Shoji Maeda

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Shoji Maeda is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Shoji Maeda has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Shoji Maeda's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (16 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (6 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (6 papers). Shoji Maeda is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (16 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (6 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (6 papers). Shoji Maeda collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Shoji Maeda's co-authors include Tomitake Tsukihara, Brian K. Kobilka, Georgios Skiniotis, So Nakagawa, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Atsunori Oshima, Eiki Yamashita, Michihiro Suga, Qianhui Qu and Daniel Hilger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Shoji Maeda

41 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution

2009 553 citations Shoji Maeda, So Nakagawa et al. Nature profile →
Structure of the µ-opioid receptor–Gi protein complex

2018 495 citations Hongli Hu, Shoji Maeda et al. Nature profile →
Structure of a Signaling Cannabinoid Receptor 1-G Protein Complex

2019 318 citations Kaavya Krishna Kumar, Moran Shalev-Benami et al. Cell profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structural basis for catalysis and selectivity of phospholipid synthesis by eukaryotic choline-phosphotransferase 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Yasuhiro Horibata, Frank E. Kwarcinski, (unknown), Ashleigh M. Raczkowski, A L Hubbard, (unknown), Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Gregory G. Tall, Melanie D. Ohi, Shoji Maeda	2
2	Structural and dynamic insights into supra-physiological activation and allosteric modulation of a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Jun Xu, Qinggong Wang, Harald Hübner, Yunfei Hu, Xiaogang Niu, Haoqing Wang, Shoji Maeda, Asuka Inoue, Yuyong Tao, Peter Gmeiner, Yang Du, Changwen Jin, Brian K. Kobilka	19
3	Atypical structural snapshots of human cytomegalovirus GPCR interactions with host G proteins 2022 ·Science Advances ·Naotaka Tsutsumi, Shoji Maeda, Qianhui Qu, Martin Vögele, Kevin M. Jude, Carl‐Mikael Suomivuori, Ouliana Panova, Deepa Waghray, Hideaki Kato, (unknown), Ron O. Dror, Georgios Skiniotis, Brian K. Kobilka, K. Christopher García	21
4	Membrane phosphoinositides regulate GPCR-β-arrestin complex assembly and dynamics 2022 ·Cell ·John Janetzko, Ryoji Kise, Benjamin Barsi‐Rhyne, Dirk H. Siepe, Franziska M. Heydenreich, Kouki Kawakami, Matthieu Masureel, Shoji Maeda, K. Christopher García, Mark von Zastrow, Asuka Inoue, Brian K. Kobilka	56
5	Activation of the α2B adrenoceptor by the sedative sympatholytic dexmedetomidine 2020 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Daopeng Yuan, Zhongmin Liu, Jonas Kaindl, Shoji Maeda, Jiawei Zhao, Xiaoou Sun, Jun Xu, Peter Gmeiner, Hongwei Wang, Brian K. Kobilka	52
6	Structural mechanism underlying primary and secondary coupling between GPCRs and the Gi/o family 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Hee Ryung Kim, Jun Xu, Shoji Maeda, Nguyen Minh Duc, (unknown), Yang Du, Ka Young Chung	47
7	Structure and selectivity engineering of the M ₁ muscarinic receptor toxin complex 2020 ·Science ·Shoji Maeda, Jun Xu, Francois Marie Ngako Kadji, Mary J. Clark, Jiawei Zhao, Naotaka Tsutsumi, Junken Aoki, Roger K. Sunahara, Asuka Inoue, K. Christopher García, Brian K. Kobilka	35
8	Structures of the M1 and M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor/G-protein complexes 2019 ·Science ·Shoji Maeda, Qianhui Qu, Michael J. Robertson, Georgios Skiniotis, Brian K. Kobilka	226
9	Structural Insights into the Subtype-Selective Antagonist Binding to the M2 Muscarinic Receptor 2019 ·Biophysical Journal ·Sangbae Lee, Ryoji Suno, Shoji Maeda, Takuya Kobayashi, Brian K. Kobilka, Nagarajan Vaidehi	2
10	Structure of a Signaling Cannabinoid Receptor 1-G Protein Complex breakdown → 2019 ·Cell ·Kaavya Krishna Kumar, Moran Shalev-Benami, Michael J. Robertson, Hongli Hu, Samuel D. Banister, Scott A. Hollingsworth, Naomi R. Latorraca, Hideaki Kato, Daniel Hilger, Shoji Maeda, William I. Weis, David Farrens, Ron O. Dror, Sanjay V. Malhotra, Brian K. Kobilka, Georgios Skiniotis	318
11	Conformational Complexity and Dynamics in a Muscarinic Receptor Revealed by NMR Spectroscopy 2019 ·Molecular Cell ·Jun Xu, Yunfei Hu, Jonas Kaindl, (unknown), Harald Hübner, Shoji Maeda, Xiaogang Niu, Hongwei Li, Peter Gmeiner, Changwen Jin, Brian K. Kobilka	59
12	Structural insights into the subtype-selective antagonist binding to the M2 muscarinic receptor 2018 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Ryoji Suno, Sangbae Lee, Shoji Maeda, Satoshi Yasuda, Keitaro Yamashita, Kunio Hirata, Shoichiro Horita, Maki S. Tawaramoto, Hirokazu Tsujimoto, Takeshi Murata, Masahiro Kinoshita, Masaki Yamamoto, Brian K. Kobilka, Nagarajan Vaidehi, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi	54
13	Probing Gαi1 protein activation at single–amino acid resolution 2015 ·Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Dawei Sun, Tilman Flock, Xavier Deupí, Shoji Maeda, Milos Matkovic, (unknown), Daniel Mayer, Roger Dawson, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, M. Madan Babu, Dmitry B. Veprintsev	53
14	Asparagine 175 of Connexin32 Is a Critical Residue for Docking and Forming Functional Heterotypic Gap Junction Channels with Connexin26 2011 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·So Nakagawa, Xiang‐Qun Gong, Shoji Maeda, (unknown), Yuko Misumi, Tomitake Tsukihara, Donglin Bai	40
15	Structure of the gap junction channel and its implications for its biological functions 2010 ·Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Shoji Maeda, Tomitake Tsukihara	114
16	Structural and functional studies of gap junction channels 2010 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·So Nakagawa, Shoji Maeda, Tomitake Tsukihara	53
17	A description of the structural determination procedures of a gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution 2009 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Michihiro Suga, Shoji Maeda, So Nakagawa, Eiki Yamashita, Tomitake Tsukihara	23
18	Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution breakdown → 2009 ·Nature ·Shoji Maeda, So Nakagawa, Michihiro Suga, Eiki Yamashita, Atsunori Oshima, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Tomitake Tsukihara	553
19	Roles of Met-34, Cys-64, and Arg-75 in the Assembly of Human Connexin 26 2003 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Atsunori Oshima, Tomoko Doi, Kaoru Mitsuoka, Shoji Maeda, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi	86
20	Purification, complete amino acid sequence and structural characterization of the heat‐stable sweet protein, mabinlin II 1993 ·European Journal of Biochemistry ·Xiaozhu Liu, Shoji Maeda, Zhong Hu, Toshihiro Aiuchi, Kazuyasu Nakaya, Yoshie Kurihara	88

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