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Masaki Yamamoto

Masaki Yamamoto

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Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
22691
World Ranking
7912
National Ranking
527

Overview

Masaki Yamamoto is affiliated with the University of Hyogo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The researcher's work predominantly focuses on Molecular Biology, with notable investigations also in Materials Chemistry, Radiation, Infectious Diseases, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics address various aspects of enzyme structure and function, protein structure and dynamics, advanced X-ray imaging techniques, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Masaki Yamamoto include:

  • Kunio Hirata
  • Naoki Sakai
  • Go Ueno
  • Yoshiaki Kawano
  • Hiroaki Matsuura

Common publication venues for the scientist's work are diverse, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Nature Communications

Recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Yamamoto comprise:

  • StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications, 2023, Nature Methods
  • Structure of the bile acid transporter and HBV receptor NTCP, 2022, Nature
  • CRISPR-Cas3-based diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus, 2022, iScience
  • Structural analysis reveals TLR7 dynamics underlying antagonism, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cryo-EM Structure of the Prostaglandin E Receptor EP4 Coupled to G Protein, 2020, Structure

Best Publications

  • Crystal Structure of Rhodopsin: A G Protein-Coupled Receptor

    Krzysztof Palczewski;T. Kumasaka;T. Hori;C. A. Behnke

  • Structural basis of glutamate recognition by a dimeric metabotropic glutamate receptor

    Naoki Kunishima;Yoshimi Shimada;Yuji Tsuji;Toshihiro Sato

  • Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses.

    Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Kunio Hirata;Go Ueno

  • Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL.

    Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Fusamichi Akita;Michihiro Sugahara;Minoru Kubo

  • Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling.

    Fadel A. Samatey;Katsumi Imada;Shigehiro Nagashima;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • Curved EFC/F-BAR-Domain Dimers Are Joined End to End into a Filament for Membrane Invagination in Endocytosis

    Atsushi Shimada;Hideaki Niwa;Kazuya Tsujita;Shiro Suetsugu;Shiro Suetsugu

  • Molecular basis of ligand recognition and transport by glucose transporters

    Dong Deng;Pengcheng Sun;Chuangye Yan;Meng Ke

  • In silico discovery of small-molecule Ras inhibitors that display antitumor activity by blocking the Ras-effector interaction.

    Fumi Shima;Yoko Yoshikawa;Min Ye;Mitsugu Araki

  • An oxyl/oxo mechanism for oxygen-oxygen coupling in PSII revealed by an x-ray free-electron laser

    Michihiro Suga;Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Fusamichi Akita;Keitaro Yamashita;Yoshiki Nakajima

  • KAMO: towards automated data processing for microcrystals.

    Keitaro Yamashita;Kunio Hirata;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Determination of damage-free crystal structure of an X-ray-sensitive protein using an XFEL

    Kunio Hirata;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Naomine Yano;Shuhei Takemura

  • Structural Basis of the Substrate-specific Two-step Catalysis of Long Chain Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetase Dimer

    Yuko Hisanaga;Hideo Ago;Noriko Nakagawa;Keisuke Hamada

  • Crystal structures of the human adiponectin receptors

    Hiroaki Tanabe;Yoshifumi Fujii;Miki Okada-Iwabu;Masato Iwabu;Masato Iwabu

  • Mechanism of c-Myb–C/EBPβ Cooperation from Separated Sites on a Promoter

    Tahir H. Tahirov;Ko Sato;Emi Ichikawa-Iwata;Motoko Sasaki

  • ZOO: an automatic data-collection system for high-throughput structure analysis in protein microcrystallography.

    Kunio Hirata;Keitaro Yamashita;Go Ueno;Yoshiaki Kawano

  • X-ray structure of beta-carbonic anhydrase from the red alga, Porphyridium purpureum, reveals a novel catalytic site for CO(2) hydration.

    Satoshi Mitsuhashi;Tsunehiro Mizushima;Eiki Yamashita;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Structural basis for conformational dynamics of GTP-bound Ras protein

    Fumi Shima;Yuichi Ijiri;Shin Muraoka;Jingling Liao

  • Small‐angle X‐ray scattering station at the SPring‐8 RIKEN beamline

    T. Fujisawa;K. Inoue;T. Oka;H. Iwamoto

  • Polymerization of phenylacetylene by rhodium complexes within a discrete space of apo-ferritin.

    Satoshi Abe;Kunio Hirata;Takafumi Ueno;Kazuhide Morino

  • A High-Speed Data-Collection System for Large-Unit-Cell Crystals using an Imaging Plate as a Detector

    M. Sato;M. Yamamoto;K. Imada;Y. Katsube

  • Crystal structure of N-carbamyl-D-amino acid amidohydrolase with a novel catalytic framework common to amidohydrolases.

    Takahisa Nakai;Tomokazu Hasegawa;Tomokazu Hasegawa;Eiki Yamashita;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Cloning of the pka1 gene encoding the catalytic subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    T. Maeda;Y. Watanabe;H. Kunitomo;M. Yamamoto

  • Crystal structure of a repair enzyme of oxidatively damaged DNA, MutM (Fpg), from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus HB8.

    Mitsuaki Sugahara;Tsutomu Mikawa;Takashi Kumasaka;Masaki Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomitake Tsukihara
Tomitake Tsukihara University of Hyogo
Eiki Yamashita
Eiki Yamashita Osaka University
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Sachihiro Matsunaga
Sachihiro Matsunaga Tokyo University of Science
Mikako Shirouzu
Mikako Shirouzu RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Atsushi Nakagawa
Atsushi Nakagawa Osaka University
Shinya Yoshikawa
Shinya Yoshikawa University of Hyogo
Takaho Terada
Takaho Terada University of Tokyo

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