Alaji Bah

4.5k citations

40 papers · 3.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 21

Co-authors: Julie D. Forman‐Kay Robert M. Vernon Patrick Farber Lewis E. Kay Brian Tsang Nahum Sonenberg Hong Lin Enrico Di
Topics: Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms (10 papers)RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers)Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers)
Cited by: Molecular Biology Hematology Biochemistry
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nucleic Acids Research
Partner nations: United States Canada China

In The Last Decade

Alaji Bah

38 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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 →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Phosphorylation, disorder, and phase separation govern the behavior of Frequency in the fungal circadian clock 2023 ·eLife ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Siddarth Chandrasekaran,Jay Dunlap,Alaji Bah,Brian R. Crane	5
2	Delineating Structural Propensities of the 4E-BP2 Protein via Integrative Modeling and Clustering 2023 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·(unknown),(unknown),Gregory-Neal W. Gomes,(unknown),(unknown),Alaji Bah,Gregory A. Wasney,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,Claudiu C. Gradinaru	4
3	Complex interplay between FMRP and DHX9 during DNA replication stress 2023 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·(unknown),Arijit Dutta,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Xiaoyu Xue,Heidi Hehnly,Patrick Sung,Alaji Bah,Wenyi Feng	2
4	Multisite phosphorylation and binding alter conformational dynamics of the 4E-BP2 protein 2022 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown),Zhenfu Zhang,Alaji Bah,(unknown),Jennifer E. Dawson,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,Claudiu C. Gradinaru	8
5	Src family kinases, adaptor proteins and the actin cytoskeleton in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition 2021 ·Cell Communication and Signaling ·María A. Ortiz,Tatiana Mikhailova,Xiang Li,Baylee A. Porter,Alaji Bah,Leszek Kotula	96
6	Modelling the Multifarious Conformations of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein 4E-BP2 with sm-FRET, SAXS & PRE Restraints 2021 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown),(unknown),Alaji Bah,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,Claudiu C. Gradinaru	0
7	A Tale of Loops and Tails: The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions in R-Loop Recognition and Phase Separation 2021 ·Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Arijit Dutta,Mohamed Mohamed,Csaba Papp,Vladimir A. Kuznetsov,Patrick Sung,Wenyi Feng,Alaji Bah	18
8	Interleukin‐2‐inducible T‐cell kinase (Itk) signaling regulates potent noncanonical regulatory T cells 2021 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown),Rebecca Harris,(unknown),(unknown),Teresa Gentile,Adam T. Waickman,Alaji Bah,Avery August,Elmar Nurmemmedov,Mobin Karimi	11
9	Targeting SLP76:ITK interaction separates GVHD from GVL in allo-HSCT 2021 ·iScience ·(unknown),Weishan Huang,Rebecca Harris,Hui Xiong,(unknown),(unknown),Teresa Gentile,Jessica L. Henty-Ridilla,Adam T. Waickman,Avery August,Alaji Bah,Mobin Karimi	7
10	Non-cooperative 4E-BP2 folding with exchange between eIF4E-binding and binding-incompatible states tunes cap-dependent translation inhibition 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Jennifer E. Dawson,Alaji Bah,Zhenfu Zhang,Robert M. Vernon,Hong Lin,P. Andrew Chong,(unknown),Nahum Sonenberg,Claudiu C. Gradinaru,Julie D. Forman‐Kay	19
11	Phosphoregulated FMRP phase separation models activity-dependent translation through bidirectional control of mRNA granule formation 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Brian Tsang,Jason Arsenault,Robert M. Vernon,Hong Lin,Nahum Sonenberg,Lu‐Yang Wang,Alaji Bah,Julie D. Forman‐Kay	244
12	Pi-Pi contacts are an overlooked protein feature relevant to phase separationbreakdown → 2018 ·eLife ·Robert M. Vernon,P. Andrew Chong,Brian Tsang,Tae Hun Kim,Alaji Bah,Patrick Farber,Hong Lin,Julie D. Forman‐Kay	587
13	Identification of a molecular locus for normalizing dysregulated GABA release from interneurons in the Fragile X brain 2018 ·Molecular Psychiatry ·Yi Yang,Jason Arsenault,Alaji Bah,Mickaël Krzeminski,Ádám Fekete,Owen Y. Chao,Laura Pacey,Alex B. Wang,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,David R. Hampson,Lu‐Yang Wang	54
14	Structural and hydrodynamic properties of an intrinsically disordered region of a germ cell-specific protein on phase separationbreakdown → 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jacob P. Brady,Patrick Farber,Ashok Sekhar,Yi‐Hsuan Lin,Rui Huang,Alaji Bah,Timothy J. Nott,Hue Sun Chan,Andrew J. Baldwin,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,Lewis E. Kay	376
15	An evolutionary switch in ND2 enables Src kinase regulation of NMDA receptors 2017 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown),Alaji Bah,Mickaël Krzeminski,(unknown),Heather Leduc‐Pessah,Yi Dong,Julie D. Forman‐Kay,Michael W. Salter	11
16	Folding of an intrinsically disordered protein by phosphorylation as a regulatory switchbreakdown → 2014 ·Nature ·Alaji Bah,Robert M. Vernon,Zeba Rahman Siddiqui,Mickaël Krzeminski,Ranjith Muhandiram,Charlie W. Zhao,Nahum Sonenberg,Lewis E. Kay,Julie D. Forman‐Kay	432
17	Interaction of the Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 4E with 4E-BP2 at a Dynamic Bipartite Interface 2013 ·Structure ·Sabelo Lukhele,Alaji Bah,Hong Lin,Nahum Sonenberg,Julie D. Forman‐Kay	67
18	Na+ binding to meizothrombin desF1 2008 ·Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·(unknown),Prafull S. Gandhi,Zi-Wei Chen,Alaji Bah,Enrico Di	27
19	Thrombin allostery 2007 ·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Enrico Di,Michael J. Page,Alaji Bah,(unknown),(unknown)	41
20	Humanized telomeres and an attempt to express a functional human telomerase in yeast 2004 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Alaji Bah	23

About Alaji Bah

Alaji Bah is a scholar working on Hematology, Aging and Molecular Biology, having authored 40 papers that have together received 3.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (2.5k citations), Hematology (272 citations) and Biochemistry (170 citations). Alaji Bah has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Frequent co-authors include Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Robert M. Vernon, Patrick Farber, Lewis E. Kay, Brian Tsang, Nahum Sonenberg, Hong Lin, Enrico Di, P. Andrew Chong and Tae Hun Kim. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

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