Benjamin E. Turk

15.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin E. Turk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin E. Turk has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Oncology and 24 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin E. Turk's work include Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (28 papers), Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (15 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (13 papers). Benjamin E. Turk is often cited by papers focused on Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (28 papers), Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (15 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (13 papers). Benjamin E. Turk collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Benjamin E. Turk's co-authors include Reuben J. Shaw, Maria M. Mihaylova, Dana M. Gwinn, David B. Shackelford, Debbie S. Vasquez, Annabelle Méry, Lewis C. Cantley, Hua Jane Lou, Chad J. Miller and Lisa Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin E. Turk

123 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

AMPK Phosphorylation of Raptor Mediates a Metabolic Checkpoint

2008 3.0k citations Benjamin E. Turk et al. profile →
Small Molecule Inhibition of the Autophagy Kinase ULK1 and Identification of ULK1 Substrates

2015 559 citations Chad J. Miller, Hua Jane Lou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin E. Turk United States	45	6.9k	2.0k	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	124	10.3k
Eric Spooner United States	43	5.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	886 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	492 0.4×	58	8.4k
Gérard Pierron France	43	6.4k 0.9×	3.8k 1.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	100	10.9k
Michael J. Clague United Kingdom	51	8.8k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	3.6k 2.8×	738 0.6×	131	11.5k
Mathew E. Sowa United States	40	9.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.8×	903 0.8×	50	12.0k
María A. Juliano Brazil	47	4.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	543 0.4×	872 0.7×	376	9.1k
Toshiaki Isobe Japan	62	10.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	957 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	247	13.4k
Tohru Natsume Japan	58	11.3k 1.6×	5.1k 2.6×	1.5k 0.9×	3.9k 3.0×	1.2k 1.0×	198	16.3k
Chunaram Choudhary Denmark	52	12.7k 1.8×	2.0k 1.0×	3.2k 2.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	86	16.0k
Blagoy Blagoev Denmark	42	10.6k 1.5×	986 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	108	14.1k
David K. Ann United States	52	5.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	641 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	171	8.3k

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Stiegler, Amy L., et al.. (2025). Cancer hotspot mutations rewire ERK2 specificity by selective exclusion of docking interactions. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(4). 108348–108348. 1 indexed citations

McGeary, Meaghan K., William Damsky, Sabine M. Lang, et al.. (2024). Setdb1 Loss Induces Type I Interferons and Immune Clearance of Melanoma. Cancer Immunology Research. 13(2). 245–257. 4 indexed citations

Bibeau, Jeffrey P., Wenxiang Cao, Hua Jane Lou, et al.. (2024). Distinct functional constraints driving conservation of the cofilin N-terminal regulatory tail. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1426–1426. 2 indexed citations

Cataisson, Christophe, Howard H. Yang, Wei‐Chun Lee, et al.. (2024). Protein phosphatase 6 activates NF-κB to confer sensitivity to MAPK pathway inhibitors in KRAS - and BRAF -mutant cancer cells. Science Signaling. 17(836). eadd5073–eadd5073.

Lou, Hua Jane, et al.. (2024). Aurora B controls anaphase onset and error-free chromosome segregation in trypanosomes. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(11). 2 indexed citations

Liao, Xiaofeng, Barani Kumar Rajendran, Ao Li, et al.. (2024). The CUL5 E3 ligase complex negatively regulates central signaling pathways in CD8+ T cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 603–603. 8 indexed citations

Li, Wenxue, Shisheng Wang, Barbora Šalovská, et al.. (2023). An optogenetic-phosphoproteomic study reveals dynamic Akt1 signaling profiles in endothelial cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3803–3803. 14 indexed citations

Torres‐Ayuso, Pedro, Katherine M. Nyswaner, Daniel A. Ritt, et al.. (2021). TNIK Is a Therapeutic Target in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Regulates FAK Activation through Merlin. Cancer Discovery. 11(6). 1411–1423. 38 indexed citations

Hammond, Charlotte I., et al.. (2021). Phosphorylation of Pal2 by the protein kinases Kin1 and Kin2 modulates HAC1 mRNA splicing in the unfolded protein response in yeast. Science Signaling. 14(684). 6 indexed citations

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Terekhov, Stanislav S., Yuliana A. Mokrushina, Arthur O. Zalevsky, et al.. (2020). A kinase bioscavenger provides antibiotic resistance by extremely tight substrate binding. Science Advances. 6(26). eaaz9861–eaaz9861. 19 indexed citations

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Zhou, Mo, Leena Kuruvilla, Xiarong Shi, et al.. (2020). Scaffold association factor B (SAFB) is required for expression of prenyltransferases and RAS membrane association. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 31914–31922. 9 indexed citations

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Sang, Dajun, Sudarshan Pinglay, Rafal Wiewiora, et al.. (2019). Ancestral reconstruction reveals mechanisms of ERK regulatory evolution. eLife. 8. 18 indexed citations

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Lou, Hua Jane, et al.. (2018). In Silico Design and in Vitro Characterization of Universal Tyrosine Kinase Peptide Substrates. Biochemistry. 57(12). 1847–1851. 5 indexed citations

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Hara, Masatoshi, Sebastian Lourido, Boryana Petrova, et al.. (2018). Identification of PNG kinase substrates uncovers interactions with the translational repressor TRAL in the oocyte-to-embryo transition. eLife. 7. 21 indexed citations

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Lim, Ya Chee, Bruno Catimel, Daisy Lio, et al.. (2017). Csk-homologous kinase (Chk) is an efficient inhibitor of Src-family kinases but a poor catalyst of phosphorylation of their C-terminal regulatory tyrosine. Cell Communication and Signaling. 15(1). 29–29. 12 indexed citations

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Kang, Seong A., Michael E. Pacold, Christopher Cervantes, et al.. (2013). mTORC1 Phosphorylation Sites Encode Their Sensitivity to Starvation and Rapamycin. Science. 341(6144). 1236566–1236566. 3 indexed citations

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Ha, Byung Hak, Matthew J. Davis, Catherine Chen, et al.. (2012). Type II p21-activated kinases (PAKs) are regulated by an autoinhibitory pseudosubstrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(40). 16107–16112. 66 indexed citations

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Lam, Hugo Y. K., Philip M. Kim, Janine Mok, et al.. (2010). MOTIPS: Automated Motif Analysis for Predicting Targets of Modular Protein Domains. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 243–243. 26 indexed citations

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Bullock, Alex N., J.E. Debreczeni, P. Rellos, et al.. (2009). Kinase Domain Insertions Define Distinct Roles of CLK Kinases in SR Protein Phosphorylation. Structure. 17(3). 352–362. 92 indexed citations

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Park, Hyun I., et al.. (2002). Peptide Substrate Specificities and Protein Cleavage Sites of Human Endometase/Matrilysin-2/Matrix Metalloproteinase-26. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(38). 35168–35175. 53 indexed citations

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