Kazuo Shin‐ya

16.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
391 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Kazuo Shin‐ya is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuo Shin‐ya has authored 391 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 260 papers in Molecular Biology, 191 papers in Pharmacology and 92 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kazuo Shin‐ya's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (185 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (64 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (43 papers). Kazuo Shin‐ya is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (185 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (64 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (43 papers). Kazuo Shin‐ya collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Kazuo Shin‐ya's co-authors include Motoki Takagi, Yoichi Hayakawa, Haruo Seto, Kazuo Furihata, Miho Izumikawa, Haruo Ikeda, Konstanty Wierzba, Robert M. Brosh, Satoshi Ōmura and Junko Hashimoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Kazuo Shin‐ya

386 papers receiving 12.8k citations

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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.

Terpene synthases are widely distributed in bacteria

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazuo Shin‐ya Japan	55	9.3k	4.4k	2.7k	2.0k	808	391	13.0k
Craig A. Townsend United States	55	6.9k 0.7×	4.7k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	997 0.5×	1.5k 1.8×	270	11.4k
Masami Ishibashi Japan	51	5.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	3.9k 1.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	512	12.0k
Hideaki Kakeya Japan	39	3.4k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	738 0.4×	548 0.7×	229	6.7k
Dong‐Chan Oh South Korea	38	3.7k 0.4×	3.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	566 0.7×	234	7.7k
Jee H. Jung South Korea	44	2.9k 0.3×	1.8k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	825 1.0×	228	6.5k
Teruhiko Beppu Japan	54	7.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	938 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	394	10.4k
John A. Porco United States	62	4.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	8.4k 3.2×	937 0.5×	781 1.0×	248	13.3k
MASA HAMADA Japan	45	4.5k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	975 0.5×	519 0.6×	229	7.5k
Hendrik Luesch United States	55	3.9k 0.4×	3.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	3.1k 1.6×	195 0.2×	190	8.1k
Joseph P. Noel United States	80	16.8k 1.8×	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	5.9k 7.3×	181	21.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazuo Shin‐ya

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Akiyama, Satoko, et al.. (2023). Carrier Protein Mediated Formation of the Dihydropyridazinone Ring in Actinopyridazinone Biosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(29). e202305155–e202305155. 5 indexed citations

Sasaki, Kazuki, Tilman Schneider‐Poetsch, Akihiro Ito, et al.. (2022). Visualization of the dynamic interaction between nucleosomal histone H3K9 tri-methylation and HP1α chromodomain in living cells. Cell chemical biology. 29(7). 1153–1161.e5. 4 indexed citations

Kagaya, Noritaka, Hikaru Suenaga, Manabu Fujie, et al.. (2022). New azodyrecins identified by a genome mining-directed reactivity-based screening. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 18. 1017–1025. 4 indexed citations

Katsuyama, Yohei, Naruhiko Adachi, Toshio Moriya, et al.. (2021). Structural and Functional Analyses of the Tridomain‐Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase FmoA3 for 4‐Methyloxazoline Ring Formation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(26). 14554–14562. 21 indexed citations

Yamamoto, Kyosuke, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Xian‐Ying Meng, et al.. (2021). Novel Plant-Associated Acidobacteria Promotes Growth of Common Floating Aquatic Plants, Duckweeds. Microorganisms. 9(6). 1133–1133. 32 indexed citations

Hayakawa, Yoichi, et al.. (2020). Neocurromycin A, a new GRP78 downregulator from Streptomyces sp. RAI364. The Journal of Antibiotics. 73(11). 790–793. 4 indexed citations

Romer, Eric J., et al.. (2020). Replication stress at microsatellites causes DNA double-strand breaks and break-induced replication. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(45). 15378–15397. 23 indexed citations

Hashimoto, Takuya, Junko Hashimoto, Ikuko Kozone, et al.. (2020). In vitro Cas9-assisted editing of modular polyketide synthase genes to produce desired natural product derivatives. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4022–4022. 33 indexed citations

Hashimoto, Takuya, Ikuko Kozone, Junko Hashimoto, et al.. (2020). Identification, cloning and heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene cluster for desertomycin. The Journal of Antibiotics. 73(9). 650–654. 10 indexed citations

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Ueoka, Reiko, Naoya Shinzato, Noritaka Kagaya, Hikaru Suenaga, & Kazuo Shin‐ya. (2020). Pseudoalteropeptide A, a novel lipopeptide from the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas piscicida SWA4_PA4 isolated from marine seaweed. The Journal of Antibiotics. 74(2). 105–110. 4 indexed citations

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Hashimoto, Takuya, Ikuko Kozone, Junko Hashimoto, et al.. (2019). Novel macrolactam compound produced by the heterologous expression of a large cryptic biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces rochei IFO12908. The Journal of Antibiotics. 73(3). 171–174. 14 indexed citations

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Awakawa, Takayoshi, Lihan Zhang, Shotaro Hoshino, et al.. (2018). Reprogramming of the antimycin NRPS-PKS assembly lines inspired by gene evolution. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3534–3534. 47 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lihan, Takuya Hashimoto, Bin Qin, et al.. (2017). Characterization of Giant Modular PKSs Provides Insight into Genetic Mechanism for Structural Diversification of Aminopolyol Polyketides. Angewandte Chemie. 129(7). 1766–1771. 4 indexed citations

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Katsuyama, Yohei, et al.. (2017). Reconstitution of a Type II Polyketide Synthase that Catalyzes Polyene Formation. Angewandte Chemie. 130(7). 1972–1975. 7 indexed citations

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Nishizawa, Masato, Takahiro Hosoya, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Kazuo Shin‐ya, & Shigenori Kumazawa. (2014). NMR Spectroscopic Characterization of Inclusion Complexes of Theaflavin Digallate and Cyclodextrins. Food Science and Technology Research. 20(3). 663–670. 5 indexed citations

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Miyazaki, Takeshi, Kaushal Joshi, Bin Hu, et al.. (2012). Telomestatin Impairs Glioma Stem Cell Survival and Growth through the Disruption of Telomeric G-Quadruplex and Inhibition of the Proto-oncogene, c-Myb. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(5). 1268–1280. 97 indexed citations

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Shalaby, Tarek, André O. von Bueren, Giulio Fiaschetti, et al.. (2010). Disabling c-Myc in Childhood Medulloblastoma and Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor Cells by the Potent G-Quadruplex Interactive Agent S2T1-6OTD. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 9(1). 167–179. 39 indexed citations

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Kunoh, Tatsuki, Koichi Koseki, Motoki Takagi, et al.. (2010). A Novel Human Dynactin-Associated Protein, dynAP, Promotes Activation of Akt, and Ergosterol-Related Compounds Induce dynAP-Dependent Apoptosis of Human Cancer Cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 9(11). 2934–2942. 10 indexed citations

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Saito, Sakae, Junko Sakurai, Asami Sakamoto, et al.. (2009). Chemical Genomics Identifies the Unfolded Protein Response as a Target for Selective Cancer Cell Killing during Glucose Deprivation. Cancer Research. 69(10). 4225–4234. 137 indexed citations

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Yamashita, N., Takashi Harada, Kazuo Shin‐ya, & Haruo Seto. (1998). 6-HydroxytetranguloL a Ncw CPP32 Protease Inducer Produced by Streptomyca sp.. The Journal of Antibiotics. 51(1). 79–81. 16 indexed citations

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