K. Nishiyama | Molecular Bioregulation Research Team｜RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science

Special Postdoctral Researcher
Ph. D

Special Postdoctral Researcher, Molecular Bioregulation Research Team
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
#N401 4F Bioscience Building, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
E-mail: kotaro.nishiyama [at] riken.jp (Please replace [at] to @)

2017.3 Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya)

2017.4 Postdoctral researcher, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science
2018.4 Visiting researcher, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University ofTokyo (Prof. Mitsuhiko Shionoya)
2018.10 Postdoctral researcher, Molecular Bioregulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Prof. Shinya Hagihara)
2021.4 Special Postdoctral researcher, Molecular Bioregulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (Prof. Shinya Hagihara)

Chemical Biology, Biorelevant Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Chemistry

2016.9 Outstanding Poster Award, The 43rd Internal Symposium on Nucleic Acid Chemistry
2015.9 Poster Award (Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Award), The 9th Symposium on Biorelevant Chemistry
2015.5 Student Presentation Award, The 95th CSJ Annual Meeting
2014.10 Student Presentation Award, The 64th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry

Kotaro Nishiyama, Keita Mori, Yusuke Takezawa, Mitsuhiko Shionoya "Metal-responsive reversible binding of triplex-forming oligonucleotides with 5-hydroxyuracil nucleobases" Chem. Commun, 57, 2487-2490 (2021).
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Yusuke Takezawa, Akira Suzuki, Manabu Nakaya, Kotaro Nishiyama, Mitsuhiko Shionoya "Metal-Dependent DNA Base Pairing of 5-Carboxyuracil with Itself and All Four Canonical Nucleobases" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 21640-21644 (2020).
Kotaro Nishiyama, Yusuke Takezawa, Mitsuhiko Shionoya "pH-Dependence of the thermal stability of metallo-DNA duplexes containing ligand-type 5-hydroxyuracil nucleobases" Inorg. Chem. Acta, 452, 176-180 (2016).
Yuki Kanai, Ryu Nishimura, Kotaro Nishiyama, Tomokazu Shibata, Sachiko Yanagisawa, Takashi Ogura, Takashi Matsuo, Shun Hirota, Saburo Neya, Akihiro Suzuki, Yasuhiko Yamamoto "Effects of Heme Electronic Structure and Distal Polar Interaction on Functional and Vibrational Properties of Myoglobin" Inorg. Chem., 55, 1613-1622 (2016).
Yusuke Takezawa, Kotaro Nishiyama, Tsukasa Mashima, Masato Katahira, Mitsuhiko Shionoya "Bifacial Base-Pairing Behaviors of 5-Hydroxyuracil DNA Bases through Hydrogen Bonding and Metal Coordination" Chem. Eur. J., 21, 14713-14716 (2015).

西山康太郎 "5-ヒドロキシウラシル塩基の金属錯体形成を駆動力としたDNA二重鎖形成挙動の制御" 日本化学会生体機能関連化学ニュースレター, 30 (4), 8 (2016).
西山康太郎 "DNA二重鎖中における5-ヒドロキシウラシル塩基と希土類イオンとの錯体形成挙動" Bull. Jpn. Soc. Coord. Chem., 65, 55–57 (2015).