2026 Takanori Kigawa: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	57	13805	12702	968	906	944	12103

Overview

Takanori Kigawa is affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as the dominant subfield. Kigawa's work encompasses various interdisciplinary areas, including Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Oncology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Protein Structure and Dynamics
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
RNA Research and Splicing
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
Protein purification and stability
Biochemical and Molecular Research

Kigawa has published extensively in several scientific venues, with a frequent presence in:

Biomolecular NMR Assignments
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
JACS Au
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Advanced Science

Recent significant publications include:

"Simultaneous introduction of multiple biomacromolecules into plant cells using a cell-penetrating peptide nanocarrier" (2020, Nanoscale)
"A Synthetic Multidomain Peptide That Drives a Macropinocytosis-Like Mechanism for Cytosolic Transport of Exogenous Proteins into Plants" (2022, JACS Au)
"Nanoscale Polyion Complex Vesicles for Delivery of Cargo Proteins and Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Complexes to Plant Cells" (2021, ACS Applied Nano Materials)
"DiRect: Site-directed mutagenesis method for protein engineering by rational design" (2021, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications)
"Identification of a Proline-Kinked Amphipathic α-Helix Downstream from the Methyltransferase Domain of a Potexvirus Replicase and Its Role in Virus Replication and Perinuclear Complex Formation" (2021, Journal of Virology)

Kigawa has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Hiromasa Yagi
Satoru Watanabe
N. Tochio
Tsutomu Mikawa
Peter Güntert

Best Publications

CELL-FREE PRODUCTION AND STABLE-ISOTOPE LABELING OF MILLIGRAM QUANTITIES OF PROTEINS

Takanori Kigawa;Takashi Yabuki;Yasuhiko Yoshida;Michio Tsutsui

583
Citations
Role of the ENTH Domain in Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-Bisphosphate Binding and Endocytosis

Toshiki Itoh;Seizo Koshiba;Takanori Kigawa;Akira Kikuchi

582
Citations
Structural genomics projects in Japan.

Shigeyuki Yokoyama;Hiroshi Hirota;Takanori Kigawa;Takashi Yabuki

461
Citations
An unnatural base pair for incorporating amino acid analogs into proteins

Ichiro Hirao;Takashi Ohtsuki;Tsuyoshi Fujiwara;Tsuneo Mitsui

370
Citations
Preparation of Escherichia coli cell extract for highly productive cell-free protein expression.

Takanori Kigawa;Takashi Yabuki;Natsuko Matsuda;Takayoshi Matsuda

370
Citations
A Novel Zinc-binding Motif Revealed by Solution Structures of DNA-binding Domains of Arabidopsis SBP-family Transcription Factors ☆

Kazuhiko Yamasaki;Takanori Kigawa;Makoto Inoue;Masaru Tateno

301
Citations
An engineered Escherichia coli tyrosyl–tRNA synthetase for site-specific incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into proteins in eukaryotic translation and its application in a wheat germ cell-free system

Daisuke Kiga;Kensaku Sakamoto;Koichiro Kodama;Takanori Kigawa

297
Citations
DNA-binding domains of plant-specific transcription factors: structure, function, and evolution

Kazuhiko Yamasaki;Takanori Kigawa;Motoaki Seki;Kazuo Shinozaki

286
Citations
A highly efficient cell-free protein synthesis system from Escherichia coli.

Dong Myung Kim;Takanori Kigawa;Cha Yong Choi;Shigeyuki Yokoyama

278
Citations
Solution structure of an Arabidopsis WRKY DNA binding domain.

Kazuhiko Yamasaki;Takanori Kigawa;Makoto Inoue;Masaru Tateno;Masaru Tateno

265
Citations
Expression of G protein coupled receptors in a cell-free translational system using detergents and thioredoxin-fusion vectors.

Goshi Ishihara;Mie Goto;Mihoro Saeki;Kaori Ito

226
Citations
Cell-free synthesis and amino acid-selective stable isotope labeling of proteins for NMR analysis

Takanori Kigawa;Yutaka Muto;Shigeyuki Yokoyama

210
Citations
A B-Box 2 Surface Patch Important for TRIM5α Self-Association, Capsid Binding Avidity, and Retrovirus Restriction

Felipe Diaz-Griffero;Xu Rong Qin;Fumiaki Hayashi;Takanori Kigawa

203
Citations
Architectures of class-defining and specific domains of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase

Osamu Nureki;Dmitry G. Vassylyev;Katsuo Katayanagi;Toshiyuki Shimizu

192
Citations
Phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity

Takashi Yaeno;Hua Li;Angela Chaparro-Garcia;Sebastian Schornack

187
Citations
KUJIRA, a package of integrated modules for systematic and interactive analysis of NMR data directed to high-throughput NMR structure studies.

Naohiro Kobayashi;Junji Iwahara;Junji Iwahara;Seizo Koshiba;Tadashi Tomizawa

164
Citations
Solution Structure of the B3 DNA Binding Domain of the Arabidopsis Cold-Responsive Transcription Factor RAV1

Kazuhiko Yamasaki;Takanori Kigawa;Makoto Inoue;Masaru Tateno;Masaru Tateno

157
Citations
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

156
Citations
Reduced Native State Stability in Crowded Cellular Environment Due to Protein–Protein Interactions

Ryuhei Harada;Naoya Tochio;Takanori Kigawa;Yuji Sugita

156
Citations
Structural insight into the zinc finger CW domain as a histone modification reader.

Fahu He;Takashi Umehara;Kohei Saito;Takushi Harada

148
Citations