Research Topics

¢£ Analysis of protein-protein interactions

Various aspects of protein-protein interaction (PPI) have been investigated by combining different types of molecular information. New methods to predict PPI and the interface for PPI have been developed in the studies.

¢£ Analysis of enzyme structures and functions

Enzyme structures and functions, including enzyme reaction mechanisms, have been analyzed and classified, in order to develop the enzyme reaction database, EzCatDB, as well as the enzyme-related softwares. Along with enzymes, enzyme-related biomolecules have also been analyzed.

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Team Member

Hiroyuki Toh

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Key Words

protein, amino acid sequence, nucleotide sequence, tertiary structure, protein-protein interaction, homology, molecular evolution

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Tomoshi Kameda

Senior Research Scientist

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molecular dynamics, replica exchange method, protein folding, amyloid and aggregation¡¡

Takatsugu Hirokawa

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protein modeling, in silico screening, drug design, molecular simulation, G protein-coupled receptors

Chie Motono

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molecular dynamics protein stability, folding, tertiary structure prediction

Papers List

• ¢£ Nemoto, W. Toh, H.:"Functional region prediction with a set of appropriate homologous sequences - an index for sequence selection by integrating structure and sequence information with spatial statistics" BMC Struct Biol (in press)
• ¢£ Daiyasu, H. Hirokawa, T., Kamiya, N., Toh, H.:"Computational Analysis of Ligand Recognition Mechanisms by Prostaglandin E2 (subtype 2) and D₂Receptors" Theor. Chem. Acc. 130, 1131-1143 (2011).
• ¢£ Kato T, Nagano N: "Discriminative structural approaches for enzyme active-site prediction." BMC Bioinformatics 12, S49, (2011).
• ¢£ Kato T, Nagano N:"Metric learning for enzyme active-site search." Bioinformatics. 26(21):2698-2704 (2010).