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Overview

Koji Yamada is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on chemistry, with a significant concentration in organic chemistry. The work also intersects with pharmacology, plant science, molecular biology, and biotechnology, indicating a multidisciplinary approach within the chemical sciences.

The scientist's publications present a range of topics including catalytic C-H functionalization methods, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, synthesis and catalytic reactions, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, marine sponges and natural products, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins.

  • New Cytotoxic Natural Products from the Red Sea Sponge Stylissa carteri (2020, Marine Drugs)
  • Chemical Constituent Profiling of Phyllostachys heterocycla var. Pubescens with Selective Cytotoxic Polar Fraction through EGFR Inhibition in HepG2 Cells (2021, Molecules)
  • The design and synthesis of potent benzimidazole derivatives via scaffold hybridization and evaluating their antiproliferative and proapoptotic activity against breast and lung cancer cell lines (2022, New Journal of Chemistry)
  • Cytotoxic, Apoptosis-Inducing Activities, and Molecular Docking of a New Sterol from Bamboo Shoot Skin Phyllostachys heterocycla var. pubescens (2020, Molecules)
  • Revisiting 2-Alkoxy-3-bromoindolines: Control C-2 vs. C-3 Elimination for Regioselective Synthesis of Alkoxyindoles (2020, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin)

Frequently publishing in journals such as Tetrahedron, Synlett, Marine Drugs, and Molecules, Koji Yamada's work is documented within a spectrum of peer-reviewed scientific venues. The pattern of publication venues underscores engagement with diverse areas of chemical research and natural product studies.

  • Reda F. A. Abdelhameed
  • Takahide Nishi
  • Eman S. Habib
  • Amany K. Ibrahim
  • Safwat A. Ahmed

The frequent collaboration with these co-authors suggests a consistent network within their research community, enabling interdisciplinary and multifaceted studies, especially in the chemical and pharmacological domains.

Best Publications

  • K-252 compounds, novel and potent inhibitors of protein kinase C and cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases

    Hiroshi Kase;Kazuyuki Iwahashi;Satoshi Nakanishi;Yuzuru Matsuda

  • Microphotonics devices based on silicon microfabrication technology

    T. Tsuchizawa;K. Yamada;H. Fukuda;T. Watanabe

  • A receptor for green tea polyphenol EGCG

    Hirofumi Tachibana;Kiyoshi Koga;Yoshinori Fujimura;Koji Yamada

  • Wortmannin, a microbial product inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase.

    S Nakanishi;S Kakita;I Takahashi;K Kawahara

  • Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Taxol\R

    Teruaki Mukaiyama;Isamu Shiina;Hayato Iwadare;Masahiro Saitoh

  • Conjugated linoleic acid modulates tissue levels of chemical mediators and immunoglobulins in rats.

    Michihiro Sugano;Michihiro Sugano;Akira Tsujita;Masao Yamasaki;Miwa Noguchi

  • Silicon photonic circuit with polarization diversity

    Hiroshi Fukuda;Koji Yamada;Tai Tsuchizawa;Toshifumi Watanabe

  • Enzyme catalysis in water pools

    F. M. Menger;K. Yamada

  • Mitogen-activated Protein (MAP) Kinase Regulates Production of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Release of Arachidonic Acid in Mast Cells INDICATIONS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN p38 AND p42 MAP KINASES

    Cheng Zhang;Rudolf A. Baumgartner;Koji Yamada;Michael A. Beaven

  • Actions of adenosine A2A receptor antagonist KW-6002 on drug-induced catalepsy and hypokinesia caused by reserpine or MPTP

    Shizuo Shiozaki;Shunji Ichikawa;Joji Nakamura;Shigeto Kitamura

  • Green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate signaling pathway through 67-kDa laminin receptor.

    Daisuke Umeda;Satomi Yano;Koji Yamada;Hirofumi Tachibana

  • Dietary Fibers Modulate Indices of Intestinal Immune Function in Rats

    Beong Ou Lim;Koji Yamada;Michiko Nonaka;Yuichiro Kuramoto

  • Structural tuning of guiding modes of line-defect waveguides of silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal slabs

    M. Notomi;A. Shinya;K. Yamada;J.-I. Takahashi

  • Comparison of reorganization energies for intra- and intermolecular electron transfer.

    Hiroshi Imahori;Hiroko Yamada;Dirk M. Guldi;Yoshito Endo

  • Fucoidan induces apoptosis through activation of caspase-8 on human breast cancer MCF-7 cells

    Yumi Yamasaki-Miyamoto;Masao Yamasaki;Hirofumi Tachibana;Koji Yamada

  • 67-kDa laminin receptor increases cGMP to induce cancer-selective apoptosis

    Motofumi Kumazoe;Kaori Sugihara;Shuntaro Tsukamoto;Yuhui Huang

  • Effect of tea polyphenols on histamine release from rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells: the structure–inhibitory activity relationship

    Noritaka Matsuo;K. Yamada;K. Shoji;M. Mori

  • Fast all-optical switching using ion-implanted silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

    Takasumi Tanabe;Katsuhiko Nishiguchi;Akihiko Shinya;Eiichi Kuramochi

  • TLR4 Signaling Inhibitory Pathway Induced by Green Tea Polyphenol Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate through 67-kDa Laminin Receptor

    Eui Hong Byun;Yoshinori Fujimura;Koji Yamada;Hirofumi Tachibana

  • Lymphatic recovery, tissue distribution, and metabolic effects of conjugated linoleic acid in rats.

    Michihiro Sugano;Akira Tsujita;Masao Yamasaki;Koji Yamada

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirofumi Tachibana
Hirofumi Tachibana Kyushu University
Michihiro Sugano
Michihiro Sugano Kyushu University
Hiroki Takesue
Hiroki Takesue NTT (Japan)
Hiroshi Imahori
Hiroshi Imahori Kyoto University
Yasuhiro Tokura
Yasuhiro Tokura University of Tsukuba
Teruaki Mukaiyama
Teruaki Mukaiyama Kitasato University
Ikuo Ikeda
Ikuo Ikeda Tohoku University
Akihiko Shinya
Akihiko Shinya NTT (Japan)
Yoshiteru Sakata
Yoshiteru Sakata Osaka University
Masaya Notomi
Masaya Notomi NTT (Japan)

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