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2015

  • Michio Iwaoka, Nobukazu Sano, Ying-Yin Lin, Arisa Katakura, Masato Noguchi, Kohei Takahashi, Fumio Kumakura, Kenta Arai, Beena G. Singh, Amit Kunwar, K. Indira Priyadarsini, Fatty Acid Conjugates of Water-Soluble (±)-trans-Selenolane-3,4-diol: Effects of Alkyl Chain Length on the Antioxidant Capacity. ChemBioChem, 2015, 16, pp.1226-1234.

  • Kenta Arai, Fumio Kumakura, Motoi Takahira, Natsumi Sekiyama, Nozomi Kuroda, Toshiki Suzuki, Michio Iwaoka, Effects of Ring Size and Polar Functional Groups on the Glutathione Peroxidase-Like Antioxidant Activity of Water-Soluble Cyclic Selenides. J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, pp.5633-5642.

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2014

  • Kenta Arai, Kenji Moriai, Akinobu Ogawa, Michio Iwaoka, An Amphiphilic Selenide Catalyst Behaves Like a Hybrid Mimic of Protein Disulfide Isomerase and Glutathione Peroxidase 7. Chem. Asian J., 2014, 9, pp.3464-3471. (DOI: 10.1002/asia.201402726) (Selected as back-cover picture of the issue)

  • Kenta Arai, Thomas Wirth, Rapid Electrochemical Deprotection of the Isonicotinyloxycarbonyl Group from Carbonates and Thiocarbonates in a Microfluidic Reactor Org. Process Res. Dev. 2014, 18, pp.1377-1381.

  • Kenta Arai, Kevin Watts, Thomas Wirth, Difluoro- and Trifluoromethylation of Electron-deficient Alkenes in an Electrochemical Microreactor. ChemistryOpen, 2014, 3, pp.23-28.

  • Toshiki Takei, Yoshiko Urabe, Yuya Asahina, Hironobu Hojo, Takeshi Nomura, Kenichi Dedachi, Kenta Arai, Michio Iwaoka,Model, Study Using Designed Selenopeptides on the Importance of the Catalytic Triad for the Antioxidative Functions of Glutathione Peroxidase. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, pp.492-500.

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2013

  • Kenta Arai, Wataru Shibagaki, Reina Shinozaki, Michio Iwaoka, Reinvestigation of the Oxidative Folding Pathways of Hen Egg White Lysozyme: Switching of the Major Pathways by Temperature Control. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2013, 14, pp.13194-13212. 

  • Kenta Arai, Masato Noguchi, Beena G. Singh, K. Indira Priyadarsini, Katsuhiko Fujio, Yurika Kubo, Kyoko Takayama, Setsuko Ando, Michio Iwaoka, A Water-Soluble Selenoxide Reagent as a Useful Probe for the Reactivity and Folding of Polythiol Peptides. FEBS Open Bio, 2013, 3, pp.55–64.

  • 岩岡道夫、荒井堅太「セレノタンパク質のフォールディング―ジセレニド結合を利用した効率的なフォールディングへの新手法」、化学同人、化学、一月号、pp. 66～67、2013年1月

  • Michio Iwaoka, Kenta Arai, From Sulfur to Selenium. A New Research Arena in Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry. Curr. Chem. Biol., 2013, 7, pp.2-24. (DOI: 10.2174/2212796811307010002)

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2012

  • Kenta Arai, Fumio Kumakura, Michio Iwaoka, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Analysis of the Conformational Folding Process of SS-Reduced Bovine Pancreatic Ribonuclease A Using a Selenoxide Reagent with High Oxidizing Ability. FEBS Open Bio, 2012, 2, pp.60-70. 

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2011

  • Sari Yoshida, Fumio Kumakura, Itsuki Komatsu, Kenta Arai, Yuko Onuma, Hironobu Hojo,* Beena G. Singh, K. Indira Priyadarsini, and Michio Iwaoka, Antioxidative Glutathione Peroxidase Activity of Selenoglutathione, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, pp. 2125–2128. 

  • Kenta Arai, Kenichi Dedachi, Michio Iwaoka,* Rapid and Quantitative Disulfide Bond Formation for a Polypeptide Chain Using a Cyclic Selenoxide Reagent in an Aqueous Medium. Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, pp.481–485. (selected as VIP and Cover picture) (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002742)

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2010

  • Kenta Arai, Fumio Kumakura, Michio Iwaoka, Characterization of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Phases in the Pre-Folding Process of Bovine Pancreatic Ribonuclease A Coupled with Fast SS Formation and SS Reshuffling. Biochemistry, 2010, 49, pp.10535–10542.

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