April L. Lukowski

831 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 601 citations indexed

About

April L. Lukowski is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, April L. Lukowski has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 601 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Organic Chemistry, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in April L. Lukowski's work include Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology (5 papers), Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (4 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (4 papers). April L. Lukowski is often cited by papers focused on Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology (5 papers), Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (4 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (4 papers). April L. Lukowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and China. April L. Lukowski's co-authors include Alison R. H. Narayan, Meagan E. Hinze, Summer A. Baker Dockrey, Bradley S. Moore, M. Becker, Leo A. Joyce, Suman Chakrabarty, Lauren A. M. Murray, Sherwood Hall and Jennifer Bridwell‐Rabb and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

April L. Lukowski

16 papers receiving 594 citations

Hit Papers

Biocatalytic oxidative cross-coupling reactions for biary... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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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.

  1. Biocatalytic oxidative cross-coupling reactions for biaryl bond formation
    2022 129 citations Suman Chakrabarty, Meagan E. Hinze et al. Nature profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
April L. Lukowski United States 13 287 278 139 120 70 16 601
Zachary D. Miles United States 12 380 1.3× 244 0.9× 153 1.1× 211 1.8× 44 0.6× 13 840
Jonathan Latham United Kingdom 8 415 1.4× 383 1.4× 118 0.8× 195 1.6× 77 1.1× 10 807
Mary C. Andorfer United States 13 319 1.1× 297 1.1× 97 0.7× 154 1.3× 83 1.2× 21 698
Eugenio P. Patallo Germany 13 412 1.4× 310 1.1× 253 1.8× 118 1.0× 65 0.9× 19 725
Sarah A. Shepherd United Kingdom 17 649 2.3× 552 2.0× 185 1.3× 209 1.7× 97 1.4× 21 1.2k
Meagan E. Hinze United States 6 165 0.6× 136 0.5× 80 0.6× 41 0.3× 33 0.5× 6 308
Taiki Umezawa Japan 17 133 0.5× 415 1.5× 124 0.9× 77 0.6× 33 0.5× 45 675
Josephine W. Reed United States 11 289 1.0× 709 2.6× 115 0.8× 97 0.8× 145 2.1× 15 916
Steven P. Hanlon Switzerland 19 899 3.1× 278 1.0× 47 0.3× 167 1.4× 128 1.8× 36 1.1k
Jordan Froese Canada 10 219 0.8× 159 0.6× 117 0.8× 44 0.4× 127 1.8× 20 395

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of April L. Lukowski

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Ramos, Stephany Flores, Amulya Lingaraju, R. Alexander Richter, et al.. (2025). Metatranscriptomics uncovers diurnal functional shifts in bacterial transgenes with profound metabolic effects. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(7). 1057–1072.e5. 3 indexed citations
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Phintha, Aisaraphon, April L. Lukowski, & Pimchai Chaiyen. (2024). Unlocking the catalytic precision of ligand-controlled enzymatic halogenation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(1). e2409479122–e2409479122. 3 indexed citations
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Duan, Meng, April L. Lukowski, K. N. Houk, et al.. (2024). A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile. Nature Chemistry. 16(12). 1989–1998. 13 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., et al.. (2023). Enzymatic Halogenation of Terminal Alkynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(34). 18716–18721. 22 indexed citations
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Chakrabarty, Suman, Meagan E. Hinze, Lauren A. M. Murray, et al.. (2022). Biocatalytic oxidative cross-coupling reactions for biaryl bond formation. Nature. 603(7899). 79–85. 129 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perry, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). Design principles for site-selective hydroxylation by a Rieske oxygenase. Nature Communications. 13(1). 255–255. 24 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., et al.. (2022). From Tryptophan to Toxin: Nature’s Convergent Biosynthetic Strategy to Aetokthonotoxin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(7). 2861–2866. 54 indexed citations
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Moore, Bradley S., et al.. (2022). Harnessing ortho-Quinone Methides in Natural Product Biosynthesis and Biocatalysis. Journal of Natural Products. 85(3). 688–701. 33 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., et al.. (2020). Structural basis for divergent C–H hydroxylation selectivity in two Rieske oxygenases. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2991–2991. 37 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., et al.. (2020). The voltage-gated sodium channel inhibitor, 4,9-anhydrotetrodotoxin, blocks human Nav1.1 in addition to Nav1.6. Neuroscience Letters. 724. 134853–134853. 15 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., Meagan E. Hinze, Brian M. Carlson, et al.. (2020). Substrate Promiscuity of a Paralytic Shellfish Toxin Amidinotransferase. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(3). 626–631. 21 indexed citations
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Dockrey, Summer A. Baker, April L. Lukowski, Troy Wymore, et al.. (2019). Structural Basis for Selectivity in Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenase-Catalyzed Oxidative Dearomatization. ACS Catalysis. 9(4). 3633–3640. 33 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., et al.. (2019). Biocatalytic Detoxification of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(5). 941–948. 32 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L. & Alison R. H. Narayan. (2019). Natural Voltage‐Gated Sodium Channel Ligands: Biosynthesis and Biology. ChemBioChem. 20(10). 1231–1241. 9 indexed citations
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Lukowski, April L., Meagan E. Hinze, Ryan J. DeLuca, et al.. (2018). C–H Hydroxylation in Paralytic Shellfish Toxin Biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(37). 11863–11869. 61 indexed citations
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Dockrey, Summer A. Baker, April L. Lukowski, M. Becker, & Alison R. H. Narayan. (2017). Biocatalytic site- and enantioselective oxidative dearomatization of phenols. Nature Chemistry. 10(2). 119–125. 112 indexed citations

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