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Yoko Y. Toyoshima

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61

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5.8K

Citations

40

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1987

Active since

Affiliations

The University of Tokyo(Current)

Tokyo University of the Arts

Osaka City University

Juntendo University

Stanford University

Yoko Y. Toyoshima is an author at The University of Tokyo specializing in medicine, cytoskeleton, and cell motility.

Top concepts

MedicineCytoskeletonMolecular BiologyCell BiologyCell MotilityBiophysicsNatural SciencesCell PhysiologyCellular BiochemistryEngineering

Publications per year

1987–2020

61

Publications

61

Myosin subfragment-1 is sufficient to move actin filaments in vitro

Yoko Y. Toyoshima, Stephen J. Kron, Elizabeth M. McNally et al. · Nature · 1987 · 487 citations

Mechanobiology, Developmental Biology, Engineering +10

[33] Assays for actin sliding movement over myosin-coated surfaces

Stephen J. Kron, Yoko Y. Toyoshima, Taro Q.P. Uyeda et al. · Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology · 1991 · 411 citations

Mechanobiology, Engineering, Cell Adhesion +6

Overlapping hand-over-hand mechanism of single molecular motility of cytoplasmic dynein

Shiori Toba, Tomonobu M. Watanabe, Lisa Yamaguchi-Okimoto et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 340 citations · Full text

Molecular Biology, Single Molecular Motility, Cytoskeleton +16

Measuring collective transport by defined numbers of processive and nonprocessive kinesin motors

Ken’ya Furuta, Akane Furuta, Yoko Y. Toyoshima et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 257 citations · Full text

Engineering, Molecular Biology, Cytoskeleton +29

Rotation and translocation of microtubules in vitro induced by dyneins from Tetrahymena cilia

Ronald D. Vale, Yoko Y. Toyoshima · Cell · 1988 · 234 citations

Biology, Cell Motility, Cytoskeleton +4

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