Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1. Abe, S., Tanaka, J., Kojima, M., Kanamaru, S., Hirata, K., Yamashita, K., Kobayashi, A., and Ueno, T.:
  "Cell-free protein crystallization for nanocrystal structure determination"
  Scientific reports 12, 16031 (2022).
• 2. Imaizumi, Y., Takanuki, K., Miyake, T., Takemoto, M., Hirata, K., Hirose, M., Oi, R., Kobayashi, T., Miyoshi, K., Aruga, R., Yokoyama, T., Katagiri, S., Matsuura, H., Iwasaki, K., Kato, T., Kaneko, M.K., Kato, Y., Tajiri, M., Akashi, S., Nureki, O., Hizukuri, Y., Akiyama, Y., and Nogi, T.:
  "Mechanistic insights into intramembrane proteolysis by E. coli site-2 protease homolog RseP"
  Science Advances 8, eabp9011 (2022).
• 3. Kwon, H., Basran, J., Pathak, C., Hussain, M., Freeman, S.L., Fielding, A.J., Bailey, A.J., Stefanou, N., Sparkes, H.A., Tosha, T., Yamashita, K., Hirata, K., Murakami, H., Ueno, G., Ago, H., Tono, K., Yamamoto, M., Sawai, H., Shiro, Y., Sugimoto, H., Raven, E., and Moody, P.C.E.:
  "XFEL Crystal Structures of Peroxidase Compound II"
  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (26) ,14578-14585 (2021).
• 4. Maeki, M., Ito, S., Takeda, R., Ueno, G., Ishida, A., Tani, H., Yamamoto, M., and Tokeshi, M.:
  "Room-temperature crystallography using a microfluidic protein crystal array device and its application to protein-ligand complex structure analysis"
  Chemical Science 11, 9072-9087 (2020).
• 5. Nakasako, M., Kobayashi, A., Takayama, Y., Asakura, K., Oide, M., Okajima, K., Oroguchi, T., and Yamamoto, M.:
  "Methods and application of coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of noncrystalline particles"
  Biophysical reviews 12(2), 541-567 (2020).
• 6. Suga, M., Akita, F., Yamashita, K., Nakajima, Y., Ueno, G., Li, H., Yamane, T. Hirata, K., Umena, Y., Yonekura, S., Yu, L.-J., Murakami, H., Nomura, T., Kimura, T., Kubo, M., Baba, S., Kumasaka, T., Tono, K., Yabashi, M., Isobe, H., Yamaguchi, K., Yamamoto, M., Ago, H., and Shen, J.-R.:
  "An oxyl/oxo mechanism for oxygen-oxygen coupling in PSII revealed by an x-ray free-electron laser"
  Science, 366, 334-338 (2019).
• 7. Basu, S., Olieric, V., Leonarski, F., Matsugaki, N., Kawano, Y., Takashi, T., Huang, C.-Y., Yamada, Y., Vera, L., Olieric, N., Basquin, J., Wojdyla, J. A., Bunk, O., Diederichs, K., Yamamoto, M., and Wang, M.:
  "Long-wavelength native-SAD phasing: opportunities and challenges"
  IUCrJ 6, 373-386 (2019).
• 8. Hirata, K., Yamashita, K., Ueno. G., Kawano Y., Hasegawa, K., Kumasaka, T., and Yamamoto, M.:
  "ZOO: an automatic data-collection system for high-throughput structure analysis in protein microcrystallography"
  Acta Crystallographica Section D 75, 138-150 (2019).
• 9. Yamashita, K., Hirata, K., and Yamamoto, M.:
  "KAMO: towards automated data processing for microcrystals"
  Acta Crystallographica Section D 74, 441-449 (2018).
• 10. Hasegawa, K., Yamashita, K., Murai, T. Nuemket,N., Hirata, K., Ueno, G., Ago, H., Nakatsu, T., Kumasaka, T., and Yamamoto. M.:
  "Development of a dose-limiting data collection strategy for serial synchrotron rotation crystallography"
  Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 24 (1), 29-41 (2017).

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