Ken-ichi Arai

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ken-ichi Arai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken-ichi Arai has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Ken-ichi Arai's work include T-cell and Retrovirus Studies (3 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (3 papers). Ken-ichi Arai is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and Retrovirus Studies (3 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (3 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (3 papers). Ken-ichi Arai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Ken-ichi Arai's co-authors include Sumiko Watanabe, Masataka Nakamura, Kazuo Sugamura, Naoto Ishii, Toshikazu Takeshita, Motonari Kondo, Naoko Arai, Hiroshi Tokumitsu, Yoshiyuki Naito and Esteban S. Masuda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ken-ichi Arai

23 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Sharing of the Interleukin-2 (IL-2) Receptor γ Chain Between Receptors for IL-2 and IL-4

1993 636 citations Motonari Kondo, Toshikazu Takeshita et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken-ichi Arai Japan	15	750	640	328	146	145	23	1.4k
T Kojima Japan	8	584 0.8×	962 1.5×	390 1.2×	138 0.9×	214 1.5×	12	1.8k
Konrad Miatkowski United States	13	529 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	192 0.6×	133 0.9×	191 1.3×	16	1.6k
B Petryniak United States	14	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.7×	308 0.9×	185 1.3×	255 1.8×	14	2.2k
M A Raines United States	18	395 0.5×	749 1.2×	290 0.9×	78 0.5×	149 1.0×	23	1.2k
Ariane Plet France	20	1.1k 1.5×	757 1.2×	640 2.0×	100 0.7×	133 0.9×	36	2.0k
David Leitenberg United States	25	1.4k 1.8×	725 1.1×	483 1.5×	83 0.6×	111 0.8×	44	2.0k
David M. Calderhead United States	17	955 1.3×	580 0.9×	232 0.7×	151 1.0×	100 0.7×	19	1.6k
A G Tse United Kingdom	14	768 1.0×	740 1.2×	339 1.0×	74 0.5×	135 0.9×	16	1.8k
Maria C. Kuppner Germany	19	818 1.1×	688 1.1×	397 1.2×	87 0.6×	80 0.6×	28	1.6k
Hiroko Yaguchi Japan	17	728 1.0×	541 0.8×	246 0.8×	80 0.5×	106 0.7×	26	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken-ichi Arai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken-ichi Arai

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Satoh, Shinya, et al.. (2006). Transcriptional Repressor foxl1 Regulates Central Nervous System Development by Suppressing shh Expression in Zebra Fish. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 26(19). 7246–7257. 18 indexed citations

Sugiyama, Daisuke, Minetaro Ogawa, Kazuki Nakao, et al.. (2006). B cell potential can be obtained from pre-circulatory yolk sac, but with low frequency. Developmental Biology. 301(1). 53–61. 14 indexed citations

Koso, Hideto, Yasuo Ouchi, Yoko Tabata, et al.. (2006). SSEA-1 marks regionally restricted immature subpopulations of embryonic retinal progenitor cells that are regulated by the Wnt signaling pathway. Developmental Biology. 292(1). 265–276. 51 indexed citations

Sugiyama, Daisuke, Ken-ichi Arai, & Kohichiro Tsuji. (2005). Definitive Hematopoiesis from Acetyl LDL Incorporating Endothelial Cells in the Mouse Embryo. Stem Cells and Development. 14(6). 687–696. 13 indexed citations

Satoh, Shinya, Ken-ichi Arai, & Sumiko Watanabe. (2004). Identification of a novel splicing form of zebrafish p73 having a strong transcriptional activity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 325(3). 835–842. 6 indexed citations

Mizukoshi, Toshimi, Taku Tanaka, Ken-ichi Arai, Daisuke Kohda, & Hisao Masai. (2003). A Critical Role of the 3′ Terminus of Nascent DNA Chains in Recognition of Stalled Replication Forks. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(43). 42234–42239. 47 indexed citations

Sugiyama, Daisuke, et al.. (2003). Erythropoiesis from acetyl LDL incorporating endothelial cells at the preliver stage. Blood. 101(12). 4733–4738. 52 indexed citations

Tanaka, Taku, Toshimi Mizukoshi, Chika Taniyama, et al.. (2002). DNA Binding of PriA Protein Requires Cooperation of the N-terminal D-loop/Arrested-fork Binding and C-terminal Helicase Domains. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(41). 38062–38071. 35 indexed citations

Woods, James M., Kenneth J. Katschke, Michael V. Volin, et al.. (2002). Interleukin-13 Gene Therapy Reduces Inflammation, Vascularization, and Bony Destruction in Rat Adjuvant-Induced Arthritis. Human Gene Therapy. 13(3). 381–393. 60 indexed citations

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Takahashi, N., Yoshishige Kimura, Yasuhiko Masuho, et al.. (1999). Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase Cascade in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(32). 22556–22562. 42 indexed citations

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Pan, Shi, Naoko Koyano‐Nakagawa, Yoshiharu Amasaki, et al.. (1997). Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of Murine cDNA Encoding Transcription Factor NFATc. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 240(2). 314–323. 20 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Masato, Ken-ichi Arai, & Hisao Masai. (1996). A fusion protein library: an improved method for rapid screening and characterization of DNA binding or interacting proteins. Gene. 181(1-2). 167–171. 7 indexed citations

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Nakagawa, Yasushi, Toshihiko Ogura, Taiga Suzuki, et al.. (1996). Roles of cell-autonomous mechanisms for differential expression of regionspecific transcription factors in neuroepithelial cells. Development. 122(8). 2449–2464. 56 indexed citations

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Masuda, Esteban S., Yoshiyuki Naito, Hiroshi Tokumitsu, et al.. (1995). NFATx, a Novel Member of the Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells Family That Is Expressed Predominantly in the Thymus. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 15(5). 2697–2706. 196 indexed citations

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Koyano‐Nakagawa, Naoko, Junji Nishida, David N. Baldwin, Ken-ichi Arai, & Takashi Yokota. (1994). Molecular Cloning of a Novel Human cDNA Encoding a Zinc Finger Protein That Binds to the Interleukin-3 Promoter. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(8). 5099–5107. 45 indexed citations

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Koyano‐Nakagawa, Naoko, Junji Nishida, Naoko Arai, Ken-ichi Arai, & Takashi Yokota. (1993). Reconstitution of the functional granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor promoter: evidence for distinct activation mechanisms that mediate the response to phorbol ester/calcium and human T cell leukemia virus type I Tax signals. International Immunology. 5(4). 345–352. 12 indexed citations

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Kondo, Motonari, Toshikazu Takeshita, Naoto Ishii, et al.. (1993). Sharing of the Interleukin-2 (IL-2) Receptor γ Chain Between Receptors for IL-2 and IL-4. Science. 262(5141). 1874–1877. 636 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nakayama, Naoki, Takashi Yokota, & Ken-ichi Arai. (1992). Use of mammalian cell expression cloning systems to identify genes for cytokines, receptors, and regulatory proteins. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 3(5). 497–505. 9 indexed citations

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Arai, Naoko, Yoshiyuki Naito, Mitsuo Watanabe, et al.. (1992). Activation of lymphokine genes in T cells: Role of cis-acting DNA elements that respond to T cell activation signals. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 55(3). 303–318. 24 indexed citations

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Jabara, Haifa H., Steven J. Ackerman, Donata Vercelli, et al.. (1988). Induction of interleukin-4-dependent IgE synthesis and interleukin-5-dependent eosinophil differentiation by supernatants of a human helper T-cell clone. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 8(6). 437–446. 52 indexed citations

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