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Fujii Hiroshi

Faculty Division of Natural Sciences Research Group of ChemistryProfessor
Last Updated :2025/06/13

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Profile Information

  • Name (Japanese)

    Fujii
  • Name (Kana)

    Hiroshi

Degree

  • Ph.D (Kyoto University), Kyoto University

Research Interests

  • 電子構造
  • 反応性
  • 反応中間体
  • タンパク質
  • 酵素
  • 金属イオン
  • Electronic Structure
  • Reactivity
  • Reaction intermediate
  • Protein
  • Enzyme
  • Metal ion

Research Areas

  • Nanotechnology/Materials, Inorganic and coordination chemistry
  • Life sciences, Functional biochemistry

Research History

  • Apr. 2014 - Present, Nara Women's University, Faculty, Division of Natural Sciences, 教授
  • Apr. 2014 - Present, :Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Environment Sciences, Nara Women's University
  • Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2014, :自然科学研究機構岡崎統合バイオサイエンスセンター 准教授
  • 2007 - 2014, :Associate Professor, Okazaki Institute of Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
  • Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2007, :自然科学研究機構岡崎統合バイオサイエンスセンター 助教授
  • 2004 - 2007, :Associate Professor, Okazaki Institute of Integrative Bioscience, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
  • Feb. 2001 - Mar. 2004, :岡崎国立共同研究機構統合バイオサイエンスセンター 助教授
  • 2001 - 2004, :Associate Professor, Center for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki National Research Institutes
  • Mar. 1998 - Jan. 2001, :岡崎国立共同研究機構分子科学研究所 助教授
  • 1998 - 2001, :Associate Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki National Research Institutes
  • Feb. 1994 - Feb. 1998, :山形県テクノポリス財団生物ラジカル研究所 主任研究員
  • 1994 - 1998, :Chief Scientist, Yamagata Technopolis Foundation, Institute for Life Support Technology
  • Nov. 1992 - Jan. 1994, :ミネソタ大学化学科 博士研究員
  • 1992 - 1994, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota
  • Apr. 1990 - Oct. 1992, :北海道大学理学部化学科 助手
  • 1990 - 1992, :Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University

Education

  • Apr. 1987 - Mar. 1990, Kyoto University, 工学研究科, 分子工学専攻博士後期課程, Japan
  • Apr. 1985 - Mar. 1987, 京都大学大学院, 工学研究科, 分子工学専攻修士課程
  • Apr. 1981 - Mar. 1985, Kanazawa University, Faculty of Engineering, 工業化学科

Professional Memberships

  • 日本化学会
  • アメリカ化学会
  • 錯体化学会
  • 日本化学会生体関連化学部会

■Ⅱ.研究活動実績

Published Papers

  • Refereed, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Elsevier BV, Resonance Raman study of oxoiron(IV) porphyrin π-cation radical complex: Porphyrin ligand effect on ν(Fe=O) frequency, Kaho Ueda; Wataru Sato; Sachiko Yanagisawa; Minoru Kubo; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Jun. 2024, 255, 112544, 112544, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112544
  • Refereed, ChemSusChem, Wiley, Photo‐Electro‐Biochemical H2 Production Using the Carbon Material‐Based Cathode Combined with Genetically Engineered Escherichia coli Whole‐Cell Biocatalysis, Yuki Honda; Risa Yuki; Reina Hamakawa; Hiroshi Fujii, Abio/bio hybrids, which incorporate biocatalysts that promote efficient and selective material conversions under mild conditions into existing catalytic reactions, have attracted considerable attention for developing new catalytic systems. This study constructed a H2‐forming biocathode based on a carbon material combined with whole‐cell biocatalysis of genetically‐engineered‒hydrogenase‐overproducing Escherichia coli for the photoelectrochemical water splitting for clean H2 production. Low‐cost and abundant carbon materials are generally not suitable for H2‐forming cathode due to their high overpotential for proton reduction; however, the combination of the reduction of an organic electron mediator on the carbon electrode and the H2 formation with the reduced mediator by the redox enzyme hydrogenase provides a H2‐forming cathodic reaction comparable to that of the noble metal electrode. The present study demonstrates that the recombinant E. coli whole cell can be employed as a part of the H2‐forming biocathode system, and the biocathode system wired with TiO2 photoanode can be a photoelectrochemical water‐splitting system without external voltage assistance under natural pH. The findings of this study expand the feasibility of applications of whole‐cell biocatalysis and contribute to obtaining solar‐to‐chemical conversions by abio/bio hybrid systems, especially for low‐cost, noble‐metal‐free, and clean H2 production., Oct. 2023, Scientific journal, 10.1002/cssc.202300958
  • Refereed, Catalysis Science & Technology, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Tuning catalytic activity with steric and electron-withdrawing effects of a porphyrin substituent, Lulu Jiang; Yosuke Imanaka; Hiroshi Fujii, The reactivity, spectroscopic, and kinetic studies of the catalytic reactions showed that the catalytic activity is determined by the balance of the rates of the formation, reaction, and decomposition reactions of the reactive intermediate., 21 Sep. 2023, 13, 18, 5280, 5289, Scientific journal, 10.1039/d3cy00758h
  • Refereed, J. Ignore. Biochem., Electric Field Effect of Positive and Negative Charges of Substituents on Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex, Kanae Yanai; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Apr. 2023
  • Refereed, ACS Catalysis, American Chemical Society (ACS), Characterization and Reactivity of an Incredibly Reactive Intermediate in the Protonation Reaction of Dioxo-Manganese(V) Porphyrin with Acid, Yuri Katogi; Ayano Okamoto; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, 27 Mar. 2023, 4842, 4852, Scientific journal, 10.1021/acscatal.2c06122
  • Refereed, ACS Catalysis, American Chemical Society (ACS), How Do the Axial and Equatorial Ligands Modulate the Reactivity of a Metal-Bound Terminal Oxidant? An Answer from the Hypochlorite Adduct of Iron(III) Porphyrin, Sawako Yokota; Yuna Suzuki; Sachiko Yanagisawa; Takashi Ogura; Shunsuke Nozawa; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, 02 Sep. 2022, 12, 17, 10857, 10871, Scientific journal, 10.1021/acscatal.2c01840
  • Refereed, Inorg. Chem., Rate Limiting Step of Epoxidation Reaction of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex: Electron Transfer Coupled Bond Formation Mechanism, Yuri Ishimizu; Zhifeng Ma; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Dec. 2021, 60, 17687, 17698, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, J. Inorg. Biochem., Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complexes bearing Cationic N-Methyl-2-pyridinium Group, Yuna Suzuki; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Jul. 2021, 111542, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Inorg. Chem., Significant Solvent Effetc on Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex: Activation in n-Alkane Solvent, Kanako Ueno; Yuri Ishimizu; Hiroshi Fujii, Jul. 2021, 60, 9243, 9247, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Inorg. Chem., Meso-Substitution Activates Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex More Than Pyrrole-ß -Substitution for Atom Transfer Reaction, Nami Fukui; Kanako Ueno; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Mar. 2021, 60, 3207, 3217, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Comprehesive Coordination Chemsitry III, Elsevier, Dioxygen-Binding in Metalloproteins and Corresponding Models, Shinobu Itoh; Hiroshi Fujii, 2021, 8, 200, 237, Scientific journal, 10.1016/b978-0-12-409547-2.14904-2
  • Refereed, ChemBioChem., Photo-biohydrogen Production by Photosensitization with Biologically Precipitated Cadmium Sulfide in Hydrogen-Forming Recombinant Escherichia coli, Yuki Honda; Yuka Shinohara; Motonori Watanabe; Tatsumi Ishihara; Hiroshi Fujii, Dec. 2020, 21, 23, 3389, 3397, Scientific journal, 10.1002/cbic.202000383
  • Refereed, Catalysis Science & Technology, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Visible light-driven, external mediator-free H2 production by a combination of a photosensitizer and a whole-cell biocatalyst: Escherichia coli expressing [FeFe]-hydrogenase and muturase genes, Yuki Honda; Yuka Shimonhara; Hiroshi Fujii,

    A new visible light-driven, external mediator-free, and highly efficient H2 production system is developed based on the combination of a photosensitizer and a living whole-cell biocatalyst: genetically engineered Escherichia coli.

