Kohei Nishimura

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

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Kohei Nishimura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kohei Nishimura has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kohei Nishimura's work include Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (8 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers). Kohei Nishimura is often cited by papers focused on Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (8 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers). Kohei Nishimura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Kohei Nishimura's co-authors include Masato T. Kanemaki, Tatsuo Fukagawa, Haruhiko Takisawa, Tatsuo Kakimoto, Anne D. Donaldson, Takashi Kubota, Minoru Takata, Kazuki Horikawa, Masamichi Ishiai and Takuro Nakagawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Kohei Nishimura

34 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.

An auxin-based degron system for the rapid depletion of proteins in nonplant cells

2009 1.2k citations Kohei Nishimura, Tatsuo Fukagawa et al. Nature Methods profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kohei Nishimura Japan	14	1.7k	415	334	189	146	36	2.0k
Ryuichiro Nakato Japan	27	2.2k 1.3×	287 0.7×	283 0.8×	209 1.1×	291 2.0×	67	2.5k
Chuanhai Fu China	23	1.4k 0.8×	910 2.2×	302 0.9×	138 0.7×	156 1.1×	89	1.8k
Denise Muhlrad United States	25	3.7k 2.1×	282 0.7×	212 0.6×	84 0.4×	142 1.0×	26	3.9k
Elsa Logarinho Portugal	24	1.3k 0.8×	923 2.2×	270 0.8×	178 0.9×	154 1.1×	45	1.8k
Mahamadou Faty Switzerland	10	1.2k 0.7×	213 0.5×	108 0.3×	152 0.8×	127 0.9×	12	1.3k
Jachen A. Solinger Switzerland	18	1.5k 0.9×	292 0.7×	145 0.4×	200 1.1×	125 0.9×	28	1.7k
Quinn Lu United States	19	1.3k 0.7×	184 0.4×	129 0.4×	288 1.5×	232 1.6×	35	1.5k
Jennifer I. Semple Spain	14	962 0.6×	215 0.5×	82 0.2×	183 1.0×	186 1.3×	23	1.2k
Simonetta Piatti Italy	24	2.5k 1.5×	1.6k 3.9×	474 1.4×	288 1.5×	136 0.9×	51	2.7k
Chih‐Ying Chen United States	15	1.3k 0.8×	872 2.1×	146 0.4×	69 0.4×	102 0.7×	30	1.8k

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Nonaka, Keisuke, Kohei Nishimura, Kazuma Uesaka, et al.. (2025). Snf1 and yeast GSK3-β activates Tda1 to suppress glucose starvation signaling. EMBO Reports. 26(11). 2910–2930. 1 indexed citations

Obara, Keisuke, Kohei Nishimura, & Takumi Kamura. (2024). E3 Ligases Regulate Organelle Inheritance in Yeast. Cells. 13(4). 292–292. 3 indexed citations

Ogawa, Yoshitaka, et al.. (2024). Targeted Protein Degradation Systems: Controlling Protein Stability Using E3 Ubiquitin Ligases in Eukaryotic Species. Cells. 13(2). 175–175. 2 indexed citations

Ogawa, Yoshitaka, Kohei Nishimura, Keisuke Obara, & Takumi Kamura. (2023). Development of AlissAID system targeting GFP or mCherry fusion protein. PLoS Genetics. 19(6). e1010731–e1010731. 3 indexed citations

Haraguchi, Tokuko, Takako Koujin, Tomoko Shindo, et al.. (2022). Transfected plasmid DNA is incorporated into the nucleus via nuclear envelope reformation at telophase. Communications Biology. 5(1). 78–78. 29 indexed citations

Obara, Keisuke, et al.. (2022). Proteolysis of adaptor protein Mmr1 during budding is necessary for mitochondrial homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2005–2005. 9 indexed citations

Villa, Fabrizio, Ryo Fujisawa, Kohei Nishimura, et al.. (2021). CUL2 ^LRR1 , TRAIP and p97 control CMG helicase disassembly in the mammalian cell cycle. EMBO Reports. 22(3). e52164–e52164. 28 indexed citations

Takahashi, Naoki, Soichi Inagaki, Kohei Nishimura, et al.. (2021). Alterations in hormonal signals spatially coordinate distinct responses to DNA double-strand breaks inArabidopsisroots. Science Advances. 7(25). 11 indexed citations

Nishimura, Kohei & Tatsuo Fukagawa. (2021). A Simple Method that Combines CRISPR and AID to Quickly Generate Conditional Knockouts for Essential Genes in Various Vertebrate Cell Lines. Methods in molecular biology. 2377. 109–122. 1 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Kohei & Tatsuo Fukagawa. (2021). A Simple Method to Generate Super-sensitive AID (ssAID)-based Conditional Knockouts using CRISPR-based Gene Knockout in Various Vertebrate Cell Lines. BIO-PROTOCOL. 11(14). e4092–e4092. 1 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Kohei, Ryotaro Yamada, Shinya Hagihara, et al.. (2020). A super-sensitive auxin-inducible degron system with an engineered auxin-TIR1 pair. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(18). e108–e108. 43 indexed citations

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Hori, Tetsuya, Kohei Nishimura, Mariko Ariyoshi, et al.. (2020). Essentiality of CENP-A Depends on Its Binding Mode to HJURP. Cell Reports. 33(7). 108388–108388. 8 indexed citations

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Obara, Keisuke, et al.. (2020). Rapid turnover of transcription factor Rim101 confirms a flexible adaptation mechanism against environmental stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes to Cells. 25(10). 651–662. 5 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Takumi, Satoru Kato, Kohei Nishimura, et al.. (2018). Netrin Signaling Defines the Regional Border in the Drosophila Visual Center. iScience. 8. 148–160. 12 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Kohei & Tatsuo Fukagawa. (2017). An efficient method to generate conditional knockout cell lines for essential genes by combination of auxin-inducible degron tag and CRISPR/Cas9. Chromosome Research. 25(3-4). 253–260. 26 indexed citations

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Natsume, Toyoaki, Kohei Nishimura, Sheroy Minocherhomji, et al.. (2017). Acute inactivation of the replicative helicase in human cells triggers MCM8–9-dependent DNA synthesis. Genes & Development. 31(8). 816–829. 43 indexed citations

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Imai, Ryosuke, Seiji Komeda, Mari Shimura, et al.. (2016). Chromatin folding and DNA replication inhibition mediated by a highly antitumor-active tetrazolato-bridged dinuclear platinum(II) complex. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24712–24712. 21 indexed citations

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Kubota, Takashi, Kohei Nishimura, Masato T. Kanemaki, & Anne D. Donaldson. (2013). The Elg1 Replication Factor C-like Complex Functions in PCNA Unloading during DNA Replication. Molecular Cell. 50(2). 273–280. 210 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Kohei, Tatsuo Fukagawa, Haruhiko Takisawa, Tatsuo Kakimoto, & Masato T. Kanemaki. (2009). An auxin-based degron system for the rapid depletion of proteins in nonplant cells. Nature Methods. 6(12). 917–922. 1172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nishimura, Kohei & Sei‐ichi Tanuma. (1998). Presence of DNase γ-Like Endonuclease in Nuclei of Neuronal Differentiated PC12 Cells. APOPTOSIS. 3(2). 97–103. 6 indexed citations

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