2025
Masahiko. Yoshimura,* Ryuto Sasayama, Takashi Kajiwara, Chihiro Mori, Yusuke Nakasone, Tomoko Inose*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, Accepted.
Preprint: ChemRxiv. 2025, 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-vrvwd-v2.
2023
Masahiko Yoshimura, Michael Dieckmann, Alexandre Lumbroso, Raymonde Fonné-Pfister, Claudio Screpanti, Katrin Hermann, Stefano Rendine, Pierre Quinodoz, Alain De Mesmaeker*, Helv. Chim. Act. 2023, e202300111.
Masahiko Yoshimura, Pierre Quinodoz, Lucía Reyes Méndez, Amandine Kolleth, Sarah Sulzer-Mossé, Thomas Vent-Schmidt, Ulfet Karadeniz Yezer, Saron Catak, Alain De Mesmaeker*, Helv. Chim. Act. 2023, e202300085.
13. “Maize resistance to witchweed through changes in strigolactone biosynthesis”
Chun Li, Li Dong, Jeeva Durairaj, Jian-Cheng Guan, Masahiko Yoshimura, Pierre Quinodoz, Reto Horber, Klaus Gaus, Jian Li, Yohannes B. Setotaw, Jian Qi, Hugo De Groote, Ying Wang, Benoit Thiombiano, Katarína Floková, Andrew Walmsley, Tatiana V. Charnikhova, Anna Chojnacka, Sara Correia de Lemos, Ying Ding, Daniel Skibbe, Klaus Hermann, Claudio Screpanti, Alain De Mesmaeker, Eric A. Schmelz, Abebe Menkir, Martijn Medema, Adriaan D. J. van Dijk, Jian Wu, Karen E. Koch, Harro J. Bouwmeester,* Science 2023, 379, 94-99.
2022
12. “Coordination/Metal-Organic Cages Inside Out” (Review paper)
Tomoki Tateishi,‡ Masahiko Yoshimura,‡ Shun Tokuda,‡ Fuyuki Matsuda,‡ Daishi Fujita,* Shuhei Furukawa,* Coord. Chem. Rev. 2022, 467, 214612.
Pierre Quinodoz, Amandine Kolleth, Dylan Dagoneau, Masahiko Yoshimura, Lucía Reyes Méndez, Mylène Joigneaux, Roman Staiger, Robin Horber, Sarah Sulzer-Mossé, Aybike Bekar Cesaretli, Ulfet Karadeniz Yezer, Saron Catak, Alain De Mesmaeker,* Helv. Chim. Act. 2022, 105, e202200093.
2020
10. “Development of potent inhibitors for strigolactone receptor DWARF 14”
Masahiko Yoshimura,‡ Sojung F. Kim,‡ Ryosuke Takise,‡ Shuhei Kusano, Sakuya Nakamura, Masanori Izumi, Akiko Yagi, Kenichiro Itami, Shinya Hagihara,* Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 14917-14919.
9. “Total synthesis and biological evaluation of zealactone 1a/b”
Masahiko Yoshimura, Michael Dieckmann, Pierre-Yves Dakas, Raymonde Fonné-Pfister, Claudio Screpanti, Katrin Hermann, Stefano Rendine, Pierre Quinodoz, Beyza Horoz, Saron Catak, Alain De Mesmaeker,* Helv. Chim. Act. 2020, 103, e2000017.
-2019
8. “Total synthesis and biological evaluation of heliolactone”
Masahiko Yoshimura, Raymonde Fonné-Pfister, Claudio Screpanti, Katrin Hermann, Stefano Rendine, Michael Dieckmann, Pierre Quinodoz, Alain De Mesmaeker* Helv. Chim. Acta 2019, 102, e1900211. [Highlighted in Synfacts: Synfacts 2020, 16, 89.]
Nnamdi Akporji, Josh Lieberman, Michael Maser, Masahiko Yoshimura, Zarko Boskovic, Bruce H. Lipshutz,* ChemCatChem 2019, 11, 5743-5747.
6. “Chemical hijacking of auxin signaling with an engineered auxin-TIR1 pair”
Naoyuki Uchida, Koji Takahashi, Rie Iwasaki, Ryotaro Yamada, Masahiko Yoshimura, Takaho A Endo, Seisuke Kimura, Hua Zhang, Mika Nomoto, Yasuomi Tada, Toshinori Kinoshita, Kenichiro Itami, Shinya Hagihara,* Keiko U Torii,* Nat. Chem. Biol. 2018, 14, 299-305.
5. “The dynamics of strigolactone perception in Striga hermonthica : a working hypothesis”
Yuichiro Tsuchiya,* Masahiko Yoshimura, Shinya Hagihara, J Exp Bot. 2018, 69, 2281-2290.
4. “Discovery of shoot branching regulator targeting strigolactone receptor DWARF14”
Masahiko Yoshimura, Ayato Sato, Keiko Kuwata, Yoshiaki Inukai, Toshinori Kinoshita, Kenichiro Itami, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Shinya Hagihara,* ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 230-234.
3. “Structural monitoring of the onset of excited-state aromaticity in a liquid crystal phase”
Masaki Hada,* Shohei Saito,* Sei’ichi Tanaka, Ryuma Sato, Masahiko Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Mouri, Kyohei Matsuo, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Mitsuo Hara, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Fynn Röhricht, Rainer Herges, Yasuteru Shigeta, Ken Onda,* R. J. Dwayne Miller, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 15792-15800.
2. “Strigolactone receptors in Striga hermonthica”
Masahiko Yoshimura,* Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Yoshikatsu Sato, Kenichiro Itami, Toshinori Kinoshita, Shinya Hagihara, Plant Morphology 2017, 29, 33-37.
1. “Probing strigolactone receptors in Striga hermonthica with fluorescence”
Yuichiro Tsuchiya,‡* Masahiko Yoshimura,‡ Yoshikatsu Sato, Keiko Kuwata, Shigeo Toh, Duncan Holbrook-Smith, Hua Zhang, Peter McCourt, Kenichiro Itami, Toshinori Kinoshita, and Shinya Hagihara,* Science 2015, 349, 864-868.
Patent
1. JP 2013-230516 / 2015-089886; Kenichiro Itami, Toshinori Kinoshita, Shinya Hagihara, Koji Takahashi, Masahiko Yoshimura, Hua Zhang, Nils Schröder
2. JP 2013-230446 / 2015-089885; Kenichiro Itami, Toshinori Kinoshita, Shinya Hagihara, Koji Takahashi, Masahiko Yoshimura
3. JP 2015-132707; Shinya Hagihara, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Masahiko Yoshimura, Kenichiro Itami, Toshinori Kinoshita
4. PCT/EP2021/078997; Alain De Mesmaeker, Michael Dieckmann, Pierre Quinodoz, Masahiko Yoshimura
5. PCT/EP2022/053237; Joerg Leipner, Pierre Quinodoz, Masahiko Yoshimura, Claudio Screpanti, Fonne-Pfister, Alain De Mesmaeker, Alessandro Bergna, Ben Ozer Oyserman
6. JP 2023-175595; Masahiko Yoshimura, Daishi Fujita
7. JP 2023-175598; Masahiko Yoshimura, Yoshiki Ikeda, Fuyuki Matsuda, Daishi Fujita
8. JP 2023-213310; Masahiko Yoshimura, Yoshiki Ikeda, Fuyuki Matsuda, Daishi Fujita
9. JP 2024-103186; Masahiko Yoshimura, Tomoko Inose, Ryuto Sasayama