    , Sep. 2020, 10, 17, 6006, 6012, Scientific journal, 10.1039/d0cy01099e
  • Refereed, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics., DFT insight into axial ligand effects on electronic structure and mechanistic reactivity of oxoiron(IV) porphyrin, Zhifeng Ma; Naoki Nakatani; Hiroshi Fujii; Masahiko Hada, Jul. 2020, 22, 12173, 12179
  • Refereed, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Spectroscopic Evidence for Acid-Catalyzed Disproportionation Reaction of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin to Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical and Iron(III) Porphyrin, Kana Nishikawa; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, Mar. 2020, 142, 4980, 4984
  • Refereed, Bull. Chem Soc. Jpn., Effect of External Electric Fields on the Oxidation Reaction of Olefins by Fe(IV)OCl­Porphyrin Complexes, Zhifeng Ma; Naoki Nakatani; Hiroshi Fujii; Masahiko Hada, Feb. 2020, 93, 2, 187, 193, Scientific journal, 10.1246/bcsj.20190293
  • Refereed, Biochemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), Unique Electronic Structures of the Highly Ruffled Hemes in Heme-Degrading Enzymes of Staphylococcus aureus, IsdG and IsdI, by Resonance Raman and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopies, Satoshi Takahashi; Shusuke Nambu; Toshitaka Matsui; Hiroshi Fujii; Haruto Ishikawa; Yasuhisa Mizutani; Kouhei Tsumoto; Masao Ikeda-Saito, 2020, 59, 40, 3918, 3928, Scientific journal, 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00731
  • Refereed, Chemistry - A European Journal, Site-Selective Supramolecular Complexation Activates Catalytic Ethane Oxidation by a Nitrido-Bridged Iron Porphyrinoid Dimer, Nozomi Mihara; Yasuyuki Yamada; Hikaru Takaya; Yasutaka Kitagawa; Kazunobu Igawa; Katsuhiko Tomooka; Hiroshi Fujii; Kentaro Tanaka, 01 Mar. 2019, 25, 13, 3369, 3375, Scientific journal, 10.1002/chem.201805580
  • Refereed, Inorg. Chem., Small Reorganization Energy for Ligand-Centered Electron-Transfer Reduction of Compound I to Compound II in Heme Model Study, Nami Fukui; Xiao-Xi Li; Wonwoo Nam; Shunichi Fukuzumi; Hiroshi Fujii, 2019, 58, 8263, 8266, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, Direct Observation of Primary C–H Bond Oxidation by An Oxido-iron(IV) Porphyrin π-Radical Cation Complex in a Fluorinated Carbon Solvent, Yuma Morimoto; Yuki; Shimaoka, Yuri; Ishimizu; Hiroshi Fujii; Shinobu Itoh, 2019, 58, 10863, 10866, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, J. Biol. Inrog. Chem., Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Porphyrin Ligand Effect on the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complexes, Yuri Ishimizu; Zhifeng Ma; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, 2019, 24, 483, 494, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, J. Cmput. Chem., Substitution Effects on Olefin Epoxidation Catalyzed by Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complexes: A DFT Study, Zhifeng Ma; Kasumi Ukaji; Naoki Nakatani; Hiroshi Fujii; Masahiko Hada, The effects of peripheral fluorine atoms on epoxidation reactions of ethylene by oxoiron(IV) porphyrin cation radical complex in the quartet and sextet spin multiplicities are systematically investigated using the DFT method. The overall reaction routes are determined using a model system of ethylene and Fe(IV)OCl-porphyrin with substituted fluorine atoms. By obtaining the energy diagrams and electron- and spin-density difference contour maps of the transition states and intermediate compounds, we confirm that the electron-withdrawing by peripheral fluorine atoms enhances the reactivity as the number of fluorine atoms increases, as is observed experimentally. The intersystem crossing between the quartet and sextet spin multiplicities is discussed by means of the intrinsic reaction coordinate method. We conclude that the rate-determining step is located at the first transition state (TS1) for the activation of CC and FeO bonds, and the ground electronic state changes from quartet to sextet around the TS1. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019, 40, 19, 1780, 1788, Scientific journal, True, 10.1002/jcc.25831
  • Refereed, Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society, Critical factors in determining the heterolytic versus homolytic bond cleavage of terminal oxidants by Iron(III) porphyrin complexes, Sawako Yokota; Hiroshi Fujii, 18 Apr. 2018, 140, 15, 5127, 5137, Scientific journal, 10.1021/jacs.7b13037
  • Not Refereed, Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Preparation, Characterization and Reactivity of a Bis-hypochlorite Adduct of a Chiral Manganese(IV) Salen Complex, Ikuko Araki; Kaoru Fukui; Hiroshi Fujii, 19 Feb. 2018, 57, 4, 1685, 1688, Scientific journal, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02661
  • Refereed, ChemBioChem, Coexpression of 5-aminolevulinic Acid Synthase Gene Facilitates Heterologous Production of Thermostable Cytochrome P450, CYP119, in Holo Form in Escherichia coli, Yuki Honda; Ki Nanasawa; Hiroshi Fujii, 2018, 19, 2156, 2159, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Participation of Electron Transfer Process in Rate-Limiting Step of Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions by Compound I Models of Heme Enzymes, Maaya Asaka; Hiroshi Fujii, Jul. 2016, 138, 26, 8048, 8051, Scientific journal, 10.1021/jacs.6b03223
  • Not Refereed, BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, The Origin of Relative Stability of Di-mu-oxo M-M Chiral Salen Complexes [M-M = Ti(TV)-Ti(IV), V(IV)-V(IV), Cr(IV)-Cr(IV), and Mn(IV) Mn(IV)]: A Quantum-Chemical Analysis, Radhika Narayanan; Archana Velloth; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii; Masahiko Hada, Apr. 2016, 89, 4, 447, 454, Scientific journal, 10.1246/bcsj.20150393
  • Not Refereed, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Unique coupling of mono- and dioxygenase chemistries in a single active site promotes heme degradation, Toshitaka Matsui; Shusuke Nambu; Celia W. Goulding; Satoshi Takahashi; Hiroshi Fujii; Masao Ikeda-Saito, Apr. 2016, 113, 14, 3779, 3784, Scientific journal, 10.1073/pnas.1523333113
  • Not Refereed, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, The functional role of the structure of the dioxo-isobacteriochlorin in the catalytic site of cytochrome cd(1) for the reduction of nitrite, Hiroshi Fujii; Daisuke Yamaki; Takashi Ogura; Masahiko Hada, 2016, 7, 4, 2896, 2906, Scientific journal, 10.1039/c5sc04825g
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Factors Affecting Hydrogen-Tunneling Contribution in Hydroxylation Reactions Promoted by Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical Complexes, Zhiqi Cong; Haruki Kinemuchi; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Oct. 2014, 53, 19, 10632, 10641, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic501737j
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION, Theoretical Study of One-Electron Oxidized Mn(III)- and Ni(II)-Salen Complexes: Localized vs Delocalized Ground and Excited States in Solution, Shinji Aono; Masayuki Nakagaki; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii; Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Mar. 2014, 10, 3, 1062, 1073, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ct401014p
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Hypochlorito-Iron(III) Porphyrin Complexes, H. Fujii; Z. Cong; T. Kurahashi; S. Yanagisawa; T. Ogura, Mar. 2014, 19, S159, S159
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Di-mu-oxo Dimetal Core of Mn-IV and Ti-IV as a Linker Between Two Chiral Salen Complexes Leading to the Stereoselective Formation of Different M- and P-Helical Structures, Takuya Kurahashi; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Jan. 2014, 53, 2, 1070, 1079, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic402572h
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Oxygen-Atom Transfer from Iodosylarene Adducts of a Manganese(IV) Salen Complex: Effect of Arenes and Anions on I(III) of the Coordinated Iodosylarene, Chunlan Wang; Takuya Kurahashi; Kensuke Inomata; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Aug. 2013, 52, 16, 9557, 9566, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic401270j
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Unique Ligand-Radical Character of an Activated Cobalt Salen Catalyst That Is Generated by Aerobic Oxidation of a Cobalt(II) Salen Complex, Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Apr. 2013, 52, 7, 3908, 3919, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic302677f
  • Not Refereed, 2013, 62
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Hypochloritoiron(III) Porphyrin Complexes, Zhiqi Cong; Sachiko Yanagisawa; Takuya Kurahashi; Takashi Ogura; Satoru Nakashima; Hiroshi Fujii, Dec. 2012, 134, 51, 20617, 20620, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja3108774
  • Not Refereed, BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, Comparative Spectroscopic Studies of Iron(III) and Manganese(III) Salen Complexes Having a Weakly Coordinating Triflate Axial Ligand, Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Sep. 2012, 85, 9, 940, 947, Scientific journal, 10.1246/bcsj.20120146
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Effect of the Axial Ligand on the Reactivity of the Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical Complex: Higher Stabilization of the Product State Relative to the Reactant State, Akihiro Takahashi; Daisuke Yamaki; Kenichiro Ikemura; Takuya Kurahashi; Takashi Ogura; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Jul. 2012, 51, 13, 7296, 7305, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic3006597
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, Coordination and Electronic Structure of Ruthenium(II)-tris-2,2 '-bipyridine in the Triplet Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited State Observed by Picosecond Time-Resolved Ru K-Edge XAFS, Tokushi Sato; Shunsuke Nozawa; Ayana Tomita; Manabu Hoshino; Shin-ya Koshihara; Hiroshi Fujii; Shin-ichi Adachi, Jul. 2012, 116, 27, 14232, 14236, Scientific journal, 10.1021/jp3038285
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Formation of Iron(III) meso-Chloro-isoporphyrin as a Reactive Chlorinating Agent from Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical, Zhiqi Cong; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Mar. 2012, 134, 10, 4469, 4472, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja209985v
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Structure and Reactivity of an Iodosylarene Adduct of a Manganese(IV)-Salen Complex, Chunlan Wang; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, 2012, 51, 31, 7809, 7811, Scientific journal, 10.1002/anie.201202835
  • Not Refereed, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, Solid-state O-17 NMR and computational studies of terminal transition metal oxo compounds, Jianfeng Zhu; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii; Gang Wu, 2012, 3, 2, 391, 397, Scientific journal, 10.1039/c1sc00725d
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Redox Potentials of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical Complexes: Participation of Electron Transfer Process in Oxygenation Reactions, Akihiro Takahashi; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Aug. 2011, 50, 15, 6922, 6928, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic102564e
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, One-Electron Oxidation of Electronically Diverse Manganese(III) and Nickel(II) Salen Complexes: Transition from Localized to Delocalized Mixed-Valence Ligand Radicals, Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Jun. 2011, 133, 21, 8307, 8316, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja2016813
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Oxidation of Chloride and Subsequent Chlorination of Organic Compounds by Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radicals, Zhiqi Cong; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, 2011, 50, 42, 9935, 9939, Scientific journal, 10.1002/anie.201104461
  • Not Refereed, Bull. Jpn. Soc. Coord. Chem., Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, High-Valent Salen Complexes as a Key to Investigate Mechanistic Aspects of Asymmetric Oxidation Catalysts and Metalloenzymes, Kurahashi Takuya; Fujii Hiroshi, In order to garner in-depth understanding of oxidation catalysis by salen complexes, we investigated the conformation, electronic structure and reactivity of high-valent salen complexes. We herein show that the conformation of a chiral manganese salen complex (Jacobsen's complex) is critically dependent on the oxidation state of the manganese ion and the external axial ligands that coordinate to the manganese ion, in relevance to asymmetric reactions. We also show that the reaction of a manganese(III) salen complex with m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, an oxidant utilized for enantioselective epoxidation, generates a mixture of manganese(IV)-oxo and manganese(IV)-hydroxo species at –80°C. In contrast, the reaction of an iron(III) salen complex with m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid at –80°C generates a ligand radical complex with an iron(III) ion. The difference of electronic structures might be related to the fact that a manganese salen complex is a superior epoxidation catalyst than an iron salen complex. We also describe a model study for protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase using an iron(III) salen complex with sterically-hindered mesityl groups., 2011, 57, 57, 66, 10.4019/bjscc.57.57
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Unique Properties and Reactivity of High-Valent Manganese-Oxo versus Manganese-Hydroxo in the Salen Platform, Takuya Kurahashi; Akihiro Kikuchi; Yoshitsugu Shiro; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Jul. 2010, 49, 14, 6664, 6672, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic100673b
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, Resonance Raman Study of a High-valent Fe=O Porphyrin Complex as a Model for Peroxidase Compound II, Hirohito Ishimaru; Hiroshi Fujii; Takashi Ogura, Apr. 2010, 39, 4, 332, 333, Scientific journal, 10.1246/cl.2010.332
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Direct Probing of Spin State Dynamics Coupled with Electronic and Structural Modifications by Picosecond Time-Resolved XAFS, Shunsuke Nozawa; Tokushi Sato; Matthieu Chollet; Kouhei Ichiyanagi; Ayana Tomita; Hiroshi Fujii; Shin-ichi Adachi; Shin-ya Koshihara, Jan. 2010, 132, 1, 61, +, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja907460b
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHEMISTRY, Paramagnetic C-13 and N-15 NMR Analyses of the Push and Pull Effects in Cytochrome c Peroxidase and Coprinus cinereus Peroxidase Variants: Functional Roles of Highly Conserved Amino Acids around Heme, Daisuke Nonaka; Hiroyuki Wariishi; Karen G. Welinder; Hiroshi Fujii, Jan. 2010, 49, 1, 49, 57, Scientific journal, 10.1021/bi9017285
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Critical Role of External Axial Ligands in Chirality Amplification of trans-Cyclohexane-1,2-diamine in Salen Complexes, Takuya Kurahashi; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, Sep. 2009, 131, 34, 12394, 12405, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja904635n
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Catalytic Reactivity of a Meso-N-Substituted Corrole and Evidence for a High-Valent Iron-Oxo Species, Amanda J. McGown; William D. Kerber; Hiroshi Fujii; David P. Goldberg, Jun. 2009, 131, 23, 8040, 8048, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja809183z
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Effect of Imidazole and Phenolate Axial Ligands on the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical Complexes: Drastic Increase in Oxo-Transfer and Hydrogen Abstraction Reactivities, Akihiro Takahashi; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Mar. 2009, 48, 6, 2614, 2625, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic802123m
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHEMISTRY, Paramagnetic C-13 and N-15 NMR Analyses of Cyanide- ((CN)-C-13-N-15-) Ligated Ferric Peroxidases: The Push Effect, Not Pull Effect, Modulates the Compound I Formation Rate, Daisuke Nonaka; Hiroyuki Wariishi; Hiroshi Fujii, Feb. 2009, 48, 5, 898, 905, Scientific journal, 10.1021/bi802030a
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION, Capturing molecular structural dynamics by 100 ps time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Tokushi Sato; Shunsuke Nozawa; Kohei Ichiyanagi; Ayana Tomita; Matthieu Chollet; Hirohiko Ichikawa; Hiroshi Fujii; Shin-ichi Adachi; Shin-ya Koshihara, Jan. 2009, 16, 110, 115, Scientific journal, 10.1107/S0909049508034596
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, ENDOR Study of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin pi-Cation Radical Complexes as Models for Compound I of Heme Enzymes, Akihiro Takahashi; Yasunori Ohba; Seigo Yamauchi; Hiroshi Fujii, Jan. 2009, 38, 1, 68, 69, Scientific journal, 10.1246/cl.2009.68
  • Refereed, LXIII YAMADA CONFERENCE ON PHOTO-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION AND COOPERATIVE PHENOMENA (PIPT3), 100-picosecond Time-resolved X-ray Absorption Fine Structure of Fe-II(1,10-phenanthroline)(3), Tokushi Sato; Shunsuke Nozawa; Kouhei Ichiyanagi; Ayana Tomita; Hirohiko Ichikawa; Matthieu Chollet; Hiroshi Fujii; Shin-ichi Adachi; Shin-ya Koshihara, 2009, 148, 012035, International conference proceedings, 10.1088/1742-6596/148/1/012035
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Chiral distortion in a Mn(IV)(salen)(N(3))(2) derived from Jacobsen's catalyst as a possible conformation model for its enantioselective reactions, Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Sep. 2008, 47, 17, 7556, 7567, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic800443q
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Effect of a tridentate ligand on the structure, electronic structure, and reactivity of the copper(I) nitrite complex: Role of the conserved three-histidine ligand environment of the type-2 copper site in copper-containing nitrite reductases, Masato Kujime; Chiemi Izumi; Masaaki Tomura; Masahiko Hada; Hiroshi Fujii, May 2008, 130, 19, 6088, 6098, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja075575b
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Transient intermediates from Mn(salen) with sterically hindered mesityl groups: Interconversion between Mn-IV-phenolate and Mn-III-phenoxyl radicals as an origin for unique reactivity, Takuya Kurahashi; Akihiro Kikuchi; Takehiko Tosha; Yoshitsugu Shiro; Teizo Kitagawa; Hiroshi Fujii, Mar. 2008, 47, 5, 1674, 1686, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic702061y
