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Masaaki Fujii is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, specializing in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including spectroscopy, molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Their research focuses on several main topics, particularly mass spectrometry techniques and applications, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced chemical physics studies, ion channel regulation and function, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study, analytical chemistry and chromatography, and photochemistry and electron transfer studies.

Fujii's recent publications illustrate the scope of their investigative interests and experimental techniques. These include:

  • "Rethinking Ion Transport by Ionophores: Experimental and Computational Investigation of Single Water Hydration in Valinomycin-K+ Complexes" (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)
  • "Identification of a tomato UDP-arabinosyltransferase for airborne volatile reception" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Chiral discrimination between tyrosine and β-cyclodextrin revealed by cryogenic ion trap infrared spectroscopy" (2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • "Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Ions Complexes with a Partial Peptide of the Selectivity Filter in K+ Channels Studied by a Cold Ion Trap Infrared Spectroscopy" (2020, ChemPhysChem)
  • "Double Ion Trap Laser Spectroscopy of Alkali Metal Ion Complexes with a Partial Peptide of the Selectivity Filter in K+ ChannelsTemperature Effect and Barrier for Conformational Conversions" (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A)

Throughout their career, Fujii has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Shun-ichi Ishiuchi (55 joint publications)
  • Keisuke Hirata (44 joint publications)
  • James M. Lisy (17 joint publications)
  • Otto Dopfer (9 joint publications)
  • Gilles Grégoire (9 joint publications)

Their work has been published in a variety of notable scientific journals, particularly:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (16 publications)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (11 publications)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (10 publications)
  • ChemPhysChem (6 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (4 publications)

Masaaki Fujii's research extensively utilizes spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to explore molecular mechanisms, especially ion transport and ion channel functions. Their investigations often involve sophisticated experimental tools such as ion trap infrared spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy to study metal ion complexes and peptide interactions related to selectivity filters in potassium channels.

Best Publications

  • OH stretching vibrations of phenol-(H2O)n (n=1-3) complexes observed by IR-UV double-resonance spectroscopy

    Shigeki Tanabe;Takayuki Ebata;Masaaki Fujii;Naohiko Mikami

  • Keto-enol tautomer of uracil and thymine

    Yuko Tsuchiya;Teruhiko Tamura;Masaaki Fujii;Mitsuo Ito

  • Plugging a Molecular Wire into Photosystem I: Reconstitution of the Photoelectric Conversion System on a Gold Electrode

    Nao Terasaki;Noritaka Yamamoto;Takashi Hiraga;Yoshinori Yamanoi

  • Bio-photosensor: Cyanobacterial photosystem I coupled with transistor via molecular wire

    Nao Terasaki;Noritaka Yamamoto;Kaoru Tamada;Mineyuki Hattori

  • Excited state hydrogen transfer dynamics in substituted phenols and their complexes with ammonia: ππ∗-πσ∗ energy gap propensity and ortho-substitution effect

    G. A. Pino;A. N. Oldani;E. Marceca;M. Fujii

  • Electronic spectra of uracil in a supersonic jet

    Masaaki Fujii;Teruhiko Tamura;Naohiko Mikami;Mitsuo Ito

  • Probing Solvation Dynamics around Aromatic and Biological Molecules at the Single-Molecular Level

    Otto Dopfer;Masaaki Fujii

  • Structure of Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters of 7-Azaindole Studied by IR Dip Spectroscopy and ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculation

    Hiroshi Yokoyama;Hidekazu Wantanabe;Takuichiro Omi;Shun-ichi Ishiuchi

  • Internal rotation of the methyl group in fluorotoluene cations as studied by pulsed field ionization‐zero kinetic energy spectroscopy

    Ken Takazawa;Masaaki Fujii;Mitsuo Ito

  • Two-point-separation in super-resolution fluorescence microscope based on up-conversion fluorescence depletion technique

    Takeshi Watanabe;Yoshinori Iketaki;Takashige Omatsu;Kimihisa Yamamoto

  • Probing stepwise complexation in phenylazomethine dendrimers by a metallo-porphyrin core.

    Takane Imaoka;Reiko Tanaka;Sachiko Arimoto;Makoto Sakai

  • Real-time observation of ionization-induced hydrophobic-->hydrophilic switching.

    Shun Ichi Ishiuchi;Makoto Sakai;Yuji Tsuchida;Akihiro Takeda

  • Super-resolution microscope system and method for illumination

    Yoshinori Iketaki;Masaaki Fujii;Takashige Omatsu

  • Electronic spectra of jet-cooled azulene

    Masaaki Fujii;Takayuki Ebata;Naohiko Mikami;Mitsuo Ito

  • Watching Water Migration around a Peptide Bond

    Kohei Tanabe;Mitsuhiko Miyazaki;Matthias Schmies;Alexander Patzer

  • OH- and CH-Stretching Overtone Spectra of Catechol

    Henrik G. Kjaergaard;Daryl L. Howard;Daniel P. Schofield;Timothy W. Robinson

  • Structure of 1-Naphthol−Water Clusters Studied by IR Dip Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations

    Ruriko Yoshino;Kenro Hashimoto;Takuichiro Omi;Shun-ichi Ishiuchi

  • Excited-State Triple-Proton Transfer in 7-Azaindole(H2O)2 and Reaction Path Studied by Electronic Spectroscopy in the Gas Phase and Quantum Chemical Calculations†

    Kenji Sakota;Christophe Jouvet;Claude Dedonder;Masaaki Fujii

  • Dual emission caused by ring inversion isomerization of a 4-methyl-2-pyridyl-pyrimidine copper(I) complex.

    Michihiro Nishikawa;Kuniharu Nomoto;Shoko Kume;Keiichi Inoue

  • IR signature of the photoionization-induced hydrophobic-->hydrophilic site switching in phenol-Arn clusters.

    Shun-ichi Ishiuchi;Makoto Sakai;Yuji Tsuchida;Akihiro Takeda

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Dopfer
Otto Dopfer Technical University of Berlin
Mitsuo Ito
Mitsuo Ito Tohoku University
Christophe Jouvet
Christophe Jouvet Aix-Marseille University
Kimihisa Yamamoto
Kimihisa Yamamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naohiko Mikami
Naohiko Mikami Tohoku University
Klaus Müller-Dethlefs
Klaus Müller-Dethlefs University of Manchester
Takayuki Ebata
Takayuki Ebata Hiroshima University
Takunori Taira
Takunori Taira National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Hideki Kandori
Hideki Kandori Nagoya Institute of Technology
Roland Mitrić
Roland Mitrić University of Würzburg

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