Toshiro Moroishi

7.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
51 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Toshiro Moroishi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Toshiro Moroishi has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Cell Biology and 10 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Toshiro Moroishi's work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (18 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (6 papers). Toshiro Moroishi is often cited by papers focused on Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (18 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (6 papers). Toshiro Moroishi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Toshiro Moroishi's co-authors include Kun‐Liang Guan, Zhipeng Meng, Carsten Gram Hansen, Steven W. Plouffe, Hyun Woo Park, Fa‐Xing Yu, Jung-Soon Mo, Kimberly C. Lin, Masaaki Nishiyama and Takayoshi Yamauchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Toshiro Moroishi

43 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mechanisms of Hippo pathway regulation

2016 1.2k citations Zhipeng Meng, Toshiro Moroishi et al. Genes & Development profile →
The emerging roles of YAP and TAZ in cancer

2015 921 citations Toshiro Moroishi, Kun‐Liang Guan et al. profile →
Alternative Wnt Signaling Activates YAP/TAZ

2015 554 citations Hyun Woo Park, Young Chul Kim et al. Cell profile →
YAP and TAZ: a nexus for Hippo signaling and beyond

2015 464 citations Toshiro Moroishi, Kun‐Liang Guan et al. profile →
MAP4K family kinases act in parallel to MST1/2 to activate LATS1/2 in the Hippo pathway

2015 406 citations Zhipeng Meng, Toshiro Moroishi et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toshiro Moroishi Japan	21	3.6k	3.2k	705	526	352	51	5.2k
Xaralabos Varelas United States	38	3.8k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	719 1.0×	470 0.9×	307 0.9×	83	6.3k
Steven W. Plouffe United States	19	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	360 0.5×	303 0.6×	286 0.8×	21	3.6k
Karen Tumaneng United States	7	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	444 0.6×	256 0.5×	158 0.4×	7	3.9k
Norikazu Yabuta Japan	30	2.0k 0.6×	3.4k 1.1×	714 1.0×	1.2k 2.2×	219 0.6×	68	4.9k
Chiara Frasson Italy	26	1.6k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	964 1.8×	478 1.4×	43	4.3k
Ryan S. Udan United States	14	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	370 0.5×	184 0.3×	138 0.4×	22	3.9k
Silvia Bresolin Italy	27	1.3k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	454 0.6×	500 1.0×	240 0.7×	76	3.2k
Harry Hou United States	18	1.6k 0.4×	3.8k 1.2×	530 0.8×	453 0.9×	186 0.5×	18	5.0k
Gopal P. Sapkota United Kingdom	33	790 0.2×	3.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	503 1.0×	281 0.8×	67	4.8k
Kyunghee Choi United States	41	2.2k 0.6×	5.1k 1.6×	609 0.9×	783 1.5×	936 2.7×	116	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Toshiro Moroishi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toshiro Moroishi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chiampanichayakul, Sawitree, et al.. (2025). Anticancer and cancer preventive activities of shogaol and curcumin from Zingiberaceae family plants in KG-1a leukemic stem cells. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. 25(1). 87–87.

Matsumoto, Takashi, Yohei Kanamori, Noriko Yasuda‐Yoshihara, et al.. (2025). Integrated hepatic ferroptosis gene signature dictates pathogenic features of ferroptosis. Hepatology Communications. 9(6).

Sakamoto, Yasuhisa, Shinya Wada, Masahiro Wakao, et al.. (2025). Peptide Modulation Overrides Glycan Synergy in Gold Nanoparticle‐Based Vaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Medicine. 14(19). e71286–e71286.

Horii, Naoki, Shin Fujimaki, Toshiro Moroishi, et al.. (2025). Iron supplementation alleviates pathologies in a mouse model of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(17).

Morishima, Tatsuya, Md. Fakruddin, Yohei Kanamori, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial translation regulates terminal erythroid differentiation by maintaining iron homeostasis. Science Advances. 11(8). eadu3011–eadu3011.

Kanamori, Yohei, Tianli Zhang, Kenta Kikuchi, et al.. (2025). Hippo pathway controls biopterin metabolism to shield adjacent cells from ferroptosis in lung cancer. EMBO Reports. 26(16). 4124–4152.

Kanamori, Yohei, et al.. (2024). Cell attachment defines sensitivity to cold stress via the Hippo pathway. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 730. 150373–150373. 3 indexed citations

Horiguchi, Haruki, Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Michio Sato, et al.. (2024). Host ANGPTL2 establishes an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and resistance to immune checkpoint therapy. Cancer Science. 115(12). 3846–3858. 2 indexed citations

Sakamoto, Yasuhisa, Suyanee Thongchot, Somponnat Sampattavanich, et al.. (2024). Hippo pathway in cancer cells induces NCAM1+αSMA+ fibroblasts to modulate tumor microenvironment. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1343–1343. 4 indexed citations

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Luo, Min, Zhipeng Meng, Toshiro Moroishi, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Heat stress activates YAP/TAZ to induce the heat shock transcriptome. Nature Cell Biology. 23(2). 209–209. 2 indexed citations

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Yamauchi, Takayoshi & Toshiro Moroishi. (2020). The Yin and Yang of tumour-derived extracellular vesicles in tumour immunity. The Journal of Biochemistry. 169(2). 155–161. 8 indexed citations

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Luo, Min, Zhipeng Meng, Toshiro Moroishi, et al.. (2020). Heat stress activates YAP/TAZ to induce the heat shock transcriptome. Nature Cell Biology. 22(12). 1447–1459. 69 indexed citations

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Horiguchi, Haruki, Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Keishi Miyata, et al.. (2020). Stroma-derived ANGPTL2 establishes an anti-tumor microenvironment during intestinal tumorigenesis. Oncogene. 40(1). 55–67. 11 indexed citations

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Verma, Sachin Kumar, Narayana Yeddula, Yasushi Soda, et al.. (2019). BRCA1/BARD1-dependent ubiquitination of NF2 regulates Hippo-YAP1 signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(15). 7363–7370. 22 indexed citations

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Horiguchi, Haruki, Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Chiaki Hara, et al.. (2019). Dual functions of angiopoietin-like protein 2 signaling in tumor progression and anti-tumor immunity. Genes & Development. 33(23-24). 1641–1656. 20 indexed citations

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Cosset, Érika, Sten Ilmjärv, Valérie Dutoit, et al.. (2017). Glut3 Addiction Is a Druggable Vulnerability for a Molecularly Defined Subpopulation of Glioblastoma. Cancer Cell. 32(6). 856–868.e5. 128 indexed citations

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Yamauchi, Takayoshi, Masaaki Nishiyama, Toshiro Moroishi, Atsuki Kawamura, & Keiichi I. Nakayama. (2017). FBXL5 Inactivation in Mouse Brain Induces Aberrant Proliferation of Neural Stem Progenitor Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 37(8). 15 indexed citations

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Cosset, Érika, Sten Ilmjärv, Valérie Dutoit, et al.. (2017). Glut3 addiction is a druggable vulnerability for a molecularly defined subpopulation of glioblastoma. Annals of Oncology. 28. vii24–vii24. 9 indexed citations

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Muto, Yoshiharu, et al.. (2017). Essential role of FBXL5-mediated cellular iron homeostasis in maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells. Nature Communications. 8(1). 16114–16114. 56 indexed citations

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Park, Hyun Woo, Young Chul Kim, Bo Yu, et al.. (2015). Alternative Wnt Signaling Activates YAP/TAZ. Cell. 162(4). 780–794. 554 indexed citations breakdown →

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