  • Not Refereed, 2008, 43, 11, 7, 18
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Activation parameters for cyclohexene oxygenation by an oxoiron(IV) porphyrin pi-cation radical complex: Entropy control of an allylic hydroxylation reaction, Akihiro Takahashi; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, Aug. 2007, 46, 16, 6227, 6229, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic7009379
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Cu-63 NMR spectroscopy of Copper(I) complexes with various tridentate ligands: CO as a useful Cu-63 NMR probe for sharpening Cu-63 NMR signals and analyzing the electronic donor effect of a ligand, Masato Kujime; Takuya Kurahashi; Masaaki Tomura; Hiroshi Fujii, Jan. 2007, 46, 2, 541, 551, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic060745r
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Trigonal-bipyramidal geometry induced by an external water ligand in a sterically hindered iron salen complex, related to the active site of protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, Takuya Kurahashi; Kenji Oda; Manabu Sugimoto; Takashi Ogura; Hiroshi Fujii, Sep. 2006, 45, 19, 7709, 7721, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic060650p
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, C-13 and N-15 NMR studies of iron-bound cyanides of heme proteins and related model complexes: Sensitive probe for detecting hydrogen-bonding interactions at the proximal and distal sides, Hiroshi Fujii; Tadashi Yoshida, Aug. 2006, 45, 17, 6816, 6827, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic0607383
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY, O-17 NMR study of oxo metalloporphyrin complexes: Correlation with electronic structure of M=O moiety, H Fujii; T Kurahashi; T Tosha; T Yoshimura; T Kitagawa, Apr. 2006, 100, 4, 533, 541, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2006.01.009
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHEMISTRY, Roles of the herne distal residues of FixL in O-2 sensing: A single convergent structure of the heme moiety is relevant to the downregulation of kinase activity, A Tanaka; H Nakamura; Y Shiro; H Fujii, Feb. 2006, 45, 8, 2515, 2523, Scientific journal, 10.1021/bi051989a
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Spectroscopic characterization of reaction intermediates in a model for copper nitrite reductase, M Kujime; H Fujii, 2006, 45, 7, 1089, 1092, Scientific journal, 10.1002/anie.200503555
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, O-2- and H2O2-dependent verdoheme degradation by heme oxygenase - Reaction mechanisms and potential physiological roles of the dual pathway degradation, T Matsui; A Nakajima; H Fujii; KM Matera; CT Migita; T Yoshida; M Ikeda-Saito, Nov. 2005, 280, 44, 36833, 36840, Scientific journal, 10.1074/jbc.M503529200
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Oxidizing intermediates from the sterically hindered iron salen complexes related to the oxygen activation by nonheme iron enzymes, T Kurahashi; Y Kobayashi; S Nagatomo; T Tosha; T Kitagawa; H Fujii, Oct. 2005, 44, 22, 8156, 8166, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic051377e
  • Not Refereed, TETRAHEDRON LETTERS, Synthesis of sterically hindered tris(4-imidazolyl)carbinol ligands and their copper(I) complexes related to metalloenzymes, M Kujime; H Fujii, Apr. 2005, 46, 16, 2809, 2812, Scientific journal, 10.1016/j.tetlet.2005.02.122
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Essential amino acid residues controlling the unique regioselectivity of heme oxygenase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, H Fujii; XH Zhang; T Yoshida, Apr. 2004, 126, 14, 4466, 4467, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja031791l
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, A superoxo-ferrous state in a reduced oxy-ferrous hemoprotein and model compounds, R Davydov; JD Satterlee; H Fujii; A Sauer-Masarwa; DH Busch; BM Hoffman, Dec. 2003, 125, 52, 16340, 16346, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja037037e
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Kinetic isotope effects on the rate-limiting step of heme oxygenase catalysis indicate concerted proton transfer/heme hydroxylation, R Davydov; T Matsui; H Fujii; M Ikeda-Saito; BM Hoffman, Dec. 2003, 125, 52, 16208, 16209, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja038923s
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHEMISTRY, Stereo selectivity of each of the three steps of the heme oxygenase reaction: Hemin to meso-hydroxyhemin, meso-hydroxyhemin to verdoheme, and verdoheme to biliverdin, XH Zhang; H Fujii; KM Matera; CT Migita; DY Sun; M Sato; M Ikeda-Saito; T Yoshida, Jun. 2003, 42, 24, 7418, 7426, Scientific journal, 10.1021/bi027173g
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, Preparation of artificial metalloenzymes by insertion of chromium(III) Schiff base complexes into apomyoglobin mutants, M Ohashi; T Koshiyama; T Ueno; M Yanase; H Fujii; Y Watanabe, 2003, 42, 9, 1005, +, Scientific journal, 10.1002/anie.200390256
  • Refereed, PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE OF METALLOBIOMOLECULES, EPR characterization of the heme oxygenase reaction intermediates and its implication for the catalytic mechanism, M Ikeda-Saito; H Fujii, 2003, 858, 97, 112, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, PHYSICS LETTERS B, Superpenetration of a high energy Q(Q)over-bar bound state through random color fields, H Fujii; T Matsui, Oct. 2002, 545, 1-2, 82, 90, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, C-13 NMR signal detection of iron-bound cyanide ions in ferric cyanide complexes of heme proteins, H Fujii, May 2002, 124, 21, 5936, 5937, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja025737y
  • Not Refereed, COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS, Electronic structure and reactivity of high-valent oxo iron porphyrins, H Fujii, Mar. 2002, 226, 1-2, 51, 60, Scientific journal, 10.1016/S0010-8545(01)00441-6
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Catalytic mechanism of heme oxygenase through EPR and ENDOR of cryoreduced oxy-heme oxygenase and its Asp 140 mutants, R Davydov; Kofman, V; H Fujii; T Yoshida; M Ikeda-Saito; BM Hoffman, Feb. 2002, 124, 8, 1798, 1808, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja0122391
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, A trigonal-bipyramidal ferric aqua complex with a sterically hindered salen ligand as a model for the active site of protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase, H Fujii; Y Funahashi, 2002, 41, 19, 3638, 3641, Scientific journal, 10.1002/1521-3773(20021004)41:19<3638::AID-ANIE3638>3.0.CO;2-#
  • Not Refereed, 2002, 53, 18, 24
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, A role for highly conserved carboxylate, aspartate-140, in oxygen activation and heme degradation by heme oxygenase-1, H Fujii; XH Zhang; T Tomita; M Ikeda-Saito; T Yoshida, Jul. 2001, 123, 27, 6475, 6484, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja010490a
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Participation of carboxylate amino acid side chain in regiospecific oxidation of heme by heme oxygenase, H Zhou; CT Migita; M Sato; DY Sun; XH Zhang; M Ikeda-Saito; H Fujii; T Yoshida, Aug. 2000, 122, 34, 8311, 8312, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja0002868
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Spin distribution in low-spin (meso-tetraalkylporphyrinato)iron(III) complexes with (d(xz),d(yz))(4)(d(xy))(1) configuration. Studies by H-1 NMR, C-13 NMR, and EPR spectroscopies, T Ikeue; Y Ohgo; T Saitoh; M Nakamura; H Fujii; M Yokoyama, May 2000, 122, 17, 4068, 4076, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja992219n
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, Electron spin-echo envelope modulation spectral properties of amidate nitrogen coordinated to oxovanadium(IV) ion, K Fukui; H Fujii; H Ohya-Nishiguchi; H Kamada, Mar. 2000, 3, 198, 199, Scientific journal, 10.1246/cl.2000.198
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Resonance raman spectra of legitimate models for the ubiquitous compound I intermediates of oxidative heme enzymes, K Czarnecki; Kincaid, JR; H Fujii, Sep. 1999, 121, 34, 7953, 7954, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja991712w
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, Post-assembly insertion of metal ions into thiol-derivatized porphyrin monolayers on gold, N Nishimura; M Ooi; K Shimazu; H Fujii; K Uosaki, Sep. 1999, 473, 1-2, 75, 84, Scientific journal, 10.1016/S0022-0728(99)00287-9
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Electron configuration of ferric ions in low-spin (dicyano)(meso-tetraarylporphyrinato)iron(III) complexes, M Nakamura; T Ikeue; A Ikezaki; Y Ohgo; H Fujii, Aug. 1999, 38, 17, 3857, 3862, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic990328x
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND MOLECULAR ENZYMOLOGY, Molecular oxygen oxidizes the porphyrin ring of the ferric alpha-hydroxyheme in heme oxygenase in the absence of reducing equivalent, CT Migita; H Fujii; KM Matera; S Takahashi; H Zhou; T Yoshida, Jul. 1999, 1432, 2, 203, 213, Scientific journal, 10.1016/S0167-4838(99)00097-7
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Insensitivity of vanadyl-oxygen bond strengths to radical type ((2)A(1u) vs (2)A(2u)) in vanadyl porphyrin cation radicals, K Czarnecki; LM Proniewicz; H Fujii; D Ji; RS Czernuszewicz; Kincaid, JR, Apr. 1999, 38, 7, 1543, 1547, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic981369g
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, High-spin (meso-Tetraalkylporphyrinato)iron(III) complexes as studied by X-ray crystallography, EPR, and dynamic NMR spectroscopies, T Ikeue; Y Ohgo; A Uchida; M Nakamura; H Fujii; M Yokoyama, Mar. 1999, 38, 6, 1276, 1281, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic981184+
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Cobalt porphyrin heme oxygenase complex. EPR evidences for the distal heme pocket hydrogen bonding, H Fujii; Y Dou; H Zhou; T Yoshida; M Ikeda-Saito, Aug. 1998, 120, 32, 8251, 8252, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja973925w
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Cu-63 NMR study of copper(I) carbonyl complexes with various hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates: Correlation between Cu-63 chemical shifts and CO stretching vibrations, S Imai; K Fujisawa; T Kobayashi; N Shirasawa; H Fujii; T Yoshimura; N Kitajima; Y Moro-oka, Jun. 1998, 37, 12, 3066, 3070, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic970138r
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Electron configuration and spin distribution in low-spin (meso-tetraalkylporphyrinato)iron(III) complexes carrying one or two orientationally fixed imidazole ligands, M Nakamura; T Ikeue; H Fujii; T Yoshimura; K Tajima, May 1998, 37, 10, 2405, 2414, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic9801241
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, Identification of histidine 45 as the axial heme iron ligand of heme oxygenase-2, K Ishikawa; KM Matera; H Zhou; H Fujii; M Sato; T Yoshimura; M Ikeda-Saito; T Yoshida, Feb. 1998, 273, 8, 4317, 4322, Scientific journal, 10.1074/jbc.273.8.4317
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Raman signature of the Fe2O2 "diamond" core, EC Wilkinson; YH Dong; Y Zang; H Fujii; R Fraczkiewicz; G Fraczkiewicz; RS Czernuszewicz; L Que, Feb. 1998, 120, 5, 955, 962, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja973220u
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, The oxygen and carbon monoxide reactions of heme oxygenase, CT Migita; KM Matera; M Ikeda-Saito; JS Olson; H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Zhou; T Yoshida, Jan. 1998, 273, 2, 945, 949, Scientific journal, 10.1074/jbc.273.2.945
  • Refereed, OXYGEN HOMEOSTASIS AND ITS DYNAMICS, Heme oxygenase: A central enzyme of oxygen-dependent heme catabolism and carbon monoxide synthesis, M Ikeda-Saito; H Fujii; KM Matera; S Takahashi; CT Migita; DL Rousseau; T Yoshida, 1998, 1, 304, 314, International conference proceedings
  • Refereed, OXYGEN HOMEOSTASIS AND ITS DYNAMICS, Heme degradation mechanism by heme oxygenase: Conversion of alpha-meso-hydroxyheme to verdoheme IX alpha, H Fujii; KM Matera; S Takahashi; CT Migita; H Zhou; T Yoshida; M Ikeda-Saito, 1998, 1, 315, 321, International conference proceedings
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Imidazole and p-nitrophenolate complexes of oxoiron(IV) porphyrin pi-cation radicals as models for compounds I of peroxidase and catalase, H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Kamada, Dec. 1997, 36, 27, 6142, 6143, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic970271j
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Change in electron configuration of ferric ion in bis(cyanide)(meso-tetraalkylporphyrinatoiron(III)), [Fe(TRP)(CN)(2)](-), caused by the nonplanarity of the porphyrin ring, M Nakamura; T Ikeue; H Fujii; T Yoshimura, Jul. 1997, 119, 27, 6284, 6291, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja970602r
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, ESR studies of oxochromium(V) porphyrin complexes: Electronic structure of the Cr-V=O moiety, H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Kamada, Mar. 1997, 36, 6, 1122, 1127, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic960722k
  • Not Refereed, TETRAHEDRON LETTERS, Regioselective pyrrole synthesis from asymmetric beta-diketone and conversion to sterically hindered porphyrin, H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Kamada, Feb. 1997, 38, 8, 1427, 1430, Scientific journal, 10.1016/S0040-4039(97)00039-7
  • Not Refereed, BIOCHEMISTRY, Resonance Raman spectroscopic characterization of alpha-hydroxyheme and verdoheme complexes of heme oxygenase, S Takahashi; KM Matera; H Fujii; H Zhou; K Ishikawa; T Yoshida; M IkedaSaito; DL Rousseau, Feb. 1997, 36, 6, 1402, 1410, Scientific journal, 10.1021/bi962361q
  • Not Refereed, 1997, 67, 128, 10.1016/S0162-0134(97)80008-6
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Resonance Raman spectrum of a (2)A(1u) ferryl porphyrin pi-cation radical, K Czarnecki; LM Proniewicz; H Fujii; Kincaid, JR, May 1996, 118, 19, 4680, 4685, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja954044x
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, ESR studies of A(1u) and A(2u) oxoiron(IV) porphyrin pi-cation radical complexes. Spin coupling between ferryl iron and A(1u)/A(2u) orbitals, H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Kamada, Apr. 1996, 35, 8, 2373, 2377, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic9513752
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, Oxygen and one reducing equivalent are both required for the conversion of alpha-hydroxyhemin to verdoheme in heme oxygenase, KM Matera; S Takahashi; H Fujii; H Zhou; K Ishikawa; T Yoshimura; DL Rousseau; T Yoshida; M IkedaSaito, Mar. 1996, 271, 12, 6618, 6624, Scientific journal, 10.1074/jbc.271.12.6618
  • Not Refereed, THIN SOLID FILMS, Formation and characterization of thiol-derivatized zinc(II) porphyrin monolayers on gold, K Shimazu; M Takechi; H Fujii; M Suzuki; H Saiki; T Yoshimura; K Uosaki, Feb. 1996, 273, 1-2, 250, 253, Scientific journal, 10.1016/0040-6090(95)06790-6
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, Synthesis and characterization of a binuclear porphyrin complex as a model for heme a(3)-Cu-B site of cytochrome c oxidase, H Fujii; T Yoshimura; H Kamada, 1996, 8, 581, 582, Scientific journal, 10.1246/cl.1996.581
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, A HIGH-VALENT NONHEME IRON INTERMEDIATE - STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF [FE-2(MU-O)(2)(5-ME-TPA)(2)](CLO4)(3), YH DONG; H FUJII; MP HENDRICH; RA LEISING; GF PAN; CR RANDALL; EC WILKINSON; Y ZANG; L QUE; BG FOX; K KAUFFMANN; E MUNCK, Mar. 1995, 117, 10, 2778, 2792, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja00115a013
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, STUDIES ON THE IRON(II) MESO-OXYPORPHYRIN PI-NEUTRAL RADICAL AS A REACTION INTERMEDIATE IN HEME CATABOLISM, MORISHIMA, I; H FUJII; Y SHIRO; S SANO, Mar. 1995, 34, 6, 1528, 1535, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic00110a035
  • Not Refereed, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION IN ENGLISH, CARBOXYLATOIRON(II) AGGREGATES - A NOVEL FE-4(II) COMPLEX WITH THREEFOLD SYMMETRY, S MENAGE; H FUJII; MP HENDRICH; L QUE, Sep. 1994, 33, 15-16, 1660, 1662, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, CHEMISTRY LETTERS, CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-VALENT IRON PORPHYRIN IN CATALYTIC REACTION BY IRON(III) TETRAPENTAFLUOROPHENYLPORPHYRIN, H FUJII, Aug. 1994, 8, 1491, 1494, Scientific journal, 10.1246/cl.1994.1491
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, EFFECTS OF THE ELECTRON-WITHDRAWING POWER OF SUBSTITUENTS ON THE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY IN OXOIRON(IV) PORPHYRIN PI-CATION RADICAL COMPLEXES, H FUJII, Jun. 1993, 115, 11, 4641, 4648, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja00064a027
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, CHARACTERIZATION AND INTRAMOLECULAR SPIN COUPLING OF A MONOMERIC A1U COPPER(II) PORPHYRIN PI-CATION RADICAL, H FUJII, Mar. 1993, 32, 6, 875, 879, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic00058a021
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN A1U OXOIRON(IV) PORPHYRIN PI-CATION-RADICAL COMPLEX, H FUJII; K ICHIKAWA, Mar. 1992, 31, 6, 1110, 1112, 10.1021/ic00032a039
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, NMR-STUDIES OF IRON(II) NITROSYL PI-CATION RADICALS OF OCTAETHYLCHLORIN AND OCTAETHYLISOBACTERIOCHLORIN AS MODELS FOR REACTION INTERMEDIATE OF NITRITE REDUCTASE, S OZAWA; H FUJII; MORISHIMA, I, Feb. 1992, 114, 5, 1548, 1554, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ja00031a002
  • Not Refereed, INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, SPIN COUPLING IN FERRIC PORPHYRIN AND CHLORIN PI-CATION-RADICAL COMPLEXES, S NAKASHIMA; H OHYANISHIGUCHI; N HIROTA; H FUJII; MORISHIMA, I, Dec. 1990, 29, 26, 5207, 5211, Scientific journal, 10.1021/ic00351a014
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, NMR-STUDIES OF METALLOPORPHYRIN RADICALS - IRON(II) OXOPHLORIN RADICAL FORMED FROM IRON(III) MESO-HYDROXYOCTAETHYLPORPHYRIN, MORISHIMA, I; H FUJII; Y SHIRO; S SANO, Jun. 1986, 108, 13, 3858, 3860, 10.1021/ja00273a067
  • Refereed, in press

