Ryuichiro Ishitani

19.5k citations

151 papers · 13.6k · 4 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Business and International Management top 0.2%
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
Aging top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 117
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 58
- RNA modifications and cancer 35
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 14
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 11
- RNA Research and Splicing 9
Materials Chemistry 33
- Enzyme Structure and Function 32

Co-authors: Osamu Nureki (145 shared papers)Hiroshi Nishimasu (37 shared papers)Naoshi Dohmae (26 shared papers)Feng Zhang (8 shared papers)F. Ann Ran (4 shared papers)Patrick D. Hsu (3 shared papers)Soraya I. Shehata (2 shared papers)Silvana Konermann (2 shared papers)
Journals: Nature (14 papers)Nature Communications (14 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Cell (7 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States China

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Ryuichiro Ishitani

151 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Ryuichiro Ishitani's Hit Papers

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Crystal Structure of Cpf1 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA 2016 · 576 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Cell
2014 Cell
2014 DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2002 Cell

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1	Crystal Structure of Cas9 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA Cell ·Hiroshi Nishimasu, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, Naoshi Dohmae, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, Osamu Nureki Hit paper breakdown →	2014	1776
2	Crystal Structure of the Complex of Human Epidermal Growth Factor and Receptor Extracellular Domains Cell ·Hideo Ogiso, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Osamu Nureki, Shuya Fukai, Mari Yamanaka, Jae‐Hoon Kim, Kazuki Saito, Ayako Sakamoto, M. Inoue, Mikako Shirouzu, Shigeyuki Yokoyama Hit paper breakdown →	2002	934
3	Crystal Structure of Cas9 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Hiroshi Nishimasu, Naoshi Dohmae, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Osamu Nureki, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, Feng Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2014	693
4	Crystal Structure of Cpf1 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA Cell ·Takashi Yamano, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Bernd Zetsche, Hisato Hirano, Ian M. Slaymaker, Yinqing Li, Iana Fedorova, Takanori Nakane, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, Osamu Nureki Hit paper breakdown →	2016	576
5	Crystal structure of the channelrhodopsin light-gated cation channel Nature ·Hideaki Kato, Feng Zhang, Ofer Yizhar, Charu Ramakrishnan, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Kunio Hirata, Jumpei Ito, Yusuke Aita, Tomoya Tsukazaki, Shigehiko Hayashi, Peter Hegemann, Andrés D. Maturana, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Karl Deisseroth, Osamu Nureki	2012	400
6	Crystal Structure of Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 Cell ·Hiroshi Nishimasu, Le Cong, Winston X. Yan, F. Ann Ran, Bernd Zetsche, Yinqing Li, Arisa Kurabayashi, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, Osamu Nureki	2015	342
7	Cap-specific terminal N ⁶ -methylation of RNA by an RNA polymerase II–associated methyltransferase Science ·Shinichiro Akichika, Seiichi Hirano, Yuichi Shichino, Takeo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Ai Sugita, Yutaka Hirose, Shintaro Iwasaki, Osamu Nureki, Tsutomu Suzuki	2018	291
8	Crystal Structure of a Claudin Provides Insight into the Architecture of Tight Junctions Science ·Hiroshi Suzuki, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Kazutoshi Tani, Yuji Yamazaki, Atsushi Tamura, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Naoshi Dohmae, Sachiko Tsukita, Osamu Nureki, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi	2014	280
9	Structure and function of Zucchini endoribonuclease in piRNA biogenesis Nature ·Hiroshi Nishimasu, Hirotsugu Ishizu, Kuniaki Saito, Satoshi Fukuhara, Miharu K. Kamatani, L. Bonnefond, Naoki Matsumoto, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Keita Nakanaga, Junken Aoki, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Haruhiko Siomi, Mikiko C. Siomi, Osamu Nureki	2012	278
