The Japan Academy

Personal Information

 

Name

ŌMURA Satoshi

 

Section

Section II, Fourth Subsection

Date of Election

2001/12/12

Speciality

Natural Products Organic Chemistry

Selected Bibliography

  1. R.W. Burg, B.M. Miller, E.E. Baker, J. Birnbaum, S.A. Currie, R. Hartman, Y.-L. Kong, R. Monaghan, G. Olson, I. Putter, J.B. Tunac, H. Wallick, E.O. Stapley, R. Oiwa and S. Ōmura. Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: producing organism and fermentation. Antimicrob. Agents & Chemother., 15, 361-367 (1979).
  2. D.A. Hopwood, F. Malphatida, H.M. Kieser, H. Ikeda, J. Juncan, I. Fujii, B.A.M. Rudd, H.G. Floss, and S. Ōmura. Production of 'hybrid' antibiotics by genetic engineering. Nature, 314 (6012), 642-644 (1985).
  3. M. Hayashi, M.-C. Rho, A. Enomoto, A. Fukami, Y.-P. Kim, Y. Kikuchi, T. Sunazuka, T. Hirose, K. Komiyama, and S. Ōmura. Suppression of bone resorption by madindoline A, a novel nonpeptide antagonist to gp130. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 99, 14728-14739 (2002).
  4. H. Miyadera, K. Shiomi, H. Ui, Y. Yamaguchi, R. Masuma, H. Tomoda, H. Miyoshi, A. Osanai, K. Kita, and S. Ōmura. Atpenins, potent and specific inhibitors of mitochondria complex II (succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 100, 473-477 (2003).
  5. H. Ikeda, J. Ishikawa, A. Hanamoto, M. Shinose, H. Kikuchi, T. Shiba, Y. Sasaki, M. Hattori, and S. Ōmura. Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the industrial microorganisms Streptomyces avermitilis. Nature Biotechnol., 21, 526-531 (2003).
  6. S. Ōmura and A. Crump. The life and times of ivermectin? a success story. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2, 984-989 (2004).
  7. I. Namatame, H. Tomoda, S. Ishibashi, and S. Ōmura. Antiatherogenic activity of fungal beuveriolides, inhibitor of lipid droplet accumulation in macrophages. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 101, 7373-742 (2004).
  8. T. Sunazuka and S. Ōmura. Total synthesis of α-pyrone meroterpenoids, novel bioactive microbial metabolites. Chem. Rev., 105, 4559-4580 (2005).
  9. H. Gouda, T. Sunazuka, H. Ui, M. Handa, Y. Sakoh, Y. Iwai, S. Hirono, and S. Ōmura. Stereostructure of luminamicin, an anaerobic antibiotic, via molecular dynamics, NMR spectroscopy, and modified Mosher method. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 102, 18286-18291 (2005).
  10. M. Iwatsuki, H. Tomoda, R. Uchida, H. Gouda, S. Hirono, and S. Ōmura. Lariatins, antimycobacterial peptides produced by Rhodococcus sp. K01-B0171, have a Lasso structure. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 7486-7491 (2006).
  11. S. Ōmura, Y. Asami, and A. Crump. Staurosporine: new lease of life for parent compound of today’s novel and highly successful anti-cancer drugs. The Journal of Antibiotics, 71, 688-701 (2018)
  12. Macrolide Antibiotics-Chemistry, Biology, and Practice, 2nd Ed., (Ed. by S. Ōmura), Academic Press, 2002.