• Peptide signaling in pollen tube guidance

    Masahiro M Kanaoka and Tetsuya Higashiyama
    Current Opinion in Plant Biology 28, 127-136 (2015)
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  • Pyridylidene ligand facilitates gold-catalyzed oxidative C-H arylation of heterocycles

    Kazuhiro Hata, Hideto Ito, Yasutomo Segawa* and Kenichiro Itami*
    Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 11, 2737-2746 (2015)
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  • Microwave-assisted regioselective direct C-H arylation of thiazole derivatives leading to increased σ1 receptor affinity

    Artur Kokornaczyk, Dirk Schepmann, Junichiro Yamaguchi, Kenichiro Itami and Bernhard Wu?nsch*
    Med. Chem. Commun., 7, 327-331 (2016)
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  • Phosphorylation of the C Terminus of RHD3 Has a Critical Role in Homotypic ER Membrane Fusion in Arabidopsis

    Haruko Ueda, Etsuo Yokota*, Keiko Kuwata, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Shoji Mano, Tomoo Shimada, Kentaro Tamura, Giovanni Stefano, Yoichiro Fukao, Federica Brandizzi, Teruo Shimmen, Mikio Nishimura, and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura*
    Plant Phys. 170, 867-880 (2016)
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  • A biphenyl containing two electron-donating and two electron-accepting moieties: a rigid and small donor-acceptor-donor ladder system

    Tobias W. Greulich, Naoya Suzuki, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Aiko Fukazawa, Eriko Yamaguchi, Armido Studer* and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
    Chem. Commun., 52, 2374-2377 (2016)
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  • Diversity of plant circadian clocks: Insights from studies of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Physcomitrella patens

    Masashi Ryo, Takuya Matsuo, Takafumi Yamashino, Mizuho Ichinose, Mamoru Sugita & Setsuyuki Aoki
    Plant Signal. Behav. 1, e1116661 (2016)
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  • Understanding the On-Off Switching Mechanism in Cationic Tetravalent Group-V-Based Fluoride Molecular Sensors Using Orbital Analysis

    Kosuke Usui, Mikinori Ando, Daisuke Yokogawa,* and Stephan Irle*
    J. Phys. Chem. A 119, 12693-12698 (2015)
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  • Catalytic Methods for Aromatic C H Amination: An Ideal Strategy for Nitrogen-Based Functional Molecules

    Jiao Jiao, Kei Murakami, and Kenichiro Itami*
    ACS Catal. 6, 610-633 (2016)
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  • Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Molecular Dynamics Simulations Using Density-Functional Tight-Binding Combined with the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method

    Yoshio Nishimoto,* Hiroya Nakata, Dmitri G. Fedorov,* and Stephan Irle
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 5034-5039 (2015)
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  • Lactic acid is a sperm motility inactivation factor in the sperm storage tubules

    Mei Matsuzaki, Shusei Mizushima, Gen Hiyama, Noritaka Hirohashi, Kogiku Shiba, Kazuo Inaba, Tomohiro Suzuki, Hideo Dohra, Toshiyuki Ohnishi, Yoshikatsu Sato, Tetsuya Kohsaka, Yoshinobu Ichikawa, Yusuke Atsumi, Takashi Yoshimura & Tomohiro Sasanami
    Sci. Rep. 5, 17683 (2015)
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  • Phospha-fluorescein: a red-emissive fluorescein analogue with high photobleaching resistance

    Aiko Fukazawa,* Shinji Suda, Masayasu Taki,* Eriko Yamaguchi, Marek Grzybowski, Yoshikatsu Sato, Tetsuya Higashiyam and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
    Chem. Commun., 52, 1120-1123 (2016)
    DOI: 10.1039/C5CC09345G
  • A Convenient Strategy for Designing a Soft Nanospace: An Atomic Exchange in a Ligand with Isostructural Frameworks

    Yunsheng Ma, Ryotaro Matsuda,* Hiroshi Sato, Yuh Hijikata, Liangchun Li, Shinpei Kusaka, Mawlin Foo, Fengfeng Xue, George Akiyama, Rongxin Yuan, and Susumu Kitagawa*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 15825-15832 (2015)
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  • Self-Consistent Optimization of Excited States within Density-Functional Tight-Binding

    Tim Kowalczyk,* Khoa Le, and Stephan Irle
    J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12, 313-323 (2016)
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  • Automatized Parameterization of DFTB Using Particle Swarm Optimization

    Chien-Pin Chou, Yoshifumi Nishimura, Chin-Chai Fan, Grzegorz Mazur, Stephan Irle, and Henryk A. Witek*
    J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12, 53-64 (2016)
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  • Concise Synthesis and Facile Nanotube Assembly of a Symmetrically Multifunctionalized Cycloparaphenylene

