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Teizo Kitagawa

Teizo Kitagawa

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Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
15940
World Ranking
5643
National Ranking
347

Overview

Teizo Kitagawa is affiliated with the University of Hyogo in Japan and has a research focus within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Physiology, Genetics, and Rheumatology.

The scientist's research centers on several key topics, which include:

  • Hemoglobin structure and function
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Folate and B Vitamins Research
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics

Teizo Kitagawa has contributed to a number of recent scientific publications. Selected papers include:

  • Structural origin of cooperativity in human hemoglobin: a view from different roles of α and β subunits in the α2β2 tetramer, 2022, Biophysical Reviews
  • Resonance Raman investigation of dithionite-reduced cobalamin, 2020, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
  • Roles of Fe-Histidine bonds in stability of hemoglobin: Recognition of protein flexibility by Q Sepharose, 2021, Biophysical Journal
  • Heme-bound tyrosine vibrations in hemoglobin M: Resonance Raman, crystallography, and DFT calculation, 2022, Biophysical Journal
  • Issue Information, 2020, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborative work with a range of researchers, including:

  • Takashi Ogura
  • Laurence A. Nafié
  • Hiro-o Hamaguchi
  • L. D. Ziegler
  • Philippe Colomban

In terms of publication venues, Kitagawa's work has appeared primarily in the following journals:

  • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Biophysical Reviews
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics

Best Publications

  • A new model for dioxygen binding in hemocyanin. Synthesis, characterization, and molecular structure of the .mu.-.eta.2:.eta.2 peroxo dinuclear copper(II) complexes, [Cu(HB(3,5-R2pz)3)]2(O2) (R = isopropyl and Ph)

    Nobumasa Kitajima;Kiyoshi Fujisawa;Chisato Fujimoto;Yoshihiko Morooka

  • Resonance Raman spectra of octaethylporphyrinato‐Ni(II) and meso‐deuterated and 15N substituted derivatives. II. A normal coordinate analysis

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  • Direct Observation of Cooling of Heme Upon Photodissociation of Carbonmonoxy Myoglobin

    Yasuhisa Mizutani;Teizo Kitagawa

  • Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Mononuclear Hydroperoxo-Copper(II) Complex with Tripodal Pyridylamine Ligands.

    Akira Wada;Manabu Harata;Koji Hasegawa;Koichiro Jitsukawa

  • Synthesis and characterization of the dinuclear copper(II) complexes [Cu(HB(3,5-Me2pz)3)]2X (X = O2-, (OH)22-, CO32-, O22-)

    Nobumasa Kitajima;Takayuki Koda;Shinji Hashimoto;Teizo Kitagawa

  • Nature of the iron-ligand bond in ferrous low spin hemoproteins studied by resonance Raman scattering.

    Kitagawa T;Kyogoku Y;Iizuka T;Saito Mi

  • Dioxygen Reactivity of Copper(I) Complexes with Tetradentate Tripodal Ligands Having Aliphatic Nitrogen Donors: Synthesis, Structures, and Properties of Peroxo and Superoxo Complexes

    Kazuya Komiyama;Hideki Furutachi;Shigenori Nagatomo;Akifumi Hashimoto

  • Resonance Raman study on cytochrome c peroxidase and its intermediate. Presence of the Fe(IV) = O bond in compound ES and heme-linked ionization.

    S Hashimoto;J Teraoka;T Inubushi;T Yonetani

  • Differences in Fe(II)-N epsilon(His-F8) stretching frequencies between deoxyhemoglobins in the two alternative quaternary structures.

    Kiyoshi Nagai;Teizo Kitagawa

  • Resonance Raman evidence for oxygen exchange between the FeIV = O heme and bulk water during enzymic catalysis of horseradish peroxidase and its relation with the heme-linked ionization

    Shinji Hashimoto;Yoshitaka Tatsuno;Teizo Kitagawa

  • Monomeric Carboxylate Ferrous Complexes as Models for the Dioxygen Binding Sites in Non-Heme Iron Proteins. The Reversible Formation and Characterization of .mu.-Peroxo Diferric Complexes

    Nobumasa Kitajima;Nobuchika Tamura;Hironobu Amagai;Hideno Fukui

  • Selective resonance Raman observation of the "607 nm" form generated in the reaction of oxidized cytochrome c oxidase with hydrogen peroxide.

