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Dohi, Terumi; Iijima, Kazuki; Machida, Masahiko; Suno, Hiroya*; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kimura, Shigeru*; Kanno, Futoshi*
Environmental radiochemical analysis VII, p.50 - 57, 2023/12
microscale localisation observationDohi, Terumi; Iijima, Kazuki; Machida, Masahiko; Suno, Hiroya*; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kimura, Shigeru*; Kanno, Futoshi*
PLOS ONE (Internet), 17(7), p.e0271035_1 - e0271035_21, 2022/07
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：14.8(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Yoshimura, Kazuya; Sasaki, Takayuki*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kanaizuka, Seiichi*; Nakama, Shigeo; Iijima, Kazuki
PLOS ONE (Internet), 16(5), p.e0251828_1 - e0251828_16, 2021/05
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：41.49(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Omura, Yoshihito*; Dohi, Terumi
Raiken, 21(2), p.27 - 28, 2021/04
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Suno, Hiroya; Machida, Masahiko; Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*
Scientific Reports (Internet), 11(1), p.8228_1 - 8228_13, 2021/04
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：34.43(Multidisciplinary Sciences)We evaluate stability of caesium (Cs) and other alkali-metal cation complexes of lichen metabolites in both gas and aqueous phases to discuss why lichens can retain radioactive Cs in the thalli over several years. We focus on oxalic acid, (+)-usnic acid, atranorin, lecanoric acid, and protocetraric acid, which are common metabolite substances in various lichens including, e.g., 
and 
retaining Cs in Fukushima, Japan. By performing quantum chemical calculations, their gas-phase complexation energies and aqueous-solution complexation free energies with alkali-metal cations are computed for their neutral and deprotonated cases. Consequently, all the molecules are found to energetically favor cation complexations and the preference order is Li
NaKRbCs
for all conditions, indicating no specific Cs selectivity but strong binding with all alkali cations. Comparing complexation stabilities among these metabolites, lecanoric and protocetraric acids seen in medullary layer are found to keep higher affinity in their neutral case, while (+)-usnic acid and atranorin in upper cortex exhibit rather strong affinity only in deprotonated cases through forming stable six atoms' ring containing alkali cation chelated by two oxygens. These results suggest that the medullary layer can catch all alkali cations in a wide pH range around the physiological one, while the upper cortex can effectively block penetration of metal ions when the metal stress grows. Such insights highlight a physiological role of metabolites like blocking of metal-cation migrations into intracellular tissues, and explain long-term retention of alkali cations including Cs in lichens containing enough such metabolites to bind them.
Dohi, Terumi; Tagomori, Hisaya; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kanaizuka, Seiichi*; Iijima, Kazuki
Environmental Radiochemical Analysis VI, p.58 - 70, 2019/09
In this study we established a separation method for radiocaesium-bearing microparticles (CsMPs) from lichens using electron microscopic analysis. Lichens were first digested within hydrogen peroxide and then an automatic particle analyser system based on FE-EPMA was used for detecting CsMPs within lots of mineral-like and metallic particles quickly. The elemental composition and radiocaesium activities of the separated CsMPs were measured, and the results show that the digestion treatment did not influence the CsMPs characteristics. An inhomogeneous elemental distribution was found in some CsMPs by two-dimensional elemental analysis using FE-EMPA. Our methods for separation of CsMPs and analysing their elemental composition are expected to be useful for grasping the chemical composition trends of CsMPs statistically.
Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Kashiwadani, Hiroyuki*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Sakamoto, Yoshiaki; Iijima, Kazuki
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 146, p.125 - 133, 2015/08
Times Cited Count：20 Percentile：52.45(Environmental Sciences)Radiocaesium activity concentrations (
Cs, 
Cs) were measured in parmelioid lichens collected within the Fukushima Prefecture approximately 2 y after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident. A total of 44 samples consisting of nine species were collected at 16 points within a 60 km radius of the FDNPP. The activity concentration of Cs ranged from 4.6 to 1000 kBq kg
and for Cs ranged from 7.6 to 1740 kBq kg. A significant positive correlation was found between the Cs activity concentration in lichens and the Cs deposition density on soil, based on the calculated Spearman's rank correlation coefficients as 
= 0.90 (
0.01). The two dominant species, Flavoparmelia caperata and Parmotrema clavuliferum, showed strong positive correlations, for which the r values were calculated as 0.92 ( 0.01) and 0.90 ( 0.01) respectively. Therefore, they are suggested as biomonitoring species for levels of radiocaesium fallout within the Fukushima Prefecture.
