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Peer-Reviewed Papers

• Glavin, D.P., Dworkin, J.P., Alexander, C.M.O’D., Aponte, J.C., Baczynski, A.A., Barnes, J.J., Bechtel, H.A., Berger, E.L., Burton, A.S., Caselli, P., Chung, A.H., Clemett, S.J., Cody, G.D., Dominguez, G., Elsila, J.E., Farnsworth, K.K., Foustoukos, D.I., Freeman, K.H., Furukawa, Y., Gainsforth, Z., Graham, H.V., Grassi, T., Giuliano, B.M., Hamilton, V.E., Haenecour, P., Heck, P.R., Hofmann, A.E., House, C.H., Huang, Y., Kaplan, H.H., Keller, L.P., Kim, B., Koga, T., Liss, M., McLain, H.L., Marcus, M.A., Matney, M., McCoy, T.J., McIntosh, O.M., Mojarro, A., Naraoka, H., Nguyen, A.N., Nuevo, M., Nuth III, J.A., Oba, Y., Parker, E.T., Peretyazhko, T.S., Sandford, S.A., Santos, E., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Seguin, F., Simkus, D.N., Shahid, A., Takano, Y., Thomas-Keprta, K.L., Tripathi, H., Weiss, G., Zheng, Y., Lunning, N.G., Righter, K., Connolly Jr., H.C., and Lauretta, D.S. (2025) Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nature Astronomy, 9, 199-210. doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9. [Open Access]
• Furusho, A., Ishii, C., Akita, T., Oyaide, M., Mita, M., Naraoka, H., Takano, Y., Dworkin, J.P., Oba, Y., Koga, T., Fukushima, K., Aoki, D., Hashiguchi, M., Mita, H., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Ogawa, N.O., Sakai, S., Glavin, D.P., Elsila, J.E., Parker, E.T., Aponte, J.C., McLain, H.L., Orthous-Daunay, F.-R., Vuitton, V., Thissen, R., Wolters, C., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Ruf, A., Isa, J., Hertkorn, N., Eiler, J.M., Yoshimura, T., Sugahara, H., Graham, H.V., Furukawa, Y., Araoka, D., Tanaka, S., Yoshikawa, T., Kabashima, F., Sasaki, K., Sato, H., Yamazaki, T., Onose, M., Morita, M., Kimura, Y., Kano, K., Aoki, J., Fujishima, K., Nomura, S.-i., Tachibana, S., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Yurimoto, H., Sakamoto, K., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Okada, T., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., and Hamase, K. (2024) Enantioselective three-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of amino acids in the Hayabusa2 returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Journal of Chromatography Open, 5, 100134. doi:10.1016/j.jcoa.2024.100134. [Open Access]
• Koga, T., Takano, Y., Oba, Y., Naraoka, H., and Ohkouchi, N. (2024) Abundant extraterrestrial purine nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite: Implications for a unified mechanism for purine synthesis in carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 365, 253-265. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.10.024. [Abstract]
• Takano, Y., Naraoka, H., Dworkin, J.P., Koga, T., Sasaki, K., Sato, H., Oba, Y., Ogawa, N.O., Yoshimura, T., Hamase, K., Ohkouchi, N., Parker, E.T., Aponte, J.C., Glavin, D.P., Furukawa, Y., Aoki, J., Kano, K., Nomura, S.-i.M., Orthous-Daunay, F.-R., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Hayabusa2-initial-analysis SOM team, Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Okada, T., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., and Tachibana, S. (2024) Primordial aqueous alteration recorded in water-soluble organic molecules from the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Nature Communications, 15, 5708. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-49237-6.[Open Access]
