Kenta Arai

Junior associate professor

Tokai University

Japan

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Kenta Arai is a Junior Associate Professor at Tokai University, Japan. His research areas include enzymatic activity enhancement, protein folding dynamics, and diselenide chemistry, as evidenced by his recent publications on allosteric catalysts and their interactions with cellular redox systems. Arai's work also focuses on the biochemical implications of diselenide bonds in protein structures and their role in various biological processes.

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Shingo Kanemura

Kwansei Gakuin University

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Takahiro Muraoka

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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masaki okumura

Tohoku University

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Osamu Kanie

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Tokai Daigaku - Shonan Campus

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Ca2+-triggered allosteric catalysts crosstalk with cellular redox systems through their foldase- and reductase-like activities

ER Oxidoreductin 1‐Like Activity of Cyclic Diselenides Drives Protein Disulfide Isomerase in an Electron Relay System

Boosting the enzymatic activity of CxxC motif-containing PDI family members

Seleno-relaxin analogues: effect of internal and external diselenide bonds on the foldability and a fibrosis-related factor of endometriotic stromal cells

Modeling Type‐1 Iodothyronine Deiodinase with Peptide‐Based Aliphatic Diselenides: Potential Role of Highly Conserved His and Cys Residues as a General Acid Catalyst

Resin-supported cyclic telluride as a heterogeneous promoter of disulfide formation under solid–liquid biphasic conditions

Semi-enzymatic acceleration of oxidative protein folding by N-methylated heteroaromatic thiols

Diselenide-bond replacement of the external disulfide bond of insulin increases its oligomerization leading to sustained activity

S-Denitrosylase-Like Activity of Cyclic Diselenides Conjugated with Xaa-His Dipeptide: Role of Proline Spacer as a Key Activity Booster

Abnormal Enhancement of Protein Disulfide Isomerase-like Activity of a Cyclic Diselenide Conjugated with a Basic Amino Acid by Inserting a Glycine Spacer

Glutathione peroxidase-like functions of 1,2-diselenane-4,5-diol and its amphiphilic derivatives: Switchable catalytic cycles depending on peroxide substrates

Flexible folding: Disulfide-containing peptides and proteins choose the pathway depending on the environments

Basic Amino Acid Conjugates of 1,2-Diselenan-4-amine with Protein Disulfide Isomerase-like Functions as a Manipulator of Protein Quality Control

Relaxin-2 may suppress endometriosis by reducing fibrosis, scar formation, and inflammation

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Shingo Kanemura

Takahiro Muraoka

masaki okumura

Osamu Kanie

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