Masakatsu Watanabe

4.1k citations

90 papers · 3.2k indexed · h-index 29

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 1%
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 32
Plant Science top 2%
- Light effects on plants 26
Molecular Biology top 5%
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 28
- bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research 10
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 8
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 5%
- Algal biology and biofuel production 20
Oceanography top 5%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology 13
Biophysics
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 6

Co-authors: Mineo Iseki Shoichi Higashi Masaki Furuya Tomoyuki Takahashi Shigeru Matsunaga Akio Murakami Norio Murata Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev
Cited by: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Plant Science Molecular Biology
Partner nations: Japan United States Germany

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Masakatsu Watanabe

89 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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1	Identification of photoactivated adenylyl cyclases in Naegleria australiensis and BLUF-containing protein in Naegleria fowleri Hiro Yasukawa,Aya Sato,Ayaka Kita,Ken-Ichi Kodaira,Mineo Iseki,Tomoyuki Takahashi,Mami Shibusawa,Masakatsu Watanabe,Kenji Yagita	2013	4
2	Action Spectrum Analysis of UVR Genotoxicity for Skin: The Border Wavelengths between UVA and UVB Can Bring Serious Mutation Loads to Skin Hironobu Ikehata,Shoichi Higashi,Shingo Nakamura,Yasukazu Daigaku,Yoshiya Furusawa,Yasuhiro Kamei,Masakatsu Watanabe,Kazuo Yamamoto,Kotaro Hieda,Nobuo Munakata,Tetsuya Ono	2013	30
3	Photomanipulation of antibiotic susceptibility and biofilm formation of Escherichia coli heterologously expressing photoactivated adenylyl cyclase Hiro Yasukawa,Noriko Konno,Yukari Haneda,Baku Yamamori,Mineo Iseki,Mami Shibusawa,Yasushi Ono,Ken-Ichi Kodaira,Hisashi FUNADA,Masakatsu Watanabe	2012	8
4	Differentiation of photocycle characteristics of flavin-binding BLUF domains of α- and β-subunits of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase of Euglena gracilis Shinji Ito,Akio Murakami,Mineo Iseki,Tomoyuki Takahashi,Shoichi Higashi,Masakatsu Watanabe	2010	8
5	UV tolerance in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Takeshi Suzuki,Masakatsu Watanabe,Makio Takeda	2009	75
6	Time Course and Spacial Distribution of UV Effects on Human Skin in Organ Culture Eiichiro Mori,Akihisa Takahashi,Koh Kitagawa,Saki Kakei,Daiki Tsujinaka,Megumi Unno,Shoko Nishikawa,Ken Ohnishi,Mitsuo Hatoko,Norio Murata,Masakatsu Watanabe,Yoshiya Furusawa,Takeo Ohnishi	2008	7
7	UVA1 Genotoxicity Is Mediated Not by Oxidative Damage but by Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers in Normal Mouse Skin Hironobu Ikehata,Kazuaki Kawai,Jun‐ichiro Komura,Ko Sakatsume,Liangcheng Wang,Masaru Imai,Shoichi Higashi,Osamu Nikaido,Kazuo Yamamoto,Kotaro Hieda,Masakatsu Watanabe,Hiroshi Kasai,Tetsuya Ono	2008	62
8	Action Spectrum for the Suppression of Arylalkylamine N‐acetyltransferase Activity in the Two‐spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae Takeshi Suzuki,Norimitsu Izawa,Takuya Takashima,Masakatsu Watanabe,Makio Takeda	2008	4
9	An unidentified ultraviolet-B-specific photoreceptor mediates transcriptional activation of the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer photolyase gene in plants Motohide Ioki,Shinya Takahashi,Nobuyoshi Nakajima,Kohei Fujikura,Masanori Tamaoki,Hikaru Saji,Akihiro Kubo,Mitsuko Aono,Machi Kanna,Daisuke Ogawa,Jutarou Fukazawa,Yoshihisa Oda,Seiji Yoshida,Masakatsu Watanabe,Seiichiro Hasezawa,Noriaki Kondo	2008	12
