. L. Tomson, R. B. Gennis, H. Kandori, T. G. Ebrey and S. P. Balashov
"Relocation of Internal Bound Water in Bacteriorhodopsin during
the Photoreaction of M at Low Temperature: An FTIR Study"
Biochemistry 39, 10154-10162 (2000). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori*, T. Iwata, J. Hendriks, A. Maeda and K. J. Hellingwerf
"Water Structural Changes Involved in the Activation Process of Photoactive Yellow Protein"
Biochemistry 39, 7902-7909 (2000). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori*, N. Kinoshita, Y. Yamazaki, A. Maeda, Y. Shichida,
R. Needleman, J. K. Lanyi, M. Bizounok, J. Herzfeld, J. Raap and J. Lugtenburg
"Local and Distant Protein Structural Changes upon Photoisomerization
of the Retinal in Bacteriorhodopsin"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4643-4648 (2000). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori
"Role of Internal Water Molecules in Bacteriorhodopsin"
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1460, 177-191 (2000). [Pub-Med]



1999


Y. Imamoto, T. Hirano, H. Imai, H. Kandori, A. Maeda, T. Yoshizawa, M. Groesbeek, J. Lugtenburg and Y. Shichida*
"Effect of Anion Binding on Iodopsin Studied by Low-Temperature FTIR Spectroscopy"
Biochemistry 38, 11749-11754 (1999). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori*, N. Kinoshita, Y. Yamazaki, A. Maeda, Y. Shichida, R. Needleman, J. K. Lanyi, M. Bizounok, J. Herzfeld, J. Raap and J. Lugtenburg
 "Structural Change of Threonine 89 upon Photoisomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin as Revealed by Polarized FTIR Spectroscopy"
 Biochemistry 38, 9676-9683 (1999). [Pub-Med]
 
Y. Yamazaki, H. Kandori* and T. Mogi
 "Fourier Transform Infrared Studies on Conformation Changes of bd-type Ubiquinol Oxidase from Escherichia coli upon Photoreduction of the Redox Metal Centers"
 J. Biochem. 125, 1131-1136 (1999). [Pub-Med]
 
Y.-S. Chon, H. Kandori*, J. Sasaki, J. K. Lanyi, R. Needleman and A. Maeda
 "Existence of Two L Photointermediates of Halorhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum, Different in their Protein and Water FTIR Bands"
 Biochemistry 38, 9449-9455 (1999). [Pub-Med]
 
Y. Yamazaki, H. Kandori* and T. Mogi
 "Effects of Amino Acid Substitutions on Redox-induced Conformational Changes of the Escherichia coli bo-type Ubiquinol Oxidase Revealed by Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy"
 J. Biochem. 126, 194-199 (1999). [Pub-Med]
 




1998


T. Nagata, A. Terakita, H. Kandori, Y. Shichida and A. Maeda*
 "The Hydrogen Bonding Network of Water Molecules and the Peptide Backbone
  in the Region Connecting Asp83, Gly120 and Glu113 in Bovine Rhodopsin"
 Biochemistry 37, 17216-17222 (1998). [Pub-Med]
 
S. Nishimura, H. Kandori and A. Maeda*
 "Interaction between Photoactivated Rhodopsin and the C-Terminal Peptide of
 Transducin a Subunit Studied by FTIR Spectroscopy"
 Biochemistry 37, 15816-15824 (1998). [Pub-Med]
 
H. Chosrowjan, N. Mataga*, Y. Shibata, S. Tachibanaki, H. Kandori, Y. Shichida*, T. Okada and T. Kouyama
 "Rhodopsin Emission in Real Time: A New Aspect of the Primary Event in Vision"  
 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 9706-9707 (1998).
 
H. Kandori*, N. Kinoshita, Y. Shichida and A. Maeda
 "Protein Structural Changes in Bacteriorhodopsin upon Photoisomerization as
 Revealed by Polarized FTIR Spectroscopy"
 J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 7899-7905 (1998).
 
H. Kandori*, N. Kinoshita, Y. Shichida, A. Maeda, R. Needleman and J. K. Lanyi
 "Cysteine S-H as a Hydrogen Bonding Probe in Proteins"
 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 5828-5829 (1998).
 
H. Kandori
 "Polarized FTIR Spectroscopy Distinguishes Peptide Backbone Changes in the
  M and N Photointermediates of Bacteriorhodopsin"
 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120, 4546-4547 (1998).
 
Y. Yamazaki, H. Kandori, R. Needleman, J. K. Lanyi and A. Maeda*
 "Interaction of the Protonated Schiff Base with the Peptide Backbone of Valine 49 and
  the Intervening Water Molecule in the N Photointermediate of Bacteriorhodopsin"
 Biochemistry 37, 1559-1564 (1998). [Pub-Med]



1997


S. Nishimura, H. Kandori and A. Maeda*
"Transmembrane Signaling Mediated by Water in Bovine Rhodopsin"
Photochem. Photobiol. 66, 796-801 (1997). [Pub-Med]

M. Hatanaka, H. Kandori and A. Maeda*
"Location and Orientation of Functional Water Molecules in Bacteriorhodopsin
as Revealed by Polarized FT-IR Spectroscopy"
Biophys. J. 73, 1001-1006 (1997). [Pub-Med]

T. Nagata, A. Terakita, H. Kandori, D. Kojima, Y. Shichida and A. Maeda*
"Water and Peptide Backbone Structure in the Active Center of Bovine Rhodopsin"
Biochemistry 36, 6164-6170 (1997). [Pub-Med]

M. Hatanaka, R. Kashima, H. Kandori, N. Friedman, M. Sheves, R. Needleman, J. K. Lanyi and A. Maeda *
"Trp86 -> Phe Replacement in Bacteriorhodopsin Affects a Water Molecule near Asp85 and Light Adaptation"
Biochemistry 36, 5493-5498 (1997). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori, Y. Yamazaki, M. Hatanaka, R. Needleman, L. S. Brown, H.-T. Richter, J. K. Lanyi and A. Maeda*
"Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Study of Structural Changes in the Last Steps of the Photocycles of Glu-204 and Leu-93 Mutants of Bacteriorhodopsin"
Biochemistry 36, 5134-5141 (1997). [Pub-Med]

S. Nishimura, H. Kandori, M. Nakagawa, M. Tsuda and A. Maeda*
"Structural Dynamics of Water and the Peptide Backbone around the Schiff Base Associated with the Light-Activated Process of Octopus Rhodopsin"
Biochemistry 36, 864-870 (1997). [Pub-Med]

A. Maeda*, H. Kandori, Y. Yamazaki, S. Nishimura, M. Hatanaka, Y.-S. Chon, J. Sasaki, R. Needleman and J. K. Lanyi
"Intramembrane Signaling Mediated by Hydrogen-Bonding of Water and Carboxyl Groups in Bacteriorhodopsin and Rhodopsin"
J. Biochem. 121, 399-406 (1997). [Pub-Med]

H. Kandori
"Primary Process in Vision as Revealed by Ultrasfast Spectroscopy"
Photomed. Photobiol. 19, 21-22 (1997).