Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Cell Biology and 13 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (27 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (14 papers). Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (27 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (23 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (14 papers). Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Sweden. Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro's co-authors include Yoshinori Watanabe, Shigehiro A. Kawashima, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Hidesato Ogawa, David M. Livingston, Stefan Gaubatz, Takashi Honda, Tomoya S. Kitajima, Hiroki Shibuya and Yuya Yamagishi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro

59 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

A Complex with Chromatin Modifiers That Occupies E2F- and Myc-Responsive Genes in G ₀ Cells

2002 610 citations Hidesato Ogawa, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro Japan	22	2.8k	1.1k	629	412	334	62	3.2k
Ian R. Adams United Kingdom	29	3.2k 1.1×	535 0.5×	517 0.8×	809 2.0×	378 1.1×	55	3.7k
Yuki Katou Japan	42	5.7k 2.0×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	668 1.6×	151 0.5×	62	6.1k
Kim S. McKim United States	37	3.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 2.1×	450 1.1×	282 0.8×	78	3.9k
Philip Zegerman United Kingdom	16	3.8k 1.3×	539 0.5×	597 0.9×	435 1.1×	112 0.3×	25	4.0k
Rafal Ciosk Switzerland	25	3.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	858 1.4×	308 0.7×	194 0.6×	38	4.2k
Kunsoo Rhee South Korea	30	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	201 0.3×	576 1.4×	268 0.8×	83	2.5k
Bernhard Payer United States	24	3.1k 1.1×	794 0.8×	219 0.3×	1.2k 2.9×	488 1.5×	38	3.9k
Ewelina Bolcun‐Filas United States	17	1.8k 0.6×	287 0.3×	427 0.7×	411 1.0×	465 1.4×	23	2.1k
Peter Romanienko United States	17	3.4k 1.2×	330 0.3×	708 1.1×	917 2.2×	304 0.9×	29	3.9k
Paul E. Mains Canada	28	1.8k 0.6×	995 0.9×	284 0.5×	407 1.0×	367 1.1×	53	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Kawasaki, Toshihiro, T. Nishimura, Naoki Tani, et al.. (2025). Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription for differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells. eLife. 14.

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Kawasaki, Toshihiro, T. Nishimura, Naoki Tani, et al.. (2025). Meioc-Piwil1 complexes regulate rRNA transcription for differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells. eLife. 14.

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Kikuchi, Koji, et al.. (2024). Atypical heat shock transcription factor HSF5 is critical for male meiotic prophase under non-stress conditions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3330–3330. 4 indexed citations

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Ishiguro, Kei‐ichiro. (2024). Exploring the roles of Lem2 and Bqt4 in lipid metabolism for nuclear envelope maintenance: a novel perspective. The Journal of Biochemistry. 177(1). 1–3. 1 indexed citations

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Alavattam, Kris G., Mengwen Hu, Hironori Abe, et al.. (2024). ATF7IP2/MCAF2 directs H3K9 methylation and meiotic gene regulation in the male germline. Genes & Development. 38(3-4). 115–130. 5 indexed citations

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Ishiguro, Kei‐ichiro, et al.. (2024). Female‐specific mechanisms of meiotic initiation and progression in mammalian oocyte development. Genes to Cells. 29(10). 797–807. 3 indexed citations

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Miyoshi, Keita, Shu Kondo, Naoki Tani, et al.. (2024). Mettl1-dependent m7G tRNA modification is essential for maintaining spermatogenesis and fertility in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8147–8147. 8 indexed citations

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Akiyama, Tomohiko, et al.. (2023). ZSCAN4-binding motif—TGCACAC is conserved and enriched in CA/TG microsatellites in both mouse and human genomes. DNA Research. 31(1). 7 indexed citations

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Kikuchi, Koji, Yasuhisa Sakamoto, Akiyoshi Uezu, et al.. (2022). Map7D2 and Map7D1 facilitate microtubule stabilization through distinct mechanisms in neuronal cells. Life Science Alliance. 5(8). e202201390–e202201390. 5 indexed citations

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Fujimura, Sayoko, et al.. (2022). FBXO47 is essential for preventing the synaptonemal complex from premature disassembly in mouse male meiosis. iScience. 25(4). 104008–104008. 14 indexed citations

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Sano, Hiroko, Akira Nakamura, Mariko Yamane, et al.. (2022). The polyol pathway is an evolutionarily conserved system for sensing glucose uptake. PLoS Biology. 20(6). e3001678–e3001678. 17 indexed citations

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Abe, Hironori, et al.. (2022). Active DNA damage response signaling initiates and maintains meiotic sex chromosome inactivation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7212–7212. 19 indexed citations

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Shirakawa, Takayuki, Jafar Sharif, Shin-ichi Tomizawa, et al.. (2021). Maintenance DNA methylation in pre-meiotic germ cells regulates meiotic prophase by facilitating homologous chromosome pairing. Development. 148(10). 19 indexed citations

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Oura, Seiya, et al.. (2021). KCTD19 and its associated protein ZFP541 are independently essential for meiosis in male mice. PLoS Genetics. 17(5). e1009412–e1009412. 21 indexed citations

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Sakashita, Akihiko, Kenichi Horisawa, Ryo Maeda, et al.. (2021). Meiosis-specific ZFP541 repressor complex promotes developmental progression of meiotic prophase towards completion during mouse spermatogenesis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3184–3184. 25 indexed citations

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Kim, Jihye, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro, Aya Nambu, et al.. (2014). Meikin is a conserved regulator of meiosis-I-specific kinetochore function. Nature. 517(7535). 466–471. 126 indexed citations

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Nakaya, Takeo, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro, Camille Belzil, et al.. (2013). p600 Plays Essential Roles in Fetal Development. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66269–e66269. 9 indexed citations

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Kawashima, Shigehiro A., Yuya Yamagishi, Takashi Honda, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro, & Yoshinori Watanabe. (2009). Phosphorylation of H2A by Bub1 Prevents Chromosomal Instability Through Localizing Shugoshin. Science. 327(5962). 172–177. 376 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Hidesato, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro, Stefan Gaubatz, David M. Livingston, & Yoshihiro Nakatani. (2002). A Complex with Chromatin Modifiers That Occupies E2F- and Myc-Responsive Genes in G ₀ Cells. Science. 296(5570). 1132–1136. 610 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nagawa, Fumikiyo, Kei‐ichiro Ishiguro, Akio Tsuboi, et al.. (1998). Footprint Analysis of the RAG Protein Recombination Signal Sequence Complex for V(D)J Type Recombination. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 18(1). 655–663. 59 indexed citations

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