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Hiroyuki Osada

Hiroyuki Osada

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
27820
World Ranking
2446
National Ranking
150

Hiroyuki Osada publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroyuki Osada sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 725 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Hiroyuki Osada D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroyuki Osada sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hiroyuki Osada is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and has a research focus centered on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine. Their work spans diverse subfields including molecular biology, pharmacology, plant science, organic chemistry, and cancer research.

The research topics engaged by Osada encompass microbial natural products and biosynthesis, fungal biology and applications, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, as well as cancer, hypoxia, metabolism, and cancer therapeutics and mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Osada include Yushi Futamura, Toshihiko Nogawa, Yasumitsu Kondoh, Shunji Takahashi, and Makoto Muroi.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry, The Journal of Antibiotics, ACS Chemical Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers by Osada include:

  • "Gastrodin From Gastrodia elata Enhances Cognitive Function and Neuroprotection of AD Mice via the Regulation of Gut Microbiota Composition and Inhibition of Neuron Inflammation" (2022) Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "Identification of a Small Molecule That Enhances Ferroptosis via Inhibition of Ferroptosis Suppressor Protein 1 (FSP1)" (2022) ACS Chemical Biology
  • "BIONIC: biological network integration using convolutions" (2022) Nature Methods
  • "Targeting fungal membrane homeostasis with imidazopyrazoindoles impairs azole resistance and biofilm formation" (2022) Nature Communications
  • "Peanut skin extract ameliorates the symptoms of type 2 diabetes mellitus in mice by alleviating inflammation and maintaining gut microbiota homeostasis" (2020) Aging

Best Publications

  • Purification and characterization of a newly identified growth factor specific for epithelial cells

    Jeffrey S. Rubin;Hiroyuki Osada;Paul W. Finch;William G. Taylor

  • In vivo destabilization of dynamic microtubules by HDAC6-mediated deacetylation.

    Akihisa Matsuyama;Tadahiro Shimazu;Yuko Sumida;Akiko Saito

  • Involvement of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway in osteoclastogenesis mediated by receptor activator of NF-kappa B ligand (RANKL).

    Masahito Matsumoto;Tatsuhiko Sudo;Tamio Saito;Hiroyuki Osada

  • M-phase kinases induce phospho-dependent ubiquitination of somatic Wee1 by SCFβ-TrCP

    Nobumoto Watanabe;Harumi Arai;Yoshifumi Nishihara;Makoto Taniguchi

  • Novel mammalian cell cycle inhibitors, spirotryprostatins A and B, produced by Aspergillus fumigatus, which inhibit mammalian cell cycle at G2/M phase☆

    Cheng-Bin Cui;Hideaki Kakeya;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Spirotryprostatin B, a Novel Mammalian Cell Cycle Inhibitor Produced by Aspergillus fumigatus

    Cheng-Bin Cui;Hideaki Kakeya;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Novel Mammalian Cell Cycle Inhibitors, Tryprostatins A, B and Other Diketopiperazines Produced by Aspergillus fumigatus I. Taxonomy, Fermentation, Isolation and Biological Properties

    Cheng-Bin Cui;Hideaki Kakeya;Gen Okada;Rie Onose

  • Tryprostatin A, a specific and novel inhibitor of microtubule assembly.

    Takeo Usui;Masuo Kondoh;Cheng-Bin Cui;Tadanori Mayumi

  • Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) phosphorylation destabilizes somatic Wee1 via multiple pathways

    Nobumoto Watanabe;Harumi Arai;Jun-ichi Iwasaki;Masaaki Shiina

  • A novel lactonohydrolase responsible for the detoxification of zearalenone: enzyme purification and gene cloning.

    Naoko Takahashi-Ando;Makoto Kimura;Hideaki Kakeya;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Inhibition of ADP/ATP exchange in receptor-interacting protein-mediated necrosis.

    Vladislav Temkin;Qiquan Huang;Hongtao Liu;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Novel mammalian cell cycle inhibitors, tryprostatins A, B and other diketopiperazines produced by Aspergillus fumigatus. II. Physico-chemical properties and structures.

    Cheng-Bin Cui;Hideaki Kakeya;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Immobilization of natural products on glass slides by using a photoaffinity reaction and the detection of protein-small-molecule interactions.

    Naoki Kanoh;Saori Kumashiro;Siro Simizu;Yasumitsu Kondoh

  • Tryprostatins A and B, novel mammalian cell cycle inhibitors produced by Aspergillus fumigatus

    Cheng-Bin Cui;Hideaki Kakeya;Gen Okada;Rie Onose

  • RK-682, a potent inhibitor of tyrosine phosphatase, arrested the mammalian cell cycle progression at G1phase

    Takuya Hamaguchi;Tatsuhiko Sudo;Hiroyuki Osada

  • Epolactaene, a novel neuritogenic compound in human neuroblastoma cells, produced by a marine fungus.

    Hideaki Kakeya;Isamu Takahashi;Gen Okada;Kiyoshi Isono

  • Cytoxazone: A Novel Cytokine Modulator Containing a 2-Oxazolidinone Ring Produced by Streptomyces sp.

    Kakeya H;Morishita M;Koshino H;Morita Ti

  • Laforin, defective in the progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type, is a dual-specificity phosphatase associated with polyribosomes

    Subramaniam Ganesh;Kishan Lal Agarwala;Kazunori Ueda;Takumi Akagi

  • Suppression of Apoptosis by Cyclophilin D via Stabilization of Hexokinase II Mitochondrial Binding in Cancer Cells

    Kiyotaka Machida;Yoshihiro Ohta;Hiroyuki Osada

  • The Multidrug Resistance-associated Protein (MRP) Subfamily (Yrs1/Yor1) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Important for the Tolerance to a Broad Range of Organic Anions

    Zhifeng Cui;Dai Hirata;Eiko Tsuchiya;Hiroyuki Osada

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideaki Kakeya
Hideaki Kakeya Kyoto University
Hiroyuki Koshino
Hiroyuki Koshino Tokyo University of Agriculture
Yujiro Hayashi
Yujiro Hayashi Tohoku University
Minoru Yoshida
Minoru Yoshida University of Tokyo
Junichiro Yamaguchi
Junichiro Yamaguchi Waseda University
Herbert Waldmann
Herbert Waldmann Max Planck Society
Hiroshi Hirota
Hiroshi Hirota Nihon University

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