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Takumi Noguchi

Takumi Noguchi

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Chemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
11054
World Ranking
7888
National Ranking
525

Overview

Takumi Noguchi is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly work spans a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Materials Chemistry, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their research topics focus mainly on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, as well as Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research. Additional areas include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Concrete and Cement Materials Research, particularly concerning Concrete Properties and Behavior.

Takumi Noguchi has published numerous research papers, with notable recent studies including:

  • "A study on the change in frost resistance and pore structure of concrete containing blast furnace slag under the carbonation conditions" (2022) in Construction and Building Materials
  • "Proton and Water Transfer Pathways in the S2 → S3 Transition of the Water-Oxidizing Complex in Photosystem II: Time-Resolved Infrared Analysis of the Effects of D1-N298A Mutation and NO3- Substitution" (2021) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Structural Dynamics of a Protein Domain Relevant to the Water-Oxidizing Complex in Photosystem II as Visualized by High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy" (2020) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Rapid-Scan Time-Resolved ATR-FTIR Study on the Photoassembly of the Water-Oxidizing Mn4CaO5 Cluster in Photosystem II" (2021) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • "Role of the O4 Channel in Photosynthetic Water Oxidation as Revealed by Fourier Transform Infrared Difference and Time-Resolved Infrared Analysis of the D1-S169A Mutant" (2020) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Takumi Noguchi frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (13 publications)
  • Biochemistry (6 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Photosynthesis Research (2 publications)

The scientist collaborates often with the following coauthors:

  • Ryo Nagao (15 coauthored works)
  • Yuki Kato (10 coauthored works)
  • Yuichiro Shimada (7 coauthored works)
  • Kazuyuki Takahashi (6 coauthored works)
  • Keiji Ueda (6 coauthored works)

Best Publications

  • Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL.

    Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Fusamichi Akita;Michihiro Sugahara;Minoru Kubo

  • The M1- and M2-type isozymes of rat pyruvate kinase are produced from the same gene by alternative RNA splicing.

    T Noguchi;H Inoue;T Tanaka

  • Vibrational Spectra and Ab Initio DFT Calculations of 4-Methylimidazole and Its Different Protonation Forms: Infrared and Raman Markers of the Protonation State of a Histidine Side Chain

    Koji Hasegawa;Taka-aki Ono;Takumi Noguchi

  • X-ray Detection of the Period-Four Cycling of the Manganese Cluster in Photosynthetic Water Oxidizing Enzyme

    Taka Aki Ono;Takumi Noguchi;Yorinao Inoue;Masami Kusunoki

  • Direct detection of a carboxylate bridge between Mn and Ca2+ in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving center by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Takumi Noguchi;Taka-aki Ono;Yorinao Inoue

  • Cytokine-induced apoptotic cell death in a mouse pancreatic beta-cell line: inhibition by Bcl-2

    H. Iwahashi;T. Hanafusa;Y. Eguchi;H. Nakajima

  • Flash-Induced FTIR Difference Spectra of the Water Oxidizing Complex in Moderately Hydrated Photosystem II Core Films: Effect of Hydration Extent on S-State Transitions†

    Takumi Noguchi;Miwa Sugiura

  • Identification of the special pair of photosystem II in a chlorophyll d-dominated cyanobacterium

    Tatsuya Tomo;Tatsunori Okubo;Seiji Akimoto;Seiji Akimoto;Makio Yokono

  • FTIR detection of water reactions in the oxygen-evolving centre of photosystem II.

    Takumi Noguchi

  • Structure of a histidine ligand in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex as studied by light-induced fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy.

    Takumi Noguchi;Yorinao Inoue;Xiao-Song Tang

  • Analysis of Flash-Induced FTIR Difference Spectra of the S-State Cycle in the Photosynthetic Water-Oxidizing Complex by Uniform 15N and 13C Isotope Labeling†

    Takumi Noguchi;Miwa Sugiura

  • Transcriptional and post transcriptional regulation of L-type pyruvate kinase in diabetic rat liver by insulin and dietary fructose

    T Noguchi;H Inoue;T Tanaka

  • Activity Regulation of Photoreactive Nitrile Hydratase by Nitric Oxide

    Masafumi Odaka;Kaoru Fujii;Mikio Hoshino;Takumi Noguchi

  • Fourier transform infrared difference and time-resolved infrared detection of the electron and proton transfer dynamics in photosynthetic water oxidation.

    Takumi Noguchi

  • The cyanobacteriochrome, TePixJ, isomerizes its own chromophore by converting phycocyanobilin to phycoviolobilin.

    Takami Ishizuka;Ayumi Kamiya;Hiroyuki Suzuki;Rei Narikawa

  • Photosensitive nitrile hydratase intrinsically possesses nitric oxide bound to the non-heme iron center: evidence by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Takumi Noguchi;Jun Honda;Teruyuki Nagamune;Hiroyuki Sasabe

  • Monitoring Proton Release during Photosynthetic Water Oxidation in Photosystem II by Means of Isotope-Edited Infrared Spectroscopy

    Hiroyuki Suzuki;Miwa Sugiura;Takumi Noguchi

  • Structural Coupling between the Oxygen-Evolving Mn Cluster and a Tyrosine Residue in Photosystem II As Revealed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy†

    Takumi Noguchi;Yorinao Inoue;Xiao-Song Tang

  • Fourier transform infrared analysis of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving center

    Takumi Noguchi

  • FT-IR studies on the triplet state of P680 in the photosystem II reaction center: triplet equilibrium within a chlorophyll dimer.

    Takumi Noguchi;Yorinao Inoue;Kimiyuki Satoh

  • Time-resolved infrared detection of the proton and protein dynamics during photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

    Takumi Noguchi;Hiroyuki Suzuki;Masaya Tsuno;Masaya Tsuno;Miwa Sugiura;Miwa Sugiura

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuya Tomo
Tatsuya Tomo Tokyo University of Science
Mitsuo Tasumi
Mitsuo Tasumi University of Tokyo
Fumihiko Sato
Fumihiko Sato Kyoto University
Jian-Ren Shen
Jian-Ren Shen Okayama University
Masahiko Ikeuchi
Masahiko Ikeuchi University of Tokyo
Alain Boussac
Alain Boussac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Masafumi Yohda
Masafumi Yohda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Kintake Sonoike
Kintake Sonoike Waseda University
Shigeru Itoh
Shigeru Itoh Nagoya University

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