New Insights into the Roles of NAD+-Poly(ADP-ribose) Metabolism and Poly(ADP-ribose) Glycohydrolase. Tanuma SI, Sato A, Oyama T, Yoshimori A, Abe H, Uchiumi F. Curr Protein Pept Sci. 2016 [in press]
Structure-activity relationships of the thujaplicins for inhibition of human tyrosinase. Yoshimori A, Oyama T, Takahashi S, Abe H, Kamiya T, Abe T, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2014;22(21):6193-200.
Structure-based design of dipeptide derivatives for the human neutral endopeptidase. Misawa K, Suzuki Y, Takahashi S, Yoshimori A, Takasawa R, Shibuya Y, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2011;19(20):5935-47.
Discovery of a new type inhibitor of human glyoxalase I by myricetin-based 4-point pharmacophore. Takasawa R, Tao A, Saeki K, Shionozaki N, Tanaka R, Uchiro H, Takahashi S, Yoshimori A, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2011 ;21(14):4337-42.
Structural insights into the hot spot amino acid residues of mushroom tyrosinase for the bindings of thujaplicins. Takahashi S, Kamiya T, Saeki K, Nezu T, Takeuchi S, Takasawa R, Sunaga S, Yoshimori A, Ebizuka S, Abe T, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2010;18(22):8112-8.
A new small molecule that directly inhibits the DNA binding of NF-kappaB. Kobayashi T, Yoshimori A, Kino K, Komori R, Miyazawa H, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2009;17(14):5293-7.
Structure-based discovery of a novel non-peptidic small molecular inhibitor of caspase-3. Sakai J, Yoshimori A, Nose Y, Mizoroki A, Okita N, Takasawa R, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2008;16(9):4854-9.
Structure-activity relationship of human GLO I inhibitory natural flavonoids and their growth inhibitory effects. Takasawa R, Takahashi S, Saeki K, Sunaga S, Yoshimori A, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2008;16(7):3969-75.
Structural and functional definition of the specificity of a novel caspase-3 inhibitor, Ac-DNLD-CHO. Yoshimori A, Sakai J, Sunaga S, Kobayashi T, Takahashi S, Okita N, Takasawa R, Tanuma S. BMC Pharmacol. 2007;7:8.
Structure basis for the inhibitory mechanism of a novel DNase gamma-specific inhibitor, DR396. Sunaga S, Yoshimori A, Shiokawa D, Tanuma S. Bioorg Med Chem. 2006;14(12):4217-26.
A novel inhibitor that protects apoptotic DNA fragmentation catalyzed by DNase gamma. Sunaga S, Kobayashi T, Yoshimori A, Shiokawa D, Tanuma S. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004;325(4):1292-7.
A novel method for evaluation and screening of caspase inhibitory peptides by the amino acid positional fitness score. Yoshimori A, Takasawa R, Tanuma S. BMC Pharmacol. 2004;4:7.