1. Yuki Kagaya, Ryuhei Minei, Ha T. T. Duong, Binh T. N. Le, Lua T. Dang, Trang T. H. Tran, Hoa T. Nguyen, Kengo Kinoshita, Kei Yura, Atsushi Ogura, Oanh T. P. Kim (2020) Metagenome sequences from the environment of diseased otter clams, Lutraria rhynchaena, from a farm in Vietnam. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9, e01068-19.
2. Shuntaro Chiba, Masahito Ohue, Anastasiia Gryniukova Petro Borysko, Sergey Zozulya, Nobuaki Yasuo, Ryunosuke Yoshino, Kazuyoshi Ikeda, Woong-Hee Shin, Daisuke Kihara, Mitsuo Iwadate, Hideaki Umeyama, Takaaki Ichikawa, Reiji Teramoto, Kun-Yi Hsin, Vipul Gupta, Hiroaki Kitano, Mika Sakamoto, Akiko Higuchi, Nobuaki Miura, Kei Yura, Masahiro Mochizuki, Chandrasekaran Ramakrishnan, A. Mary Thangakani, D. Velmurugan, M. Michael Gromiha, Itsuo Nakane, Nanako Uchida, Hayase Hakariya, Modong Tan, Hironori K. Nakamura, Shogo D. Suzuki, Tomoki Ito, Masahiro Kawatani, Kentaroh Kudoh, Sakurako Takashina, Kazuki Z. Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Keita Oda, Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuya Okuno, Shintaro Minami, George Chikenji, Philip Prathipati, Chioko Nagao, Attayeb Mohsen, Mari Ito, Kenji Mizuguchi, Teruki Honma, Takashi Ishida, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Yutaka Akiyama, Masakazu Sekijima. (2019) A prospective compound screening contest identified broader inhibitors for Sirtuin 1. Scientific Reports, 9, 19585. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55069-y
3. Yamauchi, Y., Konno, M., Yamada, D., Yura, K., Inoue, K., Beja, O., Kandori, H. (2019) Engineered functional recovery of microbial rhodopsin without retinal-binding lysine. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 95, 1116-1121.
4. Mouhib, H., Higuchi, A., Abeln, S., Yura, K., Feenstra, K.A. (2019) Impact of pathogenic mutations of the GLUT1 glucose transporter on channel dynamics using ConsDYN enhanced sampling. F1000Research, 8, 322.
5. Sakamoto, M., Suzuki, H. Yura, K. (2019) Relationship between conformation shift and disease related variation sites in ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins. Biophysics and Physicobiology, 16, 68-79.
6. Ohtaka-Maruyama, C., Okamoto, M. Endo, K., Oshima, M., Kaneko, N., Yura, K., Okado, H., Miyata, T., Maeda, N. (2018) Synaptic transmission from subplate neurons controls radial migration of neocortical neurons. Science, 360(6386), 313-317.
7. Higuchi, A., Nonaka, N., Yura, K. (2018) iMusta4SLC: Database for the structural property and variations of solute carrier transporters. Biophysics and Physicobiology, 15, 94-103.
8. Tamura, R., Takeda, M., Sakaue, M., Yoshida, A., Ohi S., Hirano, K., Hayakawa, T., Hirohashi, N., Yura, K., Chiba, K. (2018) Starfish Apaf-1 activates effector caspase-3/9 upon apoptosis of aged eggs. Scientific Reports, 1611 (14 pages).
9. Mizutani, H., Sugawara, H., Buckle, A.M., Sangawa, T., Miyazono, K., Ohtsuka, J., Nagata, K., Shijima, T., Nosaki, S., Xu, Y., Wang, D., Hu, X., Tanokura, M., Yura, K. (2017) REFOLDdb: a new and sustainable gateway to experimental protocols for protein refolding. BMC Structural Biology, 17, 4 (8 pages).
10. Masakiyo, Y., Ogura, A., Ichihara, K., Yura, K., Shimada, S. (2016) Candidate key genes for low-salinity adaptation identified by RNA-seq comparison between closely related Ulvarian species in marine and brackish waters. Algal Resources, 9(2), 61-76.
11. Gojobori, T. Ikeo, K., Katayama, Y., Kawabata, T., Kinjo, AR., Kinoshita, K., Kwon, Y., Migita, O., Mizutani, H., Muraoka, M., Nagata, K., Omori, S., Sugawara, H., Yamada, D, Yura, K. (2016) VaProS: A Database-Integration Approach for Protein/Genome Information Retrieval. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics, 17(4), 69-81.
12. Suzuki, Y., Yura, K. (2016) Conformational shift in the closed state of GroEL induced by ATP-binding triggers a transition to the open state. Biophysics and Physicobiology, 13, 127-134.
13. Hayashi, K., Kawai, Y.L., Yura, K., Yoshida, M., Ogura, A., Hata, K., Nakabayashi, K., Okamura, K. (2016) Complete genome sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the sparkling enope squid, Watasenia scintillans. Mitochondrial DNA, 27(3), 1842-1843.
14. Aoto, S., Yura, K. (2015) Case study on the evolution of hetero-oligomer interfaces based on the differences in paralogous proteins. Biophysics and Physicobiology, 12, 103-116.
15. Inoue, K., Urushibara, K., Kanai, M., Yura, K., Fujii, S., Hashimoto, Y., Ishigami-Yuasa, M., Mori, S., Kawachi, E., Matsumura, M., Hirano, T., Kagechika, H., Tanatani, A. (2015) Design and synthesis of 4-benzyl-1-(2H)-phthalazinone derivatives as novel androgen receptor antagonists. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 102, 310-319.
