Yuji Ishitsuka

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yuji Ishitsuka is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuji Ishitsuka has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Biophysics and 12 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Yuji Ishitsuka's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (7 papers). Yuji Ishitsuka is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (15 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (11 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (7 papers). Yuji Ishitsuka collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Yuji Ishitsuka's co-authors include Taekjip Ha, Chirlmin Joo, Hamza Balci, Chittanon Buranachai, Ka Yee C. Lee, Robert I. Lehrer, Alan J. Waring, Oleg Konovalov, David Gidalevitz and G. Ulrich Nienhaus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yuji Ishitsuka

41 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Advances in Single-Molecule Fluorescence Methods for Molecular Biology

2008 596 citations Chirlmin Joo, Yuji Ishitsuka et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuji Ishitsuka United States	22	1.7k	550	402	387	332	41	2.3k
Ulrich Kubitscheck Germany	36	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	167 0.4×	295 0.8×	522 1.6×	94	3.6k
Elin K. Esbjörner Sweden	31	2.0k 1.1×	154 0.3×	307 0.8×	139 0.4×	260 0.8×	63	2.8k
Kem A. Sochacki United States	20	877 0.5×	213 0.4×	203 0.5×	597 1.5×	147 0.4×	33	1.4k
Ulf Diederichsen Germany	28	3.0k 1.7×	208 0.4×	117 0.3×	713 1.8×	148 0.4×	150	3.7k
Kirsten Bacia Germany	23	2.9k 1.7×	760 1.4×	54 0.1×	667 1.7×	458 1.4×	48	3.6k
Ming‐Qun Xu United States	35	4.1k 2.3×	259 0.5×	113 0.3×	383 1.0×	148 0.4×	69	4.6k
Karen G. Fleming United States	40	3.7k 2.2×	145 0.3×	136 0.3×	496 1.3×	187 0.6×	92	4.4k
Olga S. Sokolova Russia	26	1.2k 0.7×	130 0.2×	88 0.2×	613 1.6×	194 0.6×	161	2.1k
Stefano Vanni Switzerland	30	2.5k 1.5×	204 0.4×	50 0.1×	963 2.5×	196 0.6×	82	3.3k
Heejun Choi United States	14	757 0.4×	305 0.6×	220 0.5×	60 0.2×	193 0.6×	20	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuji Ishitsuka

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Tortarolo, Giorgio, Yuansheng Sun, Kai Wen Teng, et al.. (2019). Photon-separation to enhance the spatial resolution of pulsed STED microscopy. Nanoscale. 11(4). 1754–1761. 40 indexed citations

Ishitsuka, Yuji, et al.. (2018). Micro-Patterned Coverslips Using Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography for Drift Correction for Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 692a–692a. 2 indexed citations

Ishitsuka, Yuji, et al.. (2018). Thermal nanoimprint lithography for drift correction in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Optics Express. 26(2). 1670–1670. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Sang Hak, En Cai, Pinghua Ge, et al.. (2017). Super-resolution imaging of synaptic and Extra-synaptic AMPA receptors with different-sized fluorescent probes. eLife. 6. 60 indexed citations

Sun, Yuansheng, Giorgio Tortarolo, Yuji Ishitsuka, et al.. (2017). A novel pulsed STED microscopy method using FastFLIM and the phasor plots. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10069. 100691C–100691C. 5 indexed citations

Ishitsuka, Yuji, et al.. (2016). Dynamics of Actin Cables in Polarized Growth of the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 682–682. 35 indexed citations

Gao, Peng, et al.. (2015). Monomeric Garnet, a far-red fluorescent protein for live-cell STED imaging. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18006–18006. 34 indexed citations

Ishitsuka, Yuji, Natasha S. Savage, Yiming Li, et al.. (2015). Superresolution microscopy reveals a dynamic picture of cell polarity maintenance during directional growth. Science Advances. 1(10). e1500947–e1500947. 35 indexed citations

Saccà, Barbara, et al.. (2015). Reversible Reconfiguration of DNA Origami Nanochambers Monitored by Single‐Molecule FRET. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(12). 3592–3597. 37 indexed citations

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Takeshita, Norio, Daniel Mania, Yuji Ishitsuka, et al.. (2013). The cell end marker TeaA and the microtubule polymerase AlpA contribute to microtubule guidance at the hyphal tip cortex of Aspergillus nidulans for polarity maintenance. Journal of Cell Science. 126(Pt 23). 5400–11. 35 indexed citations

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Lai, Ying, Jiajie Diao, Yanxin Liu, et al.. (2013). Fusion pore formation and expansion induced by Ca ²⁺ and synaptotagmin 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(4). 1333–1338. 82 indexed citations

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Ishitsuka, Yuji, Yiming Li, Rainer Fischer, Norio Takeshita, & G. Ulrich Nienhaus. (2013). Time-Lapse Super-Resolution Imaging of Apical Membrane Protein Domains in Live Filamentous Fungi. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 652a–652a. 2 indexed citations

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Diao, Jiajie, Yuji Ishitsuka, Hanki Lee, et al.. (2012). A single vesicle-vesicle fusion assay for in vitro studies of SNAREs and accessory proteins. Nature Protocols. 7(5). 921–934. 93 indexed citations

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Ishitsuka, Yuji, et al.. (2012). Surface energy of phospholipid bilayers and the correlation to their hydration. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 390(1). 267–274. 9 indexed citations

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Diao, Jiajie, Zengliu Su, Yuji Ishitsuka, et al.. (2010). A single-vesicle content mixing assay for SNARE-mediated membrane fusion. Nature Communications. 1(1). 54–54. 71 indexed citations

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Ishitsuka, Yuji, Lachelle Arnt, Jarosław Majewski, et al.. (2008). Amphiphilic Poly(phenyleneethynylene)s Can Mimic Antimicrobial Peptide Membrane Disordering Effect by Membrane Insertion [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 13123−13129].. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(7). 2372–2372. 1 indexed citations

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Su, Zengliu, Yuji Ishitsuka, Taekjip Ha, & Yeon-Kyun Shin. (2008). The SNARE Complex from Yeast Is Partially Unstructured on the Membrane. Structure. 16(7). 1138–1146. 16 indexed citations

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Ishitsuka, Yuji, et al.. (2006). Insertion selectivity of antimicrobial peptide protegrin-1 into lipid monolayers: Effect of head group electrostatics and tail group packing. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1758(9). 1450–1460. 81 indexed citations

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Lam, Kin, Yuji Ishitsuka, Yi‐Shan Cheng, et al.. (2006). Mechanism of Supported Membrane Disruption by Antimicrobial Peptide Protegrin-1. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110(42). 21282–21286. 46 indexed citations

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Neville, Frances, Oleg Konovalov, Yuji Ishitsuka, et al.. (2005). Lipid Headgroup Discrimination by Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37: Insight into Mechanism of Action. Biophysical Journal. 90(4). 1275–1287. 144 indexed citations

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