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TANIMOTO, Shoichi

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TEL: 0564-59-5216
E-Mail : sktanimoto_at_ims.ac.jp (Please replace the "_at_" with @ )
Location: Yamate, Yamate, No. 2 Bldg. 2F east

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Department

Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, Department of Creative Research

Biography

2015 B. S. Kyushu University
2020 Ph. D. Kyushu University
2019 JSPS Research Fellow, Kyushu University
2022 JSPS Research Fellow, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems(-2025)

Awards

2019 poster award, 42th Symposium on Solution Chemistry of Japan

Main research themes

Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules that cause neurodegenerative diseases
kewords molecular dynamics simulation, integral equation theory of molecular liquids, distribution function, solvation free energy, molecular recognition

Selected Publications

  1. “Bucket brigade” using lysine residues in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of SARS-CoV-2” Shoichi Tanimoto, Satoru G. Itoh, and Hisashi Okumura Biophysical Journal 120, 3615-3627 (2021).
  2. “A computational method to simulate global conformational changes of proteins induced by cosolvent” Shoichi Tanimoto, Koichi Tamura, Shigehiko Hayashi, Norio Yoshida, and Haruyuki Nakano Journal of Computational Chemistry 42, 552-563 (2021).
  3. “Effect of molecular orientational correlations of solvation free energy computed by reference interaction site model theory” Shoichi Tanimoto, Norio Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Seiichiro L. Ten-no, and Haruyuki Nakano Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 59, 3770-3781 (2019).
  4. “The ion dependence of carbohydrate binding of CBM36: an MD and 3D-RISM study” Shoichi Tanimoto, Masahiro Higashi, Norio Yoshida, and Haruyuki Nakano Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28, 344005 (8pp) (2016).