Alex Smolyar

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alex Smolyar is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Smolyar has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Immunology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alex Smolyar's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Alex Smolyar is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Alex Smolyar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Alex Smolyar's co-authors include Ellis L. Reinherz, Gerhard Wagner, Marc Vidal, Jia‐Huai Wang, David E. Hill, Jean‐François Rual, Toshiko Sakihama, Rebecca E. Hussey, Kemin Tan and Jin‐huan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alex Smolyar

27 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A Protein–Protein Interaction Network for Human Inherited Ataxias and Disorders of Purkinje Cell Degeneration

2006 590 citations Janghoo Lim, Tong Hao et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Smolyar United States	16	1.4k	1.0k	305	202	179	27	2.4k
Jiří Novotný Czechia	29	2.3k 1.7×	549 0.5×	810 2.7×	282 1.4×	269 1.5×	91	3.2k
Lidia Mosyak United States	29	2.1k 1.5×	743 0.7×	295 1.0×	252 1.2×	339 1.9×	45	3.4k
J. Fraser Glickman United States	22	1.5k 1.1×	513 0.5×	81 0.3×	159 0.8×	303 1.7×	47	2.2k
B.A. Appleton United States	21	1.5k 1.1×	367 0.4×	397 1.3×	197 1.0×	319 1.8×	28	2.3k
Lynn Young United States	23	2.7k 2.0×	459 0.4×	317 1.0×	304 1.5×	509 2.8×	31	3.4k
Sibo Feng United States	8	1.6k 1.2×	382 0.4×	248 0.8×	120 0.6×	340 1.9×	8	2.1k
Mitsunori Shiroishi Japan	25	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	591 1.9×	764 3.8×	128 0.7×	51	3.2k
Ralf Heilker Germany	23	1.2k 0.9×	525 0.5×	121 0.4×	318 1.6×	464 2.6×	47	2.1k
Andreas Girod Germany	18	1.6k 1.2×	547 0.5×	102 0.3×	173 0.9×	163 0.9×	23	2.6k
Ronald Kühne Germany	28	1.7k 1.2×	291 0.3×	131 0.4×	252 1.2×	184 1.0×	65	2.3k

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Chatr‐aryamontri, Andrew, Arnaud Céol, Daniele Peluso, et al.. (2008). VirusMINT: a viral protein interaction database. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D669–D673. 155 indexed citations

Cusick, Michael E., Haiyuan Yu, Alex Smolyar, et al.. (2008). Literature-curated protein interaction datasets. Nature Methods. 6(1). 39–46. 212 indexed citations

Lim, Janghoo, Tong Hao, Chad A. Shaw, et al.. (2006). A Protein–Protein Interaction Network for Human Inherited Ataxias and Disorders of Purkinje Cell Degeneration. Cell. 125(4). 801–814. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Jia‐Huai, Alex Smolyar, Kemin Tan, et al.. (1999). Structure of a Heterophilic Adhesion Complex between the Human CD2 and CD58 (LFA-3) Counterreceptors. Cell. 97(6). 791–803. 182 indexed citations

Cai, Dongpo, Linda K. Clayton, Alex Smolyar, & Adam Lerner. (1999). AND-34, a Novel p130Cas-Binding Thymic Stromal Cell Protein Regulated by Adhesion and Inflammatory Cytokines. The Journal of Immunology. 163(4). 2104–2112. 52 indexed citations

Reinherz, Ellis L., Kemin Tan, Lei Tang, et al.. (1999). The Crystal Structure of a T Cell Receptor in Complex with Peptide and MHC Class II. Science. 286(5446). 1913–1921. 334 indexed citations

Smolyar, Alex, et al.. (1998). Identification of a common docking topology with substantial variation among different TCR–peptide–MHC complexes. Current Biology. 8(7). 409–414. 101 indexed citations

Colson, Anny‐Odile, Jeffrey H. Perlman, Alex Smolyar, Marvin C. Gershengorn, & Roman Osman. (1998). Static and Dynamic Roles of Extracellular Loops in G-Protein-Coupled Receptors: A Mechanism for Sequential Binding of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone to Its Receptor. Biophysical Journal. 74(3). 1087–1100. 47 indexed citations

Kern, Petra, Maikun Teng, Alex Smolyar, et al.. (1998). Structural Basis of CD8 Coreceptor Function Revealed by Crystallographic Analysis of a Murine CD8αα Ectodomain Fragment in Complex with H-2Kb. Immunity. 9(4). 519–530. 156 indexed citations

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Smolyar, Alex, R. Spoerl, T Witte, et al.. (1997). Topology of T cell receptor-peptide/class I MHC interaction defined by charge reversal complementation and functional analysis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 271(2). 278–293. 36 indexed citations

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Witte, T, Alex Smolyar, R. Spoerl, et al.. (1997). Major histocompatibility complex recognition by immune receptors: Differences among T cell receptor versus antibody interactions with the VSV8/H‐2K^b complex. European Journal of Immunology. 27(1). 227–233. 8 indexed citations

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Smolyar, Alex, et al.. (1996). Ligand-induced Conformational Change Within the CD2 Ectodomain Accompanies Receptor Clustering: Implication for Molecular Lattice Formation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 263(2). 209–226. 29 indexed citations

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Sakihama, Toshiko, Alex Smolyar, & Ellis L. Reinherz. (1995). Molecular recognition of antigen involves lattice formation between CD4, MHC class II and TCR molecules. Immunology Today. 16(12). 581–587. 69 indexed citations

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Wyss, Daniel F., Jing Li, Maria H. Knoppers, et al.. (1995). Conformation and Function of the N-Linked Glycan in the Adhesion Domain of Human CD2. Science. 269(5228). 1273–1278. 260 indexed citations

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Smolyar, Alex & R Osman. (1993). Role of threonine 342 in helix 7 of the 5-hydroxytryptamine type 1D receptor in ligand binding: an indirect mechanism for receptor selectivity.. Molecular Pharmacology. 44(4). 882–885. 6 indexed citations

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Smolyar, Alex, et al.. (1978). Localized MO in molecules of chlorine fluorides from the results ofab initio calculations. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 19(3). 337–341. 2 indexed citations

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Чаркин, О. П., Alex Smolyar, & Н. М. Клименко. (1978). The nature of the chemical bond and the properties of compounds of the halogens and inert gases from the results of MO LCAO SCF calculations. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 19(1). 109–142. 2 indexed citations

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Smolyar, Alex, Alexander I. Boldyrev, О. П. Чаркин, Н. М. Клименко, & V. I. Avdeev. (1976). Koopman's theorem and allowance for the relaxation of MO's in ab initi calculations of polyhalogenides. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 17(2). 188–193. 11 indexed citations

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Чаркин, О. П., et al.. (1974). Calculation of the single-center parameters F0 (nl, n′l′) and Unl by means of slater functions with “spectroscopical” exponents. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 15(4). 639–642. 2 indexed citations

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Чаркин, О. П., Alex Smolyar, A. S. Zyubin, & Н. М. Клименко. (1974). Calculations of electronic structure for compounds of inert gases and halogens by MO LCAO SCF method. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 15(3). 461–467. 2 indexed citations

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