Mai Watanabe

1.6k total citations
18 papers, 759 citations indexed

About

Mai Watanabe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mai Watanabe has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 759 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mai Watanabe's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (7 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Mai Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (15 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (7 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Mai Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and Netherlands. Mai Watanabe's co-authors include Masahiko Ikeuchi, Rei Narikawa, Shigeki Ehira, Kumiko Kondo, Dmitry A. Semchonok, Mariam T. Webber-Birungi, Egbert J. Boekema, Masayuki Ohmori, Hajime Wada and Hisako Kubota-Kawai and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mai Watanabe

16 papers receiving 750 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mai Watanabe Japan	11	643	363	135	135	126	18	759
Sandrine D’Haene Netherlands	11	647 1.0×	373 1.0×	146 1.1×	110 0.8×	101 0.8×	14	699
Luca Bersanini Finland	12	654 1.0×	340 0.9×	196 1.5×	92 0.7×	195 1.5×	16	768
I.V. Elanskaya Russia	18	723 1.1×	493 1.4×	158 1.2×	245 1.8×	150 1.2×	43	817
Richard M. Alvey United States	13	557 0.9×	307 0.8×	85 0.6×	135 1.0×	126 1.0×	16	656
Ming‐Yang Ho United States	16	792 1.2×	396 1.1×	296 2.2×	151 1.1×	234 1.9×	26	951
Miroslava Herbstová Czechia	15	651 1.0×	267 0.7×	141 1.0×	112 0.8×	290 2.3×	18	819
Sascha Rexroth Germany	19	919 1.4×	322 0.9×	70 0.5×	70 0.5×	120 1.0×	35	1.1k
Henning Kirst United States	18	920 1.4×	629 1.7×	67 0.5×	120 0.9×	191 1.5×	27	1.1k
Igor N. Stadnichuk Russia	18	832 1.3×	598 1.6×	205 1.5×	248 1.8×	192 1.5×	63	1.1k
Wendy M. Schluchter United States	20	1.1k 1.7×	586 1.6×	184 1.4×	224 1.7×	197 1.6×	36	1.2k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Kim, Eunchul, Konomi Fujimura‐Kamada, Mami Nomura, et al.. (2025). CurT/CURT1 proteins are involved in cell and chloroplast division coordination of cyanobacteria and green algae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8424–8424.

Kawaguchi, Takeshi, et al.. (2024). Functional Modification of Cyanobacterial Phycobiliprotein and Phycobilisomes through Bilin Metabolism Control. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(8). 2391–2401.

Watanabe, Mai, Masahiko Ikeuchi, & Annegret Wilde. (2023). The organization of the phycobilisome-photosystem I supercomplex depends on the ratio between two different phycobilisome linker proteins. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 22(7). 1561–1572. 3 indexed citations

Watanabe, Mai, Ryosuke Kawakami, Masamoto Murakami, et al.. (2023). Pyrene-fused dioxaborine-based merocyanines with high brightness, photostability, and fluorogenic function for deep-skin tissue imaging of a living mouse. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 97(3). 2 indexed citations

Noji, Tomoyasu, Mai Watanabe, Takehisa Dewa, Shigeru Itoh, & Masahiko Ikeuchi. (2021). Direct Energy Transfer from Allophycocyanin-Free Rod-Type CpcL-Phycobilisome to Photosystem I. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(28). 6692–6697. 10 indexed citations

Kato, Koji, Ryo Nagao, Yoshifumi Ueno, et al.. (2019). Structure of a cyanobacterial photosystem I tetramer revealed by cryo-electron microscopy. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4929–4929. 53 indexed citations

Hirose, Yuu, Chihong Song, Mai Watanabe, et al.. (2019). Diverse Chromatic Acclimation Processes Regulating Phycoerythrocyanin and Rod-Shaped Phycobilisome in Cyanobacteria. Molecular Plant. 12(5). 715–725. 62 indexed citations

Saito, Masakazu, Koichi Kobayashi, Mai Watanabe, et al.. (2018). High myristic acid content in the cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. PCC 8801 results from substrate specificity of lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1863(9). 939–947. 7 indexed citations

Kohzuma, Kaori, Yutaka Sato, Hisashi Itô, et al.. (2017). The Non-Mendelian Green Cotyledon Gene in Soybean Encodes a Small Subunit of Photosystem II. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 173(4). 2138–2147. 31 indexed citations

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Hirose, Yuu, et al.. (2017). Characterization of the genuine type 2 chromatic acclimation in the two Geminocystis cyanobacteria. DNA Research. 24(4). 387–396. 11 indexed citations

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Takabayashi, Atsushi, Kaori Takahashi, Mai Watanabe, et al.. (2016). PCoM-DB Update: A Protein Co-Migration Database for Photosynthetic Organisms. Plant and Cell Physiology. 58(1). pcw219–pcw219. 20 indexed citations

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Fujisawa, Takatomo, Rei Narikawa, Shin‐ichi Maeda, et al.. (2016). CyanoBase: a large-scale update on its 20th anniversary. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D551–D554. 79 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai, Dmitry A. Semchonok, Mariam T. Webber-Birungi, et al.. (2014). Attachment of phycobilisomes in an antenna–photosystem I supercomplex of cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(7). 2512–2517. 139 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai & Masahiko Ikeuchi. (2013). Phycobilisome: architecture of a light-harvesting supercomplex. Photosynthesis Research. 116(2-3). 265–276. 185 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai, Momoko Sato, Kumiko Kondo, Rei Narikawa, & Masahiko Ikeuchi. (2011). Phycobilisome model with novel skeleton-like structures in a glaucocystophyte Cyanophora paradoxa. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1817(8). 1428–1435. 15 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai, Hisako Kubota-Kawai, Hajime Wada, Rei Narikawa, & Masahiko Ikeuchi. (2010). Novel Supercomplex Organization of Photosystem I in Anabaena and Cyanophora paradoxa. Plant and Cell Physiology. 52(1). 162–168. 61 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai, et al.. (2008). Photosystem I complexes associated with fucoxanthin-chlorophyll-binding proteins from a marine centric diatom, Chaetoceros gracilis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1777(4). 351–361. 80 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mai, et al.. (1983). Recoil Studies in t h e Reaction Induced by 115MeV¹⁴N on ⁶²Ni. Radiochimica Acta. 33(2-3). 127–134. 1 indexed citations

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