Masaru Nonaka

Masaru Nonaka 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 Masaru Nonaka sits on this spectrum.

Masaru Nonaka 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 Masaru Nonaka sits on this spectrum.

Overview

Best Publications

• The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis : insights into chordate and vertebrate origins

  Paramvir Dehal;Yutaka Satou;Robert K. Campbell;Jarrod Chapman

  1902
  Citations

• The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

  Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  590
  Citations

• A detailed linkage map of medaka, Oryzias latipes: comparative genomics and genome evolution.

  Kiyoshi Naruse;Shoji Fukamachi;Hiroshi Mitani;Mariko Kondo

  397
  Citations

• Proteolytic cascades and their involvement in invertebrate immunity

  Lage Cerenius;Shun-ichiro Kawabata;Bok Luel Lee;Masaru Nonaka

  383
  Citations

• Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: “waiting for Godot”

  Kaoru Azumi;Rosaria De Santis;Anthony De Tomaso;Isidore Rigoutsos

  352
  Citations

• Genomic view of the evolution of the complement system

  Masaru Nonaka;Ayuko Kimura

  347
  Citations

• A novel gene family defined by human dihydropyrimidinase and three related proteins with differential tissue distribution.

  Naoki Hamajima;Koichi Matsuda;Shigeko Sakata;Nanaya Tamaki

  317
  Citations

• Evolution of the complement system.

  Masaru Nonaka

  306
  Citations

• Ancient origin of the complement lectin pathway revealed by molecular cloning of mannan binding protein-associated serine protease from a urochordate, the Japanese ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

  Xin Ji;Kaoru Azumi;Makoto Sasaki;Masaru Nonaka

  219
  Citations

• Local extrahepatic expression of complement genes C3, factor B, C2, and C4 is increased in murine lupus nephritis

  J Passwell;G F Schreiner;M Nonaka;H U Beuscher

  208
  Citations

• Opsonic Complement Component C3 in the Solitary Ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi

  Masaru Nonaka;Kaoru Azumi;Xin Ji;Chisato Namikawa-Yamada

  187
  Citations

• Expression of the dihydropyrimidinase related protein 2 (DRP-2) in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease brain is downregulated at the mRNA and dysregulated at the protein level.

  G. Lubec;M. Nonaka;K. Krapfenbauer;M. Gratzer

  186
  Citations

• Two Lineages of Mannose-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Protease (MASP) in Vertebrates

  Yuichi Endo;Minoru Takahashi;Miki Nakao;Hidetoshi Saiga

  178
  Citations

• Complement system of bony and cartilaginous fish.

  Masaru Nonaka;Sylvia L Smith

  177
  Citations

• Complement systems in invertebrates. The ancient alternative and lectin pathways.

  L.Courtney Smith;Kaoru Azumi;Masaru Nonaka

  175
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and protein analysis of divergent forms of the complement component C3 from a bony fish, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio): presence of variants lacking the catalytic histidine.

  Miki Nakao;Junichi Mutsuro;Rie Obo;Kazuhiro Fujiki

  174
  Citations

• A Three-step Proteolytic Cascade Mediates the Activation of the Peptidoglycan-induced Toll Pathway in an Insect

  Chan-Hee Kim;Su-Jin Kim;Hongnan Kan;Hyun-Mi Kwon

  168
  Citations

• Ancestral Organization of the MHC Revealed in the Amphibian Xenopus

  Yuko Ohta;Wilfried Goetz;M. Zulfiquer Hossain;Masaru Nonaka

  157
  Citations

• C6-like and C3-like molecules from the cephalochordate, amphioxus, suggest a cytolytic complement system in invertebrates.

  Miho M. Suzuki;Nori Satoh;Masaru Nonaka

  157
  Citations

• Primitive complement system--recognition and activation.

  Teizo Fujita;Yuichi Endo;Masaru Nonaka

  143
  Citations