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Volume 10, Issue 2

April 2018

Biomolecules to Bio-nanomachines - Fumio Arisaka 70th Birthday

Issue Editors:

Damien Hall,
Junichi Takagi,
Haruki Nakamura

56 articles in this issue

Foreword to ‘Multiscale structural biology: biophysical principles and mechanisms underlying the action of bio-nanomachines’, a special issue in Honour of Fumio Arisaka’s 70th birthday
Damien Hall
Junichi Takagi
Haruki Nakamura
Editorial 02 March 2018 Pages: 105 - 129
Forty years of research on the assembly and infection process of bacteriophage
Fumio Arisaka
Letter to the Editor 06 February 2018 Pages: 131 - 136
Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Arisaka on his 70th birthday
Peter Schuck
Letter to the Editor 06 February 2018 Pages: 137 - 137
My happy years of collaboration with Fumio Arisaka
Michael G. Rossmann
Brief Communication 12 December 2017 Pages: 139 - 140
Most of it started with T4 phage and was then taken over
Shigeki Takeda
Brief Communication 06 October 2017 Pages: 141 - 144
Statistical description of the denatured structure of a single protein, staphylococcal nuclease, by FRET analysis
Mariko Yamaguchi
Emi Ohta
Mikio Kataoka
Brief Communication Open access 25 November 2017 Pages: 145 - 152
Molecular evolution of an oligomeric biocatalyst functioning in lysine biosynthesis
Tatiana P. Soares da Costa
Belinda M. Abbott
Matthew A. Perugini
Review 05 December 2017 Pages: 153 - 162
Unified understanding of folding and binding mechanisms of globular and intrinsically disordered proteins
Munehito Arai
Review Open access 06 January 2018 Pages: 163 - 181
Anaerobic crystallization of proteins
Miki Senda
Toshiya Senda
Review Open access 02 December 2017 Pages: 183 - 189
Molluscan hemocyanin: structure, evolution, and physiology
Sanae Kato
Takashi Matsui
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Review 12 December 2017 Pages: 191 - 202
Protein–solvent interaction
Tsutomu Arakawa
Review 02 December 2017 Pages: 203 - 208
Serial femtosecond crystallography at the SACLA: breakthrough to dynamic structural biology
Eiichi Mizohata
Takanori Nakane
So Iwata
Review 01 December 2017 Pages: 209 - 218
“Just a spoonful of sugar...”: import of sialic acid across bacterial cell membranes
Rachel A. North
Christopher R. Horne
Renwick C. J. Dobson
Review 08 December 2017 Pages: 219 - 227
Analytical ultracentrifugation in structural biology
Satoru Unzai
Review 29 November 2017 Pages: 229 - 233
Ion–protein interactions of a potassium ion channel studied by attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Yuji Furutani
Review 22 November 2017 Pages: 235 - 239
Toward an understanding of biochemical equilibria within living cells
Germán Rivas
Allen P. Minton
Review 12 December 2017 Pages: 241 - 253
Heat denaturation of the antibody, a multi-domain protein
Yoko Akazawa-Ogawa
Hidenori Nagai
Yoshihisa Hagihara
Review 18 December 2017 Pages: 255 - 258
Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation for characterization of therapeutic antibodies
Susumu Uchiyama
Masanori Noda
Elena Krayukhina
Review 14 December 2017 Pages: 259 - 269
A role of heme side-chains of human hemoglobin in its function revealed by circular dichroism and resonance Raman spectroscopy
Masako Nagai
Naoki Mizusawa
Shigenori Nagatomo
Review 19 December 2017 Pages: 271 - 284
High-speed atomic force microscopy and its future prospects
Toshio Ando
Review 18 December 2017 Pages: 285 - 292
Identification of UDP-glucose binding site in glycosyltransferase domain of sucrose phosphate synthase from sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) by structure-based site-directed mutagenesis
Widhi Dyah Sawitri
Siti Nurul Afidah
Bambang Sugiharto
Review 08 December 2017 Pages: 293 - 298
Multiple analyses of protein dynamics in solution
Tadayuki Ogawa
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 299 - 306
Lipid environment of membrane proteins in cryo-EM based structural analysis
Kazuhiro Mio
Chikara Sato
Review 18 December 2017 Pages: 307 - 316
Single-molecule fluorescence-based analysis of protein conformation, interaction, and oligomerization in cellular systems
Kenji Okamoto
Michio Hiroshima
Yasushi Sako
Review Open access 14 December 2017 Pages: 317 - 326
Light-induced chromophore and protein responses and mechanical signal transduction of BLUF proteins
Tomotsumi Fujisawa
Shinji Masuda
