Shoko Masuda

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Shoko Masuda is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shoko Masuda has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Shoko Masuda's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Shoko Masuda is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Shoko Masuda collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and India. Shoko Masuda's co-authors include Seth A. Darst, Katsuhiko Murakami, Elizabeth A. Campbell, Oriana Muzzin, Georg Homuth, Axel Mogk, Yasuo Kobayashi, Wolfgang Schumann, Connor A. Olson and Yuji Kageyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shoko Masuda

11 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Structural Basis of Transcription Initiation: An RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme-DNA Complex

2002 526 citations Katsuhiko Murakami, Shoko Masuda et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shoko Masuda

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shoko Masuda. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shoko Masuda based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shoko Masuda. Shoko Masuda is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Noninvasive detection of pulmonary tissue destruction in a mouse model of emphysema using hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MRS under spontaneous respiration 2010 ·Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ·Hirohiko Imai, Atsuomi Kimura, Satoshi Iguchi, Yuki Hori, Shoko Masuda, Hideaki Fujiwara	31
2	Genomic resources for songbird research and their use in characterizing gene expression during brain development 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·XiaoChing Li, Xiu‐Jie Wang, (unknown), Sheila Podell, Piali Mukherjee, Moritz Hertel, Jeremy S. Biane, Shoko Masuda, Fernando Nottebohm, Terry Gaasterland	43
3	Structure and Function of Lineage-specific Sequence Insertions in the Bacterial RNA Polymerase β′ Subunit 2005 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Mark Chlenov, Shoko Masuda, Katsuhiko Murakami, Vadim Nikiforov, Seth A. Darst, Arkady Mustaev	55
4	Crystal Structures of the ADP and ATP Bound Forms of the Bacillus Anti-σ Factor SpoIIAB in Complex with the Anti-anti-σ SpoIIAA 2004 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Shoko Masuda, Katsuhiko Murakami, Sheng Wang, Connor A. Olson, Jill R. Donigian, (unknown), Seth A. Darst, Elizabeth A. Campbell	58
5	Crystallographic Analysis of Thermus aquaticus RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme and a Holoenzyme⧸Promoter DNA Complex 2003 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Katsuhiko Murakami, Shoko Masuda, Seth A. Darst	11
6	Structural Basis of Transcription Initiation: An RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme-DNA Complex breakdown → 2002 ·Science ·Katsuhiko Murakami, Shoko Masuda, Elizabeth A. Campbell, Oriana Muzzin, Seth A. Darst	526
7	Structural Basis of Transcription Initiation: RNA Polymerase Holoenzyme at 4 Å Resolution 2002 ·Science ·Katsuhiko Murakami, Shoko Masuda, Seth A. Darst	453
8	Crystal Structure of the Bacillus stearothermophilus Anti-σ Factor SpoIIAB with the Sporulation σ Factor σF 2002 ·Cell ·Elizabeth A. Campbell, Shoko Masuda, Jing Sun, Oriana Muzzin, Connor A. Olson, Sheng Wang, Seth A. Darst	90
9	Temporal regulation of the mid‐prepupal gene FTZ‐F1: DHR3 early late gene product is one of the plural positive regulators 1997 ·Genes to Cells ·Yuji Kageyama, Shoko Masuda, Susumu Hirose, Hitoshi Ueda	55
10	The dnaK operon of Bacillus subtilis is heptacistronic 1997 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Georg Homuth, Shoko Masuda, Axel Mogk, Yasuo Kobayashi, Wolfgang Schumann	122
11	Systematic sequencing of the 283 kb 210 -232 region of the Bacillus subtilis genome containing the skin element and many sporulation genes 1996 ·Microbiology ·Mamoru Mizuno, Shoko Masuda, Ken‐Ichi Takemaru, Shigeo Hosono, Tsutomu Sato, Michio Takeuchi, Yasumasa Kobayashi	40

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