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Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary SciencesCreative Interdisciplinary Research Division, Tohoku University

Degree: PhD in Engineering(Osaka University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201901006762505790
researchmap Member ID: B000358841

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

May, 2019 - Present

Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Tohoku University
Aug, 2014 - Apr, 2019

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

JSPS Overseas Research Fellow
Apr, 2014 - Jul, 2014

Researcher, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience

Education

Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2014

JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2014

Department of Applied Chemistry, Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
May, 2011 - Jul, 2011

Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio
Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2011

Department of Applied Chemistry, Master's Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2009

Division of Applied Science, School of Engineering, Osaka University

Committee Memberships

Oct, 2021

第54回酸化反応討論会実行委員
2016 - 2017

Organize Committee, Preconference of the International Conference on Molecular Systems Engineering

Awards

Aug, 2017

Pre-International Conference on Molecular Systems Engineering, Poster prize

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May, 2017

NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, Poster cup 1st prize

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Apr, 2014

日本化学会第94回春季年会学生講演賞

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May, 2012

第22回生物の関与する生体関連反応シンポジウムポスター賞

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Apr, 2012

日本化学会第92回春季年会学生講演賞

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Nov, 2011

第44回酸化反応討論会ポスター賞

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Aug, 2011

第24回生物無機化学夏期セミナーポスター賞

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Sep, 2010

第60回錯体化学討論会学生講演賞

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Papers

Water-Soluble Tris(cyclometalated) Iridium(III) Complexes for Aqueous Electron and Energy Transfer Photochemistry

Mirjam R. Schreier, Xingwei Guo, Björn Pfund, Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward, Christoph Kerzig, Oliver S. Wenger

Accounts of Chemical Research, 55(9) 1290-1300, May 3, 2022
Intracellular Unnatural Catalysis Enabled by an Artificial Metalloenzyme

Yasunori Okamoto, Ryosuke Kojima

Methods in Molecular Biology, 2312 287-300, 2021 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
A Visible‐Light Promoted Amine Oxidation Catalyzed by a Cp*Ir Complex

Holly Jane Davis, Daniel Häussinger, Thomas R. Ward, Yasunori Okamoto

ChemCatChem, 12(18) 4512-4516, Sep 17, 2020 Peer-reviewedCorresponding author
Artificial Metalloenzymes: From Selective Chemical Transformations to Biochemical Applications

Tomoki Himiyama, Yasunori Okamoto

Molecules, 25(13) 2989-2989, Jun 30, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvitedCorresponding author
Reductive Amination and Enantioselective Amine Synthesis by Photoredox Catalysis

Xingwei Guo, Yasunori Okamoto, Mirjam R. Schreier, Thomas R. Ward, Oliver S. Wenger

European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020(10) 1288-1293, Mar 15, 2020
Structural basis for the heme transfer reaction in heme uptake machinery from Corynebacteria.

Norifumi Muraki, Chihiro Kitatsuji, Yasunori Okamoto, Takeshi Uchida, Koichiro Ishimori, Shigetoshi Aono

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 55(92) 13864-13867, Nov 14, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Cell-Penetrating Dynamic-Covalent Benzopolysulfane Networks

Yangyang Cheng, Lili Zong, Javier López‐Andarias, Eline Bartolami, Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58(28) 9522-9526, Jun, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Diselenolane-Mediated Cellular Uptake: Efficient Cytosolic Delivery of Probes, Peptides, Proteins, Artificial Metalloenzymes and Protein-Coated Quantum Dots.

Eline Bartolami, Dimitris Basagiannis, Lili Zong, Rémi Martinent, Yasunori Okamoto, Quentin Laurent, Thomas R. Ward, Marcos Gonzalez‐Gaitan, Naomi Sakai, Stefan Matile

Chemistry – A European Journal, 25 4047-4051, Feb, 2019 Peer-reviewed
A cell-penetrating artificial metalloenzyme regulates a gene switch in a designer mammalian cell

Yasunori Okamoto, Ryosuke Kojima, Fabian Schwizer, Eline Bartolami, Tillmann Heinisch, Stefan Matile, Martin Fussenegger, Thomas R. Ward

Nature Communications, 9(1) 1943, Dec 1, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Enantioselective synthesis of amines by combining photoredox and enzymatic catalysis in a cyclic reaction network

Xingwei Guo, Yasunori Okamoto, Mirjam R. Schreier, Thomas R. Ward, Oliver S. Wenger

Chemical Science, 9 5052-5056, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Artificial Metalloenzymes: Reaction Scope and Optimization Strategies.

Fabian Schwizer, Yasunori Okamoto, Tillmann Heinisch, Yifan Gu, Michela M. Pellizzoni, Vincent Lebrun, Raphael Reuter, Valentin Köhler, Jared C. Lewis, Thomas R. Ward

Chemical Reviews, 118(1) 142-231, 2018 Peer-reviewed
Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Organometallic Complexes Using NADH as a Reductant in a Biochemical Context

Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward

BIOCHEMISTRY, 56(40) 5223-5224, Oct, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Cross-Regulation of an Artificial Metalloenzyme

Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 56(34) 10156-10160, Aug, 2017 Peer-reviewed
4.14 - Supramolecular Enzyme Mimics

Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward

Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry II, 459-510, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Efficient In Situ Regeneration of NADH Mimics by an Artificial Metalloenzyme

Yasunori Okamoto, Valentin Kohler, Caroline E. Paul, Frank Hollmann, Thomas R. Ward

ACS CATALYSIS, 6(6) 3553-3557, Jun, 2016 Peer-reviewed
From Photodriven Charge Accumulation to Fueling Enzyme Cascades in Molecular Factories

Yasunori Okamoto, Thomas R. Ward, Oliver S. Wenger

CHIMIA, 70(6) 395-397, Jun, 2016 Peer-reviewed
An NAD(P)H-Dependent Artificial Transfer Hydrogenase for Multienzymatic Cascades

Yasunori Okamoto, Valentin Kohler, Thomas R. Ward

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 138(18) 5781-5784, May, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Heme-Binding Properties of HupD Functioning as a Substrate-Binding Protein in a Heme-Uptake ABC-Transporter System in Listeria monocytogenes

Yasunori Okamoto, Hitomi Sawai, Mariko Ogura, Takeshi Uchida, Koichiro Ishimori, Takashi Hayashi, Shigetoshi Aono

BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 87(10) 1140-1146, Oct, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Structure and function of heme-binding proteins in heme-uptake systems of gram-positive bacteria

Norifumi Muraki, Yasunori Okamoto, Takashi Hayashi, Shigetoshi Aono

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 19 S846-S847, Aug, 2014 Peer-reviewed
H2O2-dependent substrate oxidation by an engineered diiron site in a bacterial hemerythrin

Yasunori Okamoto, Akira Onoda, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yu Takano, Shun Hirota, Donald M. Kurtz, Yoshitsugu Shiro, Takashi Hayashi

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 50(26) 3421-3423, 2014 Peer-reviewed

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人工金属酵素によるSystems Catalysisと細胞内触媒反応

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