Origins of a cyanobacterial 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in plastid-lacking eukaryotes (2008)
Maruyama, Shinichiro, Misawa, Kazuharu, Iseki, Mineo, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Nozaki, Hisayoshi
Abstract Background Plastids have inherited their own genomes from a single cyanobacterial ancestor, but the majority of cyanobacterial genes, once retained in the ancestral plastid genome, have been...
Fast manipulation of cellular cAMP level by light in vivo (2007)
Schröder-Lang, Saskia, Schwärzel, Martin, Seifert, Reinhard, Strünker, Timo, Kateriya, Suneel, Looser, Jens, ...
Divergent Selection on Opsins Drives Incipient Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids (2006)
Yohey Terai, Ole Seehausen, Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Shinji Mizoiri, Tohru Sugawara, ...
Divergent natural selection acting on ecological traits, which also affect mate choice, is a key element of ecological speciation theory, but has not previously been demonstrated at the molecular...
Fast manipulation of cellular cAMP level by light in vivo (2006)
Schröder-Lang, Saskia, Schwärzel, Martin, Seifert, Reinhard, Strünker, Timo, Kateriya, Suneel, Looser, Jens, ...
The flagellate Euglena gracilis contains a photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), consisting of the flavoproteins PACa and PACb. Here we report functional expression of PACs in Xenopus laevis...
Fast manipulation of cellular cAMP level by light in vivo (2006)
Schröder-Lang, Saskia, Schwärzel, Martin, Seifert, Reinhard, Strünker, Timo, Kateriya, Suneel, Looser, Jens, ...
The flagellate Euglena gracilis contains a photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), consisting of the flavoproteins PACa and PACb. Here we report functional expression of PACs in Xenopus laevis...
Motoko Iwashita, Masakatsu Watanabe, Masaru Ishii, Tim Chen, Stephen L. Johnson, Yoshihisa Kurachi, ...
Many animals have a variety of pigment patterns, even within a species, and these patterns may be one of the driving forces of speciation. Recent molecular genetic studies on zebrafish have revealed...
Gudrun Kräbs, Masakatsu Watanabe, Christian Wiencke
To determine the action spectrum for photoinduction of the ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing mycosporine-like amino acid shinorine, specimens of the marine red alga Chondrus crispus were irradiated with...
Tomoe Negishi, Chisato Nagaoka, Hikoya Hayatsu, Keiji Suzuki, Takahiro Hara, Mamoru Kubota, ...
Near-ultraviolet light (UVA: 320–400 nm) constitutes a major part of sunlight UV. It is important to know the effect of UVA on the biological activities of organisms on the earth. We have...
Youichi Kondou, Miki Nakazawa, Sho-ichi Higashi, Masakatsu Watanabe, Katsushi Manabe
Unicellular thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus displayed phototaxis on agar plate at 55°C. Equal-quantum action spectra for phototactic migration were determined at various fluence...
Molecular dynamics study of water between conducting plates / (1991)
Thesis (Ph.D. in Chemistry) -- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
Kawamoto, Shinichi, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Saito, Natsumi, Hesketh, Andrew, Vachalova, Katerina, Matsubara, Keiko, ...
Analysis of proteins recovered in the S100 precipitate fraction of Streptomyces griseus after ultracentrifugation led to the identification of a 52-kDa protein which is produced during the late...
Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase Controls Phototaxis in the Flagellate Euglena gracilis
Ntefidou, Maria, Iseki, Mineo, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Lebert, Michael, Häder, Donat-Peter
Euglena gracilis, a unicellular freshwater protist exhibits different photomovement responses, such as phototaxis (oriented movement toward or away from the light source) and photophobic (abrupt turn...
Watanabe, Masakatsu, Furuya, Masaki
Positive phototaxis in cell populations of a phytoflagellate Cryptomonas sp. was recorded photoelectrically when the duration and intensity of repeated pulses of monochromatic yellow light (570 nm)...
Iwashita, Motoko, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Ishii, Masaru, Chen, Tim, Johnson, Stephen L, Kurachi, Yoshihisa, ...
Many animals have a variety of pigment patterns, even within a species, and these patterns may be one of the driving forces of speciation. Recent molecular genetic studies on zebrafish have revealed...
Kawamoto, Shinichi, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Saito, Natsumi, Hesketh, Andrew, Vachalova, Katerina, Matsubara, Keiko, ...
Analysis of proteins recovered in the S100 precipitate fraction of Streptomyces griseus after ultracentrifugation led to the identification of a 52-kDa protein which is produced during the late...
Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase Controls Phototaxis in the Flagellate Euglena gracilis
Ntefidou, Maria, Iseki, Mineo, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Lebert, Michael, Häder, Donat-Peter
Euglena gracilis, a unicellular freshwater protist exhibits different photomovement responses, such as phototaxis (oriented movement toward or away from the light source) and photophobic (abrupt turn...
Watanabe, Masakatsu, Furuya, Masaki
Positive phototaxis in cell populations of a phytoflagellate Cryptomonas sp. was recorded photoelectrically when the duration and intensity of repeated pulses of monochromatic yellow light (570 nm)...
Iwashita, Motoko, Watanabe, Masakatsu, Ishii, Masaru, Chen, Tim, Johnson, Stephen L, Kurachi, Yoshihisa, ...
Many animals have a variety of pigment patterns, even within a species, and these patterns may be one of the driving forces of speciation. Recent molecular genetic studies on zebrafish have revealed...
Divergent Selection on Opsins Drives Incipient Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids
Terai, Yohey, Seehausen, Ole, Sasaki, Takeshi, Takahashi, Kazuhiko, Mizoiri, Shinji, Sugawara, Tohru, ...
Divergent natural selection acting on ecological traits, which also affect mate choice, is a key element of ecological speciation theory, but has not previously been demonstrated at the molecular...
Spot pattern of leopard Danio is caused by mutation in the zebrafish connexin41.8 gene
Watanabe, Masakatsu, Iwashita, Motoko, Ishii, Masaru, Kurachi, Yoshihisa, Kawakami, Atsushi, Kondo, Shigeru, ...
Leopard, a well-known zebrafish mutant that has a spotted skin pattern instead of stripes, is a model for the study of pigment patterning. To understand the mechanisms underlying stripe formation, as...