Yuta Nihongaki

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Yuta Nihongaki is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuta Nihongaki has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cell Biology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yuta Nihongaki's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers) and Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (3 papers). Yuta Nihongaki is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (9 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers) and Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (3 papers). Yuta Nihongaki collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Czechia. Yuta Nihongaki's co-authors include Moritoshi Sato, Fuun Kawano, Takahiro Nakajima, Hideyuki Suzuki, Takahiro Otabe, Shun Yamamoto, Keitaro Yoshimoto, Shiva Razavi, Takanari Inoue and Yoshibumi Ueda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yuta Nihongaki

18 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Photoactivatable CRISPR-Cas9 for optogenetic genome editing 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Photoactivatable CRISPR-Cas9 for optogenetic genome editing
    2015 488 citations Yuta Nihongaki, Fuun Kawano et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yuta Nihongaki United States 12 1.2k 305 239 129 127 18 1.4k
Fuun Kawano Japan 11 1.1k 1.0× 582 1.9× 446 1.9× 116 0.9× 135 1.1× 12 1.4k
Dominik Niopek Germany 15 944 0.8× 304 1.0× 249 1.0× 192 1.5× 68 0.5× 29 1.1k
Lauren R. Polstein United States 7 1.7k 1.4× 268 0.9× 302 1.3× 278 2.2× 94 0.7× 7 1.9k
Martin Schneider Germany 10 865 0.7× 131 0.4× 135 0.6× 145 1.1× 28 0.2× 23 1.0k
Yuchen Gao United States 9 913 0.8× 63 0.2× 82 0.3× 141 1.1× 48 0.4× 10 1000
Mareike D. Hoffmann Germany 14 541 0.5× 75 0.2× 95 0.4× 63 0.5× 38 0.3× 20 785
Justin D. Vrana United States 10 534 0.5× 300 1.0× 277 1.2× 38 0.3× 85 0.7× 13 742
Erin R. Burnight United States 19 1.1k 0.9× 188 0.6× 60 0.3× 348 2.7× 40 0.3× 37 1.3k
Michal Szczepek Germany 13 774 0.7× 269 0.9× 135 0.6× 125 1.0× 13 0.1× 21 903
Steven J. Mayerl United States 6 523 0.4× 108 0.4× 33 0.1× 92 0.7× 34 0.3× 7 548

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuta Nihongaki

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuta Nihongaki

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Watanabe, Satoshi, Yuta Nihongaki, Kie Itoh, et al.. (2022). Defunctionalizing intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and peroxisomes with engineered phospholipase A/acyltransferases. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4413–4413. 9 indexed citations
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Otabe, Takahiro, Yuta Nihongaki, & Moritoshi Sato. (2022). A Split CRISPR–Cpf1 Platform for Inducible Gene Activation. Methods in molecular biology. 2577. 229–240. 3 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Hideaki T. Matsubayashi, & Takanari Inoue. (2021). A molecular trap inside microtubules probes luminal access by soluble proteins. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(8). 888–895. 11 indexed citations
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Jia, Sisi, Siew Cheng Phua, Yuta Nihongaki, et al.. (2021). Growth and site-specific organization of micron-scale biomolecular devices on living mammalian cells. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Roger S. Zou, Yuta Nihongaki, et al.. (2020). Very fast CRISPR on demand. Science. 368(6496). 1265–1269. 149 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Roger S. Zou, Yuta Nihongaki, et al.. (2020). Very Fast CRISPR on Demand. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 29a–29a. 3 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Takahiro Otabe, Yoshibumi Ueda, & Moritoshi Sato. (2019). A split CRISPR–Cpf1 platform for inducible genome editing and gene activation. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(9). 882–888. 80 indexed citations
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Kremer, Lea, Andrei Ursu, Hideaki T. Matsubayashi, et al.. (2019). Discovery of the Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor Pipinib that Targets PI4KIIIß. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(46). 16617–16628. 13 indexed citations
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Kremer, Lea, Andrei Ursu, Hideaki T. Matsubayashi, et al.. (2019). Discovery of the Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor Pipinib that Targets PI4KIIIß. Angewandte Chemie. 131(46). 16770–16781. 3 indexed citations
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Phua, Siew Cheng, Yuta Nihongaki, & Takanari Inoue. (2018). Autonomy declared by primary cilia through compartmentalization of membrane phosphoinositides. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 50. 72–78. 13 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, et al.. (2017). CRISPR–Cas9-based photoactivatable transcription systems to induce neuronal differentiation. Nature Methods. 14(10). 963–966. 147 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Takahiro Otabe, & Moritoshi Sato. (2017). Emerging Approaches for Spatiotemporal Control of Targeted Genome with Inducible CRISPR-Cas9. Analytical Chemistry. 90(1). 429–439. 34 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, et al.. (2017). Control of Adipogenic Differentiation in Mesenchymal Stem Cells via Endogenous Gene Activation Using CRISPR-Cas9. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(12). 2191–2197. 28 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Shun Yamamoto, Fuun Kawano, Hideyuki Suzuki, & Moritoshi Sato. (2015). CRISPR-Cas9-based Photoactivatable Transcription System. Chemistry & Biology. 22(2). 169–174. 266 indexed citations
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Fuun Kawano, Takahiro Nakajima, & Moritoshi Sato. (2015). Photoactivatable CRISPR-Cas9 for optogenetic genome editing. Nature Biotechnology. 33(7). 755–760. 488 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nihongaki, Yuta, Hideyuki Suzuki, Fuun Kawano, & Moritoshi Sato. (2014). Genetically Engineered Photoinducible Homodimerization System with Improved Dimer-Forming Efficiency. ACS Chemical Biology. 9(3). 617–621. 42 indexed citations
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Lin, Yu‐Chun, Yuta Nihongaki, Tzu‐Yu Liu, et al.. (2013). Rapidly Reversible Manipulation of Molecular Activity with Dual Chemical Dimerizers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(25). 6450–6454. 45 indexed citations
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Lin, Yu‐Chun, Yuta Nihongaki, Tzu‐Yu Liu, et al.. (2013). Rapidly Reversible Manipulation of Molecular Activity with Dual Chemical Dimerizers. Angewandte Chemie. 125(25). 6578–6582. 10 indexed citations

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