Angus D. Cowan

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 890 citations indexed

About

Angus D. Cowan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Angus D. Cowan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 890 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cell Biology and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Angus D. Cowan's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (5 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Angus D. Cowan is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (5 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (2 papers). Angus D. Cowan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Germany. Angus D. Cowan's co-authors include Alessio Ciulli, Peter E. Czabotar, Lachlan Whitehead, Andreas Strasser, Hannah Vanyai, Stephanie Grabow, Anne K. Voss, Francine Ke, Alex R. D. Delbridge and Jarrod J. Sandow and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Communications and Annual Review of Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Angus D. Cowan

11 papers receiving 882 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.

Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity

2021 168 citations Satomi Imaide, Kristin M. Riching et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Angus D. Cowan Australia	9	702	193	157	103	92	11	890
Heriberto Bruzzoni‐Giovanelli France	15	570 0.8×	281 1.5×	145 0.9×	179 1.7×	69 0.8×	23	932
Rachelle Kosoff United States	12	713 1.0×	263 1.4×	324 2.1×	57 0.6×	111 1.2×	14	1.1k
Luis A. Carvajal United States	10	550 0.8×	354 1.8×	120 0.8×	92 0.9×	134 1.5×	29	814
Mayuko Omori United States	10	883 1.3×	294 1.5×	76 0.5×	56 0.5×	122 1.3×	14	1.2k
Chun Shik Park United States	17	509 0.7×	96 0.5×	203 1.3×	105 1.0×	82 0.9×	35	877
Alok R. Singh United States	16	494 0.7×	216 1.1×	197 1.3×	78 0.8×	177 1.9×	25	858
Stephen Ma Australia	10	1.1k 1.5×	148 0.8×	350 2.2×	43 0.4×	122 1.3×	13	1.3k
Laia Rosich Spain	15	410 0.6×	134 0.7×	121 0.8×	69 0.7×	48 0.5×	21	721
Darren C. Johnson United States	12	1.0k 1.5×	283 1.5×	449 2.9×	72 0.7×	96 1.0×	13	1.3k
MV Blagosklonny United States	9	547 0.8×	185 1.0×	112 0.7×	89 0.9×	66 0.7×	9	773

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Miller, Michelle S., Angus D. Cowan, Jason M. Brouwer, et al.. (2023). Sequence differences between BAX and BAK core domains manifest as differences in their interactions with lipids. FEBS Journal. 291(11). 2335–2353. 8 indexed citations

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Cowan, Angus D. & Alessio Ciulli. (2022). Driving E3 Ligase Substrate Specificity for Targeted Protein Degradation: Lessons from Nature and the Laboratory. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 91(1). 295–319. 72 indexed citations

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Smith, Nicholas A., Ahmad Z. Wardak, Angus D. Cowan, et al.. (2021). The Bak core dimer focuses triacylglycerides in the membrane. Biophysical Journal. 121(3). 347–360. 1 indexed citations

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Meng, Yanxiang, Katherine A. Davies, Cheree Fitzgibbon, et al.. (2021). Human RIPK3 maintains MLKL in an inactive conformation prior to cell death by necroptosis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6783–6783. 67 indexed citations

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Imaide, Satomi, Kristin M. Riching, Nikolai Makukhin, et al.. (2021). Trivalent PROTACs enhance protein degradation via combined avidity and cooperativity. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(11). 1157–1167. 168 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cowan, Angus D., Nicholas A. Smith, Jarrod J. Sandow, et al.. (2020). BAK core dimers bind lipids and can be bridged by them. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(11). 1024–1031. 47 indexed citations

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Ke, Francine, Hannah Vanyai, Angus D. Cowan, et al.. (2018). Embryogenesis and Adult Life in the Absence of Intrinsic Apoptosis Effectors BAX, BAK, and BOK. Cell. 173(5). 1217–1230.e17. 155 indexed citations

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Petrie, Emma J., Jarrod J. Sandow, Annette V. Jacobsen, et al.. (2018). Conformational switching of the pseudokinase domain promotes human MLKL tetramerization and cell death by necroptosis. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2422–2422. 147 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Jason M., Ping Lan, Angus D. Cowan, et al.. (2017). Conversion of Bim-BH3 from Activator to Inhibitor of Bak through Structure-Based Design. Molecular Cell. 68(4). 659–672.e9. 52 indexed citations

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Czabotar, Peter E., Angus D. Cowan, & Peter M. Colman. (2017). Structures of bak with lipids: implications for pore formation. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 73(a2). C104–C104. 1 indexed citations

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Law, Ruby H. P., Tom T. Caradoc-Davies, Nathan Cowieson, et al.. (2012). The X-ray Crystal Structure of Full-Length Human Plasminogen. Cell Reports. 1(3). 185–190. 172 indexed citations

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