Kenzo Ohtsuka

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kenzo Ohtsuka is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenzo Ohtsuka has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 14 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kenzo Ohtsuka's work include Heat shock proteins research (56 papers), thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses (28 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers). Kenzo Ohtsuka is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (56 papers), thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses (28 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers). Kenzo Ohtsuka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Netherlands. Kenzo Ohtsuka's co-authors include F. Ulrich Hartl, Judith Frydman, Elmar Nimmesgern, Tatsuo Suzuki, Yasufumi Minami, Jörg Höhfeld, Mami Hata, Gen Sobue, Yasushi Kobayashi and Manabu Doyu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Kenzo Ohtsuka

63 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Folding of nascent polypeptide chains in a high molecular mass assembly with molecular chaperones

1994 565 citations Judith Frydman, Elmar Nimmesgern et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Kenzo Ohtsuka

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Yoshihiko Miyata Japan

Herman Lambert Canada

Jurre Hageman Netherlands

Antoine W. Caron Canada

Anatoli B. Meriin United States

Nadinath B. Nillegoda Germany

Irina V. Guzhova Russia

Michel J. Vos Netherlands

Nikolai B. Gusev Russia

Gudrun Lutsch Germany

Yoshihiko Miyata Japan

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239 ×0.7

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376 ×1.2

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenzo Ohtsuka

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tohnai, Genki, Hiroaki Adachi, Masahisa Katsuno, et al.. (2014). Paeoniflorin eliminates a mutant AR via NF-YA-dependent proteolysis in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(13). 3552–3565. 30 indexed citations

Tabuchi, Yoshiaki, Yukihiro Furusawa, Shigehito Wada, Kenzo Ohtsuka, & Takashi Kondo. (2011). Silencing Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 Using Small Interfering RNA Enhances Mild Hyperthermia and Hyperthermia Sensitivity in Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells. 27(4). 99–108. 9 indexed citations

Kawashima, Daisuke, et al.. (2010). Molecular Chaperone Inducers Facilitate the Functional Restoration of Temperature-sensitive Mutant p53 Protein. 26(1). 1–17. 2 indexed citations

Furusawa, Yukihiro, Yoshiaki Tabuchi, Ichiro Takasaki, et al.. (2009). Gene networks involved in apoptosis induced by hyperthermia in human lymphoma U937 cells. Cell Biology International. 33(12). 1253–1262. 19 indexed citations

Kawashima, Daisuke, et al.. (2009). Reinvestigation of the effect of carbenoxolone on the induction of heat shock proteins. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 14(5). 535–543. 15 indexed citations

Salunga, Thucydides L., Yoshiaki Tabuchi, Ichiro Takasaki, et al.. (2007). Identification of genes responsive to paeoniflorin, a heat shock protein-inducing compound, in human leukemia U937 cells. International Journal of Hyperthermia. 23(6). 529–537. 19 indexed citations

Tabuchi, Yoshiaki, Ichiro Takasaki, Takeshi Doi, et al.. (2006). Overexpression of heat shock protein 70 restores the structural stability and functional defects of temperature-sensitive mutant of large T antigen at nonpermissive temperature. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 11(3). 259–259. 4 indexed citations

Takahashi, Takashi, et al.. (2004). Reinvestigation of the Requirement of Cytosolic ATP for Mitochondrial Protein Import. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(19). 19464–19470. 17 indexed citations

Isomoto, Hajime, Mikio Oka, Hiroshi Soda, et al.. (2003). Expression of Heat Shock Protein (Hsp) 70 and Hsp 40 in Colorectal Cancer. Medical Oncology. 20(2). 157–164. 37 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Hideyuki, Yasushi Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Yoshihara, et al.. (2002). Hsp70 and Hsp40 improve neurite outgrowth and suppress intracytoplasmic aggregate formation in cultured neuronal cells expressing mutant SOD1. Brain Research. 949(1-2). 11–22. 85 indexed citations

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Yokoyama, Naoaki, Kenzo Ohtsuka, Yukihiro Nishiyama, et al.. (2000). Co-expression of human chaperone Hsp70 and Hsdj or Hsp40 co-factor increases solubility of overexpressed target proteins in insect cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1493(1-2). 119–124. 47 indexed citations

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Yamagishi, Nobuyuki, et al.. (2000). Modulation of the Chaperone Activities of Hsc70/Hsp40 by Hsp105α and Hsp105β. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 272(3). 850–855. 47 indexed citations

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Izawa, Ichiro, Miwako Nishizawa, Kazuhiro Ohtakara, et al.. (2000). Identification of Mrj, a DnaJ/Hsp40 Family Protein, as a Keratin 8/18 Filament Regulatory Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(44). 34521–34527. 76 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Yasushi, Akito Kume, Mei Li, et al.. (2000). Chaperones Hsp70 and Hsp40 Suppress Aggregate Formation and Apoptosis in Cultured Neuronal Cells Expressing Truncated Androgen Receptor Protein with Expanded Polyglutamine Tract. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(12). 8772–8778. 260 indexed citations

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Hata, Mami & Kenzo Ohtsuka. (2000). Cloning and Expression of Murine Hsp40 Gene: Differences in Initiation Sites Between Heat-Induced and Constitutive Transcripts. DNA sequence. 11(3-4). 213–223. 3 indexed citations

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Hata, Mami & Kenzo Ohtsuka. (1998). Characterization of HSE sequences in human Hsp40 gene: structural and promoter analysis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 1397(1). 43–55. 25 indexed citations

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Hata, Mami, et al.. (1996). Genomic Cloning of a Human Heat Shock Protein 40 (Hsp40) Gene (HSPF1) and Its Chromosomal Localization to 19p13.2. Genomics. 38(3). 446–449. 21 indexed citations

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Hattori, Hirotomo, Yasushi Hayashi, Iwai Tohnai, et al.. (1995). Cotranslocation and Colocalization of hsp40 (DnaJ) with hsp70 (DnaK) in Mammalian Cells.. Cell Structure and Function. 20(2). 157–166. 25 indexed citations

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Hattori, Hirotomo, Yasushi Hayashi, Iwai Tohnai, et al.. (1995). Interaction between hsp70 and hsp40, eukaryotic homologues of DnaK and DnaJ, in human cells expressing mutant‐type p53. FEBS Letters. 358(2). 161–164. 56 indexed citations

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Frydman, Judith, Elmar Nimmesgern, Kenzo Ohtsuka, & F. Ulrich Hartl. (1994). Folding of nascent polypeptide chains in a high molecular mass assembly with molecular chaperones. Nature. 370(6485). 111–117. 565 indexed citations breakdown →

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