1.“GFP-based evaluation system of recombinant expression through the secretory pathway in insect cells and its application to the extracellular domains of class C GPCRs” Ashikawa Y, Ihara M, Matsuura N, Fukunaga Y, Kusakabe Y, Yamashita A. Protein Sci. 20, 1720-1734, 2011.

2.“High-resolution Native-PAGE for membrane proteins capable of fluorescence detection and hydrodynamic-state evaluation” Ihara, M., Matsuura, N., Yamashita, A. Anal. Biochem. 412, 217-223, 2011.

3.“A competitive inhibitor traps LeuT in an open-to-out conformation” Singh SK, Piscitelli CL, Yamashita A, Gouaux E. Science 322, 1655-1661, 2008.

4.“Crystal structures of Lymnaea stagnalis AChBP in complex with neonicotinoid insecticides imidacloprid and clothianidin.” Ihara M*, Okajima T*, Yamashita A*, Oda T, Hirata K, Nishiwaki H, Morimoto T, Akamatsu M, Ashikawa Y, Kuroda S, Mega R, Kuramitsu S, Sattelle DB, Matsuda K. Invert Neurosci. 8, 71-81, 2008. (*equal contribution.)

5.“Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters.” Singh SK, Yamashita A, Gouaux E. Nature 448, 952-956, 2007.

6.“Structural basis of actin filament capping at the barbed end: a cryo-electron microscopy study.” Narita, A., Takeda, S., Yamashita, A. & Maéda, Y. EMBO J. 25, 5626-5633, 2006.

7.“Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of Na+/Cl--dependent neurotransmitter transporters.” Yamashita A, Singh SK, Kawate T, Jin Y, Gouaux E. Nature 437, 215-223, 2005.

8.“Capping Protein Binding to Actin in Yeast: Biochemical Mechanism and Physiological Relevance” Kim, K., Yamashita, A., Wear, M. A., Maéda, Y. & Cooper, J. A. J Cell Biol. 164, 567-580, 2004.

9.“How capping protein binds the barbed end of the actin filament” Wear, M. A., Yamashita, A., Kim, K., Maéda, Y. & Cooper, J. A. Current Biol. 13, 1531-1537, 2003.

10.“Structure of the core domain of human cardiac troponin in the Ca2+-saturated form”Takeda, S., Yamashita, A., Maeda, K. & Maéda, Y. Nature 424, 35-41, 2003.

11."Capturing Enzyme Structure Prior to Reaction Initiation: Tropinone Reductase-II–Substrates Complexes" Yamashita, A., Endo, M., Higashi, T., Nakatsu, T., Yamada, Y., Oda, J. and Kato, H. Biochemistry 42, 5566-5573, 2003.

12."Crystal structure of CapZ: structural basis for actin filament barbed end capping" Yamashita, A., Maeda, K. and Maéda, Y. EMBO J. 22, 1529-1538, 2003.

13."Crystal structure of the C-terminal half of tropomodulin and structural basis of actin filament pointed-end capping" Krieger, I., Kostyukova, A., Yamashita, A., Nitanai, Y. and Maéda, Y. Biophys. J. 83, 2716-2725, 2002.

14."Structure of tropinone reductase-II complexed with NADP+ and pseudotropine at 1.9 Å resolution: Implication for stereospecific substrate binding and catalysis" Yamashita, A., Kato, H., Wakatsuki, S., Tomizaki, T., Nakatsu, T., Nakajima, K., Hashimoto, T., Yamada, Y. and Oda, J. Biochemistry 38, 7630-7637, 1999.

15."Crystal structures of two tropinone reductases: different reaction stereospecificities in the same protein fold" Nakajima, K., Yamashita, A., Akama, H., Nakatsu, T., Kato, K., Hashimoto, T., Oda, J. and Yamada, Y. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 4876-4881, 1998.

16."Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of tropinone reductase-II from Datura stramonium" Yamashita, A., Nakajima, K., Kato, H., Hashimoto, T., Yamada, Y. and Oda, J. Acta Cryst. D54, 1405-1407, 1998.

17."Direct Interaction between Mitochondrial Succinate-Ubiquinone and Ubiquinol-Cytochrome Oxidoreductases Probed by Sensitivity to Quinone-Related Inhibitors" Yamashita, A., Miyoshi, H., Hatano, T. and Iwamura, H. J. Biochem. 120, 377-384, 1996.