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  • Not Refereed, Journal of Chemical Software, Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan, High-Spin Fe(IV)-Oxo Porphyrin Complexes in Epoxidation Reaction of Olefin : A CASPT2 Study, UKAJI Kasumi; ABE Minori; HADA Masahiko; FUJII Hiroshi, High-valent iron (IV)-oxo porphyrin π-cation radical species (P+・) FeIV = O are known as an active intermediate in various enzymatic reactions of cytochrome P450s. In epoxidation reactions catalyzed by these species, potential surfaces between reactant and product are connected by the intersystem crossing. In this report, CASPT2, SO-CASPT2 and SAC-CI calculations were carried out to analyze low-lying doublet, quartet, and sextet electronic ground and excited states in an expoxidation reaction of olefin catalyzed by Cl−(P+・) FeIV = O. In both CASPT2 and SAC-CI calculations, we obtained the quartet and sextet ground states of Cl−(P+・) FeIV = O and Cl (P) FeIII respectively as suggested experimentally., 2014, 13, 3, 167, 168, 10.2477/jccj.2014-0022
  • Not Refereed, 日本放射光学会年会・放射光科学合同シンポジウム予稿集, レーザーパンプ・X線プローブ法によるRu錯体の光励起状態の構造観測, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 12 Jan. 2013, 26th, 96
  • Not Refereed, 物構研サイエンスフェスタ要旨集, レーザーパンプ・X線プローブ法によるRu錯体の光励起状態の構造観測, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 2013, 1st, 43
  • Not Refereed, PFシンポジウム要旨集, ピコ秒時間分解XAFSによる[RuII(bpy)3]2+3MLCT状態の観測, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 2012, 29th, 66
  • Not Refereed, 日本化学会講演予稿集, [Ru(bpy)3]2+の100ピコ秒時間分解XAFS, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 12 Mar. 2010, 90th, 2, 268
  • Not Refereed, PFシンポジウム要旨集, [Ru(bpy)3]2+の100ps時間分解XAFS, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 2010, 27th, 89
  • Not Refereed, 分子科学討論会講演プログラム&要旨(Web), [Ru(bpy)3]2+の時間分解XAFS, 佐藤篤志; 野澤俊介; 富田文菜; 星野学; 星野学; 腰原伸也; 腰原伸也; 藤井浩; 足立伸一, 2010, 4th, ROMBUNNO.3B13 (WEB ONLY)
  • Not Refereed, 分子科学討論会講演プログラム&要旨(Web), ピコ秒時間分解XAFSを用いたFe(II)スピンクロスオーバー錯体における光誘起スピン転移・構造変化ダイナミクスの研究, 野澤俊介; 野澤俊介; 佐藤篤志; 佐藤篤志; 佐藤篤志; 一柳光平; 一柳光平; MATTHIEU Chollet; MATTHIEU Chollet; 富田文菜; 富田文菜; 藤井浩; 足立伸; 足立伸; 腰原伸也; 腰原伸也, 2009, 3rd, ROMBUNNO.1B14 (WEB ONLY)
  • Solid state physics, Structures and electronics states of reaction intermediates of hemoproteins, Nov. 2008, 43, 11, 699, 710
  • Not Refereed, 配位化合物の光化学討論会講演要旨集, 100ピコ秒時間分解XAFSを用いた鉄(II)スピンクロスオーバー錯体における光誘起構造転移のダイナミクスの観測, 野澤俊介; 佐藤篤志; 一柳光平; MATTHIEU Chollet; 富田文菜; 市川広彦; 藤井浩; 足立伸一; 腰原伸也, 05 Aug. 2008, 21st, 58, 59
  • ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA A-FOUNDATION AND ADVANCES, 100-picosecond time-resolved X-ray absorption fine structure of Fe-II(1,10-phenanthroline)(3), Tokushi Sato; Shunsuke Nozawa; Kouhei Ichiyanagi; Ayana Tomita; Hirohiko Ichikawa; Matthieu Chollet; Hiroshi Fujii; Shin-ichi Adachi; Shin-ya Koshihara, 2008, 64, C204, C205, Summary international conference, 10.1107/S0108767308093446
  • Not Refereed, YAKUGAKU ZASSHI-JOURNAL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, Effect of axial ligand on compound I model complexes related to catalase and peroxidase, Akihiro Takahashi; Takuya Kurahashi; Hiroshi Fujii, 2008, 128, 48, 48, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY, A sterically hindered salen iron complex as a model for active sites of mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes, H Fujii; T Kurahashi; T Ogura, Jul. 2003, 96, 1, 133, 133, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Formation of a pure and an admixed intermediate spin complex in saddle-shaped six-coordinated iron(III) porphyrins., M Nakamura; T Ikeue; T Yamaguchi; Y Ohgo; H Fujii, Mar. 2000, 219, U822, U822, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Electron configuration of ferric ions in low spin (meso-tetraaryl porphyrinato)iron(III) complexes., M Nakamura; A Ikezaki; T Ikeue; Y Ohgo; H Fujii, Mar. 1999, 217, U1053, U1053, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Homogeneous spin distribution in pyrrole beta-carbons in low spin meso-tetraalkylporphyrinatoiron(III) carrying cyanide and rotationally fixed imidazole ligands., M Nakamura; T Ikeue; Y Ohgo; H Fujii; T Yoshimura, Sep. 1997, 214, 281, INOR, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Change in electronic configuration of ferric ion in low spin porphyrin complexes caused by the nonplanarity of the porphyrin ring., M Nakamura; T Ikeue; Y Ohgo; H Fujii; T Yoshimura, Sep. 1997, 214, 413, INOR, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, Conversion of alpha-hydroxyhemin to verdoheme in heme oxygenase., KM Matera; S Takahashi; H Fujii; H Zhou; K Ishikawa; T Yoshimura; DL Rousseau; T Yoshida; M IkedaSaito, Feb. 1996, 70, 2, WP342, WP342, Summary international conference
  • Not Refereed, RECUEIL DES TRAVAUX CHIMIQUES DES PAYS-BAS-JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL NETHERLANDS CHEMICAL SOCIETY, IRON(II)-OXOPHLORIN RADICAL, A KEY INTERMEDIATE OF THE HEME CATABOLISM, IS A RESONANCE HYBRID OF IRON(III)-MESO-OXYHEME ANION, MORISHIMA, I; H FUJII; Y SHIRO, Jun. 1987, 106, 6-7, 334, 334, Summary international conference