    Yuta Miyauchi, Kohei Johmoto, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Hidehiro Uekusa, Shintaro Fujii, Manabu Kiguchi, Hideto Ito, Kenichiro Itami, and Ken Tanaka*
    Chem. Eur. J. 21, 18900-18904 (2015)
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  • A glial K+/Cl- cotransporter modifies temperature-evoked dynamics in Caenorhabditis elegans sensory neurons

    A. Yoshida, S. Nakano, T. Suzuki, K. Ihara, T. Higashiyama, and I. Mori?
    Genes, Brain and Behavior 15, 429-440 (2016)
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  • A Phosphole Oxide Based Fluorescent Dye with Exceptional Resistance to Photobleaching: A Practical Tool for Continuous Imaging in STED Microscopy

    Chenguang Wang, Aiko Fukazawa,* Masayasu Taki,* Yoshikatsu Sato, Tetsuya Higashiyama,* and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 15213-15217 (2015)
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  • Synthesis of open-shell ladder p-systems by catalytic C-H annulation of diarylacetylenes

    Takehisa Maekawa, Hiroshi Ueno, Yasutomo Segawa,* Michael M. Haley* and Kenichiro Itami*
    Chem. Sci., 7, 650-654 (2016)
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  • A planarized 9-phenylanthracene: a simple electron-donating building block for fluorescent materials

    Hideaki Iwahara, Tomokatsu Kushida and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
    Chem. Commun., 52, 1124-1127 (2016)
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  • ClearSee: a rapid optical clearing reagent for whole-plant fluorescence imaging

    Daisuke Kurihara, Yoko Mizuta, Yoshikatsu Sato, Tetsuya Higashiyama
    Development 142, 4168-4179 (2015)
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  • Glucose Transformation to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Acidic Ionic Liquid: A Quantum Mechanical Study

    Arifin, Maneeporn Puripat, Daisuke Yokogawa,* Vudhichai Parasuk,* and Stephan Irle
    J. Comput. Chem. 37, 327-335 (2016)
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  • Designed synthesis of double-stage two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

    Xiong Chen, Matthew Addicoat, Enquan Jin, Hong Xu, Taku Hayashi, Fei Xu, Ning Huang, Stephan Irle & Donglin Jiang
    Scientific Reports 5, 14650 (2015)
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  • Synergistic Catalysis of Ionic Bronsted Acid and Photosensitizer for a Redox Neutral Asymmetric α-Coupling of N-Arylaminomethanes with Aldimines

    Daisuke Uraguchi, Natsuko Kinoshita, Tomohito Kizu, and Takashi Ooi
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 13768-13771 (2015)
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  • Type IV Collagen Controls the Axogenesis of Cerebellar Granule Cells by Regulating Basement Membrane Integrity in Zebrafish

    Miki Takeuchi, Shingo Yamaguchi, Shigenobu Yonemura, Kisa Kakiguchi, Yoshikatsu Sato, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Takashi Shimizu, Masahiko Hibi*
    PLoS Genet 11, e1005587 (2015)
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  • Structure-function analysis identifies highly sensitive strigolactone receptors in Striga

    Shigeo Toh, Duncan Holbrook-Smith, Peter J. Stogios, Olena Onopriyenko, Shelley Lumba, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Alexei Savchenko, Peter McCourt*
    Science 350, 203-207 (2015)
    DOI: 10.1126/science.aac9476
  • A comprehensive strategy for identifying long-distance mobile peptides in xylem sap

    Satoru Okamoto*, Takamasa Suzuki, Masayoshi Kawaguchi, Tetsuya Higashiyama and Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi
    Plant Journal 84, 611-620 (2015)
    DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13015
  • Making Dimethylamino a Transformable Directing Group by Nickel-Catalyzed C-N Borylation

    Hua Zhang, Shinya Hagihara, and Kenichiro Itami
    Chem. Eur. J. 21, 16796-16800 (2015)
    DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503596
  • BiP3 supports the early stages of female gametogenesis in the absence of BiP1 and BiP2 in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Daisuke Maruyama, Toshiya Endo, Shuh-Ichi Nishikawa
    Plant Signal Behav. 10, e1035853 (2015)
    DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2015.1035853
  • Boron-doped nanographene: Lewis acidity, redox properties, and battery electrode performance

    Shinichiro Osumi, Shohei Saito,* Chuandong Dou, Kyohei Matsuo, Keita Kume, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Kunio Awaga and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*
    Chem. Sci., 7, 219-227 (2016)
    DOI: 10.1039/c5sc02246k
  • Selective nuclear elimination in multinucleate cells

    Daisuke Maruyama, Tomokazu Kawashima and Tetsuya Higashiyama
    Oncotarget 6, 30447-30448 (2015)
    DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.5450