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Special Postdoctoral Researcher Masaki Tsujimura

EDUCATION

2025 Ph.D. (Engineering) Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, The University of Tokyo
2022 M.A. Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
2020 B.S. Department of Applied Chemistry, The University of Tokyo

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2025.4-present Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, Japan
2022.4-2025.3 JSPS postdoctoral fellowship DC1, The University of Tokyo, Japan

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  1. The Biophysical Society of Japan, Protein Science Society of Japan, Japan Society for Molecular Science

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  1. Analyzing proton transfer in proteins using constant-pH MD and QM/MM simulations

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Stretching vibrational frequencies and pKa differences in H-bond networks of protein environments, Masaki Tsujimura, Keisuke Saito, and Hiroshi Ishikita, Biophys. J. 122, 4336–4347 (2023).
  2. Mechanism of absorption wavelength shift depending on the protonation state of the acrylate group in chlorophyll c, Masaki Tsujimura, Minaka Sugano, Hiroshi Ishikita, and Keisuke Saito, J. Phys. Chem. B 127, 505–513 (2023).
  3. Proton transfer and conformational changes along the hydrogen bond network in heliorhodopsin, Masaki Tsujimura, Yoshihiro Chiba, Keisuke Saito, and Hiroshi Ishikita, Commun. Biol. 5, 1336 (2022).
  4. Absorption wavelength along chromophore low-barrier hydrogen bonds, Masaki Tsujimura, Hiroyuki Tamura, Keisuke Saito, and Hiroshi Ishikita, iScience 25, 104247 (2022).
  5. Proton transfer pathway in anion channelrhodopsin-1, Masaki Tsujimura, Keiichi Kojima, Shiho Kawanishi, Yuki Sudo, and Hiroshi Ishikita, eLife 10, e72264 (2021).
  6. Identification of intermediate conformations in the photocycle of the light-driven sodium-pumping rhodopsin KR2, Masaki Tsujimura and Hiroshi Ishikita, J. Biol. Chem. 296, 100459 (2021).
  7. Mechanism of absorption wavelength shifts in anion channelrhodopsin-1 mutants, Masaki Tsujimura, Tomoyasu Noji, Keisuke Saito, Keiichi Kojima, Yuki Sudo, and Hiroshi Ishikita, BBA Bioenergetics 1862, 148349 (2021).
  8. Insights into the protein functions and absorption wavelengths of microbial rhodopsins, Masaki Tsujimura and Hiroshi Ishikita, J. Phys. Chem. B 124, 11819–11826 (2020).