Sakura Azuma

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sakura Azuma is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sakura Azuma has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Immunology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sakura Azuma's work include NF-κB Signaling Pathways (9 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (4 papers). Sakura Azuma is often cited by papers focused on NF-κB Signaling Pathways (9 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (7 papers) and interferon and immune responses (4 papers). Sakura Azuma collaborates with scholars based in Japan and United States. Sakura Azuma's co-authors include Jun‐ichiro Inoue, Tadashi Yamamoto, Asuka Naito, Norihiko Kobayashi, Takaomi Ishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto, Kazuki Nakao, Kenji Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Miyazaki and Motoya Katsuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Sakura Azuma

18 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Severe osteopetrosis, defective interleukin‐1 signalling and lymph node organogenesis in TRAF6‐deficient mice

1999 528 citations Asuka Naito, Sakura Azuma et al. Genes to Cells profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sakura Azuma Japan	16	1.2k	1.1k	942	653	101	18	2.1k
Florian Kuchenbauer Germany	25	2.4k 2.0×	1.6k 1.5×	497 0.5×	263 0.4×	146 1.4×	81	3.4k
Tomohiko Kanno Japan	19	1.8k 1.5×	315 0.3×	493 0.5×	359 0.5×	140 1.4×	22	2.4k
Franca Citarella Italy	23	823 0.7×	606 0.6×	365 0.4×	232 0.4×	113 1.1×	38	1.7k
Isabelle Dunand-Sauthier Switzerland	22	1.2k 1.0×	674 0.6×	792 0.8×	238 0.4×	116 1.1×	30	2.0k
Chuan-Jin Wu United States	16	1.3k 1.1×	818 0.8×	989 1.0×	480 0.7×	70 0.7×	30	2.1k
Rodney P. DeKoter Canada	23	1.5k 1.2×	336 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	473 0.7×	215 2.1×	51	3.1k
Andrea Bottaro United States	28	1.0k 0.8×	227 0.2×	1.7k 1.8×	455 0.7×	212 2.1×	67	2.8k
David B. Durand United States	8	1.2k 1.0×	352 0.3×	829 0.9×	351 0.5×	87 0.9×	11	1.8k
Tetsuya Yamagata Japan	25	1.2k 1.0×	260 0.2×	1.1k 1.1×	499 0.8×	266 2.6×	58	2.7k
Steve Ruben United States	16	612 0.5×	237 0.2×	881 0.9×	365 0.6×	120 1.2×	17	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sakura Azuma

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18 of 18 papers shown

Saito, Makoto, Yukiko Kato, Emi Ito, et al.. (2012). Expression screening of 17q12–21 amplicon reveals GRB7 as an ERBB2‐dependent oncogene. FEBS Letters. 586(12). 1708–1714. 20 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Noritaka, Taku Ito, Sakura Azuma, et al.. (2009). Constitutive activation of nuclear factor‐κB is preferentially involved in the proliferation of basal‐like subtype breast cancer cell lines. Cancer Science. 100(9). 1668–1674. 112 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Noritaka, Tetsunari Oyama, Emi Ito, et al.. (2008). NOTCH3 Signaling Pathway Plays Crucial Roles in the Proliferation of ErbB2-Negative Human Breast Cancer Cells. Cancer Research. 68(6). 1881–1888. 150 indexed citations

Ito, Emi, Reiko Honma, Yuka Yanagisawa, et al.. (2007). Novel clusters of highly expressed genes accompany genomic amplification in breast cancers. FEBS Letters. 581(21). 3909–3914. 15 indexed citations

Ito, Emi, Sakura Azuma, Reiko Honma, et al.. (2007). FoxA1 as a lineage-specific oncogene in luminal type breast cancer. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 365(4). 711–717. 53 indexed citations

Ishikawa, Kosuke, Sakura Azuma, Shuntaro Ikawa, Kentaro Semba, & Jun‐ichiro Inoue. (2005). Identification of DRG family regulatory proteins (DFRPs): specific regulation of DRG1 and DRG2. Genes to Cells. 10(2). 139–150. 46 indexed citations

Inoue, Jun‐ichiro, et al.. (2005). Identification and characterization of Xenopus laevis homologs of mammalian TRAF6 and its binding protein TIFA. Gene. 358. 53–59. 6 indexed citations

Matsumura, Takayuki, Kentaro Semba, Sakura Azuma, et al.. (2004). TIFAB inhibits TIFA, TRAF-interacting protein with a forkhead-associated domain. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 317(1). 230–234. 17 indexed citations

Ito, Emi, Reiko Honma, Jun-ichi Imai, et al.. (2003). A Tetraspanin-Family Protein, T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Associated Antigen 1, Is Induced by the Ewing's Sarcoma-Wilms' Tumor 1 Fusion Protein of Desmoplastic Small Round-Cell Tumor. American Journal Of Pathology. 163(6). 2165–2172. 41 indexed citations

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Ishikawa, Kosuke, Sakura Azuma, Shuntaro Ikawa, et al.. (2003). Cloning and characterization of Xenopus laevis drg2, a member of the developmentally regulated GTP-binding protein subfamily. Gene. 322. 105–112. 19 indexed citations

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Naito, Asuka, Hisahiro Yoshida, Eri Nishioka, et al.. (2002). TRAF6 -deficient mice display hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(13). 8766–8771. 152 indexed citations

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Hosoe, Yuko, et al.. (2001). HNF-1 regulates the liver-specific transcription of the chipmunk HP-20 gene. Gene. 277(1-2). 121–127. 12 indexed citations

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Akiyama, Taishin, Jin Gohda, Yukiko Nomura, et al.. (2001). Mammalian homologue of E. coli ras‐like GTPase (ERA) is a possible apoptosis regulator with RNA binding activity. Genes to Cells. 6(11). 987–1001. 19 indexed citations

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Inoue, Jun‐ichiro, Takaomi Ishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto, et al.. (2000). Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Factor (TRAF) Family: Adapter Proteins That Mediate Cytokine Signaling. Experimental Cell Research. 254(1). 14–24. 371 indexed citations

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Naito, Asuka, Sakura Azuma, Sakae Tanaka, et al.. (1999). Severe osteopetrosis, defective interleukin‐1 signalling and lymph node organogenesis in TRAF6‐deficient mice. Genes to Cells. 4(6). 353–362. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tsukamoto, Nobuo, Norihiko Kobayashi, Sakura Azuma, Tadashi Yamamoto, & Jun‐ichiro Inoue. (1999). Two differently regulated nuclear factor κB activation pathways triggered by the cytoplasmic tail of CD40. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(4). 1234–1239. 87 indexed citations

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Mizushima, Seiichi, Mikako Fujita, Takaomi Ishida, et al.. (1998). Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding the human homolog of tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 5 (TRAF5). Gene. 207(2). 135–140. 18 indexed citations

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Ishida, Takaomi, Seiichi Mizushima, Sakura Azuma, et al.. (1996). Identification of TRAF6, a Novel Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-associated Factor Protein That Mediates Signaling from an Amino-terminal Domain of the CD40 Cytoplasmic Region. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(46). 28745–28748. 422 indexed citations

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