Yasuhiro Furuichi

15.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
256 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Yasuhiro Furuichi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasuhiro Furuichi has authored 256 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Genetics and 42 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Yasuhiro Furuichi's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (59 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (35 papers). Yasuhiro Furuichi is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (59 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (44 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (35 papers). Yasuhiro Furuichi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Yasuhiro Furuichi's co-authors include Aaron J. Shatkin, Akira Shimamoto, Makoto Goto, Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Saori Kitao, Kin‐ichiro Miura, Michael K. Morgan, Masanobu Sugimoto, Takehisa Matsumoto and Noralane M. Lindor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yasuhiro Furuichi

255 papers receiving 11.2k 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.

Mutations in RECQL4 cause a subset of cases of Rothmund-Thomson syndrome

1999 532 citations Saori Kitao, Akira Shimamoto et al. profile →
5′-Terminal structure and mRNA stability

1977 447 citations Yasuhiro Furuichi, Aaron J. Shatkin et al. profile →
5′-Terminal 7-methylguanosine in eukaryotic mRNA is required for translation

1975 413 citations G W Both, Yasuhiro Furuichi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasuhiro Furuichi Japan	60	9.0k	1.7k	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	256	12.1k
Steffan N. Ho United States	31	9.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	899 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	516 0.4×	51	14.6k
Kim Orth United States	64	7.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	448 0.3×	168	14.4k
Robert Kamen United Kingdom	40	8.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	831 0.5×	2.9k 1.9×	566 0.4×	69	14.3k
M Kozak United States	31	9.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	436 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	280 0.2×	35	12.8k
Robert E. Rhoads United States	64	9.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	481 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	292 0.2×	168	12.2k
Corrado Baglioni United States	64	6.5k 0.7×	417 0.2×	717 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	849 0.6×	256	12.3k
Henry D. Hunt United States	30	7.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	423 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	293 0.2×	73	12.1k
Richard Tizard United States	41	6.1k 0.7×	829 0.5×	885 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	527 0.4×	56	11.8k
C Gorman United States	20	6.8k 0.8×	515 0.3×	761 0.5×	2.9k 1.9×	648 0.5×	23	11.5k
Jeffrey K. Pullen United States	11	6.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	369 0.2×	1.9k 1.2×	278 0.2×	14	10.4k

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Arai, Akihito, Tokuhiro Chano, Kazunobu Futami, et al.. (2011). RECQL1 and WRN Proteins Are Potential Therapeutic Targets in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 71(13). 4598–4607. 59 indexed citations

Miyamoto, Masahiko, et al.. (2010). Purification and functional characterization of a Camelid-like single-domain antimycotic antibody by engineering in affinity tag. Protein Expression and Purification. 72(1). 59–65. 6 indexed citations

Shibata, Satoshi, Mitsuho Sasaki, Takashi Miki, et al.. (2006). Exportin-5 orthologues are functionally divergent among species. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(17). 4711–4721. 66 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Masanobu, Hidetoshi Tahara, Minoru Okubo, et al.. (2004). WRN gene and other genetic factors affecting immortalization of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines transformed by Epstein-Barr virus. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 152(2). 95–100. 10 indexed citations

Takahashi, Tomoko, Yuichi Okazaki, Misako Satoh, et al.. (2003). In Vitro Establishment of Tumorigenic Human B-Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines Transformed by Epstein-Barr Virus. DNA and Cell Biology. 22(11). 727–735. 19 indexed citations

Shiratori, Miwa, et al.. (2002). WRN helicase accelerates the transcription of ribosomal RNA as a component of an RNA polymerase I-associated complex. Oncogene. 21(16). 2447–2454. 71 indexed citations

Satoh, Misako, Takehisa Matsumoto, Masanobu Sugimoto, et al.. (2001). PREVALENCE OF WERNER SYNDROME GENE MUTATIONS IN THE JAPANESE POPULATION : A GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY. 49. 19–25. 5 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Masanobu, Makoto Goto, & Yasuhiro Furuichi. (2001). PHENOTYPES OF CELLS WITH A WRN GENE MUTATION. 49. 113–123.

Okubo, Minoru, et al.. (2001). Clonal chromosomal aberrations accompanied by strong telomerase activity in immortalization of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines transformed by Epstein-Barr virus. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 129(1). 30–34. 38 indexed citations

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Kawabe, Yoh-ichi, Dana Branzei, Tomoko Hayashi, et al.. (2001). A Novel Protein Interacts with the Werner's Syndrome Gene Product Physically and Functionally. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(23). 20364–20369. 56 indexed citations

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Niida, Hiroyuki, Yoichi Shinkai, M. Prakash Hande, et al.. (2000). Telomere Maintenance in Telomerase-Deficient Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells: Characterization of an Amplified Telomeric DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(11). 4115–4127. 113 indexed citations

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Heo, Seok‐Jin, et al.. (1999). Bloom's syndrome gene suppresses premature ageing caused by Sgs1 deficiency in yeast. Genes to Cells. 4(11). 619–625. 77 indexed citations

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Tokutake, Yoshiki, Takehisa Matsumoto, Taro Watanabe, et al.. (1998). Extra-Chromosomal Telomere Repeat DNA in Telomerase-Negative Immortalized Cell Lines. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 247(3). 765–772. 93 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Takehisa, et al.. (1998). Genetic Diagnosis of Werner's Syndrome, a Premature Aging Disease, by Mutant Allele Specific Amplification (MASA) and Oligomer Ligation Assay (OLA). 1(2). 131–140. 10 indexed citations

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Yamagata, Kazutsune, Junichi Kato, Akira Shimamoto, et al.. (1998). Bloom’s and Werner’s syndrome genes suppress hyperrecombination in yeast sgs1 mutant: Implication for genomic instability in human diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95(15). 8733–8738. 254 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Takehisa, Osamu Imamura, Yukako Yamabe, et al.. (1997). Mutation and haplotype analyses of the Werner's syndrome gene based on its genomic structure: genetic epidemiology in the Japanese population. Human Genetics. 100(1). 123–130. 79 indexed citations

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Iwamoto, Teruaki, et al.. (1995). Cloning of boar SPMI gene which is expressed specifically in seminal vesicle and codes for a sperm motility inhibitor protein. FEBS Letters. 368(3). 420–424. 24 indexed citations

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TSUJI, Soichi, et al.. (1993). Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms of Japanese Black Cattle Genome Using Lipoprotein Lipase cDNA as a Probe. Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho. 64(5). 474–479. 1 indexed citations

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Tsugane, Shoichiro, Fred Gey, Yoshimichi Miyajima, et al.. (1992). Cross-sectional Epidemiologic Study for Assessing Cancer Risks at the Population Level:I. Study Design and Participation Rate. Journal of Epidemiology. 2(2). 75–81. 58 indexed citations

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Shatkin, Aaron J., Amiya K. Banerjee, G W Both, Yasuhiro Furuichi, & S. Muthukrishnan. (1976). Dependence of translation on 5'-terminal methylation of mRNA.. PubMed. 35(11). 2214–7. 6 indexed citations

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