Akashi S., Shirouzu M., Terada T., Ito Y., Yokoyama S., and Takio K.: “Characterization of the structural difference between active and inactive forms of the Ras protein by chemical modification followed by mass spectrometric peptide mapping”, Anal. Biochem. 248, 15-25 (1997).

Ito Y., Yamasaki K., Iwahara J., Terada T., Kamiya A., Shirouzu M., Muto Y., Kawai G., Yokoyama S., Laue E., Walchli M., Shibata T., Nishimura S., and Miyazawa T.: “Regional polysterism in the GTP-bound form of the human c-Ha-Ras protein”, Biochemistry 36, 9109-9119 (1997).

Park S.-Y., Shimizu H., Adachi S., Shiro Y., Iizuka T., Nakagawa A., Tanaka I., Shoun H., and Hori H.: “Crystallization, preliminary diffraction and electron paramagnetic resonance studies of a single crystal of cytochrome P450nor”, FEBS Lett. 412, 346-350 (1997).

Fujisawa T., Kuwahara H., Hiromasa Y., Niidome T., Aoyagi H., and Hatakeyama T.: “Small-angle X-ray scattering study on CEL-III, a hemolytic lectin from Holothuroidea Cucumaria echinata, and its oligomer induced by the binding of specific carbohydrate”, FEBS Lett. 414, 79-83 (1997).

Ota M., Isogai Y., and Nishikawa K.: “Structural requirement of highly-conserved residues in globins”, FEBS Lett. 415, 129-133 (1997).

Obayashi E., Tsukamoto K., Adachi S., Takahashi S., Nomura M., Iizuka T., Shoun H., and Shiro Y.: “Unique binding of nitric oxide to ferric nitric oxide reductase from Fusarium oxysporum elucidated with infrared, resonance Raman, and X-ray absorption spectroscopies”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 7807-7816 (1997).

Neya S., Hori H., Imai K., Kawamura-Konishi Y., Suzuki H., Shiro Y., Iizuka T., and Funasaki N.: “Remarkable functional aspects of myoglobin induced by diazaheme prosthetic group”, J. Biochem. 121, 654-660 (1997).

Nakata M., Nasuda-Kouyama A., Isogai Y., Kanegasaki S., and Iizuka T.: “Effect of aromatic nitroso-compounds on superoxide-generating activity in neutrophils”, J. Biochem. 122, 188-192 (1997).

Nakamura H., Saiki K., Mogi T., and Anraku Y.: “Assignment and functional roles of the cyoABCDE gene products required for the Escherichia coli bo-type quinol oxidase”, J. Biochem. 122, 415-421 (1997).

Nasuda-Kouyama A., Nakata M., Iizuka T., and Isogai Y.: “Mechanisms of nitoroso conpound-induced inhibition of superoxide generation in neutrophils: Flourescence quenching of perylene by nitroso-compounds in the membrane fractions of neutrophils”, J. Biochem. 122, 550-555 (1997).

Hu C., Kariya K., Kotani G., Shirouzu M., Yokoyama S., and Kataoka T.: “Coassociation of Rap1A and Ha-Ras with Raf-1 N-terminal region interferes with Ras-dependent activation of Raf-1”, J. Biol. Chem. 272, 11702-11705 (1997).

Adachi H., Takahashi Y., Hasebe T., Shirouzu M., Yokoyama S., and Sutoh K.: “Dictyostelium IQGAP-related protein specifically involved in the completion of cytokinesis”, J. Cell Biol. 137, 891-898 (1997).

Nameki N., Tamura K., Asahara H., and Hasegawa T.: “Recognition of tRNAGly by three widely diverged glycyl-tRNA synthetases”, J. Mol. Biol. 268, 640-647 (1997).

Koshiba S., Kigawa T., Kim J., Shirouzu M., Bowtell D., and Yokoyama S.: “The solution structure of the pleckstrin homology domain of mouse Son-of-sevenless 1 (mSos1)”, J. Mol. Biol. 269, 579-591 (1997).

Aihara H., Ito Y., Kurumizaka H., Terada T., Yokoyama S., and Shibata T.: “An interaction between a specified surface of the C-terminal domain of RecA protein and double-stranded DNA for homologous pairing”, J. Mol. Biol. 274, 213-221 (1997).

Shiro Y., Tsukamoto K., Obayashi E., Adachi S., Iizuka T., Nomura M., and Shoun H.: “Structural and functional characterization of nitric oxide reductase”, J. Phys. IV 7, C2-587-C2-591 (1997).

Kamiya N., Sasaki K., Watanabe N., Sakabe N., and Sakabe K.: “Time-resolved protein crystallography with large-angle oscillations: An application of a protein data-collection system using the Weissenberg technique and a large format imaging plate”, J. Synchrotron Rad. 4, 14-16 (1997).

Park S.-Y., Shimizu H., Adachi S., Nakagawa A., Tanaka I., Nakahara K., Shoun H., Obayashi E., Nakamura H., Iizuka T., and Shiro Y.: “Crystal structure of nitric oxide reductase from denitrifying fungus Fusarium oxysporum”, Nature Struct. Biol. 4, 827-832 (1997).

Nishinaka T., Ito Y., Yokoyama S., and Shibata T.: “Conformational distortion of sugar moieties in the RecA-bound DNA structure determined by a simulated annealing method”, Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. 37, 269-270 (1997).

Kinoshita T., Shirouzu M., Kamiya A., Hashimoto K., Yokoyama S., and Miyajima A.: “Raf/MAPK and rapamycin-sensitive pathways mediate the anti-apoptotic function of p21Ras in IL-3-dependent hematopoietic cells”, Oncogene 15, 619-627 (1997).

Nishinaka T., Ito Y., Yokoyama S., and Shibata T.: “An extended DNA structure through deoxyribose-base stacking induced by RecA protein”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 6623-6628 (1997).