Shigeo Murata

26.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
215 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Shigeo Murata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigeo Murata has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Immunology and 41 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shigeo Murata's work include Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (93 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (35 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (26 papers). Shigeo Murata is often cited by papers focused on Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (93 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (35 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (26 papers). Shigeo Murata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Shigeo Murata's co-authors include Keiji Tanaka, Tomoki Chiba, M. Tachiya, Yasuo Uchiyama, Masaaki Komatsu, Isei Tanida, Satoshi Waguri, Junichi Iwata, Eiki Kominami and Takashi Ueno and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Shigeo Murata

211 papers receiving 18.9k 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.

Loss of autophagy in the central nervous system causes neurodegeneration in mice

2006 2.9k citations Masaaki Komatsu, Satoshi Waguri et al. profile →
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 →
T-cell-mediated regulation of osteoclastogenesis by signalling cross-talk between RANKL and IFN-γ

2000 1.1k citations Hiroshi Takayanagi, Tomoki Chiba et al. profile →
Involvement of linear polyubiquitylation of NEMO in NF-κB activation

2009 742 citations Shigeo Murata, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
A ubiquitin ligase complex assembles linear polyubiquitin chains

2006 604 citations Shigeo Murata, Keiji Tanaka et al. profile →
Efficiencies of Electron Injection from Excited N3 Dye into Nanocrystalline Semiconductor (ZrO₂, TiO₂, ZnO, Nb₂O₅, SnO₂, In₂O₃) Films

2004 520 citations Shigeo Murata, M. Tachiya et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shigeo Murata Japan	64	10.2k	5.7k	3.5k	2.9k	2.4k	215	19.1k
Patrizia Agostinis Belgium	83	11.0k 1.1×	4.7k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	6.7k 2.3×	4.6k 1.9×	233	28.1k
Yukiko Hayashi Japan	59	6.5k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	620 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	339	12.7k
James H. Hurley United States	82	15.2k 1.5×	4.0k 0.7×	8.6k 2.5×	1.8k 0.6×	855 0.4×	232	22.1k
Min Wu China	59	7.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.2×	758 0.2×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	294	14.8k
Matthias W. Hentze Germany	107	25.4k 2.5×	1.2k 0.2×	1.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	306	40.1k
Philip D. Jeffrey United States	59	14.8k 1.5×	1.4k 0.3×	3.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	6.0k 2.5×	174	20.5k
Daniel Scherman France	74	13.3k 1.3×	696 0.1×	851 0.2×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	418	24.2k
J. Michael McCaffery United States	79	16.9k 1.7×	2.4k 0.4×	4.8k 1.4×	706 0.2×	502 0.2×	145	22.9k
Jonathan A. Cooper United States	91	22.4k 2.2×	1.1k 0.2×	6.3k 1.8×	3.6k 1.2×	4.6k 1.9×	237	32.3k
Alfred Wittinghofer Germany	96	25.9k 2.5×	591 0.1×	8.3k 2.4×	1.6k 0.6×	3.1k 1.3×	296	31.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigeo Murata

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Hirayama, Shoshiro, et al.. (2025). Vacuolar Sts1 Degradation‐Induced Cytoplasmic Proteasome Translocation Restores Cell Proliferation. Genes to Cells. 30(2). e70004–e70004. 1 indexed citations

Hirayama, Shoshiro, et al.. (2025). ESCRT-I and PTPN23 mediate microautophagy of ubiquitylated tau aggregates. The Journal of Cell Biology. 224(6). 1 indexed citations

Hamazaki, Jun & Shigeo Murata. (2020). ER-Resident Transcription Factor Nrf1 Regulates Proteasome Expression and Beyond. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(10). 3683–3683. 29 indexed citations

Watanabe, Kohei, et al.. (2020). Cu(i)/sucrose-catalyzed hydroxylation of arenes in water: the dual role of sucrose. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18(39). 7827–7831. 3 indexed citations

