| tRNA gene diversity in the three domains of life K Fujishima, A Kanai Frontiers in genetics 5, 142, 2014 | 121 | 2014 |
| Tri-split tRNA is a transfer RNA made from 3 transcripts that provides insight into the evolution of fragmented tRNAs in archaea K Fujishima, J Sugahara, K Kikuta, R Hirano, A Sato, M Tomita, A Kanai Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (8), 2683-2687, 2009 | 106 | 2009 |
| Peptides before and during the nucleotide world: An origins story emphasizing cooperation between proteins and nucleic acids SD Fried, K Fujishima, M Makarov, I Cherepashuk, K Hlouchova Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19 (187), 20210641, 2022 | 83 | 2022 |
| Comprehensive analysis of archaeal tRNA genes reveals rapid increase of tRNA introns in the order thermoproteales J Sugahara, K Kikuta, K Fujishima, N Yachie, M Tomita, A Kanai Molecular biology and evolution 25 (12), 2709-2716, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| Extremely high UV-C radiation resistant microorganisms from desert environments with different manganese concentrations IG Paulino-Lima, K Fujishima, JU Navarrete, D Galante, F Rodrigues, ... Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 163, 327-336, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in samples of Ryugu formed in the interstellar medium SS Zeichner, JC Aponte, S Bhattacharjee, G Dong, AE Hofmann, ... Science 382 (6677), 1411-1416, 2023 | 66 | 2023 |
| Sequence evidence in the archaeal genomes that tRNAs emerged through the combination of ancestral genes as 5′ and 3′ tRNA halves K Fujishima, J Sugahara, M Tomita, A Kanai PLoS One 3 (2), e1622, 2008 | 56 | 2008 |
| Early selection of the amino acid alphabet was adaptively shaped by biophysical constraints of foldability M Makarov, AC Sanchez Rocha, R Krystufek, I Cherepashuk, V Dzmitruk, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 145 (9), 5320-5329, 2023 | 54 | 2023 |
| Origin of the Reductive Tricarboxylic Acid (rTCA) Cycle-Type CO2 Fixation: A Perspective N Kitadai, M Kameya, K Fujishima Life 7 (4), 39, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| Earth analogues for past and future life on Mars: isolation of perchlorate resistant halophiles from Big Soda Lake T Matsubara, K Fujishima, CW Saltikov, S Nakamura, LJ Rothschild International Journal of Astrobiology 16 (3), 218-228, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| Computational prediction and experimental validation of evolutionarily conserved microRNA target genes in bilaterian animals K Takane, K Fujishima, Y Watanabe, A Sato, N Saito, M Tomita, A Kanai BMC genomics 11 (1), 101, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| Disrupted tRNA gene diversity and possible evolutionary scenarios J Sugahara, K Fujishima, K Morita, M Tomita, A Kanai Journal of molecular evolution 69 (5), 497-504, 2009 | 48 | 2009 |
| Peptide synthesis under the alkaline hydrothermal conditions on Enceladus W Takahagi, K Seo, T Shibuya, Y Takano, K Fujishima, M Saitoh, ... ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 3 (11), 2559-2568, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| A novel three-unit tRNA splicing endonuclease found in ultrasmall Archaea possesses broad substrate specificity K Fujishima, J Sugahara, CS Miller, BJ Baker, M Di Giulio, K Takesue, ... Nucleic acids research 39 (22), 9695-9704, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
| Construction and characterization of metal ion-containing DNA nanowires for synthetic biology and nanotechnology S Vecchioni, MC Capece, E Toomey, L Nguyen, A Ray, A Greenberg, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 6942, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| A bifunctional polyphosphate kinase driving the regeneration of nucleoside triphosphate and reconstituted cell-free protein synthesis PH Wang, K Fujishima, S Berhanu, Y Kuruma, TZ Jia, AN Khusnutdinova, ... ACS synthetic biology 9 (1), 36-42, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| In vitro evolution reveals noncationic protein–RNA interaction mediated by metal ions VG Giacobelli, K Fujishima, M Lepšík, V Tretyachenko, T Kadavá, ... Molecular biology and evolution 39 (3), msac032, 2022 | 39* | 2022 |
| Reconstruction of cysteine biosynthesis using engineered cysteine-free enzymes K Fujishima, KM Wang, JA Palmer, N Abe, K Nakahigashi, D Endy, ... Scientific Reports 8 (1), 1776, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| Structure and dynamics of Odinarchaeota tubulin and the implications for eukaryotic microtubule evolution C Akıl, S Ali, LT Tran, J Gaillard, W Li, K Hayashida, M Hirose, T Kato, ... Science Advances 8 (12), eabm2225, 2022 | 34 | 2022 |
| Identification, expression, and molecular evolution of microRNAs in the “living fossil” Triops cancriformis (tadpole shrimp) KT Ikeda, Y Hirose, K Hiraoka, E Noro, K Fujishima, M Tomita, A Kanai RNA 21 (2), 230-242, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
