Keiichi Namba

17.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
326 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Keiichi Namba is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keiichi Namba has authored 326 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 199 papers in Molecular Biology, 129 papers in Genetics and 66 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Keiichi Namba's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (128 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (65 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (56 papers). Keiichi Namba is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (128 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (65 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (56 papers). Keiichi Namba collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Keiichi Namba's co-authors include Tohru Minamino, Katsumi Imada, Koji Yonekura, Ferenc Vonderviszt, Gerald Stubbs, Saori Maki-Yonekura, Yusuke V. Morimoto, Takayuki Kato, Takashi Fujii and Miki Kinoshita and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Keiichi Namba

315 papers receiving 13.1k 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.

Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy

2003 596 citations Koji Yonekura, Saori Maki-Yonekura et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keiichi Namba Japan	62	7.8k	5.2k	2.9k	1.8k	1.7k	326	13.2k
Robert M. Macnab United States	67	7.6k 1.0×	6.6k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	127	12.5k
Tohru Minamino Japan	55	5.0k 0.6×	5.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	946 0.5×	186	8.4k
Ned S. Wingreen United States	77	10.4k 1.3×	3.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	738 0.4×	263	24.3k
John S. Parkinson United States	51	7.7k 1.0×	5.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	924 0.5×	851 0.5×	126	10.1k
Grant J. Jensen United States	64	7.7k 1.0×	3.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	795 0.5×	209	13.0k
Shin‐Ichi Aizawa Japan	51	4.9k 0.6×	3.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	977 0.6×	148	8.8k
Michio Homma Japan	53	5.3k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	937 0.5×	291	8.6k
Edward H. Egelman United States	80	12.7k 1.6×	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	819 0.5×	4.0k 2.3×	319	19.3k
Victor Sourjik Germany	52	6.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	878 0.5×	448 0.3×	144	9.2k
Julius Adler United States	57	8.0k 1.0×	3.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	560 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	118	12.2k

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Takekawa, Norihiro, Tohru Minamino, Katsumi Imada, et al.. (2025). Cryo-EM Structure of the Flagellar Motor Complex from Paenibacillus sp. TCA20. Biomolecules. 15(3). 435–435.

Adachi, Taiki, et al.. (2025). Improved Direct Bioelectrochemical Fructose Oxidation with Surfactant-Free Heterotrimeric Fructose Dehydrogenase Variant Truncating Heme 1 c and C-Terminal Hydrophobic Regions. ACS electrochemistry.. 1(9). 1649–1658.

Nakane, Takanori, Fumiaki Makino, Yusuke Ohnishi, et al.. (2024). Versatile Biaryls and Fused Aromatics through Oxidative Coupling of Hydroquinones with (Hetero)Arenes. ChemistrySelect. 9(15). 1 indexed citations

Namba, Keiichi, Shotaro Yoshida, Yohki Hieda, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale Structures of Tough Microparticle-Based Films Investigated by Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering and All-Atom Molecular-Dynamics Simulation. Langmuir. 40(43). 22614–22626. 4 indexed citations

Anzai, Itsuki, Junso Fujita, Chikako Ono, et al.. (2024). Characterization of a neutralizing antibody that recognizes a loop region adjacent to the receptor-binding interface of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4). e0365523–e0365523. 2 indexed citations

Suzuki, Yohei, Fumiaki Makino, Tomoko Miyata, et al.. (2023). Essential Insight of Direct Electron Transfer-Type Bioelectrocatalysis by Membrane-Bound d -Fructose Dehydrogenase with Structural Bioelectrochemistry. ACS Catalysis. 13(20). 13828–13837. 14 indexed citations

Adachi, Taiki, Tomoko Miyata, Fumiaki Makino, et al.. (2023). Experimental and Theoretical Insights into Bienzymatic Cascade for Mediatorless Bioelectrochemical Ethanol Oxidation with Alcohol and Aldehyde Dehydrogenases. ACS Catalysis. 13(12). 7955–7965. 16 indexed citations

Minamino, Tohru, Miki Kinoshita, Yumi Inoue, Akio Kitao, & Keiichi Namba. (2022). Conserved GYXLI Motif of FlhA Is Involved in Dynamic Domain Motions of FlhA Required for Flagellar Protein Export. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(4). e0111022–e0111022. 7 indexed citations

Nishikawa, Miyuki, Daisuke Nakane, Akihiro Kawamoto, et al.. (2019). Refined Mechanism of Mycoplasma mobile Gliding Based on Structure, ATPase Activity, and Sialic Acid Binding of Machinery. mBio. 10(6). 15 indexed citations

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Terahara, Naoya, Yumi Inoue, Noriyuki Kodera, et al.. (2018). Insight into structural remodeling of the FlhA ring responsible for bacterial flagellar type III protein export. Science Advances. 4(4). eaao7054–eaao7054. 41 indexed citations

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Renault, Thibaud T., Tobias Bergmiller, Simon Rainville, et al.. (2017). Bacterial flagella grow through an injection-diffusion mechanism. eLife. 6. 66 indexed citations

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Terahara, Naoya, Noriyuki Kodera, Takayuki Uchihashi, et al.. (2017). Na ⁺ -induced structural transition of MotPS for stator assembly of the Bacillus flagellar motor. Science Advances. 3(11). eaao4119–eaao4119. 38 indexed citations

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Shen, Da‐Kang, Fumiaki Makino, Takayuki Kato, et al.. (2014). Three‐dimensional electron microscopy reconstruction and cysteine‐mediated crosslinking provide a model of the type III secretion system needle tip complex. Molecular Microbiology. 95(1). 31–50. 40 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Yusuke V., Mariko Ito, Yong‐Suk Che, et al.. (2014). Assembly and stoichiometry of FliF and FlhA in Salmonella flagellar basal body. Molecular Microbiology. 91(6). 1214–1226. 82 indexed citations

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Fujii, Takashi, et al.. (2012). Structure of a type III secretion needle at 7-Å resolution provides insights into its assembly and signaling mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(12). 4461–4466. 67 indexed citations

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Gayathri, Pananghat, T. Fujii, Jakob Møller‐Jensen, et al.. (2012). A Bipolar Spindle of Antiparallel ParM Filaments Drives Bacterial Plasmid Segregation. Science. 338(6112). 1334–1337. 71 indexed citations

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Minamino, Tohru, Katsumi Imada, & Keiichi Namba. (2008). Mechanisms of type III protein export for bacterial flagellar assembly. Molecular BioSystems. 4(11). 1105–1115. 154 indexed citations

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Kitao, Akio, Koji Yonekura, Saori Maki-Yonekura, et al.. (2006). Switch interactions control energy frustration and multiple flagellar filament structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(13). 4894–4899. 46 indexed citations

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Iwase, Ryo, Katsumi Imada, Fumio Hayashi, et al.. (2005). Functionally Important Substructures of Circadian Clock Protein KaiB in a Unique Tetramer Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(52). 43141–43149. 56 indexed citations

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Yonekura, Koji, Saori Maki-Yonekura, & Keiichi Namba. (2003). Complete atomic model of the bacterial flagellar filament by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature. 424(6949). 643–650. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

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