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Xiao Xu, Noriyoshi Manabe, Shiho Ohno, Sachiko Komatsu, Tsutomu Fujimura, Yoshiki Yamaguchi. “3D structural insights into the effect of N-glycosylation in human chitotriosidase variant G102S.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – General Subjects, vol. 1869, no. 1, 2025, pp. 130730. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2024.130730

Zhongliang Zhang, Ken Kato, Hajime Tamaki, Yoh Matsuki. “Background signal suppression by opposite polarity subtraction for targeted DNP NMR spectroscopy on mixture samples.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 26, no. 13, 2024, pp. 9880-9890. doi:10.1039/D3CP06280E

Xin Zhang, Hajime Tamaki, Takashi Kikukawa, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Yoh Matsuki. “Structural changes of Natronomonas pharaonis halorhodopsin in its late photocycle revealed by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.” Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 315 , 2024, pp. 107329. doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2024.107329

Kyoko Furuita, Chojiro Kojima. “Improved analysis of NMR chemical shift perturbations through an error estimation method.” Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 310 , 2024, pp. 107255. doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2024.107255

Kayo Imamura, Ken-Ichi Akagi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Hirokazu Tsujimoto, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Hideo Ashida, Kaori Murakami, Asuka Inoue, Ryoji Suno, Takahisa Ikegami, Naotaka Sekiyama, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi, Hidehito Tochio. “Interaction modes of human orexin 2 receptor with selective and nonselective antagonists studied by NMR spectroscopy.” Structure, vol. 32, no. 3, 2024, pp. 352-361.e5. doi:10.1016/j.str.2023.12.008

Saeko Yanaka, Atsuji Kodama, Shigetaka Nishiguchi, Rina Fujita, Jiana Shen, Pornthip Boonsri, Duckyong Sung, Yukiko Isono, Hirokazu Yagi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Takayuki Uchihashi, Koichi Kato. “Identification of potential C1-binding sites in the immunoglobulin CL domains.” International Immunology, vol. 36, no. 8, 2024, pp. 405-412. doi:10.1093/intimm/dxae017

Takayuki Nagae, Yuya Fujita, Tatsuya Tsuchida, Takanari Kamo, Ryoka Seto, Masako Hamada, Hiroshi Aoyama, Ayana Sato-Tomita, Tomotsumi Fujisawa, Toshihiko Eki, Yohei Miyanoiri, Yutaka Ito, Takahiro Soeta, Yutaka Ukaji, Masashi Unno, Masaki Mishima, Yuu Hirose. “Green/red light-sensing mechanism in the chromatic acclimation photosensor.” Science Advances, vol. 10, no. 24, 2024 doi:10.1126/sciadv.adn8386

Yu Zheng, Katsuyuki Sakai, Kohei Watanabe, Hiroshi Takagi, Yumi Sato-Shiozaki, Yuko Misumi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Genji Kurisu, Toshihiko Nogawa, Ryo Takita, Shunji Takahashi. “Iron-sulphur protein catalysed [4+2] cycloadditions in natural product biosynthesis.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024 doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50142-1

Takayuki Nagae, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Tomoyasu Noji, Keisuke Saito, Hiroshi Aoyama, Yohei Miyanoiri, Yutaka Ito, Masatsune Kainosho, Yuu Hirose, Hiroshi Ishikita, Masaki Mishima. “Direct evidence for a deprotonated lysine serving as a H-bond “acceptor” in a photoreceptor protein.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 36, 2024 doi:10.1073/pnas.2404472121

Yohei Miyanoiri, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Kosuke Okuma, Tsutomu Terauchi, Masatsune Kainosho. “Enhancing solution structural analysis of large molecular proteins through optimal stereo array isotope labeling of aromatic amino acids.” Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 315 , 2024, pp. 107328. doi:10.1016/j.bpc.2024.107328

Mai Takagi, Ayana Nagatani, Kenichi Kawano, Ayami Hata, Azusa Yokoyama, Koichi Hayashida, Haruka Hoshi, Mao Sakurai, Tsuyoshi Oyama, Yusuke Kuroda, Yousuke Yamaoka, Takahiro Fujiwara, Yohei Miyanoiri, Masaru Hoshino, Yoshiaki Yano, Kiyosei Takasu, Katsumi Matsuzaki. “Stable and Minimum Size Solubilization of Membrane Proteins with Cocktails of Phospholipid Analogues.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 16, no. 46, 2024, pp. 63358-63367. doi:10.1021/acsami.4c15697

Shun Kaneko, Shunsuke Imai, Tomomi Uchikubo-Kamo, Tamao Hisano, Nobuaki Asao, Mikako Shirouzu, Ichio Shimada. “Structural and dynamic insights into the activation of the μ-opioid receptor by an allosteric modulator.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024 doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47792-6

Yuki Toyama, Ichio Shimada. “NMR characterization of RNA binding property of the DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX3X and its implications for helicase activity.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024 doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47659-w

Yuki Toyama, Ichio Shimada. “Quantitative analysis of the slow exchange process by 19F NMR in the presence of scalar and dipolar couplings: applications to the ribose 2′-19F probe in nucleic acids.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 78, no. 4, 2024, pp. 215-235. doi:10.1007/s10858-024-00446-7

Koh Takeuchi, Takumi Ueda, Misaki Imai, Miwa Fujisaki, Mie Shimura, Yuji Tokunaga, Yutaka Kofuku, Ichio Shimada. “Affinity-directed substrate/H+-antiport by a MATE transporter.” Structure, vol. 32, no. 8, 2024, pp. 1150-1164.e3. doi:10.1016/j.str.2024.05.004

Qingci Zhao, Ichio Shimada, Noritaka Nishida. “Real-Time Monitoring of RAS Activity Using In Vitro and In-Cell NMR Spectroscopy.” Methods in Molecular Biology , 2024, pp. 237-252. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3822-4_17

Takako Ohyama, Takuo Osawa, Shun-ichi Sekine, Yoshitaka Ishii. “NMR Studies of Genomic RNA in 3′ Untranslated Region Unveil Pseudoknot Structure that Initiates Viral RNA Replication in SARS-CoV-2.” JACS Au, vol. 4, no. 4, 2024, pp. 1323-1333. doi:10.1021/jacsau.3c00641

Kosuke Sako, Ayako Furukawa, Ryu-Suke Nozawa, Jun-ichi Kurita, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Toru Hirota. “Bipartite binding interface recruiting HP1 to chromosomal passenger complex at inner centromeres.” Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 223, no. 9, 2024 doi:10.1083/jcb.202312021

Yoriyuki Konno, Keiya Uriu, Takayuki Chikata, Toru Takada, Jun-ichi Kurita, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, Saiful Islam, Benjy Jek Yang Tan, Jumpei Ito, Hirofumi Aso, Ryuichi Kumata, Carolyn Williamson, Shingo Iwami, Masafumi Takiguchi, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Eiji Morita, Yorifumi Satou, So Nakagawa, Yoshio Koyanagi, Kei Sato. “Two-step evolution of HIV-1 budding system leading to pandemic in the human population.” Cell Reports, vol. 43, no. 2, 2024, pp. 113697. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113697

Sayaka Hokazono, Eri Imagawa, Daishi Hirano, Takahisa Ikegami, Kimihiko Oishi, Tsuyoshi Konuma. “1H, 13C and 15N backbone resonance assignments of hepatocyte nuclear factor-1-beta (HNF1β) POUS and POUHD.” Biomolecular NMR Assignments, vol. 18, no. 1, 2024, pp. 59-63. doi:10.1007/s12104-024-10168-4

Kayo Imamura, Ken-Ichi Akagi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Hirokazu Tsujimoto, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Hideo Ashida, Kaori Murakami, Asuka Inoue, Ryoji Suno, Takahisa Ikegami, Naotaka Sekiyama, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi, Hidehito Tochio. “Interaction modes of human orexin 2 receptor with selective and nonselective antagonists studied by NMR spectroscopy.” Structure, vol. 32, no. 3, 2024, pp. 352-361.e5. doi:10.1016/j.str.2023.12.008

Tsuyoshi Konuma, Tomoyo Takai, Chieko Tsuchiya, Masayuki Nishida, Miyu Hashiba, Yudai Yamada, Haruka Shirai, Yoko Motoda, Aritaka Nagadoi, Eriko Chikaishi, Ken‐ichi Akagi, Satoko Akashi, Toshio Yamazaki, Hideo Akutsu, Takahisa Ikegami. “Analysis of the homodimeric structure of a D‐Ala‐D‐Ala metallopeptidase, VanX, from vancomycin‐resistant bacteria.” Protein Science, vol. 33, no. 6, 2024 doi:10.1002/pro.5002

Noa Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Konuma, Takahisa Ikegami, Satoko Akashi. “Biophysical insights into the dimer formation of human Sirtuin 2.” Protein Science, vol. 33, no. 5, 2024 doi:10.1002/pro.4994

Koya Sakuma, Naohiro Kobayashi, Toshihiko Sugiki, Toshio Nagashima, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Kano Suzuki, Naoya Kobayashi, Takeshi Murata, Takahiro Kosugi, Rie Tatsumi-Koga, Nobuyasu Koga. “Design of complicated all-α protein structures.” Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, vol. 31, no. 2, 2024, pp. 275-282. doi:10.1038/s41594-023-01147-9

Bowen Zhang, Bingfu Liu, Zhouji Wu, Kazuhiro Oyama, Masaomi Ikari, Hiromasa Yagi, Naoya Tochio, Takanori Kigawa, Tsutomu Mikawa, Takeo Miyake. “A Hybrid Nanotube Stamp System in Intracellular Protein Delivery for Cancer Treatment and NMR Analytical Techniques.” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 96, no. 21, 2024, pp. 8349-8355. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.3c05331

Takahiro Mori, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Kosuke Sakurada, Shuang Lyu, Stanislav Kadlcik, Jiri Janata, Aninda Mazumdar, Marketa Koberska, Tohru Terada, Zdenek Kamenik, Ikuro Abe. “Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes.” Nature Chemistry , 2024 doi:10.1038/s41557-024-01687-7

Lu Zhou, Takayoshi Awakawa, Richiro Ushimaru, Masahiro Kanaida, Ikuro Abe. “Characterization of Aziridine-Forming α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenase in l-Isovaline Biosynthesis.” Organic Letters, vol. 26, no. 3, 2024, pp. 724-727. doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.3c04185

H. C. Craig, A. D. Malay, F. Hayashi, M. Mori, K. Arakawa, K. Numata. “Posttranslational modifications in spider silk influence conformation and dimerization dynamics.” MRS Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 12, 2024, pp. 1192-1204. doi:10.1557/s43577-024-00771-0

Noriko Hiraishi, Tadamu Gondo, Yasushi Shimada, Fumiaki Hayashi. “Effect of borate, fluoride and strontium ions on biomimetic nucleation of calcium phosphate studied using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and X-ray diffraction.” Dental Materials, vol. 40, no. 2, 2024, pp. 210-218. doi:10.1016/j.dental.2023.11.010

Kanako Kuwasako, Weirong Dang, Fahu He, Mari Takahashi, Kengo Tsuda, Takashi Nagata, Akiko Tanaka, Naohiro Kobayashi, Takanori Kigawa, Peter Güntert, Mikako Shirouzu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yutaka Muto. “1H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignments and solution structure of the N-terminal divergent calponin homology (NN-CH) domain of human intraflagellar transport protein 54.” Biomolecular NMR Assignments, vol. 18, no. 1, 2024, pp. 71-78. doi:10.1007/s12104-024-10170-w

Shunli Pan, Noriyoshi Manabe, Shiho Ohno, Sachiko Komatsu, Tsutomu Fujimura, Yoshiki Yamaguchi. “Each N-glycan on human IgA and J-chain uniquely affects oligomericity and stability.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – General Subjects, vol. 1868, no. 2, 2024, pp. 130536. doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2023.130536

Sakura Kiuchi, Kumi Nakaya, Upul Cooray, Kenji Takeuchi, Ikuko N. Motoike, Naoki Nakaya, Yasuyuki Taki, Seizo Koshiba, Shunji Mugikura, Ken Osaka, Atsushi Hozawa. “A Principal Component Analysis of Metabolome and Cognitive Decline Among Japanese Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis Using Tohoku Medical Megabank Cohort Study Data.” Journal of Epidemiology , 2024 doi:10.2188/jea.JE20240099

Miyuki Sakurai, Ikuko N. Motoike, Eiji Hishinuma, Yuichi Aoki, Shu Tadaka, Mana Kogure, Masatsugu Orui, Mami Ishikuro, Taku Obara, Naoki Nakaya, Kazuki Kumada, Atsushi Hozawa, Shinichi Kuriyama, Masayuki Yamamoto, Seizo Koshiba, Kengo Kinoshita. “Identifying critical age and gender-based metabolomic shifts in a Japanese population of the Tohoku Medical Megabank cohort.” Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 2024 doi:10.1038/s41598-024-66180-0

Akiko Hanyuda, Yoshihiko Raita, Takahiro Ninomiya, Kazuki Hashimoto, Naoko Takada, Kota Sato, Jin Inoue, Seizo Koshiba, Gen Tamiya, Akira Narita, Masato Akiyama, Kazuko Omodaka, Satoru Tsuda, Yu Yokoyama, Noriko Himori, Yasuko Yamamoto, Takazumi Taniguchi, Kazuno Negishi, Toru Nakazawa. “Metabolomic Profiling of Open-Angle Glaucoma Etiologic Endotypes: Tohoku Multi-Omics Glaucoma Study.” Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 65, no. 13, 2024, pp. 44. doi:10.1167/iovs.65.13.44

Ryoka Kokubu, Shiho Ohno, Noriyoshi Manabe, Yoshiki Yamaguchi. “Solution NMR Analysis of O-Glycopeptide–Antibody Interaction.” Methods in Molecular Biology , 2024, pp. 321-327. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3670-1_26

Ryoka Kokubu, Shiho Ohno, Noriyoshi Manabe, Yoshiki Yamaguchi. “Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Docking of MUC1 O-Glycopeptide.” Methods in Molecular Biology , 2024, pp. 373-379. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3670-1_32

Takayuki Nagae, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Tomoyasu Noji, Keisuke Saito, Hiroshi Aoyama, Yohei Miyanoiri, Yutaka Ito, Masatsune Kainosho, Yuu Hirose, Hiroshi Ishikita, Masaki Mishima. “Direct evidence for a deprotonated lysine serving as a H-bond “acceptor” in a photoreceptor protein.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 36, 2024 doi:10.1073/pnas.2404472121

