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Masaki Kita
Original papers
- Masaki Kita, Hideo Kigoshi, and Daisuke Uemura:
Isolation and Structure of Korolkoside, a Bis-iridoid Glucoside from Lonicera korolkovii.
J. Nat. Prod., 64, 1090-1092 (2001).
- Noboru Takada, Masami Watanabe, Kiyotake Suenaga, Kaoru Yamada, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Isolation and Structures of Hedathiosulfonic acids A and B, Novel Thiosulfonic Acids from the Deep-sea Urchin Echinocardium cordatum.
Tetrahedron Lett., 42, 6557-6560 (2001).
- Noboru Takada, Reiko Watanabe, Kiyokake Suenaga, Kaoru Yamada, Katsuhiro Ueda, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Zamamistatin, a Significant Antibacterial Bromotyrosine Derivative, from the Okinawan Sponge Pseudoceratina purpurea.
Tetrahedron Lett., 42, 5265-5267 (2001).
- Masaki Kita, Masami Watanabe, Noboru Takada, Kiyotake Suenaga, Kaoru Yamada, and Daisuke Uemura:
Hedathiosulfonic Acids A and B, Novel Thiosulfonic Acids from the Deep-sea Urchin Echinocardium cordatum.
Tetrahedron, 58, 6405-6412 (2002).
- Reiko Watanabe, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
A Novel Dipeptide, N-gamma-Glutamyl Boletine, and a Cyclic Iminium Toxin from the Mushroom Tylopilus sp. (Boletaceae).
Tetrahedron Lett., 43, 6501-6504 (2002).
- Masahiro Iwasa, Satoshi Odachi, Masaki Kita, Yukako Naito, and Chihiro Kawakubo:
A Survey of Small Mammals at Kiritap Mire, Eastern Hokkaido, Japan.
J. Environ. Edu., 5, 47-52 (2002). (in Japanese)
- Hideo Kigoshi, Masaki Kita, Seiji Ogawa, Masahiro Itoh, and Daisuke Uemura:
Enantioselective Synthesis of 15-epi-Haterumalide NA Methyl Ester and Revised Structure of Haterumalide NA.
Org. Lett., 5, 957-960 (2003).
- Toshiaki Teruya, Satoru Nakagawa, Tomoyuki Koyama, Kiyotake Suenaga, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Nakiterpiosin, a Novel Cytotoxic C-Nor-D-homosteroid from the Okinawan Sponge Terpios hoshinota.
Tetrahedron Lett., 44, 5171-5173 (2003).
- Shin-ichiro Kawada, Masaki Kita, Ashley Dowling:
Collecting Survey of Small Mammal Species in Michigan States, USA.
Special Publication of Nagoya Society of Mammalogists, 5, 61-64 (2003). (in Japanese)
- Masaki Kita, Mikiko Kondo, Tomoyuki Koyama, Kaoru Yamada, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Kun Hyung Lee, Je Tae Woo, and Daisuke Uemura:
Symbioimine Exhibiting Inhibitory Effect of Osteoclast Differentiation, from the Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 4794-4795 (2004).
- Masaki Kita, Yasuo Nakamura, Yuushi Okumura, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Yuichi Oba, Michiyasu Yoshikuni, Hiroshi Kido, and Daisuke Uemura:
Blarina Toxin, a Mammalian Lethal Venom from the Short-tailed Shrew Blarina brevicauda: Isolation and Characterization.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 101, 7542-7547 (2004).
- Toshiaki Teruya, Satoru Nakagawa, Tomoyuki Koyama, Hirokazu Arimoto, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Nakiterpiosin and Nakiterpiosinone, Novel Cytotoxic C-Nor-D-homosteroids from the Okinawan Sponge Terpios hoshinota.
Tertahedron, 60, 6989-6993 (2004).
- Masaki Kita, Yuushi Okumura, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Yuichi Oba, Michiyasu Yoshikuni, Yasuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Kido, and Daisuke Uemura:
Purification and Characterisation of Blarinasin, a New Tissue Kallikrein-like Protease from the Short-tailed Shrew Blarina brevicauda - Comparative Studies with Blarina Toxin.
Biol. Chem., 386, 177-182 (2005).
- Masaki Kita, Nao Ohishi, Kazuto Washida, Mikiko Kondo, Tomoyuki Koyama, Kaoru Yamada, and Daisuke Uemura:
Symbioimine and Neosymbioimine, Amphoteric Iminium Metabolites from the Symbiotic Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp.