16. Takahashi, K., Yoshida, K., Yura, K., Ashihara, H., Sakuta, M. (2015) Biochemical Analysis of Phytolacca DOPA Dioxygenase. Natural Product Communications, 10, 717-719.
17. Hijikata, A., Yura, K., Ohara, O., Go, M. (2015) Structural and functional analyses of Barth syndrome-causing mutations and alternative splicing in the tafazzin acyltransferase domain. Meta Gene, 4, 92-106.
18. Hori-Tanaka, Y., Yura, K., Takai-Igarashi, T., Tanaka, H. (2015) Structural classification of steroid-binding sites on proteins by coarse-grained atomic environment and its correlation with their biological function. Steroids, 96, 81-88.
19. Kamijyo, A., Yura, K., Ogura, A. (2015) Distinct evolutionary rate in the eye field transcription factors found by estimation of ancestral protein structure. Gene, 555 (2), 73-79.
20. Kawai, Y.L., Yura, K., Shindo, M., Kusakabe, R., Hayashi, K., Hata, K., Nakabayashi, K., Okamura, K. (2015) Complete genome sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the river lamprey, Lethenteron japonicum. Mitochondrial DNA, 25(6), 863-864.
21. Kuppuraj, G., Kruise, D., Yura, K. (2014) Conformational behaviour of flavin adenine dinucleotide: Conserved stereochemistry in bound and free states. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118 (47), 13486-13497.
22. Kato, Y.S., Yagi, T., Harris, S.A., Ohki, S., Yura, K., Shimizu, Y., Honda, S., Kamiya, R., Burgess, S.A., Tanokura, M. (2014) Structure of the microtubule-binding domain of flagellar dynein. Structure, 22 (11) 1628-1638.
23. Yoshida, M., Yura, K., Ogura, A. (2014) Cephalopod eye evolution was modulated by the acquisition of Pax-6 splicing variants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4256.
24. Masui,R., Takahata, Y., Inoue, M., Iio, Y., Okanishi, H., Kim, K., Nakagawa, N., Yura, K., Kuramitsu, S. (2013) Structural insights of post-translational modification sites in the proteome of Thermus thermophilus. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics, 15(3), 137-151
25. Terui, H., Tachikawa, T., Kakuta, M., Nishimura, Y., Yatsuoka, T., Yamaguchi, K., Yura, K., Akagi, K. T (2013) Molecular and clinical characteristics of MSH6 germline variants detected in colorectal cancer patients. Oncology Reports, 30(6), 2909-2916.
26. Hoshina, S., Yura, K., Teranishi, H., Kiyasu, N., Tominaga, A., Kadoma, H., Nakatsuka, A., Kunichika, T., Obuse, C., Waga, S. (2013) Human Origin Recognition Complex Binds Preferentially to G-Quadruplex-Preferable RNA and Single-Stranded DNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry, in press.
27. Terui, H., Akagi, K., Kawame, H., Yura, K. (2013) CoDP: predicting the impact of unclassified genetic variants in MSH6 by the combination of different properties of the protein. Journal of Biomedical Science, 20, 25.
28. Takai, T., Higaki, K., Aguilar-Moncayo, M., Mena-Barragan, T., Hirano, Y., Yura, K., Yu, L., Ninomiya, Garcia-Moreno, H.M.I., Sakakibara, Y., Ohno, K., Nanba, E., Mellet, C.O., Fernandez, J.M.G., Suzuki, Y. (2013) A bicyclic 1-deoxygalactonojirimycin derivative as a novel pharmacological chaperone for GM1 gangliosidosis. Molecular Therapy, 21(3), 526-532.
29. Kobayashi, E., Yura, K., Nagai, Y. (2013) Distinct Conformation of ATP Molecule in Solution and on Protein. BIOPHYSICS, 9, 1-12.
30. Aguilar-Moncayo, M., Takai, T., Higaki, K., Mena-Barragan T., Hirano, Y., Yura, K., Li, L., Yu, Y., Ninomiya, H., Garcia-Moreno, M.I., Ishii, S., Sakakibara, Y., Ohno, K., Nanba, E., Oritz Mellet, C., Garcai Fernandez, J.M., Suzuki, Y. (2012) Tuning glycosidase inhibition through aglycone interactions: pharmacological chaperones for Fabry disease and GM1 gangliosidosis. Chem. Commun., 48, 6514-6516.
31. Hijikata, A., Yura, K., Noguti, T., Go, M. (2011) Revisiting gap locations in amino acid sequence alignments and a proposal for a method to improve them by introducing solvent accessibility. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 79(6), 1868-1877.
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34. Yura, K., Go, M. (2008) Correlation between amino acid residues converted by RNA editing and functional residues in protein three-dimensional structures in plant organelles. BMC Plant Biology, 8, 79 (open access).
35. Yura, K., Miyata, Y., Arikawa, T., Higuchi, M., Sugita, M. (2008) Characteristics and prediction of RNA editing sites in transcripts of the moss Takakia lepidozioides chloroplast. DNA Research, 15 (5), 309-321 (open access). (Google Scholar Cited by ... )
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39. Kono, H., Yuasa, T., Nishiue, S., Yura, K. (2008) coliSNP database server mapping nsSNPs on protein structures. Nucleic Acids Research, 36, D409-D413 (open access).
40. Gong, X., Nakamura, K., Yu, H., Yura, K., Go, N. (2007) BAAQ: An infrastructure for application integration and knowledge discovery in bioinformatics. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 11 (4), 428-434.
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