Junji Sagara

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Junji Sagara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Junji Sagara has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Immunology and 11 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Junji Sagara's work include Inflammasome and immune disorders (24 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (14 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (13 papers). Junji Sagara is often cited by papers focused on Inflammasome and immune disorders (24 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (14 papers) and Immune Response and Inflammation (13 papers). Junji Sagara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Junji Sagara's co-authors include Shun’ichiro Taniguchi, Junya Masumoto, Akihiko Kawai, Shöichiro Tsukita, Kenichi Oishi, N Sato, Masafumi Takahashi, Tetsuo Noda, Fumitake Usui and Tsutomu Katsuyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Junji Sagara

68 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Inflammasome Activation of Cardiac Fibroblasts Is Essential for Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

2011 721 citations Junya Masumoto, Tetsuo Noda et al. profile →
ERM family members as molecular linkers between the cell surface glycoprotein CD44 and actin-based cytoskeletons.

1994 679 citations Shöichiro Tsukita, Junji Sagara et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Junji Sagara Japan	37	4.3k	2.2k	765	678	477	68	5.8k
Geertrui Denecker Belgium	35	3.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	352 0.5×	684 1.0×	645 1.4×	57	5.7k
Lynne A. Lapierre United States	35	2.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	980 1.3×	1.5k 2.3×	470 1.0×	65	6.4k
Alexei Gratchev Germany	39	2.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	506 0.7×	380 0.6×	459 1.0×	123	5.4k
Ban‐Hock Toh Australia	42	2.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	1.7k 2.5×	919 1.9×	148	7.3k
Ann Ranger United States	24	2.9k 0.7×	2.9k 1.3×	402 0.5×	342 0.5×	406 0.9×	46	6.0k
Philip E. Hass United States	24	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 1.0×	297 0.4×	279 0.4×	323 0.7×	36	5.6k
Naoto Itoh Japan	26	4.2k 1.0×	3.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	319 0.5×	938 2.0×	50	7.9k
Tsutomu Tsuji Japan	37	2.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	386 0.5×	691 1.0×	204 0.4×	168	4.9k
Martin Stacey United Kingdom	39	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	405 0.5×	341 0.5×	377 0.8×	68	5.7k
Valeria Facchinetti United States	25	3.7k 0.9×	4.2k 1.9×	303 0.4×	671 1.0×	1.3k 2.6×	31	8.3k

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Kawakubo, Masatomo, Takehisa Matsumoto, Jun Nakayama, et al.. (2017). Cholesterol‐α‐glucosyltransferase gene is present in most Helicobacter species including gastric non‐Helicobacter pylori helicobacters obtained from Japanese patients. Helicobacter. 23(1). 8 indexed citations

Kang, Seokwon, Teresa Fernandes‐Alnemri, Corey Rogers, et al.. (2015). Caspase-8 scaffolding function and MLKL regulate NLRP3 inflammasome activation downstream of TLR3. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7515–7515. 214 indexed citations

Imamura, Ryu, Yetao Wang, Takeshi Kinoshita, et al.. (2010). Anti-Inflammatory Activity of PYNOD and Its Mechanism in Humans and Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 184(10). 5874–5884. 78 indexed citations

Sagara, Junji, Toshiaki Arata, & Shun’ichiro Taniguchi. (2009). Scapinin, the Protein Phosphatase 1 Binding Protein, Enhances Cell Spreading and Motility by Interacting with the Actin Cytoskeleton. PLoS ONE. 4(1). e4247–e4247. 30 indexed citations

Ohtsuka, Takao, Hoon Ryu, Yoji Andrew Minamishima, et al.. (2004). ASC is a Bax adaptor and regulates the p53–Bax mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. Nature Cell Biology. 6(2). 121–128. 206 indexed citations

