2025.3.1

Dr. Masakatsu Watanabe has joined as an associate professor.

2025.1.7

The paper "Structural insights into the engagement of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 with different G proteins" is published in Journal of Structural Biology. See publication page.

2024.11.1

Dr. Koya Sakuma has joined as an assistant professor.

2024.9.10

The 41th seminar will be held on October 18, 2024. The instructor is Dr. Masakatsu Watanabe. Click here for more details.

2024.9.10

The 40th seminar will be held on October 11, 2024. The instructor is Dr. Koya Sakuma. Click here for more details.

2024.5.21

The paper "A hyperpolarizing neuron recruits undocked innexin hemichannels to transmit neural information in Caenorhabditis elegans" is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. See publication page.

2024.3.28

The seminar will be held on April 11, 2024. The instructor is Dr. Wladek Minor. Click here for more details.

2023.12.12

The 39th seminar will be held on February 9, 2024. The instructor is Dr. Shigeki Kiyonaka. Click here for more details.

2023.12.12

The paper "A Na pump with reduced stoichiometry is up-regulated by brine shrimp in extreme salinities" is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. See publication page. ※ This paper was featured in the News and views section of Nature 　＜Nature　News and views＞

2023.12.12

The paper "Specific protonation of acidic residues confers K+ selectivity to the gastric proton pump" is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry. See publication page.

2023.9.26

The paper "Structural basis of hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor signaling mechanisms through ligand binding" is published in Nature Communications. See publication page.

2023.9.20

The paper "Deep learning driven de novo drug design based on gastric proton pump structures" is published in Communications Biology. See publication page.

2023.7.31

The paper "The structural basis of divalent cation block in a tetrameric prokaryotic sodium channel" is published in Nature Communications. See publication page.

2023.7.26

The 38th seminar will be held on September 8, 2023. The instructor is Dr. Tohru Terada. Click here for more details.

2023.7.22

The paper "An unusual conformation from Na+-sensitive non-gastric proton pump mutants reveals molecular mechanisms of cooperative Na+-binding" is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Molecular Cell Research. See publication page.

2023.7.20

The paper "Three structures of PSI-LHCI from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii suggest a resting state re-activated by ferredoxin" is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Bioenergetics. See publication page.

2023.6.5

The 37th seminar will be held on July 10, 2023. The instructor is Dr. Motoyuki Hattori. Click here for more details.

2023.6.5

The 36th seminar will be held on June 16, 2023. The instructor is Dr. Yuichiro Aiba. Click here for more details.