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Masayuki Satake

Masayuki Satake

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Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
11658
World Ranking
10203
National Ranking
733

Overview

Masayuki Satake is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, biotechnology, pharmacology, organic chemistry, and environmental chemistry. The scientist's work notably intersects areas such as marine sponges and natural products, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, synthetic organic chemistry methods, marine toxins and detection methods, biochemical and structural characterization, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Satake's publication record includes papers in several scientific venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to research. Frequent publication venues include Molbank, Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Nature Catalysis, Molecules, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, among whom are Hajime Uchida and Hiroshi Nagai with 11 joint works each, Botao Zhang with 5, Michiya Kamio with 4, and Ryoya Kawabe with 4 collaborations.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Satake cover a range of topics related to natural products and enzymatic processes:

  • "LimF is a versatile prenyltransferase for histidine-C-geranylation on diverse non-natural substrates," 2022, Nature Catalysis
  • "Neo-Aplysiatoxin A Isolated from Okinawan Cyanobacterium Moorea Producens," 2020, Molecules
  • "Switching Prenyl Donor Specificities of Cyanobactin Prenyltransferases," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Debromooscillatoxins G and I from the Cyanobacterium Moorea producens," 2021, Heterocycles
  • "Aplysiadione and aplysiaenal: Truncated biosynthetic intermediates of aplysiatoxins from a cyanobacterium," 2021, Results in Chemistry

Best Publications

  • AZASPIRACID, A NEW MARINE TOXIN HAVING UNIQUE SPIRO RING ASSEMBLIES, ISOLATED FROM IRISH MUSSELS, MYTILUS EDULIS

    Masayuki Satake;Katsuya Ofuji;Hideo Naoki;Kevin J. James

  • Gymnodimine, a new marine toxin of unprecedented structure isolated from New Zealand oysters and the dinoflagellate, Gymnodinium sp.

    Tetsuya Seki;Masayuki Satake;Lincoln Mackenzie;Heinrich F. Kaspar

  • Identification of Protoceratium reticulatum as the biogenetic origin of yessotoxin.

    Masayuki Satake;Lincoln MacKenzie;Takeshi Yasumoto

  • The structure of CTX3C, a ciguatoxin congener isolated from cultured Gambierdiscus toxicus

    Masayuki Satake;Michio Murata;Takeshi Yasumoto

  • Total synthesis of ciguatoxin CTX3C

    Masahiro Hirama;Tohru Oishi;Hisatoshi Uehara;Masayuki Inoue

  • Two analogs of azaspiracid isolated from mussels, Mytilus edulis, involved in human intoxication in Ireland

    Katsuya Ofuji;Masayuki Satake;Terry McMahon;Joe Silke

  • Identification of putative palytoxin as the cause of clupeotoxism

    Yutaka Onuma;Masayuki Satake;Takanori Ukena;Jean Roux

  • Gambierol: a new toxic polyether compound isolated from the marine dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus

    Masayuki Satake;Michio Murata;Takeshi Yasumoto

  • New saxitoxin analogues from the freshwater filamentous cyanobacterium Lyngbya wollei

    Hideyuki Onodera;Masayuki Satake;Yasukatsu Oshima;Takeshi Yasumoto

  • Structure and Partial Stereochemical Assignments for Maitotoxin, the Most Toxic and Largest Natural Non-Biopolymer

    Michio Murata;Hideo Naoki;Shigeki Matsunaga;Masayuki Satake

  • Amphidinol, a polyhydroxy-polyene antifungal agent with an unprecedented structure, from a marine dinoflagellate, Amphidinium klebsii

    Masayuki Satake;Michio Murata;Takeshi Yasumoto;Tsuyoshi Fujita

  • Total Synthesis of Gambierol

    Haruhiko Fuwa;Noriko Kainuma;Kazuo Tachibana;Makoto Sasaki

  • Gambieric acids, new potent antifungal substances with unprecedented polyether structures from a marine dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus

    Hiroshi Nagai;Michio Murata;Koichiro Torigoe;Masayuki Satake

  • Gymnocin-A, a cytotoxic polyether from the notorious red tide dinoflagellate, Gymnodinium mikimotoi

    Masayuki Satake;Mitsuha Shoji;Yasukatsu Oshima;Hideo Naoki

  • Oral and intraperitoneal acute toxicity studies of yessotoxin and homoyessotoxins in mice.

    A Tubaro;S Sosa;M Carbonatto;G Altinier

  • Structures of Azaspiracid Analogs, Azaspiracid-4 and Azaspiracid-5, Causative Toxins of Azaspiracid Poisoning in Europe

    Katsuya Ofuji;Masayuki Satake;Terry Mcmahon;Kevin J. James

  • Chronic effects in mice caused by oral administration of sublethal doses of azaspiracid, a new marine toxin isolated from mussels.

    Emiko Ito;Masayuki Satake;Katsuya Ofuji;Morihiro Higashi

  • The structures of five new antifungal and hemolytic amphidinol analogs from Amphidinium carterae collected in New Zealand

    Reiko Echigoya;Lesley Rhodes;Yasukatsu Oshima;Masayuki Satake

  • Structure Elucidation of Ostreocin D, a Palytoxin Analog Isolated from the Dinoflagellate Ostreopsis siamensis

    Takanori Ukena;Masayuki Satake;Masaya Usami;Yasukatsu Oshima

  • Structures and Partial Stereochemical Assignments for Prymnesin-1 and Prymnesin-2: Potent Hemolytic and Ichthyotoxic Glycosides Isolated from the Red Tide Alga Prymnesium parvum

    Tomoji Igarashi;Masayuki Satake;Takeshi Yasumoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Yasumoto
Takeshi Yasumoto Tohoku University
Yasukatsu Oshima
Yasukatsu Oshima Tohoku University
Hideo Naoki
Hideo Naoki Tohoku University
Michio Murata
Michio Murata Osaka University
Ambrose Furey
Ambrose Furey Munster Technological University
Makoto Sasaki
Makoto Sasaki Tohoku University
K. C. Nicolaou
K. C. Nicolaou Rice University
Luis M. Botana
Luis M. Botana University of Santiago de Compostela
Masami Ishibashi
Masami Ishibashi Chiba University
Tsuyoshi Fujita
Tsuyoshi Fujita University of Tokyo

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