Shiho Ohno, Noriyoshi Manabe, Jun Uzawa, Yoshiki Yamaguchi. “Comparative Conformational Analysis of Acyclic Sugar Alcohols Ribitol, Xylitol and d-Arabitol by Solution NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.” Molecules, vol. 29, no. 5, 2024, pp. 1072. doi:10.3390/molecules29051072

Shota Enomoto, Shoichi Nakatsuka, Tomoya Kuwayama, Kosaku Kawatsu, Mariko Yokogawa, Masanori Osawa. “NMR 1H, 13C, 15N backbone resonance assignments of 14-3-3ζ binding region of human FOXO3a (residues 1-284).” Biomolecular NMR Assignments, vol. 18, no. 2, 2024, pp. 275-283. doi:10.1007/s12104-024-10200-7

Yuko Otani, Asami Ichinose, Xihong Wang, Zhihan Huang, Akitomo Kasahara, Mayumi Ishii, Eri Watanabe, Kayoko Kanamitsu, Kempei Tai, Hiroyuki Kusuhara, Takumi Ueda, Koh Takeuchi, Tomohiko Ohwada. “An N-ortho-nitrobenzylated benzanilide amino acid enables control of the conformation and membrane permeability of cyclic peptides.” Chemical Communications, vol. 60, no. 69, 2024, pp. 9242-9245. doi:10.1039/d4cc02738h

Satoshi Kofuji, Kara Wolfe, Kazutaka Sumita, Shun Kageyama, Hirofumi Yoshino, Yoshihisa Hirota, Aki Ogawa-Iio, Hirotaka Kanoh, Mika Sasaki, Kaori Kofuji, Mindy I. Davis, Rajan Pragani, Min Shen, Matthew B. Boxer, Fubito Nakatsu, Kiyomi Nigorikawa, Takehiko Sasaki, Koh Takeuchi, Toshiya Senda, Seong M. Kim, Aimee L. Edinger, Anton Simeonov, Atsuo T. Sasaki. “A high dose KRP203 induces cytoplasmic vacuoles associated with altered phosphoinositide segregation and endosome expansion.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 718 , 2024, pp. 149981. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.149981

Marin Yokomine, Jumpei Morimoto, Yasuhiro Fukuda, Takumi Ueda, Koh Takeuchi, Koji Umezawa, Hideo Ago, Hiroaki Matsuura, Go Ueno, Akinobu Senoo, Satoru Nagatoishi, Kouhei Tsumoto, Shinsuke Sando. “A high-resolution structural characterization and physicochemical study of how a peptoid binds to an oncoprotein MDM2.” Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 19, 2024, pp. 7051-7060. doi:10.1039/d4sc01540a

Takehiro Nishimura, Kei Kudo, Miho Izumikawa, Ikuko Kozone, Junko Hashimoto, Noritaka Kagaya, Hikaru Suenaga, Koh Takeuchi, Kazuo Shin-ya. “Isolation and Structure Elucidation of JBIR-157, a Skeletally Novel Aromatic Polyketide Produced by the Heterologous Expression of a Cryptic Gene Cluster.” Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 5, 2024, pp. 475-479. doi:10.1248/cpb.c24-00144

Hirokazu Yagi, Rino Yamada, Taiki Saito, Rena Honda, Rio Nakano, Kengo Inutsuka, Seigo Tateo, Hideo Kusano, Kumiko Nishimura, Saeko Yanaka, Takuro Tojima, Akihiko Nakano, Jun-ichi Furukawa, Maho Yagi-Utsumi, Shungo Adachi, Koichi Kato. “Molecular tag for promoting N-glycan maturation in the cargo receptor-mediated secretion pathway.” iScience, vol. 27, no. 12, 2024, pp. 111457. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.111457

Satoshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki D. Sakai, Shigeru Shimamura, Yoshiki Takamatsu, Shingo Kato, Hirokazu Yagi, Saeko Yanaka, Maho Yagi-Utsumi, Norio Kurosawa, Moriya Ohkuma, Koichi Kato, Ken Takai. “N -linked protein glycosylation in Nanobdellati (formerly DPANN) archaea and their hosts.” Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 206, no. 9, 2024 doi:10.1128/jb.00205-24

Tadashi Satoh, Maho Yagi‐Utsumi, Nozomi Ishii, Tsunehiro Mizushima, Hirokazu Yagi, Ryuichi Kato, Yuriko Tachida, Hiroaki Tateno, Ichiro Matsuo, Koichi Kato, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukiko Yoshida. “Structural basis of sugar recognition by SCFFBS2 ubiquitin ligase involved in NGLY1 deficiency.” FEBS Letters, vol. 598, no. 18, 2024, pp. 2259-2268. doi:10.1002/1873-3468.15003

Saeko Yanaka, Atsuji Kodama, Shigetaka Nishiguchi, Rina Fujita, Jiana Shen, Pornthip Boonsri, Duckyong Sung, Yukiko Isono, Hirokazu Yagi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Takayuki Uchihashi, Koichi Kato. “Identification of potential C1-binding sites in the immunoglobulin CL domains.” International Immunology, vol. 36, no. 8, 2024, pp. 405-412. doi:10.1093/intimm/dxae017

Ryo Sekiya, Saki Arimura, Haruka Moriguchi, Takeharu Haino. “Chirality generation on carbon nanosheets by chemical modification.” Nanoscale , 2024 doi:10.1039/D4NR02952F

Takehiro Hirao, Sei Kishino, Masaya Yoshida, Takeharu Haino. “Chiral Induction of a Tetrakis(porphyrin) in Various Chiral Solvents.” Chemistry – A European Journal , 2024 doi:10.1002/chem.202403569

Naoka Fujii, Naoyuki Hisano, Takehiro Hirao, Shin‐ichi Kihara, Kouta Tanabe, Masaya Yoshida, Shin‐ichi Tate, Takeharu Haino. “Controlled Helical Organization in Supramolecular Polymers of Pseudo‐Macrocyclic Tetrakisporphyrins.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2024 doi:10.1002/anie.202416770

Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Assessment of Edge Modification of Nanographene.” ChemPhysChem, vol. 25, no. 23, 2024 doi:10.1002/cphc.202400792

Koki Suzuki, Ryoya Nojiri, Motonori Matsusaki, Takuya Mabuchi, Shingo Kanemura, Kotone Ishii, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Masaki Okumura, Tomohide Saio, Takahiro Muraoka. “Redox-active chemical chaperones exhibiting promiscuous binding promote oxidative protein folding under condensed sub-millimolar conditions.” Chemical Science, vol. 15, no. 32, 2024, pp. 12676-12685. doi:10.1039/d4sc02123a

Yudai Ono, Takehiro Hirao, Naomi Kawata, Takeharu Haino. “Latent porosity of planar tris(phenylisoxazolyl)benzene.” Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024 doi:10.1038/s41467-024-52526-9

Daisuke Shimoyama, Ryo Sekiya, Shoichiro Inoue, Naoyuki Hisano, Shin‐ichi Tate, Takeharu Haino. “Conformation Regulation of Trisresorcinarene Directed by Cavity Solvation.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 30, no. 63, 2024 doi:10.1002/chem.202402922

Nozomu Suzuki, Daisuke Taura, Yusuke Furuta, Yudai Ono, Senri Miyagi, Ryota Kameda, Takeharu Haino. “Temperature‐Dependent Left‐ and Right‐Twisted Conformational Changes in 1 : 1 Host‐Guest Systems: Theoretical Modeling and Chiroptical Simulations.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 2024 doi:10.1002/anie.202413340

Tsukasa Shiraishi, Chiaki Matsuzaki, Tai-Ying Chiou, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Manami Kawada, Kenji Yamamoto, Tomoya Takahashi, Shin-ichi Yokota. “Lipoteichoic acid composed of poly-glycerolphosphate containing l-lysine and involved in immunoglobulin A-inducing activity in Apilactobacillus genus.” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 271 , 2024, pp. 132540. doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.132540

Daisuke Shimoyama, Ryo Sekiya, Shoichiro Inoue, Naoyuki Hisano, Shin‐ichi Tate, Takeharu Haino. “Conformation Regulation of Trisresorcinarene Directed by Cavity Solvation.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 30, no. 63, 2024 doi:10.1002/chem.202402922

Shino Yamasaki-Yashiki, Tsukasa Shiraishi, Mai Gyobu, Haruna Sasaki, Jun Kunisawa, Shin-ichi Yokota, Yoshio Katakura. “Immunostimulatory activity of lipoteichoic acid with three fatty acid residues derived from Limosilactobacillus antri JCM 15950 T.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 90, no. 10, 2024 doi:10.1128/aem.01197-24

Kentaro Harada, Yudai Ono, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Selective encapsulation of carboxylic acid dimers within a size-regulable resorcinarene-based hemicarcerand.” Chemical Communications, vol. 60, no. 52, 2024, pp. 6603-6606. doi:10.1039/d4cc00699b

Takeharu Haino, Natsumi Nitta. “Supramolecular Synthesis of Star Polymers.” ChemPlusChem, vol. 89, no. 5, 2024 doi:10.1002/cplu.202400014

Kentaro Harada, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Kinetic Resolution of Secondary Alcohols Catalyzed at the Exterior of Chiral Coordinated Capsules.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 30, no. 11, 2024 doi:10.1002/chem.202304244

Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Application of Exciton Coupling for Characterization of Nanographene Edge.” ChemPhysChem, vol. 25, no. 5, 2024 doi:10.1002/cphc.202300740

Kouta Tanabe, Naoyuki Hisano, Takeharu Haino. “Synthesis and cooperative guest binding of tetrameric porphyrin macrocycle.” ChemistrySelect, vol. 9, no. 4, 2024 doi:10.1002/slct.202305211

Saki Arimura, Ikuya Matsumoto, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Intermediate Color Emission via Nanographenes with Organic Fluorophores.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 63, no. 14, 2024 doi:10.1002/anie.202315508

Kentaro Harada, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Molecular Recognition Process in Resorcinarene‐based Coordination Capsules.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 29, no. 68, 2023 doi:10.1002/chem.202302581

Naoyuki Hisano, Virginia Valderrey, Gemma Aragay, Pablo Ballester. “A robust heterodimeric bis-Rh(iii)–porphyrin macrocycle for the self-assembly of a kinetically stable [2]-rotaxane.” Dalton Transactions, vol. 52, no. 24, 2023, pp. 8344-8352. doi:10.1039/d3dt01186k

Saki Arimura, Ikuya Matsumoto, Shohei Nishitani, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Induction of Chirality on Nanographenes.” Chemistry – An Asian Journal, vol. 18, no. 11, 2023 doi:10.1002/asia.202300126

Takeharu Haino. “Cooperativity in molecular recognition of feet-to-feet-connected biscavitands.” Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 4, 2023, pp. 343-352. doi:10.1515/pac-2023-0206

Naoyuki Hisano, Tomoki Kodama, Takeharu Haino. “Negative Homotropic Cooperativity in Guest Binding of a Trisporphyrin Double Cleft.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 29, no. 32, 2023 doi:10.1002/chem.202300107

Shusaku Takahashi, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Effects of Edge Functionalization of Nanographenes with Small Aromatic Systems.” ChemPhysChem, vol. 24, no. 12, 2023 doi:10.1002/cphc.202300066

Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Nanoarchitectonics of supramolecular porphyrins based on a bis(porphyrin) cleft molecule.” Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, vol. 27, no. 07n10, 2023, pp. 966-979. doi:10.1142/S1088424623300082

Haruka Moriguchi, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Substituent‐Induced Supramolecular Aggregates of Edge Functionalized Nanographenes.” Small, vol. 19, no. 31, 2023 doi:10.1002/smll.202207475

Frédéric A. Perras, Yoh Matsuki, Scott A. Southern, Thierry Dubroca, Dragos F. Flesariu, Johan Van Tol, Christos P. Constantinides, Panayiotis A. Koutentis. “Mechanistic origins of methyl-driven Overhauser DNP.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 158, no. 15, 2023 doi:10.1063/5.0149664

Natsumi Nitta, Shin‐ichi Kihara, Takeharu Haino. “Synthesis of Supramolecular A8Bn Miktoarm Star Copolymers by Host‐Guest Complexation.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 62, no. 14, 2023 doi:10.1002/anie.202219001

Hajime Tamaki, Yoh Matsuki. “Optimal-Control-Based Cβ Chemical Shift Encoding for Efficient Signal Assignment of Solid Proteins.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 127, no. 47, 2023, pp. 10118-10128. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c05914

Takehiro Hirao, Sei Kishino, Takeharu Haino. “Supramolecular chiral sensing by supramolecular helical polymers.” Chemical Communications, vol. 59, no. 17, 2023, pp. 2421-2424. doi:10.1039/D2CC06502A

Yuki Inada, Yuichiro Ono, Kyo Okazaki, Takuma Yamashita, Tomoyuki Kawaguchi, Shingo Kawano, Yoshihiro Kobashigawa, Shoko Shinya, Chojiro Kojima, Tsuyoshi Shuto, Hirofumi Kai, Hiroshi Morioka, Takashi Sato. “Hydrogen bonds connecting the N-terminal region and the DE loop stabilize the monomeric structure of transthyretin.” The Journal of Biochemistry, vol. 174, no. 4, 2023, pp. 355-370. doi:10.1093/jb/mvad049

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Lareno L. Villones, Anna-Kristin Ludwig, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Seiya Kikuchi, Rika Ochi, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Shin-Ichiro Nishimura, Hans-Joachim Gabius, Hiroshi Hinou. “Exploring the In situ pairing of human galectins toward synthetic O-mannosylated core M1 glycopeptides of α-dystroglycan.” Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022 doi:10.1038/s41598-022-22758-0

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Kenji Kubo, Hikaru Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Chigusa Seki, Hiroto Nakano, Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Koji Uwai. “Chemical analysis of amyloid β aggregation inhibitors derived from Geranium thunbergii.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 68 , 2022, pp. 116840. doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2022.116840

Hao Gu, Takasumi Kato, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Yasuhiro Kumaki, Takashi Tsukamoto, Takashi Kikukawa, Makoto Demura, Hiroaki Ishida, Hans J. Vogel, Tomoyasu Aizawa. “Three-Dimensional Structure of the Antimicrobial Peptide Cecropin P1 in Dodecylphosphocholine Micelles and the Role of the C-Terminal Residues.” ACS Omega, vol. 7, no. 36, 2022, pp. 31924-31934. doi:10.1021/acsomega.2c02778

Lareno L. Villones, Anna-Kristin Ludwig, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Seiya Kikuchi, Rika Ochi, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Shin-Ichiro Nishimura, Hans-Joachim Gabius, Hiroshi Hinou. “Exploring the In situ pairing of human galectins toward synthetic O-mannosylated core M1 glycopeptides of α-dystroglycan.” Scientific Reports, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022 doi:10.1038/s41598-022-22758-0