    Denis A. Proshlyakov;Takashi Ogura;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Shinya Yoshikawa

  • Assignment of the Fe—Nϵ (His F8) stretching band in the resonance Raman spectra of deoxy myoglobin

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  • Time-resolved resonance Raman elucidation of the pathway for dioxygen reduction by cytochrome c oxidase

    Takashi Ogura;Satoshi Takahashi;Shun Hirota;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh

  • Iron-ligand stretching band in the resonance Raman spectra of ferrous iron porphyrin derivatives. Importance as a probe band for quaternary structure of hemoglobin

    Hiroshi Hori;Teizo Kitagawa

  • SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND REVERSIBLE OXYGENATION OF MU -ALKOXO DIIRON(II) COMPLEXES WITH THE DINUCLEATING LIGAND N,N,N',N'-TETRAKIS(6-METHYL-2- PYRIDYL)METHYL-1,3-DIAMINO-PROPAN-2-OLATE

    Yoshihito Hayashi;Takayuki Kayatani;Hideki Sugimoto;Masatatsu Suzuki

  • Resonance Raman spectra of octaethylporphyrinato‐Ni(II) and meso‐deuterated and 15N substituted derivatives. I. Observation and assignments of nonfundamental Raman lines

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  • OXIDATION OF BENZYL ALCOHOL WITH CUII AND ZNII COMPLEXES OF THE PHENOXYL RADICAL AS A MODEL OF THE REACTION OF GALACTOSE OXIDASE

    Shinobu Itoh;Masayasu Taki;Shigehisa Takayama;Shigenori Nagatomo

  • Evidence for hydrogen bonding of bound dioxygen to the distal histidine of oxycobalt myoglobin and haemoglobin

    T. Kitagawa;T. Kitagawa;M. R. Ondrias;M. R. Ondrias;D. L. Rousseau;M. Ikeda-saito

  • FT-IR approaches on amyloid fibril structure.

    Unknown

  • Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Evidence for Tight Coupling between Electron Transfer and Proton Pumping of Cytochrome c Oxidase upon the Change from the FeV Oxidation Level to the FeIV Oxidation Level

    Takashi Ogura;Shun Hirota;Denis A. Proshlyakov;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh

  • Infrared and Raman spectra of metalloporphyrins

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  • The Structure and Unusual pH Dependence of Plastocyanin from the Fern Dryopteris crassirhizoma: THE PROTONATION OF AN ACTIVE SITE HISTIDINE IS HINDERED BY π-π INTERACTIONS *

    Takamitsu Kohzuma;Tsuyoshi Inoue;Fuminori Yoshizaki;Yuki Sasakawa

  • Effects of a thiolate axial ligand on the π→π* electronic states of oxoferryl porphyrins: A study of the optical and resonance Raman spectra of compounds I and II of chloroperoxidase

    Tsuyoshi Egawa;Denis A. Proshlyakov;Hideho Miki;Ryu Makino

  • Activation of Heme-regulated Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α Kinase by Nitric Oxide Is Induced by the Formation of a Five-coordinate NO-Heme Complex OPTICAL ABSORPTION, ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE, AND RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTRAL STUDIES

    Jotaro Igarashi;Akira Sato;Teizo Kitagawa;Tetsuhiko Yoshimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Ogura
Takashi Ogura University of Hyogo
Shinya Yoshikawa
Shinya Yoshikawa University of Hyogo
Yoshihito Watanabe
Yoshihito Watanabe Nagoya University
Yoshimasa Kyogoku
Yoshimasa Kyogoku Osaka University
Shun Hirota
Shun Hirota Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Shinobu Itoh
Shinobu Itoh Osaka University
Koichiro Ishimori
Koichiro Ishimori Hokkaido University
Satoshi Takahashi
Satoshi Takahashi Tohoku University
Hisanobu Ogoshi
Hisanobu Ogoshi Kyoto University
Hideki Masuda
Hideki Masuda Nagoya Institute of Technology

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