Masaaki Komatsu

73.9k total citations · 23 hit papers
227 papers, 45.7k citations indexed

About

Masaaki Komatsu is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Masaaki Komatsu has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 45.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Epidemiology, 107 papers in Molecular Biology and 49 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Masaaki Komatsu's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (161 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (44 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (33 papers). Masaaki Komatsu is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (161 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (44 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (33 papers). Masaaki Komatsu collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Masaaki Komatsu's co-authors include Noboru Mizushima, Keiji Tanaka, Takashi Ueno, Yoshinobu Ichimura, Eiki Kominami, Satoshi Waguri, Isei Tanida, Yu‐shin Sou, Yasuo Uchiyama and Keiji Tanaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Masaaki Komatsu

224 papers receiving 45.4k citations

Hit Papers

Autophagy: Renovation of Cells and Tissues 2005 2026 2012 2019 2011 2009 2006 2010 2005 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Autophagy: Renovation of Cells and Tissues
    2011 5.0k citations Noboru Mizushima, Masaaki Komatsu profile →
  2. Autophagy regulates lipid metabolism
    2009 3.1k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
  3. Loss of autophagy in the central nervous system causes neurodegeneration in mice
    2006 2.9k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Satoshi Waguri et al. profile →
  4. The selective autophagy substrate p62 activates the stress responsive transcription factor Nrf2 through inactivation of Keap1
    2010 2.0k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Satoshi Waguri et al. profile →
  5. Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in Atg7 -deficient mice
    2005 1.9k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Satoshi Waguri et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
  6. Loss of the autophagy protein Atg16L1 enhances endotoxin-induced IL-1β production
    2008 1.7k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
  7. PINK1 stabilized by mitochondrial depolarization recruits Parkin to damaged mitochondria and activates latent Parkin for mitophagy
    2010 1.5k citations Noriyuki Matsuda, Shigeto Sato et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
  8. Toll-like receptor signalling in macrophages links the autophagy pathway to phagocytosis
    2007 1.1k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
  9. Autophagy-deficient mice develop multiple liver tumors
    2011 1.1k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Ayako Sakamoto et al. profile →
  10. Autophagy Is Required to Maintain Muscle Mass
    2009 969 citations Masaaki Komatsu et al. profile →
  11. Phosphorylation of p62 Activates the Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway during Selective Autophagy
    2013 950 citations Yoshinobu Ichimura, Satoshi Waguri et al. Molecular Cell profile →
  12. A Role for NBR1 in Autophagosomal Degradation of Ubiquitinated Substrates
    2009 908 citations Vladimir Kirkin, Trond Lamark et al. Molecular Cell profile →
  13. Discovery of Atg5/Atg7-independent alternative macroautophagy
    2009 899 citations Masaaki Komatsu et al. profile →
  14. Structural Basis for Sorting Mechanism of p62 in Selective Autophagy
    2008 642 citations Yoshinobu Ichimura, Taichi Kumanomidou et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  15. Autophagy Is Important in Islet Homeostasis and Compensatory Increase of Beta Cell Mass in Response to High-Fat Diet
    2008 637 citations Masaaki Komatsu, Takashi Ueno et al. profile →
  16. p62/SQSTM1 functions as a signaling hub and an autophagy adaptor
    2015 632 citations Yoshinori Katsuragi, Yoshinobu Ichimura et al. profile →
  17. Loss of Autophagy Diminishes Pancreatic β Cell Mass and Function with Resultant Hyperglycemia
    2008 549 citations Masaaki Komatsu, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
  18. Adipose-specific deletion of autophagy-related gene 7 ( atg7 ) in mice reveals a role in adipogenesis
    2009 527 citations Yong Zhang, Yun Zhao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Persistent activation of Nrf2 through p62 in hepatocellular carcinoma cells
    2011 496 citations Satoshi Waguri, Ayako Sakamoto et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
  20. PINK1 autophosphorylation upon membrane potential dissipation is essential for Parkin recruitment to damaged mitochondria
    2012 415 citations Kei Okatsu, Mayumi Kimura et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Autophagy in the liver: functions in health and disease
    2017 407 citations Takashi Ueno, Masaaki Komatsu profile →
  22. Autophagy in proximal tubules protects against acute kidney injury
    2012 395 citations Masaaki Komatsu et al. profile →
  23. Functions of autophagy in normal and diseased liver
    2013 373 citations Masaaki Komatsu et al. Autophagy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Masaaki Komatsu Japan 89 29.0k 21.8k 8.4k 5.8k 3.9k 227 45.7k
Tamotsu Yoshimori Japan 95 38.0k 1.3× 24.4k 1.1× 14.1k 1.7× 5.5k 0.9× 5.9k 1.5× 246 55.8k
Ana María Cuervo United States 112 30.4k 1.0× 21.1k 1.0× 14.0k 1.7× 12.3k 2.1× 2.8k 0.7× 252 52.5k
Yoshinori Ohsumi Japan 108 40.9k 1.4× 28.4k 1.3× 18.1k 2.2× 4.2k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 259 56.4k
Keiji Tanaka Japan 112 19.9k 0.7× 37.9k 1.7× 11.5k 1.4× 4.3k 0.7× 6.8k 1.7× 428 55.1k
Eiki Kominami Japan 78 15.9k 0.5× 14.9k 0.7× 8.1k 1.0× 5.0k 0.9× 2.2k 0.6× 313 31.3k
Beth Levine United States 106 55.2k 1.9× 38.4k 1.8× 13.3k 1.6× 7.3k 1.3× 9.4k 2.4× 187 83.7k
Daniel J. Klionsky United States 133 51.1k 1.8× 42.5k 1.9× 21.3k 2.5× 6.5k 1.1× 5.0k 1.3× 519 81.9k
