Kensuke Ninomiya

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 890 citations indexed

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Kensuke Ninomiya is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kensuke Ninomiya has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 890 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kensuke Ninomiya's work include RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Kensuke Ninomiya is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (17 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers). Kensuke Ninomiya collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Egypt and United Kingdom. Kensuke Ninomiya's co-authors include Tetsuro Hirose, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Shinichi Nakagawa, Masatoshi Hagiwara, Naoyuki Kataoka, Tohru Natsume, Shungo Adachi, Junichi Iwakiri, Kiyoshi Asai and Goro Terai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kensuke Ninomiya

20 papers receiving 884 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.

A guide to membraneless organelles and their various roles in gene regulation

2022 272 citations Tetsuro Hirose, Kensuke Ninomiya et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kensuke Ninomiya Japan	13	781	130	55	44	40	21	890
Carolina Eliscovich United States	12	931 1.2×	132 1.0×	28 0.5×	119 2.7×	58 1.4×	15	1.1k
Sudhir Thakurela Germany	14	610 0.8×	82 0.6×	58 1.1×	44 1.0×	69 1.7×	17	757
Marta M. Fay United States	14	1.3k 1.6×	144 1.1×	33 0.6×	98 2.2×	22 0.6×	15	1.3k
Evelina Tutucci United States	14	949 1.2×	75 0.6×	19 0.3×	75 1.7×	39 1.0×	21	1.1k
John Luff Australia	9	473 0.6×	125 1.0×	85 1.5×	35 0.8×	50 1.3×	11	563
Sergey P. Shevtsov United States	7	660 0.8×	120 0.9×	18 0.3×	103 2.3×	29 0.7×	8	739
Vladimir Peña Germany	18	1.2k 1.5×	38 0.3×	56 1.0×	91 2.1×	33 0.8×	26	1.3k
Jessica Flippin United States	7	626 0.8×	36 0.3×	83 1.5×	33 0.8×	75 1.9×	9	789
Maria S. Alexis United States	7	696 0.9×	177 1.4×	15 0.3×	31 0.7×	63 1.6×	9	848

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Yamamoto, Tetsuya, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Kensuke Ninomiya, Shinichi Nakagawa, & Tetsuro Hirose. (2025). Biophysical Aspect of Assembly and Regulation of Nuclear Bodies Scaffolded by Architectural RNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 437(9). 169016–169016. 1 indexed citations

Hirose, Tetsuro, Naoko Fujiwara, Kensuke Ninomiya, et al.. (2025). Architectural RNAs: blueprints for functional membraneless organelle assembly. Trends in Genetics. 41(10). 919–933.

Ninomiya, Kensuke, Tomohiro Yamazaki, & Tetsuro Hirose. (2023). Satellite RNAs : emerging players in subnuclear architecture and gene regulation. The EMBO Journal. 42(18). e114331–e114331. 12 indexed citations

Yamamoto, Tetsuya, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Kensuke Ninomiya, & Tetsuro Hirose. (2023). Nascent ribosomal RNA act as surfactant that suppresses growth of fibrillar centers in nucleolus. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1129–1129. 9 indexed citations

Hirose, Tetsuro, Kensuke Ninomiya, Shinichi Nakagawa, & Tomohiro Yamazaki. (2022). A guide to membraneless organelles and their various roles in gene regulation. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 24(4). 288–304. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

Ninomiya, Kensuke, Junichi Iwakiri, Yuriko Sakaguchi, et al.. (2021). m ⁶ A modification of HSATIII lncRNAs regulates temperature‐dependent splicing. The EMBO Journal. 40(15). e107976–e107976. 49 indexed citations

Shibata, T., Morio Ueyama, Kensuke Ninomiya, et al.. (2021). Small molecule targeting r(UGGAA)n disrupts RNA foci and alleviates disease phenotype in Drosophila model. Nature Communications. 12(1). 236–236. 45 indexed citations

Ninomiya, Kensuke & Tetsuro Hirose. (2020). Short Tandem Repeat-Enriched Architectural RNAs in Nuclear Bodies: Functions and Associated Diseases. Non-Coding RNA. 6(1). 6–6. 22 indexed citations

Ninomiya, Kensuke, Shungo Adachi, Tohru Natsume, et al.. (2019). Lnc RNA ‐dependent nuclear stress bodies promote intron retention through SR protein phosphorylation. The EMBO Journal. 39(3). e102729–e102729. 110 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Kensuke, et al.. (2019). Two distinct nuclear stress bodies containing different sets of RNA-binding proteins are formed with HSATIII architectural noncoding RNAs upon thermal stress exposure. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 516(2). 419–423. 31 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Akihide, Kei Iida, Toshiaki Tsubota, et al.. (2018). Loss of Sfpq Causes Long-Gene Transcriptopathy in the Brain. Cell Reports. 23(5). 1326–1341. 65 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Kensuke, Chihiro Mori, Makoto Kitabatake, et al.. (2017). Transport Granules Bound with Nuclear Cap Binding Protein and Exon Junction Complex Are Associated with Microtubules and Spatially Separated from eIF4E Granules and P Bodies in Human Neuronal Processes. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 4. 93–93. 13 indexed citations

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Sako, Y, Kensuke Ninomiya, Yukiko Okuno, et al.. (2017). Development of an orally available inhibitor of CLK1 for skipping a mutated dystrophin exon in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 46126–46126. 3 indexed citations

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Ohe, Kenji, Mayumi Yoshida, Akiko Nakano-Kobayashi, et al.. (2017). RBM24 promotes U1 snRNP recognition of the mutated 5′ splice site in theIKBKAPgene of familial dysautonomia. RNA. 23(9). 1393–1403. 14 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Kensuke, Mutsuhito Ohno, & Naoyuki Kataoka. (2016). Dendritic transport element of human arc mRNA confers RNA degradation activity in a translation‐dependent manner. Genes to Cells. 21(11). 1263–1269. 10 indexed citations

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Morooka, Satoshi, Isao Kii, Takayoshi Okabe, et al.. (2015). Identification of a Dual Inhibitor of SRPK1 and CK2 That Attenuates Pathological Angiogenesis of Macular Degeneration in Mice. Molecular Pharmacology. 88(2). 316–325. 41 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Kensuke, Naoyuki Kataoka, & Masatoshi Hagiwara. (2011). Stress-responsive maturation of Clk1/4 pre-mRNAs promotes phosphorylation of SR splicing factor. The Journal of Cell Biology. 195(1). 27–40. 124 indexed citations

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Ninomiya, Kensuke, Tetsuya Ishimoto, & Takahisa Taguchi. (2005). Subcellular Localization of PMES-2 Proteins Regulated by Their two Cytoskeleton-Associated Domains. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 25(5). 899–911. 10 indexed citations

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Doi, Yoshihiro, Kensuke Ninomiya, Yukio Hinatsu, & Kenji Ohoyama. (2005). Structure and magnetic properties of the two-dimensional antiferromagnet Na₂TbO₃. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 17(27). 4393–4401. 12 indexed citations

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Ishimoto, Tetsuya, et al.. (2002). Cloning and characterization of a novel synaptosome-enriched mRNA that encodes 31 kDa protein. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1579(2-3). 189–195. 6 indexed citations

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