Shun Sakuraba

992 total citations
47 papers, 659 citations indexed

About

Shun Sakuraba is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Shun Sakuraba has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 659 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Shun Sakuraba's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (10 papers). Shun Sakuraba is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (19 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (10 papers). Shun Sakuraba collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Taiwan. Shun Sakuraba's co-authors include Nobuyuki Matubayasi, Hidetoshi Kono, Akio Kitao, Jinzen Ikebe, Takashi Ohshima, Tomoyuki Shibuguchi, Masakatsu Shibasaki, Hisashi Mihara, Akiyoshi Kuramochi and Ikuo Fukuda and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Shun Sakuraba

44 papers receiving 656 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shun Sakuraba Japan 16 450 124 121 103 52 47 659
Joseph D. Yesselman United States 16 777 1.7× 67 0.5× 76 0.6× 100 1.0× 66 1.3× 26 930
Yoshitake Sakae Japan 13 410 0.9× 92 0.7× 50 0.4× 146 1.4× 56 1.1× 32 556
Antonio M. Ferreira United States 14 454 1.0× 152 1.2× 63 0.5× 66 0.6× 19 0.4× 24 811
Dawei Zhang China 12 352 0.8× 77 0.6× 59 0.5× 125 1.2× 68 1.3× 33 495
Daniel A. Karp United States 6 560 1.2× 46 0.4× 122 1.0× 178 1.7× 83 1.6× 6 686
Kira A. Armacost United States 10 386 0.9× 102 0.8× 98 0.8× 101 1.0× 57 1.1× 16 612
Robert Soliva Spain 18 591 1.3× 222 1.8× 58 0.5× 90 0.9× 55 1.1× 37 916
Sara Núñez United States 19 602 1.3× 131 1.1× 114 0.9× 262 2.5× 45 0.9× 32 1.0k
Daniel A. Kraut United States 16 808 1.8× 84 0.7× 87 0.7× 312 3.0× 67 1.3× 32 1.1k
Daniel S. Spencer United States 6 571 1.3× 49 0.4× 118 1.0× 197 1.9× 87 1.7× 7 705

Countries citing papers authored by Shun Sakuraba

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shun Sakuraba

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shun Sakuraba

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shun Sakuraba. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shun Sakuraba 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 Shun Sakuraba. Shun Sakuraba is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yilmaz, Neval, Shun Sakuraba, Holger Flechsig, et al.. (2025). Ligand Binding to the Membrane-Distal Domain of the Met Receptor Induces Dimerization at the Membrane-Proximal Domain. ACS Nano. 19(48). 40746–40758.
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Watanabe, Kenji, Tatsuyoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Fujita, et al.. (2024). Metabolically inducing defects in DNA repair sensitizes BRCA –wild-type cancer cells to replication stress. Science Signaling. 17(862). eadl6445–eadl6445. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Youwei, Shun Sakuraba, Chandirasegaran Massilamany, et al.. (2023). Harnessing autoimmunity with dominant self-peptide: Modulating the sustainability of tissue-preferential antigen-specific Tregs by governing the binding stability via peptide flanking residues. Journal of Autoimmunity. 140. 103094–103094. 2 indexed citations
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Sakuraba, Shun, et al.. (2022). Extended ensemble simulations of a SARS-CoV-2 nsp1–5’-UTR complex. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(1). e1009804–e1009804. 6 indexed citations
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Sato, Ko, Keisuke Hamada, Chikako Okada, et al.. (2021). Structural basis of the regulation of the normal and oncogenic methylation of nucleosomal histone H3 Lys36 by NSD2. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6605–6605. 26 indexed citations
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Sakuraba, Shun, Junichi Iwakiri, Michiaki Hamada, et al.. (2020). Free-Energy Calculation of Ribonucleic Inosines and Its Application to Nearest-Neighbor Parameters. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 16(9). 5923–5935. 3 indexed citations
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Hirano, Atsushi, Kazuki Iwashita, Shun Sakuraba, et al.. (2019). The binding affinity of uncharged aromatic solutes for negatively charged resins is enhanced by cations via cation–π interactions: The case of sodium ion and arginine. Journal of Chromatography A. 1595. 97–107. 4 indexed citations
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Kono, Hidetoshi, Shun Sakuraba, & Hisashi Ishida. (2019). Free energy profile for unwrapping outer superhelical turn of CENP-A nucleosome. Biophysics and Physicobiology. 16(0). 337–343. 8 indexed citations
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Hirano, Atsushi, Kazuki Iwashita, Shun Sakuraba, et al.. (2018). Salt-dependent elution of uncharged aromatic solutes in ion-exchange chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A. 1546. 46–55. 12 indexed citations
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Kawamura, Takahiro, et al.. (2017). Analysis of O 2 -binding Sites in Proteins Using Gas-Pressure NMR Spectroscopy: Outer Surface Protein A. Biophysical Journal. 112(9). 1820–1828. 5 indexed citations
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Hirano, Atsushi, Tomoshi Kameda, Shun Sakuraba, et al.. (2017). Disulfide bond formation of thiols by using carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale. 9(17). 5389–5393. 10 indexed citations
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Ishizuka, Ryosuke, et al.. (2016). Interaction-component analysis of the hydration and urea effects on cytochrome c. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 144(8). 85102–85102. 26 indexed citations
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Kono, Hidetoshi, Shun Sakuraba, & Hisashi Ishida. (2015). Free Energy Profiles for Nucleosomal DNA Unwrapping. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 73a–73a. 1 indexed citations
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Ikebe, Jinzen, Shun Sakuraba, & Hidetoshi Kono. (2015). Conformational Sampling of Unmodified and Acetylated H3 Histone Tails on a Nucleosome by All-Atom Model Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 540a–541a. 2 indexed citations
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Sakuraba, Shun, Kiyoshi Asai, & Tomoshi Kameda. (2015). Predicting RNA Duplex Dimerization Free-Energy Changes upon Mutations Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6(21). 4348–4351. 14 indexed citations
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Takemura, Kazuhiro, Takeshi Ishikawa, Shun Sakuraba, et al.. (2013). Free-energy analysis of lysozyme–triNAG binding modes with all-atom molecular dynamics simulation combined with the solution theory in the energy representation. Chemical Physics Letters. 559. 94–98. 7 indexed citations
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Takemura, Kazuhiro, Hao‐Bo Guo, Shun Sakuraba, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, & Akio Kitao. (2012). Evaluation of protein-protein docking model structures using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations combined with the solution theory in the energy representation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 137(21). 215105–215105. 38 indexed citations
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Sakuraba, Shun & Akio Kitao. (2009). Free Energy Landscape of Biomolecules from Multiple Non-Equilibrium Molecular Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 406a–406a. 1 indexed citations
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Sakuraba, Shun & Akio Kitao. (2008). Multiple Markov transition matrix method: Obtaining the stationary probability distribution from multiple simulations. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 30(12). 1850–1858. 8 indexed citations
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Shibuguchi, Tomoyuki, Hisashi Mihara, Akiyoshi Kuramochi, et al.. (2006). Short Synthesis of (+)‐Cylindricine C by Using a Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reaction with a Two‐Center Organocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 118(28). 4751–4753. 25 indexed citations

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