Books etc

  • 2019
  • 2016, Not Refereed
  • 2016, Not Refereed
  • 2016, Not Refereed
  • 2015, Not Refereed
  • 2003, Not Refereed
  • Paramagnetic Resonance of Metallobiomolecules, ACS Book Series 858, American Chemical Society, 2003, Not Refereed
  • 2000, Not Refereed
  • Metal-Oxo and Metal-Peroxo Species in Catalytic Oxidations, Structure & Bonding 97, Springer, 2000, Not Refereed
  • 1997, Not Refereed
  • Oxygen Homeostasis and Its Dynamics, Springer, 1997, Not Refereed

Presentations

  • 28 Mar. 2025
  • 08 Mar. 2025
  • 17 Nov. 2024
  • 16 Nov. 2024
  • 19 Sep. 2024
  • 19 Sep. 2024
  • 19 Sep. 2024
  • 19 Sep. 2024
  • 17 Sep. 2024
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 13th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Electron-Transfer coupled Bond Formation Mechansim in the Sulfoxidation Reactions of Compound I, 25 Jun. 2024
  • 27 Mar. 2024
  • 26 Mar. 2024
  • 20 Mar. 2024
  • 11 Nov. 2023
  • 11 Nov. 2023
  • 11 Nov. 2023
  • 11 Nov. 2023
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 23rd International Conference on Cytochrome P450 (ICCP450), Molecular Mechanism Controlling Formation and Reaction Steps of Compound I, 29 Sep. 2023, 26 Sep. 2023 - 29 Sep. 2023
  • 26 Sep. 2023
  • 26 Sep. 2023
  • 26 Sep. 2023
  • 08 Sep. 2023
  • 04 Sep. 2023
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 10th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, How do the porphyrin and axial ligands regulate the formation and reactivity of Compound I?, 02 Dec. 2022
  • Seina Iwanoto; Ayano Takeda; Yuki Honda; Sachiko Yangisawa; Yasuhiro Kobayashi; Makoto Seto; Hiroshi Fujii, 10th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Metal Complex of Cytochrome P450 Active Site that can Mimic Hydrophobic Subtrate Binding Site, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Nao Oshima; Yuna Suzuki; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, 10th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Reactivity of Cationic Iron Porphyrin Complexes and Hydroxylation Reaction of Gaseous Alkanes, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Nozomi Nakatani; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, 10th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Disproportionation of Oxomanganese(IV) and Oxochromium(IV) Porphyrin Complexes, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Kaho Ueda; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, 10th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Mechanism of Sulfoxidation Catalyzed by Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex, 29 Nov. 2022
  • 05 Nov. 2022
  • 05 Nov. 2022
  • 05 Nov. 2022
  • 05 Nov. 2022
  • 21 Oct. 2022
  • 25 Sep. 2022
  • 25 Sep. 2022
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 8th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Formation and Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex, 09 Aug. 2022
  • 18 Jun. 2022
  • 18 Jun. 2022
  • Hiroshi Fujii, Pacifichem 2021, Cytochrome P450 compound I prefers hydroxylation of hydrocarbon rather than epoxidation of olefin, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Hiroshi Fujii, Pacifichem 2021, Factors controlling the formation and disproportionation of high-valent oxoiron porphyrin complexes, 19 Dec. 2021
  • 31 Oct. 2021
  • 31 Oct. 2021
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 11th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, What is an essential factor for determining the bond cleavage process of hemebound terminal oxidant?, 28 Jul. 2021
  • 07 Nov. 2020
  • 23 Mar. 2020
  • Yuki Honda; Yuka Shinohara; Hiroshi Fujii, 日本化学会第100回春季年会, Light-driven and mediator-free hydrogen evolution using a combination of a photosensitizer and recombinant Esherichia coli whole-cell biocatalyst, 23 Mar. 2020
  • 19 Nov. 2019
  • 09 Nov. 2019
  • 09 Nov. 2019
  • 09 Nov. 2019
  • Kana Nishikawa; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, 第69回錯体化学討論会, Studies on the disproportionation reaction of iron(IV) oxo porphyrin complexes, 22 Sep. 2019
  • 22 Sep. 2019
  • 21 Sep. 2019
  • 21 Sep. 2019
  • 05 Sep. 2019
  • Hiroshi Fujii, he First Asian Conference on Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines and Related Materials, What is an essential factor for determining the bond cleavage process of heme-bound terminal oxidant?, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Hiroshi Fujii, International Conference on Bioinspired Small Molecule Activation, Heterolytic versus Homolytic Bond Cleavage of Hypochlorite by Iron(III) Porphyrin Complexes, 07 Jun. 2019
  • 16 Mar. 2019
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 9th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (Asbic9), Critical Factors in Determining the Reactivity of Hypochlorite Adducts of Metal Complexes, 09 Dec. 2018 - 14 Dec. 2018
  • 10 Nov. 2018
  • 01 Nov. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018
  • 01 Nov. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018
  • 01 Nov. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018
  • 01 Nov. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018
  • 09 Sep. 2018 - 11 Sep. 2018
  • 09 Sep. 2018 - 11 Sep. 2018
  • Hiroshi Fujii, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Bioinspired Molecular Catalysis, Marcus Theory Analysis of Aromatic Hydroxylation and Epoxidation Reactions by Compound I Model Complexes, 04 Aug. 2018 - 05 Aug. 2018
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 43rd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Heterolytic versus Homolytic Bond Cleavage of Hypochlorite by Iron Porphyrin Complexes, 31 Jul. 2018 - 04 Aug. 2018
  • Kana Nishikawa; Yuki Honda; Hiroshi Fujii, 43rd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Disproportionation of Metal(IV) Oxo Complexes, 31 Jul. 2018 - 04 Aug. 2018
  • 28 Jul. 2018 - 30 Jul. 2018
  • 28 Jul. 2018 - 30 Jul. 2018
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 10th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Participation of Electron-Transfer Process in Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions by Heme Enzymes, 01 Jul. 2018 - 06 Jul. 2018
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 13th International Symposium on Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Oxidation Catalysis, Participation of Electron-Transfer Processes in Oxygenation Reactions by High-valent Iron Porphyrin Complxes, 26 Jun. 2018
  • Hiroshi Fujii, 2018 Korea-Taiwan-Japn Bioinorganic Chemistry Symposium, Participation of Electron-Transfer Process in Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions by Heme Enzymes, 31 May 2018
  • 2018
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules, Participation of Electron-Transfer process in Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions by Heme Enzymes, 2017
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 2016
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  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 2016
  • 42nd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, The Functional Role of the Dioxo-isobacteriochlorin Structure of the Catalytic Site of Cytochrome cd1 in Nitrite Reduction, 2016
  • 8th Asian Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference (Asbic8), Mechanism of Aromatic Hydroxylation Reactions by Compound I of Cytochrome P450, 2016
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 2015
  • 227th Electrochemistry Society Meeting, Role of the Heme Axial Ligand on the Reactivity of High-Valent Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin Intermediate, 2015
  • RIKEN Symposium "Metals in Biology" in Wako, Mechanism of Aromatic Hydroxylation by Cytochrome P450 Compound I Model Complexes, 2015
  • IUPAC-2015, How does the Heme Axial Ligand Controles the Reactivity of High-velent oxoiron intermediates?, 2015
  • ChemComm Symposium, Preparation, characterization and Reactivity of Iron(III) Porphyrin Hypochlorite Complexes as Models for Reactive Intermediates in Haloperoxidase, 2015
  • 2nd Japan-Germany Joint Symposium, How does the axial ligand control the reactivity of high-valent metal oxo complex?, 2015
  • Pacifichem2015, Molecular Mechanism of Heme Axial Ligand for Controlling the Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex, 2015
  • Pacifichem2015, Electronic Structure of One-electron Oxidized Mixed-Valence Metal Salen Complexes, 2015
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 2014
  • 8th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Functional Role of Heme Axial Ligand on the Reactivity of Oxoiron(IV) Porphyrin π-Cation Radical Complex, 2014
  • 41st International Conference on Inorganic Chemistry, Hypochlorito-rion(III) Porphyrin Complexes as Models for Reaction Intermediates of Catalytic and Biological Reactions, 2014
  • 2013
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  • 16th International Conference on Bioinorgnaic Chemsitry, Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Hypochlorite-Iron(III) Porphyrin Complexes, 2013
  • 4th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Structure and Reactivity of Iodosylarene Adduct of Manganese(IV) Salen Complex, 2013

