Kunio Hirata

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Kunio Hirata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunio Hirata has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 49 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kunio Hirata's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (44 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Kunio Hirata is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (44 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Kunio Hirata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Kunio Hirata's co-authors include Masaki Yamamoto, Keitaro Yamashita, Go Ueno, Hideo Ago, Hironori Murakami, Tetsuya Shimizu, Fusamichi Akita, Michihiro Suga, Yoshiki Nakajima and Jian‐Ren Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kunio Hirata

110 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	XFEL crystallography reveals catalytic cycle dynamics during non-native substrate oxidation by cytochrome P450BM3 2025 ·Communications Chemistry ·Satoshi Nagao, (unknown), Takehiko Tosha, Keitaro Yamashita, Joshua Kyle Stanfield, (unknown), Shinya Ariyasu, Kunio Hirata, Go Ueno, Hironori Murakami, Hideo Ago, Masaki Yamamoto, Osami Shoji, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minoru Kubo	1
2	Osmotic energy conversion in serpentinite-hosted deep-sea hydrothermal vents 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Hye‐Eun Lee, Tomoyo Okumura, Hideshi Ooka, Kiyohiro Adachi, Takaaki Hikima, Kunio Hirata, Yoshiaki Kawano, (unknown), Masaki Yamamoto, Masahiro Yamamoto, Akira Yamaguchi, Ji‐Eun Lee, Hiroya Takahashi, Ki Tae Nam, Yasuhiko Ohara, Daisuke Hashizume, Shawn E. McGlynn, Ryuhei Nakamura	6
3	Arginine cluster introduction on framework region in anti‐lysozyme antibody improved association rate constant by changing conformational diversity of CDR loops 2023 ·Protein Science ·(unknown), Makoto Nakakido, (unknown), Naoki Sakai, Kunio Hirata, Daisuke Kuroda, Atsushi Fukunaga, Kouhei Tsumoto	3
4	Constrained catecholamines gain β2AR selectivity through allosteric effects on pocket dynamics 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Xinyu Xu, Jeremy Shonberg, Jonas Kaindl, Mary J. Clark, Anne Stößel, (unknown), Daniel Mayer, Harald Hübner, Kunio Hirata, AJ Venkatakrishnan, Ron O. Dror, Brian K. Kobilka, Roger K. Sunahara, Xiangyu Liu, Peter Gmeiner	13
5	Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets 2023 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·(unknown), Naoki Sakai, Sachiko Toma-Fukai, Norifumi Muraki, (unknown), Hironari Kamikubo, Shigetoshi Aono, Yoshiaki Kawano, Masaki Yamamoto, Kunio Hirata	4
6	De novo Fc-based receptor dimerizers differentially modulate PlexinB1 function 2022 ·Structure ·(unknown), Kyoko Matoba, Mika Hirose, (unknown), Yukiko Matsunaga, Keitaro Yamashita, Kunio Hirata, Masaki Yamamoto, Takao Arimori, Hiroaki Suga, Junichi Takagi	9
7	Molecular mechanism of agonism and inverse agonism in ghrelin receptor 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Jiao Qin, Ye Cai, Zheng Xu, Qianqian Ming, (unknown), Chao Wu, Huibing Zhang, Chunyou Mao, Dandan Shen, Kunio Hirata, Yanbin Ma, Wei Yan, Yan Zhang, Zhenhua Shao	38
8	Engineering of an in-cell protein crystal for fastening a metastable conformation of a target miniprotein 2022 ·Biomaterials Science ·(unknown), Satoshi Abe, Tadaomi Furuta, Duy Phuoc Tran, Kunio Hirata, Keitaro Yamashita, (unknown), Akio Kitao, Takafumi Ueno	4
9	Guidelines for de novo phasing using multiple small-wedge data collection 2021 ·Journal of Synchrotron Radiation ·Seiki Baba, (unknown), Takashi Kawamura, Naoki Sakai, Yuki Nakamura, Yoshiaki Kawano, Nobuhiro Mizuno, Takashi Kumasaka, Masaki Yamamoto, Kunio Hirata	5
