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Takafumi Ueno is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan and specializes in research at the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and materials science. Their work encompasses significant contributions to molecular biology and materials chemistry, focusing on the biochemical and molecular processes that underlie complex protein and enzyme behavior.

The main fields of study for Takafumi Ueno include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Materials Science

The scientist's subfields of study further refine this expertise, including molecular biology, materials chemistry, ecology, radiology and nuclear medicine imaging, and organic chemistry.

  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Organic Chemistry

Their research topics cover diverse areas relevant to protein science and biotechnology:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Takafumi Ueno has published research in several journals and venues, frequently contributing to articles in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Chemistry Letters, Biomaterials Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie in general.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Chemistry Letters
  • Biomaterials Science
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Notable recent papers include:

  • Site-Selective Protein Chemical Modification of Exposed Tyrosine Residues Using Tyrosine Click Reaction (2020, Bioconjugate Chemistry)
  • Engineering of protein crystals for use as solid biomaterials (2021, Biomaterials Science)
  • In-Cell Engineering of Protein Crystals with Nanoporous Structures for Promoting Cascade Reactions (2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials)
  • The Versatile Manipulations of Self-Assembled Proteins in Vaccine Design (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Solubility enhancement of poorly water soluble domperidone by complexation with the large ring cyclodextrin (2021, International Journal of Pharmaceutics)

Among frequent collaborators are Basudev Maity, Satoshi Abe, Kunio Hirata, Mariko Kojima, and Tadaomi Furuta. Their joint work includes numerous publications reflecting sustained research partnerships.

  • Basudev Maity
  • Satoshi Abe
  • Kunio Hirata
  • Mariko Kojima
  • Tadaomi Furuta

In addition to journal articles, Takafumi Ueno has contributed to book literature with a publication titled Protein Cages (2023), released by Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Size‐Selective Olefin Hydrogenation by a Pd Nanocluster Provided in an Apo‐Ferritin Cage

    Takafumi Ueno;Masako Suzuki;Toshiaki Goto;Tomoharu Matsumoto

  • Preparation of artificial metalloenzymes by insertion of chromium(III) Schiff base complexes into apomyoglobin mutants.

    Masataka Ohashi;Tomomi Koshiyama;Takafumi Ueno;Manabu Yanase

  • Coordinated Design of Cofactor and Active Site Structures in Development of New Protein Catalysts

    Takafumi Ueno;Tomomi Koshiyama;Masataka Ohashi;Kazuyoshi Kondo

  • Reactivities of oxo and peroxo intermediates studied by hemoprotein mutants.

    Yoshihito Watanabe;Hiroshi Nakajima;Takafumi Ueno

  • Polymerization of phenylacetylene by rhodium complexes within a discrete space of apo-ferritin.

    Satoshi Abe;Kunio Hirata;Takafumi Ueno;Kazuhide Morino

  • Coordination design of artificial metalloproteins utilizing protein vacant space

    Takafumi Ueno;Takafumi Ueno;Satoshi Abe;Norihiko Yokoi;Yoshihito Watanabe

  • Control of the coordination structure of organometallic palladium complexes in an apo-ferritin cage.

    Satoshi Abe;Jochen Niemeyer;Mizue Abe;Yusuke Takezawa

  • Observation of gold sub-nanocluster nucleation within a crystalline protein cage

    Basudev Maity;Satoshi Abe;Takafumi Ueno

  • Crystal structures of artificial metalloproteins: tight binding of FeIII(Schiff-Base) by mutation of Ala71 to Gly in apo-myoglobin.

    Takafumi Ueno;Masataka Ohashi;Masaharu Kono;Kazuyoshi Kondo

  • Preparation and catalytic reaction of Au/Pd bimetallic nanoparticles in Apo-ferritin

    Masako Suzuki;Mizue Abe;Takafumi Ueno;Takafumi Ueno;Satoshi Abe

  • Bacterial oxidation of polyethylene glycol.

    F Kawai;T Kimura;M Fukaya;Y Tani

  • Use of the confined spaces of apo-ferritin and virus capsids as nanoreactors for catalytic reactions.

    Basudev Maity;Kenta Fujita;Takafumi Ueno

  • Intracellular CO release from composite of ferritin and ruthenium carbonyl complexes.

    Kenta Fujita;Yuya Tanaka;Takeya Sho;Shuichi Ozeki

  • Hybridization of modified-heme reconstitution and distal histidine mutation to functionalize sperm whale myoglobin.

    Hideaki Sato;Takashi Hayashi;Tsutomu Ando;Yoshio Hisaeda

  • A virus-based nanoblock with tunable electrostatic properties

    Anju Chatterji;Wendy F Ochoa;Takafumi Ueno;Tianwei Lin

  • Process of Accumulation of Metal Ions on the Interior Surface of apo-Ferritin: Crystal Structures of a Series of apo-Ferritins Containing Variable Quantities of Pd(II) Ions

    Takafumi Ueno;Mizue Abe;Kunio Hirata;Satoshi Abe

  • A Photoactive Carbon‐Monoxide‐Releasing Protein Cage for Dose‐Regulated Delivery in Living Cells

    Kenta Fujita;Yuya Tanaka;Satoshi Abe;Takafumi Ueno

  • Rh-catalyzed polymerization of phenylacetylene: theoretical studies of the reaction mechanism, regioselectivity, and stereoregularity.

    Zhuofeng Ke;Satoshi Abe;Takafumi Ueno;Keiji Morokuma;Keiji Morokuma

  • Design of artificial metalloenzymes using non-covalent insertion of a metal complex into a protein scaffold

    Takafumi Ueno;Tomomi Koshiyama;Satoshi Abe;Norihiko Yokoi

  • Design of protein crystals in the development of solid biomaterials

    Satoshi Abe;Takafumi Ueno

  • Site-Selective Protein Chemical Modification of Exposed Tyrosine Residues Using Tyrosine Click Reaction

    Shinichi Sato;Masaki Matsumura;Tetsuya Kadonosono;Satoshi Abe

  • Reactivities of Oxo and Peroxo Intermediates Studied by Hemoprotein Mutants

    Yoshihito Watanabe;Hiroshi Nakajima;Takafumi Ueno

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshihito Watanabe
Yoshihito Watanabe Nagoya University
Susumu Kitagawa
Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University
Tsutomu Imaizumi
Tsutomu Imaizumi Kurume University
Toyoaki Murohara
Toyoaki Murohara Nagoya University
Taka-aki Okamura
Taka-aki Okamura Osaka University
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Keiji Morokuma
Keiji Morokuma Kyoto University
Akira Nakamura
Akira Nakamura Osaka University
Gerhard Erker
Gerhard Erker University of Münster
Masaki Takata
Masaki Takata Tohoku University

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