Alaji Bah

4.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alaji Bah is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Hematology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alaji Bah has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Hematology and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alaji Bah's work include Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Alaji Bah is often cited by papers focused on Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). Alaji Bah collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Alaji Bah's co-authors include Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Robert M. Vernon, Lewis E. Kay, Patrick Farber, Brian Tsang, Nahum Sonenberg, Hong Lin, Enrico Di, P. Andrew Chong and Tae Hun Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Alaji Bah

38 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separation

2018 587 citations Robert M. Vernon, P. Andrew Chong et al. eLife profile →
Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switch

2014 432 citations Alaji Bah, Robert M. Vernon et al. Nature profile →
Modulation of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Function by Post-translational Modifications

2016 388 citations Alaji Bah, Julie D. Forman‐Kay Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation

2017 376 citations Jacob P. Brady, Patrick Farber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alaji Bah United States	21	2.5k	381	272	227	226	40	3.1k
Yuh Min Chook United States	35	4.1k 1.6×	308 0.8×	163 0.6×	297 1.3×	337 1.5×	64	4.7k
J. Günter Grossmann United Kingdom	35	2.4k 1.0×	705 1.9×	144 0.5×	345 1.5×	465 2.1×	61	3.4k
Salem Faham United States	22	3.0k 1.2×	270 0.7×	101 0.4×	359 1.6×	901 4.0×	30	3.7k
Kevin R. MacKenzie United States	24	2.4k 0.9×	215 0.6×	59 0.2×	145 0.6×	352 1.6×	53	3.3k
James Baleja United States	31	2.0k 0.8×	170 0.4×	311 1.1×	290 1.3×	202 0.9×	93	2.9k
Jacqui Méndez United States	10	2.4k 0.9×	163 0.4×	221 0.8×	151 0.7×	350 1.5×	14	3.0k
Y. Morimoto Japan	25	1.9k 0.8×	380 1.0×	107 0.4×	139 0.6×	339 1.5×	113	3.0k
Marija Buljan United Kingdom	8	2.1k 0.8×	421 1.1×	47 0.2×	146 0.6×	268 1.2×	13	2.5k
Alexandr P. Kornev United States	36	4.6k 1.8×	768 2.0×	193 0.7×	196 0.9×	860 3.8×	66	5.6k
Christy R. Grace United States	29	3.0k 1.2×	266 0.7×	51 0.2×	96 0.4×	363 1.6×	56	3.5k

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Chandrasekaran, Siddarth, et al.. (2024). Phosphorylation, disorder, and phase separation govern the behavior of Frequency in the fungal circadian clock. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Gomes, Gregory-Neal W., et al.. (2023). Delineating Structural Propensities of the 4E-BP2 Protein via Integrative Modeling and Clustering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(34). 7472–7486. 4 indexed citations

Chandrasekaran, Siddarth, et al.. (2023). Phosphorylation, disorder, and phase separation govern the behavior of Frequency in the fungal circadian clock. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations

Dutta, Arijit, Xiaoyu Xue, Heidi Hehnly, et al.. (2023). Complex interplay between FMRP and DHX9 during DNA replication stress. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(1). 105572–105572. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhenfu, et al.. (2022). Multisite phosphorylation and binding alter conformational dynamics of the 4E-BP2 protein. Biophysical Journal. 121(16). 3049–3060. 8 indexed citations

Ortiz, María A., Tatiana Mikhailova, Xiang Li, et al.. (2021). Src family kinases, adaptor proteins and the actin cytoskeleton in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Cell Communication and Signaling. 19(1). 67–67. 96 indexed citations

Dawson, Jennifer E., Alaji Bah, Zhenfu Zhang, et al.. (2020). Non-cooperative 4E-BP2 folding with exchange between eIF4E-binding and binding-incompatible states tunes cap-dependent translation inhibition. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3146–3146. 19 indexed citations

Huang, Weishan, Rebecca Harris, Aisha Sultana, et al.. (2020). Targeting Interleukin-2-Inducible T-Cell Kinase (ITK) Differentiates GVL and GVHD in Allo-HSCT. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 593863–593863. 18 indexed citations

Tsang, Brian, Jason Arsenault, Robert M. Vernon, et al.. (2019). Phosphoregulated FMRP phase separation models activity-dependent translation through bidirectional control of mRNA granule formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(10). 4218–4227. 244 indexed citations

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Vernon, Robert M., P. Andrew Chong, Brian Tsang, et al.. (2018). Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separation. eLife. 7. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Yi, Jason Arsenault, Alaji Bah, et al.. (2018). Identification of a molecular locus for normalizing dysregulated GABA release from interneurons in the Fragile X brain. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(9). 2017–2035. 54 indexed citations

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Brady, Jacob P., Patrick Farber, Ashok Sekhar, et al.. (2017). Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(39). E8194–E8203. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bah, Alaji, Robert M. Vernon, Zeba Rahman Siddiqui, et al.. (2014). Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switch. Nature. 519(7541). 106–109. 432 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lukhele, Sabelo, Alaji Bah, Hong Lin, Nahum Sonenberg, & Julie D. Forman‐Kay. (2013). Interaction of the Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4E with 4E-BP2 at a Dynamic Bipartite Interface. Structure. 21(12). 2186–2196. 67 indexed citations

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Vogt, Austin, Alaji Bah, & Enrico Di. (2010). Evidence of the E*−E Equilibrium from Rapid Kinetics of Na⁺ Binding to Activated Protein C and Factor Xa*. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 114(49). 16125–16130. 21 indexed citations

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Niu, Weiling, et al.. (2009). Mutant N143P Reveals How Na+ Activates Thrombin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(52). 36175–36185. 31 indexed citations

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Bah, Alaji, et al.. (2008). Role of the A chain in thrombin function. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 65(12). 1943–1947. 25 indexed citations

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Di, Enrico, et al.. (2007). Thrombin allostery. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 9(11). 1291–1291. 41 indexed citations

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Bah, Alaji, et al.. (2006). Rapid Kinetics of Na+ Binding to Thrombin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(52). 40049–40056. 59 indexed citations

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Bah, Alaji. (2004). Humanized telomeres and an attempt to express a functional human telomerase in yeast. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(6). 1917–1927. 23 indexed citations

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