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Wesley Y. Yoshida is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with specialized attention to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, and inorganic chemistry.

They have contributed extensively to the study of crystallization and solubility, X-ray diffraction techniques in crystallography, and the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic and organometallic compounds. Additional research topics include molecular spectroscopy and chirality, chemical synthesis involving alkaloids, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, and coordination chemistry related to organometallic compounds.

Wesley Y. Yoshida has published research in multiple scientific journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • 6-Deoxy- and 11-Hydroxytolypodiols: Meroterpenoids from the Cyanobacterium HT-58-2 (2020, Journal of Natural Products)
  • Antibacterial kaneoheoic acids A-F from a Hawaiian fungus Fusarium sp. FM701 (2020, Phytochemistry)
  • Isolation, Structure Determination, and Synthesis of Cyclic Tetraglutamic Acids from Box Jellyfish Species Alatina alata and Chironex yamaguchii (2020, Molecules)
  • Spirovetivane- and Eudesmane-Type Sesquiterpenoids Isolated from the Culture Media of Two Cyanobacterial Strains (2022, Journal of Natural Products)
  • New Nostocyclophanes from Nostoc linckia (2023, Marine Drugs)

Their work appears frequently in the following publication venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (17 publications)
  • Journal of Natural Products (4 publications)
  • Phytochemistry (1 publication)
  • Molecules (1 publication)
  • Marine Drugs (1 publication)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wesley Y. Yoshida include Arnold L. Rheingold, Matthew F. Cain, Preston M. Miura-Akagi, Timothy W. Chapp, and Russell P. Hughes. These collaborations have contributed to multiple research outputs across their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Total structure determination of apratoxin A, a potent novel cytotoxin from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Valerie J. Paul

  • Isolation, Structure Determination, and Biological Activity of Lyngbyabellin A from the Marine Cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Valerie J. Paul

  • Potential anti-inflammatory phenolic glycosides from the medicinal plant Moringa oleifera fruits

    Sarot Cheenpracha;Eun-Jung Park;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Chaz Barit

  • New apratoxins of marine cyanobacterial origin from Guam and Palau.

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y Yoshida;Richard E Moore;Valerie J Paul

  • Symplostatin 1: A dolastatin 10 analogue from the marine cyanobacterium Symploca hydnoides

    George G. Harrigan;Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore

  • Ambiguine isonitriles, fungicidal hapalindole-type alkaloids from three genera of blue-green algae belonging to the Stigonemataceae

    Tim A. Smitka;Rosanne Bonjouklian;Larry Doolin;Noel D. Jones

  • Pitipeptolides A and B, new cyclodepsipeptides from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.

    Hendrik Luesch;Ronald Pangilinan;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore

  • Post-translational modification in microviridin biosynthesis.

    Benjamin Philmus;Guntram Christiansen;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Thomas K. Hemscheidt

  • Piperidine alkaloids from Piper methysticum

    Klaus Dragull;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Chung-Shih Tang

  • Isolation, Structure Determination, and Biological Activity of Dolastatin 12 and Lyngbyastatin 1 from Lyngbya majuscula/Schizothrix calcicola Cyanobacterial Assemblages

    George G. Harrigan;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Dale G. Nagle;Dale G. Nagle

  • Isolation and structure determination of obyanamide, a novel cytotoxic cyclic depsipeptide from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya confervoides.

    Philip G. Williams;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Valerie J. Paul

  • Biosynthesis and structure of aeruginoside 126A and 126B, cyanobacterial peptide glycosides bearing a 2-carboxy-6-hydroxyoctahydroindole moiety.

    Keishi Ishida;Keishi Ishida;Guntram Christiansen;Guntram Christiansen;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Rainer Kurmayer

  • Symplostatin 2: a dolastatin 13 analogue from the marine cyanobacterium Symploca hydnoides.

    George G. Harrigan;Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore

  • The Kapakahines, Cyclic Peptides from the Marine Sponge Cribrochalina olemda

    Bryan K. S. Yeung;Yoichi Nakao;Robin B. Kinnel;John R. Carney

  • Hennoxazoles, bioactive bisoxazoles from a marine sponge

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  • Structure and Absolute Configuration of Karlotoxin-2, an Ichthyotoxin from the Marine Dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum

    Jiangnan Peng;Allen R. Place;Wesley Yoshida;Clemens Anklin

  • Symplostatin 3, a new dolastatin 10 analogue from the marine cyanobacterium Symploca sp. VP452.

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Valerie J. Paul

  • Structurally diverse new alkaloids from Palauan collections of the apratoxin-producing marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya sp. ☆

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y Yoshida;Richard E Moore;Valerie J Paul

  • Two imidazole alkaloids from a sponge

    Rhone K. Akee;Tony R. Carroll;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Paul J. Scheuer

  • Malevamide D: Isolation and structure determination of an isodolastatin H analogue from the marine cyanobacterium Symploca hydnoides

    F. David Horgen;Emily B. Kazmierski;Hans E. Westenburg;Wesley Y. Yoshida

  • Isolation and structure determination of nostocyclopeptides A1 and A2 from the terrestrial cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. ATCC53789.

    Trimurtulu Golakoti;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Sreedhara Chaganty;Richard E. Moore

  • Isolation and structure of the cytotoxin lyngbyabellin B and absolute configuration of lyngbyapeptin A from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula.

    Hendrik Luesch;Wesley Y. Yoshida;Richard E. Moore;Valerie J. Paul

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Moore
Richard E. Moore University of Hawaii at Manoa
Paul J. Scheuer
Paul J. Scheuer University of Hawaii at Manoa
Valerie J. Paul
Valerie J. Paul Smithsonian Institution
Hendrik Luesch
Hendrik Luesch University of Florida
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Mark T. Hamann
Mark T. Hamann Medical University of South Carolina
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
James B. McClintock
James B. McClintock University of Alabama at Birmingham
Keishi Ishida
Keishi Ishida Leibniz Association
Allen R. Place
Allen R. Place University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

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