Ikuro Abe

14.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
372 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Ikuro Abe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ikuro Abe has authored 372 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 260 papers in Molecular Biology, 199 papers in Pharmacology and 74 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ikuro Abe's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (188 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (159 papers) and Plant Gene Expression Analysis (61 papers). Ikuro Abe is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (188 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (159 papers) and Plant Gene Expression Analysis (61 papers). Ikuro Abe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Ikuro Abe's co-authors include Yudai Matsuda, Takayoshi Awakawa, Hiroyuki Morita, Glenn D. Prestwich, Toshiyuki Wakimoto, Takahiro Mori, Hiroshi Noguchi, Michel Rohmer, Hiroshi Noguchi and Takaaki Mitsuhashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ikuro Abe

361 papers receiving 10.9k 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.

Enzymatic cyclization of squalene and oxidosqualene to sterols and triterpenes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ikuro Abe Japan	55	7.5k	5.6k	2.0k	1.9k	1.6k	372	11.1k
Haruo Seto Japan	52	7.0k 0.9×	4.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.7×	826 0.5×	405	11.2k
Yu‐Cheng Gu China	49	3.3k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	4.4k 2.4×	1.8k 1.2×	523	11.0k
Hiroyuki Koshino Japan	46	3.6k 0.5×	2.1k 0.4×	939 0.5×	3.4k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	351	8.5k
Jin‐Ming Gao China	46	3.0k 0.4×	3.1k 0.5×	820 0.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	353	8.5k
Sarah E. O’Connor Germany	53	5.8k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	814 0.4×	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	178	8.7k
Bin‐Gui Wang China	53	2.6k 0.4×	5.3k 0.9×	3.7k 1.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	287	9.3k
Tomohisa Kuzuyama Japan	50	6.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	794 0.4×	913 0.5×	617 0.4×	191	8.1k
Somsak Ruchirawat Thailand	50	3.3k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	747 0.4×	4.5k 2.4×	1.7k 1.1×	495	10.0k
Wenhan Lin China	49	3.3k 0.4×	5.6k 1.0×	4.3k 2.2×	2.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	391	10.6k
Hung‐wen Liu United States	53	6.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	3.9k 2.1×	795 0.5×	279	9.8k

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MORI, Takahiro, et al.. (2025). A Ketone‐Accepting Pictet–Spenglerase for the Asymmetric Construction of 1,1‐Disubstituted Tetrahydro‐ß‐carboline Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(25). e202502367–e202502367. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Lu, Wenhe Zhang, Min Li, et al.. (2025). Reshaping the Substrate-Binding Pocket of Leucine Dehydrogenase for Efficient Synthesis of l-Phenylglycine and Its Substituted Derivatives. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(26). 16515–16525.

Ushimaru, Richiro & Ikuro Abe. (2025). Nitrogen-centered radicals driving unusual enzyme reactions in biosynthetic pathways. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(13). 6385–6411. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Lei, Xiaozheng Wang, Tingting Huang, et al.. (2025). The Final Steps in Pseudoiodinine Biosynthesis Feature Ring-Contractive N–N Bond Formation. JACS Au. 5(7). 3008–3013. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Huibin & Ikuro Abe. (2024). Recent trends in the identification and engineering of halogenases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12. 100112–100112. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, Dinh Thanh, Keisuke Hamada, Chikako Okada, et al.. (2024). De Novo Discovery of Pseudo‐Natural Prenylated Macrocyclic Peptide Ligands. Angewandte Chemie. 136(36). 1 indexed citations

Abe, Ikuro, et al.. (2022). Biosynthesis of dihydroxyardeemin by heterologous expression. Tetrahedron. 127. 133095–133095. 2 indexed citations

Awakawa, Takayoshi, Takahiro Mori, Richiro Ushimaru, & Ikuro Abe. (2022). Structure-based engineering of α-ketoglutarate dependent oxygenases in fungal meroterpenoid biosynthesis. Natural Product Reports. 40(1). 46–61. 21 indexed citations

Tao, Hui, Richiro Ushimaru, Takayoshi Awakawa, et al.. (2022). Stereoselectivity and Substrate Specificity of the Fe(II)/α-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenase TqaL. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(47). 21512–21520. 29 indexed citations

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Qi, Bowen, Na Li, Beibei Zhang, et al.. (2022). A Multifunctional Cytochrome P450 and a Meroterpenoid Cyclase in the Biosynthesis of Fungal Meroterpenoid Atlantinone B. Organic Letters. 24(13). 2526–2530. 11 indexed citations

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Mori, Takahiro & Ikuro Abe. (2022). Structural basis for endoperoxide-forming oxygenases. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 18. 707–721. 9 indexed citations

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Ushimaru, Richiro & Ikuro Abe. (2022). Unusual Dioxygen-Dependent Reactions Catalyzed by Nonheme Iron Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis. ACS Catalysis. 13(2). 1045–1076. 42 indexed citations

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Barra, Lena, et al.. (2021). β-NAD as a building block in natural product biosynthesis. Nature. 600(7890). 754–758. 46 indexed citations

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Ushimaru, Richiro, et al.. (2021). Stereodivergent Nitrocyclopropane Formation during Biosynthesis of Belactosins and Hormaomycins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(44). 18413–18418. 47 indexed citations

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Awakawa, Takayoshi, Motomichi Matsuzaki, Yudai Matsuda, et al.. (2019). Complete biosynthetic pathways of ascofuranone and ascochlorin in Acremonium egyptiacum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(17). 8269–8274. 80 indexed citations

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He, Fei, Hitomi Nakamura, Shotaro Hoshino, et al.. (2018). Hinduchelins A–D, Noncytotoxic Catechol Derivatives from Streptoalloteichus hindustanus. Journal of Natural Products. 81(6). 1493–1496. 5 indexed citations

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Awakawa, Takayoshi, Takahiro Mori, Yu Nakashima, et al.. (2018). Molecular Insight into the Mg²⁺‐Dependent Allosteric Control of Indole Prenylation by Aromatic Prenyltransferase AmbP1. Angewandte Chemie. 130(23). 6926–6929. 1 indexed citations

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Win, Nwet Nwet, So-Yeun Woo, Hla Ngwe, et al.. (2018). Tetrahydrofuran lignans: Melanogenesis inhibitors from Premna integrifolia wood collected in Myanmar. Fitoterapia. 127. 308–313. 15 indexed citations

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Mitsuhashi, Takaaki, Takashi Kikuchi, Shotaro Hoshino, et al.. (2018). Crystalline Sponge Method Enabled the Investigation of a Prenyltransferase-terpene Synthase Chimeric Enzyme, Whose Product Exhibits Broadened NMR Signals. Organic Letters. 20(18). 5606–5609. 54 indexed citations

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Egami, Yoko, et al.. (2015). Production of indole antibiotics induced by exogenous gene derived from sponge metagenomes. Molecular BioSystems. 11(5). 1290–1294. 7 indexed citations

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