Yasutaka Anraku

12.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
154 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Yasutaka Anraku is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasutaka Anraku has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Biomaterials and 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yasutaka Anraku's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (31 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (28 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers). Yasutaka Anraku is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (31 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (28 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers). Yasutaka Anraku collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Yasutaka Anraku's co-authors include Yoshinori Ohsumi, Kazunori Kataoka, Yoshikazu Ohya, Akihiro Kishimura, Hidetoshi Iida, Kiyoshi Kita, Ichiro Yamato, Katsuhiko Kitamoto, Kiyoshi Konishi and Akihiko Nakano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yasutaka Anraku

150 papers receiving 10.1k citations

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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.

Nanomaterial-based blood-brain-barrier (BBB) crossing strategies

2019 457 citations Jinbing Xie, Yasutaka Anraku et al. profile →
Purification and properties of H+-translocating, Mg2+-adenosine triphosphatase from vacuolar membranes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1985 281 citations Yasutaka Anraku et al. profile →
Calcium transport driven by a proton motive force in vacuolar membrane vesicles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1983 225 citations Yasutaka Anraku et al. profile →
Active transport of basic amino acids driven by a proton motive force in vacuolar membrane vesicles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1981 215 citations Yasutaka Anraku et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasutaka Anraku Japan	59	7.1k	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	1.2k	154	10.4k
Jianbin Huang China	48	4.2k 0.6×	3.8k 2.1×	705 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.9×	186	10.3k
Longping Wen China	51	4.4k 0.6×	604 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1000 0.6×	2.4k 1.9×	139	9.7k
Xiaohong Fang China	58	7.8k 1.1×	508 0.3×	4.1k 2.4×	721 0.5×	2.9k 2.4×	236	12.5k
Daniel I. C. Wang United States	44	3.9k 0.6×	659 0.4×	2.5k 1.4×	801 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	107	8.0k
Arne Skerra Germany	60	8.5k 1.2×	980 0.6×	676 0.4×	307 0.2×	660 0.5×	266	13.1k
Vincent L. Cryns United States	51	5.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	585 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	386 0.3×	106	9.1k
Kentaro Kogure Japan	45	6.0k 0.9×	472 0.3×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	345 0.3×	197	8.6k
Leonard H. Rome United States	46	6.2k 0.9×	934 0.5×	497 0.3×	376 0.2×	393 0.3×	133	8.9k
Mingliang Ye China	61	7.6k 1.1×	566 0.3×	2.8k 1.6×	321 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	365	13.0k
Gerd Hause Germany	52	4.0k 0.6×	530 0.3×	527 0.3×	754 0.5×	501 0.4×	197	8.3k

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Li, Junjie, Kazuko Toh, Panyue Wen, et al.. (2025). Steric stabilization-independent stealth cloak enables nanoreactors-mediated starvation therapy against refractory cancer. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 1 indexed citations

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Nakagawa, Yasuhiro, Tetsuo Kishi, Masaki Takeguchi, et al.. (2024). Growth mechanism of star-shaped Au–Ag nanoparticles synthesized by ascorbic acid reduction and underpotential deposition. Materials Today Nano. 25. 100468–100468. 1 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takayoshi, Takumi Obara, Makoto Nakakido, et al.. (2024). Triphenylphosphonium-modified catiomers enhance in vivo mRNA delivery through stabilized polyion complexation. Materials Horizons. 11(19). 4711–4721. 6 indexed citations

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Nakagawa, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2023). Adsorption of l-buthionine sulfoximine on Bi(III) and Eu(III) co-substituted hydroxyapatite nanocrystals for enhancing radiosensitization effects. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 228. 113403–113403. 8 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takayoshi, Takumi Obara, Horacio Cabral, et al.. (2023). Ligand Installation to Polymeric Micelles for Pediatric Brain Tumor Targeting. Polymers. 15(7). 1808–1808. 4 indexed citations

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Anraku, Yasutaka, et al.. (2023). Increased Enzyme Loading in PICsomes via Controlling Membrane Permeability Improves Enzyme Prodrug Cancer Therapy Outcome. Polymers. 15(6). 1368–1368. 5 indexed citations