Yu Suzuki, Takanori Higashi, Takahiro Yamamoto, Hideyasu Okamura, Takehiro K. Sato, Tetsuo Asakura. “Presence of β-Turn Structure in Recombinant Spider Silk Dissolved in Formic Acid Revealed with NMR.” Molecules, vol. 27, no. 2, 2022, pp. 511. doi:10.3390/molecules27020511

Jungyeon Kim, Hiroka Kobayashi, Marin Yokomine, Yota Shiratori, Takumi Ueda, Koh Takeuchi, Koji Umezawa, Daisuke Kuroda, Kouhei Tsumoto, Jumpei Morimoto, Shinsuke Sando. “Residue-based program of a β-peptoid twisted strand shape via a cyclopentane constraint.” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 20, no. 35, 2022, pp. 6994-7000. doi:10.1039/d2ob01300b

Abhinav Dubey, Thibault Viennet, Sandeep Chhabra, Koh Takeuchi, Hee-Chan Seo, Wolfgang Bermel, Dominique P. Frueh, Haribabu Arthanari. “15N-Detected TROSY NMR experiments to study large disordered proteins in high-field magnets.” Chemical Communications, vol. 58, no. 68, 2022, pp. 9512-9515. doi:10.1039/d2cc02005j

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Yosuke Komatsu, Daiki Kumakura, Namiko Seto, Hirohisa Izumi, Yasuhiro Takeda, Yuki Ohnishi, Shinji Nakaoka, Tomoyasu Aizawa. “Dynamic Associations of Milk Components With the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolites in a Mother–Infant Model by Microbiome, NMR Metabolomic, and Time-Series Clustering Analyses.” Frontiers in Nutrition, vol. 8 , 2022 doi:10.3389/fnut.2021.813690

Marin Yokomine, Jumpei Morimoto, Yasuhiro Fukuda, Yota Shiratori, Daisuke Kuroda, Takumi Ueda, Koh Takeuchi, Kouhei Tsumoto, Shinsuke Sando. “Oligo(N‐methylalanine) as a Peptide‐Based Molecular Scaffold with a Minimal Structure and High Density of Functionalizable Sites.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 61, no. 14, 2022 doi:10.1002/anie.202200119

Takeru Sagae, Mariko Yokogawa, Ryoichi Sawazaki, Yuichiro Ishii, Nao Hosoda, Shin-ichi Hoshino, Shunsuke Imai, Ichio Shimada, Masanori Osawa. “Paip2A inhibits translation by competitively binding to the RNA recognition motifs of PABPC1 and promoting its dissociation from the poly(A) tail.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 298, no. 5, 2022, pp. 101844. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101844

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Satoru G. Itoh, Maho Yagi-Utsumi, Koichi Kato, Hisashi Okumura. “Key Residue for Aggregation of Amyloid-β Peptides.” ACS Chemical Neuroscience, vol. 13, no. 22, 2022, pp. 3139-3151. doi:10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00358

Takanori Matsumaru, Kasumi Sakuratani, Saeko Yanaka, Koichi Kato, Sho Yamasaki, Yukari Fujimoto. “Fungal β‐Mannosyloxymannitol Glycolipids and Their Analogues: Synthesis and Mincle‐Mediated Signaling Activity.” European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2022, no. 20, 2022 doi:10.1002/ejoc.202200109

Saeko Yanaka, Hirokazu Yagi, Rina Yogo, Masayoshi Onitsuka, Koichi Kato. “Glutamine-free mammalian expression of recombinant glycoproteins with uniform isotope labeling: an application for NMR analysis of pharmaceutically relevant Fc glycoforms of human immunoglobulin G1.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 76, no. 1-2, 2022, pp. 17-22. doi:10.1007/s10858-021-00387-5

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Soichiro Kawagoe, Munehiro Kumashiro, Takuya Mabuchi, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Koichiro Ishimori, Tomohide Saio. “Heat-Induced Conformational Transition Mechanism of Heat Shock Factor 1 Investigated by Tryptophan Probe.” Biochemistry, vol. 61, no. 24, 2022, pp. 2897-2908. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00492

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Chiaki Matsuzaki, Tsukasa Shiraishi, Tai-Ying Chiou, Yukari Nakashima, Yasuki Higashimura, Shin-ichi Yokota, Kenji Yamamoto, Tomoya Takahashi. “Role of Lipoteichoic Acid from the Genus Apilactobacillus in Inducing a Strong IgA Response.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 88, no. 8, 2022 doi:10.1128/aem.00190-22

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Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Nanographene – A Scaffold of Two‐Dimensional Materials.” The Chemical Record, vol. 22, no. 3, 2021 doi:10.1002/tcr.202100257

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Masayuki Morie, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Synthesis and Conformational Characteristics of Calix[4]arene Oligomers.” Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, vol. 94, no. 11, 2021, pp. 2792-2799. doi:10.1246/bcsj.20210287

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Yudai Ono, Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Solvent-directed formation of helically twisted stacking constructs via self-assembly of tris(phenylisoxazolyl)benzene dimers.” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 33, 2021, pp. 7165-7171. doi:10.1039/D1OB01277K

Naoyuki Hisano, Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Self-complementary Structure of Bisporphyrin Dimer.” Chemistry Letters, vol. 50, no. 11, 2021, pp. 1844-1847. doi:10.1246/cl.210393

Haruna Fujimoto, Daisuke Shimoyama, Katsuo Katayanagi, Naomi Kawata, Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Negative Cooperativity in Guest Binding of a Ditopic Self-Folding Biscavitand.” Organic Letters, vol. 23, no. 16, 2021, pp. 6217-6221. doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01837

Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Chemical Modification of Nanographenes and Their Functions.” Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan, vol. 79, no. 8, 2021, pp. 743-754. doi:10.5059/yukigoseikyokaishi.79.743

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Masaya Yoshida, Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Self-assembly of neutral platinum complexes possessing chiral hydrophilic TEG chains.” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 24, 2021, pp. 5303-5311. doi:10.1039/D1OB00492A

Yudai Ono, Takehiro Hirao, Toshiaki Ikeda, Takeharu Haino. “Self-Assembling Behavior and Chiroptical Properties of Carbazole-Cored Phenyl Isoxazolyl Benzenes.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 86, no. 8, 2021, pp. 5499-5505. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.0c03005

Ikuya Matsumoto, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Self‐Assembly of Nanographenes.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 60, no. 23, 2021, pp. 12706-12711. doi:10.1002/anie.202101992

Takehiro Hirao, Yoshiki Iwabe, Naoka Fujii, Takeharu Haino. “Helically Organized Fullerene Array in a Supramolecular Polymer Main Chain.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 143, no. 11, 2021, pp. 4339-4345. doi:10.1021/jacs.0c13326

Kentaro Harada, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Folding and Unfolding of Acetoxy Group-Terminated Alkyl Chains Inside a Size-Regulable Hemicarcerand.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 86, no. 6, 2021, pp. 4440-4447. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.0c02833

Hajime Iwamoto, Yuki Ishizu, Eietsu Hasegawa, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Translational isomers of N-sulfonylated [3]catenane: synthesis and isomerization.” Chemical Communications, vol. 57, no. 15, 2021, pp. 1915-1918. doi:10.1039/d0cc07720h

Ikuya Matsumoto, Ryo Sekiya, Takeharu Haino. “Nanographenes from Distinct Carbon Sources.” Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, vol. 94, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1394-1399. doi:10.1246/bcsj.20200381

Shohei Nishitani, Ryo Sekiya, Ikuya Matsumoto, Takeharu Haino. “Blueish-white-light-emitting Nanographenes Developed by Pd-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling Reactions.” Chemistry Letters, vol. 50, no. 4, 2021, pp. 664-667. doi:10.1246/cl.200844

Yutaro Shiraishi, Yutaka Kofuku, Takumi Ueda, Shubhi Pandey, Hemlata Dwivedi-Agnihotri, Arun K. Shukla, Ichio Shimada. “Biphasic activation of β-arrestin 1 upon interaction with a GPCR revealed by methyl-TROSY NMR.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27482-3

Yuanpeng Janet Huang, Ning Zhang, Beate Bersch, Krzysztof Fidelis, Masayori Inouye, Yojiro Ishida, Andriy Kryshtafovych, Naohiro Kobayashi, Yutaka Kuroda, Gaohua Liu, Andy LiWang, G.V.T Swapna, Nan Wu, Toshio Yamazaki, Gaetano T. Montelione. “Assessment of prediction methods for protein structures determined by NMR in CASP14: Impact of AlphaFold2.” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, vol. 89, no. 12, 2021, pp. 1959-1976. doi:10.1002/prot.26246

Koji Takagi, Hinako Yamaguchi, Daiki Miyamoto, Yuka Deguchi, Takehiro Hirao, Takeharu Haino. “Stereoselectivity in dehydrative cyclic trimerization of substituted 4-alkylaminobenzoic acids.” New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 45, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1187-1193. doi:10.1039/D0NJ05368F

Bowen Zhang, Dinuo Zheng, Shi Yiming, Kazuhiro Oyama, Masahiro Ito, Masaomi Ikari, Takanori Kigawa, Tsutomu Mikawa, Takeo Miyake. “High‐Efficient and Dosage‐Controllable Intracellular Cargo Delivery through Electrochemical Metal–Organic Hybrid Nanogates.” Small Science, vol. 1, no. 12, 2021 doi:10.1002/smsc.202100069

Masahiko Okuda, Tetsufumi Suwa, Hidefumi Suzuki, Yuki Yamaguchi, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Three human RNA polymerases interact with TFIIH via a common RPB6 subunit.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 50, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-16. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab612

Hiromasa Yagi, Takuma Kasai, Elisa Rioual, Teppei Ikeya, Takanori Kigawa. “Molecular mechanism of glycolytic flux control intrinsic to human phosphoglycerate kinase.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 50, 2021 doi:10.1073/pnas.2112986118

Hideaki Ohtomo, Jun-ichi Kurita, Shun Sakuraba, Zhenhai Li, Yasuhiro Arimura, Masatoshi Wakamori, Yasuo Tsunaka, Takashi Umehara, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Hidetoshi Kono, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “The N-terminal Tails of Histones H2A and H2B Adopt Two Distinct Conformations in the Nucleosome with Contact and Reduced Contact to DNA.” Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 433, no. 15, 2021, pp. 167110. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167110

Tomonori Hayami, Narutoshi Kamiya, Kota Kasahara, Takeshi Kawabata, Jun-ichi Kurita, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Haruki Nakamura, Junichi Higo. “Difference of binding modes among three ligands to a receptor mSin3B corresponding to their inhibitory activities.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85612-9

Kazuki Matsumura, Takushi Shimomura, Yoshihiro Kubo, Takayuki Oka, Naohiro Kobayashi, Shunsuke Imai, Naomi Yanase, Madoka Akimoto, Masahiro Fukuda, Mariko Yokogawa, Kazuyoshi Ikeda, Jun-ichi Kurita, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Ichio Shimada, Masanori Osawa. “Mechanism of hERG inhibition by gating-modifier toxin, APETx1, deduced by functional characterization.” BMC Molecular and Cell Biology, vol. 22, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1186/s12860-020-00337-3

Rei Tohda, Hideaki Tanaka, Risa Mutoh, Xuhong Zhang, Young-Ho Lee, Tsuyoshi Konuma, Takahisa Ikegami, Catharina T. Migita, Genji Kurisu. “Crystal structure of higher plant heme oxygenase-1 and its mechanism of interaction with ferredoxin.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 296 , 2021, pp. 100217. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA120.016271

Kyoko Furuita, Toshihiko Sugiki, Mika Takamuku, Yoshikazu Hattori, Masatomo So, Yasushi Kawata, Takahisa Ikegami, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Chojiro Kojima. “Sensitivity enhancement by sequential data acquisition for 13C-direct detection NMR.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 322 , 2021, pp. 106878. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106878

Sujata Bupp, Matthew Whittaker, Mari Lehtimaki, JuMe Park, Jessica Dement-Brown, Zhao-Hua Zhou, Steven Kozlowski. “A novel murine in vivo model for acute hereditary angioedema attacks.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95125-0

Heyuan Zeng, Jinbiao Zhang, Gabriel A Preising, Tobias Rubel, Pramesh Singh, Anna Ritz. “Graphery: interactive tutorials for biological network algorithms.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 49, no. W1, 2021, pp. W257-W262. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab420

Kazuaki Matsumura, Fumiaki Hayashi, Toshio Nagashima, Robin Rajan, Suong-Hyu Hyon. “Molecular mechanisms of cell cryopreservation with polyampholytes studied by solid-state NMR.” Communications Materials, vol. 2, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s43246-021-00118-1

Satoshi Ohte, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Ohgi Takahashi, Henki Rotinsulu, Defny S. Wewengkang, Deiske A. Sumilat, Delfly B. Abdjul, Wilmar Maarisit, Magie M. Kapojos, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Michio Namikoshi, Takenobu Katagiri, Hiroshi Tomoda, Ryuji Uchida. “Inhibitory effects of sesquiterpene lactones from the Indonesian marine sponge Lamellodysidea cf. herbacea on bone morphogenetic protein-induced osteoblastic differentiation.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 35 , 2021, pp. 127783. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2021.127783

Fahu He, Kanako Kuwasako, Masayuki Takizawa, Mari Takahashi, Kengo Tsuda, Takashi Nagata, Satoru Watanabe, Akiko Tanaka, Naohiro Kobayashi, Takanori Kigawa, Peter Güntert, Mikako Shirouzu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yutaka Muto. “1H, 13C and 15N resonance assignments and solution structures of the two RRM domains of Matrin-3.” Biomolecular NMR Assignments, vol. 16, no. 1, 2021, pp. 41-49. doi:10.1007/s12104-021-10057-0

Nghia Tuan Duong, Zhehong Gan, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Selective 1H-14N Distance Measurements by 14N Overtone Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy at Fast MAS.” Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, vol. 8 , 2021 doi:10.3389/fmolb.2021.645347

Lokeswara Rao Potnuru, Nghia Tuan Duong, Budaraju Sasank, Sreejith Raran-Kurussi, Yusuke Nishiyama, Vipin Agarwal. “Selective 1H–1H recoupling via symmetry sequences in fully protonated samples at fast magic angle spinning.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 328 , 2021, pp. 107004. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107004

