Original Papers (only)< Year 1999 >Tomizaki T., Yamashita E., Yamaguchi H., Aoyama H., Tsukihara T., Shinzawa-Itoh K., Nakashima R.,
Yaono R., and Yoshikawa S.: “Structure analysis of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase at 2.8Åresolution”, Acta Cryst. D55, 31-45 (1999).
Miyatake H., Kanai M., Adachi S., Nakamura H., Tamura K., Tanida H., Tsuchiya T., Iizuka T., and ShiroY.: “Dynamic light scattering and preliminary crystallographic studies of sensor domain of haem-based
oxygen sensor FixL from Rhizobium meliloti”, Acta Cryst. D55, 1215-1218 (1999).
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Sato H., Takeda K., Tani K., Hino T., Okada T., Nakasako M., Kamiya N., and Kouyama T.: “Specificlipid-protein interaction in a novel honycomb lattice structure of bacteriorhodopsin”, Acta Cryst. D55,1251-1256 (1999).
Chong K. T., Miyazaki G., Morimoto H., Oda Y., and Park S.: “Structures of deoxy and CO forms ofhemoglobin from Dasyatis Akajei, a cartilaginous fish”, Acta Cryst. D55, 1291-1300 (1999).
Fujihashi M., Shimizu N., Zhang Y., Koyama T., and Miki K.: “Crystallization and preliminary X-ray
diffraction studies of undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase from Micrococcus luteus B-P 26”, Acta Cryst.
D55, 1606-1607 (1999).
Kurumizaka H., Ikawa S., Sara, A., and Shibata T.: “The mutant RecA proteins, RecAR243Q andRecAK245N, exhibit defective DNA binding in homologous pairing”, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 365,83-91 (1999).
Shirouzu M., Hashimoto K., Kikuchi A., and Yokoyama S.: “Double-mutant analysis of the interaction ofRas with the Ras-binding domain of RGL”, Biochemistry 38, 5103-5110 (1999).
Fujisawa T., Kato M., and Inoko Y.: “Structural characterization of lactate dehydrogenase dissociation
under high pressure studied by synchrotron high-pressure small-angle X-ray scattering”, Biochemistry 38,6411-6418 (1999).
Isogai Y., Ota M., Fujisawa T., Izuno H. , Mukai M., Nakamura H., Iizuka T., and Nishikawa K.: “Designand synthesis of a globin fold”, Biochemistry 38, 7431-7443 (1999).
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Yamashita A., Kato H., Wakatsuki S., Tomizaki T., Nakatsu T., Nakajima K., Hashimoto T., Yamada Y.,
and Oda J.: “Structure of tropinone reductase-II complexed with NADP+ and pseudotropine at 1.9 Å
resolution: Implication for stereospecific substrate binding and catalysis”, Biochemistry 38, 7630-7637(1999).
Nakasako M., Odaka M., Yohda M., Dohmae N., Takio K., Kamiya N., and Endo I.: “Tertiary andquaternary structures of photoreactive Fe-type nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771: Roles ofhydration water molecules in stabilizing the structures and the structural origin of substrate specificity ofthe enzyme”, Biochemistry 38, 9887-9898 (1999).

Lee D.-S., Lee S.-H., Noh J., and Hong S.-D.: “Antibacterial activities of cryptotanshinone anddihydrotanshinone I from a medicinal herb, Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge”, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 63,2236-2239 (1999).
Komori H., Matsunaga F., Higuchi Y., Ishiai M., Wada C., and Miki K.: “Crystal structure of aprokaryotic replication initiator protein bound to DNA at 2.6 Å resolution”, EMBO J. 18, 4597-4607(1999).
Sekine S., Nureki O., Tateno M., and Yokoyama S.: “The identity determinants required for thediscrimination between tRNAGlu and tRNAAsp by glutamyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli”, Eur.
J. Biochem. 261, 354-360 (1999).
Kigawa T., Yabuki T., Yoshida Y., Tsutsui M., Ito Y., Shibata T., and Yokoyama S.: “Cell-free production
and stable-isotope labeling of milligram quantities of proteins”, FEBS Lett. 442, 15-19 (1999).
Koshiba S., Kigawa T., Iwahara J., Kikuchi A., and Yokoyama S.: “Solution structure of the Eps15
homology domain of a human POB1(partner of RalBP1)”, FEBS Lett. 442, 138-142 (1999).
Kitano K., Niimura Y., Nishiyama Y., and Miki K.: “Stimulation of peroxidase activity by decamerization
related with ionic strength: AhpC protein from Amphibacillus xylanus”, J. Biochem. 126, 313-319 (1999).
Nakagawa N., Sugahara M., Masui R., Kato R., Fukuyama K., and Kuramitsu S.: “Crystal structure ofThermus thermophilus HB8 UvrB protein, a key enzyme of nucleotide excision repair”, J. Biochem. 126,986-990 (1999).
Makino R., Matsuda H., Obayashi E., Shiro Y., Iizuka T., and Hori H.: “EPR characterization of axial
bond in metal center of native and cobalt-substituted guanylate cyclase”, J. Biol. Chem. 274, 7714-7723(1999).
Miyatake H., Mukai M., Adachi S., Nakamura H., Tamura K., Iizuka T., Shiro Y., Strange R. W., andHasnain S. S.: “Iron coordination structures of oxygen sensor FixL characterized by Fe K-edge extended
X-ray absorption fine structure and resonance Raman spectroscopy”, J. Biol. Chem. 274, 23176-23184(1999).
Saito J., Kita A., Higuchi Y., Nagata Y., Ando A., and Miki K.: “Crystal structure of chitosanase fromBacillus circulans MH-K1 at 1.6 Å resolution and its substrate recognition mechanism”, J. Biol. Chem.
274, 30818-30825 (1999).
Terada T., Ito Y., Shirouzu M., Tateno M., Hashimoto K., Kigawa T., Ebisuzaki T., Takio K., Shibata T.,
Yokoyama S., Smith B., Laue E., and Cooper J.: “Nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics
studies on the interactions of the Ras-binding domain of Raf-1 with wild-type and mutant Ras proteins”, J.
Mol. Biol. 286, 219-232 (1999).
Aihara H., Ito Y., Kurumizaka H., Yokoyama S., and Shibata T.: “The N-terminal domain of the humanRad51 protein binds DNA: Structure and a DNA binding surface as revealed by NMR”, J. Mol. Biol. 290,495-504 (1999).

