So Iwata

31.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
217 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

So Iwata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, So Iwata has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in So Iwata's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (40 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (39 papers). So Iwata is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (40 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (39 papers). So Iwata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. So Iwata's co-authors include James Barber, Karim Maghlaoui, Hartmut Michel, T.M. Iverson, Bernd Ludwig, Christian Ostermeier, Jeff Abramson, Bernadette Byrne, Alexander D. Cameron and H. Ronald Kaback and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

So Iwata

213 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center

2004 2.7k citations T.M. Iverson, Karim Maghlaoui et al. Science profile →
Structure at 2.8 Å resolution of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans

1995 1.7k citations So Iwata et al. profile →
Structure and Mechanism of the Lactose Permease of Escherichia coli

2003 1.1k citations Jeff Abramson, И. Н. Смирнова et al. Science profile →
Complete Structure of the 11-Subunit Bovine Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc ₁ Complex

1998 1.0k citations So Iwata et al. Science profile →
Architecture of Succinate Dehydrogenase and Reactive Oxygen Species Generation

2003 742 citations Victoria Yankovskaya, Rob Horsefield et al. Science profile →
Structure of the human histamine H1 receptor complex with doxepin

2011 659 citations Tatsuro Shimamura, Mitsunori Shiroishi et al. profile →
Atg9 is a lipid scramblase that mediates autophagosomal membrane expansion

2020 298 citations Akihisa Tsutsumi, Norimichi Nomura et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly

2022 108 citations Norimichi Nomura, Tomoko Uemura et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of So Iwata