10	An unprecedented insight into the catalytic mechanism of copper nitrite reductase from atomic-resolution and damage-free structures 2021 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), S.V. Antonyuk, Daisuke Sasaki, Keitaro Yamashita, Kunio Hirata, Go Ueno, Hideo Ago, Robert R. Eady, Takehiko Tosha, Masaki Yamamoto, S.S. Hasnain	33
11	Isoform-selective regulation of mammalian cryptochromes 2020 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Simon Miller, You Lee Son, Yuri Aikawa, (unknown), (unknown), Ashutosh Srivastava, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kazuhiro Abe, Kunio Hirata, Shinya Oishi, Shinya Hagihara, Ayato Sato, Florence Tama, Kenichiro Itami, Steve A. Kay, Megumi Hatori, Tsuyoshi Hirota	61
12	Binding pathway determines norepinephrine selectivity for the human β1AR over β2AR 2020 ·Cell Research ·Xinyu Xu, Jonas Kaindl, Mary J. Clark, Harald Hübner, Kunio Hirata, Roger K. Sunahara, Peter Gmeiner, Brian K. Kobilka, Xiangyu Liu	85
13	An allosteric modulator binds to a conformational hub in the β2 adrenergic receptor 2020 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Xiangyu Liu, Jonas Kaindl, Magdalena Korczynska, Anne Stößel, Daniela G. Dengler, (unknown), Harald Hübner, Mary J. Clark, (unknown), Rachel A. Matt, Xinyu Xu, Kunio Hirata, Brian K. Shoichet, Roger K. Sunahara, Brian K. Kobilka, Peter Gmeiner	60
14	Mechanism of β ₂ AR regulation by an intracellular positive allosteric modulator 2019 ·Science ·Xiangyu Liu, Ali Masoudi, Alem W. Kahsai, Li-Yin Huang, Biswaranjan Pani, Dean P. Staus, Paul J. Shim, Kunio Hirata, (unknown), (unknown), Paula Rambarat, Seungkirl Ahn, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian K. Kobilka	90
15	Crystal structure of the M ₅ muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ziva Vuckovic, Patrick R. Gentry, (unknown), Kunio Hirata, Swapna Varghese, Geoff Thompson, Emma T. van der Westhuizen, (unknown), Raphaël Rahmani, Céline Valant, Christopher J. Langmead, Craig W. Lindsley, Jonathan B. Baell, Andrew B. Tobin, Patrick M. Sexton, Arthur Christopoulos, David M. Thal	53
16	Crystal structure of plant vacuolar iron transporter VIT1 2019 ·Nature Plants ·T. Kato, Kaoru Kumazaki, M. Wada, Reiya Taniguchi, Takanori Nakane, Keitaro Yamashita, Kunio Hirata, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Koichi Ito, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Osamu Nureki	49
17	Structural insights into the subtype-selective antagonist binding to the M2 muscarinic receptor 2018 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Ryoji Suno, Sangbae Lee, Shoji Maeda, Satoshi Yasuda, Keitaro Yamashita, Kunio Hirata, Shoichiro Horita, Maki S. Tawaramoto, Hirokazu Tsujimoto, Takeshi Murata, Masahiro Kinoshita, Masaki Yamamoto, Brian K. Kobilka, Nagarajan Vaidehi, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi	54
18	X-ray structures of endothelin ETB receptor bound to clinical antagonist bosentan and its analog 2017 ·Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Wataru Shihoya, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Keitaro Yamashita, Asuka Inoue, Kunio Hirata, Francois Marie Ngako Kadji, Akiko Okuta, Kazutoshi Tani, Junken Aoki, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Tomoko Doi, Osamu Nureki	69
19	Structural Basis for the Counter-Transport Mechanism of a H ⁺ /Ca ²⁺ Exchanger 2013 ·Science ·Tomohiro Nishizawa, Satomi Kita, Andrés D. Maturana, Noritaka Furuya, Kunio Hirata, Go Kasuya, Satoshi Ogasawara, Naoshi Dohmae, Takahiro Iwamoto, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Osamu Nureki	63
20	Reliability Estimation Methods for Liquid Rocket Engines 2004 ·JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES ·Kunio Hirata, Goro Masuya, Kenjiro Kamijo	2

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