Kosuke Yusa

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Kosuke Yusa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kosuke Yusa has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kosuke Yusa's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (46 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (23 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers). Kosuke Yusa is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (46 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (23 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers). Kosuke Yusa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and United States. Kosuke Yusa's co-authors include Allan Bradley, Junji Takeda, Yilong Li, Hiroko Koike-Yusa, Martin Del Castillo Velasco‐Herrera, Meng Amy Li, Roland Rad, Nancy L. Craig, Liqin Zhou and Kyoji Horie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kosuke Yusa

65 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library

2013 766 citations Hiroko Koike-Yusa, Yilong Li et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
A hyperactive piggyBac transposase for mammalian applications

2011 524 citations Kosuke Yusa, Liqin Zhou et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Targeted gene correction of α1-antitrypsin deficiency in induced pluripotent stem cells

2011 472 citations Kosuke Yusa, Allan Bradley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kosuke Yusa United Kingdom	35	4.4k	1.1k	502	442	330	66	5.1k
Luhan Yang United States	6	7.3k 1.6×	1.7k 1.5×	804 1.6×	394 0.9×	276 0.8×	8	8.0k
Alexandro E. Trevino United States	13	5.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	609 1.2×	375 0.8×	238 0.7×	30	6.0k
G. Grant Welstead United States	15	4.6k 1.0×	905 0.8×	241 0.5×	458 1.0×	712 2.2×	22	5.6k
Xi Shi China	14	4.4k 1.0×	685 0.6×	186 0.4×	678 1.5×	495 1.5×	30	5.3k
Peter D. Rathjen Australia	30	3.3k 0.8×	510 0.5×	472 0.9×	374 0.8×	405 1.2×	76	4.1k
Patrick J. Paddison United States	31	5.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	222 0.4×	472 1.1×	430 1.3×	66	6.0k
Mudra Hegde United States	14	4.5k 1.0×	732 0.6×	462 0.9×	498 1.1×	365 1.1×	18	5.1k
David E. Paschon United States	16	3.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	347 0.7×	309 0.7×	122 0.4×	27	3.8k
Vishal Thapar United States	14	3.4k 0.8×	541 0.5×	296 0.6×	607 1.4×	375 1.1×	23	4.2k
Alexander Brehm Germany	31	5.1k 1.1×	911 0.8×	480 1.0×	1.2k 2.8×	356 1.1×	56	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Kosuke Yusa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kosuke Yusa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kosuke Yusa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kosuke Yusa 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 Kosuke Yusa. Kosuke Yusa 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

Fukuoka, Makoto, Takahiro Kodama, Kazuhiro Murai, et al.. (2024). Genome‐wide loss‐of‐function genetic screen identifies INSIG2 as the vulnerability of hepatitis B virus‐integrated hepatoma cells. Cancer Science. 115(3). 859–870. 2 indexed citations

Keng, Vincent W., Xiaoxiao Li, Michael A. Linden, et al.. (2023). Transposon delivery for CRISPR-based loss-of-function screen in mice identifies NF2 as a cooperating gene involved with the canonical WNT signaling molecular class of hepatocellular carcinoma. Heliyon. 9(8). e18774–e18774. 1 indexed citations

Tarumoto, Yusuke, Yusuke Seto, Yasuhiro Kojima, et al.. (2023). RENGE infers gene regulatory networks using time-series single-cell RNA-seq data with CRISPR perturbations. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1290–1290. 6 indexed citations

Yoshihara, Masahito, Meryam Beniazza, James Ashmore, et al.. (2023). B1 SINE-binding ZFP266 impedes mouse iPSC generation through suppression of chromatin opening mediated by reprogramming factors. Nature Communications. 14(1). 488–488. 12 indexed citations

Aoki, Kazunari, Yusuke Tarumoto, Gohei Nishibuchi, et al.. (2023). Canonical BAF complex regulates the oncogenic program in human T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 143(7). 604–618. 1 indexed citations

Collier, Amanda J., Katarzyna Tilgner, Claudia I. Semprich, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide screening identifies Polycomb repressive complex 1.3 as an essential regulator of human naïve pluripotent cell reprogramming. Science Advances. 8(12). eabk0013–eabk0013. 13 indexed citations

Gu, Muxin, Étienne De Braekeleer, Malgorzata Gozdecka, et al.. (2020). KAT7 is a genetic vulnerability of acute myeloid leukemias driven by MLL rearrangements. Leukemia. 35(4). 1012–1022. 33 indexed citations

Thompson, Oliver, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Zoë Hewitt, et al.. (2020). Low rates of mutation in clinical grade human pluripotent stem cells under different culture conditions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1528–1528. 82 indexed citations

Yu, Jason & Kosuke Yusa. (2019). Genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screening in mammalian cells. Methods. 164-165. 29–35. 50 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Emanuel, Fiona M. Behan, Sandra Louzada, et al.. (2019). Structural rearrangements generate cell-specific, gene-independent CRISPR-Cas9 loss of fitness effects. Genome biology. 20(1). 27–27. 32 indexed citations

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Sharma, Sumana, S. Josefin Bartholdson, Amalie C. M. Couch, Kosuke Yusa, & Gavin J. Wright. (2018). Genome-scale identification of cellular pathways required for cell surface recognition. Genome Research. 28(9). 1372–1382. 26 indexed citations

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Lu, Quinn, et al.. (2017). Applications of CRISPR genome editing technology in drug target identification and validation. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 12(6). 541–552. 12 indexed citations

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Ong, Swee Hoe, Yilong Li, Hiroko Koike-Yusa, & Kosuke Yusa. (2017). Optimised metrics for CRISPR-KO screens with second-generation gRNA libraries. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7384–7384. 28 indexed citations

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Yusa, Kosuke, Kyoji Horie, Masahiro Tokunaga, et al.. (2013). Enhancement of microhomology-mediated genomic rearrangements by transient loss of mouse Bloom syndrome helicase. Genome Research. 23(9). 1462–1473. 13 indexed citations

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Koike-Yusa, Hiroko, et al.. (2013). Genome-wide recessive genetic screening in mammalian cells with a lentiviral CRISPR-guide RNA library. Nature Biotechnology. 32(3). 267–273. 766 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yusa, Kosuke, Liqin Zhou, Meng Amy Li, Allan Bradley, & Nancy L. Craig. (2011). A hyperactive piggyBac transposase for mammalian applications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1531–1536. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yusa, Kosuke, Roland Rad, Junji Takeda, & Allan Bradley. (2009). Generation of transgene-free induced pluripotent mouse stem cells by the piggyBac transposon. Nature Methods. 6(5). 363–369. 467 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Ryuji, Chikara Kokubu, Kosuke Yusa, et al.. (2006). Sleeping Beauty Transposase Has an Affinity for Heterochromatin Conformation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(5). 1665–1676. 43 indexed citations

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Akiyama, Koichi, Kosuke Yusa, Hideharu Hashimoto, et al.. (2006). Rad54 is dispensable for the ALT pathway. Genes to Cells. 11(11). 1305–1315. 7 indexed citations

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Keng, Vincent W., Kojiro Yae, Tomoko Hayakawa, et al.. (2005). Region-specific saturation germline mutagenesis in mice using the Sleeping Beauty transposon system. Nature Methods. 2(10). 763–769. 100 indexed citations

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