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Masahide Terazima

Masahide Terazima

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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
8779
World Ranking
13606
National Ranking
1047

Overview

Masahide Terazima is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Plant Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Materials Chemistry.

The research focus includes several main topics, notably Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Light Effects on Plants, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Research, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Masahide Terazima has published numerous papers, with recent works featuring the following:

  • "Slow Conformational Changes of Blue Light Sensor BLUF Proteins in Milliseconds" (2022) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Spectrally Silent Protein Reaction Dynamics Revealed by Time-Resolved Thermodynamics and Diffusion Techniques" (2021) in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Photoreaction Dynamics of a Full-Length Protein YtvA and Intermolecular Interaction with RsbRA" (2020) in Biochemistry
  • "Time-Resolved Detection of SDS-Induced Conformational Changes in α-Synuclein by a Micro-Stopped-Flow System" (2021) in RSC Advances
  • "Time-Resolved Diffusion Method to Detect and Reveal Protein Reactions Leading to Their Functions" (2023) in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

The main publication venues for their work include Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biochemistry, arXiv (Cornell University), and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Masahide Terazima include Yusuke Nakasone, Shunrou Tokonami, Kosei Shibata, Suhyang Kim, and Ryo Akiyama.

Best Publications

  • Photothermal investigation of the triplet state of carbon molecule (C60)

    Masahide Terazima;Noboru Hirota;Hisanori Shinohara;Yahachi Saito

  • Nonradiative Relaxation Processes and Electronically Excited States of Nitrobenzene Studied by Picosecond Time-Resolved Transient Grating Method

    M. Takezaki;N. Hirota;M. Terazima

  • Translational diffusion of a transient radical studied by the transient grating method, pyrazinyl radical in 2‐propanol

    Masahide Terazima;Noboru Hirota

  • Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Reaction of 4′-N,N-Diethylamino-3-hydroxyflavone and Solvation Dynamics in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Studied by Optical Kerr Gate Fluorescence Measurement

    Yoshifumi Kimura;Masanori Fukuda;Kayo Suda;Masahide Terazima

  • Is the translational diffusion of organic radicals different from that of closed-shell molecules?

    Masahide Terazima

  • Conformational dynamics of phototropin 2 LOV2 domain with the linker upon photoexcitation.

    Takeshi Eitoku;Yusuke Nakasone;Daisuke Matsuoka;Satoru Tokutomi

  • TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION OF TRANSIENT RADICALS CREATED BY THE PHOTOINDUCED HYDROGEN ABSTRACTION REACTION IN SOLUTION : ANOMALOUS SIZE DEPENDENCE IN THE RADICAL DIFFUSION

    Masahide Terazima;Koichi Okamoto;Noboru Hirota

  • Quantities, terminology, and symbols in photothermal and related spectroscopies (IUPAC Recommendations 2004)

    Masahide Terazima;Noboru Hirota;Silvia E. Braslavsky;Andreas Mandelis

  • Kinetics of Intermolecular Interaction during Protein Folding of Reduced Cytochrome c

    Shinpei Nishida;Tomokazu Nada;Masahide Terazima

  • Measurement of the quantum yield of triplet formation and short triplet lifetimes by the transient grating technique

    Masahide Terazima;Noboru Hirota

  • Geometries and Energies of Nitrobenzene Studied by CAS-SCF Calculations

    M. Takezaki;N. Hirota;M. Terazima;H. Sato

  • Thermodynamics of apoplastocyanin folding: comparison between experimental and theoretical results.

    Takashi Yoshidome;Masahiro Kinoshita;Shun Hirota;Shun Hirota;Naoki Baden

  • Dynamics of conformational changes of Arabidopsis phototropin 1 LOV2 with the linker domain.

    Yusuke Nakasone;Takeshi Eitoku;Daisuke Matsuoka;Satoru Tokutomi

  • Diffusion coefficients as a monitor of reaction kinetics of biological molecules

    Masahide Terazima

  • Dynamics of structure and energy of horse carboxymyoglobin after photodissociation of carbon monoxide.

    Masaaki Sakakura;Shinji Yamaguchi;Noboru Hirota;Masahide Terazima

  • New Application of the Transient Grating Method to a Photochemical Reaction: The Enthalpy, Reaction Volume Change, and Partial Molar Volume Measurements

    Takashi Hara;and Noboru Hirota;Masahide Terazima

  • The photoluminescence of poly(methylphenylsilylene): the origin of the long-wavelength broad band

    O. Ito;M. Terazima;T. Azumi;N. Matsumoto

  • Kinetic Measurement of Transient Dimerization and Dissociation Reactions of Arabidopsis Phototropin 1 LOV2 Domain

    Yusuke Nakasone;Takeshi Eitoku;Daisuke Matsuoka;Satoru Tokutomi

  • Structural Change of Site-Directed Mutants of PYP: New Dynamics during pR State

    Kan Takeshita;Yasushi Imamoto;Mikio Kataoka;Ken’ichi Mihara

  • Light-induced conformational changes in full-length Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome

    Masato Kondoh;Chiaki Shiraishi;Pavel Müller;Margaret Ahmad

  • Themodynamic and transport properties of intermediate states of the photocyclic reaction of photoactive yellow protein

    Kan Takeshita;Yasushi Imamoto;Mikio Kataoka;Fumio Tokunaga

Frequent Co-Authors

Noboru Hirota
Noboru Hirota Kyoto University
Masahiko Ikeuchi
Masahiko Ikeuchi University of Tokyo
Mikio Kataoka
Mikio Kataoka Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Michio Homma
Michio Homma Nagoya University
Shun Hirota
Shun Hirota Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Klaas J. Hellingwerf
Klaas J. Hellingwerf University of Amsterdam
Akira Nagatani
Akira Nagatani Kyoto University
Yoichi Kawakami
Yoichi Kawakami Kyoto University
John M. Christie
John M. Christie University of Glasgow
Kiyotaka Miura
Kiyotaka Miura Kyoto University

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