Cs concentrations in foliose lichens within Tsukuba-city as a reflection of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accidentOmura, Yoshihito*; Matsukura, Kimiyo*; Abe, Junichi*; Hosaka, Kentaro*; Tamaoki, Masanori*; Dohi, Terumi; Kakishima, Makoto*; Seaward, M. R. D.*
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 141, p.38 - 43, 2015/03
Times Cited Count：12 Percentile：35.16(Environmental Sciences)Cs concentrations in ten species of foliose lichens collected within Tsukuba-city in August 2013 ranged from 1.7 to 35 kBq/kg. The relationships between Cs in two dominant species, Dirinaria applanata and Physcia orientalis, and the air dose rate (
Sv/h) at the sampling sites were investigated. Cs in P. orientalis measured about 1 year after the Fukushima nuclear accident was correlated (r
=0.80) more closely with the air dose rate than those measured after about 2 years (r=0.65), possibly demonstrating its continued value as a biomonitor to reflect ambient fall-out levels. In contrast, those of Dirinaria applanata were not correlated with the air dose rate in either year.
Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Kashiwadani, Hiroyuki*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Sakamoto, Yoshiaki; Iijima, Kazuki
Raiken, 18(1), p.11 - 13, 2014/12
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Yamasaki, Chisato*; Murakami, Katsuhiko*; Fujii, Yasuyuki*; Sato, Yoshiharu*; Harada, Erimi*; Takeda, Junichi*; Taniya, Takayuki*; Sakate, Ryuichi*; Kikugawa, Shingo*; Shimada, Makoto*; et al.
Nucleic Acids Research, 36(Database), p.D793 - D799, 2008/01
Times Cited Count：51 Percentile：71.25(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)Here we report the new features and improvements in our latest release of the H-Invitational Database, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. H-InvDB, originally developed as an integrated database of the human transcriptome based on extensive annotation of large sets of fulllength cDNA (FLcDNA) clones, now provides annotation for 120 558 human mRNAs extracted from the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD), in addition to 54 978 human FLcDNAs, in the latest release H-InvDB. We mapped those human transcripts onto the human genome sequences (NCBI build 36.1) and determined 34 699 human gene clusters, which could define 34 057 protein-coding and 642 non-protein-coding loci; 858 transcribed loci overlapped with predicted pseudogenes.
Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Kashiwadani, Hiroyuki; Sakamoto, Yoshiaki
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Most lichens grow on rocks and barks, and they are found in terrestrial ecosystems. We will present the radiocesium concentration in lichens sampled in Ibaraki and Fukushima Prefecture, etc. after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Kashiwadani, Hiroyuki; Fujiwara, Kenso; Iijima, Kazuki
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Dohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Iijima, Kazuki
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Lichens are symbiotic organisms consisted of fungi and algae. A number of studies were carried out after the nuclear weapons tests and Chernobyl accident, and demonstrated that lichens were useful for indicator of radioactive fallout because they could take up large amount of radionuclides directly from their thallus due to lack of root system and retain them. However, in order to measure radiocaesium concentration in lichen, the lichen sample was collected from their habitat. Therefore, temporal change of radiocaesium concentration in same lichen individual has never reported. In addition, a retention of radiocaesium in lichens in Japan was unknown. The objective of this study is to investigate the temporal change of radiocaesium concentration in individual lichen. Lichen samples were parmelioid lichens which were grown on the trunk of Prunus spp. within Fukushima prefecture. The counting rate of surface of lichen was measured by using Geiger-Mueller (GM) survey meter with a lead collimator to evaluate the radiocaesium concentration. The contamination density in lichens increased from the initial measurement value after one year. It is considered that lichen may receive radiocaesium from stem flow including radiocaesium desorbed from canopy or stem.
