Noriaki Minakawa
Professor
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Tokushima
Japan
Biography
Noriaki Minakawa has done his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Hokkaido University in 1993. Currently he is working as Professor in Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science at Tokushima University. His research interests are Pharmacy, Understanding and control of biological functions using organic compounds and chemical methods. Several Papers of his work were published in reputed international journals. He is also the member of Antisense DNA / RNA Society, Japan Process Chemistry Society Higashi Shikoku Area, Japan Society for Nucleic Acid Science, Japan Society for Nucleic Acid Chemistry.
Research Interest
Pharmacy, Understanding and control of biological functions using organic compounds and chemical methods.
Publications
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Noriko Tarashima, Masashi Ota and Noriaki Minakawa. Synthesis of 4'-selenoribonucleosides, the building blocks of 4'-selenoRNA, using a hypervalent iodine. Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry. 2017, 70(1.40): 1-21.
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Takeo Iwata, Kyoko Kuribayashi, Masahiko Nakasono, Noriko Tarashima, Noriaki Minakawa, Noriko Mizusawa, Rie Kido and Katsuhiko Yoshimoto. The AMPK/mTOR pathway is involved in D-dopachrome tautomerase gene transcription in adipocytes differentiated from SGBS cells, a human preadipocyte cell line. Cytokine. 2017, 96: 195-202.
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Kazuto Shiraishi, Noriko Tarashima, Yosuke Igata, Keiji Murakami, Yasuko Okamoto, Yoichiro Miyake, Kazuhiro Furukawa and Noriaki Minakawa. Synthesis and evaluation of c-di-4'-thioAMP as an artificial ligand for c-di-AMP riboswitch. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 2017, 25(14): 3883-3889.
