Tomotake Kanki

18.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Tomotake Kanki is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomotake Kanki has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Epidemiology and 22 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Tomotake Kanki's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (50 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (20 papers). Tomotake Kanki is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (50 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (20 papers). Tomotake Kanki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Tomotake Kanki's co-authors include Daniel J. Klionsky, Dongchon Kang, Ke Wang, Misuzu Baba, Yang Cao, Tetsu Saigusa, Shun‐ichi Yamashita, Yuko Hirota, Takeshi Uchiumi and Yusuke Kurihara and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tomotake Kanki

73 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Atg32 Is a Mitochondrial Protein that Confers Selectivity during Mitophagy

2009 633 citations Tomotake Kanki, Ke Wang et al. profile →
Mitophagy mediated by BNIP3 and NIX protects against ferroptosis by downregulating mitochondrial reactive oxygen species

2024 53 citations Shun‐ichi Yamashita, Yuki Sugiura et al. Cell Death and Differentiation profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomotake Kanki Japan	34	3.1k	2.4k	863	502	462	75	4.5k
Yushan Zhu China	33	3.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	814 0.9×	600 1.2×	382 0.8×	66	4.8k
Koji Yamano Japan	32	4.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	786 0.9×	725 1.4×	972 2.1×	55	5.6k
Michelangelo Campanella United Kingdom	38	3.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	660 0.8×	670 1.3×	406 0.9×	85	5.0k
Ivana Novak Croatia	19	2.6k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	887 1.0×	464 0.9×	321 0.7×	28	4.3k
Der‐Fen Suen Taiwan	14	4.1k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	811 0.9×	999 2.0×	1.4k 3.1×	17	6.2k
Shireen A. Sarraf United States	11	3.3k 1.1×	3.3k 1.4×	764 0.9×	735 1.5×	1.1k 2.4×	16	5.2k
Du Feng China	31	3.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	797 0.9×	588 1.2×	290 0.6×	88	5.1k
Shouqing Luo United Kingdom	30	3.4k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	800 1.6×	752 1.6×	52	6.4k
Lesley A. Kane United States	19	4.1k 1.3×	3.8k 1.6×	868 1.0×	1.0k 2.0×	1.4k 2.9×	22	6.4k
Danielle A. Sliter United States	13	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	614 0.7×	517 1.0×	591 1.3×	13	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomotake Kanki

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Taoka, Hiroki, Kohei Kawaguchi, Michiko Koizumi, et al.. (2025). Transcriptional dynamics uncover the role of BNIP3 in mitophagy during muscle remodeling in Drosophila. eLife. 14.

Furukawa, Kentaro, Tomoyuki Fukuda, Shun‐ichi Yamashita, et al.. (2024). Atg44/Mdi1/mitofissin facilitates Dnm1-mediated mitochondrial fission. Autophagy. 20(10). 2314–2322. 5 indexed citations

Yamashita, Shun‐ichi, Yuki Sugiura, Keiichi Inoue, et al.. (2024). Mitophagy mediated by BNIP3 and NIX protects against ferroptosis by downregulating mitochondrial reactive oxygen species. Cell Death and Differentiation. 31(5). 651–661. 53 indexed citations breakdown →

Aoyagi, Kyota, Chiyono Nishiwaki, Yoko Nakamichi, et al.. (2024). Imeglimin mitigates the accumulation of dysfunctional mitochondria to restore insulin secretion and suppress apoptosis of pancreatic β-cells from db/db mice. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6178–6178. 15 indexed citations

Akabane, Shiori, Hidetaka Kosako, Shun‐ichi Yamashita, et al.. (2023). TIM23 facilitates PINK1 activation by safeguarding against OMA1-mediated degradation in damaged mitochondria. Cell Reports. 42(5). 112454–112454. 25 indexed citations

Fukuda, Tomoyuki, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Furukawa, et al.. (2023). Hva22, a REEP family protein in fission yeast, promotes reticulophagy in collaboration with a receptor protein. Autophagy. 19(10). 2657–2667. 3 indexed citations

Kyuuma, Masanao, Keiichi Inoue, Yuki Hata, et al.. (2021). Mitophagy reporter mouse analysis reveals increased mitophagy activity in disuse‐induced muscle atrophy. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 236(11). 7612–7624. 23 indexed citations

Maruyama, Tatsuro, Jahangir Md. Alam, Tomoyuki Fukuda, et al.. (2021). Membrane perturbation by lipidated Atg8 underlies autophagosome biogenesis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(7). 583–593. 61 indexed citations

Fukuda, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2021). Tripartite suppression of fission yeast TORC1 signaling by the GATOR1-Sea3 complex, the TSC complex, and Gcn2 kinase. eLife. 10. 24 indexed citations

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Fukuda, Tomoyuki, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Furukawa, et al.. (2020). Atg43 tethers isolation membranes to mitochondria to promote starvation-induced mitophagy in fission yeast. eLife. 9. 34 indexed citations

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Aihara, M., Yusuke Kurihara, Yutaka Yoshida, et al.. (2014). The Tor and Sin3-Rpd3 complex regulate expression of the mitophagy receptor protein Atg32. Journal of Cell Science. 127(Pt 14). 3184–96. 38 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Shinya, Takeshi Uchiumi, Toshiro Saito, et al.. (2012). Localization of mRNAs encoding human mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation proteins. Mitochondrion. 12(3). 391–398. 40 indexed citations

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Matsuda, Takako, Tomotake Kanki, Teiichi Tanimura, Dongchon Kang, & Etsuko T. Matsuura. (2012). Effects of overexpression of mitochondrial transcription factor A on lifespan and oxidative stress response in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 430(2). 717–721. 24 indexed citations

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Hirota, Yuko, Yoshimasa Aoki, & Tomotake Kanki. (2011). [Mitophagy: selective degradation of mitochondria by autophagy].. PubMed. 83(2). 126–30. 10 indexed citations

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Aoki, Yoshimasa, Tomotake Kanki, Yuko Hirota, et al.. (2011). Phosphorylation of Serine 114 on Atg32 mediates mitophagy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 22(17). 3206–3217. 171 indexed citations

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Kanki, Tomotake, Ke Wang, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2010). A genomic screen for yeast mutants defective in mitophagy. Autophagy. 6(2). 278–280. 42 indexed citations

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Kanki, Tomotake & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2009). Mitochondrial abnormalities drive cell death in Wolfram syndrome 2. Cell Research. 19(8). 922–923. 19 indexed citations

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Ohgaki, Kippei, Tomotake Kanki, Atsushi Fukuoh, et al.. (2006). The C-terminal Tail of Mitochondrial Transcription Factor A Markedly Strengthens its General Binding to DNA. The Journal of Biochemistry. 141(2). 201–211. 61 indexed citations

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López, Luís C., Markus Schuelke, Catarina M. Quinzii, et al.. (2006). Leigh Syndrome with Nephropathy and CoQ10 Deficiency Due to decaprenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2 (PDSS2) Mutations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 79(6). 1125–1129. 299 indexed citations

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Kanki, Tomotake, Mark T. Young, Masao Sakaguchi, Naotaka Hamasaki, & Minna Tanner. (2003). The N-terminal Region of the Transmembrane Domain of Human Erythrocyte Band 3. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278(8). 5564–5573. 19 indexed citations

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