Yusuke Nishiyama, Vipin Agarwal, Rongchun Zhang. “Efficient symmetry-based γ-encoded DQ recoupling sequences for suppression of t1-noise in solid-state NMR spectroscopy at fast MAS.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 114 , 2021, pp. 101734. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101734

Yuta Horie, Takafumi Suzuki, Jin Inoue, Tatsuro Iso, Geoffrey Wells, Terry W. Moore, Tsunehiro Mizushima, Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova, Takuma Kasai, Takashi Kamei, Seizo Koshiba, Masayuki Yamamoto. “Molecular basis for the disruption of Keap1–Nrf2 interaction via Hinge ＆ Latch mechanism.” Communications Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02100-6

Takeshi Kobayashi, Frédéric A. Perras, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Determination of the chemical shift tensor anisotropy and asymmetry of strongly dipolar coupled protons under fast MAS.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 114 , 2021, pp. 101743. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2021.101743

Saori Sakaue, Masahiro Kanai, Yosuke Tanigawa, Juha Karjalainen, Mitja Kurki, Seizo Koshiba, Akira Narita, Takahiro Konuma, Kenichi Yamamoto, Masato Akiyama, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Akari Suzuki, Ken Suzuki, Wataru Obara, Ken Yamaji, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Satoshi Asai, Yasuo Takahashi, Takao Suzuki, Nobuaki Shinozaki, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Shiro Minami, Shigeo Murayama, Kozo Yoshimori, Satoshi Nagayama, Daisuke Obata, Masahiko Higashiyama, Akihide Masumoto, Yukihiro Koretsune, , Kaoru Ito, Chikashi Terao, Toshimasa Yamauchi, Issei Komuro, Takashi Kadowaki, Gen Tamiya, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yusuke Nakamura, Michiaki Kubo, Yoshinori Murakami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yoichiro Kamatani, Aarno Palotie, Manuel A. Rivas, Mark J. Daly, Koichi Matsuda, Yukinori Okada. “A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes.” Nature Genetics, vol. 53, no. 10, 2021, pp. 1415-1424. doi:10.1038/s41588-021-00931-x

Xiaowei Wu, Ziya Liu, Hu Guo, You-lee Hong, Bingqing Xu, Kun Zhang, Yusuke Nishiyama, Wei Jiang, Satoshi Horike, Susumu Kitagawa, Gen Zhang. “Host–Guest Assembly of H-Bonding Networks in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Ultrafast and Anhydrous Proton Transfer.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 13, no. 31, 2021, pp. 37172-37178. doi:10.1021/acsami.1c09157

Akira Uruno, Daisuke Saigusa, Takafumi Suzuki, Akane Yumoto, Tomohiro Nakamura, Naomi Matsukawa, Takahiro Yamazaki, Ristumi Saito, Keiko Taguchi, Mikiko Suzuki, Norio Suzuki, Akihito Otsuki, Fumiki Katsuoka, Eiji Hishinuma, Risa Okada, Seizo Koshiba, Yoshihisa Tomioka, Ritsuko Shimizu, Masaki Shirakawa, Thomas W. Kensler, Dai Shiba, Masayuki Yamamoto. “Nrf2 plays a critical role in the metabolic response during and after spaceflight.” Communications Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02904-6

Nghia Tuan Duong, Yoshitaka Aoyama, Katsumi Kawamoto, Toshio Yamazaki, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Structure Solution of Nano-Crystalline Small Molecules Using MicroED and Solid-State NMR Dipolar-Based Experiments.” Molecules, vol. 26, no. 15, 2021, pp. 4652. doi:10.3390/molecules26154652

Kentaro Kadota, You-lee Hong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Easan Sivaniah, Daniel Packwood, Satoshi Horike. “One-Pot, Room-Temperature Conversion of CO2 into Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 143, no. 40, 2021, pp. 16750-16757. doi:10.1021/jacs.1c08227

Alons Lends, Mélanie Berbon, Birgit Habenstein, Yusuke Nishiyama, Antoine Loquet. “Protein resonance assignment by solid-state NMR based on 1H-detected 13C double-quantum spectroscopy at fast MAS.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 75, no. 10-12, 2021, pp. 417-427. doi:10.1007/s10858-021-00386-6

Noriko Hiraishi, Mahmoud Sayed, Robert Hill, Junji Tagami, Fumiaki Hayashi. “Interactions of boron released from surface pre-reacted glass ionomer with enamel/dentin and its effect on pH.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95279-x

Lena Barra, Takayoshi Awakawa, Kohei Shirai, Zhijuan Hu, Ghader Bashiri, Ikuro Abe. “β-NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis.” Nature, vol. 600, no. 7890, 2021, pp. 754-758. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04214-7

Ken Komatsu, Nobumitsu Sasaki, Tetsuya Yoshida, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Yuki Masujima, Masayoshi Hashimoto, Satoru Watanabe, Naoya Tochio, Takanori Kigawa, Yasuyuki Yamaji, Kenro Oshima, Shigetou Namba, Richard S. Nelson, Tsutomu Arie. “Identification of a Proline-Kinked Amphipathic α-Helix Downstream from the Methyltransferase Domain of a Potexvirus Replicase and Its Role in Virus Replication and Perinuclear Complex Formation.” Journal of Virology, vol. 95, no. 20, 2021 doi:10.1128/JVI.01906-20

Xinyang Li, Takayoshi Awakawa, Takahiro Mori, Meiqi Ling, Dan Hu, Bin Wu, Ikuro Abe. “Heterodimeric Non-heme Iron Enzymes in Fungal Meroterpenoid Biosynthesis.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 143, no. 50, 2021, pp. 21425-21432. doi:10.1021/jacs.1c11548

Ryuji Nishiyama, Takao Ojima, Yuki Ohnishi, Yasuhiro Kumaki, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Akira Inoue. “An oxidative metabolic pathway of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEHU) from alginate in an alginate-assimilating bacterium.” Communications Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02786-8

Ryosuke Sugiyama, Rui Li, Ayuko Kuwahara, Ryo Nakabayashi, Naoyuki Sotta, Tetsuya Mori, Takehiro Ito, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Toru Fujiwara, Kazuki Saito, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Paweł Bednarek, Masami Yokota Hirai. “Retrograde sulfur flow from glucosinolates to cysteine in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 22, 2021 doi:10.1073/pnas.2017890118

Kaori Tsukakoshi, Yasuko Yamagishi, Mana Kanazashi, Kenta Nakama, Daiki Oshikawa, Nasa Savory, Akimasa Matsugami, Fumiaki Hayashi, Jinhee Lee, Taiki Saito, Koji Sode, Kanjana Khunathai, Hitoshi Kuno, Kazunori Ikebukuro. “G-quadruplex-forming aptamer enhances the peroxidase activity of myoglobin against luminol.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 49, no. 11, 2021, pp. 6069-6081. doi:10.1093/nar/gkab388

Koichi Kamiya, Hiroaki Itoh, Masayuki Inoue. “Generation and Biological Evaluation of Degraded Derivatives of the Three E/Z-Isomers of Yaku’amide B.” Journal of Natural Products, vol. 84, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1854-1859. doi:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00339

Masayuki Satake, Raku Irie, Patrick T. Holland, D Tim Harwood, Feng Shi, Yoshiyuki Itoh, Fumiaki Hayashi, Huiping Zhang. “Brevisulcenals-A1 and A2, Sulfate Esters of Brevisulcenals, Isolated from the Red Tide Dinoflagellate Karenia brevisulcata.” Toxins, vol. 13, no. 2, 2021, pp. 82. doi:10.3390/toxins13020082

Camille Michiko Obayashi, Yoko Shinohara, Takao Masuda, Gota Kawai. “Influence of the 5′-terminal sequences on the 5′-UTR structure of HIV-1 genomic RNA.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90427-9

Ryuji Nishiyama, Takao Ojima, Yuki Ohnishi, Yasuhiro Kumaki, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Akira Inoue. “An oxidative metabolic pathway of 4-deoxy-L-erythro-5-hexoseulose uronic acid (DEHU) from alginate in an alginate-assimilating bacterium.” Communications Biology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02786-8

Koh Takeuchi, Yutaka Kofuku, Shunsuke Imai, Takumi Ueda, Yuji Tokunaga, Yuki Toyama, Yutaro Shiraishi, Ichio Shimada. “Function-Related Dynamics in Multi-Spanning Helical Membrane Proteins Revealed by Solution NMR.” Membranes, vol. 11, no. 8, 2021, pp. 604. doi:10.3390/membranes11080604

Tomohide Saio, Soya Hiramatsu, Mizue Asada, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazumi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Toshikazu Nakamura, Koichiro Ishimori. “Conformational ensemble of a multidomain protein explored by Gd3+ electron paramagnetic resonance.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 120, no. 15, 2021, pp. 2943-2951. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2021.06.033

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Yusuke Sato, Akimasa Matsugami, Satoru Watanabe, Fumiaki Hayashi, Munehito Arai, Takanori Kigawa, Chiaki Nishimura. “Changes in dynamic and static structures of the HIV‐1 p24 capsid protein N‐domain caused by amino‐acid substitution are associated with its viral viability.” Protein Science, vol. 30, no. 11, 2021, pp. 2233-2245. doi:10.1002/pro.4184

Yutaro Shiraishi, Yutaka Kofuku, Takumi Ueda, Shubhi Pandey, Hemlata Dwivedi-Agnihotri, Arun K. Shukla, Ichio Shimada. “Biphasic activation of β-arrestin 1 upon interaction with a GPCR revealed by methyl-TROSY NMR.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021 doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27482-3

Yuji Tokunaga, Masahito Tanaka, Hitoshi Iida, Moto Kinoshita, Yuya Tojima, Koh Takeuchi, Masahiko Imashimizu. “Nonthermal excitation effects mediated by sub-terahertz radiation on hydrogen exchange in ubiquitin.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 120, no. 12, 2021, pp. 2386-2393. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2021.04.013

Takayuki Nagae, Masashi Unno, Taiki Koizumi, Yohei Miyanoiri, Tomotsumi Fujisawa, Kento Masui, Takanari Kamo, Kei Wada, Toshihiko Eki, Yutaka Ito, Yuu Hirose, Masaki Mishima. “Structural basis of the protochromic green/red photocycle of the chromatic acclimation sensor RcaE.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 20, 2021 doi:10.1073/pnas.2024583118

Koh Takeuchi, Imai Misaki, Yuji Tokunaga, Miwa Fujisaki, Hajime Kamoshida, Takeshi Takizawa, Hiroyuki Hanzawa, Ichio Shimada. “Conformational Plasticity of Cyclic Ras‐Inhibitor Peptides Defines Cell Permeabilization Activity.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 60, no. 12, 2021, pp. 6567-6572. doi:10.1002/anie.202016647

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Xin-Long Wang, Ze-Hong Wu, Lei Di, Feng-Jiao Zhou, Yong-Ming Yan, Yong-Xian Cheng. “Renoprotective meroterpenoids from the fungus Ganoderma cochlear.” Fitoterapia, vol. 132 , 2019, pp. 88-93. doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2018.12.002

Shotaro Hoshino, Takayoshi Awakawa, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Ikuro Abe. “Beijinchromes A–D, Novel Aromatic Compounds Isolated from <i>Nocardia beijingensis</i> NBRC 16342.” Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, vol. 67, no. 8, 2019, pp. 775-777. doi:10.1248/cpb.c19-00364

Kohsuke Inomata, Takanori Kigawa, Masahiro Shirakawa. “Chapter 3. In-cell NMR in Eukaryotic Cells – I (Introduction from Outside of Cells).” New Developments in NMR , 2019, pp. 27-44. doi:10.1039/9781788013079-00027

Candelaria Guzmán-Afonso, You-lee Hong, Henri Colaux, Hirofumi Iijima, Akihiro Saitow, Takuma Fukumura, Yoshitaka Aoyama, Souhei Motoki, Tetsuo Oikawa, Toshio Yamazaki, Koji Yonekura, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Understanding hydrogen-bonding structures of molecular crystals via electron and NMR nanocrystallography.” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019 doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11469-2

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Joshua T. Damron, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Proton-detected 3D 1H anisotropic/14N/1H isotropic chemical shifts correlation NMR under fast magic angle spinning on solid samples without isotopic enrichment.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 97 , 2019, pp. 40-45. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2018.12.002

Federica Rossi, Nghia Tuan Duong, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Michele R. Chierotti, Roberto Gobetto, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Determination of the 15N chemical shift anisotropy in natural abundance samples by proton‐detected 3D solid‐state NMR under ultrafast MAS of 70 kHz.” Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 6, 2019, pp. 294-303. doi:10.1002/mrc.4841

Hui Li, Ruifu Wang, You‐lee Hong, Zihao Liang, Yidan Shen, Yusuke Nishiyama, Toshikazu Miyoshi, Tianbo Liu. “Tuning the Intercage Distance in Charge‐Regulated Blackberry‐Type Assemblies through Host–Guest Chemistry.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 25, no. 22, 2019, pp. 5803-5808. doi:10.1002/chem.201900800

Nasima Kanwal, Henri Colaux, Daniel M. Dawson, Yusuke Nishiyama, Sharon E. Ashbrook. “Sensitivity improvement in 5QMAS NMR experiments using FAM-N pulses.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 100 , 2019, pp. 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.03.002

Chi Zhang, Zhijun Yang, Nghia Tuan Duong, Xiaohui Li, Yusuke Nishiyama, Qiang Wu, Rongchun Zhang, Pingchuan Sun. “Using Dynamic Bonds to Enhance the Mechanical Performance: From Microscopic Molecular Interactions to Macroscopic Properties.” Macromolecules, vol. 52, no. 13, 2019, pp. 5014-5025. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00503

Rongchun Zhang, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Resolution enhancement and proton proximity probed by 3D TQ/DQ/SQ proton NMR spectroscopy under ultrafast magic-angle-spinning beyond 70 kHz.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 304 , 2019, pp. 78-86. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2019.05.006

Kentaro Kadota, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Easan Sivaniah, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Borohydride-containing coordination polymers: synthesis, air stability and dehydrogenation.” Chemical Science, vol. 10, no. 24, 2019, pp. 6193-6198. doi:10.1039/c9sc00731h

Sanjog S. Nagarkar, Haruna Kurasho, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Crystal melting and glass formation in copper thiocyanate based coordination polymers.” Chemical Communications, vol. 55, no. 38, 2019, pp. 5455-5458. doi:10.1039/C9CC02172H

Nicholai Daugaard Jensen, Nghia Tuan Duong, Ralph Bolanz, Yusuke Nishiyama, Camilla Aistrup Rasmussen, Jorg Gottlicher, Ralph Steininger, Vanessa Prevot, Ulla Gro Nielsen. “Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Pure ZnAl4(OH)12(SO4)·2.6H2O Layered Double Hydroxide.” Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 58, no. 9, 2019, pp. 6114-6122. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00390