Kurumizaka H., Aihara H., Kagawa W., Shibata T., and Yokoyama S.: “Human Rad51 amino acidresidues required for Rad52 binding”, J. Mol. Biol. 291, 537-548 (1999).
Miyazaki G., Morimoto H., Yun K., Park S., Nakagawa A., Minagawa H., and Shibayama N.:“Magnesium (II) and Zinc (II) - protoporphrin IX's stabilize the lowest oxygen affinity state of humanhemoglobin even more strongly than deoxyheme”, J. Mol. Biol. 292, 1121-1136 (1999).
Maeda N., Kitano K., Fukui T., Ezaki S., Atomi H., Miki K., and Imanaka T.: “Ribulose bisphosphatecarboxylase/oxygenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1 iscomposed solely of large subunits and forms a pentagonal structure”, J. Mol. Biol. 293, 57-66 (1999).
Chu G. C., Park S.-Y., Shiro Y., Yoshida T., and Ikeda-Saito M.: “Crystallizaion and preliminary X-Ray
diffraction analysis of a recombinant bacterial heme oxygenase (Hmu O) from Corynebacterium
diptheria”, J. Struct. Biol. 126, 171-174 (1999).
BL44B2Nogi T., Fukami T. A., Ishida M., Yoshida M., and Miki K.: “Purification, crystallization and preliminary
X-ray crystallographic analysis of Thermus thermophilus V1-ATPase B subunit”, J. Struct. Biol. 127,
79-82 (1999).
Suzuki M., Yamamoto M., Kumasaka T., Sato K., Toyokawa H., Aries I F., Jerram P.A., Gullick D., andUeki T.: “A multiple-CCD X-ray detector and its basic characterization”, J. Synchrotron Rad. 6, 6-18
(1999).
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Fujisawa T., Inoko Y., and Yagi N.: “The use of a Hamamatsu X-ray image intensifier with a cooled CCD
as a solution X-ray scattering detector”, J. Synchrotron Rad. 6, 1106-1114 (1999).
BL45SAXSHanda N., Nureki O., Kurimoto K., Kim I., Sakamoto H., Shimura Y., Muto Y., and Yokoyama S.:“Structural basis for recognition of the tra mRNA precursor by the Sex-lethal protein”, Nature 398,579-585 (1999).
Suzuki M., Yamamoto M., Kumasaka T., Sato K., Toyokawa H., Aries I.F., Jerram P.A., and Ueki T.: “Amultiple CCD X-ray detector and its first operation with synchrotron radiation X-ray beam”, Nucl.
Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 436, 174-181 (1999).
BL45XUChi S., Kitanaka C., Noguchi K., Mochizuki T., Nagashima Y., Shirouzu M., Fujita H., Yoshida M., ChenW., Asai A., Himeno M., Yokoyama S., and Kuchino Y.: “Oncogenic Ras triggers cell suicide through theactivation of a caspase-independent cell death program in human cancer cells”, Oncogene 18, 2281-2290(1999).
Ochi A., Tanimori T., Nishi Y., Nagayoshi T., Ohashi Y., Uekusa H., Toyokawa H., Inoue K., andFujisawa T.: “Novel X-ray analyzing methods using a microstrip gas chamber”, Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt.
Eng. 3774, 76-86 (1999).
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Suzuki M., Yamamoto M., Kumasaka T., Sato K., Toyokawa H., and Ueki T.: “Performance ofmultiple-CCD X-ray detector system at SPring-8 for protein crystallography”, Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt.

Eng. 3774, 38-45 (1999).

BL45XUAgo H., Adachi T., Yoshida A., Yamamoto M., Habuka N., Yatsunami K., and Miyano M.: “Crystal
structure of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of hepatitis C virus”, Structure 7, 1417-1426 (1999).
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