Izuru Ohki

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Izuru Ohki is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Izuru Ohki has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Izuru Ohki's work include Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (5 papers). Izuru Ohki is often cited by papers focused on Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (5 papers). Izuru Ohki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Israel and Switzerland. Izuru Ohki's co-authors include Masahiro Shirakawa, Chojiro Kojima, Ko Shimamoto, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Mitsuyoshi Nakao, Naoyuki Fujita, Kyoko Furuita, Atsushi Nakagawa, Takahisa Ikegami and Kokoro Hayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Izuru Ohki

37 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

14-3-3 proteins act as intracellular receptors for rice H... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. 14-3-3 proteins act as intracellular receptors for rice Hd3a florigen
    2011 575 citations Izuru Ohki, Hiroyuki Tsuji et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Izuru Ohki
Dixie J. Goss United States
Thomas A. Leonard Austria
Diego U. Ferreiro Argentina
Cristina V. Iancu United States
Derek J. Taylor United States
Oleg Sitsel Germany
Changwen Jin China
Thorsten Dieckmann United States
F. Jon Kull United States
Jan Wiśniewski United States
Dixie J. Goss United States
Izuru Ohki
Citations per year, relative to Izuru Ohki Izuru Ohki (= 1×) peers Dixie J. Goss

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Izuru Ohki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Izuru Ohki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Izuru Ohki 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 Izuru Ohki. Izuru Ohki is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fujiwara, Masanori, Naoya Morioka, Izuru Ohki, et al.. (2025). Single tin-vacancy center in nanoscale diamond. Discover Nano. 20(1). 81–81. 1 indexed citations
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Shames, Alexander I., Ming Liu, Taro Yoshikawa, et al.. (2024). Small multimodal thermometry with detonation-created multi-color centers in detonation nanodiamond. APL Materials. 12(5). 5 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Yuki, et al.. (2024). The gateway reflex regulates tissue-specific autoimmune diseases. Inflammation and Regeneration. 44(1). 12–12. 3 indexed citations
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Shames, Alexander I., Daiki Terada, Hiroki Morishita, et al.. (2022). Anomalous Formation of Irradiation-Induced Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in 5 nm-Sized Detonation Nanodiamonds. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(11). 5206–5217. 12 indexed citations
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Herbschleb, Ernst David, Hiromitsu Kato, Yukie Maruyama, et al.. (2019). Ultra-long coherence times amongst room-temperature solid-state spins. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3766–3766. 207 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, et al.. (2018). Backbone and side-chain resonance assignments of the methyl-CpG-binding domain of MBD6 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 13(1). 59–62. 1 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, Minoru Nagano, Kyoko Furuita, et al.. (2014). The Crystal Structure of the Plant Small GTPase OsRac1 Reveals Its Mode of Binding to NADPH Oxidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(41). 28569–28578. 27 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, Kokoro Hayashi, Ryo Tabata, et al.. (2013). Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of a rice Rac/Rop GTPase, OsRac1. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 70(1). 113–115. 2 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, et al.. (2013). Structure and function of florigen and the receptor complex. Trends in Plant Science. 18(5). 287–294. 82 indexed citations
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Hattori, Yoshikazu, Kyoko Furuita, Izuru Ohki, et al.. (2012). Utilization of lysine 13C-methylation NMR for protein–protein interaction studies. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 55(1). 19–31. 13 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kyoko Furuita, et al.. (2011). 14-3-3 proteins act as intracellular receptors for rice Hd3a florigen. Nature. 476(7360). 332–335. 575 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ohki, Izuru, et al.. (2010). Surface plasmon resonance study on functional significance of clustered organization of lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor (LOX-1). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1814(2). 345–354. 18 indexed citations
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Kuroki, Kimiko, Izuru Ohki, Kaori Sasaki, et al.. (2009). Molecular Basis for E-cadherin Recognition by Killer Cell Lectin-like Receptor G1 (KLRG1). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(40). 27327–27335. 34 indexed citations
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Kasai, Nobuyuki, Yasuo Tsunaka, Izuru Ohki, et al.. (2005). Solution structure of the HMG-box domain in the SSRP1 subunit of FACT. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 32(1). 83–88. 18 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, Takuji Oyama, Shigeru Matsunaga, et al.. (2005). Crystal Structure of Human Lectin-like, Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor 1 Ligand Binding Domain and Its Ligand Recognition Mode to OxLDL. Structure. 13(6). 905–917. 122 indexed citations
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Fujiwara, Kenichiro, Takeshi Tenno, Kaoru Sugasawa, et al.. (2004). Structure of the Ubiquitin-interacting Motif of S5a Bound to the Ubiquitin-like Domain of HR23B. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(6). 4760–4767. 74 indexed citations
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Kato, Zenichiro, Jun‐Goo Jee, Masaki Mishima, et al.. (2003). The structure and binding mode of interleukin-18. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 10(11). 966–971. 106 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru, Naoyuki Fujita, Jun-Goo Jee, et al.. (2001). Solution Structure of the Methyl-CpG Binding Domain of Human MBD1 in Complex with Methylated DNA. Cell. 105(4). 487–497. 245 indexed citations
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Ohki, Izuru. (1999). Solution structure of the methyl-CpG-binding domain of the methylation-dependent transcriptional repressor MBD1. The EMBO Journal. 18(23). 6653–6661. 95 indexed citations

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