Watanabe, Ayaka, Shun‐ichiro Iemura, Tohru Natsume, et al.. (2019). FAM48A mediates compensatory autophagy induced by proteasome impairment. Genes to Cells. 24(8). 559–568. 1 indexed citations

Brochu, Sylvie, Mengqi Dong, Alexandre Rouette, et al.. (2018). PSMB11 Orchestrates the Development of CD4 and CD8 Thymocytes via Regulation of Gene Expression in Cortical Thymic Epithelial Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 202(3). 966–978. 25 indexed citations

Mimuro, Hitomi, et al.. (2018). Shigellaeffector IpaH4.5 targets 19S regulatory particle subunit RPN13 in the 26S proteasome to dampen cytotoxic T lymphocyte activation. Cellular Microbiology. 21(3). e12974–e12974. 10 indexed citations

Nitta, Takeshi, Ryunosuke Muro, Sachiko Nitta, et al.. (2015). The thymic cortical epithelium determines the TCR repertoire of IL ‐17‐producing γδT cells. EMBO Reports. 16(5). 638–653. 45 indexed citations

Nakagawa, Yasushi, Izumi Ohigashi, Takeshi Nitta, et al.. (2012). Thymic nurse cells provide microenvironment for secondary T cell receptor α rearrangement in cortical thymocytes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(50). 20572–20577. 74 indexed citations

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Nitta, Takeshi, Shigeo Murata, Katsuhiro Sasaki, et al.. (2010). Thymoproteasome Shapes Immunocompetent Repertoire of CD8+ T Cells. Immunity. 32(1). 29–40. 154 indexed citations

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Tonoki, Ayako, Erina Kuranaga, Takeyasu Tomioka, et al.. (2008). Genetic Evidence Linking Age-Dependent Attenuation of the 26S Proteasome with the Aging Process. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 29(4). 1095–1106. 219 indexed citations

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Nitta, Takeshi, Shigeo Murata, Tomoo Ueno, Keiji Tanaka, & Yousuke Takahama. (2008). Chapter 3 Thymic Microenvironments for T-Cell Repertoire Formation. Advances in immunology. 99. 59–94. 68 indexed citations

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Yamano, Taketoshi, Shusaku Mizukami, Shigeo Murata, et al.. (2008). Allele-Selective Effect of PA28 in MHC Class I Antigen Processing. The Journal of Immunology. 181(3). 1655–1664. 23 indexed citations

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Murata, Shigeo, Katsuhiro Sasaki, Toshihiko Kishimoto, et al.. (2007). Regulation of CD8 ⁺ T Cell Development by Thymus-Specific Proteasomes. Science. 316(5829). 1349–1353. 456 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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Arimura, Takashi, et al.. (2004). Synthesis and Carbon-13 NMR Longitudinal Relaxation Time Studies of Porphyrin Dimers Possessing Conformational Fluctuation. Journal of Oleo Science. 53(3). 153–156. 3 indexed citations

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Yamano, Taketoshi, Shigeo Murata, Naoki Shimbara, et al.. (2002). Two Distinct Pathways Mediated by PA28 and hsp90 in Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Antigen Processing. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 196(2). 185–196. 63 indexed citations

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Kawahara, Shigeru, Tadafumi Uchimaru, & Shigeo Murata. (1999). Efficiency enhancement of long-range energy transfer by seqencial multistep FRET using fluorescence labeled DNA. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series. 42(1). 241–242. 7 indexed citations

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Furukawa, Hiroshi, Shigeo Murata, Toshio Yabe, et al.. (1999). Splice acceptor site mutation of the transporter associated with antigen processing-1 gene in human bare lymphocyte syndrome. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 103(5). 755–758. 44 indexed citations

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Sakakibara, Naoki, et al.. (1987). Iodine excretion and prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in the Western Part of Germany: results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall study. PubMed. 16(7). 865–8. 1 indexed citations

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