Kenji Sugase

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kenji Sugase is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenji Sugase has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Kenji Sugase's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers), NMR spectroscopy and applications (13 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (10 papers). Kenji Sugase is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers), NMR spectroscopy and applications (13 papers) and Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (10 papers). Kenji Sugase collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Kenji Sugase's co-authors include Peter E. Wright, H. Jane Dyson, Tsuyoshi Konuma, Erik Walinda, Daichi Morimoto, Munehito Arai, Masahiro Shirakawa, Saeko Yanaka, Ayako Furukawa and Jonathan C. Lansing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kenji Sugase

70 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein

2007 839 citations Kenji Sugase, H. Jane Dyson et al. Nature profile →

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Steven M. Pascal United States

Woonghee Lee United States

Natalie K. Goto Canada

Philipp Neudecker Germany

Ranjith Muhandiram Canada

John Ionides United Kingdom

Rasmus H. Fogh United Kingdom

Alex U. Singer Canada

Ouwen Zhang Canada

P. Rossi United States

Steven M. Pascal United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenji Sugase

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenji Sugase. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenji Sugase based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kenji Sugase. Kenji Sugase is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dixit, Mayank, Kenji Sugase, & Takashi Taniguchi. (2025). Micelle and Inverse Micelle Structure Driven Viscoelasticity and Phase Separation in 2-Isobutoxyethanol–Water Mixtures: Insights from All-Atom Simulations. Precision Chemistry. 4(3). 240–252.

Mori, Megumi, Shunsuke Aburaya, Takeshi Chujo, et al.. (2025). Autonomous ribosome biogenesis in vitro. Nature Communications. 16(1). 514–514. 7 indexed citations

Aburaya, Shunsuke, et al.. (2024). Optimizing in vitro expression balance of central dogma-related genes using parallel reaction monitoring. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 138(2). 97–104. 1 indexed citations

Kohn, Benjamin, Erik Walinda, Kenji Sugase, Daichi Morimoto, & Ulrich Scheler. (2022). Counter-flow phenomena studied by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) velocimetry and flow simulations. Physics of Fluids. 34(7). 5 indexed citations

Kabe, Yasuaki, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Miwa Hirai, et al.. (2021). Glycyrrhizin Derivatives Suppress Cancer Chemoresistance by Inhibiting Progesterone Receptor Membrane Component 1. Cancers. 13(13). 3265–3265. 25 indexed citations

Walinda, Erik, Daichi Morimoto, Benjamin Kohn, et al.. (2021). Effects of Weak Nonspecific Interactions with ATP on Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(31). 11982–11993. 60 indexed citations

Morimoto, Daichi, et al.. (2020). Quantitative monitoring of ubiquitination/deubiquitination reaction cycles by 18O-incorporation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 529(2). 418–424. 1 indexed citations

Akiba, Hiroki, Masato Kiyoshi, Saeko Yanaka, et al.. (2019). Structural and thermodynamic basis for the recognition of the substrate-binding cleft on hen egg lysozyme by a single-domain antibody. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15481–15481. 38 indexed citations

Ishii, Naoki, Erik Walinda, Daichi Morimoto, et al.. (2018). NMR resonance assignments of the NZF domain of mouse HOIL-1L free and bound to linear di-ubiquitin. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 13(1). 149–153. 1 indexed citations

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Ohki, Izuru, et al.. (2018). Backbone and side-chain resonance assignments of the methyl-CpG-binding domain of MBD6 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 13(1). 59–62. 1 indexed citations

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Walinda, Erik, Daichi Morimoto, Masahiro Shirakawa, & Kenji Sugase. (2017). F 1 F 2-selective NMR spectroscopy. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 68(1). 41–52. 10 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Daichi, et al.. (2016). Backbone resonance assignments of monomeric SOD1 in dilute and crowded environments. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 11(1). 81–84. 5 indexed citations

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Furukawa, Ayako, Tsuyoshi Konuma, Saeko Yanaka, & Kenji Sugase. (2016). Quantitative analysis of protein–ligand interactions by NMR. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. 96. 47–57. 77 indexed citations

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Hori, Tetsuya, Ayako Furukawa, Kenji Sugase, et al.. (2015). Dynamic changes in CCAN organization through CENP-C during cell-cycle progression. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 26(21). 3768–3776. 56 indexed citations

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Sugishima, Masakazu, et al.. (2014). Backbone assignments of the apo and Zn(II) protoporphyrin IX-bound states of the soluble form of rat heme oxygenase-1. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 9(1). 197–200. 4 indexed citations

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Walinda, Erik, Daichi Morimoto, Kenji Sugase, et al.. (2014). Solution Structure of the Ubiquitin-associated (UBA) Domain of Human Autophagy Receptor NBR1 and Its Interaction with Ubiquitin and Polyubiquitin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(20). 13890–13902. 56 indexed citations

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Sakurai, Kazumasa, Yuichi Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi Konuma, et al.. (2012). The Monomer–Seed Interaction Mechanism in the Formation of the β2-Microglobulin Amyloid Fibril Clarified by Solution NMR Techniques. Journal of Molecular Biology. 422(3). 390–402. 31 indexed citations

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Sugase, Kenji. (2011). Elucidating slow binding kinetics of a protein without observable bound resonances by longitudinal relaxation NMR spectroscopy. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 50(3). 219–227. 3 indexed citations

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Sugase, Kenji, H. Jane Dyson, & Peter E. Wright. (2007). Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein. Nature. 447(7147). 1021–1025. 839 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sugase, Kenji, Yoshiaki Oyama, Katsuhiko Kitano, Hideo Akutsu, & Masaji Ishiguro. (2002). Structure–activity relationships for mini atrial natriuretic peptide by proline-Scanning mutagenesis and shortening of peptide backbone. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 12(9). 1245–1247. 5 indexed citations

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