Cs in lichens after the Fukushima Nuclear AccidentDohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Iijima, Kazuki
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Large quantity of radionuclides, including Cs and Cs, were released into the atmosphere caused by the Fukushima Dai-chi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on March 11, 2011. As lichens are known to be effective tools to monitor environmental radioelements in both time and space, lichen samples are expected to be used to examine and monitor radiocaesium fallout from FDNPP in Japan. The purpose of this study is to discuss the estimation of radiocaesium fallout in the ecosystem based on the following examinations using lichens. Fifty-eight samples including foliose and fruticose lichens were collected from northern to central Japan especially focusing on Fukushima Prefecture during 2012 and 2013. After correction for radioactive decay (on each sampling date), the detected radiocaesium concentrations ranged from 16.1 Bq kg (d.w.) to 510,000 Bq kg for Cs and from 33.8 to 880,000 Bq kg for Cs in lichens. Cs concentration in the lichen samples generally increased with increase in the amount of fallout estimated by the Cs deposition in soil. The positive correlation was supported between Cs in lichens collected from Fukushima Prefecture and Cs inventories on soil calculated by Inverse Distance Weighted with Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (0.90, p 0.01). The activity ratios of Cs and Cs for the lichen samples (
= 44) collected within Fukushima Prefecture (decay corrected to March 11, 2011) were between 0.95
0.04 and 1.080.41. The ratios are consistent with those for radiocaesium derived from the FDNPP accident (reported as 0.89 to 1.2). The ratios obtained from lichen samples collected in outside of Fukushima Prefecture were 0.750.23 to 1.480.48. They were consistent with those from Fukushima. But one sample showing significantly small value, 0.480.16, might be influenced by different origin from Fukushima.
Dohi, Terumi; Fujiwara, Kenso; Omura, Yoshihito*; Iijima, Kazuki
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In this study, we investigated the condition of radiocaesium deposition and the constituent element of particles on lichen thalli.
collected around the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power PlantDohi, Terumi; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kikuchi, Naoyuki; Iijima, Kazuki
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A plenty of various radionuclides was released into the atmosphere by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident. The local radioactive contaminations (i.e. radioactive plume's trajectory) around the FDNPP were caused by the releasing radionuclides from each reactor, meteorological and geographical conditions, etc. In order to clarify the contamination characteristics of the plume's trajectory, we focused on lichen samples that are well known organism to retain radionuclides for a long period. A field investigation was carried out around the FDNPP on January 2016. , a common species at the area, growing on trunks of trees was collected around the FDNPP. The fragments of lichen thalli were analyzed by the scanning electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SEM-EDS). Heavy metal particles were detected on the surface of
. They might originate from reactors of the FDNPP because they contain anthropogenic elements such as, (Fe, Zn), (Cd, Zn), (Zr, Ti), (Fe, Zn, Cr), (Ti, Fe, Ce), (Fe, Ti, Cr, Ni), (Fe, Cr, Zn, Cd), etc. Further data of the elemental composition in particles on lichen samples would be helpful to discuss the differences among the radioactive plume's trajectories from each reactor.
Iijima, Kazuki; Dohi, Terumi; Niizato, Tadafumi; Fujiwara, Kenso; Koma, Yoshikazu; Suzuki, Shinichi; Oda, Yoshihiro; Omura, Yoshihito*; Sasaki, Takayuki*; Namba, Kenji*
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For the purpose of estimation of radionuclides inventory in the various radioactive solid wastes, such as soils, trees, generated from decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), the methodology of estimation of on-site radionuclides inventories is being developed based on the dependency on distance and direction from the FDNPS of their off-site distribution.
Dohi, Terumi; Iijima, Kazuki; Omura, Yoshihito*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kikuchi, Naoyuki*
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The local radioactive contaminations (i.e. radioactive plume's trace) around the FDNPS were caused by the releasing radionuclides from each reactor, weather conditions, etc. Japan Atomic Energy Agency is carrying out the project to evaluate off-site distribution of radionuclides and to determine the origin of plume's traces at each point, since we develop the model to estimate on-site distribution. As lichens are known to be effective tools to monitor environmental radionuclides in both time and space because of their ability to retain radionuclides for a long period, lichen samples are expected to be used to examine initial fallout distribution. The purpose of this study is to measure radionuclides concentrations in lichens and analyse elemental composition in particles captured on lichen thalli, in order to evaluate initial distribution of radionuclides and clarify the contamination characteristics of the plume's traces nearby the FDNPS.
Dohi, Terumi; Tagomori, Hisaya; Omura, Yoshihito*; Kanaizuka, Seiichi*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Iijima, Kazuki
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Dohi, Terumi; Fujiwara, Kenso; Omura, Yoshihito*; Tagomori, Hisaya*; Iijima, Kazuki; Kitamura, Akihiro
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