Nghia Tuan Duong, Federica Rossi, Maria Makrinich, Amir Goldbourt, Michele R. Chierotti, Roberto Gobetto, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Accurate 1H-14N distance measurements by phase-modulated RESPDOR at ultra-fast MAS.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 308 , 2019, pp. 106559. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2019.07.046

Munehiro Inukai, Yusuke Nishiyama, Kayako Honjo, Chinmoy Das, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Glass-phase coordination polymer displaying proton conductivity and guest-accessible porosity.” Chemical Communications, vol. 55, no. 59, 2019, pp. 8528-8531. doi:10.1039/c9cc02744k

Kentaro Kadota, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Easan Sivaniah, Satoshi Horike. “Synthesis of porous coordination polymers using carbon dioxide as a direct source.” Chemical Communications, vol. 55, no. 63, 2019, pp. 9283-9286. doi:10.1039/c9cc04771a

Masahide Nishiyama, Covadonga Lucas-Torres, Renzhong Piao, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Yusuke Nishiyama, Alan Wong. “Supplemental Shimming for HR-μMAS NMR Spectroscopy.” Applied Magnetic Resonance, vol. 50, no. 11, 2019, pp. 1305-1313. doi:10.1007/s00723-019-01150-8

Yusuke Kita, Ryosuke Kusumi, Tsunehisa Kimura, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Yusuke Nishiyama, Masahisa Wada. “Surface structural analysis of selectively 13C-labeled cellulose II by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.” Cellulose, vol. 27, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1899-1907. doi:10.1007/s10570-019-02896-x

Hiroaki Itoh, Kotaro Tokumoto, Takuya Kaji, Atmika Paudel, Suresh Panthee, Hiroshi Hamamoto, Kazuhisa Sekimizu, Masayuki Inoue. “Development of a high-throughput strategy for discovery of potent analogues of antibiotic lysocin E.” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019 doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10754-4

Yukiko Horie, Hideyuki Nemoto, Jin Fujita, Shigeo Ikegawa, Yasuhiro Kumaki, Yuki Ohnishi, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Makoto Demura, Tomoyasu Aizawa. “Studies on the Quality Control of Fermented Brown Rice and Rice Bran with <i>Aspergillus oryzae </i>by Metabolome Analysis Using ¹H-NMR.” Nippon Shokuhin Kagaku Kogaku Kaishi, vol. 66, no. 4, 2019, pp. 139-146. doi:10.3136/nskkk.66.139

Kazuhiko Yamasaki, Tomomi Kubota, Tomoko Yamasaki, Izuru Nagashima, Hiroki Shimizu, Ryu-ichiro Terada, Hiroshi Nishigami, Jiyoung Kang, Masaru Tateno, Hiroaki Tateno. “Structural basis for specific recognition of core fucosylation in N-glycans by Pholiota squarrosa lectin (PhoSL).” Glycobiology, vol. 29, no. 7, 2019, pp. 576-587. doi:10.1093/glycob/cwz025

Tomoaki Sugishita, Yoh Matsuki, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Absolute 1H polarization measurement with a spin-correlated component of magnetization by hyperpolarized MAS-DNP solid-state NMR.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 99 , 2019, pp. 20-26. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2019.02.001

Futoshi Ihama, Mami Yamamoto, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Katsumi Matsuzaki, Yoshihiko Miyata, Masaru Hoshino. “Structural characterization of the N-terminal kinase-interacting domain of an Hsp90-cochaperone Cdc37 by CD and solution NMR spectroscopy.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Proteins and Proteomics, vol. 1867, no. 9, 2019, pp. 813-820. doi:10.1016/j.bbapap.2019.06.007

Yuxi Lin, Bikash R. Sahoo, Daisaku Ozawa, Misaki Kinoshita, Juhye Kang, Mi Hee Lim, Masaki Okumura, Yang Hoon Huh, Eunyoung Moon, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hyun-Ju Lee, Ka-Young Ryu, Sihyun Ham, Hyung-Sik Won, Kyoung-Seok Ryu, Toshihiko Sugiki, Jeong Kyu Bang, Hyang-Sook Hoe, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Young-Ho Lee. “Diverse Structural Conversion and Aggregation Pathways of Alzheimerʼs Amyloid-β (1–40).” ACS Nano, vol. 13, no. 8, 2019, pp. 8766-8783. doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b01578

Muneyo Mio, Toshihiko Sugiki, Chie Matsuda, Hiroaki Mitsuhashi, Chojiro Kojima, Siu Yuen Chan, Yukiko K. Hayashi, Kazuhiro Mio. “Structural instability of lamin A tail domain modulates its assembly and higher order function in Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 512, no. 1, 2019, pp. 22-28. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.02.138

Diego F. Gauto, Pavel Macek, Alessandro Barducci, Hugo Fraga, Audrey Hessel, Tsutomu Terauchi, David Gajan, Yohei Miyanoiri, Jerome Boisbouvier, Roman Lichtenecker, Masatsune Kainosho, Paul Schanda. “Aromatic Ring Dynamics, Thermal Activation, and Transient Conformations of a 468 kDa Enzyme by Specific 1H–13C Labeling and Fast Magic-Angle Spinning NMR.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, no. 28, 2019, pp. 11183-11195. doi:10.1021/jacs.9b04219

Saeko Yanaka, Rina Yogo, Rintaro Inoue, Masaaki Sugiyama, Satoru G. Itoh, Hisashi Okumura, Yohei Miyanoiri, Hirokazu Yagi, Tadashi Satoh, Takumi Yamaguchi, Koichi Kato. “Dynamic Views of the Fc Region of Immunoglobulin G Provided by Experimental and Computational Observations.” Antibodies, vol. 8, no. 3, 2019, pp. 39. doi:10.3390/antib8030039

Nóra Taricska, Dániel Horváth, Dóra K. Menyhárd, Hanna Ákontz‐Kiss, Masahiro Noji, Masatomo So, Yuji Goto, Toshimichi Fujiwara, András Perczel. “The Route from the Folded to the Amyloid State: Exploring the Potential Energy Surface of a Drug‐Like Miniprotein.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 26, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1968-1978. doi:10.1002/chem.201903826

Margaret Phillips, Janet To, Toshio Yamazaki, Toshio Nagashima, Jaume Torres, Konstantin Pervushin. “Binding of a small molecule water channel inhibitor to aquaporin Z examined by solid-state MAS NMR.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 71, no. 2, 2018, pp. 91-100. doi:10.1007/s10858-018-0195-0

Xiangyan Shi, Chinmayi Prasanna, Toshio Nagashima, Toshio Yamazaki, Konstantin Pervushin, Lars Nordenskiöld. “Structure and Dynamics in the Nucleosome Revealed by Solid‐State NMR.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 57, no. 31, 2018, pp. 9734-9738. doi:10.1002/anie.201804707

Nur Alia Oktaviani, Akimasa Matsugami, Ali D. Malay, Fumiaki Hayashi, David L. Kaplan, Keiji Numata. “Conformation and dynamics of soluble repetitive domain elucidates the initial β-sheet formation of spider silk.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04570-5

Jun-ichi Kurita, Yuuka Hirao, Hirofumi Nakano, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Sertraline, chlorprothixene, and chlorpromazine characteristically interact with the REST-binding site of the corepressor mSin3, showing medulloblastoma cell growth inhibitory activities.” Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31852-1

Kazumi Saikusa, Akihisa Osakabe, Daiki Kato, Sotaro Fuchigami, Aritaka Nagadoi, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Satoko Akashi. “Structural Diversity of Nucleosomes Characterized by Native Mass Spectrometry.” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 13, 2018, pp. 8217-8226. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.8b01649

Mika Saotome, Kengo Saito, Takeshi Yasuda, Hideaki Ohtomo, Shusei Sugiyama, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Wataru Kagawa. “Structural Basis of Homology-Directed DNA Repair Mediated by RAD52.” iScience, vol. 3 , 2018, pp. 50-62. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2018.04.005

Hisako Kubota-Kawai, Risa Mutoh, Kanako Shinmura, Pierre Sétif, Marc M. Nowaczyk, Matthias Rögner, Takahisa Ikegami, Hideaki Tanaka, Genji Kurisu. “X-ray structure of an asymmetrical trimeric ferredoxin–photosystem I complex.” Nature Plants, vol. 4, no. 4, 2018, pp. 218-224. doi:10.1038/s41477-018-0130-0

So-Yeun Woo, Nwet Nwet Win, Chin Piow Wong, Takuya Ito, Shotaro Hoshino, Hla Ngwe, Aung Aung Aye, Nang Mya Han, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Ikuro Abe, Hiroyuki Morita. “Two new pyrrolo-2-aminoimidazoles from a Myanmarese marine sponge, Clathria prolifera.” Journal of Natural Medicines, vol. 72, no. 3, 2018, pp. 803-807. doi:10.1007/s11418-018-1205-y

Hiroki Tanaka, Hideo Akutsu, Izumi Yabuta, Masashi Hara, Hayuki Sugimoto, Takahisa Ikegami, Takeshi Watanabe, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “A novel chitin‐binding mode of the chitin‐binding domain of chitinase A1 from Bacillus circulans WL‐12 revealed by solid‐state NMR.” FEBS Letters, vol. 592, no. 18, 2018, pp. 3173-3182. doi:10.1002/1873-3468.13226

Shotaro Hoshino, Masahiro Ozeki, Chin Piow Wong, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Takayoshi Awakawa, Hiroyuki Morita, Hiroyasu Onaka, Ikuro Abe. “Mirilactams C–E, Novel Polycyclic Macrolactams Isolated from Combined-Culture of <i>Actinosynnema mirum</i> NBRC 14064 and Mycolic Acid-Containing Bacterium.” Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, vol. 66, no. 6, 2018, pp. 660-667. doi:10.1248/cpb.c18-00143

Hidekazu Hiroaki, Kaori Satomura, Natsuko Goda, Yukako Nakakura, Minami Hiranuma, Takeshi Tenno, Daizo Hamada, Takahisa Ikegami. “Spatial Overlap of Claudin- and Phosphatidylinositol Phosphate-Binding Sites on the First PDZ Domain of Zonula Occludens 1 Studied by NMR.” Molecules, vol. 23, no. 10, 2018, pp. 2465. doi:10.3390/molecules23102465

Fei He, Hitomi Nakamura, Shotaro Hoshino, Joyce Seow Fong Chin, Liang Yang, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Ikuro Abe. “Hinduchelins A–D, Noncytotoxic Catechol Derivatives from Streptoalloteichus hindustanus.” Journal of Natural Products, vol. 81, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1493-1496. doi:10.1021/acs.jnatprod.8b00049

Tsuyoshi Konuma, Aritaka Nagadoi, Jun-ichi Kurita, Takahisa Ikegami. “Analysis of Artifacts Caused by Pulse Imperfections in CPMG Pulse Trains in NMR Relaxation Dispersion Experiments.” Magnetochemistry, vol. 4, no. 3, 2018, pp. 33. doi:10.3390/magnetochemistry4030033

Shotaro Hoshino, Chin Piow Wong, Masahiro Ozeki, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Takayoshi Awakawa, Shumpei Asamizu, Hiroyasu Onaka, Ikuro Abe. “Umezawamides, new bioactive polycyclic tetramate macrolactams isolated from a combined-culture of Umezawaea sp. and mycolic acid-containing bacterium.” The Journal of Antibiotics, vol. 71, no. 7, 2018, pp. 653-657. doi:10.1038/s41429-018-0040-4

Masayoshi Sakakura, Mayumi Tamura, Norihiko Fujii, Tomoharu Takeuchi, Tomomi Hatanaka, Seishi Kishimoto, Yoichiro Arata, Hideo Takahashi. “Structural mechanisms for the S‐nitrosylation‐derived protection of mouse galectin‐2 from oxidation‐induced inactivation revealed by NMR.” The FEBS Journal, vol. 285, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1129-1145. doi:10.1111/febs.14397

Rika Suzuki, Masayoshi Sakakura, Masaki Mori, Moe Fujii, Satoko Akashi, Hideo Takahashi. “Methyl-selective isotope labeling using α-ketoisovalerate for the yeast Pichia pastoris recombinant protein expression system.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 71, no. 4, 2018, pp. 213-223. doi:10.1007/s10858-018-0192-3

Toshihiko Sugiki, Daichi Egawa, Keigo Kumagai, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Koh Takeuchi, Ichio Shimada, Kentaro Hanada, Hideo Takahashi. “Phosphoinositide binding by the PH domain in ceramide transfer protein (CERT) is inhibited by hyperphosphorylation of an adjacent serine-repeat motif.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 293, no. 28, 2018, pp. 11206-11217. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA118.002465

Yutaro Shiraishi, Mei Natsume, Yutaka Kofuku, Shunsuke Imai, Kunio Nakata, Toshimi Mizukoshi, Takumi Ueda, Hideo Iwaï, Ichio Shimada. “Phosphorylation-induced conformation of β2-adrenoceptor related to arrestin recruitment revealed by NMR.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02632-8

Yutaka Kofuku, Tomoki Yokomizo, Shunsuke Imai, Yutaro Shiraishi, Mei Natsume, Hiroaki Itoh, Masayuki Inoue, Kunio Nakata, Shunsuke Igarashi, Hideyuki Yamaguchi, Toshimi Mizukoshi, Ei-ichiro Suzuki, Takumi Ueda, Ichio Shimada. “Deuteration and selective labeling of alanine methyl groups of β2-adrenergic receptor expressed in a baculovirus-insect cell expression system.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 71, no. 3, 2018, pp. 185-192. doi:10.1007/s10858-018-0174-5

Chao Wang, Kyohei Nakano, Hsiao Fang Lee, Yujiao Chen, You‐Lee Hong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Keisuke Tajima. “Intermolecular Arrangement of Fullerene Acceptors Proximal to Semiconducting Polymers in Mixed Bulk Heterojunctions.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 57, no. 24, 2018, pp. 7034-7039. doi:10.1002/anie.201801173

Yoshitaka Ishii, Ayesha Wickramasinghe, Isamu Matsuda, Yuki Endo, Yuji Ishii, Yusuke Nishiyama, Takahiro Nemoto, Takayuki Kamihara. “Progress in proton-detected solid-state NMR (SSNMR): Super-fast 2D SSNMR collection for nano-mole-scale proteins.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 286 , 2018, pp. 99-109. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2017.11.011

