Yoko Kimura

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Yoko Kimura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoko Kimura has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Cell Biology and 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Yoko Kimura's work include Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (9 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (7 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (7 papers). Yoko Kimura is often cited by papers focused on Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (9 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (7 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (7 papers). Yoko Kimura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Hong Kong. Yoko Kimura's co-authors include Keiji Tanaka, Ichiro Yahara, Noriyuki Matsuda, Hidetaka Kosako, Mayumi Kimura, Fumika Koyano, Kei Okatsu, Hikaru Tsuchiya, Takatsugu Hirokawa and Toshiya Endo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Yoko Kimura

38 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Ubiquitin is phosphorylated by PINK1 to activate parkin

2014 1.1k citations Fumika Koyano, Hidetaka Kosako et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yoko Kimura Japan	20	2.0k	954	574	458	313	38	2.7k
Ayumu Sugiura Japan	18	2.1k 1.0×	777 0.8×	361 0.6×	327 0.7×	232 0.7×	32	2.8k
Toshihiko Oka Japan	23	3.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	425 0.7×	435 0.9×	277 0.9×	41	4.0k
Dominic Winter Germany	23	1.6k 0.8×	606 0.6×	384 0.7×	377 0.8×	254 0.8×	69	2.5k
Lifeng Pan China	31	1.8k 0.9×	740 0.8×	683 1.2×	159 0.3×	162 0.5×	78	2.7k
Wolfgang Voos Germany	42	4.6k 2.3×	430 0.5×	935 1.6×	376 0.8×	351 1.1×	74	5.4k
Huanchen Wang United States	35	2.7k 1.3×	591 0.6×	680 1.2×	94 0.2×	153 0.5×	83	3.9k
Nobuo Suzuki Japan	22	1.2k 0.6×	712 0.7×	433 0.8×	145 0.3×	94 0.3×	68	2.1k
Wei Feng China	32	1.8k 0.9×	360 0.4×	1.2k 2.2×	115 0.3×	447 1.4×	90	3.1k
Luca Pellegrini Canada	28	2.9k 1.4×	419 0.4×	793 1.4×	153 0.3×	376 1.2×	39	3.7k
Chih-chen Wang China	30	1.6k 0.8×	283 0.3×	1.3k 2.2×	243 0.5×	117 0.4×	50	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoko Kimura

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Nakagawa, Reiko, Xinyue Hu, Priyanshu Bhargava, et al.. (2023). Differential second messenger signaling via dopamine neurons bidirectionally regulates memory retention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(36). e2304851120–e2304851120. 5 indexed citations

Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2023). Physicochemical properties of the vacuolar membrane and cellular factors determine formation of vacuolar invaginations. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16187–16187. 1 indexed citations

Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2019). The neural circuit linking mushroom body parallel circuits induces memory consolidation in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(32). 16080–16085. 23 indexed citations

Koyano, Fumika, Koji Yamano, Hidetaka Kosako, et al.. (2019). Parkin‐mediated ubiquitylation redistributes MITOL/March5 from mitochondria to peroxisomes. EMBO Reports. 20(12). e47728–e47728. 42 indexed citations

Kurokawa, Kazuo, et al.. (2019). Role of Atg8 in the regulation of vacuolar membrane invagination. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14828–14828. 15 indexed citations

Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2012). Rescue of growth defects of yeast cdc48 mutants by pathogenic IBMPFD-VCPs. Journal of Structural Biology. 179(2). 93–103. 6 indexed citations

Kimura, Yoko & Keiji Tanaka. (2010). Regulatory mechanisms involved in the control of ubiquitin homeostasis. The Journal of Biochemistry. 147(6). 793–798. 157 indexed citations

Kimura, Yoko, Hideki Yashiroda, Tai Kudo, et al.. (2009). An Inhibitor of a Deubiquitinating Enzyme Regulates Ubiquitin Homeostasis. Cell. 137(3). 549–559. 66 indexed citations

Maeda, Ryota, et al.. (2009). p97/valosin‐containing protein (VCP) is highly modulated by phosphorylation and acetylation. Genes to Cells. 14(4). 483–497. 42 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2006). Therapeutic Prospects for the Prevention of Neurodegeneration in Huntingtons Disease and the Polyglutamine Repeat Disorders. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. 7(1). 99–106. 3 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2004). The role of pre‐existing aggregates in Hsp104‐dependent polyglutamine aggregate formation and epigenetic change of yeast prions. Genes to Cells. 9(8). 685–696. 15 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Shigeki, Etsuko Tanaka, Takayuki Nemoto, et al.. (2002). Interaction between the N-terminal and Middle Regions Is Essential for the in Vivo Function of HSP90 Molecular Chaperone. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(38). 34959–34966. 19 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2002). Circumvention of Chaperone Requirement for Aggregate Formation of a Short Polyglutamine Tract by the Co-expression of a Long Polyglutamine Tract. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(40). 37536–37541. 7 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko, et al.. (2001). Initial process of polyglutamine aggregate formation in vivo. Genes to Cells. 6(10). 887–897. 22 indexed citations

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Hirabayashi, Miho, Kiyoshi Inoue, Keiko Tanaka, et al.. (2001). VCP/p97 in abnormal protein aggregates, cytoplasmic vacuoles, and cell death, phenotypes relevant to neurodegeneration. Cell Death and Differentiation. 8(10). 977–984. 213 indexed citations

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Gohda, Keigo, Yoko Kimura, Ichiro Mori, Daisaku Ohta, & Takeshi Kikuchi. (1998). Theoretical evidence of the existence of a diazafulvene intermediate in the reaction pathway of imidazoleglycerol phosphate dehydratase: design of a novel and potent heterocycle structure for the inhibitor on the basis of the electronic structure-activity relationship study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1385(1). 107–114. 16 indexed citations

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Mori, Ichiro, Yoko Kimura, Genji Iwasaki, et al.. (1995). A Novel Class of Herbicides (Specific Inhibitors of Imidazoleglycerol Phosphate Dehydratase). PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 107(3). 719–723. 53 indexed citations

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Minami, Yasufumi, Yoko Kimura, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Koichi Suzuki, & Ichiro Yahara. (1994). The Carboxy-Terminal Region of Mammalian HSP90 Is Required for Its Dimerization and Function In Vivo. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(2). 1459–1464. 143 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko & Ichiro Yahara. (1994). [Stress proteins as molecular chaperones].. PubMed. 39(4). 686–95. 2 indexed citations

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Kimura, Yoko, Seiji Matsumoto, & Ichiro Yahara. (1994). Temperature-sensitive mutants of hsp82 of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 242(5). 517–527. 44 indexed citations

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