Umena Yasufumi

ウメナヤスフミ | Umena Yasufumi

Affiliation and department：

Research field (1)： Structural biochemistry

Research keywords (6)： Photosynthesis , Molecular biology , Biochemistry , X-ray Crystallography , Structure biology , Protein crystallography

Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：

2022 - 2025 Structural analysis of metal Inhibition Mechanisms in Photosystem II
2019 - 2024 Structural analysis of various light-driven reaction mechanisms of light-sensitive proteins.
2018 - 2021 光化学系IIにおける塩素イオンの構造化学的な機能解明
2017 - 2019 X線ホログラフィーによる光学系II蛋白質の活性サイトMnクラスターの構造研究
2016 - 2019 構造化学的手法による光化学系IIの水分解反応の機構解明

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Papers (66)：

Tetsuro Katayama, Shuto Ueda, Yuma Fujita, Yuichiro Akagi, Pankaj Koinkar, Yasufumi Umena, Akihiro Furube. Observation of energy transfer dynamics in a phycocyanin protein crystal by utilizing femtosecond transient absorption microscopy. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 2023. 62. SG
Naoki Furubayashi, Koji Inaka, Masayuki Kamo, Yasufumi Umena, Takeshi Matsuoka, Yukio Morimoto. Dynamic interactions in the l-lactate oxidase active site facilitate substrate binding at pH4.5. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2021. 568. 131-135
Hongjie Li, Yoshiki Nakajima, Takashi Nomura, Michihiro Sugahara, Shinichiro Yonekura, Siu Kit Chan, Takanori Nakane, Takahiro Yamane, Yasufumi Umena, Mamoru Suzuki, et al. Capturing structural changes of the S1 to S2 transition of photosystem II using time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography. IUCrJ. 2021. 8. Pt 3. 431-443
Mishima, Kenji, Shoji, Mitsuo, Umena, Yasufumi, Boero, Mauro, Shigeta, Yasuteru. Estimation of the relative contributions to the electronic energy transfer rates based on Forster theory: The case of C-phycocyanin chromophores. Biophysics and physicobiology. 2021. 18. 196-214
Kenji Mishima, Mitsuo Shoji, Yasufumi Umena, Mauro Boero, Yasuteru Shigeta. Role of the Propionic Acid Side-Chain of C-Phycocyanin Chromophores in the Excited States for the Photosynthesis Process. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 2020. 93. 12. 1509-1519

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MISC (19)：

Y. Morimoto, N. Furubayashi, M. Kamo, Y. Umena, A. Kita, T. Matsuoka, K. Inaka. Structural analysis of ligand binding mechanism of L-lactate oxidase from Aerococcus viridans by use of ligand soaking crystals. 16th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA2019). 2019
K. Yamaguchi, M. Shoji, H. Isobe, S. Yamanaka, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, N. Kamiya. On the guiding principles for understanding of geometrical structures of the CaMn4O5 cluster in oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Proposal of estimation formula of structural deformations via the Jahn-Teller effects. MOLECULAR PHYSICS. 2017. 115. 5. 636-666
Mitsuo Shoji, Hiroshi Isobe, Shusuke Yamanaka, Yasufumi Umena, Keisuke Kawakami, Nobuo Kamiya, Jian-Ren Shen, Takahito Nakajima, Kizashi Yamaguchi. Theoretical modelling of biomolecular systems I. Large-scale QM/MM calculations of hydrogen-bonding networks of the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. MOLECULAR PHYSICS. 2015. 113. 3-4. 359-384
M. Shoji, H. Isobe, S. Yamanaka, Y. Umena, K. Kawakami, N. Kamiya, J-R Shen, T. Nakajima, K. Yamaguchi. Large-Scale QM/MM Calculations of Hydrogen Bonding Networks for Proton Transfer and Water Inlet Channels for Water Oxidation-Theoretical System Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, VOL 70. 2015. 70. 325-413
Keisuke Kawakami, Ritsuko Fujii, Yasufumi Umena, Shin-ichiro Ozawa, Yuichiro Takahashi, Hideki Hashimoto, Jian-Ren Shen, Nobuo Kamiya. Identification of β-Cryptoxanthin in Oxygen-Evolving Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus. CAROTENOID SCIENCE. 2015. 19. 48-51

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Patents (3)：

Education (5)：

2004 - 2007 京都大学大学院理学研究科原子炉実験所特別研究学生
2004 - 2007 大阪大学大学院理学研究科高分子科学専攻博士課程
2002 - 2004 Himeji Institute of Technology
1998 - 2002 Himeji Institute of Technology
1993 - 1996 大阪府立豊中高等学校

Professional career (1)：

博士(理学) (大阪大学)

Work history (8)：

2021/04 - 現在 Nagoya University Synchrotron Radiation Research Center Associate Professor
2020/04 - 2021/03 Jichi Medical University
2016/04 - 2020/03 Okayama University The Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science
2015/01 - 2016/03 Okayama University
2011/10 - 2015/03 日本学術振興会さきがけ研究員

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Committee career (3)：

2016/04 - 現在 SPring-8ユーザー共同体放射光構造生物学研究会幹事
2019/02 - 2019/09 SPring-8シンポジウム2019 現地実行委員
2016/04 - 2018/09 第56回日本生物物理学会年会実行委員

Awards (3)：

2014/09 - 15th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules Outstanding Poster Award "New approach in photosystem II crystal handlings: characterization using near-infrared imaging, dehydration of the glue coating crystals using humid gas and laser-processing to cylinder-shaped crystals"
2012/06 - 日本光合成学会特別賞光と緑の賞「酸素発生光化学系IIの1.9Å分解能における結晶構造」
2011/11 - 日本結晶学会進歩賞「酸素発生光化学系IIの構造と機能に関する結晶学的研究」

Association Membership(s) (4)：

THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH , THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN , PROTEIN SCIENCE SOCIETY OF JAPAN , THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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