Tairo Oshima

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
273 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Tairo Oshima is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tairo Oshima has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Molecular Biology, 96 papers in Materials Chemistry and 35 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Tairo Oshima's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (94 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers) and Polyamine Metabolism and Applications (34 papers). Tairo Oshima is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (94 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (41 papers) and Polyamine Metabolism and Applications (34 papers). Tairo Oshima collaborates with scholars based in Japan, India and United States. Tairo Oshima's co-authors include Kazutomo Imahori, Akihiko Yamagishi, Takayoshi Wakagi, Koyu Hon-Nami, Masatada Tamakoshi, K Denda, Toshio Iwasaki, T Date, J Konishi and Minoru Yoshida and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Tairo Oshima

272 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase: implications for the origin of eukaryotes.

1989 537 citations Tairo Oshima et al. profile →
Description of Thermus thermophilus (Yoshida and Oshima) comb. nov., a Nonsporulating Thermophilic Bacterium from a Japanese Thermal Spa

1974 503 citations Tairo Oshima et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tairo Oshima Japan	46	6.7k	2.1k	1.2k	933	628	273	8.3k
Frank T. Robb United States	44	3.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	562 0.6×	363 0.6×	161	5.4k
Peter Dimroth Switzerland	54	6.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	328 0.3×	749 0.8×	690 1.1×	205	8.8k
Terry A. Krulwich United States	52	5.9k 0.9×	934 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	2.1k 2.2×	511 0.8×	211	9.4k
Wolfram Welte Germany	45	5.4k 0.8×	985 0.5×	661 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	401 0.6×	130	7.3k
M.S. Weiss Germany	46	5.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.5×	559 0.5×	895 1.0×	349 0.6×	235	10.2k
Matti Saraste Germany	55	9.5k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	695 0.6×	984 1.1×	218 0.3×	99	12.4k
Robert B. Gennis United States	73	16.2k 2.4×	1.9k 0.9×	955 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	774 1.2×	444	19.7k
Joël H. Weiner Canada	53	4.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	805 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	616 1.0×	194	8.9k
M.E.P. Murphy Canada	41	4.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	356 0.3×	771 0.8×	388 0.6×	121	7.4k
John L. Ingraham United States	36	5.6k 0.8×	890 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	2.4k 2.5×	556 0.9×	95	8.8k

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Kobayashi, Teruyuki, Akihiko Sakamoto, Tamao Hisano, et al.. (2024). Caldomycin, a new guanidopolyamine produced by a novel agmatine homocoupling enzyme involved in homospermidine biosynthesis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7566–7566.

Kobayashi, Teruyuki, Akihiko Sakamoto, Keiko Kashiwagi, et al.. (2023). Putrescine Biosynthesis from Agmatine by Arginase (TtARG) in Thermus thermophilus. The Journal of Biochemistry. 174(1). 81–88. 2 indexed citations

Hijikata, Atsushi, Tairo Oshima, Kei Yura, & Yoshitaka Bessho. (2023). ThermusQ: Toward the cell simulation platform for Thermus thermophilus. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 69(2). 59–67. 2 indexed citations

Oshima, Tairo. (2023). A new metabolic pathway for sym-homospermidine synthesis in an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus.. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 69(2). 102–108. 1 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Teruyuki, Akihiko Sakamoto, Keiko Kashiwagi, et al.. (2022). Alkaline Stress Causes Changes in Polyamine Biosynthesis in Thermus thermophilus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(21). 13523–13523. 4 indexed citations

Miyazaki, Kentaro, et al.. (2021). Complete Genome Sequences of Thermus thermophilus Strains HB5002 and HB5008, Isolated from Mine Hot Spring in Japan. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 10(16). 4 indexed citations

Miyazaki, Kentaro, Toshiyuki Moriya, Naoki Nemoto, et al.. (2021). Complete Genome Sequence of Thermus thermophilus Strain HB5018, Isolated from Mine Hot Spring in Japan. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 10(10). 6 indexed citations

Tamakoshi, Masatada, Shigeki Takeda, Takashi Izumi, et al.. (2011). Genomic and proteomic characterization of the largeMyoviridaebacteriophage ϕTMA of the extreme thermophileThermus thermophilus. PubMed. 1(3). 152–164. 25 indexed citations

Yokobori, Shin‐ichi, Tairo Oshima, & Hiroshi Wada. (2004). Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Doliolum nationalis with implications for evolution of urochordates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34(2). 273–283. 44 indexed citations

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Aoshima, Miho, Masaharu Ishii, Akihiko Yamagishi, Tairo Oshima, & Yasuo Igarashi. (2003). Metabolic characteristics of an isocitrate dehydrogenase defective derivative of escherichia coli BL21(DE3). Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 84(6). 732–737. 21 indexed citations

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Ishida, Masami, Tairo Oshima, & Katsuhide Yutani. (2002). Overexpression inEscherichia coliof the AT-richtrpAandtrpBgenes from the hyperthermophilic archaeonPyrococcus furiosus. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 216(2). 179–183. 12 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Toshiharu, et al.. (2001). Adaptation of a thermophilic enzyme, 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase, to low temperatures. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 14(2). 85–91. 37 indexed citations

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Oshima, Tairo, et al.. (2001). High thermal stability of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus resulting from low ΔΔCp of unfolding. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 14(12). 961–966. 20 indexed citations

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Wallon, Gerlind, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Akihiko Yamagishi, et al.. (1997). Purification, catalytic properties and thermostability of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1337(1). 105–112. 23 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Toshio & Tairo Oshima. (1997). A stable intermediate product of the archaeal zinc‐containing 7Fe ferredoxin from Sulfolobus sp. strain 7 by artificial oxidative conversion. FEBS Letters. 417(2). 223–226. 7 indexed citations

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Yamagishi, Akihiko, et al.. (1995). The plasmids found in isolates of the acidothermophilic archaebacteriumThermoplasma acidophilum. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 128(2). 157–161. 8 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Toshio, Takayoshi Wakagi, Yasuhiro Isogai, Tetsutarō Iizuka, & Tairo Oshima. (1995). Resolution of the Aerobic Respiratory System of the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon, Sulfolobus sp. Strain 7:. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(52). 30893–30901. 27 indexed citations

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Aoki, Makoto, et al.. (1994). Hydrophobic interaction at the subunit interface contributes to the thermostability of 3‐isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus. European Journal of Biochemistry. 220(1). 275–281. 110 indexed citations

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Eguchi, Hidetaka, Takayoshi Wakagi, & Tairo Oshima. (1989). A highly stable NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilic HB8: purification and general properties. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 990(2). 133–137. 36 indexed citations

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Konishi, Jin, Takayoshi Wakagi, Tairo Oshima, & Masasuke Yoshida. (1987). Purification and properties of the ATphase Solubilized from Membranes of an Acidothermophilic Archaeobacterium, sulfolobus acidocaldarius1. The Journal of Biochemistry. 102(6). 1379–1387. 61 indexed citations

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