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Masafumi Yohda is affiliated with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Heat shock proteins research
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

Masafumi Yohda has contributed to numerous scientific publications, including the following recent papers:

  • "Structural instability and divergence from conserved residues underlie intracellular retention of mammalian odorant receptors," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Concentration-Dependent Recruitment of Mammalian Odorant Receptors," 2020, eNeuro
  • "Single polypeptide detection using a translocon EXP2 nanopore," 2021, PROTEOMICS
  • "Antagonistic interactions between odorants alter human odor perception," 2023, Current Biology
  • "CDMOs Play a Critical Role in the Biopharmaceutical Ecosystem," 2022, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Keiichi Noguchi
  • Yosuke Fukutani
  • Hiroaki Matsunami
  • Heri Hermansyah
  • Ken Morishima

Masafumi Yohda publishes regularly in a set of journals where they have multiple papers, such as:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • International Journal of Technology
  • Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal

Best Publications

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

    Shigehiro Nagashima;Masayoshi Nakasako;Naoshi Dohmae;Masanari Tsujimura

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

    Ken Motohashi;Yohei Watanabe;Masafumi Yohda;Masasuke Yoshida

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

    Daisuke Ishii;Kazushi Kinbara;Yasuhiro Ishida;Noriyuki Ishii

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

    Taku Murakami;Masaki Nojiri;Hiroshi Nakayama;Masafumi Odaka

  • Fe-type nitrile hydratase.

    Isao Endo;Masaki Nojiri;Masanari Tsujimura;Masayoshi Nakasako

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

    Shigeo Ohta;Masafumi Yohda;Morio Ishizuka;Hajime Hirata

  • Activity Regulation of Photoreactive Nitrile Hydratase by Nitric Oxide

    Masafumi Odaka;Kaoru Fujii;Mikio Hoshino;Takumi Noguchi

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

    Tamotsu Zako;Hiroyasu Nagata;Naofumi Terada;Arata Utsumi

  • 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.

    Yasuhito Shomura;Takao Yoshida;Ryo Iizuka;Tadashi Maruyama

  • High Speed Polymerase Chain Reaction in Constant Flow

    Hideo Nakano;Koji Matsuda;Masafumi Yohda;Teruyuki Nagamune

  • Functional expression of nitrile hydratase in Escherichia coli: requirement of a nitrile hydratase activator and post-translational modification of a ligand cysteine.

    Masaki Nojiri;Masafumi Yohda;Masafumi Odaka;Yusuke Matsushita

  • Structure of the Photoreactive Iron Center of the Nitrile Hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771 EVIDENCE OF A NOVEL POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION IN THE CYSTEINE LIGAND

    Masanari Tsujimura;Naoshi Dohmae;Masafumi Odaka;Masao Chijimatsu

  • Packaging guest proteins into the encapsulin nanocompartment from Rhodococcus erythropolis N771

    Akio Tamura;Yosuke Fukutani;Taku Takami;Motoko Fujii

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

    Isao Endo;Masafumi Odaka;Masafumi Yohda

  • Carbonyl sulfide hydrolase from Thiobacillus thioparus strain THI115 is one of the β-carbonic anhydrase family enzymes.

    Takahiro Ogawa;Keiichi Noguchi;Masahiko Saito;Yoshiko Nagahata

  • 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.

    Masayoshi Nakasako;Masafumi Odaka;Masafumi Yohda;Naoshi Dohmae

  • Properties of aspartate racemase, a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-independent amino acid racemase.

    T. Yamauchi;Soo-Young Choi;H. Okada;M. Yohda

  • Effects of linear polyacrylamide concentrations and applied voltages on the separation of oligonucleotides and DNA sequencing fragments by capillary electrophoresis.

    Takashi. Manabe;Nong. Chen;Shigeru. Terabe;Masafumi. Yohda

  • Site-directed mutagenesis of stable adenosine triphosphate synthase

    Masafumi Yohda;Shigeo Ohta;Toru Hisabori;Yasuo Kagawa

  • Structure of thiocyanate hydrolase: a new nitrile hydratase family protein with a novel five-coordinate cobalt(III) center.

    Takatoshi Arakawa;Yoshiaki Kawano;Shingo Kataoka;Yoko Katayama

  • Vapor detection and discrimination with a panel of odorant receptors

    Hitoshi Kida;Hitoshi Kida;Yosuke Fukutani;Yosuke Fukutani;Joel D. Mainland;Joel D. Mainland;Joel D. Mainland;Claire A. de March

Frequent Co-Authors

Keiichi Noguchi
Keiichi Noguchi Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Kunio Miki
Kunio Miki Kyoto University
Hiroaki Matsunami
Hiroaki Matsunami Duke University
Tadashi Maruyama
Tadashi Maruyama Kitasato University
Masasuke Yoshida
Masasuke Yoshida Kyoto Sangyo University
Hiroyuki Ohno
Hiroyuki Ohno Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Kunihiro Kuwajima
Kunihiro Kuwajima Tokyo University of Science
Koji Takio
Koji Takio University of Washington

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