Gen Zhang, Masahiko Tsujimoto, Daniel Packwood, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Kentaro Kadota, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Construction of a Hierarchical Architecture of Covalent Organic Frameworks via a Postsynthetic Approach.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 140, no. 7, 2018, pp. 2602-2609. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b12350

Ming Xiao, Wei Chen, Weiyao Li, Jiuzhou Zhao, You-lee Hong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Toshikazu Miyoshi, Matthew D. Shawkey, Ali Dhinojwala. “Elucidation of the hierarchical structure of natural eumelanins.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface, vol. 15, no. 140, 2018, pp. 20180045. doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0045

James Tolchard, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Mélanie Berbon, Abdelmajid Noubhani, Sven J Saupe, Yusuke Nishiyama, Birgit Habenstein, Antoine Loquet. “Detection of side-chain proton resonances of fully protonated biosolids in nano-litre volumes by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 70, no. 3, 2018, pp. 177-185. doi:10.1007/s10858-018-0168-3

Nghia Tuan Duong, Ilya Kuprov, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Indirect detection of 10B (I = 3) overtone NMR at very fast magic angle spinning.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 291 , 2018, pp. 27-31. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2018.04.004

You‐lee Hong, Tetsuo Asakura, Yusuke Nishiyama. “3D 14N/1H Double Quantum/1H Single Quantum Correlation Solid‐State NMR for Probing the Parallel and Anti‐Parallel Beta‐Sheet Arrangement of Oligo‐Peptides at Natural Abundance.” ChemPhysChem, vol. 19, no. 15, 2018, pp. 1841-1845. doi:10.1002/cphc.201800392

Yue-Qi Ye, Charlotte Martineau-Corcos, Francis Taulelle, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Maximizing the sensitivity in 13C cross-polarization magic-angle-spinning solid-state NMR measurements with flip-back pulses.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 294 , 2018, pp. 122-127. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2018.07.009

Zhehong Gan, Ivan Hung, Yusuke Nishiyama, Jean-Paul Amoureux, Olivier Lafon, Hiroki Nagashima, Julien Trébosc, Bingwen Hu. “14N overtone nuclear magnetic resonance of rotating solids.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 149, no. 6, 2018 doi:10.1063/1.5044653

Yuki Ohara, Akira Hinokimoto, Wenqian Chen, Takashi Kitao, Yusuke Nishiyama, You-lee Hong, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Formation of coordination polymer glass by mechanical milling: dependence on metal ions and molecular doping for H+ conductivity.” Chemical Communications, vol. 54, no. 50, 2018, pp. 6859-6862. doi:10.1039/c8cc02399a

Nghia Tuan Duong, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Julien Trébosc, Yusuke Nishiyama, Jean-Paul Amoureux. “Forcing the ‘lazy’ protons to work.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 20, no. 40, 2018, pp. 25829-25840. doi:10.1039/c8cp03601b

Covadonga Lucas-Torres, Gaspard Huber, Atsuyuki Ichikawa, Yusuke Nishiyama, Alan Wong. “HR-μMAS NMR-Based Metabolomics: Localized Metabolic Profiling of a Garlic Clove with μg Tissues.” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 90, no. 22, 2018, pp. 13736-13743. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04150

Nicholai Daugaard Jensen, Claude Forano, Suraj Shiv Charan Pushparaj, Yusuke Nishiyama, Belayneh Bekele, Ulla Gro Nielsen. “The distribution of reactive Ni2+ in 2D Mg2−xNixAl-LDH nanohybrid materials determined by solid state 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopy.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 20, no. 39, 2018, pp. 25335-25342. doi:10.1039/c8cp05243c

Nghia Tuan Duong, Sreejith Raran-Kurussi, Yusuke Nishiyama, Vipin Agarwal. “Quantitative 1H–1H Distances in Protonated Solids by Frequency-Selective Recoupling at Fast Magic Angle Spinning NMR.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 9, no. 20, 2018, pp. 5948-5954. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02189

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Yusuke Nishiyama. “A one-dimensional solid-state NMR approach for 14NH/14NH overtone correlation through 1H/1H mixing under fast MAS.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 20, no. 40, 2018, pp. 25849-25853. doi:10.1039/c8cp05000g

M. K. Pandey, Y. Nishiyama, P. Tekely. “Probing molecular and isotopic features of meteoritic insoluble organic matter by solid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with sub‐milligram sample.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 54, no. 2, 2018, pp. 321-327. doi:10.1111/maps.13209

Gen Zhang, You-lee Hong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Songyan Bai, Susumu Kitagawa, Satoshi Horike. “Accumulation of Glassy Poly(ethylene oxide) Anchored in a Covalent Organic Framework as a Solid-State Li+ Electrolyte.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, no. 3, 2018, pp. 1227-1234. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b07670

Bankala Krishnarjuna, Toshihiko Sugiki, Rodrigo A. V. Morales, Jeffrey Seow, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Karyn L. Wilde, Raymond S. Norton, Christopher A. MacRaild. “Transient antibody-antigen interactions mediate the strain-specific recognition of a conserved malaria epitope.” Communications Biology, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0063-1

Toshihiko Sugiki, Daichi Egawa, Keigo Kumagai, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Koh Takeuchi, Ichio Shimada, Kentaro Hanada, Hideo Takahashi. “Phosphoinositide binding by the PH domain in ceramide transfer protein (CERT) is inhibited by hyperphosphorylation of an adjacent serine-repeat motif.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 293, no. 28, 2018, pp. 11206-11217. doi:11206-11217 (2018). 10.1074/jbc.ra118.002465

Atsushi Hayata, Hiroaki Itoh, Masayuki Inoue. “Solid-Phase Total Synthesis and Dual Mechanism of Action of the Channel-Forming 48-mer Peptide Polytheonamide B.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 140, no. 33, 2018, pp. 10602-10611. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b06755

Naohiro Kobayashi, Yoshikazu Hattori, Takashi Nagata, Shoko Shinya, Peter Güntert, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Noise peak filtering in multi-dimensional NMR spectra using convolutional neural networks.” Bioinformatics, vol. 34, no. 24, 2018, pp. 4300-4301. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty581

Toshihiko Sugiki, Kyoko Furuita, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Chojiro Kojima. “Amino Acid Selective 13C Labeling and 13C Scrambling Profile Analysis of Protein α and Side-Chain Carbons in Escherichia coli Utilized for Protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.” Biochemistry, vol. 57, no. 26, 2018, pp. 3576-3589. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00182

Hiroki Tanaka, Hideo Akutsu, Izumi Yabuta, Masashi Hara, Hayuki Sugimoto, Takahisa Ikegami, Takeshi Watanabe, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “A novel chitin‐binding mode of the chitin‐binding domain of chitinase A1 from Bacillus circulans WL‐12 revealed by solid‐state NMR.” FEBS Letters, vol. 592, no. 18, 2018, pp. 3173-3182. doi:10.1002/1873-3468.13226

Daisuke Urabe, Yuki Nakagawa, Ken Mukai, Kei-ichiro Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Hiroaki Itoh, Masanori Nagatomo, Masayuki Inoue. “Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 19-Hydroxysarmentogenin-3-O-α-l-rhamnoside, Trewianin, and Their Aglycons.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 83, no. 22, 2018, pp. 13888-13910. doi:10.1021/acs.joc.8b02219

Ai Niitsu, Ayako Egawa, Keisuke Ikeda, Kazuo Tachibana, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Veratridine binding to a transmembrane helix of sodium channel Nav1.4 determined by solid-state NMR.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 26, no. 21, 2018, pp. 5644-5653. doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2018.10.012

Yoshikazu Hattori, Daichi Yamanaka, Saori Morioka, Taishi Yamaguchi, Honoka Tomonari, Chojiro Kojima, Yoshiyuki Tanaka. “NMR spectroscopic characterization of a model RNA duplex reflecting the core sequence of hammerhead ribozymes.” Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, vol. 37, no. 7, 2018, pp. 383-396. doi:10.1080/15257770.2018.1473877

Toshihiko Sugiki, Daichi Egawa, Keigo Kumagai, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Koh Takeuchi, Ichio Shimada, Kentaro Hanada, Hideo Takahashi. “Phosphoinositide binding by the PH domain in ceramide transfer protein (CERT) is inhibited by hyperphosphorylation of an adjacent serine-repeat motif.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 293, no. 28, 2018, pp. 11206-11217. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA118.002465

Kazuhiko Yamasaki, Tomoko Yamasaki, Hiroaki Tateno. “The trimeric solution structure and fucose-binding mechanism of the core fucosylation-specific lectin PhoSL.” Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25630-2

Seiji Kojima, Masato Takao, Gaby Almira, Ikumi Kawahara, Mayuko Sakuma, Michio Homma, Chojiro Kojima, Katsumi Imada. “The Helix Rearrangement in the Periplasmic Domain of the Flagellar Stator B Subunit Activates Peptidoglycan Binding and Ion Influx.” Structure, vol. 26, no. 4, 2018, pp. 590-598.e5. doi:10.1016/j.str.2018.02.016

Miho Kaneko-Suzuki, Rie Kurihara-Ishikawa, Chiaki Okushita-Terakawa, Chojiro Kojima, Misa Nagano-Fujiwara, Izuru Ohki, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Ko Shimamoto, Ken-Ichiro Taoka. “TFL1-Like Proteins in Rice Antagonize Rice FT-Like Protein in Inflorescence Development by Competition for Complex Formation with 14-3-3 and FD.” Plant and Cell Physiology, vol. 59, no. 3, 2018, pp. 458-468. doi:10.1093/pcp/pcy021

Masatsune Kainosho, Yohei Miyanoiri, Tsutomu Terauchi, Mitsuhiro Takeda. “Perspective: next generation isotope-aided methods for protein NMR spectroscopy.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 71, no. 3, 2018, pp. 119-127. doi:10.1007/s10858-018-0198-x

Hideki Yoshida, Eiichi Tanimoto, Takaaki Hirai, Yohei Miyanoiri, Rie Mitani, Mayuko Kawamura, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Sayaka Takehara, Ko Hirano, Masatsune Kainosho, Takashi Akagi, Makoto Matsuoka, Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka. “Evolution and diversification of the plant gibberellin receptor GID1.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115, no. 33, 2018 doi:10.1073/pnas.1806040115

Tatsuro Nishikino, Atsushi Hijikata, Yohei Miyanoiri, Yasuhiro Onoue, Seiji Kojima, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Michio Homma. “Rotational direction of flagellar motor from the conformation of FliG middle domain in marine Vibrio.” Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35902-6

Yohei Miyanoiri, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Masatsune Kainosho. “Stable-Isotope-Aided NMR Spectroscopy.” Modern Magnetic Resonance , 2018, pp. 469-486. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28388-3_48

Yohei MIYANOIRI, Atsushi HIJIKATA, Michio HOMMA. “Dynamic Structure of C-terminal Domain of FliG Revealed by NMR and MD Simulation Analysis.” Seibutsu Butsuri, vol. 58, no. 5, 2018, pp. 251-254. doi:10.2142/biophys.58.251

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Soichiro Kawagoe, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Koichiro Ishimori, Tomohide Saio. “Structural insight into proline cis/trans isomerization of unfolded proteins catalyzed by the trigger factor chaperone.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 293, no. 39, 2018, pp. 15095-15106. doi:10.1074/jbc.RA118.003579

Venkatraman Anandalakshmi, Elavazhagan Murugan, Eunice Goh Tze Leng, Lim Wei Ting, Shyam S. Chaurasia, Toshio Yamazaki, Toshio Nagashima, Benjamin Lawrence George, Gary Swee Lim Peh, Konstantin Pervushin, Rajamani Lakshminarayanan, Jodhbir S. Mehta. “Effect of position-specific single-point mutations and biophysical characterization of amyloidogenic peptide fragments identified from lattice corneal dystrophy patients.” Biochemical Journal, vol. 474, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1705-1725. doi:10.1042/BCJ20170125

Ayako Nakamura, Naoya Tochio, Shozo Fujioka, Shinsaku Ito, Takanori Kigawa, Yukihisa Shimada, Makoto Matsuoka, Shigeo Yoshida, Toshinori Kinoshita, Tadao Asami, Hideharu Seto, Takeshi Nakano. “Molecular actions of two synthetic brassinosteroids, iso-carbaBL and 6-deoxoBL, which cause altered physiological activities between Arabidopsis and rice.” PLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 4, 2017, pp. e0174015. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174015

Takahiro Mori, Taiki Iwabuchi, Shotaro Hoshino, Hang Wang, Yudai Matsuda, Ikuro Abe. “Molecular basis for the unusual ring reconstruction in fungal meroterpenoid biogenesis.” Nature Chemical Biology, vol. 13, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1066-1073. doi:10.1038/nchembio.2443

Takaaki Hatanaka, Akimasa Matsugami, Takamasa Nonaka, Hideki Takagi, Fumiaki Hayashi, Takao Tani, Nobuhiro Ishida. “Rationally designed mineralization for selective recovery of the rare earth elements.” Nature Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, 2017 doi:10.1038/ncomms15670

Kohsuke Inomata, Hajime Kamoshida, Masaomi Ikari, Yutaka Ito, Takanori Kigawa. “Impact of cellular health conditions on the protein folding state in mammalian cells.” Chemical Communications, vol. 53, no. 81, 2017, pp. 11245-11248. doi:10.1039/c7cc06004a

Masahiko Okuda, Yuka Nakazawa, Chaowan Guo, Tomoo Ogi, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Common TFIIH recruitment mechanism in global genome and transcription-coupled repair subpathways.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 45, no. 22, 2017, pp. 13043-13055. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx970

Laura Mosebach, Claudia Heilmann, Risa Mutoh, Philipp Gäbelein, Janina Steinbeck, Thomas Happe, Takahisa Ikegami, Guy Hanke, Genji Kurisu, Michael Hippler. “Association of Ferredoxin:NADP+ oxidoreductase with the photosynthetic apparatus modulates electron transfer in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.” Photosynthesis Research, vol. 134, no. 3, 2017, pp. 291-306. doi:10.1007/s11120-017-0408-5

Hiroshi Ueda, Jun-ichi Kurita, Hiroyuki Neyama, Yuuka Hirao, Hiroyuki Kouji, Tadashi Mishina, Masaji Kasai, Hirofumi Nakano, Atsushi Yoshimori, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “A mimetic of the mSin3-binding helix of NRSF/REST ameliorates abnormal pain behavior in chronic pain models.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 27, no. 20, 2017, pp. 4705-4709. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.09.006