Bioorg. Med. Chem., 13, 5253-5258 (2005).
- Masaki Kita, Makoto Kitamura, Tomoyuki Koyama, Toshiaki Teruya, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yoshikatsu Nakano, and Daisuke Uemura:
Feeding Attractants for the Muricid Gastropod Drupella cornus, a Coral Predator.
Tetrahedron Lett., 46, 8583-8585 (2005).
- Katsuhiro Ueda, Tomoyuki Ueta, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Haterumadienone: a New Cytotoxic Puupehenone Congener from the Okinawan Marine Sponge Dysidea chlorea de Laubenfels.
Chem. Lett., 34, 1530-1531 (2005).
- Kazuto Washida, Tomoyuki Koyama, Kaoru Yamada, Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
Karatungiols A and B, Two Novel Antimicrobial Polyol Compounds, from the Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellate Amphidinium sp.
Tetrahedron Lett., 47, 2521-2525 (2006).
- Kenichiro Shimokawa, Itsuka Mashima, Akiko Asai, Kaoru Yamada, Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
(-)-Ternatin, a Highly N-Methylated Cyclic Hepta-peptide That Inhibits Fat Accumulation: Structure and Synthesis.
Tetrahedron Lett., 47, 4445-4448 (2006).
- Junliang Hao, Fumiyoshi Matsuura, Yoshito Kishi, Masaki Kita, Daisuke Uemura, Naoki Asai, and Takashi Iwashita:
Stereochemistry of Pteriatoxins A, B, and C.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 7742-7743 (2006).
- Katsuhiro Ueda, Takashi Kadekaru, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Haterumadysins A-D: Sesquiterpenes from the Okinawan Marine Sponge Dysidea chlorea.
J. Nat. Prod., 69, 1077-1079 (2006).
- Jasim Uddin, Katsuhiro Ueda, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
Cytotoxic Labdane Alkaloids from an Ascidian Lissoclinum sp.: Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Structure-activity Relationship.
Bioorg. Med. Chem., 14, 6954-6961 (2006).
- Katsuhiro Ueda, Takayuki Ogi, Atsushi Sato, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Cytotoxic Haterumadienone Congeners from the Okinawan Marine Sponge Dysidea sp.
Heterocycles, 72, 655-663 (2007).
- Masaki Kita, Nao Ohishi, Kaori Konishi, Mikiko Kondo, Tomoyuki Koyama, Makoto Kitamura, Kaoru Yamada and Daisuke Uemura:
Symbiodinolide, a Novel Polyol Macrolide that Activates N-type Ca2+ Channel from the Symbiotic Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp.
Tetrahedron, 63, 6241-6251 (2007).
- Masaki Kita, Michael C. Roy, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Isao Noma, Takahiro Takiguchi, Motoyuki Itoh, Kaoru Yamada, Tomoyuki Koyama, Takashi Iwashita and Daisuke Uemura:
Durinskiol A, a Long Carbon-chain Polyol Compound from the Symbiotic Dinoflagellate Durinskia sp.
Tetrahedron Lett., 48, 3423-3427 (2007) (highlighted as a Cover Picture).
- Masaki Kita, Michael C. Roy, Eric Richard Oktavianus Siwu, Isao Noma, Takahiro Takiguchi, Kaoru Yamada, Tomoyuki Koyama, Takashi Iwashita, Atsushi Wakamiya and Daisuke Uemura:
Relative Stereochemistries of the Ether Rings and Sugar Moieties in Durinskiol A.
Tetrahedron Lett., 48, 3429-3432 (2007).
- Kenichiro Shimokawa, Kaoru Yamada, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Convergent Synthesis and in vivo Fat Accumulation Inhibitory Effect of (-)-Ternatin, a Highly N-Methylated Cyclic Peptide.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 17, 4447-4449 (2007).
- Hiroshi Suzuki, Nagwa S. M. Aly, Yusuke Wataya, Hye-Sook Kim, Ikumi Tamai, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Preparation of Quinoline Hexose Analogs as Novel Chloroquine-resistant Malaria Treatments (1). Synthesis of 4-Hydroxyquinoline-beta-glucosides.
Chem. Pharm. Bull., 55, 821-824 (2007).
- Masaki Kita, Ryoka Miwa, Triana Widianti, Yoshikazu Ozaki, Sachiko Aoyama, Kaoru Yamada, and Daisuke Uemura:
Revised Structure of Kasarin, an Antibacterial Pyrazinone Compound from the Marine Microorganism Hyphomycetes sp.
