Yuzuru Tozawa

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Yuzuru Tozawa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuzuru Tozawa has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Plant Science and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yuzuru Tozawa's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers). Yuzuru Tozawa is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (13 papers). Yuzuru Tozawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and United States. Yuzuru Tozawa's co-authors include Thomas T. Sato, Urban Deutsch, Maureen Gendron‐Maguire, Werner Risau, Ying� Qin, Karen Wolburg‐Buchholz, Yuko Fujiwara, Thomas Gridley, Hartwig Wolburg and Akira Nozawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yuzuru Tozawa

96 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Distinct roles of the receptor tyrosine kinases Tie-1 and Tie-2 in blood vessel formation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuzuru Tozawa Japan	37	3.8k	1.0k	585	356	337	98	5.0k
Simon J. McGowan United Kingdom	36	2.8k 0.7×	496 0.5×	835 1.4×	350 1.0×	184 0.5×	67	4.0k
Matthew S. Sachs United States	44	5.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	750 1.3×	471 1.3×	997 3.0×	121	8.2k
Tim Clausen Austria	47	4.7k 1.2×	621 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	195 0.5×	444 1.3×	102	7.1k
Markus Kaiser Germany	49	4.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	288 0.5×	201 0.6×	714 2.1×	204	6.6k
Ralph Schlapbach Switzerland	34	2.5k 0.6×	747 0.7×	383 0.7×	387 1.1×	306 0.9×	98	4.8k
Christoph Eckerskorn Germany	48	4.7k 1.2×	751 0.7×	425 0.7×	144 0.4×	439 1.3×	116	6.6k
F. Collart United States	34	3.1k 0.8×	318 0.3×	516 0.9×	183 0.5×	568 1.7×	99	4.3k
Jing‐Jer Lin Taiwan	45	5.1k 1.3×	726 0.7×	640 1.1×	621 1.7×	695 2.1×	176	6.8k
Emma Jean Bowman United States	31	4.0k 1.0×	563 0.5×	330 0.6×	119 0.3×	227 0.7×	48	5.3k
Jiang Zhu China	35	4.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	652 1.1×	427 1.2×	276 0.8×	159	5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuzuru Tozawa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuzuru Tozawa

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All Works

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Kiba, Takatoshi, Mikiko Kojima, Yumiko Takebayashi, et al.. (2024). The cytokinin efflux transporter ABCC4 participates in Arabidopsis root system development. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 197(1). 4 indexed citations

Hirose, Sakiko, et al.. (2021). Catalytic promiscuity of rice 2-oxoglutarate/Fe(II)-dependent dioxygenases supports xenobiotic metabolism. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 187(2). 816–828. 6 indexed citations

Maeda, Hideo, Kazumasa Murata, Md. Rezaul Karim, et al.. (2019). A rice gene that confers broad-spectrum resistance to β-triketone herbicides. Science. 365(6451). 393–396. 69 indexed citations

Imamura, S., et al.. (2018). The checkpoint kinase TOR (target of rapamycin) regulates expression of a nuclear‐encoded chloroplast RelA‐SpoT homolog (RSH) and modulates chloroplast ribosomal RNA synthesis in a unicellular red alga. The Plant Journal. 94(2). 327–339. 26 indexed citations

Nakahira, Yoichi, et al.. (2013). Theophylline-Dependent Riboswitch as a Novel Genetic Tool for Strict Regulation of Protein Expression in Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. Plant and Cell Physiology. 54(10). 1724–1735. 113 indexed citations

Kore-eda, Shin, Akira Nozawa, Yusuke Okada, et al.. (2013). Characterization of the Plastidic Phosphate Translocators in the Inducible Crassulacean Acid Metabolism PlantMesembryanthemum crystallinum. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 77(7). 1511–1516. 12 indexed citations

Tozawa, Yuzuru & Yuhta Nomura. (2011). Signalling by the global regulatory molecule ppGpp in bacteria and chloroplasts of land plants. Plant Biology. 13(5). 699–709. 45 indexed citations

Celino, Fritzie T., Sonoko Yamaguchi, Chiemi Miura, et al.. (2011). Tolerance of Spermatogonia to Oxidative Stress Is Due to High Levels of Zn and Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e16938–e16938. 109 indexed citations

Nozawa, Akira, et al.. (2011). Cell-free synthesis, reconstitution, and characterization of a mitochondrial dicarboxylate–tricarboxylate carrier of Plasmodium falciparum. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 414(3). 612–617. 26 indexed citations

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Nozawa, Akira, et al.. (2011). In VitroProtein Import of a Putative Amino Acid Transporter fromArabidopsis thalianainto Chloroplasts and Its Suborganellar Localization. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 75(11). 2200–2206. 3 indexed citations

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Chadani, Yuhei, Katsuhiko Ono, Shin‐Ichiro Ozawa, et al.. (2010). Ribosome rescue by Escherichia coli ArfA (YhdL) in the absence of trans-translation system. Molecular Microbiology. 78(4). 796–808. 119 indexed citations

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Nishiyama, Yasutaka, Choong‐Soo Yun, Fumio Matsuda, et al.. (2010). Expression of bacterial tyrosine ammonia-lyase creates a novel p-coumaric acid pathway in the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoids in Arabidopsis. Planta. 232(1). 209–218. 39 indexed citations

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Ohta, Takashi, Hiroki Matsuoka, Yuhta Nomura, & Yuzuru Tozawa. (2010). Control of translational initiation in the wheat-embryo cell-free protein expression system for producing homogenous products. Protein Expression and Purification. 73(1). 15–22. 6 indexed citations

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Fusada, Naoki, Hidenori Hayashi, Toshihiko Utsumi, et al.. (2010). The consensus motif for N‐myristoylation of plant proteins in a wheat germ cell‐free translation system. FEBS Journal. 277(17). 3596–3607. 29 indexed citations

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Nanamiya, Hideaki, Koji Kasai, Akira Nozawa, et al.. (2007). Identification and functional analysis of novel (p)ppGpp synthetase genes in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 67(2). 291–304. 181 indexed citations

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Makino, Shin‐ichi, Tatsuya Sawasaki, Yuzuru Tozawa, Yaeta Endo, & Kazuyuki Takai. (2006). Covalent circularization of exogenous RNA during incubation with a wheat embryo cell extract. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 347(4). 1080–1087. 6 indexed citations

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Ochi, Kozo, Susumu Okamoto, Yuzuru Tozawa, et al.. (2004). Ribosome Engineering and Secondary Metabolite Production. Advances in applied microbiology. 56. 155–184. 129 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Kan, Yuzuru Tozawa, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, et al.. (1997). Characterization of three cDNA species encoding plastid RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis thaliana: evidence for the sigma factor heterogeneity in higher plant plastids. FEBS Letters. 413(2). 309–313. 100 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yong, Yuzuru Tozawa, Rieko Iseki, M Mukai, & M Iwata. (1995). Calcineurin activation protects T cells from glucocorticoid-induced apoptosis.. The Journal of Immunology. 154(12). 6346–6354. 55 indexed citations

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Tozawa, Yuzuru, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, Fujio Kawamura, Mitsuhiro Itaya, & Hideo Takahashi. (1992). Isolation and Characterization of thegroESandgroELgenes ofBacillus suhtilisMarburg. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 56(12). 1995–2002. 8 indexed citations

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