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Kudo Lab
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The Kudo Lab is a synthetic organic chemistry lab that makes full use of peptides as functional molecules, such as catalysts.
AboutAbout the lab
Making things grounded in synthetic organic chemistry
The Kudo Lab studies making things based on synthetic organic chemistry.
Research proceeds by considering what to make, what to make it from, how to make it, and what to use the finished product for.
The lab regards peptides, molecules made of linked amino acids, as organic molecules with functions such as catalysis, and develops them.
Many of the peptides developed are robust enough to work even in water.
Key terms
- Peptide
- A molecule made of several amino acids linked together. When many are linked, it becomes a protein.
- Catalyst
- A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, or steers it in a particular direction, without being changed itself.
- Enantiomer
- One of a pair of molecules that are mirror images of each other, like a right hand and a left hand. For drugs and similar products, often only one of the pair is needed.
NewsLab news
A paper by Professor Kudo and colleagues was published in European Journal of Organic Chemistry
A paper by Professor Kudo and colleagues was published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
The lab took part in the FY2024 Campus Open House and opened the lab to visitors
A paper by Assistant Professor Sakama and colleagues was published in Chemical Communications
ResearchResearch themes
The lab approaches making things based on synthetic organic chemistry from the perspective of what to make, what to make it from, and how to make it, and what to use the finished product for. Treating peptides as functional organic molecules, it develops peptides that act as catalysts, as well as peptides that serve as templates for nanocontainers and metal nanowires.
*Illustrative imagePeptide Catalysts That Assist Reactions
The lab uses peptides as catalysts to develop reactions, including ones that selectively produce only one of a pair of enantiomers. It has also succeeded in controlling the position where a reaction occurs and in carrying out reactions in solvents containing water.
*Illustrative imagePeptides That Serve as Templates
The lab aligns the orientation of cyclic peptides that assemble into tubes, and uses DNA-binding peptides to arrange gold nanoparticles in a line.
*Illustrative imageInteractions Between Peptides and Other Molecules
The lab found that interactions between peptides and DNA affect the function of proteins. It has also succeeded in efficiently identifying peptides that bind a coenzyme from among many immobilized candidates.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kudo Lab are faculty, technical specialists and temporary agency staff from the Environment and Safety Office, master's students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazuaki KudoPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorAkihiro SakamaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Equipment and glassware” Belikov Maxim / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Peptide Catalysts That Assist Reactions: “PDB 1dng EBI” Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute / Public domain (cropped)
- Peptides That Serve as Templates: “TEM image of gold nanoparticles and nanorods” Fionán / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Interactions Between Peptides and Other Molecules: “Myoglobin and heme” Thomas Splettstoesser / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nozaki Lab): “Gas line IMG 20230205” Jonathansammy / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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