Ojima, Daisuke; Yasui, Ayano; Tohyama, Koh; Tokuzumi, Keita; Toriihara, Eisuke; Ito, Kayoko; Iwasaki, Arihiro; Tomura, Tomohiko; Ojika, Makoto; Suenaga, Kiyotake, Total Synthesis of Miuraenamides A and D, J. Org. Chem. 81(20), 9886-9894 (2016).

 

Velasquez, Johana Tello; Yao, Rebecca-Qing; Lim, Filip; Han, Chunguang; Ojika, Makoto; Ekberg, Jenny A. K.; Quinn, Ronald J.; St. John, James A. Linckosides enhance proliferation and induce morphological changes in human olfactory ensheathing cells, Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 75, 1-13 (2016).

 

Shibata Yusuke; Ojika Makoto; Sugiyama Akifumi; Yazaki Kazufumi; Jones David A; Kawakita Kazuhito; Takemoto Daigo, The Full-size ABCG Transporters Nb-ABCG1 and Nb-ABCG2 function in Pre- and Post-invasion Defense against Phytophthora infestans in Nicotiana benthamiana, Plant

Cell, 28(5), 1163-1181 (2016). doi:10.1105/tpc.15.00721. (2016).

 

Kanie, Shusei; Nishikawa, Toshio; Ojika, Makoto; Oba, Yuichi, One-pot non-enzymatic formation of firefly luciferin in a neutral buffer from p-benzoquinone and cysteine, Sci. Rep. 6, 24794 (2016).

 

Zhang, Li; Yajima, Arata; Ojika, Makoto, The Phytophthora mating hormone α2 is an antagonist of the counterhormone α1, Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 80(6), 1062-1065 (2016). doi: 10.1080/09168451.2016.1146071

 

Yuwei Sun, Zhiyang Feng, Tomohiko Tomura, Akira Suzuki, Seishi Miyano, Takashi Tsuge, Hitoshi Mori, Joo-Won Suh, Takashi Iizuka, Ryosuke Fudou, Makoto Ojika, Heterologous Production of the Marine Myxobacterial Antibiotic Haliangicin and Its Unnatural Analogues Generated by Engineering of the Biochemical Pathway, Sci. Rep. 6, 22091 (2016, Feb), doi 10.1038/srep22091.

 

Shosuke Ito, Yuta Yamanaka, Makoto Ojika and Kazumasa Wakamatsu, The Metabolic Fate of ortho-Quinones Derived from Catecholamine Metabolites, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 17(2), 164/1-164/10 (2016, Jan); doi:10.3390/ijms17020164.

 

Yuwei Sun,  Tomohiko Tomura, Junichi Sato, Takashi Iizuka, Ryosuke Fudou, Makoto Ojika, Isolation and Biosynthetic Analysis of Haliamide, a New PKS-NRPS Hybrid Metabolite from the Marine Myxobacterium Haliangium ochraceum, Molecules, 21(1), 59/1-59/8 (2016, Jan), doi:10.3390/molecules21010059.

 

Staveness, D.; Abdelnabi, R.; Near, K. E.; Nakagawa, Y.; Neyts, J.; Delang, L.; Leyssen, P.; Wender, P. A. Inhibition of Chikungunya Virus-Induced Cell Death by Salicylate-Derived Bryostatin Analogues Provides Additional Evidence for a PKC-Independent Pathway, J. Nat. Prod., 79(4), 680-684 (2016).

 

Akagawa, M.; Minematsu, K.; Shibata, T.; Kondo, T.; Ishii, T.; Uchida, K. Identification of lactate dehydrogenase as a mammalian pyrroloquionline quinone (PQQ)-binding protein, Sci. Rep. (2016), 6, 26723.

 

Nonaka, S.; Tatsuyama, T.; Kondo, T.; Sakaki, Y.; Asami, T.; Yajima, S.; Ito, S. 1,10-Phenanthroline and its derivatives are novel hatching stimulants for soybean cyst nematodes, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. (2016), 26(21), 5240-5243.

 

Hatasa Yukinori; Chikazawa Miho; Furuhashi Mai; Nakashima Fumie; Shibata Takahiro; Kondo Tatsuhiko; Uchida Koji; Shibata Takahiro; Akagawa Mitsugu; Hamagami Hiroki; et al. Oxidative Deamination of Serum Albumins by (-)-Epigallocatechin-3-O-Gallate: A Potential Mechanism for the Formation of Innate Antigens by Antioxidants, PloS one, 11(4), e0153002 (2016).