10	Increased Levels of 8-Hydroxy-2′-Deoxyguanosine in Drosophila Larval DNA after Irradiation with 364-nm Laser Light but not with X-rays Tomoe Negishi,Kazuaki Kawai,Ritsuo Arakawa,Shoichi Higashi,Takanori Nakamura,Masakatsu Watanabe,Hiroshi Kasai,Kazuo Fujikawa	2007	14
11	Very strong UV-A light temporally separates the photoinhibition of photosystem II into light-induced inactivation and repair Ottó Zsíros,Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev,Shoichi Higashi,Masakatsu Watanabe,Yoshitaka Nishiyama,Norio Murata	2006	46
12	Fast manipulation of cellular cAMP level by light in vivo Saskia Schröder-Lang,Martin Schwärzel,Reinhard Seifert,Timo Strünker,Suneel Kateriya,Jens Looser,Masakatsu Watanabe,U. Benjamin Kaupp,Peter Hegemann,Georg Nagel	2006	194
13	Biochemical and Functional Characterization of BLUF-Type Flavin-Binding Proteins of Two Species of Cyanobacteria Koji Okajima,Shizue Yoshihara,Yoshimasa Fukushima,Xiaoxing Geng,Mitsunori Katayama,Shoichi Higashi,Masakatsu Watanabe,Shusei Sato,Satoshi Tabata,Yutaka Shibata,Shigeru Itoh,Masahiko Ikeuchi	2005	121
14	The origin of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), the Euglena blue-light receptor: phylogenetic analysis of orthologues of PAC subunits from several euglenoids and trypanosome-type adenylyl cyclases from Euglena gracilis Yoshiko Koumura,Takeshi Suzuki,Shinya Yoshikawa,Masakatsu Watanabe,Mineo Iseki	2004	16
15	Archaeal-type rhodopsins in Chlamydomonas: model structure and intracellular localization Takeshi Suzuki,Kenta Yamasaki,Satoshi Fujita,Kazushi Oda,Mineo Iseki,Kazuichi Yoshida,Masakatsu Watanabe,Hiromi Daiyasu,Hiroyuki Toh,E. Asamizu,Satoshi Tabata,Kenji Miura,Hideya Fukuzawa,Shogo Nakamura,Tomoyuki Takahashi	2003	122
16	Why green fluorescent fusion proteins have not been observed in the vacuoles of higher plants Kentaro Tamura,Tomoo Shimada,Eiichiro Ono,Yoshikazu Tanaka,Akira Nagatani,Sho‐ich Higashi,Masakatsu Watanabe,Mikio Nishimura,Ikuko Hara‐Nishimura	2003	200
17	INDUCTION OF EXPRESSION OF CUCUMBER PHOTOLYASE (CsPHR) DUE TO LIGHT Shinya Takahashi,Nobuyoshi Nakajima,Noriaki Kondo,Masakatsu Watanabe	2001	1
18	Photosynthesis modulates the sign of phototaxis of wild‐type Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Tomoyuki Takahashi,Masakatsu Watanabe	1993	38
19	Dielectric behavior of the frog lens in the 100 Hz to 500 MHz range. Simulation with an allocated ellipsoidal-shells model Masakatsu Watanabe,Toshinobu Suzaki,Akihiko Irimajiri	1991	22
20	Light-stimulated cell expansion in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) leaves Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh,R. E. Cleland,Masakatsu Watanabe	1990	26

About Masakatsu Watanabe

Masakatsu Watanabe is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biophysics, having authored 90 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (32 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (28 papers), Light effects on plants (26 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (20 papers), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (13 papers), bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research (10 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.3k citations), Plant Science (1.4k citations) and Molecular Biology (1.9k citations). Masakatsu Watanabe has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Mineo Iseki, Shoichi Higashi, Masaki Furuya, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Shigeru Matsunaga, Akio Murakami, Norio Murata, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Yoshitaka Nishiyama and Terumitsu Hori.

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