Naoko Abe

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Naoko Abe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Periodontics and Pharmacy. According to data from OpenAlex, Naoko Abe has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Periodontics and 9 papers in Pharmacy. Recurrent topics in Naoko Abe's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (24 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Naoko Abe is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (24 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Naoko Abe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Naoko Abe's co-authors include Hiroshi Abe, Kenji Yamamoto, Kuniaki Okamoto, Koji Nakayama, Yoshihiro Ito, Tomoko Kadowaki, Dinath B. Ratnayake, Yixin Shi, Akira Matsuda and Hideto Maruyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Naoko Abe

77 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Rolling Circle Translation of Circular RNA in Living Human Cells

2015 350 citations Naoko Abe, Yoshihiro Ito et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Naoko Abe Japan	25	1.6k	853	558	410	283	86	2.6k
Yumiko Yamamoto Japan	29	968 0.6×	395 0.5×	61 0.1×	179 0.4×	19 0.1×	88	2.3k
J. Shawn Goodwin United States	23	1.2k 0.8×	129 0.2×	242 0.4×	102 0.2×	6 0.0×	42	2.2k
Zenon Rajfur Poland	30	1.2k 0.8×	62 0.1×	133 0.2×	151 0.4×	16 0.1×	94	3.0k
Chang‐Shen Lin Taiwan	31	1.2k 0.8×	142 0.2×	320 0.6×	220 0.5×	8 0.0×	119	2.8k
Jason Goldstein United States	16	862 0.5×	61 0.1×	76 0.1×	105 0.3×	26 0.1×	28	3.1k
Per Sonne Holm Germany	30	1.0k 0.6×	104 0.1×	152 0.3×	42 0.1×	13 0.0×	92	2.3k
Yuta Nakai Japan	28	1.3k 0.8×	28 0.0×	87 0.2×	251 0.6×	13 0.0×	89	3.6k
Akiko Kawasaki Japan	24	732 0.5×	157 0.2×	95 0.2×	92 0.2×	4 0.0×	62	2.5k
Charles A. Thomas United States	29	1.5k 0.9×	64 0.1×	137 0.2×	56 0.1×	9 0.0×	69	2.4k
Masahiro Takigawa Japan	34	848 0.5×	29 0.0×	137 0.2×	111 0.3×	18 0.1×	170	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Yamada, Keisuke, Naoko Abe, Koji Hashimoto, et al.. (2025). Multi-objective computational optimization of human 5′ UTR sequences. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(3).

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Li, Zhenmin, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of hydrophobic-tagged 2′-deoxy-modified cap analogs and its effect on mRNA translation. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 98(2).

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Kimura, Yasuaki, Kosuke Nakamoto, Atsushi Hashimoto, et al.. (2025). Position-specific ORF nucleoside-ribose modifications enabled by complete chemical synthesis enhance mRNA stability and translation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9995–9995.

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Kimura, Seigo, Kana Okada, Noriaki Matsubara, et al.. (2025). In vivo demonstration of enhanced mRNA delivery by cyclic disulfide-containing lipid nanoparticles for facilitating endosomal escape. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 16(9). 4122–4137. 1 indexed citations

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Hashiya, Fumitaka, Yukiteru Ono, Goro Terai, et al.. (2024). Development of PCR primers enabling the design of flexible sticky ends for efficient concatenation of long DNA fragments. RSC Chemical Biology. 5(4). 360–371. 2 indexed citations

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Abe, Naoko, et al.. (2024). Development and Comparison of 4-Thiouridine to Cytidine Base Conversion Reaction. ACS Omega. 9(8). 9300–9308. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Zhenmin, Noriaki Matsubara, Fumitaka Hashiya, et al.. (2024). Intracellular Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides by Tri‐Branched Cyclic Disulfide Units. ChemMedChem. 19(20). e202400472–e202400472. 1 indexed citations

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Abe, Naoko, et al.. (2023). Use of Iontophoresis Technology for Transdermal Delivery of a Minimal mRNA Vaccine as a Potential Melanoma Therapeutic. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 46(2). 301–308. 18 indexed citations

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Tomita, Takashi, Naoko Abe, Fumitaka Hashiya, et al.. (2023). Topological capture of mRNA for silencing gene expression. Chemical Communications. 59(77). 11564–11567.

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Abe, Naoko, Zhenmin Li, Daisuke Kawaguchi, et al.. (2023). Cap analogs with a hydrophobic photocleavable tag enable facile purification of fully capped mRNA with various cap structures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2657–2657. 33 indexed citations

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Abe, Naoko, Zhenmin Li, Daisuke Kawaguchi, et al.. (2022). Complete Chemical Synthesis of Minimal Messenger RNA by Efficient Chemical Capping Reaction. ACS Chemical Biology. 17(6). 1308–1314. 15 indexed citations

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Abe, Naoko, Kosuke Nakamoto, Fumiaki Tomoike, et al.. (2021). Completely Chemically Synthesized Long DNA Can be Transcribed in Human Cells. ChemBioChem. 22(23). 3273–3276. 1 indexed citations

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Shu, Zhaoma, Bao T. Le, Keiko Masuda, et al.. (2021). Antisense Oligonucleotide Modified with Disulfide Units Induces Efficient Exon Skipping in mdx Myotubes through Enhanced Membrane Permeability and Nucleus Internalization. ChemBioChem. 22(24). 3437–3442. 13 indexed citations

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Kawaguchi, Daisuke, Ayumi Kodama, Naoko Abe, et al.. (2020). Phosphorothioate Modification of mRNA Accelerates the Rate of Translation Initiation to Provide More Efficient Protein Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 132(40). 17556–17560. 5 indexed citations

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Kawaguchi, Daisuke, Ayumi Kodama, Naoko Abe, et al.. (2020). Phosphorothioate Modification of mRNA Accelerates the Rate of Translation Initiation to Provide More Efficient Protein Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(40). 17403–17407. 37 indexed citations

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Nakamoto, Kosuke, Naoko Abe, Genichiro Tsuji, et al.. (2020). Chemically synthesized circular RNAs with phosphoramidate linkages enable rolling circle translation. Chemical Communications. 56(46). 6217–6220. 22 indexed citations

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Shu, Zhaoma, Naoko Abe, Kosuke Nakamoto, et al.. (2019). Disulfide‐Unit Conjugation Enables Ultrafast Cytosolic Internalization of Antisense DNA and siRNA. Angewandte Chemie. 131(20). 6683–6687. 16 indexed citations

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Shu, Zhaoma, Naoko Abe, Kosuke Nakamoto, et al.. (2019). Disulfide‐Unit Conjugation Enables Ultrafast Cytosolic Internalization of Antisense DNA and siRNA. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(20). 6611–6615. 80 indexed citations

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Shibata, Tomohiko, Hirotaka Yamagata, Shusaku Uchida, et al.. (2013). The alteration of hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and its target genes in mood disorder patients. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 43. 222–229. 56 indexed citations

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Uchida, Shusaku, K. Hara, Ayumi Kobayashi, et al.. (2011). Impaired hippocampal spinogenesis and neurogenesis and altered affective behavior in mice lacking heat shock factor 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1681–1686. 79 indexed citations

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