| Novel photochromic molecules based on 4, 5-dithienyl thiazole with fast thermal bleaching rate S Kawai, T Nakashima, K Atsumi, T Sakai, M Harigai, Y Imamoto, ... Chemistry of materials 19 (14), 3479-3483, 2007 | 161 | 2007 |
| Reconstitution photoactive yellow protein from apoprotein and p-coumaric acid derivatives Y Imamoto, T Ito, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga FEBS letters 374 (2), 157-160, 1995 | 155 | 1995 |
| Photoreaction Cycle of Photoactive Yellow Protein from Ectothiorhodospira halophila Studied by Low-Temperature Spectroscopy Y Imamoto, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga Biochemistry 35 (45), 14047-14053, 1996 | 148 | 1996 |
| Functional expression and site-directed mutagenesis of photoactive yellow protein K Mihara, O Hisatiomi, Y Imamoto, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga The Journal of Biochemistry 121 (5), 876-880, 1997 | 142 | 1997 |
| Photochemical properties of mammalian melanopsin T Matsuyama, T Yamashita, Y Imamoto, Y Shichida Biochemistry 51 (27), 5454-5462, 2012 | 133 | 2012 |
| Femtosecond-picosecond fluorescence studies on excited state dynamics of photoactive yellow protein from Ectothiorhodospira halophila H Chosrowjan, N Mataga, N Nakashima, Y Imamoto, F Tokunaga Chemical physics letters 270 (3-4), 267-272, 1997 | 126 | 1997 |
| Structure and Photoreaction of Photoactive Yellow Protein, a Structural Prototype of the PAS Domain Superfamily† Y Imamoto, M Kataoka Photochemistry and photobiology 83 (1), 40-49, 2007 | 122 | 2007 |
| Evidence for proton transfer from Glu-46 to the chromophore during the photocycle of photoactive yellow protein Y Imamoto, K Mihara, O Hisatomi, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga, N Bojkova, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 272 (20), 12905-12908, 1997 | 113 | 1997 |
| Cone visual pigments Y Imamoto, Y Shichida Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics 1837 (5), 664-673, 2014 | 109 | 2014 |
| Is chicken green-sensitive cone visual pigment a rhodopsin-like pigment? A comparative study of the molecular properties between chicken green and rhodopsin Y Shichida, H Imai, Y Imamoto, Y Fukada, T Yoshizawa Biochemistry 33 (31), 9040-9044, 1994 | 103 | 1994 |
| Photocycle of phoborhodopsin from haloalkaliphilic bacterium (Natronobacterium pharaonis) studied by low-temperature spectrophotometry J Hirayama, Y Imamoto, Y Shichida, N Kamo, H Tomioka, T Yoshizawa Biochemistry 31 (7), 2093-2098, 1992 | 96 | 1992 |
| A single CH/π weak hydrogen bond governs stability and the photocycle of the photoactive yellow protein M Harigai, M Kataoka, Y Imamoto Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (33), 10646-10647, 2006 | 91 | 2006 |
| Low-temperature Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of photoactive yellow protein Y Imamoto, Y Shirahige, F Tokunaga, T Kinoshita, K Yoshihara, ... Biochemistry 40 (30), 8997-9004, 2001 | 88 | 2001 |
| Primary photoreaction of photoactive yellow protein studied by subpicosecond− nanosecond spectroscopy Y Imamoto, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga, T Asahi, H Masuhara Biochemistry 40 (20), 6047-6052, 2001 | 88 | 2001 |
| The primary structure of iodopsin, a chicken red‐sensitive cone pigment O Kuwata, Y Imamoto, T Okano, K Kokame, D Kojima, H Matsumoto, ... FEBS letters 272 (1-2), 128-132, 1990 | 82 | 1990 |
| Themodynamic and transport properties of intermediate states of the photocyclic reaction of photoactive yellow protein K Takeshita, Y Imamoto, M Kataoka, F Tokunaga, M Terazima Biochemistry 41 (9), 3037-3048, 2002 | 80 | 2002 |
| Effects of modification of protein nanospace structure and change of temperature on the femtosecond to picosecond fluorescence dynamics of photoactive yellow protein N Mataga, H Chosrowjan, Y Shibata, Y Imamoto, F Tokunaga The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104 (21), 5191-5199, 2000 | 80 | 2000 |
| Photochemical and biochemical properties of chicken blue-sensitive cone visual pigment H Imai, A Terakita, S Tachibanaki, Y Imamoto, T Yoshizawa, Y Shichida Biochemistry 36 (42), 12773-12779, 1997 | 80 | 1997 |
| Evolution of mammalian Opn5 as a specialized UV-absorbing pigment by a single amino acid mutation T Yamashita, K Ono, H Ohuchi, A Yumoto, H Gotoh, S Tomonari, K Sakai, ... Journal of Biological Chemistry 289 (7), 3991-4000, 2014 | 79 | 2014 |
| Light-induced global conformational change of photoactive yellow protein in solution Y Imamoto, H Kamikubo, M Harigai, N Shimizu, M Kataoka Biochemistry 41 (46), 13595-13601, 2002 | 78 | 2002 |