Tetrahedron Lett., 48, 8628-8631 (2007).
- Kenichiro Shimokawa, Itsuka Mashima, Akiko Asai, Kaoru Yamada, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Biological, Structural, and Synthetic Studies on (-)-Ternatin, A Potent Fat Accumulation Inhibitor against 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
Chem. Asian J., 3, 438-446 (2008).
- Eric R. O. Siwu, Osamu Ohno, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Durinskiol B: A New Durinskiol Congener from the Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellate Durinskia sp.
Chem. Lett., 37, 236-237 (2008).
- Wimolpun Rungprom, Lynette K. Lambert, Chutiwan Dechsakulwatana, Michael C. Barden, Udom Kokpol, Joanne T. Blanchfield, Eric R. O. Siwu, Masaki Kita, and Mary J. Garson:
Cyclic Tetrapeptides from Marine Bacteria Associated with the Seaweed Diginea sp. and the Sponge Halisarca ectofibrosa.
Tetrahedron, 64, 3147-3152 (2008).
- Masaki Kita, Yuta Tsunematsu, Ichiro Hayakawa, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Structure of Zamamistatin - a Correction.
Tetrahedron Lett., 49, 5383-5384 (2008).
- Masaki Kita, Makoto Kuramoto, Tatsuhiko Chiba, Akihiro Yamada, Nobuko Yamada, Takao Ishida, Takeharu Haino, Kaoru Yamada, Yasuharu Ijuin, Osamu Ohno, and Daisuke Uemura:
Structure-activity Relationship of Okadaic Acid, a Potent Protein Phosphatases PP1 and PP2A Inhibitor:
24-epi-Okadaic Acid and a 18-Membered Lactone Analog.
Heterocycles, 76, 1033-1042 (2008).
- Chunguang Han, Yoshi Yamano, Masaki Kita, Hiroyoshi Takamura, and Daisuke Uemura:
Determination of Absolute Configuration of C14-C23 Fragment in Symbiodinolide.
Tetrahedron Lett., 50, 5280-5282 (2009).
- Masaki Kita, David StC. Black, Osamu Ohno, Kaoru Yamada, Hideo Kigoshi, and Daisuke Uemura:
Duck-billed Platypus Venom Peptides Induce Ca2+ Influx in Neuroblastoma Cells.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 18038-18039 (2009).
- Masaki Kita, Hidekazu Watanabe, Tomoya Ishitsuka, Yuzo Mogi, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Synthetic Studies of Mycalolide B, An Actin-depolymerizing Marine Macrolide: Construction of the Tris-oxazole Macrolactone Using Ring-closing Metathesis.
Tetrahedron Lett., 51, 4882-4885 (2010).
- Masaki Kita, Yuichiro Hirayama, Miyuki Sugiyama, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Development of Highly Cytotoxic and Actin-depolymerizing Biotin Derivatives of Aplyronine A.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 9871-9874 (2011); Angew. Chem., 123, 10045-10048 (2011).
- Masaki Kita, Kozo Yoneda, Yuichiro Hirayama, Kota Yamagishi, Yuki Saito, Yuka Sugiyama, Yoshihiro Miwa, Osamu Ohno, Maho Morita, Kiyotake Suenaga, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Fluorescent Aplyronine A: Intracellular Accumulation and Disassembly of Actin Cytoskeleton in Tumor Cells.
ChemBioChem, 13, 1754-1758 (2012).
- Masaki Kita, Hirotaka Oka, Akihiro Usui, Tomoya Ishitsuka, Yuzo Mogi, Hirokazu Watanabe, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Synthesis and Biological Activities of the Tris-oxazole Macrolactone Analogs of Mycalolides.
Tetrahedron, 68, 8753-8760 (2012).
- Masaki Kita, Yuichiro Hirayama, Kota Yamagishi, Kozo Yoneda, Ryosuke Fujisawa, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Interactions of the Antitumor Macrolide Aplyronine A with Actin and Actin-related Proteins Established by Its Versatile Photoaffinity Derivatives.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 20314-20317 (2012).
- Osamu Ohno, Maho Morita, Kazuhiro Kitamura, Toshiaki Teruya, Kozo Yoneda, Masaki Kita, Hideo Kigoshi, and Kiyotake Suenaga:
Apoptosis-inducing Activity of the Actin-depolymerizing Agent Aplyronine A and Its Side-chain Derivative.
