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Motomasa Tanaka | Researchclopedia

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Motomasa Tanaka

RIKEN Center for Brain Science ORCID

113

Works

8,046

Citations

33

h-index

51

i10-index

Research Topics

Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Affiliations

Tokyo Institute of Technology2014–2020

Tokyo Medical and Dental University2022–2023

Howard Hughes Medical Institute2004–2008

Shiga University of Medical Science2000–2000

University of California, San Francisco2004–2008

Top Works

Trehalose alleviates polyglutamine-mediated pathology in a mouse model of Huntington disease

Motomasa Tanaka,Yoko Machida,et al.

2004774 citations

Neurological diseases and metabolism

Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism

Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences

Motomasa Tanaka,Peter Chien,et al.

2004773 citations

The physical basis of how prion conformations determine strain phenotypes

Motomasa Tanaka,Sean R. Collins,et al.

2006595 citations

Aβ Secretion and Plaque Formation Depend on Autophagy

Per Nilsson,Krishnapriya Loganathan,et al.

2013458 citations

Eukaryotic Proteasomes Cannot Digest Polyglutamine Sequences and Release Them during Degradation of Polyglutamine-Containing Proteins

Prasanna Venkatraman,Ronald Wetzel,et al.

2004415 citations

Distinct conformations of in vitro and in vivo amyloids of huntingtin-exon1 show different cytotoxicity

Yoko Nekooki-Machida,Masaru Kurosawa,et al.

2009230 citations

A Yeast Prion, Mod5, Promotes Acquired Drug Resistance and Cell Survival Under Environmental Stress

Genjiro Suzuki,Naoyuki Shimazu,et al.

2012225 citations

Mechanism of Cross-Species Prion Transmission

Motomasa Tanaka,Peter Chien,et al.

2005177 citations

Analysis of induced pluripotent stem cells carrying 22q11.2 deletion

Manabu Toyoshima,Wado Akamatsu,et al.

2016109 citations