Shigeru Endo

TL;DR: The new RDB PDBj Mine 2, the WebGL molecular viewer Molmil, the ProMode‐Elastic server for normal mode analysis, a virtual reality system for the eF‐site protein electrostatic molecular surfaces, the extensions of the Omokage search for molecular shape similarity, and the integration of PDBJ and BMRB searches are reported.

TL;DR: ProMode, a database collecting NMA results on protein molecules, was constructed and it is hoped that realistic animations of the protein dynamics can be observed easily without expensive software and hardware, and that the dynamic properties for various proteins can be compared with each other.

TL;DR: An elastic network model-based NMA program using dihedral angles as independent variables is developed, focusing on the conformational change upon cAMP and DNA binding, and on the communication between their binding sites remotely located from each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, a spreading wetting process is used to produce 2D arrays of protein particles. But the key innovation in this fabrication is the spreading wetter process which uses the deformable substrate surface such as mercury surface (mercury method) or the air-water interface (subphase method), where protein solution spread to yield a thin liquid film.

TL;DR: The results presented herein suggest that some proteins that only undergo significant conformational changes around active sites have a relatively high probability of being involved in an actual conformational change and may help solve the flexible-docking problem of a protein with another molecule.