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 23, 1467-1471 (2013).
- Masaki Kita, Baro Gise, Atsushi Kawamura, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Stylissatin A, a cyclic peptide that inhibits nitric oxide production from the marine sponge Stylissa massa.
Tetrahedron Lett., 54, 6826-6828 (2013).
- Masaki Kita, Yuichiro Hirayama, Kozo Yoneda, Kota Yamagishi, Takumi Chinen, Takeo Usui, Eriko Sumiya, Motonari Uesugi, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Inhibition of Microtubule Assembly by A Complex of Actin and Antitumor Macrolide Aplyronine A.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 135, 18089-18095 (2013).
- Lazaro M. Echenique-Diaz, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Masaki Kita, Gerardo Begue-Quiala, Rafael Borroto-Paez, Jorge L. Delgado-Labanino, Jorgelino Gamez-Diez, Osamu Hoson, and Chiemi Saito:
Assessing Local People's Knowledge of the Endangered Cuban Solenodon (Solenodon cubanus) in Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, Cuba.
Research Bulletin of Environmental Education Center, Miyagi University of Education, 16, 89-95 (2014).
- Tito Akindele, Baro Gise, Taiki Sunaba, Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Isolation, Synthesis and Nitric Oxide Reducing Activity of Compounds from the Marine Sponge Stylissa massa.
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 88, 600-609 (2015).
- Atsushi Kawamura, Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Aplysiasecosterol A: A 9,11-Secosteroid with An Unprecedented Tricyclic Gamma-diketone Structure from the Sea Hare Aplysia kurodai.
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 54, 7073-7076 (2015); Angew. Chem., 127, 7179-7182 (2015).
- Masaki Kita, Hirotaka Oka, Akihiro Usui, Tomoya Ishitsuka, Yuzo Mogi, Hidekazu Watanabe, Masaki Tsunoda, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Total Synthesis of Tris-oxazole Macrolide (-)-Mycalolide B via Olefin Metathesis.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 14174-14178 (2015); Angew. Chem., 127, 14380-14384 (2015).
- Kozo Yoneda, Yaping Hu, Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Development of An Aplyronine A Photoaffinity Amidopyrene Derivative Applicable for Label-assisted LDI MS.
Sci. Rep., 5, 17853 (2015) [DOI: 10.1038/srep17853].
- Yuichiro Hirayama, Peter L. Katavic, Andrew M. White, Gregory K. Pierens, Lynette K. Lambert, Anne E. Winters, Hideo Kigoshi, Masaki Kita, and Mary J. Garson:
New Cytotoxic Norditerpenes from the Australian Nudibranchs Goniobranchus splendidus and Goniobranchus daphne.
Aust. J. Chem., 69, 136-144 (2016).
- Masaki Kita, Atsushi Kawamura, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Aplysiasecosterols B and C: Two New 9,11-secosteroids with A cis-fused 1,4-Quinone Structure from the Sea Hare Aplysia kurodai.
Tetrahedron Lett., 57, 858-860 (2016).
- Yuichiro Hirayama, Kota Yamagishi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Hirokazu Kawagishi, Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Analysis of the Aplyronine A-induced Protein-protein Interaction between Actin and Tubulin by Surface Plasmon Resonance.
Bioorg. Med. Chem., 24, 2809-2814 (2016).
- Jun J. Sato, Satoshi D. Ohdachi, Lazaro M. Echenique-Diaz, Rafael Borroto-Paez, Gerardo Begue-Quiala, Jorge L. Delgado-Labanino, Jorgelino Gamez-Diez, Jose Alvarez-Lemus, Son Truong Nguyen, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, and Masaki Kita:
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Nuclear Genes Suggests A Cenozoic Over-water Dispersal Origin for the Cuban Solenodon.
Sci. Rep., 6, 31173 (2016) [DOI: 10.1038/srep31173].
- Kozo Yoneda, Yaping Hu, Rei Watanabe, Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
Binding Position Analysis of Target Proteins with the Use of Amidopyrene Probes as LA-LDI Enhancing Tags.
Org. Biomol. Chem., in press (2016).
Reviews
- Hirokazu Arimoto, Masaki Kita, and Daisuke Uemura:
Chemistry of Biologically and Physiologically Intriguing Phenomena.
Chemical Industry (Monthly), 52, 24-29 (2002).(in Japanese)
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
Iminium Alkaloids from Marine Invertebrates: Structure, Biological activity, and Biogenesis.