Research Projects

  • 基盤研究(B), 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025, 22H02096, オキソ配位子のプロトン化による金属ジオキソ錯体の活性化とC-H活性化反応の開発, 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 奈良女子大学, 17420000, 13400000, 4020000, kaken
  • Oct. 2016 - Mar. 2023, Principal investigator, 配位環境制御および反応環境制御によるメタン酸化触媒の開発, 藤井 浩, CREST, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding
  • Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2022, Principal investigator, マンガン4価サレン錯体の配位子場による不斉構造の制御とその分子機構の解明, 藤井 浩, 科研費 新学術領域 公募研究, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2020, 17H03032, Study of reactions of hypochlorite with metal complexes and metalloenzymes, Fujii Hiroshi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Nara Women's University, 18590000, 14300000, 4290000, The bond cleavage processes of metal bound hypochlorite were studied to reveal the mechanism determining the bond cleavage fashion of various metal bound terminal oxidants. The reactions of heme with hypochlorite were studied with various spectroscopic methods at low temperature. The products from these reactions were also analyzed in detail. These analyses allowed us to propose a new mechanism, which can predict the bond cleavage fashion of various terminal oxidants. In addition, the mechanism controlling the reactivity of the metal bound terminal oxidants was studied with heme complexes. The reactivity of the terminal oxidants can be interpreted by the orbital interactions of the metal d-orbitals with ligand orbitals., kaken
  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2020, Principal investigator, 酸化反応に関わる金属酵素の機能発現の分子機構の研究, 藤井 浩, 科研費 基盤B, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2017, 25288032, Reactivity and Selectivity of Hypochlorite Adducts of Metal Complexes, Fujii Hiroshi; HADA Masahiko; OGURA Takashi; ADACHI Shinichi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 18720000, 14400000, 4320000, In this project, we studied how hypochlorious acid is produced from the reaction of a high-valent oxoiron complex with chloride. This study points out that the key factor to produce hypochlorious acid is the reactivity of the high-valent oxoiron intermediate that is controlled by unique coordination structures of the active sites in the enzymes. In addition, we studied how the reactivity of the hypochlorite adduct complex is controlled. The most important factor to control the reactivity of the complex is electron donor ability form the cis- and trans-ligands. Interestingly, the electron donor effect of these two ligands show different trend to the reactivity., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2010 - 2012, 22350030, Molecular Mechanism Controlling Reactivity and Selectivity of High-Valent Oxo-Metal Complexes, FUJII Hiroshi; KURAHASHI Takuya; HADA Masahiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, National Institutes of Natural Sciences Okazaki Research Facilities, 19370000, 14900000, 4470000, In this project, we studied how the reactivity and selectivity of high-valent metal-oxo complexes are controlled to provide a new concept fordeveloping functional catalysts.We succeeded in revealing a new unique molecular mechanisms that the axial ligand controls the reactivity of oxoiron(IV) porphyrin π-cation radical complex by stability of the iron(III) porphyrin complex, not by instability of itself. In addition, we succeeded in solving the crystal structure of a chiral manganese(IV) salen iodosylarene adduct, which provide a new mechanism for controlling its enantioselectivity, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2010 - 2012, 22350010, Quantum-Chemical Study on Magnetic Molecular Properties andChemical Reactions in Excited States Based on the RelativisticSAC-CI Theory, HADA Masahiko; HASEGAWA Junya; FUJII Hiroshi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 16770000, 12900000, 3870000, The main purpose of this project is to make a new theoretical and computational development of the higher-order relativistic GUHF-CCSD-CI method for chemical reactions and chemical phenomena in the electronic excited states, for example, photochemical reactions and fine potential energy surface considering the spin-orbit interaction and the intersystem crossing. In the GUHF-CCSD-CI method, the GUHF orbitals are used as reference and the CCSD is used for the electronic ground state. We finished the computer code of the GUHF-CCSD-CI method, and we applied this code to calculations of the singlet and triplet excited states and checked the accuracy in comparison with the non-relativistic CCSD, SO-CASPT2. The GUHF-CCSD-CI is meaningfully more accurate than the other methods. The SO-CASPT2 is accurate in light elements but not in heavy elements. Further, we carried out some relativistic quantum-chemical calculations for compounds containing heavy-elements., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2004 - 2006, 16350094, Control of Regioselectivity of Heme Oxygenase by Reconstruction of Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions between Substrate and Enzyme, FUJII Hiroshi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 15600000, 15600000, Regioselective reactions catalyzed by enzymes are very important biologically and chemically. Therefore, molecular mechanisms of regioselective reactions have been studied for various enzymes with various spectroscopic methods. We have studied the molecular mechanism of heme oxygenase (HO), which catalyzes regioselective degradation of heme (iron protoporphyrinIX) to α-biliverdin, CO, and free iron ion. Interestingly, HO regiospecifically oxidize the α-meso position of the heme to form α-biliverdin isomer while non-enzymatic heme degradation forms all four possible α, β, γ, δ-biliverdin isomers at nearly identical yield. We have found two essential amino acid residues, Asp-140 and Arg-183 in rat-HO, for the a-regioselective heme degradation. We showed that the Asp-140 and Arg-183 residues control oxygen activation process and the substate (heme) binding process via hydrogen-bonding interactions, respectively. With combination of the Asp-140 and Arg-183 residues, the a-meso position of the heme is placed at the nearest position from the activated oxygen species, resulting in the a-regioselective reaction. This mechanism let us imagine that we can switch the regioselectivity of HO if we can control an orientation of the heme in HO so that the other meso position is placed at the nearest position from the activated oxygen species. To realize this idea, on the basis of the crystal structure of the wild type HO, we designed a mutant, in which the other meso position is placed at the nearest position from the activated oxygen species. In this project, we succeeded in conversion of α-selective HO to δ-selective HO with the present strategy. Furthermore, we also succeeded in controlling heme orientation in HO with mutation of amino acid residues, which results in β-selective and δ-selective HO., kaken
  • 特定領域研究, 2005 - 2005, 17036071, 金属酵素のナノ反応空間における基質の配向および反応選択性の制御, 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 大学共同利用機関法人自然科学研究機構(共通施設), 1400000, 1400000, 酵素反応は高い立体および位置選択性を示す。これは、酵素が作る反応場の構造に由来している。酵素の反応場には基質結合サイトと活性サイトがあり、基質結合サイトは基質のある特定部位が活性サイト近傍になるように基質を固定している。そのため活性サイトから攻撃をうける部位は限定され、高い反応選択性を示すのである。我々はこの考えを逆手にとり、基質の中で我々が反応させたい部位が活性サイト近傍に位置するように酵素内で新たに基質結合サイトを再構築することができれば、ひとつの酵素からさまざまな物質を立体選択的に合成できると考えた。そこで本研究ではこの考えを検証するため、ヘムオキシゲナーゼを用いて本手法に基づいた反応選択性の人為的制御を試みた。ヘムオキシゲナーゼは、生体内で不要になったヘムタンパク質から遊離したヘムを酸化的にビリベルジンと一酸化炭素と鉄イオンに分解する酵素である。多くのヘムオキシゲナーゼはヘムのα位を酸化的に解裂させるようなα選択性をもつ。ヘムオキシゲナーゼの立体構造を基に基質結合サイトを再設計(リホーム)し、α異性体以外の我々が望む選択性をもった酵素に人工的に変換することをめざした。本年度の研究により、α選択性をもった酵素の活性中心を先に示した方針に従い再構築することにより、δ選択性をほぼ100%示す酵素に変換することに成功した。酵素の立体構造解析の結果、基質の配向が設計どおり変化していることが明らかになった。さらに、β選択性をもつ酵素に変換するための基礎的知見を得た。ヘムの配向に2つのアミノ酸残基が関わっていることを明らかにした。これにより、β選択性酵素の作成への手がかりを得ることができた。, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2002 - 2003, 14340212, Synthesis and Characterization of High Valnet Reaction Intermediate of Non-Heme Iron Enzymes, FUJII Hiroshi; KURAHASHI Takuya, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Okazaki National Research Institutes, 15000000, 15000000, High-valent iron-oxo species are proposed to be the key reactive intermediate in oxidation reactions catalyzed by both heme and non-heme iron enzymes. In the case of heme enzymes, porphyrin model complexes have been extensively investigated, and oxo-iron (IV) porphyrin π-cation radical have been characterized as the most probable candidate for the active species. However, it is still unclear whether such high-valent iron-oxo species are generated from mononuclear non-heme iron active sites, in which there is no electron pool that can replace the large π-conjugation of the porphyrin ring. It is thus worth challenging to prepare transient oxidizing species from a mononuclear non-heme iron model complex for a detailed study of the electronic structure in comparison with the heme case. To this end, we have prepared a salen iron complex having a mesityl substituent, as a model for mononuclear iron enzymes. We have also tried to make a transient intermediate generated from the sterically hindered salen iron complex and m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA)., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, 2001 - 2003, 13125208, Development of heme-based highly efficient biocatalysts, SHIMADA Hideo; FUJII Hiroshi; HAYASHI Takashi; MUKAI Kuniaki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, KEIO UNIVERSITY, 40600000, 40600000, As a research intended to construct heme-based highly efficient biocatalyst, we have developed a functional expression system of bovine/human hybrid cytochrome oxidase in human HeLa cells by integrating the bovine mitochondrial DNA derived subunit I gene into the cell genome, whose product is the largest with 12 trans membrane helices in the 13 different enzyme-subunits and essential to the function. The expression and subsequent import of subunit I into the inner membrane of mitochondria permit the association with the other 12 human subunits leading to the hybrid enzyme having the same dioxygen reduction and proton pumping activities as those of the human enzyme, In this system, the hybrid dominates over the human enzyme. By mutating the subunit I, we have found the key residue for the proton pumping and also demonstrated that the proton pumping can be uncoupled from the dioxygen reduction. The methods we have developed ale applicable to cure mitochondrial diseases caused by mal-function of mitochondrial DNA derived membrane proteins. We have also developed the cell-free functional synthesis of Paracoccus denitrificans cytochrome oxidase by exogenously adding the prosthetic group into E. coli reaction system.
