Yoshitaka Moriwaki

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yoshitaka Moriwaki is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoshitaka Moriwaki has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yoshitaka Moriwaki's work include Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Yoshitaka Moriwaki is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Yoshitaka Moriwaki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Yoshitaka Moriwaki's co-authors include Milot Mirdita, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Martin Steinegger, Konstantin Schütze, Lim Heo, Kentaro Shimizu, Tohru Terada, Kouhei Tsumoto, Itaru Hamachi and Chun Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yoshitaka Moriwaki

29 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all

2022 5.0k citations Milot Mirdita, Yoshitaka Moriwaki et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yoshitaka Moriwaki Japan	13	3.7k	649	615	531	494	32	5.5k
Konstantin Schütze Germany	6	3.5k 1.0×	536 0.8×	590 1.0×	494 0.9×	485 1.0×	9	5.1k
Fabian Glaser Israel	34	4.6k 1.2×	479 0.7×	707 1.1×	459 0.9×	529 1.1×	76	6.2k
Christian Cole United Kingdom	20	3.8k 1.0×	524 0.8×	585 1.0×	447 0.8×	318 0.6×	49	5.3k
Ambrish Roy United States	17	5.2k 1.4×	758 1.2×	658 1.1×	463 0.9×	430 0.9×	21	7.5k
Haim Ashkenazy Israel	23	4.7k 1.3×	890 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	627 1.2×	772 1.6×	39	6.9k
Marco Biasini Switzerland	8	4.7k 1.3×	863 1.3×	630 1.0×	377 0.7×	346 0.7×	10	7.2k
Kevin Bryson United Kingdom	21	5.4k 1.5×	617 1.0×	758 1.2×	445 0.8×	530 1.1×	41	7.1k
Fábio Madeira United Kingdom	9	3.2k 0.9×	916 1.4×	600 1.0×	395 0.7×	573 1.2×	14	5.4k
Alper Küçükural United States	20	5.5k 1.5×	750 1.2×	974 1.6×	462 0.9×	374 0.8×	35	8.1k
Stefan T. Arold Saudi Arabia	42	3.2k 0.9×	452 0.7×	773 1.3×	660 1.2×	377 0.8×	172	5.8k

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Ishitani, Ryuichiro & Yoshitaka Moriwaki. (2025). Improving Stereochemical Limitations in Protein–Ligand Complex Structure Prediction. ACS Omega. 10(46). 56075–56084.

Saito, Muneyasu, Masaki Mishima, Masahiro Yamashina, et al.. (2025). The reaction mechanism for glycolysis side product degradation by Parkinson’s disease–linked DJ-1. The Journal of Cell Biology. 224(8). 1 indexed citations

Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, et al.. (2025). Structural Basis for the Catalytic Mechanism of ATP‐Dependent Diazotase CmaA6. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(27). e202505851–e202505851. 1 indexed citations

Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, Hideaki Yamamoto, Takeo Tomita, et al.. (2025). Biosynthesis of the tetrahydroxynaphthalene-derived meroterpenoid furaquinocin via reductive deamination and intramolecular hydroalkoxylation of an alkene. Chemical Science. 16(18). 7912–7920. 2 indexed citations

Karin, Eli Levy, Hyunbin Kim, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, et al.. (2024). Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold. Nature Protocols. 20(3). 620–642. 44 indexed citations

Mori, Takahiro, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Jiřı́ Janata, et al.. (2024). Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes. Nature Chemistry. 17(2). 256–264. 1 indexed citations

Homma, M., Takatoshi Wakabayashi, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, et al.. (2024). Insights into stereoselective ring formation in canonical strigolactone: Identification of a dirigent domain-containing enzyme catalyzing orobanchol synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(26). e2313683121–e2313683121. 7 indexed citations

Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, et al.. (2024). QM/MM Study of the Catalytic Mechanism and Substrate Specificity of the Aromatic Substrate C-Methyltransferase Fur6. Biochemistry. 63(6). 806–814. 5 indexed citations

Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive computational analysis of the SRK–SP11 molecular interaction underlying self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae using improved structure prediction for cysteine-rich proteins. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 5228–5239.

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Yang, Xiaoyu, Natsuko I. Kobayashi, Yoshiki Hayashi, et al.. (2022). Mutagenesis Analysis of GMN Motif in Arabidopsis thaliana Mg2+ Transporter MRS2-1. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 86(7). 870–874. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Li, Wen Song, Shijia Huang, et al.. (2022). Extracellular pH sensing by plant cell-surface peptide-receptor complexes. Cell. 185(18). 3341–3355.e13. 88 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Shohei, et al.. (2022). Prediction of protein mononucleotide binding sites using AlphaFold2 and machine learning. Computational Biology and Chemistry. 100. 107744–107744. 8 indexed citations

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Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, et al.. (2021). Prediction and analysis of antifreeze proteins. Heliyon. 7(9). e07953–e07953. 13 indexed citations

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Murase, Kohji, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Tomoyuki Mori, et al.. (2020). Mechanism of self/nonself-discrimination in Brassica self-incompatibility. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4916–4916. 29 indexed citations

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Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, Tohru Terada, Seiji Saito, et al.. (2019). Understanding the Molecular Mechanism Underlying the High Catalytic Activity of p-Hydroxybenzoate Hydroxylase Mutants for Producing Gallic Acid. Biochemistry. 58(45). 4543–4558. 20 indexed citations

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Fang, Chun, et al.. (2018). Identifying short disorder-to-order binding regions in disordered proteins with a deep convolutional neural network method. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 17(1). 1950004–1950004. 15 indexed citations

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Yanaka, Saeko, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Kouhei Tsumoto, & Kenji Sugase. (2017). Elucidation of potential sites for antibody engineering by fluctuation editing. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9597–9597. 14 indexed citations

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Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, Tohru Terada, Kouhei Tsumoto, & Kentaro Shimizu. (2015). Rapid Heme Transfer Reactions between NEAr Transporter Domains of Staphylococcus aureus: A Theoretical Study Using QM/MM and MD Simulations. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0145125–e0145125. 11 indexed citations

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Moriwaki, Yoshitaka, Tohru Terada, José M. M. Caaveiro, et al.. (2013). Heme Binding Mechanism of Structurally Similar Iron-Regulated Surface Determinant Near Transporter Domains ofStaphylococcus aureusExhibiting Different Affinities for Heme. Biochemistry. 52(49). 8866–8877. 21 indexed citations

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Muto, Masahiko, Y. Date, Makoto Ichimiya, et al.. (1996). Significance of antibodies to streptococcal M protein in psoriatic arthritis and their association with HLA‐A*0207. Tissue Antigens. 48(6). 645–650. 28 indexed citations

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