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The structure and function of the ghrelin receptor coding for drug actions 2025 ·Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Yuki Shiimura, Dohyun Im, (unknown), Hidetsugu Asada, Ryoji Kise, (unknown), (unknown), Satoshi Yasuda, (unknown), Jun-ichi Kishikawa, Takayuki Kato, Takeshi Murata, Masayasu Kojima, So Iwata, Ikuo Masuho	3
2	Cryo-EM structures of human zinc transporter ZnT7 reveal the mechanism of Zn2+ uptake into the Golgi apparatus 2023 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Satoshi Watanabe, Norimichi Nomura, Kehong Liu, Tomoko Uemura, M. Inoue, Akihisa Tsutsumi, (unknown), Kengo Kinoshita, Yukinari Kato, So Iwata, Masahide Kikkawa, Kenji Inaba	21
3	Recent progress in membrane protein dynamics revealed by X-ray free electron lasers: Molecular movies of microbial rhodopsins 2023 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Eriko Nango, So Iwata	9
4	Molecular basis for anti-insomnia drug design from structure of lemborexant-bound orexin 2 receptor 2022 ·Structure ·Hidetsugu Asada, Dohyun Im, (unknown), Satoshi Yasuda, Takeshi Murata, Ryoji Suno, So Iwata	11
5	Structural insights into the G protein selectivity revealed by the human EP3-Gi signaling complex 2022 ·Cell Reports ·Ryoji Suno, Yukihiko Sugita, Kazushi Morimoto, (unknown), Hirokazu Tsujimoto, Mika Hirose, (unknown), Norimichi Nomura, Tomoya Hino, Asuka Inoue, Kenji Iwasaki, Takayuki Kato, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi	14
6	Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography of an anaerobically formed catalytic intermediate of copper amine oxidase 2022 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·T. Murakawa, Mamoru Suzuki, Kenji Fukui, Tetsuya Masuda, Michihiro Sugahara, Kensuke Tono, Tomoyuki Tanaka, So Iwata, Eriko Nango, T. Yano, Katsuyuki Tanizawa, Toshihide Okajima	5
7	Structural insights into tetraspanin CD9 function 2020 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Yuhkoh Satouh, Mizuki Takemoto, Yoshiko Nakada-Nakura, Kehong Liu, Takeshi Yokoyama, Mikako Shirouzu, So Iwata, Norimichi Nomura, Ken Sato, Masahito Ikawa, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Osamu Nureki	143
8	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
9	Coincidence timing of femtosecond optical pulses in an X-ray free electron laser 2017 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·Álvaro Sánchez‐González, Allan S. Johnson, Ann Fitzpatrick, C. Hutchison, Clyde Fare, Violeta Cordón-Preciado, Gabriel Dorlhiac, Josie L. Ferreira, Rhodri M. L. Morgan, J. P. Marangos, Shigeki Owada, Takanori Nakane, Rie Tanaka, Kensuke Tono, So Iwata, Jasper J. van Thor	12
10	Hot-Spot Residues to be Mutated Common in G Protein-Coupled Receptors of Class A: Identification of Thermostabilizing Mutations Followed by Determination of Three-Dimensional Structures for Two Example Receptors 2017 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Satoshi Yasuda, (unknown), Yosuke Toyoda, Kazushi Morimoto, Ryoji Suno, So Iwata, Takuya Kobayashi, Takeshi Murata, Masahiro Kinoshita	25
11	X-ray Free Electron Laser Determination of Crystal Structures of Dark and Light States of a Reversibly Photoswitching Fluorescent Protein at Room Temperature 2017 ·International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·C. Hutchison, Violeta Cordón-Preciado, Rhodri M. L. Morgan, Takanori Nakane, Josie L. Ferreira, Gabriel Dorlhiac, Álvaro Sánchez‐González, Allan S. Johnson, Ann Fitzpatrick, Clyde Fare, J. P. Marangos, Chun Hong Yoon, Mark Hunter, Daniel P. DePonte, Sébastien Boutet, Shigeki Owada, Rie Tanaka, Kensuke Tono, So Iwata, (unknown)	10
12	Loose Binding of the DF Axis with the A3B3 Complex Stimulates the Initial Activity of Enterococcus hirae V1-ATPase 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Md. Jahangir Alam, Satoshi Arai, Shinya Saijo, K. Suzuki, K. Mizutani, Yoshiko Ishizuka‐Katsura, Noboru Ohsawa, Takaho Terada, Mikako Shirouzu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, So Iwata, Yoshimi Kakinuma, Ichiro Yamato, Takeshi Murata	6
13	Structure of the rotor ring modified with N , N ^′ -dicyclohexylcarbodiimide of the Na ⁺ -transporting vacuolar ATPase 2011 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·K. Mizutani, (unknown), K. Suzuki, Ichiro Yamato, Yoshimi Kakinuma, Mikako Shirouzu, John E. Walker, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, So Iwata, Takeshi Murata	35
14	Crystal Structure-Based Virtual Screening for Fragment-like Ligands of the Human Histamine H ₁ Receptor 2011 ·Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·Chris de Graaf, Albert J. Kooistra, Henry F. Vischer, Vsevolod Katritch, (unknown), Mitsunori Shiroishi, So Iwata, Tatsuro Shimamura, Raymond C. Stevens, Iwan J. P. de Esch, Rob Leurs	162
15	Molecular Basis of Alternating Access Membrane Transport by the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1 2010 ·Science ·Tatsuro Shimamura, Simone Weyand, Oliver Beckstein, Nicholas G. Rutherford, Jonathan M. Hadden, David Sharples, Mark S.P. Sansom, So Iwata, Peter J. F. Henderson, Alexander D. Cameron	226
16	Structure and Molecular Mechanism of a Nucleobase–Cation–Symport-1 Family Transporter 2008 ·Science ·(unknown), Tatsuro Shimamura, Shunsuke Yajima, Shunichi Suzuki, Osman Mirza, Kuakarun Krusong, Elisabeth P. Carpenter, Nicholas G. Rutherford, Jonathan M. Hadden, John O’Reilly, (unknown), Massoud Saidijam, Simon G. Patching, (unknown), Halina Norbertczak, Peter C. J. Roach, So Iwata, Peter J. F. Henderson, Alexander D. Cameron	284
17	Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center breakdown → 2004 ·Science ·(unknown), T.M. Iverson, Karim Maghlaoui, James Barber, So Iwata	2704
18	Cerebral temperature mapping by self-referenced proton spectroscopic imaging thermometry. 2004 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·John S. Thornton, EB Cady, Alan Bainbridge, (unknown), Osamu Iwata, So Iwata, (unknown), N.J. Robertson, (unknown), Roger J. Ordidge	1
19	Structure and Mechanism of the Lactose Permease of Escherichia coli breakdown → 2003 ·Science ·Jeff Abramson, И. Н. Смирнова, Vladimir N. Kasho, G. Verner, H. Ronald Kaback, So Iwata	1138
20	Architecture of Succinate Dehydrogenase and Reactive Oxygen Species Generation breakdown → 2003 ·Science ·Victoria Yankovskaya, Rob Horsefield, Susanna Törnroth‐Horsefield, C. Luna-Chavez, Hideto Miyoshi, Christophe Léger, Bernadette Byrne, Gary Cecchini, So Iwata	742

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