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Overview

Hideki Kandori is affiliated with the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan and focuses research primarily in the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific output spans numerous subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and spectroscopy.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Kandori include photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, retinal development and disorders, molecular communication and nanonetworks, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neural engineering, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Kandori's publication record comprises articles in renowned journals and venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Biophysics and Physicobiology, Biochemistry, and Nature Communications. Their research collaborations often involve coauthors including Kota Katayama, Keiichi Inoue, Satoshi P. Tsunoda, Masae Konno, and Oded Béjà.

Several recent papers outline key contributions to the scientific community, including:

  • Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades (2021, Annual Review of Microbiology)
  • Schizorhodopsins: A family of rhodopsins from Asgard archaea that function as light-driven inward H + pumps (2020, Science Advances)
  • Remote control of neural function by X-ray-induced scintillation (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Biophysics of rhodopsins and optogenetics (2020, Biophysical Reviews)
  • Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography reveals early structural changes in channelrhodopsin (2021, eLife)

Kandori has also contributed to book publications, with a notable work titled Optogenetics published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Microbial and animal rhodopsins: structures, functions, and molecular mechanisms.

    Oliver P. Ernst;David Thomas Lodowski;Marcus Elstner;Peter Hegemann

  • A light-driven sodium ion pump in marine bacteria

    Keiichi Inoue;Hikaru Ono;Rei Abe-Yoshizumi;Susumu Yoshizawa

  • High-speed atomic force microscopy shows dynamic molecular processes in photoactivated bacteriorhodopsin.

    Mikihiro Shibata;Hayato Yamashita;Takayuki Uchihashi;Hideki Kandori

  • Glutamic Acid 204 is the Terminal Proton Release Group at the Extracellular Surface of Bacteriorhodopsin

    Leonid S. Brown;Jun Sasaki;Hideki Kandori;Akio Maeda

  • Role of internal water molecules in bacteriorhodopsin

    Hideki Kandori

  • Conversion of bacteriorhodopsin into a chloride ion pump.

    Jun Sasaki;Leonid S. Brown;Young-Shin Chon;Hideki Kandori

  • Photoisomerization in rhodopsin.

    H Kandori;Y Shichida;T Yoshizawa

  • Structural basis for Na + transport mechanism by a light-driven Na + pump

    Hideaki E. Kato;Keiichi Inoue;Rei Abe-Yoshizumi;Yoshitaka Kato

  • A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics.

    Alina Pushkarev;Keiichi Inoue;Shirley Larom;José Flores-Uribe

  • Structural basis for dynamic mechanism of proton-coupled symport by the peptide transporter POT

    Shintaro Doki;Hideaki E. Kato;Nicolae Solcan;Masayo Iwaki

  • Direct Determination of a Lifetime of the S2 State of .beta.-Carotene by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy

    Hideki Kandori;Hiroyuki Sasabe;Mamoru Mimuro

  • Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades.

    Andrey Rozenberg;Keiichi Inoue;Hideki Kandori;Oded Béjà

  • A natural light-driven inward proton pump.

    Keiichi Inoue;Shota Ito;Yoshitaka Kato;Yurika Nomura

  • Ion-pumping microbial rhodopsins

    Hideki Kandori

  • Femtosecond intermolecular electron transfer in diffusionless, weakly polar systems: nile blue in aniline and N,N-dimethylaniline

    Tohru Kobayashi;Yoshihiro Takagi;Hideki Kandori;Klaus Kemnitz

  • Role of Gln1029 in the photoactivation processes of the LOV2 domain in adiantum phytochrome3.

    Dai Nozaki;Tatsuya Iwata;Tomoko Ishikawa;Takeshi Todo

  • Femtosecond fluorescence study of the rhodopsin chromophore in solution

    Hideki Kandori;Yuko Katsuta;Masayoshi Ito;Hiroyuki Sasabe

  • Reactive cysteine is protonated in the triplet excited state of the LOV2 domain in Adiantum phytochrome3.

    Yoshiaki Sato;Tatsuya Iwata;Satoru Tokutomi;Hideki Kandori

  • In Situ Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Theoretical Studies of the Photoinduced Host-Guest Electron Transfer that Precedes Unusual Host-Mediated Alkane Photooxidation

    Yuji Furutani;Hideki Kandori;Masaki Kawano;Koji Nakabayashi

  • Subpicosecond transient absorption study of intermolecular electron transfer between solute and electron-donating solvents

    Hideki Kandori;Klaus Kemnitz;Keitaro Yoshihara

  • Light-driven chloride ion transport by halorhodopsin from Natronobacterium pharaonis. 1. The photochemical cycle.

    Gyorgy Varo;Leonid S. Brown;Jun Sasaki;Hideki Kandori

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Shichida
Yoshinori Shichida Ritsumeikan University
Naoki Kamo
Naoki Kamo Hokkaido University
Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Elizabeth D. Getzoff Scripps Research Institute
Michio Homma
Michio Homma Nagoya University
Osamu Nureki
Osamu Nureki University of Tokyo
Shigenori Iwai
Shigenori Iwai Osaka University
Leonid S. Brown
Leonid S. Brown University of Guelph
Richard Needleman
Richard Needleman Wayne State University
Janos K. Lanyi
Janos K. Lanyi University of California, Irvine
Oded Béjà
Oded Béjà Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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