Eisuke Itakura

15.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Eisuke Itakura is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eisuke Itakura has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Epidemiology, 21 papers in Cell Biology and 20 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Eisuke Itakura's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (21 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (10 papers). Eisuke Itakura is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (21 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (10 papers). Eisuke Itakura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Eisuke Itakura's co-authors include Noboru Mizushima, Chieko Kishi‐Itakura, Kinji Inoue, Chieko Kishi, Ikuko Koyama‐Honda, Mayurbhai H. Sahani, Ramanujan S. Hegde, Yuriko Sakamaki, Tohru Natsume and Peidu Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Eisuke Itakura

39 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Hairpin-type Tail-Anchored SNARE Syntaxin 17 Targets to Autophagosomes for Fusion with Endosomes/Lysosomes

2012 994 citations Eisuke Itakura, Chieko Kishi‐Itakura et al. Cell profile →
Beclin 1 Forms Two Distinct Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Complexes with Mammalian Atg14 and UVRAG

2008 919 citations Eisuke Itakura, Chieko Kishi et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell profile →
Characterization of autophagosome formation site by a hierarchical analysis of mammalian Atg proteins

2010 659 citations Eisuke Itakura, Noboru Mizushima Autophagy profile →
The HOPS complex mediates autophagosome–lysosome fusion through interaction with syntaxin 17

2014 379 citations Peidu Jiang, Taki Nishimura et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eisuke Itakura Japan	24	4.0k	2.3k	1.9k	845	698	41	5.4k
Elena Shvets Israel	18	3.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	622 0.7×	583 0.8×	20	5.0k
Serhiy Pankiv Norway	15	4.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	595 0.7×	711 1.0×	18	5.9k
David G. McEwan United Kingdom	20	4.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	696 0.8×	589 0.8×	27	5.8k
Akiko Kuma Japan	21	4.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	628 0.7×	584 0.8×	28	5.9k
Yukiko Kabeya Japan	17	3.8k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	561 0.7×	447 0.6×	21	4.9k
Christian Behrends Germany	36	3.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	695 0.8×	705 1.0×	85	6.1k
Maho Hamasaki Japan	23	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	581 0.7×	648 0.9×	41	4.9k
Zhifen Yang China	19	3.9k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	559 0.7×	487 0.7×	46	6.5k
Maurizio Renna United Kingdom	30	3.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	608 0.7×	794 1.1×	55	5.7k
Heidi Outzen Norway	6	5.0k 1.2×	3.5k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	649 0.8×	718 1.0×	7	6.9k

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Sasazawa, Yukiko, Mitsuhiro Kitagawa, Hideyuki Saya, et al.. (2024). Novel autophagy inducers by accelerating lysosomal clustering against Parkinson’s disease. eLife. 13. 9 indexed citations

Itakura, Eisuke, et al.. (2024). Regulatory dynamics of Sch9 in response to cytosolic acidification: From spatial reconfiguration to cellular adaptation to stresses. iScience. 28(1). 111573–111573.

Matsuura, Akira, et al.. (2023). Alpha 2-macroglobulin acts as a clearance factor in the lysosomal degradation of extracellular misfolded proteins. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 4680–4680. 6 indexed citations

Maeyashiki, Chiaki, Yoichi Nibe, Akiko Tamura, et al.. (2020). Receptor‐Interacting Protein Kinase 3 (RIPK3) inhibits autophagic flux during necroptosis in intestinal epithelial cells. FEBS Letters. 594(10). 1586–1595. 10 indexed citations

Chen, Changchun, Eisuke Itakura, Geoffrey M. Nelson, et al.. (2017). IL-17 is a neuromodulator of Caenorhabditis elegans sensory responses. Nature. 542(7639). 43–48. 92 indexed citations

Yoshii, Saori R., Akiko Kuma, Takumi Akashi, et al.. (2016). Systemic Analysis of Atg5-Null Mice Rescued from Neonatal Lethality by Transgenic ATG5 Expression in Neurons. Developmental Cell. 39(1). 116–130. 100 indexed citations

Itakura, Eisuke, Eszter Zavodszky, Sichen Shao, et al.. (2016). Ubiquilins Chaperone and Triage Mitochondrial Membrane Proteins for Degradation. Molecular Cell. 63(1). 21–33. 198 indexed citations

Ogasawara, Yuta, Eisuke Itakura, Nozomu Kono, et al.. (2014). Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase 1 Activity Is Required for Autophagosome Formation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(34). 23938–23950. 56 indexed citations

Kishi‐Itakura, Chieko, Ikuko Koyama‐Honda, Eisuke Itakura, & Noboru Mizushima. (2014). Ultrastructural analysis of autophagosome organization using mammalian autophagy-deficient cells. Journal of Cell Science. 127(Pt 18). 4089–102. 189 indexed citations

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Jiang, Peidu, Taki Nishimura, Yuriko Sakamaki, et al.. (2014). The HOPS complex mediates autophagosome–lysosome fusion through interaction with syntaxin 17. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(8). 1327–1337. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sahani, Mayurbhai H., Eisuke Itakura, & Noboru Mizushima. (2014). Expression of the autophagy substrate SQSTM1/p62 is restored during prolonged starvation depending on transcriptional upregulation and autophagy-derived amino acids. Autophagy. 10(3). 431–441. 297 indexed citations

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Chen, Changchun, et al.. (2014). An ER Complex of ODR-4 and ODR-8/Ufm1 Specific Protease 2 Promotes GPCR Maturation by a Ufm1-Independent Mechanism. PLoS Genetics. 10(3). e1004082–e1004082. 43 indexed citations

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Itakura, Eisuke & Noboru Mizushima. (2013). Syntaxin 17. Autophagy. 9(6). 917–919. 67 indexed citations

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Koyama‐Honda, Ikuko, Eisuke Itakura, Takahiro Fujiwara, & Noboru Mizushima. (2013). Temporal analysis of recruitment of mammalian ATG proteins to the autophagosome formation site. Autophagy. 9(10). 1491–1499. 177 indexed citations

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Itakura, Eisuke, et al.. (2012). Differentiation capacity of native pituitary folliculostellate cells and brain astrocytes. Journal of Endocrinology. 213(3). 231–237. 17 indexed citations

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Itakura, Eisuke, Chieko Kishi‐Itakura, & Noboru Mizushima. (2012). The Hairpin-type Tail-Anchored SNARE Syntaxin 17 Targets to Autophagosomes for Fusion with Endosomes/Lysosomes. Cell. 151(6). 1256–1269. 994 indexed citations breakdown →

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Itakura, Eisuke & Noboru Mizushima. (2010). Characterization of autophagosome formation site by a hierarchical analysis of mammalian Atg proteins. Autophagy. 6(6). 764–776. 659 indexed citations breakdown →

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Itakura, Eisuke, Chieko Kishi, Kinji Inoue, & Noboru Mizushima. (2008). Beclin 1 Forms Two Distinct Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Complexes with Mammalian Atg14 and UVRAG. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(12). 5360–5372. 919 indexed citations breakdown →

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Itakura, Eisuke, et al.. (2007). Generation of Transgenic Rats Expressing Green Fluorescent Protein in S-100β-Producing Pituitary Folliculo-Stellate Cells and Brain Astrocytes. Endocrinology. 148(4). 1518–1523. 75 indexed citations

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Itakura, Eisuke, Isao Sawada, & Akira Matsuura. (2005). Dimerization of the ATRIP Protein through the Coiled-Coil Motif and Its Implication to the Maintenance of Stalled Replication Forks. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(12). 5551–5562. 31 indexed citations

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