Alan K. Todd

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Alan K. Todd is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan K. Todd has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Organic Chemistry and 5 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alan K. Todd's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (10 papers). Alan K. Todd is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (16 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (10 papers). Alan K. Todd collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand. Alan K. Todd's co-authors include Stephen Neidle, Gary N. Parkinson, Pascale Hazel, Sarah Burge, Anthony P. Reszka, Mire Zloh, Sylvain Ladame, Shankar Balasubramanian, J Huppert and Mekala Gunaratnam and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alan K. Todd

26 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Quadruplex DNA: sequence, topology and structure

2006 2.0k citations Sarah Burge, Gary N. Parkinson et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Highly prevalent putative quadruplex sequence motifs in human DNA

2005 820 citations Alan K. Todd Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan K. Todd United Kingdom	22	4.0k	294	278	190	145	27	4.3k
Jaroslav Kypr Czechia	27	3.8k 1.0×	252 0.9×	355 1.3×	221 1.2×	26 0.2×	118	4.1k
Zoë A. E. Waller United Kingdom	25	1.8k 0.5×	264 0.9×	124 0.4×	205 1.1×	40 0.3×	51	2.1k
Michaela Vorlı́čková Czechia	32	4.8k 1.2×	298 1.0×	353 1.3×	310 1.6×	27 0.2×	118	5.1k
Aurore Guédin France	26	2.5k 0.6×	183 0.6×	194 0.7×	135 0.7×	26 0.2×	48	2.7k
Gautam Basu India	26	1.3k 0.3×	318 1.1×	278 1.0×	138 0.7×	35 0.2×	81	1.9k
Daniel Renčiuk Czechia	17	2.5k 0.6×	178 0.6×	202 0.7×	148 0.8×	22 0.2×	32	2.7k
Carsten Behrens Denmark	14	2.3k 0.6×	291 1.0×	220 0.8×	69 0.4×	23 0.2×	25	2.6k
Iva Kejnovská Czechia	23	3.0k 0.7×	185 0.6×	239 0.9×	195 1.0×	17 0.1×	52	3.2k
Chang C. Liu United States	23	2.7k 0.7×	662 2.3×	153 0.6×	209 1.1×	35 0.2×	49	3.2k
Laurent Lacroix France	35	6.3k 1.6×	290 1.0×	342 1.2×	207 1.1×	16 0.1×	64	6.6k

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Gunaratnam, Mekala, Gavin W. Collie, Anthony P. Reszka, et al.. (2018). A naphthalene diimide G-quadruplex ligand inhibits cell growth and down-regulates BCL-2 expression in an imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal cancer cell line. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 26(11). 2958–2964. 23 indexed citations

Melchiotti, Rossella, et al.. (2016). Cluster stability in the analysis of mass cytometry data. Cytometry Part A. 91(1). 73–84. 22 indexed citations

Wei, Dengguo, Alan K. Todd, Mire Zloh, et al.. (2013). Crystal Structure of a Promoter Sequence in the B-raf Gene Reveals an Intertwined Dimer Quadruplex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(51). 19319–19329. 46 indexed citations

Lombardo, Caterina M., Sarah J. Welsh, Sandra J. Strauss, et al.. (2012). A novel series of G-quadruplex ligands with selectivity for HIF-expressing osteosarcoma and renal cancer cell lines. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(18). 5984–5988. 27 indexed citations

Ohnmacht, Stephan A., Marialuisa Micco, Vanessa Petrucci, et al.. (2012). Sequences in the HSP90 promoter form G-quadruplex structures with selectivity for disubstituted phenyl bis-oxazole derivatives. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(18). 5930–5935. 25 indexed citations

Todd, Alan K. & Stephen Neidle. (2011). Mapping the sequences of potential guanine quadruplex motifs. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(12). 4917–4927. 24 indexed citations

Gunaratnam, Mekala, María de la Fuente, Sonja M. Hampel, et al.. (2011). Targeting pancreatic cancer with a G-quadruplex ligand. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 19(23). 7151–7157. 55 indexed citations

Campbell, N., Nurul Huda Abd Karim, Gary N. Parkinson, et al.. (2011). Molecular Basis of Structure–Activity Relationships between Salphen Metal Complexes and Human Telomeric DNA Quadruplexes. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 55(1). 209–222. 185 indexed citations

Todd, Alan K. & Stephen Neidle. (2008). The relationship of potential G-quadruplex sequences in cis-upstream regions of the human genome to SP1-binding elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(8). 2700–2704. 59 indexed citations

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Todd, Alan K.. (2007). Bioinformatics approaches to quadruplex sequence location. Methods. 43(4). 246–251. 33 indexed citations

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Todd, Alan K., Shozeb Haider, Gary N. Parkinson, & Stephen Neidle. (2007). Sequence occurrence and structural uniqueness of a G-quadruplex in the human c-kit promoter. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(17). 5799–5808. 129 indexed citations

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Burge, Sarah, Gary N. Parkinson, Pascale Hazel, Alan K. Todd, & Stephen Neidle. (2006). Quadruplex DNA: sequence, topology and structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(19). 5402–5415. 2007 indexed citations breakdown →

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Todd, Alan K.. (2005). Highly prevalent putative quadruplex sequence motifs in human DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 33(9). 2901–2907. 820 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reszka, Anthony P., J Huppert, Mire Zloh, et al.. (2005). Putative DNA Quadruplex Formation within the Human c-kit Oncogene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(30). 10584–10589. 494 indexed citations

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Teixeira, Susana C. M., James H. Thorpe, Alan K. Todd, et al.. (2002). Structural Characterisation of Bisintercalation in Higher-order DNA at a Junction-like Quadruplex. Journal of Molecular Biology. 323(2). 167–171. 23 indexed citations

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Todd, Alan K., Harold R. Powell, James H. Thorpe, et al.. (1999). Determination by MAD-DM of the structure of the DNA duplex d[ACGTACG(5-BrU)]₂ at 1.46 Å and 100 K. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 55(4). 729–735. 3 indexed citations

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Cardin, Christine J., David J. Cardin, Steven P. Constantine, et al.. (1999). Syntheses and Crystal Structures of Heteroleptic Stannylenes and Germylenes. Organometallics. 18(3). 389–398. 54 indexed citations

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Cardin, Christine J., David J. Cardin, Steven P. Constantine, et al.. (1998). The First Structurally Authenticated Compound Containing a Bond between Divalent Tin and Tetravalent Tin. Organometallics. 17(11). 2144–2146. 37 indexed citations

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McCann, Malachy, et al.. (1996). Synthesis, X-ray crystal structure and catalytic activity of the manganese(II) complex [Mn(bdoa)(H2O)3](bdoaH2 =benzene-1,2-dioxyacetic acid). Polyhedron. 15(13). 2117–2120. 27 indexed citations

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Freeman, Elizabeth & Alan K. Todd. (1971). Sub-optimal control for multivariable systems based on an orthogonal decomposition technique†. International Journal of Control. 13(4). 737–761.

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