Review Open access 12 December 2017 Pages: 327 - 337
Prefoldin, a jellyfish-like molecular chaperone: functional cooperation with a group II chaperonin and beyond
Muhamad Sahlan
Tamotsu Zako
Masafumi Yohda
Review 09 February 2018 Pages: 339 - 345
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) nanomachines—mechanisms for fluoroquinolone and glycopeptide recognition, efflux and/or deactivation
Mary K. Phillips-Jones
Stephen E. Harding
Review Open access 10 March 2018 Pages: 347 - 362
Hypothesis: structural heterogeneity of the unfolded proteins originating from the coupling of the local clusters and the long-range distance distribution
Satoshi Takahashi
Aya Yoshida
Hiroyuki Oikawa
Review 14 February 2018 Pages: 363 - 373
Relaxation mode analysis for molecular dynamics simulations of proteins
Ayori Mitsutake
Hiroshi Takano
Review Open access 15 March 2018 Pages: 375 - 389
Hierarchical design of artificial proteins and complexes toward synthetic structural biology
Ryoichi Arai
Review 14 December 2017 Pages: 391 - 410
Creation of artificial protein–protein interactions using α-helices as interfaces
Sota Yagi
Satoshi Akanuma
Akihiko Yamagishi
Review 06 December 2017 Pages: 411 - 420
“Multiple partial recognitions in dynamic equilibrium” in the binding sites of proteins form the molecular basis of promiscuous recognition of structurally diverse ligands
Daisuke Kohda
Review 14 December 2017 Pages: 421 - 433
Gliadins from wheat grain: an overview, from primary structure to nanostructures of aggregates
Reiko Urade
Nobuhiro Sato
Masaaki Sugiyama
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 435 - 443
Assembly and remodeling of viral DNA and RNA replicons regulated by cellular molecular chaperones
Takeshi Sekiya
Yifan Hu
Kyosuke Nagata
Review 22 November 2017 Pages: 445 - 452
Membrane-mediated amyloid deposition of human islet amyloid polypeptide
Kenji Sasahara
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 453 - 462
Bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber domains
Paul Hyman
Mark van Raaij
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 463 - 471
Biophysical studies of protein solubility and amorphous aggregation by systematic mutational analysis and a helical polymerization model
Yutaka Kuroda
Review 04 January 2018 Pages: 473 - 480
How multi-scale structural biology elucidated context-dependent variability in ectodomain conformation along with the ligand capture and release cycle for LDLR family members
Terukazu Nogi
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 481 - 492
Salt-induced formations of partially folded intermediates and amyloid fibrils suggests a common underlying mechanism
Yuji Goto
Masayuki Adachi
Masatomo So
Review 18 December 2017 Pages: 493 - 502
Environment-transformable sequence–structure relationship: a general mechanism for proteotoxicity
Jianxing Song
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 503 - 516
Formation and properties of amyloid fibrils of prion protein
Kei-ichi Yamaguchi
Kazuo Kuwata
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 517 - 525
Recent progress on understanding the mechanisms of amyloid nucleation
Eri Chatani
Naoki Yamamoto
Review 06 December 2017 Pages: 527 - 534
Review of the nature, diversity and structure of bacteriophage receptor binding proteins that target Gram-positive bacteria
Ahmed S. A. Dowah
Martha R. J. Clokie
Review 03 January 2018 Pages: 535 - 542
Reconstitution of membrane tethering mediated by Rab-family small GTPases
Joji Mima
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 543 - 549
Structure and assembly mechanism of virus-associated pyramids
Tessa E. F. Quax
Bertram Daum
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 551 - 557
Bacterial flagellar axial structure and its construction
Katsumi Imada
Review 12 December 2017 Pages: 559 - 570
Overview of the mechanism of cytoskeletal motors based on structure
Yusuke Kato
Takuya Miyakawa
Masaru Tanokura
Review 12 December 2017 Pages: 571 - 581
States of phage T3/T7 capsids: buoyant density centrifugation and cryo-EM
Philip Serwer
Elena T. Wright
Wen Jiang
Review 14 December 2017 Pages: 583 - 596
Structural insights on the dynamics of proteasome formation
Koichi Kato
Tadashi Satoh
Review 14 December 2017 Pages: 597 - 604
Multiscale molecular dynamics simulations of rotary motor proteins
Toru Ekimoto
Mitsunori Ikeguchi
Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 605 - 615