Tomoko Obara

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Tomoko Obara is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Nephrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomoko Obara has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Nephrology. Recurrent topics in Tomoko Obara's work include Renal and related cancers (13 papers), Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (12 papers) and Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (5 papers). Tomoko Obara is often cited by papers focused on Renal and related cancers (13 papers), Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (12 papers) and Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (5 papers). Tomoko Obara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Tomoko Obara's co-authors include Iain A. Drummond, Masato Nakafuku, Y Kaziro, Steve Mangos, Marek Mlodzik, Olga A. Cabello, Thomas Benzing, Ekaterina Bubenshchikova, Wolfgang Driever and Gerd Walz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Tomoko Obara

31 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Inversin, the gene product mutated in nephronophthisis type II, functions as a molecular switch between Wnt signaling pathways

2005 588 citations Matias Simons, Joachim Gloy et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomoko Obara United States	19	2.0k	1.4k	553	251	177	31	2.5k
Xin Tian United States	23	2.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.8×	393 0.7×	640 2.5×	128 0.7×	32	3.1k
Yoav Segal United States	22	1.1k 0.6×	845 0.6×	200 0.4×	371 1.5×	251 1.4×	40	1.9k
Antony E. Shrimpton United States	21	842 0.4×	531 0.4×	334 0.6×	138 0.5×	91 0.5×	51	2.0k
Kazunori Hanaoka Japan	25	2.4k 1.2×	617 0.5×	258 0.5×	39 0.2×	314 1.8×	53	3.1k
Hope O. Sweet United States	21	1.0k 0.5×	440 0.3×	398 0.7×	135 0.5×	264 1.5×	32	1.9k
Debora Bogani United Kingdom	22	1.2k 0.6×	615 0.4×	324 0.6×	42 0.2×	54 0.3×	29	1.6k
Andreas Jenny United States	31	2.9k 1.5×	771 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	69 0.3×	259 1.5×	56	3.5k
Bernd Dworniczak Germany	18	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	108 0.2×	122 0.5×	54 0.3×	38	1.5k
Rolf W. Stottmann United States	24	1.4k 0.7×	783 0.6×	235 0.4×	41 0.2×	146 0.8×	63	1.8k
Shuling Fan United States	18	1.2k 0.6×	526 0.4×	801 1.4×	36 0.1×	90 0.5×	25	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomoko Obara

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Takemura, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2020). Syntheses of diaza(hetera)2[1.1.1.1]paracyclophanes by Chapman rearrangement. Tetrahedron Letters. 61(13). 151673–151673. 2 indexed citations

Powell, Rebecca, Ekaterina Bubenshchikova, Yayoi Fukuyo, et al.. (2016). Wtip is required for proepicardial organ specification and cardiac left/right asymmetry in zebrafish. Molecular Medicine Reports. 14(3). 2665–2678. 5 indexed citations

Walter, Ronald B. & Tomoko Obara. (2015). Workshop report: The medaka model for comparative assessment of human disease mechanisms. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology. 178. 156–162. 11 indexed citations

Webb, Carol F., et al.. (2015). A developmentally plastic adult mouse kidney cell line spontaneously generates multiple adult kidney structures. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 463(4). 1334–1340. 3 indexed citations

Fukuyo, Yayoi, Tomomi Nakamura, Ekaterina Bubenshchikova, et al.. (2013). Nephrin and Podocin functions are highly conserved between the zebrafish pronephros and mammalian metanephros. Molecular Medicine Reports. 9(2). 457–465. 30 indexed citations

Ichimura, Koichiro, Yusuke Kawashima, Tomomi Nakamura, et al.. (2013). Medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, as a model for human obesity-related glomerulopathy. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 431(4). 712–717. 24 indexed citations

Ichimura, Koichiro, Rebecca Powell, Tomomi Nakamura, et al.. (2013). Podocalyxin regulates pronephric glomerular development in zebrafish. Physiological Reports. 1(3). 12 indexed citations

Ichimura, Koichiro, Ekaterina Bubenshchikova, Rebecca Powell, et al.. (2012). A Comparative Analysis of Glomerulus Development in the Pronephros of Medaka and Zebrafish. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45286–e45286. 29 indexed citations

Ichimura, Koichiro, Yayoi Fukuyo, Tomomi Nakamura, et al.. (2012). Structural disorganization of pronephric glomerulus in Zebrafish mpp5a/nagie oko mutant. Developmental Dynamics. 241(12). 1922–1932. 9 indexed citations

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Bubenshchikova, Ekaterina, Koichiro Ichimura, Yayoi Fukuyo, et al.. (2012). Wtip and Vangl2 are required for mitotic spindle orientation and cloaca morphogenesis. Biology Open. 1(6). 588–596. 31 indexed citations

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Kiyota, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2011). Adaptation process for standing postural control in individuals with hemiparesis. Disability and Rehabilitation. 33(25-26). 2567–2573. 8 indexed citations

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Kim, Sehyun, Norann A. Zaghloul, Ekaterina Bubenshchikova, et al.. (2011). Nde1-mediated inhibition of ciliogenesis affects cell cycle re-entry. Nature Cell Biology. 13(4). 351–360. 188 indexed citations

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Giamarchi, Aurélie, Shuang Feng, Lise Rodat‐Despoix, et al.. (2010). A polycystin‐2 (TRPP2) dimerization domain essential for the function of heteromeric polycystin complexes. The EMBO Journal. 29(7). 1176–1191. 67 indexed citations

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Feng, Shuang, Andrew J. Streets, Linda J. Newby, et al.. (2008). Identification and Functional Characterization of an N-terminal Oligomerization Domain for Polycystin-2. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(42). 28471–28479. 46 indexed citations

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Pathak, Narendra, Tomoko Obara, Steve Mangos, Yan Liu, & Iain A. Drummond. (2007). The ZebrafishfleerGene Encodes an Essential Regulator of Cilia Tubulin Polyglutamylation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(11). 4353–4364. 155 indexed citations

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Obara, Tomoko, Steve Mangos, Yan Liu, et al.. (2006). Polycystin-2 Immunolocalization and Function in Zebrafish. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17(10). 2706–2718. 91 indexed citations

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Streets, Andrew J., et al.. (2006). Identification of an N-terminal glycogen synthase kinase 3 phosphorylation site which regulates the functional localization of polycystin-2 in vivo and in vitro. Human Molecular Genetics. 15(9). 1465–1473. 72 indexed citations

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Low, Seng Hui, Shivakumar Vasanth, Sambuddho Mukherjee, et al.. (2006). Polycystin-1, STAT6, and P100 Function in a Pathway that Transduces Ciliary Mechanosensation and Is Activated in Polycystic Kidney Disease. Developmental Cell. 10(1). 57–69. 280 indexed citations

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Simons, Matias, Joachim Gloy, Athina Ganner, et al.. (2005). Inversin, the gene product mutated in nephronophthisis type II, functions as a molecular switch between Wnt signaling pathways. Nature Genetics. 37(5). 537–543. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaziro, Y, Hiroshi Itoh, Tohru Kozasa, et al.. (1988). Structures of the Genes Coding for G-protein a Subunits from Mammalian and Yeast Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 53(0). 209–220. 21 indexed citations

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