• Yoshimura, T., Araoka, D., Naraoka, H., Sakai, S., Ogawa, N.O., Yurimoto, H., Morita, M., Onose, M., Yokoyama, T., Bizzarro, M., Tanaka, S., Ohkouchi, N., Koga, T., Dworkin, J.P., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Okada, T., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., Tachibana, S., Takano, Y. (2024) Breunnerite grain and magnesium isotope chemistry reveal cation partitioning during aqueous alteration of asteroid Ryugu. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6809. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-50814-y. [Open Access]
• Glavin, D.P., Eckley, S.A., Aponte, J.C., Berger, E.L., Burton, A.S., Dworkin, J.P., Elsila, J.E., Ferguson, F.T., Furukawa, Y., Graham, H.V., Koga, T., Liss, M., McLain, H.L., Naraoka, H., Oba, Y., Parker, E.T., Righter, K., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Simkus, D.N., Takano, Y., Connolly, H.C.Jr., and Lauretta, D.S. (2023) Investigating the impact of x-ray computed tomography imaging on soluble organic matter in the Murchison meteorite: Implications for Bennu sample analyses. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 59(1), 105-133. doi:10.1111/maps.14111. [Open Access]
• Hashiguchi, M., Aoki, D., Fukushima, K., Naraoka, H., Takano, Y., Dworkin, J.P., Dworkin, K.E., Aponte, J.C., Elsila, J.E., Eiler, J.M., Furukawa, Y., Furusho, A., Glavin, D.P., Graham, H.V., Hamase, K., Hertkorn, N., Isa, J., Koga, T., McLain, H.L., Mita, H., Oba, Y., Ogawa, N.O., Ohkouchi, N., Orthous-Daunay, F.-R., Parker, E.T., Ruf, A., Sakai, S., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Sugahara, H., Thissen, R., Vuitton, V., Wolters, C., Yoshimura, T., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Tachibana, S., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., and Tsuda, Y. (2023) The spatial distribution of soluble organic matter and their relationship to minerals in the asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Earth, Planets and Space, 75: 73. doi:10.1186/s40623-023-01792-w. [Open Access]
• Naraoka, H., Takano, Y., Dworkin, J.P., Oba, Y., Hamase, K., Furusho, A., Ogawa, N.O., Hashiguchi, M., Fukushima, K., Aoki, D., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Aponte, J.C., Parker, E.T., Glavin, D.P., McLain, H.L., Elsila, J.E., Graham, H.V., Eiler, J.M., Orthous-Daunay, F.-R., Wolters, C., Isa, J., Vuitton, V., Thissen, R., Sakai, S., Yoshimura, T., Koga, T., Ohkouchi, N., Chikaraishi, Y., Sugahara, H., Mita, H., Furukawa, Y., Hertkorn, N., Ruf, A., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Tachibana, S., Connolly, H.C., Lauretta, D.S., Abe, M., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Yogata, K., Nakato, A., Yoshitake, M., Suzuki, A., Miyazaki, A., Furuya, S., Hatakeda, K., Soejima, H., Hitomi, Y., Kumagai, K., Usui, T., Hayashi, T., Yamamoto, D., Fukai, R., Kitazato, K., Sugita, S., Namiki, N., Arakawa, M., Ikeda, H., Ishiguro, M., Hirata, N., Wada, K., Ishihara, Y., Noguchi, R., Morota, T., Sakatani, N., Matsumoto, K., Senshu, H., Honda, R., Tatsumi, E., Yokota, Y., Honda, C., Michikami, T., Matsuoka, M., Miura, A., Noda, H., Yamada, T., Yoshihara, K., Kawahara, K., Ozaki, M., Iijima, Y.-i., Yano, H., Hayakawa, M., Iwata, T., Tsukizaki, R., Sawada, H., Hosoda, S., Ogawa, K., Okamoto, C., Hirata, N., Shirai, K., Shimaki, Y., Yamada, M., Okada, T., Yamamoto, Y., Takeuchi, H., Fujii, A., Takei, Y., Yoshikawa, K., Mimasu, Y., Ono, G., Ogawa, N., Kikuchi, S., Nakazawa, S., Terui, F., Tanaka, S., Saiki, T., Yoshikawa, M., Watanabe, S.-i., and Tsuda, Y. (2023) Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Science, 379(6634), eabn9033. doi:10.1126/science.abn9033. [Abstract]