Chem. Lett. (Highlight Review), 34, 454-459 (2005).
- Masaki Kita, Emi Sakai, and Daisuke Uemura:
Pursuit of Novel Bioactive Marine Metabolites.
J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 64, 471-480 (2006). (in Japanese)
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
Long Carbon-chain Compounds from Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellates.
Kagaku to Seibutsu, 45, 58-63 (2007). (in Japanese)
- Masaki Kita:
Bioorganic Studies on the Mammalian Venom -Shrew and Platypus-.
Biophilia, 5, 29-33 (2009). (in Japanese)
- Daisuke Uemura, Masaki Kita, Hirokazu Arimoto, and Makoto Kitamura:
Recent Aspects of Chemical Ecology -Natural Toxins, Coral Communities, and Symbiotic Relationships-.
Pure Appl. Chem., 81, 1093-1111 (2009).
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
Marine Huge Molecules: the Longest Carbon Chains in Natural Products.
Chem. Rec., 10, 48-52 (2010).
- Masaki Kita, Osamu Ohno, Chunguang Han, and Daisuke Uemura:
Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellates: Symbiodinolide and Durinskiols.
Chem. Rec., 10, 57-69 (2010).
- Masaki Kita:
Bioorganic Studies on the Venom from Duckbill Platypus.
Pure Appl. Chem., 84, 1317-1328 (2012).
- Masaki Kita:
Bioorganic Studies on the Key Natural Products from Venomous Mammals and Marine Invertebrates.
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 85, 1175-1185 (2012).
- Masaki Kita and Hideo Kigoshi:
Target Identification and Mode of Action Studies of an Antitumor Compound Aplyronine A by Using Photoaffinity Derivatives.
J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn., 73, 151-160 (2015). (in Japanese)
- Yuichiro Hirayama, Masaki Kita and Hideo Kigoshi:
The Mode of Action of Antitumor Marine Macrolide Aplyronine A.
Kagaku to Seibutsu, 53, 164-170 (2015). (in Japanese)
- Masaki Kita and Hideo Kigoshi:
Marine Natural Products That Regulate Multiple Cytoskeletal Protein Interactions.
Nat. Prod. Rep., 32, 534-542 (2015).
Books
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
"Shellfish Poisons." in Progress in Marine Molecular Biotechnology, Vol. 43, Eds W. E. G. Muller and H. G. Schroeder, (Springer-Verlag Press, D-Berlin, Heidelberg) pp. 25-51. (2006).
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
"Bioactive Heterocyclic Alkaloids from Marine Origin." in Topics in Heterocycles, Vol. 6, Ed S. Eguchi (Springer-Verlag Press) pp. 157-179 (2006).
- Masaki Kita and Daisuke Uemura:
"Diverse chemical structures and bioactivities of marine toxin: palytoxin and symbiodinolide." in Seafood and Freshwater Toxins. Pharmacology, Physiology and Detection, Taylor & Francis. 2nd edition. Ed. L. M. Botana (CRC Press, Boca Raton), pp. 665-672 (2007).
- Masaki Kita, Makoto Kitamura, and Daisuke Uemura:
"Pheromones of marine invertebrates and algae." in Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry, 2nd edition. Vol. 3, Ed. K. Mori (Elsevier, Amsterdam), pp. 263-281 (2010).
- Masaki Kita, Toshiyasu Inuzuka, Norihito Maru, and Daisuke Uemura:
"Bioactive Molecules from Symbiotic Marine Dinoflagellates." in Marine Pharmacognosy: Trends and Applicatons, Ed. S. -K. Kim (CRC Press, Taylor Francis, New York), pp. 137-152 (2012).
- Masaki Kita, and Hideo Kigoshi:
"Antitumor Effects of Sea Hare-derived Compounds in Cancer." in Handbook of Anticancer Drugs from Marine Origin, Ed. S. -K. Kim (Springer International Publishing Switzerland), pp. 701-740 (2015).
Awards (representative)
- Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (February 2006).
- Young Scientistfs Research Award in Natural Products Chemistry (July 2006).
- Incentive Award in Symposium on Chemistry of Natural Products (October 2010).
- Prof. G. W. Ken Cavill Lectureship (inaugural, UNSW, Australia) (November 2011).
- The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemist (March 2012).
- The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientistsf Prize (April, 2015)
(August, 2016)