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Hirota, Yuki*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Kawabata, Takashi*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Matsuo, Yasumitsu*
Bioengineering (Internet), 10(5), p.622_1 - 622_17, 2023/05
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology)Hirota, Yuki*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Kawabata, Takashi*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Matsuo, Yasumitsu*
Bioengineering (Internet), 9(10), p.599_1 - 599_17, 2022/10
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:34.67(Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology)Tominaga, Taiki*; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Sahara, Masae*; Oda, Takashi*; Inoue, Rintaro*; Sugiyama, Masaaki*
Life (Internet), 12(5), p.675_1 - 675_9, 2022/05
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Biology)The background scattering of sample cells suitable for aqueous protein solution samples, conducted with a neutron backscattering spectrometer, was evaluated. It was found that the scattering intensity of an aluminum sample cell coated with boehmite using DO was lower than that of a sample cell coated with regular water (HO). In addition, meticulous attention to cells with small individual weight differences and the positional reproducibility of the sample cell relative to the spectrometer neutron beam position enabled the accurate subtraction of the scattering profiles of the DO buffer and the sample container. Consequently, high quality information on protein dynamics could be extracted from dilute protein solutions.
Furuike, Yoshihiko*; Ouyang, D.*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Matsuo, Tatsuhito*; Mukaiyama, Atsushi*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Fujiwara, Satoru*; Akiyama, Shuji*
Communications Physics (Internet), 5(1), p.75_1 - 75_12, 2022/04
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:67.44(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Tominaga, Taiki*; Sahara, Masae*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Yamada, Takeshi*
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 54(6), p.1631 - 1640, 2021/12
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:55.82(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)Nogami, Satoshi*; Kadota, Kazunori*; Uchiyama, Hiromasa*; Arima-Osonoi, Hiroshi*; Iwase, Hiroki*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Yamada, Takeshi*; Takata, Shinichi; Shibayama, Mitsuhiro*; Tozuka, Yuichi*
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 190, p.989 - 998, 2021/11
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:39.73(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Saio, Tomohide*; Nagao, Michihiro*; Inoue, Rintaro*; Sugiyama, Masaaki*; Ajito, Satoshi; Tominaga, Taiki*; Kawakita, Yukinobu
Biophysical Journal, 120(16), p.3341 - 3354, 2021/08
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:38.66(Biophysics)A multi-domain protein can have various conformations in solution. Interactions with other molecules result in the stabilization of one of the conformations and change in the domain dynamics. SAXS, a well-established experimental technique, can be employed to elucidate the conformation of a multi-domain protein in solution. NSE spectroscopy is a promising technique for recording the domain dynamics in nanosecond and nanometer scale. Despite the great efforts, there are still under development. Thus, we quantitatively removed the contribution of diffusion dynamics and hydrodynamic interactions from the NSE data via incoherent scattering, revealing the differences in the domain dynamics of the three functional states of a multi-domain protein, MurD. The differences among the three states can be explained by two domain modes.
Tominaga, Taiki*; Sahara, Masae*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Shimamoto, Naonobu*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011094_1 - 011094_5, 2021/03
In quasielastic neutron scattering studies, aluminum or aluminum alloys are frequently employed as sample cells. With the increasing incident-neutron flux, the research area currently continues to expand; thus, obtaining data has become quicker than ever for dilute conditions. One such area is the water-containing systems. In this study, we investigated the effect of temperature on Al and found that even in a low temperature atmosphere, Al corrosion can occur. This was attributed to the different thermal expansion coefficients of Al as a base substrate and Al oxide as a passivating film.
Matsuura, Masato*; Yamada, Takeshi*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Kobayashi, Makoto*; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Kawakita, Yukinobu
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011068_1 - 011068_6, 2021/03
The position dependence of the scattered intensity in the time-of-flight backscattering spectrometer DNA was investigated. A periodic structure for both vertical (pixel) and horizontal (PSD) directions was observed. The solar slit and over-bending of an analyzer crystal is discussed as a possible origin of the modulation in the intensity. We have developed software program for the systematic correction of the position-dependent intensity and offset energy for the elastic peak. This corrects the deviation from the true scattering intensity and improve the quality of the data, which includes the energy resolution.
Tominaga, Taiki*; Kobayashi, Makoto*; Yamada, Takeshi*; Matsuura, Masato*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kasai, Satoshi*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011095_1 - 011095_5, 2021/03
A vertical movement type of sample changer for the neutron spectrometer BL02, J-PARC MLF was developed for our top-loading type cryostat. The sample changer, termed as "PEACE", can control reproducibility of the irradiated position using guides made of polyether ether ketone. The variation between the background scattering profiles of three sample positions was found to be less than plus minus 1.6%. This result is reasonable, considering the deviation of sample position of less than plus minus 0.3 mm from the vertical axis.
