Taki Nishimura

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Taki Nishimura is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Taki Nishimura has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cell Biology, 18 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Taki Nishimura's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (18 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (7 papers). Taki Nishimura is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (18 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (12 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (7 papers). Taki Nishimura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and Germany. Taki Nishimura's co-authors include Noboru Mizushima, Sharon A. Tooze, Yuriko Sakamaki, Anoop Kumar G. Velikkakath, Naotada Ishihara, Tohru Natsume, Peidu Jiang, Eisuke Itakura, Tomohisa Hatta and Hiroyuki Arai and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The EMBO Journal and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Taki Nishimura

25 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The HOPS complex mediates autophagosome–lysosome fusion through interaction with syntaxin 17

2014 379 citations Peidu Jiang, Taki Nishimura et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell profile →
Emerging roles of ATG proteins and membrane lipids in autophagosome formation

2020 216 citations Taki Nishimura, Sharon A. Tooze Cell Discovery profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Taki Nishimura Japan	19	1.2k	761	748	293	242	27	1.8k
Prasanna Satpute‐Krishnan United States	11	888 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	638 0.9×	128 0.4×	306 1.3×	14	1.8k
Tomer Shpilka Israel	12	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	813 1.1×	300 1.0×	355 1.5×	17	2.7k
Weiliang Fan United States	11	1.5k 1.3×	988 1.3×	582 0.8×	306 1.0×	214 0.9×	15	2.0k
Hilla Weidberg Israel	14	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	747 1.0×	311 1.1×	240 1.0×	17	2.5k
Orane Visvikis France	14	826 0.7×	962 1.3×	365 0.5×	192 0.7×	278 1.1×	20	1.9k
Elsje G. Otten United Kingdom	11	861 0.7×	946 1.2×	312 0.4×	144 0.5×	270 1.1×	15	1.8k
Chieko Kishi‐Itakura United Kingdom	10	1.5k 1.2×	751 1.0×	640 0.9×	324 1.1×	269 1.1×	11	1.9k
Rossella Venditti Italy	14	763 0.6×	997 1.3×	671 0.9×	462 1.6×	312 1.3×	23	2.0k
Zhiyuan Yao United States	7	1.3k 1.1×	902 1.2×	396 0.5×	154 0.5×	172 0.7×	17	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Taki Nishimura

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Zhang, Wenxin, et al.. (2024). Real-Time Monitoring of ATG8 Lipidation In Vitro Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. BIO-PROTOCOL. 14(1). e4917–e4917.

Gubaš, Andrea, Harold B.J. Jefferies, Taki Nishimura, et al.. (2024). WIPI2b recruitment to phagophores and ATG16L1 binding are regulated by ULK1 phosphorylation. EMBO Reports. 25(9). 3789–3811. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenxin, Taki Nishimura, Chieko Saito, et al.. (2023). Autophagosome membrane expansion is mediated by the N-terminus and cis-membrane association of human ATG8s. eLife. 12. 22 indexed citations

Tooze, Sharon A., et al.. (2023). Membrane association of the ATG8 conjugation machinery emerges as a key regulatory feature for autophagosome biogenesis. FEBS Letters. 598(1). 107–113. 3 indexed citations

Tamura, Norito, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive analysis of autophagic functions of WIPI family proteins and their implications for the pathogenesis of β-propeller associated neurodegeneration. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(16). 2623–2637. 15 indexed citations

Nishimura, Taki, et al.. (2023). Unique amphipathic α helix drives membrane insertion and enzymatic activity of ATG3. Science Advances. 9(25). eadh1281–eadh1281. 11 indexed citations

Nishimura, Taki. (2021). A Real-Time Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase Assay Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Methods in molecular biology. 2251. 121–132.

Nishimura, Taki & Sharon A. Tooze. (2020). Emerging roles of ATG proteins and membrane lipids in autophagosome formation. Cell Discovery. 6(1). 32–32. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Zilei, Riko Hatakeyama, Raffaele Nicastro, et al.. (2020). TORC1 Determines Fab1 Lipid Kinase Function at Signaling Endosomes and Vacuoles. Current Biology. 31(2). 297–309.e8. 29 indexed citations

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Morishita, Hideaki, Yan Zhao, Norito Tamura, et al.. (2019). A critical role of VMP1 in lipoprotein secretion. eLife. 8. 51 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Taki & Christopher J. Stefan. (2019). Specialized ER membrane domains for lipid metabolism and transport. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1865(1). 158492–158492. 22 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Taki, et al.. (2018). Control of vacuole membrane homeostasis by a resident PI-3,5-kinase inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(18). 4684–4689. 18 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Taki, Norito Tamura, Nozomu Kono, et al.. (2017). Autophagosome formation is initiated at phosphatidylinositol synthase‐enriched ER subdomains. The EMBO Journal. 36(12). 1719–1735. 158 indexed citations

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Uematsu, Masaaki, Taki Nishimura, Yuriko Sakamaki, Hayashi Yamamoto, & Noboru Mizushima. (2017). Accumulation of undegraded autophagosomes by expression of dominant-negative STX17 (syntaxin 17) mutants. Autophagy. 13(8). 1452–1464. 35 indexed citations

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Jiang, Peidu, Taki Nishimura, Yuriko Sakamaki, et al.. (2014). The HOPS complex mediates autophagosome–lysosome fusion through interaction with syntaxin 17. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 25(8). 1327–1337. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nishimura, Taki, Y. Uchida, Tetyana Kudlyk, et al.. (2013). Oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP) is required for the perinuclear localization of intra-Golgi v-SNAREs. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 24(22). 3534–3544. 19 indexed citations

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Velikkakath, Anoop Kumar G., et al.. (2012). Mammalian Atg2 proteins are essential for autophagosome formation and important for regulation of size and distribution of lipid droplets. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23(5). 896–909. 304 indexed citations

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Shibata, Masahiro, Kentaro Yoshimura, Hirosumi Tamura, et al.. (2010). LC3, a microtubule-associated protein1A/B light chain3, is involved in cytoplasmic lipid droplet formation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 393(2). 274–279. 94 indexed citations

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Maekawa, Masashi, Takao Inoue, Taki Nishimura, et al.. (2009). Functional analysis of GS28, an intra‐Golgi SNARE, in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes to Cells. 14(8). 1003–1013. 14 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Taki, Takao Inoué, Norihito Shibata, et al.. (2005). Inhibition of cholesterol biosynthesis by 25‐hydroxycholesterol is independent of OSBP. Genes to Cells. 10(8). 793–801. 44 indexed citations

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