Research Areas

Structural Physiology Research Group was established to promote the structural biology at SPring-8 as a part of the Synchrotron Radiation Research Network. This group consists of four research teams, "Bio-multisome Research Team", "Three-dimensional Microscopy Research Team", "Molecular Signaling Research Team", and "X-ray Structural Analysis Research Team". These teams envisage elucidating the dynamic aspects of the physiological functions in vivo from a view of the structural study of membrane proteins and their multi-complex formations by the collaboration of X-ray crystallography and electron/light microscopy. Then, the study of structural physiology will be able to clarify the molecular mechanism of proteins and bio-molecular complexes which directly concern with human diseases and disorders.

Research Subject

1. Structural and functional studies of the bio-molecular complex (bio-multisome)
2. Development of the three-demensional microscopic research
3. Analysis of the moleculae signaling mechanism of receptors and ion channels
4. Development of the X-ray crystallogrphic research

Related links

1. RIKEN SPring-8 Center Website_Laboratories Page