Personal Information
Name
ŌMURA Satoshi
Section
Section II, Fourth Subsection
Date of Election
2001/12/12
Speciality
Natural Products Organic Chemistry
Selected Bibliography
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- S. Ōmura and A. Crump. The life and times of ivermectin? a success story. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2, 984-989 (2004).
- 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).
- T. Sunazuka and S. Ōmura. Total synthesis of α-pyrone meroterpenoids, novel bioactive microbial metabolites. Chem. Rev., 105, 4559-4580 (2005).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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)
- Macrolide Antibiotics-Chemistry, Biology, and Practice, 2nd Ed., (Ed. by S. Ōmura), Academic Press, 2002.