Researchers

Researchers

Researchers

Shuntaro Takahashi

Shuntaro Takahashi
Research Interest
Biofunctional Chemistry
Education
B. Sc., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2002
M. Sc., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
Ph. D., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Lecturer, FIBER, Konan University, Kobe, Japan
Associate Professor, FIBER, Konan University, Kobe, Japan
Publications
  • S. Takahashi, A. Kotar, H. Tateishi-Karimata, S. Bhowmik, Z.-F. Wang, T.-C. Chang, S, Sato, S. Takenaka, J. Plavec, and N. Sugimoto
    "Chemical Modulation of DNA Replication along G-Quadruplex Based on Topology-Dependent Ligand Binding"
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143, 16458-16469 (2021) [Selected as a Supplementary Cover]
  • S. Takahashi and N. Sugimoto
    "Watson-Crick versus Hoogsteen Base Pairs: Chemical Strategy to Encode and Express Genetic Information in Life"
    Acc. Chem. Res., 54, 2110–2120 (2021) [Selected as a Front Cover]
  • S. Takahashi and N. Sugimoto
    "Stability Prediction of Canonical and Non-canonical Structures of Nucleic Acids in Various Molecular Environments and Cells"
    Chem. Soc. Rev., 49, 8439-8468 (2020) [Selected as a Front Cover]
  • S. Takahashi, H. Okura, P. Chilika, S. Ghosh, and N. Sugimoto
    "Molecular crowding induces primer extension by RNA polymerase through base stacking beyond Watson–Crick rules"
    RSC Adv., 10, 33052-33058 (2020) [Selected as a HOT Article]
  • S. Takahashi, J. Yamamoto, A. Kitamura, M. Masataka, and N. Sugimoto
    "Characterization of intracellular crowding environments with topology-based DNA quadruplex sensors"
    Anal. Chem., 91, 2586-2590 (2019) [Selected as a Supplementary Cover]
  • S. Takahashi, H. Okura, and N. Sugimoto
    "Bisubstrate function of RNA polymerases triggered by molecular crowding conditions"
    Biochemistry, 58, 1081-1093 (2019) [Selected as a Supplementary Cover]
  • S. Takahashi, K. T. Kim, P. Podbevšek, J. Plavec, B. H. Kim, and N. Sugimoto
    "Recovery of the formation and function of oxidized G-quadruplexes by a pyrene-modified guanine-tract"
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 140, 5774–5783 (2018) [Selected as a Supplementary Cover]
  • S. Takahashi, J. A. Brazier, and N. Sugimoto
    "Topological impact of noncanonical DNA structures on Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase"
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 114, 9605-9610 (2017)
  • S. Takahashi and N. Sugimoto
    "Effect of pressure on the stability of G-quadruplex DNA: Thermodynamics under crowding conditions"
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, 13774-13778 (2013) [Selected as an Inside Back Cover]
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