Akitsugu Yamamoto Japan 76 15.2k 0.5× 14.1k 0.6× 7.9k 0.9× 3.6k 0.6× 3.0k 0.8× 210 29.5k
Richard J. Youle United States 103 20.3k 0.7× 43.9k 2.0× 6.6k 0.8× 7.5k 1.3× 6.7k 1.7× 239 63.1k
Andrea Ballabio Italy 98 13.0k 0.4× 20.0k 0.9× 7.9k 0.9× 8.0k 1.4× 2.9k 0.7× 377 40.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masaaki Komatsu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Park, Semin, Sang-Won Park, Ssang‐Goo Cho, et al.. (2024). NS1 binding protein regulates stress granule dynamics and clearance by inhibiting p62 ubiquitination. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10925–10925. 4 indexed citations
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Ishimura, Ryosuke, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic insights into the roles of the UFM1 E3 ligase complex in ufmylation and ribosome-associated protein quality control. Science Advances. 9(33). eadh3635–eadh3635. 27 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Masahiko, Hiroki Kitaura, Akiyoshi Kakita, et al.. (2022). USP10 Inhibits Aberrant Cytoplasmic Aggregation of TDP-43 by Promoting Stress Granule Clearance. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 42(3). e0039321–e0039321. 15 indexed citations
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Ishimura, Ryosuke, Daisuke Noshiro, Yasuko Ono, et al.. (2022). The UFM1 system regulates ER-phagy through the ufmylation of CYB5R3. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7857–7857. 50 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Martín, Pablo, Yu‐shin Sou, Shun Kageyama, et al.. (2020). NBR 1‐mediated p62‐liquid droplets enhance the Keap1‐Nrf2 system. EMBO Reports. 21(3). e48902–e48902. 94 indexed citations
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Yasuda, Daisuke, Tomoyuki Ohe, Kyôko Takahashi, et al.. (2020). Inhibitors of the protein–protein interaction between phosphorylated p62 and Keap1 attenuate chemoresistance in a human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. Free Radical Research. 54(11-12). 859–871. 28 indexed citations
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Sou, Yu‐shin, Tetsuya Saito, Akiko Kuma, et al.. (2019). Loss of autophagy impairs physiological steatosis by accumulation of NCoR1. Life Science Alliance. 3(1). e201900513–e201900513. 23 indexed citations
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Wijk, Sjoerd J. L. van, Franziska Fricke, Lina Herhaus, et al.. (2017). Linear ubiquitination of cytosolic Salmonella Typhimurium activates NF-κB and restricts bacterial proliferation. Nature Microbiology. 2(7). 17066–17066. 138 indexed citations
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Dragich, Joanna M., Takaaki Kuwajima, Evelien Eenjes, et al.. (2016). Autophagy linked FYVE (Alfy/WDFY3) is required for establishing neuronal connectivity in the mammalian brain. eLife. 5. 82 indexed citations
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Haldar, Arun Kumar, Clémence Foltz, Ryan Finethy, et al.. (2015). Ubiquitin systems mark pathogen-containing vacuoles as targets for host defense by guanylate binding proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(41). E5628–37. 131 indexed citations
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Ezaki, Junji, Naomi Matsumoto, Mitsue Takeda‐Ezaki, et al.. (2011). Liver autophagy contributes to the maintenance of blood glucose and amino acid levels. Autophagy. 7(7). 727–736. 225 indexed citations
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Tatsumi, K., Ritsuko Shimizu, Satoshi Waguri, et al.. (2011). The Ufm1-activating enzyme Uba5 is indispensable for erythroid differentiation in mice. Nature Communications. 2(1). 181–181. 130 indexed citations
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Matsuda, Noriyuki, Shigeto Sato, Kahori Shiba, et al.. (2010). PINK1 stabilized by mitochondrial depolarization recruits Parkin to damaged mitochondria and activates latent Parkin for mitophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 189(2). 211–221. 1542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Yong, et al.. (2009). Adipose-specific deletion of autophagy-related gene 7 ( atg7 ) in mice reveals a role in adipogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(47). 19860–19865. 527 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tatsumi, K., Yu‐shin Sou, Norihiro Tada, et al.. (2009). A Novel Type of E3 Ligase for the Ufm1 Conjugation System. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(8). 5417–5427. 191 indexed citations
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Kirkin, Vladimir, Trond Lamark, Yu‐shin Sou, et al.. (2009). A Role for NBR1 in Autophagosomal Degradation of Ubiquitinated Substrates. Molecular Cell. 33(4). 505–516. 908 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ichimura, Yoshinobu, Taichi Kumanomidou, Yu‐shin Sou, et al.. (2008). Structural Basis for Sorting Mechanism of p62 in Selective Autophagy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(33). 22847–22857. 642 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sasakawa, Hiroaki, Eri Sakata, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, et al.. (2006). Solution structure and dynamics of Ufm1, a ubiquitin-fold modifier 1. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 343(1). 21–26. 57 indexed citations
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Komatsu, Masaaki, Satoshi Waguri, Takashi Ueno, et al.. (2005). Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in Atg7 -deficient mice. The Journal of Cell Biology. 169(3). 425–434. 1941 indexed citations breakdown →
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Komatsu, Masaaki, Eiki Kominami, Kiichi Arahata, & Toshifumi Tsukahara. (1999). Cloning and characterization of two neural‐salient serine/arginine‐rich (NSSR) proteins involved in the regulation of alternative splicing in neurones. Genes to Cells. 4(10). 593–606. 42 indexed citations

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