Michio Murata

16.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
307 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Michio Murata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michio Murata has authored 307 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Molecular Biology, 106 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 63 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michio Murata's work include Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (103 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (92 papers) and Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (39 papers). Michio Murata is often cited by papers focused on Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (103 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (92 papers) and Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (39 papers). Michio Murata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Finland. Michio Murata's co-authors include Takeshi Yasumoto, Nobuaki Matsumori, Kazuo Tachibana, Masayuki Satake, Tohru Oishi, Shigeru Matsuoka, Hideo Naoki, Anne Legrand, Daisuke Kaneno and Hideshi Nakamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michio Murata

304 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Marine toxins

1993 724 citations Michio Murata et al. profile →
Stereochemical Determination of Acyclic Structures Based on Carbon−Proton Spin-Coupling Constants. A Method of Configuration Analysis for Natural Products

1999 684 citations Nobuaki Matsumori, Michio Murata et al. profile →
Coherent two-dimensional lasing action in surface-emitting laser with triangular-lattice photonic crystal structure

1999 555 citations Michio Murata et al. profile →
Diarrhetic shellfish toxins

1985 534 citations T. Yasumoto, Michio Murata et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michio Murata Japan	52	6.2k	5.4k	3.6k	1.9k	1.3k	307	12.4k
Koji Nakanishi United States	77	769 0.1×	12.5k 2.3×	4.6k 1.3×	999 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	596	24.4k
Karl Gademann Switzerland	48	599 0.1×	5.5k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	623 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	203	10.1k
Kenneth L. Rinehart United States	45	2.2k 0.3×	2.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	181	7.8k
Graziano Guella Italy	45	392 0.1×	1.9k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	563 0.4×	269	6.7k
Henry Rapoport United States	60	691 0.1×	6.0k 1.1×	7.5k 2.1×	617 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	401	12.8k
Paul J. Scheuer United States	60	1.8k 0.3×	3.1k 0.6×	4.9k 1.3×	5.4k 2.9×	2.9k 2.3×	281	11.8k
Takashi Iwashita Japan	42	798 0.1×	2.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	529 0.3×	641 0.5×	217	6.6k
Dan S. Tawfik Israel	82	258 0.0×	15.0k 2.8×	1.3k 0.4×	888 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	199	21.5k
Yoel Kashman Israel	48	523 0.1×	4.4k 0.8×	5.7k 1.6×	5.2k 2.7×	3.6k 2.8×	336	13.6k
Sandeep Kumar United States	45	1.3k 0.2×	4.8k 0.9×	948 0.3×	404 0.2×	110 0.1×	129	9.2k

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Yasuda, Tomokazu, et al.. (2025). Relevance of ceramide 1-phosphate domain formation in activation of cytosolic phospholipase A2. Biophysical Chemistry. 322. 107433–107433. 1 indexed citations

Murata, Michio, Masayuki Satake, & Nobuaki Matsumori. (2025). Conformational dynamics and molecular interactions of natural products: unveiling functional structures in biological membranes. Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B. 101(5). 249–273.

Yasuda, Tomokazu, et al.. (2024). Design, synthesis of ceramide 1-phosphate analogs and their affinity for cytosolic phospholipase A2 as evidenced by surface plasmon resonance. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 107. 129792–129792. 1 indexed citations

Hanashima, Shinya, et al.. (2023). Dynamic assembly and interaction of glycosphingolipids in cholesterol-containing model membranes. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 95(9). 971–977. 1 indexed citations

Watanabe, Hirofumi, et al.. (2023). Passive Translocation of Phospholipids in Asymmetric Model Membranes: Solid-State ¹H NMR Characterization of Flip–Flop Kinetics Using Deuterated Sphingomyelin and Phosphatidylcholine. Langmuir. 39(43). 15189–15199. 3 indexed citations

Umegawa, Yuichi, Tomoya Yamamoto, Mayank Dixit, et al.. (2022). Amphotericin B assembles into seven-molecule ion channels: An NMR and molecular dynamics study. Science Advances. 8(24). eabo2658–eabo2658. 40 indexed citations

Murata, Michio, Nobuaki Matsumori, Masanao Kinoshita, & Erwin London. (2022). Molecular substructure of the liquid-ordered phase formed by sphingomyelin and cholesterol: sphingomyelin clusters forming nano-subdomains are a characteristic feature. Biophysical Reviews. 14(3). 655–678. 23 indexed citations

Hanashima, Shinya, et al.. (2021). Diosgenin-induced physicochemical effects on phospholipid bilayers in comparison with cholesterol. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 36. 127816–127816. 10 indexed citations

Hanashima, Shinya, et al.. (2020). Interactions of OSW-1 with Lipid Bilayers in Comparison with Digitonin and Soyasaponin. Langmuir. 36(13). 3600–3610. 14 indexed citations

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Seo, Sangjae, Michio Murata, & Wataru Shinoda. (2020). Pivotal Role of Interdigitation in Interleaflet Interactions: Implications from Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(13). 5171–5176. 19 indexed citations

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Tsuchikawa, Hiroshi, et al.. (2020). Conformation and Orientation of Branched Acyl Chains Responsible for the Physical Stability of Diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine. Biochemistry. 59(40). 3929–3938. 5 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Tomoya, Yuichi Umegawa, Hiroshi Tsuchikawa, et al.. (2019). The Amphotericin B–Ergosterol Complex Spans a Lipid Bilayer as a Single-Length Assembly. Biochemistry. 58(51). 5188–5196. 24 indexed citations

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Hazni, Hazrina, Mohd Sofian‐Azirun, Marc Litaudon, et al.. (2019). Mosquito larvicidal limonoids from the fruits of Chisocheton erythrocarpus Hiern. Phytochemistry Letters. 30. 69–73. 21 indexed citations

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Ebine, Makoto, et al.. (2018). Synthesis and Stereochemical Revision of the C31–C67 Fragment of Amphidinol 3. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(21). 6060–6064. 25 indexed citations

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Kinoshita, Masanao, Kenichi Suzuki, Michio Murata, & Nobuaki Matsumori. (2018). Evidence of lipid rafts based on the partition and dynamic behavior of sphingomyelins. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 215. 84–95. 31 indexed citations

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Tsuchikawa, Hiroshi, et al.. (2017). Stable C–N axial chirality in 1-aryluracil scaffold and differences in in vitro metabolic clearance between atropisomers of PDE4 inhibitor. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 25(16). 4506–4511. 21 indexed citations

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Espiritu, Rafael A., Shinya Hanashima, Masanao Kinoshita, et al.. (2016). Sterol-dependent membrane association of the marine sponge-derived bicyclic peptide Theonellamide A as examined by 1H NMR. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 24(21). 5235–5242. 5 indexed citations

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Cui, Jin, Tomokazu Yasuda, Shigeru Matsuoka, et al.. (2014). Phosphatidylcholine bearing 6,6-dideuterated oleic acid: A useful solid-state 2H NMR probe for investigating membrane properties. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 25(2). 203–206. 9 indexed citations

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Hashimoto, Jun-ichi, et al.. (2012). Mid-IR vertical transition DFB quantum cascade laser. IEICE Technical Report; IEICE Tech. Rep.. 111(414). 109–113. 1 indexed citations

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Murata, Michio, et al.. (1991). Effect of maitotoxin analogues on calcium influx and phosphoinositide breakdown in cultured cells. Toxicon. 29(9). 1085–1096. 12 indexed citations

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