Research Group for Hydration Dynamics and Molecular Processes
Research Areas
Water is the most abundant molecule in a living body and is called as the molecule of life. In order to elucidate hydration structure and dynamics at the most detailed level, chemists, biologists, and physicists from Wako and Harima Institutes of RIKEN launched a new joint project. X-ray crystallography, X-ray emission spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, and computer simulation are employed. Collaborative works with RIKEN's big scientific projects of petaflops supercomputing and X-FEL would be exciting future possibilities for us.
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List of Selected Publications
| (1) | Nishiboei, E., Nakamura, T., Arimoto, M., Aoyagi, S., Ago, H., Miyano, M., Ebisuzaki, T., and Sakata, M.: "Application of maximum entropy maps in the accurate refinement of a putative acylphophatase using 1.3 A X-ray diffraction data." Acta Crystal. D64 237-247 (2008). |
| (2) | Jung, J., Choi, C.H., Sugita, Y., and Ten-no, S.: "New implementation of a combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical method using modified generalized hybrid orbitals." J.Chem. Phys. 127, 204102 (2007). |
| (3) | Ago, H., Kanaoka, Y., Irikura, D., Lam, B. K., Shimamura, T., Austen, K. F., and Miyano, M.: "Crystal structure of a human membrane protein involved in cysteinyl leukotriene biosynthesis." Nature, 448, 609-612 (2007). |
| (4) | Suenaga, A., Narumi, T., Futatsugi, N., Yanai, R., Ohno, Y., Okimoto, N., and Taiji, M.: "Folding Dynamics of 10-Residue Beta-Hairpin Peptide Chignolin." Chem. Asian J., 2, 591-598 (2007). |
| (5) | Fuji, T., Horio, T., and Suzuki, T.: "Generation of 12 fs deep-ultraviolet pulses by four-wave mixing through filamentation in neon gas." Opt. Lett., 32, 2481-2483 (2007). |
| (6) | Tokushima, T., Harada, Y., Ohashi, H., Senba, Y., and Shin, S.: "High performance slit-less spectrometer for soft x-ray emission spectroscopy." Rev. Sci. Instruments, 77, 063107 (2006). |
| (7) | Harada, Y., Takeuchi, T., Kino, H., Fukushima, A., Takakura, K., Hieda, K., Nakao, A., Shin, S., and Fukuyama, H.: "Electronic structure of DNA nucleobases and their dinucleotides explored by soft x-ray spectroscopy." J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 13227-13231 (2006). |
| (8)* | Sugita, Y., Miyashita, N., Yoda, T., Ikeguchi, M., and Toyoshima, C.: "Structural changes of the cytoplasmic domain of phospholamban by phosphorylation at Ser16: A molecular dynamics study." Biochemistry, 45, 11752-11761 (2006). |
| (9) | Narumi, T., Ohno, Y., Okimoto, N., Koishi, T., Suenaga, A., Futatsugi, N., Yanai, R., Himeno, R., Fujikawa, S., Ikei, M., and Taiji, M.: "A 185 TFLOPS Simulation of Amyloid-Forming Peptides from Yeast Prion Sup35 with the Special-Purpose Computer System MDGRAPE-3." Proc. Supercomputing 2006, in CD-ROM. (2006). |
| (10) | Suzuki, T.: "Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging." Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 57, 555-592 (2006). |
| Hydrated Molecular Dynamics Research Team |
| Hydrated Molecule X-ray Spectroscopy Research Team |
| Hydrated Protein Structure Research Team |
| Biomolecular Dynamics Simulation Research Team |