Kunio Ihara

3.0k total citations
94 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kunio Ihara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunio Ihara has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kunio Ihara's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (36 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (18 papers). Kunio Ihara is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (36 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (18 papers). Kunio Ihara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Austria. Kunio Ihara's co-authors include Yasuo Mukohata, Tsutomu Kouyama, Yasuo Sugiyama, Midori Murakami, Hideki Kandori, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomomi Kitajima‐Ihara, Michio Homma, Yuki Sudo and Tomohiro Tamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kunio Ihara

90 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kunio Ihara Japan 27 1.3k 1.0k 279 212 173 94 2.2k
Bernd Walz Germany 29 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 228 0.8× 334 1.6× 42 0.2× 78 2.5k
Yoshiro Saimi United States 33 2.5k 1.8× 1.2k 1.1× 238 0.9× 220 1.0× 93 0.5× 78 3.2k
Belinda S. W. Chang Canada 28 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 350 1.3× 397 1.9× 45 0.3× 91 2.5k
Jost Ludwig Germany 24 1.6k 1.2× 866 0.8× 83 0.3× 139 0.7× 212 1.2× 47 2.7k
Aba Losi Italy 31 2.4k 1.8× 2.1k 2.0× 206 0.7× 111 0.5× 276 1.6× 80 3.5k
C. Gerday Belgium 16 753 0.6× 322 0.3× 234 0.8× 76 0.4× 126 0.7× 25 1.3k
Elena N. Spudich United States 31 3.2k 2.4× 3.2k 3.1× 968 3.5× 305 1.4× 541 3.1× 53 4.7k
Duncan H. L. Robertson United Kingdom 28 1.2k 0.9× 657 0.6× 182 0.7× 235 1.1× 218 1.3× 39 3.1k
Thomas F. Roth United States 18 1.1k 0.9× 324 0.3× 209 0.7× 291 1.4× 60 0.3× 34 2.2k
Suneel Kateriya India 21 1.8k 1.4× 3.4k 3.3× 83 0.3× 101 0.5× 696 4.0× 66 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kunio Ihara

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kunio Ihara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kunio Ihara

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kunio Ihara. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kunio Ihara 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 Kunio Ihara. Kunio Ihara is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oka, Hiroya, Takaaki Kojima, Ryuji Kato, Kunio Ihara, & Hideo Nakano. (2024). Construction of transcript regulation mechanism prediction models based on binding motif environment of transcription factor AoXlnR in Aspergillus oryzae. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 22(3). 2450017–2450017. 1 indexed citations
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Uesaka, Kazuma, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the genomes of motility-deficient mutants of Vibrio alginolyticus 138-2. PeerJ. 12. e17126–e17126.
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Ohtsuka, Hokuto, et al.. (2024). Identification of plb1 mutation that extends longevity via activating Sty1 MAPK in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 299(1).
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Kouyama, Tsutomu & Kunio Ihara. (2022). Existence of two substates in the O intermediate of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1864(10). 183998–183998. 2 indexed citations
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Shimane, Yasuhiro, Kunio Ihara, Masahiro Kamekura, et al.. (2020). Haloarcula mannanilytica sp. nov., a galactomannan-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(12). 6331–6337. 10 indexed citations
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Itoh, Satoru, Teikichi Ikura, Kunio Ihara, et al.. (2020). Energetics and kinetics of substrate analog-coupled staphylococcal nuclease folding revealed by a statistical mechanical approach. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19953–19962. 7 indexed citations
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Oka, Hiroya, Takaaki Kojima, Kunio Ihara, Tetsuo Kobayashi, & Hideo Nakano. (2019). Comprehensive investigation of the gene expression system regulated by an Aspergillus oryzae transcription factor XlnR using integrated mining of gSELEX-Seq and microarray data. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 16–16. 11 indexed citations
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Ieda, Nahoko, Hirotaka Ishii, Kunio Ihara, et al.. (2018). Co‐expression of the calcitonin receptor gene in the hypothalamic kisspeptin neurons in female rats. Reproductive Medicine and Biology. 17(2). 164–172. 19 indexed citations
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Kikukawa, Takashi, Jun Tamogami, Masakatsu Kamiya, et al.. (2016). Photochemical characterization of actinorhodopsin and its functional existence in the natural host. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1857(12). 1900–1908. 17 indexed citations
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Kojima, Kouji, Kazuma Uesaka, Akihiro Kato, et al.. (2016). A simple method for isolation and construction of markerless cyanobacterial mutants defective in acyl-acyl carrier protein synthetase. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 100(23). 10107–10113. 14 indexed citations
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Oshima, Kenshiro, Takatomo Fujisawa, Kazuma Uesaka, et al.. (2014). Loss of Cytochrome cM Stimulates Cyanobacterial Heterotrophic Growth in the Dark. Plant and Cell Physiology. 56(2). 334–345. 23 indexed citations
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Murakami, Midori, et al.. (2013). Large Deformation of Helix F during the Photoreaction Cycle of Pharaonis Halorhodopsin in Complex with Azide. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 377–385. 24 indexed citations
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Sudo, Yuki, Hikaru Ono, Motoshi Kamiya, et al.. (2013). A Blue-shifted Light-driven Proton Pump for Neural Silencing. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(28). 20624–20632. 56 indexed citations
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Sudo, Yuki, Kunio Ihara, Daisuke Suzuki, et al.. (2010). A Microbial Rhodopsin with a Unique Retinal Composition Shows Both Sensory Rhodopsin II and Bacteriorhodopsin-like Properties. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(8). 5967–5976. 55 indexed citations
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Kikukawa, Takashi, Kazumi Shimono, Jun Tamogami, et al.. (2010). Photochemistry of a putative new class of sensory rhodopsin (SRIII) coded by xop2 of Haloarcular marismortui. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 102(1). 45–54. 6 indexed citations
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Kamo, Naoki, et al.. (2006). A light-driven proton pump from Haloterrigena turkmenica: Functional expression in Escherichia coli membrane and coupling with a H+ co-transporter. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 341(2). 285–290. 37 indexed citations
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Ihara, Kunio & Yasuo Mukohata. (1988). Proteoliposomes with right‐side‐out oriented purple membrane/bacteriorhodopsin require cations inside for proton pumping. FEBS Letters. 240(1-2). 148–152. 4 indexed citations
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Mukohata, Yasuo, Yasuo Sugiyama, Kunio Ihara, & Manabu Yoshida. (1988). An Australian halobacterium contains a novel proton pump retinal protein: Archaerhodopsin. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 151(3). 1339–1345. 45 indexed citations
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Fukunaga, H., Kunio Ihara, & K. Narita. (1986). Effects of crystallization conditions on magnetic properties of crystallized Nd-Fe-B ribbons.. Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 10(2). 229–232. 3 indexed citations
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Yamasaki, J., Kunio Ihara, & K. Narita. (1984). . Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 8(2). 133–136.

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