Ajoy Basak

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ajoy Basak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ajoy Basak has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Oncology and 24 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Ajoy Basak's work include Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (22 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (18 papers) and Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (12 papers). Ajoy Basak is often cited by papers focused on Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (22 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (18 papers) and Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms (12 papers). Ajoy Basak collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and India. Ajoy Basak's co-authors include Nabil G. Seidah, Michel Chrétien, Suzanne Benjannet, Jadwiga Marcinkiewicz, Claude Lazure, L. Alexandra Wickham, Annik Prat, Stefano Stifani, Jon Scott Munzer and Rick Danheiser and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ajoy Basak

114 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The secretory proprotein convertase neural apoptosis-regulated convertase 1 (NARC-1): Liver regeneration and neuronal differentiation

2003 953 citations Nabil G. Seidah, Ajoy Basak et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ajoy Basak	2.4k	1.2k	1.1k	811	724	116	5.6k
Marco Falasca	5.4k 2.3×	879 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	2.1k 2.5×	1.1k 1.6×	183	8.7k
Pradipta Ghosh	3.4k 1.4×	658 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	643 0.8×	335 0.5×	146	5.3k
Michael Boyce	4.9k 2.0×	504 0.4×	1.9k 1.7×	629 0.8×	495 0.7×	51	7.2k
John D. York	5.0k 2.1×	531 0.5×	2.7k 2.5×	491 0.6×	275 0.4×	82	7.5k
Axel H. Schönthal	4.6k 1.9×	325 0.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.9×	937 1.3×	170	8.1k
William Landschulz	5.6k 2.3×	862 0.7×	705 0.7×	875 1.1×	587 0.8×	33	8.5k
Jean S. Campbell	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.6×	541 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	693 1.0×	110	7.4k
Claude Cochet	5.8k 2.4×	371 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	1.9k 2.3×	496 0.7×	191	8.1k
Mathieu Bollen	9.9k 4.1×	849 0.7×	2.7k 2.5×	1.0k 1.2×	719 1.0×	223	13.0k
Ronald L. Magolda	3.0k 1.3×	290 0.3×	411 0.4×	950 1.2×	675 0.9×	69	5.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Basak, Ajoy. (2025). Oral and Non-Oral Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs with PCSK9 and Other Biomolecules as Targets: Present Status and Future Prospects. Biomolecules. 15(4). 468–468.

Basak, Ajoy, Ajoy Basak, Mukunda Goswami, et al.. (2015). Enediynyl peptides and iso-coumarinyl methyl sulfones as inhibitors of proprotein convertases PCSK8/SKI-1/S1P and PCSK4/PC4: Design, synthesis and biological evaluations. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 25(10). 2225–2237. 6 indexed citations

O’Reilly, Paul G., et al.. (2015). LDL-R promoting activity of peptides derived from human PCSK9 catalytic domain (153–421): Design, synthesis and biochemical evaluation. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 92. 890–907. 36 indexed citations

Navarro‐Martín, Laia, et al.. (2014). Early expression of aromatase and the membrane estrogen receptor GPER in neuromasts reveals a role for estrogens in the development of the frog lateral line system. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 205. 242–250. 12 indexed citations

Mbikay, Majambu, Francine Sirois, K. K. Nkongolo, Ajoy Basak, & Michel Chrétien. (2011). Effects of rs6234/rs6235 and rs6232/rs6234/rs6235 PCSK1 single-nucleotide polymorphism clusters on proprotein convertase 1/3 biosynthesis and activity. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 104(4). 682–687. 15 indexed citations

Trudeau, Vance L., Christopher J. Martyniuk, Emily Zhao, et al.. (2011). Is secretoneurin a new hormone?. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 175(1). 10–18. 44 indexed citations

Basak, Ajoy, et al.. (2010). Blockade of Furin Activity and Furin-Induced Tumor Cells Malignant Phenotypes By The Chemically Synthesized Human Furin Prodomain. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 17(21). 2214–2221. 16 indexed citations

Basak, Ajoy, Ajoy Basak, Abdel‐Majid Khatib, et al.. (2009). A Novel Enediynyl Peptide Inhibitor of Furin That Blocks Processing of proPDGF-A, B and proVEGF-C. PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7700–e7700. 25 indexed citations

Ouardouz, Mohamed, Elaine Coderre, Ajoy Basak, et al.. (2009). Glutamate receptors on myelinated spinal cord axons: I. GluR6 kainate receptors. Annals of Neurology. 65(2). 151–159. 83 indexed citations

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Pasquato, Antonella, Monica Dettin, Ajoy Basak, et al.. (2007). Heparin enhances the furin cleavage of HIV‐1 gp160 peptides. FEBS Letters. 581(30). 5807–5813. 23 indexed citations

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Scamuffa, Nathalie, Nabil G. Seidah, Ajoy Basak, Fabien Calvo, & Abdel‐Majid Khatib. (2006). Inactivation of furin by its naturally occurring inhibitor pro-furin abolish breast cancer cells malignant phenotypes and tumorigenecity in mice.. Cancer Research. 66. 1235–1236. 1 indexed citations

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Qiu, Qing, Ajoy Basak, Majambu Mbikay, Benjamin K. Tsang, & Andrée Gruslin. (2005). Role of pro-IGF-II processing by proprotein convertase 4 in human placental development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(31). 11047–11052. 79 indexed citations

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Basak, Amit, Amit Basak, Subhendu Sekhar Bag, Ajoy Basak, & Ajoy Basak. (2005). Design and synthesis of a novel enediynyl pentapeptide with predominantly β-turn structural motif and its potential as a fluorescence-based chemosensor. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 13(12). 4096–4102. 25 indexed citations

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Zhao, Emily, Ajoy Basak, Kate Crump, & Vance L. Trudeau. (2005). Proteolytic processing and differential distribution of secretogranin-II in goldfish. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 146(2). 100–107. 23 indexed citations

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Basak, Ajoy & Farzaneh Lotfipour. (2005). Modulating furin activity with designed mini‐PDX peptides: Synthesis and in vitro kinetic evaluation. FEBS Letters. 579(21). 4813–4821. 19 indexed citations

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Basak, Amit, et al.. (2002). Synthesis, reactivity and conformational preferences of novel enediynyl peptides: a possible scaffold for β-sheet capping turns. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1805–1809. 16 indexed citations

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Basak, Amit, et al.. (2000). Nitrogen substituted cyclic enediynes: synthesis, thermal reactivity and complexation with metal ions. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1955–1964. 42 indexed citations

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Basak, Ajoy, et al.. (1995). Peptidyl substrates containing unnatural amino acid at the P′1 position are potent inhibitors of prohormone convertases. International journal of peptide & protein research. 46(3-4). 228–237. 23 indexed citations

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Basak, Ajoy, et al.. (1992). Affinity purification of proteinases by a combination of immobilized peptidyl aldehyde and semicarbazone. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 581(1). 17–29. 4 indexed citations

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Basak, Ajoy & Hermann Dugas. (1986). Design and synthesis of DNA intercalating crown ether molecules. Tetrahedron Letters. 27(1). 3–6. 7 indexed citations

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