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Tatsuo Kurihara

Tatsuo Kurihara

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
7247
World Ranking
16463
National Ranking
1299

Tatsuo Kurihara 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 Tatsuo Kurihara sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 214 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tatsuo Kurihara 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 Tatsuo Kurihara sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tatsuo Kurihara is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology and microbiology. Their work encompasses related subfields including biochemistry, endocrinology, and genetics.

Their research portfolio includes a significant body of work in the areas of bacterial infections and vaccines, extracellular vesicles in disease, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, as well as studies on Legionella and Acanthamoeba. Additional topics addressed by their research include lipid membrane structure and behavior, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Among the frequent publication venues for Kurihara's research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry
  • Carbohydrate Polymers

Kurihara has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • Jun Kawamoto
  • Takuya Ogawa
  • Fumiaki Yokoyama
  • Kouhei Kamasaka
  • Tomoya Imai

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Tatsuo Kurihara include:

  • "Isolation of a Novel Bacterial Strain Capable of Producing Abundant Extracellular Membrane Vesicles Carrying a Single Major Cargo Protein and Analysis of Its Transport Mechanism," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Capsular polysaccharide from a fish-gut bacterium induces/promotes apoptosis of colon cancer cells in vitro through Caspases' pathway activation," 2021, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • "Initial Step of Selenite Reduction via Thioredoxin for Bacterial Selenoprotein Biosynthesis," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Genetic characterization and functional implications of the gene cluster for selective protein transport to extracellular membrane vesicles of Shewanella vesiculosa HM13," 2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • "Development of a Simple and Rapid Method for In Situ Vesicle Detection in Cultured Media," 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • A Cold-Adapted Lipase of an Alaskan Psychrotroph,Pseudomonas sp. Strain B11-1: Gene Cloning and Enzyme Purification and Characterization

    Dong-Won Choo;Tatsuo Kurihara;Takeshi Suzuki;Kenji Soda

  • CYSTEINE SULFINATE DESULFINASE, A NIFS-LIKE PROTEIN OF ESCHERICHIA COLI WITH SELENOCYSTEINE LYASE AND CYSTEINE DESULFURASE ACTIVITIES : GENE CLONING, PURIFICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL PYRIDOXAL ENZYME

    Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura;Kenji Soda

  • Crystal Structure of L-2-Haloacid Dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. YL: AN α/β HYDROLASE STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE α/β HYDROLASE FOLD

    Tamao Hisano;Yasuo Hata;Tomomi Fujii;Ji-Quan Liu

  • Lst1p and Sec24p Cooperate in Sorting of the Plasma Membrane Atpase into Copii Vesicles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Yuval Shimoni;Tatsuo Kurihara;Mariella Ravazzola;Mylène Amherdt

  • Kinetic and Mutational Studies of Three NifS Homologs from Escherichia coli: Mechanistic Difference between L-Cysteine Desulfurase and L-Selenocysteine Lyase Reactions

    Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura;Nobuyoshi Esaki

  • Characterization of a NifS-like chloroplast protein from Arabidopsis. Implications for its role in sulfur and selenium metabolism.

    Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits;Gulnara F. Garifullina;Salah Abdel-Ghany;Shin-Ichiro Kato

  • Cys-328 of IscS and Cys-63 of IscU are the sites of disulfide bridge formation in a covalently bound IscS/IscU complex: implications for the mechanism of iron-sulfur cluster assembly.

    Shin-ichiro Kato;Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Yasuhiro Takahashi

  • A nifS-like gene, csdB, encodes an Escherichia coli counterpart of mammalian selenocysteine lyase. Gene cloning, purification, characterization and preliminary x-ray crystallographic studies.

    Hisaaki Mihara;Masaki Maeda;Tomomi Fujii;Tatsuo Kurihara

  • Network of protein-protein interactions among iron-sulfur cluster assembly proteins in Escherichia coli

    Umechiyo Tokumoto;Shinobu Nomura;Yoshiko Minami;Hisaaki Mihara

  • Cold-active serine alkaline protease from the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain ac10: gene cloning and enzyme purification and characterization.

    Ljudmila Kulakova;Andrey Galkin;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura

  • Crystal structures of reaction intermediates of L-2-haloacid dehalogenase and implications for the reaction mechanism.

    Yong-Fu Li;Yasuo Hata;Tomomi Fujii;Tamao Hisano

  • Enhanced Selenium Tolerance and Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis Expressing a Mouse Selenocysteine Lyase

    Marinus Pilon;Jennifer D. Owen;Gulnara F. Garifullina;Tatsuo Kurihara

  • cDNA cloning, purification, and characterization of mouse liver selenocysteine lyase. Candidate for selenium delivery protein in selenoprotein synthesis.

    Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tasuku Watanabe;Tohru Yoshimura

  • Comprehensive Site-Directed Mutagenesis of L-2-Halo Acid Dehalogenase to Probe Catalytic Amino Acid Residues

    Tatsuo Kurihara;Ji-Quan Liu;Vincenzo Nardi-Dei;Hiromoto Koshikawa

  • Structure of a NifS homologue: X-ray structure analysis of CsdB, an Escherichia coli counterpart of mammalian selenocysteine lyase

    Tomomi Fujii;Masaki Maeda;Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara

  • Eicosapentaenoic Acid Plays a Beneficial Role in Membrane Organization and Cell Division of a Cold-Adapted Bacterium, Shewanella livingstonensis Ac10

    Jun Kawamoto;Tatsuo Kurihara;Kentaro Yamamoto;Makiko Nagayasu

  • Sec24p and Iss1p Function Interchangeably in Transport Vesicle Formation from the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Tatsuo Kurihara;Susan Hamamoto;Ruth E. Gimeno;Chris A. Kaiser

  • Escherichia coli NifS-like Proteins Provide Selenium in the Pathway for the Biosynthesis of Selenophosphate

    Gerard M. Lacourciere;Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Nobuyoshi Esaki

  • Purification and characterization of thermostable and nonthermostable 2-haloacid dehalogenases with different stereospecificities from Pseudomonas sp. strain YL

    J Q Liu;T Kurihara;A K Hasan;V Nardi-Dei

  • Crystal Structure of a Homolog of Mammalian Serine Racemase from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Masaru Goto;Takae Yamauchi;Nobuo Kamiya;Ikuko Miyahara

  • Cold-active lipolytic activity of psychrotrophic Acinetobacter sp. strain no. 6.

    Takeshi Suzuki;Toru Nakayama;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tokuzo Nishino

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuyoshi Esaki
Nobuyoshi Esaki Kyoto University
Ken Hirotsu
Ken Hirotsu Osaka Metropolitan University
Atsuo Tanaka
Atsuo Tanaka Kyoto University
Kenji Soda
Kenji Soda Kansai University
Mitsuyoshi Ueda
Mitsuyoshi Ueda Kyoto University
Susumu Tsunasawa
Susumu Tsunasawa Osaka University
Chiaki Kato
Chiaki Kato Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Masako Osumi
Masako Osumi Japan Women's University
Haruyuki Atomi
Haruyuki Atomi Kyoto University
Tokuzo Nishino
Tokuzo Nishino Tohoku University

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