Hisao Masai

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Hisao Masai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hisao Masai has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Cell Biology and 36 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hisao Masai's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (121 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (46 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (37 papers). Hisao Masai is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (121 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (46 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (37 papers). Hisao Masai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Italy. Hisao Masai's co-authors include Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata, Ken‐ichi Arai, Seiji Matsumoto, Zhiying You, Ken‐ichi Arai, Yutaka Kanoh, Asako Sakaue‐Sawano, Atsushi Miyawaki, Takeshi Imamura and Kiyoko Fukami and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hisao Masai

165 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hisao Masai Japan	45	6.4k	1.6k	1.4k	1.1k	523	167	7.4k
Dean A. Jackson United Kingdom	48	8.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	836 1.6×	117	9.0k
Marie Evangelista United States	29	5.7k 0.9×	2.5k 1.5×	689 0.5×	594 0.5×	638 1.2×	42	7.2k
Ronald Berezney United States	49	6.9k 1.1×	980 0.6×	996 0.7×	590 0.5×	325 0.6×	120	8.0k
Yoav I. Henis Israel	49	5.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	423 0.3×	862 0.8×	351 0.7×	159	7.3k
Laurence Pelletier Canada	37	5.9k 0.9×	3.7k 2.3×	1.4k 1.0×	907 0.8×	347 0.7×	67	7.2k
Masato T. Kanemaki Japan	38	6.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	623 0.4×	663 0.6×	635 1.2×	98	7.2k
Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer United States	52	8.4k 1.3×	843 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	1.3k 2.4×	128	9.0k
Ulrike Kutay Switzerland	56	13.1k 2.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	626 0.5×	1.8k 3.4×	108	14.7k
Johannes C. Walter United States	64	12.1k 1.9×	2.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.1×	2.6k 2.2×	1.4k 2.6×	113	12.9k
Bryce M. Paschal United States	50	6.0k 0.9×	3.1k 1.9×	889 0.6×	652 0.6×	342 0.7×	105	7.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Masai, Hisao, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of the effects of G4 ligands on the interaction between G-quadruplexes and their binding proteins. Chemical Communications. 61(63). 11790–11793. 1 indexed citations

Qiao, Hui, Andrew N. Lowell, Jianbo Cao, et al.. (2025). Natural and Synthetic LDL-Based Imaging Probes for the Detection of Atherosclerotic Plaques. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science. 8(2). 578–591.

Flury, Valentin, Yutaka Kanoh, Melanie Weisser, et al.. (2024). The fork protection complex promotes parental histone recycling and epigenetic memory. Cell. 187(18). 5029–5047.e21. 23 indexed citations

Németh, Tamás, Agnès Pallier, Zoltán Garda, et al.. (2024). Water-Soluble Mn(III)-Porphyrins with High Relaxivity and Photosensitization. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 5–14. 5 indexed citations

Kanoh, Yutaka, et al.. (2023). Aberrant association of chromatin with nuclear periphery induced by Rif1 leads to mitotic defect. Life Science Alliance. 6(4). e202201603–e202201603. 1 indexed citations

Németh, Tamás, Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata, Agnès Pallier, et al.. (2023). Water-Soluble Gd(III)–Porphyrin Complexes Capable of Both Photosensitization and Relaxation Enhancement. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 157–167. 5 indexed citations

Yoshizawa-Sugata, Naoko, et al.. (2021). Loss of full-length DNA replication regulator Rif1 in two-cell embryos is associated with zygotic transcriptional activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(6). 101367–101367. 9 indexed citations

Kitajima, Shojiro, Wendi Sun, Kian Leong Lee, et al.. (2021). A KDM6 inhibitor potently induces ATF4 and its target gene expression through HRI activation and by UTX inhibition. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4538–4538. 6 indexed citations

Cao, Jianbo, Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata, Éva Tóth, et al.. (2020). LDL-mimetic lipid nanoparticles prepared by surface KAT ligation forin vivoMRI of atherosclerosis. Chemical Science. 11(44). 11998–12008. 18 indexed citations

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Moriyama, Kenji, Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata, & Hisao Masai. (2018). Oligomer formation and G-quadruplex binding by purified murine Rif1 protein, a key organizer of higher-order chromatin architecture. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(10). 3607–3624. 34 indexed citations

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You, Zhiying & Hisao Masai. (2017). Potent DNA strand annealing activity associated with mouse Mcm2∼7 heterohexameric complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(11). 6494–6506. 4 indexed citations

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Nonaka, Takashi, Hisao Masai, & Masato Hasegawa. (2014). P4‐019: PHOSPHORYLATION OF TDP‐43 BY CASEIN KINASE 1 DELTA FACILITATES MISLOCALIZATION AND INTRACELLULAR AGGREGATE FORMATION OF TDP‐43. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 10(4S_Part_21). 4 indexed citations

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Tanikawa, Michihiro, Osamu Wada‐Hiraike, Naoko Yoshizawa-Sugata, et al.. (2013). Role of multifunctional transcription factor TFII-I and putative tumour suppressor DBC1 in cell cycle and DNA double strand damage repair. British Journal of Cancer. 109(12). 3042–3048. 11 indexed citations

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Hayano, Motoshi, Yutaka Kanoh, Seiji Matsumoto, & Hisao Masai. (2011). Mrc1 Marks Early-Firing Origins and Coordinates Timing and Efficiency of Initiation in Fission Yeast. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 31(12). 2380–2391. 29 indexed citations

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Hayashida, Toshiro, Masako Oda, Atsumi Yamaguchi, et al.. (2006). Replication Initiation from a Novel Origin Identified in the Th2 Cytokine Cluster Locus Requires a Distant Conserved Noncoding Sequence. The Journal of Immunology. 176(9). 5446–5454. 15 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Seiji, Keiko Ogino, Eishi Noguchi, Paul Russell, & Hisao Masai. (2005). Hsk1-Dfp1/Him1, the Cdc7-Dbf4 Kinase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Associates with Swi1, a Component of the Replication Fork Protection Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(52). 42536–42542. 49 indexed citations

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Mizukoshi, Toshimi, Taku Tanaka, Ken-ichi Arai, Daisuke Kohda, & Hisao Masai. (2003). A Critical Role of the 3′ Terminus of Nascent DNA Chains in Recognition of Stalled Replication Forks. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(43). 42234–42239. 47 indexed citations

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Johnston, Leland H., Hisao Masai, & Akio Sugino. (2000). A Cdc7p-Dbf4p protein kinase activity is conserved from yeast to humans. PubMed. 4. 61–69. 15 indexed citations

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Masai, Hisao, et al.. (1997). Frpo: A Novel Single-Stranded DNA Promoter for Transcription and for Primer RNA Synthesis of DNA Replication. Cell. 89(6). 897–907. 66 indexed citations

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Masai, Hisao & Ken Arai. (1987). RepA and DnaA proteins are required for initiation of R1 plasmid replication in vitro and interact with the oriR sequence.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(14). 4781–4785. 62 indexed citations

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