Yamamoto, Masatatsu, Katsuyuki Yaginuma, Hiroko Tsutsui, et al.. (2004). ASC is essential for LPS‐induced activation of procaspase‐1 independently of TLR‐associated signal adaptor molecules. Genes to Cells. 9(11). 1055–1067. 158 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Hiroichi, Takeshi Koike, Hiroshi Kurita, et al.. (2004). Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase expression predicts survival outcome and chemosensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. Oral Oncology. 41(1). 38–47. 25 indexed citations

Sagara, Junji, Xin Guan, Junya Masumoto, et al.. (2003). Methylation of ASC/TMS1, a proapoptotic gene responsible for activating procaspase-1, in human colorectal cancer. Cancer Letters. 202(1). 101–108. 52 indexed citations

Stehlik, Christian, Sug Hyung Lee, Andrea Dorfleutner, et al.. (2003). Apoptosis-Associated Speck-Like Protein Containing a Caspase Recruitment Domain Is a Regulator of Procaspase-1 Activation. The Journal of Immunology. 171(11). 6154–6163. 193 indexed citations

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Shiohara, Masaaki, S. Taniguchi, Junya Masumoto, et al.. (2002). ASC, which is composed of a PYD and a CARD, is up-regulated by inflammation and apoptosis in human neutrophils. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 293(5). 1314–1318. 72 indexed citations

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Takeoka, Michiko, Takashi Ehara, Junji Sagara, Shingo Hashimoto, & Shun’ichiro Taniguchi. (2002). Calponin h1 induced a flattened morphology and suppressed the growth of human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells. European Journal of Cancer. 38(3). 436–442. 27 indexed citations

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Masumoto, Junya, Shun’ichiro Taniguchi, & Junji Sagara. (2001). Pyrin N-Terminal Homology Domain- and Caspase Recruitment Domain-Dependent Oligomerization of ASC. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 280(3). 652–655. 79 indexed citations

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Masumoto, Junya, et al.. (2001). Murine Ortholog of ASC, a CARD-Containing Protein, Self-Associates and Exhibits Restricted Distribution in Developing Mouse Embryos. Experimental Cell Research. 262(2). 128–133. 21 indexed citations

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Ayukawa, Koichi, Shun’ichiro Taniguchi, Junya Masumoto, et al.. (2000). La Autoantigen Is Cleaved in the COOH Terminus and Loses the Nuclear Localization Signal during Apoptosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(44). 34465–34470. 75 indexed citations

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Ichikawa, Takeshi, et al.. (1998). Expression of moesin and its associated molecule CD44 in epithelial skin tumors. Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. 25(5). 237–243. 13 indexed citations

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Sagara, Junji. (1998). The use of sequence comparison to detect 'identities' in tRNA genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 26(8). 1974–1979. 18 indexed citations

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Kim, Yan, Junji Sagara, & Akihiko Kawai. (1995). Studies on the Antiviral Activity of Protein Kinase Inhibitors against the Replication of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus.. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 18(6). 895–899. 15 indexed citations

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Sagara, Junji, Sachiko Tsukita, Shigenobu Yonemura, Shöichiro Tsukita, & Akihiko Kawai. (1995). Cellular actin-binding ezrin-radixin-moesin (ERM) family proteins are incorporated into the rabies virion and closely associated with viral envelope proteins in the cell. Virology. 206(1). 485–494. 50 indexed citations

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Taniguchi, Shun’ichiro, Junji Sagara, & Takeo Kakunaga. (1988). Deficient Polymerization In Vitro of a Point-Mutated β-Actin Expressed in a Transformed Human Fibroblast Cell Line1. The Journal of Biochemistry. 103(4). 707–713. 20 indexed citations

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Sagara, Junji, Kazuhiro Nagata, & Yasuo Ichikawa. (1982). A Cofactor Protein Required for Actin Activation of Myosin Mg2+ ATPase Activity in Leukemic Myeloblasts1. The Journal of Biochemistry. 92(6). 1845–1851. 9 indexed citations

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