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Eiki Kominami

Eiki Kominami

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Biology and Biochemistry
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
103
Citations
80540
World Ranking
1283
National Ranking
72

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Eiki Kominami is affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan. Their research activities are concentrated in the field of Medicine, with particular focus on Infectious Diseases, Neurology, and Oncology as key subfields.

Their research portfolio includes work on COVID-19, encompassing clinical research studies, investigations into the long-term effects of the disease, and assessments of its impacts on healthcare systems.

Recent published papers by Kominami include:

  • COVID-19 Severity and Thrombo-Inflammatory Response Linked to Ethnicity, 2022, Biomedicines

Collaborative work features contributions from several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Beate Heissig
  • Yousef Salama
  • Roman Iakoubov
  • Jörg Janne Vehreschild
  • Ricardo A. Rios

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • Biomedicines

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • LC3, a mammalian homologue of yeast Apg8p, is localized in autophagosome membranes after processing

    Yukiko Kabeya;Noboru Mizushima;Noboru Mizushima;Takashi Ueno;Akitsugu Yamamoto

  • Loss of autophagy in the central nervous system causes neurodegeneration in mice

    Masaaki Komatsu;Satoshi Waguri;Satoshi Waguri;Tomoki Chiba;Shigeo Murata

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Hagai Abeliovich;Patrizia Agostinis;Devendra K. Agrawal

  • Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in Atg7-deficient mice

    Masaaki Komatsu;Satoshi Waguri;Takashi Ueno;Junichi Iwata

  • A ubiquitin-like system mediates protein lipidation

    Yoshinobu Ichimura;Takayoshi Kirisako;Takayoshi Kirisako;Toshifumi Takao;Yoshinori Satomi

  • The selective autophagy substrate p62 activates the stress responsive transcription factor Nrf2 through inactivation of Keap1

    Masaaki Komatsu;Hirofumi Kurokawa;Satoshi Waguri;Keiko Taguchi

  • Homeostatic Levels of p62 Control Cytoplasmic Inclusion Body Formation in Autophagy-Deficient Mice

    Masaaki Komatsu;Satoshi Waguri;Masato Koike;Yu shin Sou;Yu shin Sou

  • LC3 and Autophagy.

    Isei Tanida;Takashi Ueno;Eiki Kominami

  • LC3 conjugation system in mammalian autophagy

    Isei Tanida;Takashi Ueno;Eiki Kominami

  • Delayed neuronal death in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the gerbil hippocampus following transient ischemia is apoptosis

    T Nitatori;N Sato;S Waguri;Y Karasawa

  • Lysosomal Turnover, but Not a Cellular Level, of Endogenous LC3 is a Marker for Autophagy

    Isei Tanida;Naoko Minematsu-Ikeguchi;Takashi Ueno;Eiki Kominami

  • Role for Rab7 in maturation of late autophagic vacuoles

    Stefanie Jäger;Cecilia Bucci;Isei Tanida;Takashi Ueno

  • ER stress (PERK/eIF2alpha phosphorylation) mediates the polyglutamine-induced LC3 conversion, an essential step for autophagy formation.

    Y Kouroku;E Fujita;I Tanida;T Ueno

  • Autophagy is important in islet homeostasis and compensatory increase of beta cell mass in response to high-fat diet

    Chie Ebato;Toyoyoshi Uchida;Masayuki Arakawa;Masaaki Komatsu;Masaaki Komatsu;Masaaki Komatsu

  • Structural Basis for Sorting Mechanism of p62 in Selective Autophagy

    Yoshinobu Ichimura;Taichi Kumanomidou;Yu-shin Sou;Yu-shin Sou;Tsunehiro Mizushima

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Essential role for autophagy protein Atg7 in the maintenance of axonal homeostasis and the prevention of axonal degeneration

    Masaaki Komatsu;Qing Jun Wang;Qing Jun Wang;Victor L. Friedrich

  • Interleukin 6 receptor antibody inhibits muscle atrophy and modulates proteolytic systems in interleukin 6 transgenic mice.

    T Tsujinaka;J Fujita;C Ebisui;M Yano

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Ueno
Takashi Ueno Juntendo University
Yasuo Uchiyama
Yasuo Uchiyama Juntendo University
Masaaki Komatsu
Masaaki Komatsu Juntendo University
Isei Tanida
Isei Tanida Juntendo University
Keiji Tanaka
Keiji Tanaka Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Masato Koike
Masato Koike Juntendo University
Satoshi Waguri
Satoshi Waguri Fukushima Medical University
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Nobuhiko Katunuma
Nobuhiko Katunuma University of Tokushima
Hideoki Ogawa
Hideoki Ogawa Juntendo University

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