Tôru Nagasawa

Nitrile hydratase. The first non-heme iron enzyme with a typical low-spin iron(III)-active center

Yukio Sugiura, June Kuwahara, Tôru Nagasawa et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1987 · 176 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +10

Nitrile hydratase of Pseudomonas chlororaphis B23

Tôru Nagasawa, Hironori NANBA, Koichiro Ryuno et al. · European Journal of Biochemistry · 1987 · 174 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +13

The superiority of the third-generation catalyst, Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 nitrile hydratase, for industrial production of acrylamide

Tôru Nagasawa, Hitoshi Shimizu, Hideaki Yamada · Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 1993 · 169 citations

Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +15

Asymmetric synthesis of chiral cyclic amine from cyclic imine by bacterial whole-cell catalyst of enantioselective imine reductase

Koichi Mitsukura, Mai Suzuki, Kazuhiro Tada et al. · Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry · 2010 · 168 citations

Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Microbiology +17

Nitrile Hydratase-Catalyzed Production of Nicotinamide from 3-Cyanopyridine in <i>Rhodococcus rhodochrous</i> J1

Tôru Nagasawa, C. Deepal Mathew, Jacques Mauger et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1988 · 147 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +10