Takaaki Sato

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
130 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Takaaki Sato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Takaaki Sato has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Materials Chemistry and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Takaaki Sato's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (15 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (12 papers). Takaaki Sato is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (21 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (15 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (12 papers). Takaaki Sato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Takaaki Sato's co-authors include John C. Reed, Shinji Irie, Haruyuki Atomi, Christine Aimé‐Sempé, Tadayuki Imanaka, Shinichi Kitada, Toshiaki Fukui, Sharon Bodrug, Hong‐Gang Wang and Hongbin Zha and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Takaaki Sato

128 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

FAP-1: A Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase That Associates with Fas

1995 620 citations Takaaki Sato, Shinji Irie et al. Science profile →
Interactions among members of the Bcl-2 protein family analyzed with a yeast two-hybrid system.

1994 523 citations Takaaki Sato, M Hanada et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Takaaki Sato Japan	42	5.4k	1.4k	1.1k	841	534	130	7.4k
Leonard H. Rome United States	46	6.2k 1.2×	912 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	401 0.8×	133	8.9k
Martin R. Larsen Denmark	59	8.4k 1.6×	882 0.6×	955 0.8×	791 0.9×	872 1.6×	260	13.0k
Alexandre Zougman United Kingdom	24	6.2k 1.2×	763 0.5×	693 0.6×	614 0.7×	530 1.0×	36	9.3k
Anlong Xu China	49	4.7k 0.9×	2.5k 1.8×	789 0.7×	683 0.8×	490 0.9×	287	9.1k
Susumu Tsunasawa Japan	41	4.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	383 0.5×	710 1.3×	147	7.6k
Geir Slupphaug Norway	44	7.7k 1.4×	883 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.9×	120	9.6k
Anne E. Willis United Kingdom	60	8.9k 1.7×	870 0.6×	926 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	593 1.1×	158	11.3k
Yih‐Cherng Liou Singapore	39	3.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	470 0.6×	303 0.6×	89	5.3k
Mark R. Wilson Australia	57	4.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	2.6k 2.3×	450 0.5×	382 0.7×	181	8.7k
Stefka Tyanova Germany	17	7.7k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	888 1.1×	766 1.4×	25	11.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Takaaki Sato

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Takaaki Sato

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All Works

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Okada, Hikari, Alessandro Nasti, Yoshio Sakai, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of Long-Read RNA Sequencing Procedures for Novel Isoform Identification and Quantification in Human Whole Blood. Genes. 16(9). 1075–1075.

Su, Yu, Shigeru Shimamura, Yuki Makino, et al.. (2024). Removal of phosphoglycolate in hyperthermophilic archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(16). e2311390121–e2311390121. 2 indexed citations

Speciale, Immacolata, Anna Notaro, Yoshiyuki Manabe, et al.. (2023). Structural Determination and Chemical Synthesis of the N‐Glycan from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(13). e202218655–e202218655. 3 indexed citations

Shichino, Shigeyuki, Satoshi Ueha, Shinichi Hashimoto, et al.. (2022). TAS-Seq is a robust and sensitive amplification method for bead-based scRNA-seq. Communications Biology. 5(1). 602–602. 27 indexed citations

Cann, Isaac, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, Ahmed M. Abdel-Hamid, et al.. (2020). Thermophilic Degradation of Hemicellulose, a Critical Feedstock in the Production of Bioenergy and Other Value-Added Products. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(7). 17 indexed citations

Nunoura, Takuro, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Takaaki Sato, et al.. (2018). A primordial and reversible TCA cycle in a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic thermophile. Science. 359(6375). 559–563. 148 indexed citations

Sato, Takaaki, et al.. (2014). The tryptophan synthase β‐subunit paralogs TrpB1 and TrpB2 in Thermococcus kodakarensis are both involved in tryptophan biosynthesis and indole salvage. FEBS Journal. 281(14). 3113–3125. 12 indexed citations

Watanabe, Makoto, Kazuya Terasawa, Rie Yamamoto, et al.. (2013). Improvement of mass spectrometry analysis of glycoproteins by MALDI-MS using 3-aminoquinoline/α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 405(12). 4289–4293. 19 indexed citations

Nakamura, Akira, et al.. (2013). Structure Analysis of Archaeal AMP Phosphorylase Reveals Two Unique Modes of Dimerization. Journal of Molecular Biology. 425(15). 2709–2721. 9 indexed citations

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Elmore, Joshua R., Yuusuke Yokooji, Takaaki Sato, et al.. (2013). Programmable plasmid interference by the CRISPR-Cas system in Thermococcus kodakarensis . RNA Biology. 10(5). 828–840. 31 indexed citations

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Kawashima, Masahiro, Noriko Iwamoto, Nobuko Kawaguchi‐Sakita, et al.. (2013). High‐resolution imaging mass spectrometry reveals detailed spatial distribution of phosphatidylinositols in human breast cancer. Cancer Science. 104(10). 1372–1379. 62 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Makoto, Kazuya Terasawa, Yuko Fukuyama, et al.. (2012). Rapid Quantitative Profiling of N-Glycan by the Glycan-Labeling Method Using 3-Aminoquinoline/α-Cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic Acid. Analytical Chemistry. 84(16). 7146–7151. 39 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Makoto, Rie Yamamoto, Shinichi Iwamoto, et al.. (2012). Potential of radical scavenging reagents as a matrix additive in the direct detection of S-nitrosylated peptides with UV-MALDI MS. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 333. 67–71. 2 indexed citations

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Fukui, Toshiaki, Takaaki Sato, Haruyuki Atomi, & Tadayuki Imanaka. (2007). An improved and versatile transformation system allowing multiple genetic manipulations of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis. 2005. 325–325. 5 indexed citations

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Sato, Takaaki, Haruyuki Atomi, & Tadayuki Imanaka. (2007). Archaeal Type III RuBisCOs Function in a Pathway for AMP Metabolism. Science. 315(5814). 1003–1006. 172 indexed citations

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Sato, Takaaki, Hiroyuki Imanaka, Naeem Rashid, et al.. (2004). Genetic Evidence Identifying the True Gluconeogenic Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphatase in Thermococcus kodakaraensis and Other Hyperthermophiles. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(17). 5799–5807. 76 indexed citations

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Nadano, Daita, et al.. (2000). Preparation and Characterization of Antibodies against Human Ribosomal Proteins: Heterogeneous Expression of S11 and S30 in a Panel of Human Cancer Cell Lines. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research. 91(8). 802–810. 28 indexed citations

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Irie, Shinji, et al.. (2000). Morphological Changes in the Nucleus and Actin Cytoskeleton in the Process of Fas-induced Apoptosis in Jurkat T Cells. The Histochemical Journal. 32(8). 495–503. 25 indexed citations

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Sato, Takaaki, M Hanada, Sharon Bodrug, et al.. (1994). Interactions among members of the Bcl-2 protein family analyzed with a yeast two-hybrid system.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(20). 9238–9242. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sato, Takaaki, Takashi Sakamoto, Ken-ichi Takita, et al.. (1993). The Human Prohibitin (PHB) Gene Family and Its Somatic Mutations in Human Tumors. Genomics. 17(3). 762–764. 62 indexed citations

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