• Oba, Y., Koga, T., Takano, Y., Ogawa, N.O., Ohkouchi, N., Sasaki, K., Sato, H., Glavin, D.P., Dworkin, J.P., Naraoka, H., Tachibana, S., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Okada, T., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., and Hayabusa2-initial-analysis, S.O.M.t. (2023) Uracil in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Nature Communications, 14: 1292. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36904-3. [Open Access]
• Yoshimura, T., Takano, Y., Naraoka, H., Koga, T., Araoka, D., Ogawa, N.O., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Hertkorn, N., Oba, Y., Dworkin, J.P., Aponte, J.C., Yoshikawa, T., Tanaka, S., Ohkouchi, N., Hashiguchi, M., McLain, H., Parker, E.T., Sakai, S., Yamaguchi, M., Suzuki, T., Yokoyama, T., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, S., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Okada, T., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., Tachibana, S., and Hayabusa2-initial-analysis SOM team. (2023) Chemical evolution of primordial salts and organic sulfur molecules in the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Nature Communications, 14: 5284. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40871-0. [Open Access]
• Zeichner, S.S., Aponte, J.C., Bhattacharjee, S., Dong, G., Hofmann, A.E., Dworkin, J.P., Glavin, D.P., Elsila, J.E., Graham, H.V., Naraoka, H., Takano, Y., Tachibana, S., Karp, A.T., Grice, K., Holman, A.I., Freeman, K.H., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Okazaki, R., Yabuta, H., Sakamoto, K., Yada, T., Nishimura, M., Nakato, A., Miyazaki, A., Yogata, K., Abe, M., Okada, T., Usui, T., Yoshikawa, M., Saiki, T., Tanaka, S., Terui, F., Nakazawa, S., Watanabe, S.-i., Tsuda, Y., Hamase, K., Fukushima, K., Aoki, S., Hashiguchi, M., Mita, H., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Ogawa, N.O., Sakai, S., Parker, E.T., McLain, H.L., Orthous-Daunay, F.-R., Vuitton, V., Wolters, C., Schmitt-Kopplin, P., Hertkorn, N., Thissen, R., Ruf, A., Isa, J., Oba, Y., Koga, T., Yoshimura, T., Araoka, D., Sugahara, H., Furusho, A., Furukawa, Y., Aoki, J., Kano, K., Nomura, S.-i.M., Sasaki, K., Sato, H., Yoshikawa, T., Tanaka, S., Morita, M., Onose, M., Kabashima, F., Fujishima, K., Yamazaki, T., Kimura, Y., and Eiler, J.M. (2023) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in samples of Ryugu formed in the interstellar medium. Science, 382(6677), 1411-1416. doi:10.1126/science.adg6304. [Abstract]
• Koga, T., and Naraoka, H. (2022) Synthesis of Amino Acids from Aldehydes and Ammonia: Implications for Organic Reactions in Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent Bodies. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 6(5), 1311-1320. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00008. [Open Access]
• Oba, Y., Takano, Y., Furukawa, Y., Koga, T., Glavin, D.P., Dworkin, J.P., and Naraoka, H. (2022) Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites. Nature Communications, 13, 2008. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29612-x. [Open Access]
• Koga, T., Parker, E.T., McLain, H.L., Aponte, J.C., Elsila, J.E., Dworkin, J.P., Glavin, D.P., and Naraoka, H. (2021) Extraterrestrial hydroxy amino acids in CM and CR carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56(5), 1005-1023. doi:10.1111/maps.13661. [Abstract]
• Koga, T., and Naraoka, H. (2017) A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteorite. Scientific Reports, 7:636. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00693-9. [Open Access]

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