    The prosthetic group, protoheme, of myoglobin (Mb) can be chemically modified to functionalize the protein as monooxygenase, peroxygenase and peroxidase. Incorporation of unnatural heme, metalloporphycene, into Mb turned out to enhance the oxygen affinity to 1000-fold. Protein engineering of Mb with the above porphycene powers up the oxidizing activity enormously to allow the oxidative destruction of bisphenol A, a notable endocrine disrupter. These results revealed that unnatural heme including chemically modified are powerful to develop a protein-based efficient catalyst.
    Our in vivo and in vitro functional expression system of cytochrome oxidase pave the way to produce a highly efficient biocatalyst from highly hydrophobic membrane proteins by combining the protein engineering with an incorporation of unnatural heme into the active center., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2000 - 2001, 12680625, Relation between the structure and the oxygen acitivation of heme oxygenase reaction, YOSHIDA Tadashi; FUJII Hiroshi; ZHANG Xuhong, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, 3700000, 3700000, (1)The hemin complex of HmuO, a 24-kDa soluble heme degradation enzyme in Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is coordinated axially to a neutral imidazole of a proximal histidine residue in HmuO. EPR of the NO-bound ferrous heme-HmuO mutant complexes reveals His20 as the proximal heme ligand in HmuO, and this is confirmed by resonance Raman result from the ligand free ferrous heme-H20A. When bound with exogenous imidazole, His20A mutant resumes full catalytic activity. Hence, it is the absence of the proximal His ligand, that is responsible for the inactivity of proximal His mutant.
    (2)We found that the mutation of R183 to E or D of rat HO-1 changes the a-regioselectivity of the HO catalysis. The result shows the importance of the hydrogen bonding interaction between the arginine at position 183 and the carboxylates of the heme propionate group, as well as steric effect of the distal helix, for the a-regioselectivity.
    (3)Wild-type enzyme of rat HO-1 degrades heme to verdoheme with hydrogen peroxide. However, D140A heme complex forms compound II with hydrogen oeroxide, and no heme degradation occurs. D140E mutant degrades heme normally, but D140N shows reactivity similar to that of D140A. These results indicate that the carboxylate at position 140 is essential to activate the iron-bound oxygen.
    (4)We determined the crystal structure of rat biliverdine reductase. The structure contains two domains: an N-terminal domain characteristic of a nucleotide binding fold and a C-terminal domain. We proposed modes of binding for NADPH and biliverdin., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2000 - 2001, 12640549, Functional Alteration of Myoglobin to Nitrite Reductase by Synthetic Heme and Protein Mutations, FUJII Hiroshi; FUNAHASHI Yasuhiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Cente for Integrative Biosience, 3700000, 3700000, In this project, we tried to alter the function of myoglobin, which serves as an oxygen storage in a muscle, to nitrite reductase, which reduces nitrite anion to nitric oxide in denitrification process. To prepare the artificial nitrite reductase from myoglobin, we first synthesized the active site model heme of the nitrite reductase. Since heme-d_1, which has been known as an active site of the nitrite reductase, has a dioxoisobacteriochlorin core, we prepared dioxoisobacterichlorin from dimethyldeutrioporphyrin with the oxidation by osmium tetraoxide and the pinocol rearrangement. The absorption spectrum of the synthesized heme-d_1 model was similar to that of nitrite reductase, suggesting the heme-d_1 model works as an active site of the artificial nitrite reductase. Therefore, we further tried to reconstitute the heme-d_1 model into apomyoglobin. The heme-d1 model formed a stable 1 : 1 complex with the apomyoglobin. The spectroscopic data of the complex were close to those of nitrite reductase. On the basis of these results, we further tried to add the protein mutations into the complex. We prepared L29H/F45H/H64Y myoglobin mutant because the structure of the mutant seems to be close to that of nitrite reductase. The mutant myoglobin was successfully expressed by e-coli and isolated. The triple mutant was also formed stable complex with heme-d1 model complex. The artificial nitrite reductase mimics not only the spectroscopic properties but also the reactivity of nitrite reducatse., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2000 - 2001, 12480176, Structure and Function of heme related proteins involved in intracellular signal transduction, IKEDA-SAITO Masao; TOMITA Takeshi; FUJII Hiroshi; SHIRO Yoshitsugu; MATSUI Toshitaka; HIROTSU Shoko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, 2200000, 2200000, In this work, we studied about heme oxygenase, a heme degradation enzyme. First, our research project was focused on constitutive isoform of mammalian heme oxygenase, HO-2. Recombinant HO-2 overexpressed in E colli. was successfully purified with new method to exclude impurity such as degradated or denatured enzymes. We used this highly purified HO-2 for crystal screening to search an appropriate buffer condition of crystallization, but we could not find the condition. On the other hand, we had already made crystal of HmuO, a bacterial heme oxygenase, and tried to elucidate crystal structure of HmuO. On the basis of spectroscopic data, optical absorption and resonance Raman spectra, and enzymological analysis of HO-2 and HmuO, their heme environment and reaction mechanism were found to be identical to those of HO-1 , inducible form of mammalian heme oxygenase. X-ray crystal structure analysis revealed that the crystal of HmuO belonged to P21 space group and a unit cell of the crystal was composed of three molecules. We could reveal structure of oxidized form and reduced form, the first and second intermediate of the enzyme reaction. The reduced form of crystal was made by the addition of sodium dithionite as an electron donor to the oxidized form crystal. Resolutions of the crystal structures were 1.4 and 1.7 angstroms for oxidized form and reduced form, respectively. From the comparison of crystal structures in oxidized and reduced forms, substantial amount of structural changes provoked by changing of heme iron electronic state were discovered for the first time. Additionally, presence of an hydrogen bonding network, which is assumed to work as a proton donor in the heme-degradation reaction, was pointed out here. Now our efforts are thrusting to realize the structure of CO adduct of HmuO as well as other intermediate, alpha-hydroxyheme form, verdoheme form, and billiverdin form., kaken
  • 特定領域研究(A), 1999 - 1999, 11116229, ^<17>O-NMRによる銅-酸素錯体の配位した酸素の電子構造と反応性の研究, 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 岡崎国立共同研究機構, 1500000, 1500000, 生体内には、チロシナーゼやヘモシアニンに代表されるような銅イオンを活性中心にもつ酵素が数多く存在する。ヘモシアニンは、無脊椎動物(たこやいかなど)の酸素運搬体であり、チロシナーゼはチロシンなどの酸化を行う酵素である。これら酵素の酸素付加体の構造は、ともに酸素が2つの銅イオンに対してサイドオンで配位したη_2η_2構造をもつが、ヘモシアニンに配位した酸素は可逆的に吸脱着するのに対して、チロシナーゼに配位した酸素は、活性化され基質(チロシンなど)に添加される。類似の構造をとるにもかかわらず配位した酸素の反応性が異なるのである。さらに同様な現象は、これまでの銅2核酸素錯体の反応性にも見られる。エンドオンの形態をとる場合は、配位した酸素の反応性は低く、むしろ酸素は可逆的に吸脱着するが、サイドオンの形態をとる場合は、基質を酸化することができる。
    今回我々は、η_2η_2構造をもつ銅-酸素不可錯体を合成し、銅イオンに配位した酸素の^<17>O-NMR測定を行った。10%-^<17>O-エンリッチの酸素ガスから合成した酸素錯体の^<17>O-NMR測定を行った。-60度以上の温度で配位した酸素のシグナルが200ppmに観測された。温度による化学シフトの変化は観測されず、銅イオンからの常磁性の効果がないことがわかった。今回観測されたシグナルのシフトは、過酸化水素の酸素と同様の位置であり、配位した酸素がパーオキソ状態に2電子還元されていることを示した。また、配位子の違いによる化学シフトの大きな変化は観測されなかった。これらの実験から、今回観測されたシフトはη_2η_2構造をもつ酸素分子に特徴的なシフトであることが示唆された。今後さらに、配位構造が異なる錯体を合成して、その^<17>O-NMRを行い、酸素活性化を支配する因子の解明をめざす。, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)., 1998 - 1999, 10044233, Mechanism of heme degradation by heme oxygenase, YOSHIDA Tadashi; FUJII Hiroshi; SATO Michihiko; ZHANG Xuhong; MIGITA Taiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, 9400000, 9400000, (1)To identify the axial heme ligand of heme oxygenase-2 (HO-2), we prepared His45 to Ala (H45A) mutant. H45A was completely devoid of the heme dedradation activity. A 5-coordinate-type ferrous NO EPR spectrum was observed for the heme-H45A complex. These indicate that His 45 is the proximal ligand of heme oxygenase-2. (2)The OィイD22ィエD2 and CO reactions with the heme, hydroxyheme, and verdoheme complexes of HO were studied. The OィイD22ィエD2 affinities for heme and hydroxyheme are very high, but the CO affinities are only 1-6-fold higher than the OィイD22ィエD2 affinities. Thus, HO discriminates much more strongly against CO binding than myoglobin. (3)On the basis of Raman spectra of OィイD22ィエD2-bound form of the heme-HO complex, a highly bent Fe-O-O geometry has been proposed. However, the interaction of bound oxygen with the distal amino acid residue has not been identified.
    To clarify this, we have carried out EPR measurements of the cobalt(II) porphyrin HO complex and revealed that the bound-OィイD22ィエD2 formes hydrogen-bond interactions with distal amino acid residue. (4)We investigated the mechanism of the conversion of hydroxyhemin to verdoheme and confirmed that our previous conclusion that this step requires one reducing equivalent along with molecular oxygen. (5)We analyzed the first step of the heme degradation. We found that the molecular oxygen bound to heme-HO complex is stabilized by an H-bond and that hydroperoxy-HO genarated by cryoreduction catalyzes the formation of hydroxyheme. (6)We established the expression system of bacterial HO (Hmu O). Hmu O binds hemin stoichiometrically to form a hexacoordinate high spin hemin-Hmu O complex. When ascorbic acid is used as the electron donor, Hmu O converted hemin to biliverdin with hydroxyhemin and verdoheme as intermediates. Other enzymatic and protein-chemical properties closely resembled those of mammalian HOs., kaken
