Fumio Imamoto

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
141 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Fumio Imamoto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fumio Imamoto has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Molecular Biology, 78 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Fumio Imamoto's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (70 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (68 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (29 papers). Fumio Imamoto is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (70 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (68 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (29 papers). Fumio Imamoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Poland. Fumio Imamoto's co-authors include Yasunobu Kano, Morimasa Wada, Shunsuke Ishii, Kazuhide Yahata, Charles Yanofsky, Kazushige Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Naoko Imamoto, Yasunobu Kano and Takefumi Sone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Fumio Imamoto

141 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Cohesin mediates transcriptional insulation by CCCTC-binding factor

2008 900 citations Kerstin S. Wendt, Keisuke Yoshida et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fumio Imamoto Japan	39	4.5k	2.0k	750	396	289	141	5.1k
James D. Friesen Canada	50	6.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	818 1.1×	408 1.0×	288 1.0×	138	7.0k
Andrea Jeffrey United States	10	3.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	837 1.1×	515 1.3×	133 0.5×	10	4.4k
G. F. Hong United Kingdom	9	2.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	696 0.9×	552 1.4×	169 0.6×	11	3.7k
John W. Dubendorff United States	7	4.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	794 1.1×	579 1.5×	623 2.2×	8	6.4k
Robert J. Crouch United States	41	5.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	668 0.9×	466 1.2×	483 1.7×	86	6.4k
André Sentenac France	64	10.0k 2.2×	1.2k 0.6×	432 0.6×	1.0k 2.6×	340 1.2×	190	10.7k
Klaus Scherrer France	41	5.7k 1.3×	846 0.4×	365 0.5×	529 1.3×	517 1.8×	159	6.7k
James L. Hartley United States	26	4.0k 0.9×	929 0.5×	389 0.5×	466 1.2×	383 1.3×	48	5.5k
Hans‐Joachim Fritz Germany	27	2.8k 0.6×	948 0.5×	404 0.5×	234 0.6×	146 0.5×	62	3.3k
Albert Schmitz Switzerland	16	2.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	329 0.4×	215 0.5×	130 0.4×	21	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Fumio Imamoto

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fumio Imamoto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fumio Imamoto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fumio Imamoto based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fumio Imamoto. Fumio Imamoto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Kageyama, Shun, Hiroko Omori, Tatsuya Saitoh, et al.. (2011). The LC3 recruitment mechanism is separate from Atg9L1-dependent membrane formation in the autophagic response againstSalmonella. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 22(13). 2290–2300. 144 indexed citations

Sone, Takefumi & Fumio Imamoto. (2011). Methods for Constructing Clones for Protein Expression in Mammalian Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 801. 227–250. 7 indexed citations

Maeshima, Kazuhiro, Saera Hihara, Tomoko Funakoshi, et al.. (2010). Nuclear pore formation but not nuclear growth is governed by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) during interphase. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 17(9). 1065–1071. 84 indexed citations

Wendt, Kerstin S., Keisuke Yoshida, Takehiko Itoh, et al.. (2008). Cohesin mediates transcriptional insulation by CCCTC-binding factor. Nature. 451(7180). 796–801. 900 indexed citations breakdown →

Funakoshi, Tomoko, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Kazuhide Yahata, et al.. (2007). Two distinct human POM121 genes: Requirement for the formation of nuclear pore complexes. FEBS Letters. 581(25). 4910–4916. 40 indexed citations

Yahata, Kazuhide, Hiroe Kishine, Takefumi Sone, et al.. (2005). Multi-gene Gateway clone design for expression of multiple heterologous genes in living cells: Conditional gene expression at near physiological levels. Journal of Biotechnology. 118(2). 123–134. 34 indexed citations

Sasaki, Yukari, Takefumi Sone, Kazuhide Yahata, et al.. (2004). Evidence for high specificity and efficiency of multiple recombination signals in mixed DNA cloning by the Multisite Gateway system. Journal of Biotechnology. 107(3). 233–243. 97 indexed citations

Kohno, Kyoko, Kayoko Yasuzawa, Mika Hirose, et al.. (1994). Autoregulation of Transcription of the hupA Gene in Escherichia coli: Evidence for Steric Hindrance of the Functional Promoter Domains Induced by HU. The Journal of Biochemistry. 115(6). 1113–1118. 8 indexed citations

Wada, Morimasa, Kuniya Abe, Katsuzumi Okumura, et al.. (1994). Chimeric YACs were generated at unreduced rates in conditions that suppress coligation. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(9). 1651–1654. 15 indexed citations

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Saiki, Takuya, Kyoko Kohno, Naoki Goshima, Yasunobu Kano, & Fumio Imamoto. (1994). Construction of a gyrA-gyrB-Carrying Plasmid Overproducing Functional DNA Gyrase. The Journal of Biochemistry. 116(6). 1208–1211. 1 indexed citations

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Kano, Yasunobu & Fumio Imamoto. (1990). Requirement of integration host factor (IHF) for growth of Escherichia coli deficient in HU protein. Gene. 89(1). 133–137. 46 indexed citations

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Kohno, Kyoko, Morimasa Wada, Yasunobu Kano, & Fumio Imamoto. (1990). Promoters and autogenous control of the Escherichia coli hupA and hupB genes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 213(1). 27–36. 30 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Yukuo, Takeya Sato, Tadao Hashimoto, et al.. (1990). Isolation of a gene for a regulatory 15‐kDa subunit of mitochondrial F₁F₀‐ATPase and construction of mutant yeast lacking the protein. European Journal of Biochemistry. 192(1). 49–53. 18 indexed citations

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Kano, Taichi, et al.. (1990). Genetic transformation of Lactobacillus casei by electroporation. Biochimie. 72(4). 265–269. 21 indexed citations

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Goshima, Naoki, Kyoko Kohno, Fumio Imamoto, & Yasunobu Kano. (1990). HU-1 mutants of Escherichia coli deficient in DNA binding. Gene. 96(1). 141–145. 20 indexed citations

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Akashi, Akira, Hideki Nakagoshi, Kazuyuki Kuroki, et al.. (1988). Molecular Cloning and Expression of a Gene for a Factor Which Stabilizes Formation of Inhibitor-Mitochondrial ATPase Complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The Journal of Biochemistry. 104(4). 526–530. 16 indexed citations

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Ishii, Shunsuke, Fumio Imamoto, Yuji Yamanashi, K Toyoshima, & Toshiko Yamamoto. (1987). Characterization of the promoter region of the human c-erbB-2 protooncogene.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(13). 4374–4378. 77 indexed citations

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Kano, Yasunobu, et al.. (1987). Cloning and sequencing of the HU-2 gene of Escherichia coli. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 209(2). 408–410. 72 indexed citations

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Yamazaki, Ken-ichi & Fumio Imamoto. (1987). Selective and accurate initiation of transcription at the T-DNA promoter in a soluble chromatin extract from wheat germ. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 209(3). 445–452. 20 indexed citations

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Imamoto, Fumio. (1968). On the initiation of transcription of the tryptophan operon in Escherichia coli.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 60(1). 305–312. 26 indexed citations

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