BETA VERSION
Professor Kiyoshi KITA
北 潔
Prof. Kiyoshi KITA
095-819-7575
TMGH Modules
Background
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Basics of Molecular Biology
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1972: Graduated from the faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
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1974: Master Degree from Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
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1980: PhD. from Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
PhD
Affiliations
Research Areas
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Drug Discovery and Development
Disciplines
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Biochemistry
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Parasitology
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Tropical Medicine and Health
Other Areas of Interest
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Metabolic Diseases
Countries/Regions
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Africa
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Southeast Asia
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India
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Central and South America
Selected Publications
Molecular basis for the reverse reaction of African human trypanosomes glycerol kinase.
Balogun, E.O., Inaoka, D.K., Shiba, T., Kido, Y., Tsuge, C., Nara, T., Aoki, T., Honma, T., Tanaka, A., Inoue, M., Matsuoka, S., Michels, P.A.M., Kita, K. & Harada, S. (2014) Mol. Microbiol. 94, 1315-1329
Pharmacophore Modeling for Anti-Chagas Drug Design Using the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method.
Yoshino, R., Yasuo, N., Inaoka , D.K., Hagiwara, Y., Ohno, K., Orita, M., Inoue, M., Shiba, T., Harada, S., Honma, T., Balogun, E.O., da Rocha, J.R., Montanari, C.A., Kita, K. & Sekijima, M. (2015) PLoS One 10, e0125829
Suzuki, S., Hikosaka, K., Balogun, E.O., Komatsuya, K., Niikura, N., Kobayashi, K., Takahashi, K., Tanaka, T., Nakajima, M. & Kita, K. (2015) Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 59, 6960-6967
Hit and lead criteria in drug discovery for infectious diseases of the developing world.
Katsuno, K., Burrows, J.N., Duncan, K., van Huijsduijnen, R.H., Kaneko, T., Kita, K., Mowbray, C.E., Schmatz, D., Warner, P. & Slingsby, B.T. (2015) Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 14, 751-758
Parasites resistant to the antimalarial atovaquone fail to transmit by mosquitoes.
Goodman, C. D., Siregar, J., Mollard, V., Vega-Rodríguez, J., Safruddin, D., Matsuoka, H., Matsuzaki, M., Toyama, T., Stürm, A., Cozijnsen, A., Jacobs-Loreno, M., Kita, K., Sangkot, M., and McFadden, G. I. (2016) Science, 352, 349-353