  • 特定領域研究(A), 1998 - 1998, 10129101, ヘムオキシゲナーゼの構造と機能との関連(特に酸素活性化について), 吉田 匡; 右田 たひ子; 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 山形大学, 1700000, 1700000, ヘムオキシゲナーゼ(HO)はヘムをビリベルジン,CO,鉄イオンに分解する.私共は長年本酵素によるヘム分解機構と中間過程の解析を行ってきた.最近,本酵素が病原性細菌にも存在することが知られるようになった.そこで私共は細菌のHOについても興味を持ち研究を始めた. 或る種の病原性細菌では増殖のみならずその病原性の発現の為に鉄を必要とする.即ち,これらの菌では蛋白質性毒素の遺伝子のプロモーター領域に鉄調節エレメントがあり鉄要求性に転写が促進される.一方,宿主には遊離の鉄は極微量しか存在しないためこれら細菌では鉄獲得の為に何等かの機構が必要となる.そのうちの一つに宿主を溶血させ遊離したヘモグロビンからヘムを奪い,それを菌体内に持ち込み,ヘムを分解して鉄を得る,という機構がある. 1997年にSchmittはCorynebacterium diphtheriaeに動物のHOにホモロジーを持つ25kDa蛋白質をコードする遺伝子が存在すること,そして翌年にこの蛋白質がヘム分解活性を持つ事を報告している.そこで私共もその塩基配列を化学合成し,大腸菌の発現ベクターであるpMW172に組み込み発現系と精製系を確立した.精製酵素のヘム分解比活性をアスコルビン酸-デスフェリオキサミン系で比較した所,動物系のHOよりは低いが顕著なヘム分解活性が認められた.精製酵素にヘムを加えると1対1で結合し,その光吸収像は動物系と同様にミオグロビンと類似の吸収像を示した.然し,興味深いことに吸収像はpHによって殆ど影響されなかった.従って第六配位座近傍は動物系とはかなり異なると思われる.本酵素に結合したヘムはアスコルビン酸-デスフェリオキサミン系の添加によってベルドヘムを経てビリベルジンまで分解されたので,反応過程は動物系と同じと思われる., kaken
  • 奨励研究(A), 1997 - 1998, 09740504, ヘム酵素の軸配位子が多様な酵素機能を制御する機構の解明, 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 2300000, 2300000, 生体内のヘム酵素は、活性中心にヘムを共通にもつが、活性中心のヘムが担う機能は多種多様である。ヘム酵素がもつ機能の多様性は、ヘムに配位する軸配位子やヘム周辺のタンパク質の作る反応場によると考えられているが、詳細は明らかでない。本研究では、生体内のベルオキシダーゼ、カタラーゼ、サトクロームP-450などのヘム酵素の軸配位子が、その酵素機能をどのように制御しているかをモデル錯体により研究した。本課題による主な成果はつぎの通りである。
    1. これらのヘム酵素は、その反応中にCompound Iと呼ばれる反応中間体を生成するが、その寿命が短いため酵素を用いた詳細な研究は困難である。そこで本研究では、これら酵素と同様な軸配位子をもつCompound Iモデル錯体の合成し、軸配位子の役割りを明らかにした。軸配位子を導入するため、対イオンに過塩素酸イオンを用いること、酸化剤にオゾンを用いることにより、ベルオキシダーゼ由来のイミダゾール基とカタラーゼ由来のフェノール基をもつCompound Iモデル錯体の合成に初めて成功した。
    2. 合成したCompound Iモデル錯体の吸収スペクトルを測定した。軸配位子を導入したCompound Iモデル錯体は、軸配位子をもたない錯体に比べ吸収ピークが長波長側にシフトした。この変化を軸配位子の塩基性と比較すると、塩基性が大きくなるに従い、長波長側に変化することが明らかとなった。この結果は、Compound Iの吸収ピークが酵素により大きく異なるのは、軸配位子の塩基性の違いによることを示唆した。また逆に、Compound Iの吸収位置は、軸配位子からヘム鉄への電子供与の大きさをを反映することを示した。, kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 1997 - 1998, 09480158, Molucular mechanisms of oxygen activation at the three steps in heme oxygenase reaction, YOSHIDA Tadashi; MIGITA Taiko; FUJII Hiroshi; ZHANG Zuhong, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, 2800000, 2800000, (1)The resonance Raman spectra for alpha-hydroxyheme and verdoheme complexes of heme oxygenase (HO) was measured. We found that the ferric alpha-hydroxyheme and ferrous verdoheme complexes showed atypical Raman patterns, which are interpreted as the result of the symmetry lowering of the porphyrin-conjugating pi-electron system. (2)To identify the axial heme ligand of HO-2, we prepared His45 to Ala (H45A) and Hisi 52 to Ala (Hi 52A) mutants. H45A was completely devoid of the heme dedradation activity. A 5-coordinate-type ferrous NO EPR spectrum was observed for the heme-H45A complex, On the contrary, H152A mutant exhibited spectroscopic and enzymatic properties identical to those of wild-type. His132 of HO-1 was also not important for the heme degradation. (3)The O_2 and CO reactions with the heme, hydroxyheme, and verdoheme complexes of HO were studied. The 02 affinities for heme and hydroxyheme are very high, but the CO affinities are only 1-6-fold higher than the O_2 affinities. Thus, HO discriminates much more strongly against CO binding than myoglobin. The CO affinities of the verdoheme complexes are about 10,000 times weaker than those of the heme complex. (4)On the basis of Raman spectra of O_2-bound form of the heme-HO complex, a highly bent Fe-O-O geometry has been proposed. However, the interaction of bound oxygen with the distal amino acid residue has not been identified. To clarify this, we have carried out EPR measurements of the cobalt(II) porphyrin HO complex and revealed that the bound-O_2 forms hydrogen-bond interactions with distal amino acid residue., kaken
  • 重点領域研究, 1997 - 1997, 09235236, チトクロームC酸化酵素の活性中心モデル錯体の構築とその酸素との反応, 藤井 浩; 吉村 哲彦, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, (財)山形県テクノポリス財団(生物ラジカル研究所), 1700000, 1700000, チトクロームc酸化酵素は、ミトコンドリアにおいてATP合成に関わる金属酵素である。我々は、チトクロームc酸化酵素の反応機構を解明するためモデル錯体の合成を行った。
    1.ヘムa_<3->Cu_B部位モデル錯体の構築 Cu_Bサイトの銅イオンには3つのヒスチジンが配位しているので、これをトリスピリジルメタンによりモデル化した。ポルフィリンとトリスピリジルメタンを化学反応性に強いエーテル結合で連結した。ポルフィリンに鉄3価イオンを、トリスピリジルメタンに銅2価イオンを導入した。合成された錯体は、吸収スペクトル、NMR、ESR、MSスペクトルの測定により、ヘム鉄と銅イオンの間に架橋配位子をもたないこと、磁気的相互作用がないことがわかった。本研究の結果、酵素のヘムa_<3->Cu_Bサイトには架橋配位子が存在することが示唆された。
    2.反応中間体モデルの構築 チトクロームc酸化酵素は、CompoundI類似の反応中間体をとることがラマンスペクトルの研究により明らかにされている。CompoundI中間体の電子構造を解明するため、チトクロームc酸化酵素のCompoundI中間体のモデル化を行った。チトクロームc酸化酵素のヘムa_3は、ヒスチジン由来のイミダゾールを軸配位子としてもつ。配位力の極めて弱い過塩素酸イオンを軸配位子として用いること、また配位性のイオンを生成しないオゾンを酸化剤として用いた結果、イミダゾールを軸配位子としてもつCompoundIモデル錯体の合成に初めて成功した。合成された錯体は、鉄4価ポルフィリンπカチオンラジカル状態であること、HOMO軌道に変化がないこと、配位したイミダゾールにはほとんどラジカル電子が分布していないことが明らかとなった。, kaken
  • 重点領域研究, 1997 - 1997, 09235101, ヘムオキシゲナーゼの構造と機能との関連(特に酸素活性化について), 吉田 匡; 右田 たい子; 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 山形大学, 1700000, 1700000, ミクロソーム酵素であるヘムオキシゲナーゼには二つのイソ酵素がありそれぞれHO-1,HO-2と呼ばれている.ヘムは本酵素によりヒドロキシヘム,ベルドヘム,ビリベルジン・鉄錯塩を経てビリベルジン,CO,鉄イオンに酸化的に分解される.この反応に必要な電子はやはりミクロソーム酵素であるシトクロムP-450還元酵素によって供給される.ヘムだけではなくヒドロキシヘム,ベルドヘムからの反応でもそれぞれ一分子の酸素が利用される.従って,三つの連続したモノオキシゲナーゼ反応が一つの酵素蛋白の上で起こっていることになる.
    COはヘムの二価鉄に強い親和性を有するためCOは種々のヘム蛋白質の機能を阻害する.本反応の生成物の一つとしてCOが生ずるが,何故,このCOがヘム分解反応を阻害しないかは興味ある課題であった.そこで今年度は主にこの点について研究を行った.その結果次ぎの事実が知られた.
    1.HO-1とHO-2に結合したヘム鉄の酸素やCOに対する結合能は両者とも殆ど同じであった. 2.酸素親和性はミオグロビンの場合に比べ30-90倍と極めて高かった.これは酸素結合速度はミオグロビンの場合と同じであるが,酸素解離速度が極めて遅いことによるためであった. 3.一方,CO親和性は酸素親和性とほぼ同程度であった. 4.還元型ヒドロヘキシムとの酸素及びCO親和性もヘムの場合と同様の結果であった. 5.ベルドヘムの場合はCO親和性は他のヘム蛋白質に比べ極端に低かった.
    以上の実験事実と,ヘムオキゲシナーゼ反応で生じたCO濃度は反応場での酸素濃度よりも極めて低い事実とを考え合わせると,本反応で生じたCOは本反応を殆ど阻害しない理由が解明出来たことになる.一般のヘム蛋白質ではCO親和性は酸素親和性よりもかなり高いのに対し本酵素に結合したヘムの場合はそうではなかった.この点の解明は今後の大きな課題の一つである., kaken
  • Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research, 1996 - 1997, 08044240, Molecular mechanism of heme degradation catalyzed by heme oxygenase, YOSHIDA Tadashi; OLSON John S.; IKEDA-SAITO Masao; MIGITA Taiko; FUJII Hiroshi; ZHOU Hong, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY, 11200000, 11200000, (1) We observed the resonance Raman spectra for alpha-hydroxyheme and verdoheme complexes of heme oxygensae (HO). We found that the ferric alpha-hydroxyheme and ferrous verdoheme complexes showed atypical Raman patterns, which are interpreted. as the result of the symmnetry lowering of the porphyrin-conjugating pi-electron system.
    (2) previously we found that histidine residue of HO was the proximal lignd of heme. To identify the axial heme lignd of HO-2, we prepared His45 to Ala (H45A) and His152 to Ala (H152A) mutants. H45A could form a 1 : 1 complex with hemin but was completely devoid of the heme degradation activity. A 5-coordinate-type ferrous NO EPR spectrum was observed for the heme-H45A complex. On the contrary, H152A mutant exhibited spectroscopic and enzymatic properties identical to those of wild-type. His132 of HO-1, Which corresponds to His152 of HO-2, was also not important for the heme degradation activity.
    (3) The O_2 and CO reactions with the heme, alpha-hydroxyheme, and veroheme complexes of HO were studied. The heme complexs of HO-1 and HO-2 have similar O_2 and CO binding properties. The O_2 affinities for heme and hydroxyheme・are very high, but the CO affinities are only 1-6-fold higher than the O_2 affinities. Thus, HO discriminate much more strongly against CO binding than myoglobin. The CO affinities of the verdoheme complex are about 10,000 times weaker than those of the heme complex. The positive charge on the verdoporphyrin ring causes a large decrease in reactivity of the iron., kaken
  • 基盤研究(C), 1996 - 1996, 08680675, ヘムオキシゲナーゼによるヘム分解の中間過程の解析, 吉田 匡; 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 山形大学, 2200000, 2200000, ミクロソーム酵素であるヘムオキシゲナーゼには二つのイソ酵素があり,HO-1,HO-2と呼ばれている.両酵素ともヘムをヒドロキシヘム,ベルドヘム,ビリベルジン・鉄錯塩を経てビリベルジンに酸化的に分解する.本酵素は単純蛋白質であるが基質であるヘムを結合してできた酵素・基質複合体はヘム蛋白質の性質を持ち,その吸収像はミオグロビンのそれと酷似する.本酵素による反応ではヘムが酸素活性化のための補欠分子族としても機能している.従って,ミオグロビン型のヘムがどのように酵素を活性化できるかは興味深い.私共は先に本酵素にヘムが結合するとき,そのHis25を第五配位子(近位His)とすることを見いだした.然し,酸素の結合や活性化に関与すると思われる第六配位子については種々論議はあるものの未だ特定されていない.
    HO-1,HO-2の両酵素間あるいはそれぞれの酵素の動物種間で高度に保存されている部位があり,そのなかにHis132がある.従ってこのHis132が第六配位子である可能性が高いと推測されてきた.実際,1996年に米国のWilksらによってそうであると報告された.然し私共はその前年にHis132はヘム分解活性には関与していない事を既に報告しているので,再度この食い違いを検討した.
    その結果,やはりHis132は第六配位子ではない事を再確認し,更に両者の相違が何故生じたのかについても検討し以下の見解を得た.His132を他のアミノ酸に換えると大腸菌内で封入体として発現される.その封入体の尿素処理によって得られた再生酵素は本来の高次構造に戻ったもの(活性型)とどこかに異常のあるもの(不活性型)との混合物であったため,Wilksらが誤解したのであろう., kaken
  • 重点領域研究, 1996 - 1996, 08249101, ヘムオキシゲナーゼの構造と機能との関連(特に酸素活性化について), 吉田 匡; 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 山形大学, 2000000, 2000000, ヘムオキシゲナーゼ(HO)はヘムをビリベルジン,CO,鉄に酸化的に分解するミクロソーム酵素である.本酵素によるヘム分解反応では基質であるヘムが酸素活性化のための補欠分子族としても機能しているという特異な反応機構を持つ.反応機構は複雑であり,中間代謝産物としてヒドロキシヘム,ベルドヘム,ビリベルジン・鉄錯塩が存在する.この間の反応は本酵素の上で逐次的に進行し,しかもヒドロキシヘム,ベルドヘムからの反応でもそれぞれ一分子の酸素が消費されるので,三つの連続したモノオキシゲナーゼ反応が一つの酵素蛋白の上で起こっていることになる.
    今回,私共はα-ヒドロキシヘムを化学合成しヘムオキシゲナーゼとの複合体を作り,それら複合体の性質や反応機構を各種生物物理学的測定法を用いて検討した.その結果次の事実が知られた.
    1.酸化型α-ヒドロキシヘムはヒドロキシル基のプロトンが外れたオキソフロリン構造をとっていること.2.酸素に曝すとポルフィリン環が酸化され,構造未知の物質に転換すること.3.この物質に一電子を供給すると速やかにベルドヘムに転換すること.4.還元型ヒドロキシヘムは酸化型とは異なりオキソフロリン構造を取らないこと.5.この還元型に酸素を導入すると速やかにベルドヘムに転換すること.などが知られた.以上の結果から,ヒドロムキシヘムからベルドヘムに至る反応では一当量の還元力と酸素分子が必須であることが知られた.然し,酸素が先か電子が先かについては未だ決着がついていない.
    その他ベルドヘム・HO複合体も作り検討したところ,ベルドヘム・HO複合体の吸収像は私共が以前688nm物質と称した中間体のそれと同じであり,従ってベルドヘムが実際に中間体であることの最終的な結論が得られた., kaken
  • 奨励研究(A), 1995 - 1995, 07740533, ヘム酵素反応中に生成する高酸化鉄ポルフィリン錯体の反応性制御因子の解明, 藤井 浩, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, (財)山形県テクノポリス財団(生物ラジカル研究所), 1200000, 1200000, ペルオキシダーゼ、カタラーゼ、チトクロームP-450の活性反応中間体であるオキソ鉄4価ポルフィリンπ-カチオンラジカル錯体の電子構造をESRにより検討した。HOMO軌道の異なる2種類の錯体について検討した。a2u軌道に不対電子をもつ錯体は、g=4.4、3.6、2.0にシグナルを与えた。このスペクトルは、S=3/2のESRスペクトルであり、鉄4価イオンと不対電子が強磁性相互作用していることが明らかとなった。一方、alu軌道に不対電子をもつ錯体は、g=3.2、2.0にシグナルを与えた。このスペクトルは、錯体が特異な状態をもつことを示唆した。またこのスペクトルは酵素の中間体においても観測されており、今回酵素系の電子構造を人工的な錯体により初めて再現することができたことを示した。これは、この錯体が酵素系を研究する上で有用であることを示すものである。このスペクトルの詳細に解析した結果、先のa2u軌道の錯体と異なり、鉄4価イオンは不対電子とそれほど強く相互作用していないことがわかった。本研究の結果は、今後の酵素系の研究に重要な知見を与えるものである。
    この電子構造の変化が錯体の反応性をどのように変化させるかを、速度論的手法により検討した。錯体とノルボルネンを-80℃で反応させると、エポキシドの生成が観測された。みかけの速度定数に関しては、alu、a2u錯体において大きな変化は観測されなかった。これは、HOMO軌道が反応性を制御していないことを示した。酸化電位による影響、ラジカル性と生成物の関わりは、本年度において十分に行うことができなかったので、今後検討を加え、反応性制御因子の解明をめざす。, kaken
  • Reactivity and selectivity of metalloenzymes relating to biological oxidation reactions, 0, 0, 0, Competitive research funding
  • 基盤研究B, Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025, オキソ配位子のプロトン化による金属ジオキソ錯体の活性化とC-H活性化反応の開発
  • 基盤研究B, Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2025, オキソ配位子のプロトン化による金属ジオキソ錯体の活性化とC-H活性化反応の開発

■Ⅲ.社会連携活動実績

1.公的団体の委員等(審議会、国家試験委員、他大学評価委員,科研費審査委員等)

  • 日本化学会, 代議員, Oct. 2022 - Present, Society
  • 日本化学会生体関連化学部会, 幹事, Apr. 2017 - Present, 日本化学会生体関連化学部会, Society