Tominaga, Taiki*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Yamada, Takeshi*; Shibata, Kaoru
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011086_1 - 011086_5, 2021/03
We developed a quartz double cylindrical sample cell optimized for a backscattering neutron spectrometer, especially for BL02 (DNA), MLF in J-PARC. A quartz glass tube, with one end closed, is shaved to obtain a wall thickness of 0.55 mm. The inner tube is properly centered using a protrusion into the outer tube such that the interstice between the outer and inner tubes keeps constant. This quartz cell can be used for samples that should not be in contact with the aluminum surface. We verified cell's background effect between the quartz cell and Al cell by QENS measurements using DO buffer. The elastic intensity profiles of the buffer in a low Q region were identical between both quartz cell and Al cell (A1070). In a high Q region, however, the profiles were different caused by the first sharp diffraction peak of quartz glass. For this region the data should be analyzed by consideration of absorption correction and diffraction in individual thickness of quartz cell.
Inoue, Rintaro*; Oda, Takashi*; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Tominaga, Taiki*; Saio, Tomohide*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Shimizu, Masahiro*; Okuda, Aya*; Morishima, Ken*; Sato, Nobuhiro*; et al.
Scientific Reports (Internet), 10, p.21678_1 - 21678_10, 2020/12
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:13.48(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering (iQENS) is a fascinating technique for investigating the internal dynamics of protein. However, both low flux of neutron beam and absence of analytical procedure for extracting the internal dynamics from iQENS profile have been obstacles for studying it under physiological condition (in solution). Thanks to the recent development of neutron source, spectrometer and computational technique, they enable us to decouple internal dynamics, translational and rotational diffusions from the iQENS profile. The internal dynamics of two proteins: globular domain protein (GDP) and intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) in solution were studied. It was found that the average relaxation rate of IDP was larger than that of GDP. Through the detailed analyses on their internal dynamics, it was revealed that the fraction of mobile H atoms in IDP was much higher than that in GDP. Interestingly, the fraction of mobile H atoms was closely related to the fraction of H atoms on highly solvent exposed surfaces. The iQENS study presented that the internal dynamics were governed by the highly solvent exposed amino acid residues depending upon protein molecular architectures.
Nakano, Shota*; Konno, Soken*; Tomita, Naoto*; Matsuba, Go*; Tominaga, Taiki*; Takata, Shinichi
Microsystem Technologies, 22(1), p.57 - 63, 2016/01
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:21.01(Engineering, Electrical & Electronic)We studied the structural formation process of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) gelation in a wide-spatial scale with the small and wide angle neutron scattering in MLF, J-PARC. In micron-scale structure, light transmittance and gelation time were evaluated. The presence of water in the mixed solvent accelerated the phase separation and gelation. In the opaque-gel case, we observed the nanometer-scaled correlation of crystalline cross-linking points and smooth boundary of two micron-scaled phases due to liquid-liquid phase separation. The correlation length is independent of the annealing time, then the cross-linking point exists locally and micro-gelation occurs during phase separation. By contrast, in the transparent-gel case, the correlation length was found to increase throughout the gelation process, and the entanglements of the polymer chains play a role similar to that of cross-linking points.
Tominaga, Taiki; Suzuki, Junichi*; Takata, Shinichi; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.
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Tominaga, Taiki; Suzuki, Junichi*; Takata, Shinichi; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.
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Tominaga, Taiki; Suzuki, Junichi*; Takata, Shinichi; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.
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Takata, Shinichi; Suzuki, Junichi*; Shinohara, Takenao; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Ito, Takayoshi*; Oku, Takayuki; Oishi, Kazuki*; Iwase, Hiroki*; Tominaga, Taiki; et al.
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The time-of-flight smaller-angle neutron scattering instrument, named as TAIKAN, has been constructed at the beam line of BL15 in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) of J-PARC. TAIKAN is designed for efficient measurements in wide-q range of 5 10 to 10[]. The detector system is composed of small-, medium-, and high-angle detector banks and a backward detector bank with arrays of one dimensional He position sensitive detectors, besides the high-resolution detector with spatial resolution of about 0.5 mm will be installed near the center of small angle bank. In the data analysis software of TAIKAN, therefore, it is necessary to be able to execute the data reduction and some corrections to the enormous amounts of data including time information. And then, it is required that the all data processed can be comprehensibly displayed in one screen image. We will present about the data analysis software for TAIKAN now being developed.
Tominaga, Taiki; Suzuki, Junichi*; Takata, Shinichi; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.
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Tominaga, Taiki; Takata, Shinichi; Suzuki, Junichi*; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.
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Takata, Shinichi; Suzuki, Junichi*; Shinohara, Takenao; Oku, Takayuki; Tominaga, Taiki; Nakatani, Takeshi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Ito, Takayoshi*; Iwase, Hiroki*; Oishi, Kazuki*
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The small and wide angle neutron scattering instrument, TAIKAN, was installed on BL15 in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) of J-PARC. The beam commissioning was started in January 2012, and Users program was started in March 2012. TAIKAN is designed for efficient measurement in wide-q range of 0.005-10[]. We measured three typical proteins of Myoglobin(Mb), -Lactoglobulin (LG), and Hemoglobin(Hb) in solution by using TAIKAN, in order to verify the performance of wide-q range. The internal structure of Mb and LG is Helix-rich and -sheet-rich, respectively. We will present the result of comparing measuring data with calculation profiles and the performance of TAIKAN.