Toru Kawakami

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Toru Kawakami is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Toru Kawakami has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Organic Chemistry and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Toru Kawakami's work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (48 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (30 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (18 papers). Toru Kawakami is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (48 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (30 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (18 papers). Toru Kawakami collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Toru Kawakami's co-authors include Saburo Aimoto, Kenichi Akaji, Shoichi Masushige, Toshio Matsumoto, Keisuke Sekine, Yoshikatsu Uematsu, Hiroshi Sato, Shigeaki Kato, Yuko Yoshihara and Akiyoshi Fukamizu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Toru Kawakami

101 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toru Kawakami Japan	30	2.5k	1.2k	573	340	328	106	3.8k
Anna Maria Papini Italy	32	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	140 0.2×	131 0.4×	315 1.0×	187	3.1k
Dante Rotili Italy	46	3.7k 1.5×	878 0.7×	193 0.3×	231 0.7×	931 2.8×	179	6.4k
Oded Livnah Israel	35	2.2k 0.9×	549 0.4×	104 0.2×	159 0.5×	520 1.6×	84	4.2k
Scott D. Larsen United States	37	1.8k 0.7×	988 0.8×	120 0.2×	161 0.5×	365 1.1×	102	3.6k
Michael E. Hodsdon United States	27	1.6k 0.6×	330 0.3×	141 0.2×	191 0.6×	380 1.2×	59	2.4k
Ajoy Basak Canada	38	2.4k 1.0×	435 0.4×	120 0.2×	343 1.0×	811 2.5×	116	5.6k
M.A. Moscarello Canada	35	3.4k 1.3×	275 0.2×	404 0.7×	171 0.5×	291 0.9×	152	4.8k
André Trouet Belgium	30	2.2k 0.9×	357 0.3×	175 0.3×	191 0.6×	815 2.5×	96	4.4k
Luciana Marinelli Italy	43	3.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	96 0.2×	89 0.3×	912 2.8×	164	5.1k
Dirk J. Lefeber Netherlands	37	3.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	99 0.2×	841 2.5×	173 0.5×	157	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toru Kawakami

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Aimoto, Saburo, Toru Kawakami, & Hironobu Hojo. (2025). Development of protein chemical synthesis using peptide thioester synthetic blocks. Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B. 101(10). 622–647.

Miyanoiri, Yohei, Suyong Re, Yuya Asahina, et al.. (2022). Structural dynamics of the N‐terminal SH2 domain of PI3K in its free and CD28 ‐bound states. FEBS Journal. 290(9). 2366–2378. 2 indexed citations

Nishiyama, Atsuya, Christopher B. Mulholland, Sebastian Bultmann, et al.. (2020). Two distinct modes of DNMT1 recruitment ensure stable maintenance DNA methylation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1222–1222. 96 indexed citations

Tanaka, Masafumi, et al.. (2017). Acceleration of amyloid fibril formation by carboxyl-terminal truncation of human serum amyloid A. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 639. 9–15. 10 indexed citations

Nishitsuji, Kazuchika, Kenji Uchimura, Toru Kawakami, et al.. (2015). Arginine-Glycosaminoglycan Interaction Regulates Penetration Efficiency of Arginine-Rich Cell-Penetrating Peptides in Biological Membrane. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 82a–82a. 2 indexed citations

HARA, Toshiaki, Yue Huang, Akihiro Ito, et al.. (2014). Trifluoroethanol-containing RP-HPLC mobile phases for the separation of transmembrane peptides human glycophorin-A, integrin alpha-1, and p24: analysis and prevention of potential side reactions due to formic acid. Journal of Peptide Science. 21(2). 61–70. 12 indexed citations

Tanaka, Masafumi, Toshiyuki Yamada, Kyoko Matoba, et al.. (2014). Characterization of reconstituted high-density lipoprotein particles formed by lipid interactions with human serum amyloid A. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1841(10). 1467–1474. 15 indexed citations

Kawakami, Toru, et al.. (2013). Enhancement in the rate of conversion of peptide Cys-Pro esters to peptide thioesters by structural modification. Tetrahedron Letters. 55(1). 79–81. 12 indexed citations

Tanaka, Masafumi, et al.. (2013). Effect of amino acid distribution of amphipathic helical peptide derived from human apolipoprotein A‐I on membrane curvature sensing. FEBS Letters. 587(5). 510–515. 12 indexed citations

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Otani, Junji, Hironobu Kimura, Jafar Sharif, et al.. (2013). Cell Cycle-Dependent Turnover of 5-Hydroxymethyl Cytosine in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82961–e82961. 73 indexed citations

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Kawakami, Toru & Saburo Aimoto. (2012). Development of Synthetic Methods for Peptide Thioesters Based on the N-S Acyl Shift Reaction. Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan. 70(2). 166–176. 1 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Masafumi, et al.. (2009). Deletion of Single Amino Acid E235 Affects the Structure and Lipid Interaction of Human Apolipoprotein A-I C-Terminal Peptides. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 57(5). 499–503. 2 indexed citations

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Futaki, Shiroh, Ikuhiko Nakase, Kenichi Akaji, et al.. (2004). Transferrin-Modified Liposomes Equipped with a pH-Sensitive Fusogenic Peptide: An Artificial Viral-like Delivery System. Biochemistry. 43(19). 5618–5628. 213 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Shigeomi, Toshihiro Funatsu, Hiroshi Tamagawa, et al.. (2003). BH4-domain peptide from Bcl-xL exerts anti-apoptotic activity in vivo. Oncogene. 22(52). 8432–8440. 87 indexed citations

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Kozhukh, Genadiy, Yoshihisa Hagihara, Toru Kawakami, et al.. (2002). Investigation of a Peptide Responsible for Amyloid Fibril Formation of β2-Microglobulin byAchromobacter Protease I. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(2). 1310–1315. 108 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Isao, Taichi Uetsuki, Ken-ichiro Kuwako, et al.. (2002). Cell death induced by a caspase-cleaved transmembrane fragment of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein. Cell Death and Differentiation. 9(2). 199–208. 36 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven O., Toru Kawakami, Wei Liu, Martine Ziliox, & Saburo Aimoto. (2001). Helical structure of phospholamban in membrane bilayers 1 1Edited by G. von Heijne. Journal of Molecular Biology. 313(5). 1139–1148. 45 indexed citations

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Kawakami, Toru, Koki Hasegawa, Kenta Teruya, et al.. (2000). Polypeptide synthesis using an expressed peptide as a building block via the thioester method. Tetrahedron Letters. 41(15). 2625–2628. 9 indexed citations

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Kawakami, Toru, Koki Hasegawa, & Saburo Aimoto. (2000). Synthesis of a Phosphorylated Polypeptide by a Thioester Method. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 73(1). 197–203. 14 indexed citations

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Kawakami, Toru, et al.. (1998). Synthesis of Cysteine-Containing Polypeptide Using Peptide Thioester : Preparation of a Molt-Inhibiting Hormone from the American Crayfish, Procambarus clarkii. 1998. 149–152. 3 indexed citations

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