Tomokazu Shirai

1.7k total citations
57 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Tomokazu Shirai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomokazu Shirai has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Tomokazu Shirai's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (20 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (12 papers). Tomokazu Shirai is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (37 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (20 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (12 papers). Tomokazu Shirai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, India and Germany. Tomokazu Shirai's co-authors include Akihiko Kondo, Shuhei Noda, Hiroshi Shimizu, Takashi Osanai, Yutaro Mori, Mami Okamoto, Masami Yokota Hirai, Chikara Furusawa, Hiroko Iijima and Keisuke Nagahisa and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Tomokazu Shirai

55 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tomokazu Shirai Japan 23 1.0k 434 204 116 80 57 1.3k
Sung Sun Yim South Korea 20 1.1k 1.1× 334 0.8× 122 0.6× 177 1.5× 109 1.4× 35 1.3k
Ya‐Jie Tang China 25 1.1k 1.1× 422 1.0× 190 0.9× 185 1.6× 261 3.3× 42 1.6k
Xinna Zhu China 18 1.1k 1.1× 337 0.8× 129 0.6× 191 1.6× 33 0.4× 30 1.2k
Trygve Brautaset Norway 22 1.1k 1.1× 332 0.8× 192 0.9× 191 1.6× 85 1.1× 36 1.4k
Xiulai Chen China 24 1.3k 1.3× 577 1.3× 75 0.4× 125 1.1× 80 1.0× 49 1.5k
Petri‐Jaan Lahtvee Estonia 18 1.2k 1.2× 545 1.3× 90 0.4× 122 1.1× 56 0.7× 30 1.4k
Shuobo Shi China 26 2.0k 2.0× 907 2.1× 120 0.6× 113 1.0× 113 1.4× 76 2.3k
Rajat Sapra United States 15 973 1.0× 419 1.0× 198 1.0× 176 1.5× 85 1.1× 23 1.4k
Jason T. Bouvier United States 10 737 0.7× 175 0.4× 65 0.3× 85 0.7× 105 1.3× 11 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomokazu Shirai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomokazu Shirai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomokazu Shirai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tomokazu Shirai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tomokazu Shirai 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 Tomokazu Shirai. Tomokazu Shirai 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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Kato, Shunsuke, et al.. (2025). NHC-Mediated Radical Acylation Catalyzed by Thiamine- and Flavin-Dependent Enzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14837–14844. 4 indexed citations
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Mitsui, Ryosuke, Akihiko Kondo, & Tomokazu Shirai. (2024). Production of (R)-citramalate by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Metabolic Engineering Communications. 19. e00247–e00247. 5 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Takanobu, et al.. (2023). Aromatic secondary metabolite production from glycerol was enhanced by amino acid addition in Pichia pastoris. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(24). 7391–7401. 9 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Kenya, Tomokazu Shirai, Christopher J. Vavricka, et al.. (2022). Dark accumulation of downstream glycolytic intermediates initiates robust photosynthesis in cyanobacteria. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(4). 2400–2413. 14 indexed citations
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Mori, Yutaro, Shuhei Noda, Tomokazu Shirai, & Akihiko Kondo. (2021). Direct 1,3-butadiene biosynthesis in Escherichia coli via a tailored ferulic acid decarboxylase mutant. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2195–2195. 40 indexed citations
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Noda, Shuhei, Yutaro Mori, Ryosuke Fujiwara, et al.. (2021). Reprogramming Escherichia coli pyruvate-forming reaction towards chorismate derivatives production. Metabolic Engineering. 67. 1–10. 12 indexed citations
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Shirai, Tomokazu, et al.. (2021). Metabolic engineering design to enhance (R,R)-2,3-butanediol production from glycerol in Bacillus subtilis based on flux balance analysis. Microbial Cell Factories. 20(1). 196–196. 12 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Kengo, Jun Inoue, Daisuke Sasaki, et al.. (2019). Construction of a Model Culture System of Human Colonic Microbiota to Detect Decreased Lachnospiraceae Abundance and Butyrogenesis in the Feces of Ulcerative Colitis Patients. Biotechnology Journal. 14(5). e1800555–e1800555. 57 indexed citations
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Noda, Shuhei, et al.. (2019). Reconstruction of metabolic pathway for isobutanol production in Escherichia coli. Microbial Cell Factories. 18(1). 124–124. 25 indexed citations
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Mori, Yutaro & Tomokazu Shirai. (2018). Designing artificial metabolic pathways, construction of target enzymes, and analysis of their function. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 54. 41–44. 14 indexed citations
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Shirai, Tomokazu, Takashi Osanai, & Akihiko Kondo. (2016). Designing intracellular metabolism for production of target compounds by introducing a heterologous metabolic reaction based on a Synechosystis sp. 6803 genome-scale model. Microbial Cell Factories. 15(1). 13–13. 19 indexed citations
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Iijima, Hiroko, Tomokazu Shirai, Mami Okamoto, et al.. (2016). Anionic metabolite biosynthesis enhanced by potassium under dark, anaerobic conditions in cyanobacteria. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32354–32354. 23 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Kengo, Mami Okamoto, Tomokazu Shirai, et al.. (2015). Precipitate obtained following membrane separation of hydrothermally pretreated rice straw liquid revealed by 2D NMR to have high lignin content. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 8(1). 88–88. 18 indexed citations
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Noda, Shuhei, Tomokazu Shirai, Keiichi Mochida, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of Brachypodium distachyon L-Tyrosine Decarboxylase Using L-Tyrosine Over-Producing Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0125488–e0125488. 3 indexed citations
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Osanai, Takashi, Akira Oikawa, Tomokazu Shirai, et al.. (2013). Capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry reveals the distribution of carbon metabolites during nitrogen starvation in S ynechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Environmental Microbiology. 16(2). 512–524. 73 indexed citations
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Sato, Hiroki, Tomokazu Shirai, Takashi Hirasawa, et al.. (2008). Distinct roles of two anaplerotic pathways in glutamate production induced by biotin limitation in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 106(1). 51–58. 53 indexed citations
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Shirai, Tomokazu, et al.. (2006). Precise metabolic flux analysis of coryneform bacteria by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and verification by nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 102(5). 413–424. 14 indexed citations
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Kimura, Takeshi, Noriyuki Kitamoto, Y. Kito, et al.. (1997). A novel yeast gene, RHK1, is involved in the synthesis of the cell wall receptor for the HM-1 killer toxin that inhibits β-1,3-glucan synthesis. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 254(2). 139–147. 20 indexed citations
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Shirai, Tomokazu, et al.. (1996). Time Perspective and School Types in Different Social Systems : Comparison of Japanese with Belgian Adolescents. 31. 59–73. 2 indexed citations
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Shirai, Tomokazu, et al.. (1990). 現代青年の時間的展望の構造(2) : サークル・テストとライン・テストの結果から. 38(2). 183–196. 1 indexed citations

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