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Nakagawa, Yasuhiro, Kazunori Igarashi, Yu Matsumoto, et al.. (2023). Multi-Armed Star-Shaped Block Copolymers of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Poly(furfuryl glycidol) as Long Circulating Nanocarriers. Polymers. 15(12). 2626–2626. 1 indexed citations

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Uchida, Noriyuki, Yasutaka Anraku, Itsuki Ajioka, et al.. (2023). Endocytosis-Like Vesicle Fission Mediated by a Membrane-Expanding Molecular Machine Enables Virus Encapsulation for In Vivo Delivery. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(11). 6210–6220. 9 indexed citations

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Uchida, Noriyuki, et al.. (2022). Stabilization of bicelles using metal-binding peptide for extended blood circulation. Chemical Communications. 58(33). 5164–5167. 4 indexed citations

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Igarashi, Kazunori, Horacio Cabral, Taehun Hong, et al.. (2021). Vascular Bursts Act as a Versatile Tumor Vessel Permeation Route for Blood‐Borne Particles and Cells. Small. 17(42). e2103751–e2103751. 16 indexed citations

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Kim, Beob Soo, Mitsuru Naito, Mao Hori, et al.. (2020). Noncovalent Stabilization of Vesicular Polyion Complexes with Chemically Modified/Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides and PEG-b-guanidinylated Polypeptides for Intracavity Encapsulation of Effector Enzymes Aimed at Cooperative Gene Knockdown. Biomacromolecules. 21(10). 4365–4376. 17 indexed citations

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Xie, Jinbing, Daniel Gonzalez‐Carter, Theofilus A. Tockary, et al.. (2020). Dual-Sensitive Nanomicelles Enhancing Systemic Delivery of Therapeutically Active Antibodies Specifically into the Brain. ACS Nano. 14(6). 6729–6742. 88 indexed citations

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Min, Hyun Su, Hyun Jin Kim, Mitsuru Naito, et al.. (2020). Systemic Brain Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides across the Blood–Brain Barrier with a Glucose‐Coated Polymeric Nanocarrier. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(21). 8173–8180. 159 indexed citations

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Li, Junjie, Yasutaka Anraku, & Kazunori Kataoka. (2020). Self‐Boosting Catalytic Nanoreactors Integrated with Triggerable Crosslinking Membrane Networks for Initiation of Immunogenic Cell Death by Pyroptosis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(32). 13526–13530. 125 indexed citations

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Li, Junjie, Yasutaka Anraku, & Kazunori Kataoka. (2020). Self‐Boosting Catalytic Nanoreactors Integrated with Triggerable Crosslinking Membrane Networks for Initiation of Immunogenic Cell Death by Pyroptosis. Angewandte Chemie. 132(32). 13628–13632. 20 indexed citations

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Min, Hyun Su, Hyun Jin Kim, Mitsuru Naito, et al.. (2020). Systemic Brain Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides across the Blood–Brain Barrier with a Glucose‐Coated Polymeric Nanocarrier. Angewandte Chemie. 132(21). 8250–8257. 11 indexed citations

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Kim, Beob Soo, Tomoya Suma, Yasutaka Anraku, et al.. (2019). Self-Assembly of siRNA/PEG-b-Catiomer at Integer Molar Ratio into 100 nm-Sized Vesicular Polyion Complexes (siRNAsomes) for RNAi and Codelivery of Cargo Macromolecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(8). 3699–3709. 54 indexed citations

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Ke, Wendong, Junjie Li, Fathelrahman Mohammed, et al.. (2019). Therapeutic Polymersome Nanoreactors with Tumor-Specific Activable Cascade Reactions for Cooperative Cancer Therapy. ACS Nano. 13(2). 2357–2369. 230 indexed citations

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Yen, Hung‐Chi, Yasutaka Anraku, Shigeto Fukushima, et al.. (2017). Facile Preparation of Delivery Platform of Water-Soluble Low-Molecular-Weight Drugs Based on Polyion Complex Vesicle (PICsome) Encapsulating Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 3(5). 807–815. 15 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Naoki, et al.. (2013). Characterization of nanoparticle permeability on a membrane-integrated microfluidic device. 3. 1818–1820. 1 indexed citations

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