Last Update: April 19, 2020

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Name: IKUTA, Tatsuya (生田 達也)
Mail: [email protected]

Research interests

• Structural biology of microbial rhodopsins
• Molecular dynamics of membrane proteins

Education

2016: B.S. in Science from Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
2018: M.S. in Science from Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
2018-current: Ph.D. student at Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

Job history

2019-current: JSPS DC2

Publications

• Ikuta, T., Shihoya, W., Sugiura, M., Yoshida, K., Watari, M., Tokano, T., Yamashita K., Katayama, K., Tsunoda, S., Uchihashi, T., Kandori, H. and Nureki, O. (2020). Structural insights into the mechanism of rhodopsin phosphodiesterase. biorxiv
• Watari, M., Ikuta, T., Yamada, D., Shihoya, W., Yoshida, K., Tsunoda, S.P., Nureki, O., and Kandori, H. (2019). Spectroscopic study of the transmembrane domain of a rhodopsin–phosphodiesterase fusion protein from a unicellular eukaryote. J. Biol. Chem. jbc.RA118.006277. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.006277
• Tsuchiya, H., Doki, S., Takemoto, M., Ikuta, T., Higuchi, T., Fukui, K., Usuda, Y., Tabuchi, E., Nagatoishi, S., Tsumoto, K., et al. (2016). Structural basis for amino acid export by DMT superfamily transporter YddG. Nature 534, 417–420. doi: 10.1038/nature17991