Kazuhiro Oiwa

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Kazuhiro Oiwa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuhiro Oiwa has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Cell Biology and 34 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kazuhiro Oiwa's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (48 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (30 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (29 papers). Kazuhiro Oiwa is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (48 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (30 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (29 papers). Kazuhiro Oiwa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Kazuhiro Oiwa's co-authors include Hitoshi Sakakibara, Hiroaki Kojima, Masasuke Yoshida, Takayuki Nishizaka, Stan A. Burgess, Peter J. Knight, Takashi Ishikawa, Y. Shitaka, Kazuhiko Kinosita and Matt Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kazuhiro Oiwa

121 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Large-scale vortex lattice emerging from collectively moving microtubules

2012 494 citations Yutaka Sumino, Kenichi Yoshikawa et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazuhiro Oiwa Japan	37	2.9k	1.9k	1.1k	910	571	127	5.1k
Stefan Diez Germany	43	3.0k 1.0×	3.7k 1.9×	1.0k 0.9×	917 1.0×	275 0.5×	175	6.6k
Ron Vale United States	27	4.1k 1.4×	4.2k 2.2×	381 0.4×	399 0.4×	406 0.7×	43	6.6k
Yoko Y. Toyoshima Japan	38	2.9k 1.0×	3.0k 1.6×	443 0.4×	258 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	74	4.7k
Mark C. Leake United Kingdom	37	3.6k 1.2×	520 0.3×	320 0.3×	780 0.9×	550 1.0×	128	5.3k
Samara L. Reck‐Peterson United States	33	3.8k 1.3×	3.6k 1.9×	301 0.3×	187 0.2×	357 0.6×	75	5.3k
Yoshie Harada Japan	33	2.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	218 0.2×	1.4k 1.5×	958 1.7×	88	6.2k
Vladimir I. Gelfand United States	53	5.5k 1.9×	5.9k 3.1×	353 0.3×	328 0.4×	335 0.6×	146	8.9k
Hiroaki Kojima Japan	24	1.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	240 0.2×	526 0.6×	575 1.0×	166	2.8k
Marileen Dogterom Netherlands	33	3.4k 1.2×	4.2k 2.2×	399 0.4×	496 0.5×	81 0.1×	83	5.6k
Shin’ichi Ishiwata Japan	45	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	314 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	3.0k 5.2×	196	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazuhiro Oiwa

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Yamashita, Takefumi, Mitsunori Ikeguchi, Takayuki Torisawa, et al.. (2024). Tensile Stress on Microtubules Facilitates Dynein-Driven Cargo Transport. Nano Letters. 24(30). 9129–9136. 3 indexed citations

Nakatani, Naoki, Takayuki Torisawa, Yutaka Sumino, et al.. (2023). Self-emergent vortex flow of microtubule and kinesin in cell-sized droplets under water/water phase separation. Communications Chemistry. 6(1). 80–80. 4 indexed citations

Hashim, P. K., Ken’ya Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, et al.. (2022). Dynamic Control of Microbial Movement by Photoswitchable ATP Antagonists. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(30). e202200807–e202200807. 2 indexed citations

Furuta, Akane, Shintaro Nakayama, Maki Yoshio, et al.. (2022). Programmable molecular transport achieved by engineering protein motors to move on DNA nanotubes. Science. 375(6585). 1159–1164. 51 indexed citations

Vilfan, Andrej, et al.. (2022). A Synthetic Minimal Beating Axoneme. Small. 18(32). e2107854–e2107854. 4 indexed citations

Sakakibara, Hitoshi, et al.. (2020). Force-Generating Mechanism of Axonemal Dynein in Solo and Ensemble. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(8). 2843–2843. 10 indexed citations

Furuta, Ken’ya, Kaori Nishikawa, Tetsuya Hiraiwa, et al.. (2020). Gliding filament system giving both global orientational order and clusters in collective motion. Physical review. E. 101(3). 32607–32607. 22 indexed citations

Kaneko, T., Ken’ya Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, et al.. (2020). Different motilities of microtubules driven by kinesin-1 and kinesin-14 motors patterned on nanopillars. Science Advances. 6(4). eaax7413–eaax7413. 13 indexed citations

Furuta, Akane, et al.. (2020). Collective motility of dynein linear arrays built on DNA nanotubes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 523(4). 1014–1019. 4 indexed citations

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Kabir, Arif Md. Rashedul, Daisuke Inoue, Takayuki Torisawa, et al.. (2020). Regulation of Biomolecular-Motor-Driven Cargo Transport by Microtubules under Mechanical Stress. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3(4). 1875–1883. 9 indexed citations

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Kaneko, T., Ken’ya Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, et al.. (2019). Transport of microtubules according to the number and spacing of kinesin motors on gold nano-pillars. Nanoscale. 11(20). 9879–9887. 6 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Hideaki, et al.. (2019). Ultrasoft Silicone Gel as a Biomimetic Passivation Layer in Inkjet‐Printed 3D MEA Devices. Advanced Biosystems. 3(9). e1900130–e1900130. 9 indexed citations

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Yano, Tomoki, Takayuki Torisawa, Kazuhiro Oiwa, & Sachiko Tsukita. (2018). AMPK-dependent phosphorylation of cingulin reversibly regulates its binding to actin filaments and microtubules. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15550–15550. 24 indexed citations

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Yamada, Akira, Maki Yoshio, & Kazuhiro Oiwa. (2013). Myosin Mg-ATPase of molluscan muscles is slightly activated by F-actin under catch state in vitro. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 34(2). 115–123. 5 indexed citations

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Nishiura, Masaya, Shiori Toba, Daisuke Takao, et al.. (2012). X-ray diffraction recording from single axonemes of eukaryotic flagella. Journal of Structural Biology. 178(3). 329–337. 3 indexed citations

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Hirabayashi, Miki, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Akio Nishikawa, Fumiaki Tanaka, & Masami Hagiya. (2009). Toward self-assembly of phage-like nanorobot. 530–535. 5 indexed citations

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Dhonukshe, Pankaj, Ilya Grigoriev, Rainer Fischer, et al.. (2008). Auxin transport inhibitors impair vesicle motility and actin cytoskeleton dynamics in diverse eukaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(11). 4489–4494. 187 indexed citations

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Enomoto, Akihiro, Michael J. Moore, Tadashi Nakano, et al.. (2006). A molecular communication system using a network of cytoskeletal filaments.. 88(1). 86–7. 39 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Ayumu, Chihiro Tsutsumi, Hiroaki Kojima, Kazuhiro Oiwa, & Yasushi Hiraoka. (2001). Dynamic Behavior of Microtubules during Dynein-dependent Nuclear Migrations of Meiotic Prophase in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(12). 3933–3946. 54 indexed citations

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Sugiura, Seiryo, Hiroshi Yamashita, Masataka Sata, et al.. (1995). Force-velocity relations of rat cardiac myosin isozymes sliding on algal cell actin cables in vitro. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1231(1). 69–75. 18 indexed citations

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