10	Structure and Engineering of Francisella novicida Cas9 Cell ·Hisato Hirano, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Takuro Horii, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Mika Kimura, Patrick D. Hsu, Takanori Nakane, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Izuho Hatada, Feng Zhang, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Osamu Nureki	2016	276
11	Structural Basis for the Canonical and Non-canonical PAM Recognition by CRISPR-Cpf1 Molecular Cell ·Takashi Yamano, Bernd Zetsche, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Osamu Nureki	2017	215
12	Cyclic GMP–AMP as an Endogenous Second Messenger in Innate Immune Signaling by Cytosolic DNA Annual Review of Biochemistry ·Kazuki Kato, Hiroki Omura, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Osamu Nureki	2017	212
13	Structural basis for the drug extrusion mechanism by a MATE multidrug transporter Nature ·Yoshiki Tanaka, Christopher J. Hipolito, Andrés D. Maturana, Koichi Ito, Teruo Kuroda, Takashi Higuchi, Takayuki Katoh, Hideaki Kato, Motoyuki Hattori, Kaoru Kumazaki, Tomoya Tsukazaki, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Hiroaki Suga, Osamu Nureki	2013	202
14	Crystal structure of autotaxin and insight into GPCR activation by lipid mediators Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Hiroshi Nishimasu, Shinichi Okudaira, Kotaro Hama, Emiko Mihara, Naoshi Dohmae, Asuka Inoue, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Junichi Takagi, Junken Aoki, Osamu Nureki	2011	195
15	Crystal Structure of the Homologous-Pairing Domain from the Human Rad52 Recombinase in the Undecameric Form Molecular Cell ·Wataru Kagawa, Hitoshi Kurumizaka, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Shuya Fukai, Osamu Nureki, Takehiko Shibata, Shigeyuki Yokoyama	2002	195
16	Structural basis for orthogonal tRNA specificities of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases for genetic code expansion Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Takatsugu Kobayashi, Osamu Nureki, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Anna Yaremchuk, M. A. Tukalo, S. Cusack, Kensaku Sakamoto, Shigeyuki Yokoyama	2003	180
17	Conformational transition of Sec machinery inferred from bacterial SecYE structures Nature ·Tomoya Tsukazaki, Hiroyuki Mori, Shuya Fukai, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Takaharu Mori, Naoshi Dohmae, Anna Perederina, Yuji Sugita, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Koreaki Ito, Osamu Nureki	2008	178
18	Structural basis of Sec-independent membrane protein insertion by YidC Nature ·Kaoru Kumazaki, Shinobu Chiba, Mizuki Takemoto, Arata Furukawa, Kenichi Nishiyama, Yasunori Sugano, Takaharu Mori, Naoshi Dohmae, Kunio Hirata, Yoshiko Nakada-Nakura, Andrés D. Maturana, Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuji Sugita, Fumio Arisaka, Koreaki Ito, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Tomoya Tsukazaki, Osamu Nureki	2014	177
19	Structure and function of a membrane component SecDF that enhances protein export Nature ·Tomoya Tsukazaki, Hiroyuki Mori, Yuka Echizen, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Shuya Fukai, Takeshi Tanaka, Anna Perederina, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, Toshiyuki Kohno, Andrés D. Maturana, Koreaki Ito, Osamu Nureki	2011	175
20	Specific recognition of linear polyubiquitin by A20 zinc finger 7 is involved in NF‐κB regulation The EMBO Journal ·Fuminori Tokunaga, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Eiji Gotō, Takuya Noguchi, Kazuhiro Mio, Kiyoko Kamei, Averil Ma, Kazuhiro Iwaï, Osamu Nureki	2012	171

About Ryuichiro Ishitani

Ryuichiro Ishitani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Plant Science, Genetics and Oncology, having authored 151 papers that have together received 13.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (58 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (35 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (32 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (16 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (11 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers) and Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Business and International Management (590 citations), Aging (337 citations), Molecular Biology (10.7k citations), Physiology (357 citations) and Genetics (1.7k citations). Ryuichiro Ishitani has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Osamu Nureki, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Naoshi Dohmae, Feng Zhang, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Soraya I. Shehata, Silvana Konermann, Shuya Fukai and Shigeyuki Yokoyama. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cell.

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