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MORIWAKI Yoshitaka

Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
Verified email at bi.au-tokyo.ac.jp
Cited by 4312

[HTML][HTML] ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all

M Mirdita, K Schütze, Y Moriwaki, L Heo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
ColabFold offers accelerated prediction of protein structures and complexes by combining
the fast homology search of MMseqs2 with AlphaFold2 or RoseTTAFold. ColabFold’s 40−60-…

[PDF][PDF] Extracellular pH sensing by plant cell-surface peptide-receptor complexes

L Liu, W Song, S Huang, K Jiang, Y Moriwaki, Y Wang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The extracellular pH is a vital regulator of various biological processes in plants. However,
how plants perceive extracellular pH remains obscure. Here, we report that plant cell-surface …

Molecular Basis of Recognition of Antibacterial Porphyrins by Heme-Transporter IsdH-NEAT3 of Staphylococcus aureus

Y Moriwaki, JMM Caaveiro, Y Tanaka, H Tsutsumi… - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance is increasingly seen as a serious problem that threatens public health
and erodes our capacity to effectively combat disease. So-called non-iron metalloporhyrins …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of self/nonself-discrimination in Brassica self-incompatibility

K Murase, Y Moriwaki, T Mori, X Liu, C Masaka… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a breeding system that promotes cross-fertilization. In Brassica,
pollen rejection is induced by a haplotype-specific interaction between pistil determinant SRK (…

[HTML][HTML] An iterative compound screening contest method for identifying target protein inhibitors using the tyrosine-protein kinase Yes

…, WH Shin, D Kihara, KZ Yamamoto, Y Moriwaki… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
We propose a new iterative screening contest method to identify target protein inhibitors.
After conducting a compound screening contest in 2014, we report results acquired from a …

Prediction of antifungal peptides by deep learning with character embedding

C Fang, Y Moriwaki, C Li, K Shimizu - IPSJ Transactions on …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Conventional computerbased methods for identifying antifungal peptides (AFPs) are
primarily based on large amounts of task-specific knowledge in feature extraction. This paper …

Exprorer: Rational cosolvent set construction method for cosolvent molecular dynamics using large-scale computation

K Yanagisawa, Y Moriwaki, T Terada… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cosolvent molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations involve an MD simulation of a protein in
the presence of explicit water molecules mixed with cosolvent molecules to perform hotspot …

Structural and Molecular Basis of the Catalytic Mechanism of Geranyl Pyrophosphate C6‐Methyltransferase: Creation of an Unprecedented Farnesyl Pyrophosphate …

H Tsutsumi, Y Moriwaki, T Terada… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Prenyl pyrophosphate methyltransferases enhance the structural diversity of terpenoids.
However, the molecular basis of their catalytic mechanisms is poorly understood. In this study, …

[PDF][PDF] Prediction and analysis of antifreeze proteins

R Miyata, Y Moriwaki, T Terada, K Shimizu - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are proteins that protect cellular fluids and body fluids from freezing
by inhibiting the nucleation and growth of ice crystals and preventing ice recrystallization, …

Understanding the Molecular Mechanism Underlying the High Catalytic Activity of p-Hydroxybenzoate Hydroxylase Mutants for Producing Gallic Acid

Y Moriwaki, M Yato, T Terada, S Saito, N Nukui… - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
p-Hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase (PHBH) is a flavoprotein monooxygenase that catalyzes the
hydroxylation of p-hydroxybenzoate (p-OHB) to 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (3,4-DOHB). PHBH …