Atsuko Shirai, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Hideaki Shimojo, Daisuke Muramatsu, Mayumi Ishida-Yonetani, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Hiroshi Kimura, Jun-ichi Nakayama, Yoichi Shinkai. “Impact of nucleic acid and methylated H3K9 binding activities of Suv39h1 on its heterochromatin assembly.” eLife, vol. 6 , 2017 doi:10.7554/eLife.25317

Daiki Kato, Akihisa Osakabe, Yasuhiro Arimura, Yuka Mizukami, Naoki Horikoshi, Kazumi Saikusa, Satoko Akashi, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Sam-Yong Park, Jumpei Nogami, Kazumitsu Maehara, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Atsushi Matsumoto, Hidetoshi Kono, Rintaro Inoue, Masaaki Sugiyama, Hitoshi Kurumizaka. “Crystal structure of the overlapping dinucleosome composed of hexasome and octasome.” Science, vol. 356, no. 6334, 2017, pp. 205-208. doi:10.1126/science.aak9867

Yuichi Minato, Takumi Ueda, Asako Machiyama, Hideo Iwaï, Ichio Shimada. “Dynamic domain arrangement of CheA-CheY complex regulates bacterial thermotaxis, as revealed by NMR.” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16755-x

Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Satellite and central transitions selective 1H/{27Al} D-HMQC experiments at very fast MAS for quadrupolar couplings determination.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 84 , 2017, pp. 83-88. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2016.12.014

Lalit Rajput, Manas Banik, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Sumy Joseph, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Yusuke Nishiyama, Gautam R. Desiraju. “Exploring the salt–cocrystal continuum with solid-state NMR using natural-abundance samples: implications for crystal engineering.” IUCrJ, vol. 4, no. 4, 2017, pp. 466-475. doi:10.1107/S205225251700687X

Rongchun Zhang, Nghia Tuan Duong, Yusuke Nishiyama, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “3D Double-Quantum/Double-Quantum Exchange Spectroscopy of Protons under 100 kHz Magic Angle Spinning.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 121, no. 24, 2017, pp. 5944-5952. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b03480

Henri Colaux, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Resolution enhancement in proton double quantum magic-angle spinning spectra by constant-time acquisition.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 87 , 2017, pp. 104-110. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2017.06.004

Xueyan Feng, Ruimeng Zhang, Yiwen Li, You-lee Hong, Dong Guo, Kening Lang, Kuan-Yi Wu, Mingjun Huang, Jialin Mao, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Yusuke Nishiyama, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Toshikazu Miyoshi, Tao Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng. “Hierarchical Self-Organization of ABn Dendron-like Molecules into a Supramolecular Lattice Sequence.” ACS Central Science, vol. 3, no. 8, 2017, pp. 860-867. doi:10.1021/acscentsci.7b00188

Nghia Duong, Masanori Yamato, Masayuki Nakano, Satoshi Kume, Yasuhisa Tamura, Yosky Kataoka, Alan Wong, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Capillary-Inserted Rotor Design for HRµMAS NMR-Based Metabolomics on Mass-Limited Neurospheres.” Molecules, vol. 22, no. 8, 2017, pp. 1289. doi:10.3390/molecules22081289

Michal Malon, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Revealing the Local Proton Network through Three-Dimensional 13C/1H Double-Quantum/1H Single-Quantum and 1H Double-Quantum/13C/1H Single-Quantum Correlation Fast Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy at Natural Abundance.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 121, no. 34, 2017, pp. 8123-8131. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b06203

Joshua T. Damron, Kortney M. Kersten, Manoj Kumar Pandey, Kamal H. Mroue, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Yusuke Nishiyama, Adam J. Matzger, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy. “Electrostatic Constraints Assessed by 1H MAS NMR Illuminate Differences in Crystalline Polymorphs.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 8, no. 17, 2017, pp. 4253-4257. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01650

Md. Ruhul Kuddus, Megumi Yamano, Farhana Rumi, Takashi Kikukawa, Makoto Demura, Tomoyasu Aizawa. “Enhanced expression of cysteine‐rich antimicrobial peptide snakin‐1 in Escherichia coli using an aggregation‐prone protein coexpression system.” Biotechnology Progress, vol. 33, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1520-1528. doi:10.1002/btpr.2508

Bikash Ranjan Sahoo, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Conformational states of HAMP domains interacting with sensory rhodopsin membrane systems: an integrated all-atom and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation approach.” Molecular BioSystems, vol. 13, no. 1, 2017, pp. 193-207. doi:10.1039/c6mb00730a

Bikash R. Sahoo, Kenta Maruyama, Jyotheeswara R. Edula, Takahiro Tougan, Yuxi Lin, Young-Ho Lee, Toshihiro Horii, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Mechanistic and structural basis of bioengineered bovine Cathelicidin-5 with optimized therapeutic activity.” Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017 doi:10.1038/srep44781

Keisuke Ikeda, Ayame Horiuchi, Ayako Egawa, Hajime Tamaki, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Minoru Nakano. “Nanodisc-to-Nanofiber Transition of Noncovalent Peptide–Phospholipid Assemblies.” ACS Omega, vol. 2, no. 6, 2017, pp. 2935-2944. doi:10.1021/acsomega.7b00424

Yoshikazu Hattori, David Heidenreich, Yuki Ono, Toshihiko Sugiki, Kei-ichi Yokoyama, Ei-ichiro Suzuki, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Chojiro Kojima. “Protein 19F-labeling using transglutaminase for the NMR study of intermolecular interactions.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 68, no. 4, 2017, pp. 271-279. doi:10.1007/s10858-017-0125-6

Natsuki Fukuda, Kentaro Noi, Lidong Weng, Yoshihiro Kobashigawa, Hiromi Miyazaki, Yukari Wakeyama, Michiyo Takaki, Yusuke Nakahara, Yuka Tatsuno, Makiyo Uchida-Kamekura, Yoshiaki Suwa, Takashi Sato, Naoki Ichikawa-Tomikawa, Motoyoshi Nomizu, Yukio Fujiwara, Fumina Ohsaka, Takashi Saitoh, Katsumi Maenaka, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Shoko Shinya, Chojiro Kojima, Teru Ogura, Hiroshi Morioka. “Production of Single-Chain Fv Antibodies Specific for GA-Pyridine, an Advanced Glycation End-Product (AGE), with Reduced Inter-Domain Motion.” Molecules, vol. 22, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1695. doi:10.3390/molecules22101695

Jakub Šebera, Yoshikazu Hattori, Daichi Sato, David Řeha, Radim Nencka, Takashi Kohno, Chojiro Kojima, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Vladimír Sychrovský. “The mechanism of the glycosylase reaction with hOGG1 base-excision repair enzyme: concerted effect of Lys249 and Asp268 during excision of 8-oxoguanine.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 45, no. 9, 2017, pp. 5231-5242. doi:10.1093/nar/gkx157

Shoko Shinya, Mariana G. Ghinet, Ryszard Brzezinski, Kyoko Furuita, Chojiro Kojima, Sneha Shah, Evgenii L. Kovrigin, Tamo Fukamizo. “NMR line shape analysis of a multi-state ligand binding mechanism in chitosanase.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 67, no. 4, 2017, pp. 309-319. doi:10.1007/s10858-017-0109-6

Hisashi Tatebe, Shinichi Murayama, Toshiya Yonekura, Tomoyuki Hatano, David Richter, Tomomi Furuya, Saori Kataoka, Kyoko Furuita, Chojiro Kojima, Kazuhiro Shiozaki. “Substrate specificity of TOR complex 2 is determined by a ubiquitin-fold domain of the Sin1 subunit.” eLife, vol. 6 , 2017 doi:10.7554/eLife.19594

Yohei Miyanoiri, Atsushi Hijikata, Yuuki Nishino, Mizuki Gohara, Yasuhiro Onoue, Seiji Kojima, Chojiro Kojima, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Masatsune Kainosho, Michio Homma. “Structural and Functional Analysis of the C-Terminal Region of FliG, an Essential Motor Component of Vibrio Na+-Driven Flagella.” Structure, vol. 25, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1540-1548.e3. doi:10.1016/j.str.2017.08.010

Masatsune Kainosho, Yohei Miyanoiri, Mitsuhiro Takeda. “Isotope-Aided Methods for Biological NMR Spectroscopy: Past, Present, and Future.” Experimental Approaches of NMR Spectroscopy , 2017, pp. 37-61. doi:/10.1007/978-981-10-5966-7_2

Akira R. Kinjo, Gert‐Jan Bekker, Hiroshi Wako, Shigeru Endo, Yuko Tsuchiya, Hiromu Sato, Hafumi Nishi, Kengo Kinoshita, Hirofumi Suzuki, Takeshi Kawabata, Masashi Yokochi, Takeshi Iwata, Naohiro Kobayashi, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Genji Kurisu, Haruki Nakamura. “New tools and functions in data‐out activities at Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj).” Protein Science, vol. 27, no. 1, 2017, pp. 95-102. doi:10.1002/pro.3273

Su-Jin Kang, Yasuto Todokoro, Suyeon Bak, Toshiharu Suzuki, Masasuke Yoshida, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Hideo Akutsu. “Direct assignment of 13C solid-state NMR signals of TFoF1 ATP synthase subunit c-ring in lipid membranes and its implication for the ring structure.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 70, no. 1, 2017, pp. 53-65. doi:10.1007/s10858-017-0158-x

Saeko Yanaka, Toshio Yamazaki, Rina Yogo, Masanori Noda, Susumu Uchiyama, Hirokazu Yagi, Koichi Kato. “NMR Detection of Semi-Specific Antibody Interactions in Serum Environments.” Molecules, vol. 22, no. 10, 2017, pp. 1619. doi:10.3390/molecules22101619

Maina Otsu, Masaki Kajikawa, Norihiro Okada, Gota Kawai. “Solution structure of a reverse transcriptase recognition site of a LINE RNA from zebrafish.” The Journal of Biochemistry , 2017 doi:10.1093/jb/mvx026

Kanako Kuwasako, Nobukazu Nameki, Kengo Tsuda, Mari Takahashi, Atsuko Sato, Naoya Tochio, Makoto Inoue, Takaho Terada, Takanori Kigawa, Naohiro Kobayashi, Mikako Shirouzu, Takuhiro Ito, Taiichi Sakamoto, Kaori Wakamatsu, Peter Güntert, Seizo Takahashi, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yutaka Muto. “Solution structure of the first RNA recognition motif domain of human spliceosomal protein SF3b49 and its mode of interaction with a SF3b145 fragment.” Protein Science, vol. 26, no. 2, 2016, pp. 280-291. doi:10.1002/pro.3080

Yoko Shigeno-Nakazawa, Takuma Kasai, Sewon Ki, Elina Kostyanovskaya, Jana Pawlak, Junya Yamagishi, Noriaki Okimoto, Makoto Taiji, Mariko Okada, Jody Westbrook, Yoko Satta, Takanori Kigawa, Akira Imamoto. “A pre-metazoan origin of the CRK gene family and co-opted signaling network.” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016 doi:10.1038/srep34349

Kimiko Tanaka, Muneki Oouchi, Fumiaki Hayashi, Hideaki Maeda, Hiroshi Waki. “Structural Analysis of the End Groups and Substructures of Commercial Poly(ethylene terephthalate) by Multiple-WET 1H/13C NMR.” Macromolecules, vol. 49, no. 15, 2016, pp. 5750-5754. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01105

敏雄 長島, 啓介 植田, 千秋 西村, 俊夫 山崎. “分光便利帳.” Journal of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan, vol. 65, no. 5, 2016, pp. 258. doi:10.5111/bunkou.65.5_258

Asami Makino, Mitsuhiro Abe, Reiko Ishitsuka, Motohide Murate, Takuma Kishimoto, Shota Sakai, Françoise Hullin‐Matsuda, Yukiko Shimada, Takehiko Inaba, Hideyuki Miyatake, Hideko Tanaka, Atsushi Kurahashi, Chan‐Gi Pack, Rinshi S. Kasai, Shuku Kubo, Nicole L. Schieber, Naoshi Dohmae, Naoya Tochio, Kyoji Hagiwara, Yutaka Sasaki, Yoko Aida, Fumihiro Fujimori, Takanori Kigawa, Kozo Nishibori, Robert G. Parton, Akihiro Kusumi, Yasushi Sako, Gregor Anderluh, Makoto Yamashita, Tetsuyuki Kobayashi, Peter Greimel, Toshihide Kobayashi. “A novel sphingomyelin/cholesterol domain‐specific probe reveals the dynamics of the membrane domains during virus release and in Niemann‐Pick type C.” The FASEB Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, 2016, pp. 1301-1322. doi:10.1096/fj.201500075R

Yoko Eguchi, Toshihide Okajima, Naoya Tochio, Yoichi Inukai, Riko Shimizu, Shuhei Ueda, Shoko Shinya, Takanori Kigawa, Tamo Fukamizo, Masayuki Igarashi, Ryutaro Utsumi. “Angucycline antibiotic waldiomycin recognizes common structural motif conserved in bacterial histidine kinases.” The Journal of Antibiotics, vol. 70, no. 3, 2016, pp. 251-258. doi:10.1038/ja.2016.151

Yudai Matsuda, Taiki Iwabuchi, Takayuki Fujimoto, Takayoshi Awakawa, Yu Nakashima, Takahiro Mori, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Ikuro Abe. “Discovery of Key Dioxygenases that Diverged the Paraherquonin and Acetoxydehydroaustin Pathways in Penicillium brasilianum.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, no. 38, 2016, pp. 12671-12677. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b08424

Masahiro Okada, Yudai Matsuda, Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Shotaro Hoshino, Takahiro Mori, Kazuya Nakagawa, Zhiyang Quan, Bin Qin, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Hiroshi Kawaide, Ikuro Abe. “Genome-Based Discovery of an Unprecedented Cyclization Mode in Fungal Sesterterpenoid Biosynthesis.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, no. 31, 2016, pp. 10011-10018. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b05799

Yudai Matsuda, Takaaki Mitsuhashi, Shoukou Lee, Manabu Hoshino, Takahiro Mori, Masahiro Okada, Huiping Zhang, Fumiaki Hayashi, Makoto Fujita, Ikuro Abe. “Astellifadiene: Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy and Crystalline Sponge Method, and Elucidation of its Biosynthesis.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 55, no. 19, 2016, pp. 5785-5788. doi:10.1002/anie.201601448

Jo-Ann Chuah, Akimasa Matsugami, Fumiaki Hayashi, Keiji Numata. “Self-Assembled Peptide-Based System for Mitochondrial-Targeted Gene Delivery: Functional and Structural Insights.” Biomacromolecules, vol. 17, no. 11, 2016, pp. 3547-3557. doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.6b01056

