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Yoshinori Shichida

Yoshinori Shichida

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
13635
World Ranking
7746
National Ranking
513

Overview

Yoshinori Shichida is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant portion of their work contributing to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology subfields. The scientist's investigations often address topics related to photoreceptor and optogenetics research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, retinal development and disorders, and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications in several peer-reviewed journals, reflecting a range of studies in vision science and molecular mechanisms. Selected recent papers are:

  • Creation of photocyclic vertebrate rhodopsin by single amino acid substitution (2022, eLife)
  • Evolutionary adaptation of visual pigments in geckos for their photic environment (2021, Science Advances)
  • Amino acid residue at position 188 determines the UV-sensitive bistable property of vertebrate non-visual opsin Opn5 (2022, Communications Biology)
  • Convergent mechanism underlying the acquisition of vertebrate scotopic vision (2024, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Synthesis of One Double Bond-Inserted Retinal Analogs and Their Binding Experiments with Opsins: Preparation of Novel Red-Shifted Channelrhodopsin Variants (2020, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin)

These publications exhibit the scientist's investigations into molecular adaptations and functions of visual pigments and opsins, including evolutionary aspects and biochemical properties relevant to photoreception.

Yoshinori Shichida frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Takahiro Yamashita
  • Yasushi Imamoto
  • Yumiko Yamano
  • Akimori Wada
  • Hideyo Ohuchi

The scientist publishes in various academic venues, with multiple works appearing in bioRxiv, alongside journals such as eLife, Science Advances, Communications Biology, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The main research topics covered by Yoshinori Shichida include photoreceptor and optogenetics research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, retinal development and disorders, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and plant and animal studies.

Best Publications

  • Functional role of internal water molecules in rhodopsin revealed by X-ray crystallography.

    Tetsuji Okada;Yoshinori Fujiyoshi;Yoshinori Fujiyoshi;Maria Silow;Javier Navarro

  • Evolution of opsins and phototransduction.

    Yoshinori Shichida;Take Matsuyama

  • Primary structures of chicken cone visual pigments: Vertebrate rhodopsins have evolved out of cone visual pigments

    Toshiyuki Okano;Daisuke Kojima;Yoshitaka Fukada;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Visual pigment: G-protein-coupled receptor for light signals

    Y. Shichida;H. Imai

  • Cephalochordate melanopsin: evolutionary linkage between invertebrate visual cells and vertebrate photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.

    Mitsumasa Koyanagi;Kaoru Kubokawa;Hisao Tsukamoto;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Photoisomerization in rhodopsin.

    H Kandori;Y Shichida;T Yoshizawa

  • Opn5 is a UV-sensitive bistable pigment that couples with Gi subtype of G protein

    Takahiro Yamashita;Hideyo Ohuchi;Sayuri Tomonari;Keiko Ikeda

  • Movement of retinal along the visual transduction path.

    Babak Borhan;Maria L. Souto;Hiroo Imai;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Divergent Selection on Opsins Drives Incipient Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids

    Yohey Terai;Ole Seehausen;Takeshi N. Sasaki;Kazuhiko Takahashi

  • A Novel Go-mediated Phototransduction Cascade in Scallop Visual Cells

    Daisuke Kojima;Akihisa Terakita;Toru Ishikawa;Yasuo Tsukahara

  • Bistable UV pigment in the lamprey pineal

    Mitsumasa Koyanagi;Emi Kawano;Yoshimi Kinugawa;Tadashi Oishi

  • Counterion displacement in the molecular evolution of the rhodopsin family.

    Akihisa Terakita;Mitsumasa Koyanagi;Hisao Tsukamoto;Takahiro Yamashita

  • Depth perception from image defocus in a jumping spider.

    Takashi Nagata;Mitsumasa Koyanagi;Hisao Tsukamoto;Shinjiro Saeki

  • Cone visual pigments are present in gecko rod cells

    Daisuke Kojima;Toshiyuki Okano;Yoshitaka Fukada;Yoshinori Shichida

  • SINGLE AMINO ACID RESIDUE AS A FUNCTIONAL DETERMINANT OF ROD AND CONE VISUAL PIGMENTS

    Hiroo Imai;Daisuke Kojima;Tomonori Oura;Shuji Tachibanaki

  • Highly conserved glutamic acid in the extracellular IV-V loop in rhodopsins acts as the counterion in retinochrome, a member of the rhodopsin family.

    Akihisa Terakita;Takahiro Yamashita;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Amphioxus homologs of Go-coupled rhodopsin and peropsin having 11-cis- and all-trans-retinals as their chromophores.

    Mitsumasa Koyanagi;Akihisa Terakita;Kaoru Kubokawa;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Parietal-Eye Phototransduction Components and Their Potential Evolutionary Implications

    Chih Ying Su;Dong Gen Luo;Akihisa Terakita;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi

    Tohru Sugawara;Yohey Terai;Hiroo Imai;George F. Turner

  • Water structural changes in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle: analysis by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

    Akio Maeda;Jun Sasaki;Yoshinori Shichida;Toru Yoshizawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideki Kandori
Hideki Kandori Nagoya Institute of Technology
Tôru Yoshizawa
Tôru Yoshizawa Osaka Sangyo University
Yoshitaka Fukada
Yoshitaka Fukada University of Tokyo
Hideyo Ohuchi
Hideyo Ohuchi Okayama University
King Wai Yau
King Wai Yau Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Naoki Kamo
Naoki Kamo Hokkaido University
Johan Lugtenburg
Johan Lugtenburg Leiden University
Janos K. Lanyi
Janos K. Lanyi University of California, Irvine
Takashi Miyata
Takashi Miyata Kyoto University
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Nagoya University

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