Yu Kitago

973 total citations
21 papers, 697 citations indexed

About

Yu Kitago is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Kitago has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 697 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Physiology and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Kitago's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (6 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (5 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (4 papers). Yu Kitago is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (6 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (5 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (4 papers). Yu Kitago collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Denmark. Yu Kitago's co-authors include Junichi Takagi, Isao Tanaka, Nobuhisa Watanabe, Yukiko Matsunaga, Masamichi Nagae, Takao Arimori, Emiko Mihara, Hiroaki Suga, Yuki Fujii and Min Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yu Kitago

21 papers receiving 692 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yu Kitago Japan 14 447 148 97 95 93 21 697
Sandrine Georgeon Switzerland 15 505 1.1× 65 0.4× 57 0.6× 66 0.7× 43 0.5× 27 829
Greet De Baets Belgium 16 772 1.7× 232 1.6× 73 0.8× 95 1.0× 31 0.3× 18 1.0k
Francesca De Giorgi Italy 13 615 1.4× 65 0.4× 179 1.8× 46 0.5× 56 0.6× 15 887
Uwe Bertsch Germany 22 1.0k 2.3× 144 1.0× 98 1.0× 72 0.8× 144 1.5× 36 1.2k
Bertil Macao Sweden 17 942 2.1× 411 2.8× 96 1.0× 63 0.7× 62 0.7× 26 1.2k
G. Kornhaber United States 11 507 1.1× 341 2.3× 258 2.7× 73 0.8× 43 0.5× 13 903
Zhizhi Wang United States 18 925 2.1× 66 0.4× 177 1.8× 72 0.8× 87 0.9× 23 1.2k
Jacky Chi Ki Ngo Hong Kong 19 893 2.0× 63 0.4× 90 0.9× 37 0.4× 40 0.4× 45 1.2k
Kuan‐Ting Pan Germany 19 918 2.1× 123 0.8× 131 1.4× 65 0.7× 149 1.6× 34 1.3k
Nobumasa Hino Japan 17 1.0k 2.3× 51 0.3× 71 0.7× 53 0.6× 70 0.8× 32 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Kitago

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Kitago

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Kitago

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yu Kitago. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yu Kitago based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yu Kitago. Yu Kitago is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Fazeli, Elnaz, Shannon E. Rose, Chang‐En Yu, et al.. (2024). A familial missense variant in the Alzheimer’s disease gene SORL1 impairs its maturation and endosomal sorting. Acta Neuropathologica. 147(1). 20–20. 7 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Elnaz Fazeli, Christian Bjerggaard Vægter, et al.. (2023). Dimerization of the Alzheimer’s disease pathogenic receptor SORLA regulates its association with retromer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(4). e2212180120–e2212180120. 15 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Yuki Fujii, Emiko Mihara, et al.. (2018). An anti-peptide monoclonal antibody recognizing the tobacco etch virus protease-cleavage sequence and its application to a tandem tagging system. Protein Expression and Purification. 147. 94–99. 8 indexed citations
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Nagae, Masamichi, Yasuhiko Kizuka, Emiko Mihara, et al.. (2018). Structure and mechanism of cancer-associated N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-V. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3380–3380. 74 indexed citations
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Arimori, Takao, Yukimasa Taniguchi, Yu Kitago, et al.. (2017). Mechanistic basis for the recognition of laminin-511 by α6β1 integrin. Science Advances. 3(9). e1701497–e1701497. 38 indexed citations
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Arimori, Takao, Yu Kitago, Masataka Umitsu, et al.. (2017). Fv-clasp: An Artificially Designed Small Antibody Fragment with Improved Production Compatibility, Stability, and Crystallizability. Structure. 25(10). 1611–1622.e4. 30 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Mika K. Kaneko, Satoshi Ogasawara, Yukinari Kato, & Junichi Takagi. (2016). Structural basis for multi-specific peptide recognition by the anti-IDH1/2 monoclonal antibody, MsMab-1. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 478(3). 1274–1279. 3 indexed citations
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Matsunaga, Yukiko, et al.. (2016). Allosteric Inhibition of a Semaphorin 4D Receptor Plexin B1 by a High-Affinity Macrocyclic Peptide. Cell chemical biology. 23(11). 1341–1350. 64 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Masamichi Nagae, Maho Yagi‐Utsumi, et al.. (2015). Structural basis for amyloidogenic peptide recognition by sorLA. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 22(3). 199–206. 45 indexed citations
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Çağlayan, Şafak, Fan Liao, Anne-Sophie Carlo, et al.. (2014). Lysosomal Sorting of Amyloid-β by the SORLA Receptor Is Impaired by a Familial Alzheimer’s Disease Mutation. Science Translational Medicine. 6(223). 223ra20–223ra20. 122 indexed citations
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Nagae, Masamichi, Akemi Ikeda, Yu Kitago, et al.. (2013). Crystal structures of carbohydrate recognition domain of blood dendritic cell antigen‐2 (BDCA2) reveal a common domain‐swapped dimer. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 82(7). 1512–1518. 9 indexed citations
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Yasui, N., Yu Kitago, Takao Kohno, et al.. (2011). Functional Importance of Covalent Homodimer of Reelin Protein Linked via Its Central Region. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(40). 35247–35256. 32 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Nobuhisa Watanabe, & Isao Tanaka. (2010). Semi-automated protein crystal mounting device for the sulfur single-wavelength anomalous diffraction method. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 43(2). 341–346. 15 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Yu Kitago, Yoko Yamada, et al.. (2009). Deduced RNA binding mechanism of ThiI based on structural and binding analyses of a minimal RNA ligand. RNA. 15(8). 1498–1506. 10 indexed citations
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Okuyama, Masayuki, Fumiko Tanzawa, Haruhide Mori, et al.. (2008). Structural and Functional Analysis of a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 97 Enzyme from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(52). 36328–36337. 86 indexed citations
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Karita, Shuichi, et al.. (2008). A water molecule identified as a substrate of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose: A statistical-mechanics study. Chemical Physics Letters. 465(4-6). 279–284. 1 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Shuichi Karita, Nobuhisa Watanabe, et al.. (2007). Crystal Structure of Cel44A, a Glycoside Hydrolase Family 44 Endoglucanase from Clostridium thermocellum. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(49). 35703–35711. 35 indexed citations
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Zhao, Min, Yu Kitago, Min Yao, et al.. (2006). Structural basis of CoA recognition by the Pyrococcus single-domain CoA-binding proteins. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 7(3-4). 119–129. 4 indexed citations
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Kitago, Yu, Nobuhisa Watanabe, & Isao Tanaka. (2005). Structure determination of a novel protein by sulfur SAD using chromium radiation in combination with a new crystal-mounting method. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 61(8). 1013–1021. 32 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Nobuhisa, et al.. (2005). Comparison of phasing methods for sulfur-SAD using in-house chromium radiation: case studies for standard proteins and a 69 kDa protein. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 61(11). 1533–1540. 18 indexed citations

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