A Scandium Carbide Endohedral Metallofullerene: (Sc2C2)@C84

CR Wang, T Kai, T Tomiyama, T Yoshida… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The recent discovery of single-wall carbon nanotubes with C60 [1] inside the tubular hollow
space has demonstrated that such a large empty space can actually encapsulate fullerenes …

C66 fullerene encaging a scandium dimer

CR Wang, T Kai, T Tomiyama, T Yoshida, Y Kobayashi… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The geometry of carbon cages (fullerenes) is governed by the isolated-pentagon rule (IPR)
1 , 2 , which states that the most stable fullerenes are those in which all pentagons are …

Isolation and Characterization by 13C NMR Spectroscopy of [84]Fullerene Minor Isomers

TJS Dennis, T Kai, K Asato, T Tomiyama… - The Journal of …, 1999 - ACS Publications
The isolation of minor isomers of [84]fullerene (C 84 ), five in total, and their characterization
by 13 C NMR spectroscopy, have been reported for the first time. The vis−near-infrared …

Production and isolation of an ellipsoidal C80 fullerene

CR Wang, T Sugai, T Kai, T Tomiyama… - Chemical …, 2000 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the first successful production and isolation of a new C80 isomer together with 13C
NMR structural and UV–VIS–NIR spectroscopic studies of the purified sample; 13C NMR …

Structural and Electronic Properties of Isomers of Sc2@C84(I, II, III): 13C NMR and IR/Raman Spectroscopic Studies

M Inakuma, E Yamamoto, T Kai, CR Wang… - The Journal of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
The structures of three structural isomers of Sc 2 @C 84 (I, II, III) have been determined by
13 C NMR and have C s , C 2 v , and D 2 d point group symmetry, respectively. By IR …

[HTML][HTML] The E3 ubiquitin ligase MIB2 enhances inflammation by degrading the deubiquitinating enzyme CYLD

…, S Yoshida, M Maekawa, M Honda, T Kai… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
The tumor suppressor CYLD is a deubiquitinating enzyme that suppresses polyubiquitin-dependent
signaling pathways, including the proinflammatory and cell growth–promoting NF-…

Sc2@ C76 (C2): a new isomerism in fullerene structure

CR Wang, P Georgi, L Dunsch, T Kai, T Tomiyama… - Current Applied …, 2002 - Elsevier
Sc 2 @C 76 was for the first time isolated and characterized spectroscopically. It is suggested
from the 13 C NMR spectroscopy ( 13 C NMR pattern: 38×2) that this metallofullerene has …

Two States of the Triple Helix in the Thermal Transition of the Collagen Model Peptide (Pro-Pro-Gly)10

T Kai, S Uchiyama, Y Nishi, Y Kobayashi… - Journal of …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The collagen model peptide (Pro-Pro-Gly) 10 is known to fold into a triple helix in solution.
So far, the triple helix has been considered to exist as a single state. However, our previous …

Non-microtubule tubulin-based backbone and subordinate components of postsynaptic density lattices

…, K Kametani, Y Shirai, M Honda, T Kai… - Life Science …, 2021 - life-science-alliance.org
A purification protocol was developed to identify and analyze the component proteins of a
postsynaptic density (PSD) lattice, a core structure of the PSD of excitatory synapses in the …

Thermal effects of added propanol on the helix–coil transition of (Pro-Pro-Gly) 10 in D2O solution: An NMR study

T Kai, S Uchiyama, Y Nishi, Y Kobayashi… - Chemical Physics …, 2010 - Elsevier
The conformational transition of collagen model peptide, (Pro-Pro-Gly) 10 , from the triple
helical structure to the statistical coil was observed in various aqueous alcohol solutions by …