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D-Index
54
Citations
9994
World Ranking
12652
National Ranking
955

Masatsune Kainosho publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masatsune Kainosho sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 283 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Masatsune Kainosho D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masatsune Kainosho sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masatsune Kainosho is affiliated with Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan and works primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Chemistry. Their research focuses on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cell Biology.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of topics in their work, such as:

  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Some of Kainosho's recent papers include:

  • Chemical Conformation of the Essential Glutamate Site of the c-Ring within Thermophilic Bacillus FoF1-ATP Synthase Determined by Solid-State NMR Based on its Isolated c-Ring Structure, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Direct evidence for a deprotonated lysine serving as a H-bond "acceptor" in a photoreceptor protein, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Pressure dependence of side chain 1H and 15N-chemical shifts in the model peptides Ac-Gly-Gly-Xxx-Ala-NH2, 2020, Journal of Biomolecular NMR
  • Changes in the hydrophobic network of the FliGMC domain induce rotational switching of the flagellar motor, 2023, iScience
  • Conformational features and ionization states of Lys side chains in a protein studied using the stereo-array isotope labeling (SAIL) method, 2021, Magnetic Resonance

Kainosho frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Yohei Miyanoiri
  • Mitsuhiro Takeda
  • Yasuto Todokoro
  • Toshimichi Fujiwara
  • Hideo Akutsu

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Biomolecular NMR
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • NMR characterization of isomers of C 78 , C 82 and C 84 fullerenes

    Koichi Kikuchi;Nobuo Nakahara;Tomonari Wakabayashi;Shinzo Suzuki

  • Optimal isotope labelling for NMR protein structure determinations

    Masatsune Kainosho;Takuya Torizawa;Yuki Iwashita;Tsutomu Terauchi

  • NMR scalar couplings across Watson-Crick base pair hydrogen bonds in DNA observed by transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy

    Konstantin Pervushin;Akira Ono;César Fernández;Thomas Szyperski

  • Well-Controlled Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes with Organorhodium(I) Complexes: Mechanism and Structure of the Polyenes

    Yasuhisa Kishimoto;Peter Eckerle;Tatsuya Miyatake;Masatsune Kainosho

  • NMR structure of the histidine kinase domain of the E. coli osmosensor EnvZ

    Toshiyuki Tanaka;Soumitra K. Saha;Chieri Tomomori;Rieko Ishima

  • The NMR Structure of a DNA Dodecamer in an Aqueous Dilute Liquid Crystalline Phase

    Nico Tjandra;Shin-ichi Tate;Akira Ono;Masatsune Kainosho

  • Assignment of the three methionyl carbonyl carbon resonances in Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor by a carbon-13 and nitrogen-15 double-labeling technique. A new strategy for structural studies of proteins in solution.

    Masatsune Kainosho;Takashi Tsuji

  • The formation and annealing of structural defects in lipid bilayer vesicles.

    Rüdiger Lawaczeck;Masatsune Kainosho;Sunney I. Chan

  • Solution NMR structure of proteorhodopsin.

    Sina Reckel;Daniel Gottstein;Jochen Stehle;Frank Löhr

  • Structural details on mdm2-p53 interaction.

    Seung-Wook Chi;Si-Hyung Lee;Do-Hyoung Kim;Min-Jung Ahn

  • Efficient production of isotopically labeled proteins by cell-free synthesis: a practical protocol.

    Takuya Torizawa;Masato Shimizu;Masato Taoka;Hiroshi Miyano

  • Dual amino acid-selective and site-directed stable-isotope labeling of the human c-Ha-Ras protein by cell-free synthesis

    Takashi Yabuki;Takanori Kigawa;Naoshi Dohmae;Koji Takio

  • Solution structure of the c-terminal dimerization domain of SARS coronavirus nucleocapsid protein solved by the SAIL-NMR method

    Mitsuhiro Takeda;Chung ke Chang;Teppei Ikeya;Teppei Ikeya;Peter Güntert;Peter Güntert

  • Target-induced conformational adaptation of calmodulin revealed by the crystal structure of a complex with nematode Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase peptide

    Hirofumi Kurokawa;Masanori Osawa;Hiroyuki Kurihara;Naoko Katayama

  • Relayed anisotropy correlation NMR: determination of dihedral angles in solids

    Yoshitaka Ishii;Takehiko Terao;Masatsune Kainosho

  • Stable isotope labeling methods for protein NMR spectroscopy

    Shin-ya Ohki;Masatsune Kainosho

  • Methods for sequential resonance assignment in solid, uniformly 13C, 15N labelled peptides: Quantification and application to antamanide

    Andreas Detken;Edme H. Hardy;Matthias Ernst;Masatsune Kainosho

  • High-resolution proton and phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of flavin-adenine dinucleotide and its conformation in aqueous solution.

    Masatsune Kainosho;Yoshimasa Kyogoku

  • Determination of the Complete Structure of a Uniformly Labeled Molecule by Rotational Resonance Solid-State NMR in the Tilted Rotating Frame

    Kaoru Nomura;K. Takegoshi;Takehiko Terao;Kenichi Uchida

  • Letter: Conformational analysis of amino acids and peptides using specific isotope substitution. II. Conformation of serine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid, asparagine, and aspartic acid beta-methyl ester in various ionization states.

    Masatsune Kainosho;Katsumi Ajisaka

  • Structural genomics projects in Japan.

    Shigeyuki Yokoyama;Yo Matsuo;Hiroshi Hirota;Takanori Kigawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Güntert
Peter Güntert ETH Zurich
Yoshimasa Kyogoku
Yoshimasa Kyogoku Osaka University
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich ETH Zurich
Thomas Szyperski
Thomas Szyperski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mitsuhiko Ikura
Mitsuhiko Ikura Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
John L. Markley
John L. Markley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yohji Achiba
Yohji Achiba Tokyo Metropolitan University
Kosuke Morikawa
Kosuke Morikawa Kyoto University
David L. Brautigan
David L. Brautigan University of Virginia

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