Benjamin C. Streifel, Joseph F. Parker, Spencer L. Giles, Sierra J. Williams, Jesse H. Duncan, James H. Wynne. “Porosity control in high internal phase emulsion templated polyelectrolytes via ionic crosslinking.” Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 54, no. 16, 2016, pp. 2486-2492. doi:10.1002/pola.28125

Jean-Baptiste Duvignaud, Mikaël Bédard, Takashi Nagata, Yutaka Muto, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Stéphane M. Gagné, Michel Vincent. “Structure, Dynamics, and Interaction of p54nrb/NonO RRM1 with 5′ Splice Site RNA Sequence.” Biochemistry, vol. 55, no. 18, 2016, pp. 2553-2566. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01240

Masahiko Okuda, Keigo Araki, Kiyoshi Ohtani, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “The Interaction Mode of the Acidic Region of the Cell Cycle Transcription Factor DP1 with TFIIH.” Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 428, no. 24, 2016, pp. 4993-5006. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2016.11.001

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Hiroshi Kato, Yuji Ishii, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Two-dimensional proton-detected 35Cl/1H correlation solid-state NMR experiment under fast magic angle sample spinning: application to pharmaceutical compounds.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 18, no. 8, 2016, pp. 6209-6216. doi:10.1039/c5cp06042g

Masahiko Okuda, Junichi Higo, Tadashi Komatsu, Tsuyoshi Konuma, Kenji Sugase, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Dynamics of the Extended String-Like Interaction of TFIIE with the p62 Subunit of TFIIH.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 111, no. 5, 2016, pp. 950-962. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2016.07.042

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Jean-Paul Amoureux, Tetsuo Asakura, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Sensitivity enhanced 14N/14N correlations to probe inter-beta-sheet interactions using fast magic angle spinning solid-state NMR in biological solids.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 18, no. 32, 2016, pp. 22583-22589. doi:10.1039/c6cp03848d

Yoshihito Moriwaki, Tsutomu Yamane, Hideaki Ohtomo, Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Jun-ichi Kurita, Masahiko Sato, Aritaka Nagadoi, Hideaki Shimojo, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Solution structure of the isolated histone H2A-H2B heterodimer.” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016 doi:10.1038/srep24999

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Jayasubba Reddy Yarava, Rongchun Zhang, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Yusuke Nishiyama. “Proton-detected 3D 15N/1H/1H isotropic/anisotropic/isotropic chemical shift correlation solid-state NMR at 70kHz MAS.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 76-77 , 2016, pp. 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2016.03.001

Hideaki Shimojo, Ayumi Kawaguchi, Takashi Oda, Nobuto Hashiguchi, Satoshi Omori, Kei Moritsugu, Akinori Kidera, Kyoko Hiragami-Hamada, Jun-ichi Nakayama, Mamoru Sato, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Extended string-like binding of the phosphorylated HP1α N-terminal tail to the lysine 9-methylated histone H3 tail.” Scientific Reports, vol. 6, no. 1, 2016 doi:10.1038/srep22527

Yusuke Nishiyama. “Fast magic-angle sample spinning solid-state NMR at 60–100 kHz for natural abundance samples.” Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 78 , 2016, pp. 24-36. doi:10.1016/j.ssnmr.2016.06.002

Hideaki Ohtomo, Satoko Akashi, Yoshihito Moriwaki, Mitsuru Okuwaki, Akihisa Osakabe, Kyosuke Nagata, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “C‐terminal acidic domain of histone chaperone human NAP1 is an efficient binding assistant for histone H2A‐H2B, but not H3‐H4.” Genes to Cells, vol. 21, no. 3, 2016, pp. 252-263. doi:10.1111/gtc.12339

Manoj Kumar Pandey, Kenjiro Hashi, Shinobu Ohki, Gen Nishijima, Shinji Matsumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Kenzo Deguchi, Atsushi Goto, Tadashi Shimizu, Hideaki Maeda, Masato Takahashi, Yoshinori Yanagisawa, Toshio Yamazaki, Seiya Iguchi, Ryoji Tanaka, Takahiro Nemoto, Tetsuo Miyamoto, Hiroto Suematsu, Kazuyoshi Saito, Takashi Miki, Yusuke Nishiyama. “24 T High-Resolution and -Sensitivity Solid-State NMR Measurements of Low-Gamma Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei 35Cl and 37Cl.” Analytical Sciences, vol. 32, no. 12, 2016, pp. 1339-1345. doi:10.2116/analsci.32.1339

Masahiko Okuda, Yoshifumi Nishimura. “Dataset for the NMR structure of the intrinsically disordered acidic region of XPC bound to the PH domain of TFIIH p62.” Data in Brief, vol. 6 , 2016, pp. 571-577. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.12.034

Munehiro Inukai, Satoshi Horike, Tomoya Itakura, Ryota Shinozaki, Naoki Ogiwara, Daiki Umeyama, Sanjog Nagarkar, Yusuke Nishiyama, Michal Malon, Akari Hayashi, Takashi Ohhara, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Susumu Kitagawa. “Encapsulating Mobile Proton Carriers into Structural Defects in Coordination Polymer Crystals: High Anhydrous Proton Conduction and Fuel Cell Application.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, no. 27, 2016, pp. 8505-8511. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b03625

Sebastian Veit, Aritaka Nagadoi, Matthias Rögner, Sascha Rexroth, Raphael Stoll, Takahisa Ikegami. “The cyanobacterial cytochrome b6f subunit PetP adopts an SH3 fold in solution.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, vol. 1857, no. 6, 2016, pp. 705-714. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.03.023

G. N. Manjunatha Reddy, Michal Malon, Andrew Marsh, Yusuke Nishiyama, Steven P. Brown. “Fast Magic-Angle Spinning Three-Dimensional NMR Experiment for Simultaneously Probing H—H and N—H Proximities in Solids.” Analytical Chemistry, vol. 88, no. 23, 2016, pp. 11412-11419. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01869

Ju Yaen Kim, Misaki Kinoshita, Satoshi Kume, Hanke GT, Toshihiko Sugiki, John E. Ladbury, Chojiro Kojima, Takahisa Ikegami, Genji Kurisu, Yuji Goto, Toshiharu Hase, Young-Ho Lee. “Non-covalent forces tune the electron transfer complex between ferredoxin and sulfite reductase to optimize enzymatic activity.” Biochemical Journal, vol. 473, no. 21, 2016, pp. 3837-3854. doi:10.1042/BCJ20160658

Zonghan Hong, Derek Yiren Ong, Subas Kumar Muduli, Pei Chui Too, Guo Hao Chan, Ya Lin Tnay, Shunsuke Chiba, Yusuke Nishiyama, Hajime Hirao, Han Sen Soo. “Understanding the Origins of Nucleophilic Hydride Reactivity of a Sodium Hydride–Iodide Composite.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 22, no. 21, 2016, pp. 7108-7114. doi:10.1002/chem.201600340

Shigeki Kiyonaka, Ryou Kubota, Yukiko Michibata, Masayoshi Sakakura, Hideo Takahashi, Tomohiro Numata, Ryuji Inoue, Michisuke Yuzaki, Itaru Hamachi. “Allosteric activation of membrane-bound glutamate receptors using coordination chemistry within living cells.” Nature Chemistry, vol. 8, no. 10, 2016, pp. 958-967. doi:10.1038/nchem.2554

Nghia Tuan Duong, Yuki Endo, Takahiro Nemoto, Hiroshi Kato, Anne-Karine Bouzier-Sore, Yusuke Nishiyama, Alan Wong. “Evaluation of a high-resolution micro-sized magic angle spinning (HRμMAS) probe for NMR-based metabolomic studies of nanoliter samples.” Analytical Methods, vol. 8, no. 37, 2016, pp. 6815-6820. doi:10.1039/C6AY01654E

Hajime Tamaki, Ayako Egawa, Kouki Kido, Tomoshi Kameda, Masakatsu Kamiya, Takashi Kikukawa, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Makoto Demura. “Structure determination of uniformly 13C, 15N labeled protein using qualitative distance restraints from MAS solid-state 13C-NMR observed paramagnetic relaxation enhancement.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 64, no. 1, 2016, pp. 87-101. doi:10.1007/s10858-015-0010-0

Yoh Matsuki, Toshitaka Idehara, Jun Fukazawa, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Advanced instrumentation for DNP-enhanced MAS NMR for higher magnetic fields and lower temperatures.” Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 264 , 2016, pp. 107-115. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2016.01.022

Mi-Hwa Baek, Masakatsu Kamiya, Takahiro Kushibiki, Taichi Nakazumi, Satoshi Tomisawa, Chiharu Abe, Yasuhiro Kumaki, Takashi Kikukawa, Makoto Demura, Keiichi Kawano, Tomoyasu Aizawa. “Lipopolysaccharide-bound structure of the antimicrobial peptide cecropin P1 determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.” Journal of Peptide Science, vol. 22, no. 4, 2016, pp. 214-221. doi:10.1002/psc.2865

Hajime Tamaki, Ayako Egawa, Kouki Kido, Tomoshi Kameda, Masakatsu Kamiya, Takashi Kikukawa, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Makoto Demura. “Structure determination of uniformly 13C, 15N labeled protein using qualitative distance restraints from MAS solid-state 13C-NMR observed paramagnetic relaxation enhancement.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 64, no. 1, 2016, pp. 87-101. doi:10.1007/s10858-015-0010-0

Hiroaki Ishida, Leonard T. Nguyen, Ramamourthy Gopal, Tomoyasu Aizawa, Hans J. Vogel. “Overexpression of Antimicrobial, Anticancer, and Transmembrane Peptides in Escherichia coli through a Calmodulin-Peptide Fusion System.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, no. 35, 2016, pp. 11318-11326. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b06781

Masashi Yokochi, Naohiro Kobayashi, Eldon L. Ulrich, Akira R. Kinjo, Takeshi Iwata, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny, John L. Markley, Haruki Nakamura, Chojiro Kojima, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Publication of nuclear magnetic resonance experimental data with semantic web technology and the application thereof to biomedical research of proteins.” Journal of Biomedical Semantics, vol. 7, no. 1, 2016 doi:10.1186/s13326-016-0057-1

Bikash Ranjan Sahoo, Toshimichi Fujiwara. “Membrane Mediated Antimicrobial and Antitumor Activity of Cathelicidin 6: Structural Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Multi-Microsecond Scale.” PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 7, 2016, pp. e0158702. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158702

Keisuke Ueda, Yoh Matsuki, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Yoshinori Tatematsu, Isamu Ogawa, Toshitaka Idehara. “Further Characterization of 394-GHz Gyrotron FU CW GII with Additional PID Control System for 600-MHz DNP-SSNMR Spectroscopy.” Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, vol. 37, no. 9, 2016, pp. 825-836. doi:10.1007/s10762-016-0276-7

Nesreen Alsanousi, Toshihiko Sugiki, Kyoko Furuita, Masatomo So, Young-Ho Lee, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Chojiro Kojima. “Solution NMR structure and inhibitory effect against amyloid-β fibrillation of Humanin containing a d-isomerized serine residue.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 477, no. 4, 2016, pp. 647-653. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.06.114

Ju Yaen Kim, Misaki Kinoshita, Satoshi Kume, Hanke GT, Toshihiko Sugiki, John E. Ladbury, Chojiro Kojima, Takahisa Ikegami, Genji Kurisu, Yuji Goto, Toshiharu Hase, Young-Ho Lee. “Non-covalent forces tune the electron transfer complex between ferredoxin and sulfite reductase to optimize enzymatic activity.” Biochemical Journal, vol. 473, no. 21, 2016, pp. 3837-3854. doi:10.1042/BCJ20160658

Takenori Dairaku, Kyoko Furuita, Hajime Sato, Jakub Šebera, Katsuyuki Nakashima, Jiro Kondo, Daichi Yamanaka, Yoshinori Kondo, Itaru Okamoto, Akira Ono, Vladimír Sychrovský, Chojiro Kojima, Yoshiyuki Tanaka. “Structure Determination of an AgI‐Mediated Cytosine–Cytosine Base Pair within DNA Duplex in Solution with 1H/15N/109Ag NMR Spectroscopy.” Chemistry – A European Journal, vol. 22, no. 37, 2016, pp. 13028-13031. doi:10.1002/chem.201603048

Kenichi Harada, Eiki Yamashita, Kento Inoue, Koji Yamaguchi, Toshimichi Fujiwara, Atsushi Nakagawa, Tsutomu Kawasaki, Chojiro Kojima. “Plant-specific DUF1110 protein fromOryza sativa: expression, purification and crystallization.” Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications, vol. 72, no. 6, 2016, pp. 480-484. doi:10.1107/S2053230X16007573

Yohei Miyanoiri, Yojiro Ishida, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Tsutomu Terauchi, Masayori Inouye, Masatsune Kainosho. “Highly efficient residue-selective labeling with isotope-labeled Ile, Leu, and Val using a new auxotrophic E. coli strain.” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 65, no. 2, 2016, pp. 109-119. doi:10.1007/s10858-016-0042-0

Mitsuhiro Takeda, Yohei Miyanoiri, Tsutomu Terauchi, Masatsune Kainosho. “13C-NMR studies on disulfide bond isomerization in bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI).” Journal of Biomolecular NMR, vol. 66, no. 1, 2016, pp. 37-53. doi:10.1007/s10858-016-0055-8

Ananthanarayanan Kumar, Miyu Isumi, Mayuko Sakuma, Shiwei Zhu, Yuuki Nishino, Yasuhiro Onoue, Seiji Kojima, Yohei Miyanoiri, Katsumi Imada, Michio Homma. “Biochemical characterization of the flagellar stator-associated inner membrane protein FliL fromVibrio alginolyticus.” Journal of Biochemistry , 2016, pp. mvw076. doi:10.1093/jb/mvw076

Mizue Imai, Tomohide Saio, Hiroyuki Kumeta, Takeshi Uchida, Fuyuhiko Inagaki, Koichiro Ishimori. “Investigation of the redox-dependent modulation of structure and dynamics in human cytochrome c.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 469, no. 4, 2016, pp. 978-984. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.12.079

Wataru Sato, Seiji Hitaoka, Kaoru Inoue, Mizue Imai, Tomohide Saio, Takeshi Uchida, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, Shinya Yoshikawa, Kazunari Yoshizawa, Koichiro Ishimori. “Energetic Mechanism of Cytochrome c-Cytochrome c Oxidase Electron Transfer Complex Formation under Turnover Conditions Revealed by Mutational Effects and Docking Simulation.” Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 291, no. 29, 2016, pp. 15320-15331. doi:10.1074/jbc.M115.708065