Charles J. Waechter

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Charles J. Waechter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles J. Waechter has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Organic Chemistry and 16 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Charles J. Waechter's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (54 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (37 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers). Charles J. Waechter is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (54 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (37 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers). Charles J. Waechter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Charles J. Waechter's co-authors include William J. Lennarz, Jeffrey S. Rush, Malka G. Scher, Joe B. Harford, Dean C. Crick, John J. Lucas, Douglas Andres, Robert L. Lester, Fabiana Fernández and Barbara Schenk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Charles J. Waechter

109 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

The Role of Polyprenol-Linked Sugars in Glycoprotein Synthesis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles J. Waechter United States	40	3.8k	1.2k	686	528	456	109	4.8k
Oscar Touster United States	42	3.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	377 0.7×	497 1.1×	108	6.0k
Shoshichi Nojima Japan	36	2.6k 0.7×	440 0.4×	384 0.6×	448 0.8×	301 0.7×	152	3.8k
Anthony L. Tarentino United States	38	5.1k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	815 1.2×	137 0.3×	864 1.9×	70	6.8k
Nathan N. Aronson United States	29	2.6k 0.7×	482 0.4×	813 1.2×	218 0.4×	353 0.8×	72	3.9k
Tamio Yamakawa Japan	34	2.8k 0.7×	827 0.7×	422 0.6×	342 0.6×	421 0.9×	145	3.7k
Thomas H. Plummer United States	40	4.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	699 1.0×	106 0.2×	729 1.6×	76	5.9k
Yoshifumi Jigami Japan	43	4.3k 1.1×	784 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	145 0.3×	428 0.9×	160	5.6k
C R Raetz United States	51	4.1k 1.1×	556 0.5×	397 0.6×	980 1.9×	1.2k 2.6×	87	6.0k
Consuelo Gajate Spain	43	3.7k 1.0×	567 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	309 0.6×	718 1.6×	82	5.3k
Ossi Renkonen Finland	32	1.9k 0.5×	658 0.5×	247 0.4×	482 0.9×	438 1.0×	94	2.9k

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Harrison, Kenneth, Eon Joo Park, Ningguo Gao, et al.. (2011). Nogo‐B receptor is necessary for cellular dolichol biosynthesis and protein N‐glycosylation. The EMBO Journal. 30(12). 2490–2500. 92 indexed citations

Rush, James S., Sergey V. Matveev, Ziqiang Guan, Christian R.H. Raetz, & Charles J. Waechter. (2010). Expression of functional bacterial undecaprenyl pyrophosphate synthase in the yeast rer2 mutant and CHO cells. Glycobiology. 20(12). 1585–1593. 10 indexed citations

Rush, Jeffrey S., et al.. (2009). A Novel Epimerase That Converts GlcNAc-P-P-undecaprenol to GalNAc-P-P-undecaprenol in Escherichia coli O157. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(3). 1671–1680. 58 indexed citations

Rush, Jeffrey S. & Charles J. Waechter. (2006). Partial Purification of Mannosylphosphorylundecaprenol Synthase From Micrococcus luteus: A Useful Enzyme for the Biosynthesis of a Variety of Mannosylphosphorylpolyisoprenol Products. Humana Press eBooks. 347. 13–30. 4 indexed citations

Andres, Douglas, Dean C. Crick, Brian S. Finlin, & Charles J. Waechter. (2003). Rapid Identification of Cysteine-Linked Isoprenyl Groups by Metabolic Labeling with [3H]Farnesol and [3H]Geranylgeraniol. Humana Press eBooks. 116. 107–124. 4 indexed citations

Rush, Jeffrey S., Steve K. Cho, Songmin Jiang, Sandra L. Hofmann, & Charles J. Waechter. (2002). Identification and Characterization of a cDNA Encoding a Dolichyl Pyrophosphate Phosphatase Located in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Mammalian Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(47). 45226–45234. 45 indexed citations

Fernández, Fabiana, Preetha Shridas, Shang‐Chuan Jiang, Markus Aebi, & Charles J. Waechter. (2002). Expression and characterization of a human cDNA that complements the temperature-sensitive defect in dolichol kinase activity in the yeast sec59-1 mutant: the enzymatic phosphorylation of dolichol and diacylglycerol are catalyzed by separate CTP-mediated kinase activities in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Glycobiology. 12(9). 555–562. 24 indexed citations

Anand, Monika, Jeffrey S. Rush, Sutapa Ray, et al.. (2001). Requirement of the Lec35 Gene for All Known Classes of Monosaccharide-P-Dolichol-dependent Glycosyltransferase Reactions in Mammals. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(2). 487–501. 74 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaohong, Jeffrey S. Rush, Bruce Horazdovsky, et al.. (1999). The LPP1 and DPP1 Gene Products Account for Most of the Isoprenoid Phosphate Phosphatase Activities inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(21). 14831–14837. 120 indexed citations

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Crick, Dean C., Douglas Andres, Romano Danesi, Marco Macchia, & Charles J. Waechter. (1998). Geranylgeraniol Overcomes the Block of Cell Proliferation by Lovastatin in C6 Glioma Cells. Journal of Neurochemistry. 70(6). 2397–2405. 60 indexed citations

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Crick, Dean C., Douglas Andres, & Charles J. Waechter. (1997). Geranylgeraniol Promotes Entry of UT-2 Cells into the Cell Cycle in the Absence of Mevalonate. Experimental Cell Research. 231(2). 302–307. 16 indexed citations

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Crick, Dean C., et al.. (1995). Selective Inhibition of Cholesterol Biosynthesis in Brain Cells by Squalestatin 1. Journal of Neurochemistry. 65(3). 1365–1373. 19 indexed citations

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Rush, Jeffrey S., et al.. (1994). Mannolipid donor specificity of glycosylphosphatidylinositol mannosyltransferase-I (GPIMT-I) determined with an assay system utilizing mutant CHO-K1 cells. Glycobiology. 4(6). 909–915. 17 indexed citations

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Rush, Jeffrey S., Jürgen Klein, Paolo Fanti, Narayan R. Bhat, & Charles J. Waechter. (1992). Direct assay of membrane-associated protein kinase C activity in B lymphocytes in the presence of Brij 58. Analytical Biochemistry. 207(2). 304–310. 10 indexed citations

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Rush, Jeffrey S., Thomas D. Sweitzer, Claudia Kent, Glenn L. Decker, & Charles J. Waechter. (1991). Biogenesis of the endoplasmic reticulum in activated B lymphocytes: Temporal relationships between the induction of protein N-glycosylation activity and the biosynthesis of membrane protein and phospholipid. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 284(1). 63–70. 35 indexed citations

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Rush, Jeffrey S., et al.. (1991). Golgi-enriched membrane fractions from rat brain and liver contain long-chain polyisoprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase activity. Glycobiology. 1(4). 405–410. 16 indexed citations

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Genain, Claude P. & Charles J. Waechter. (1990). Separation of Brain Dolichol Kinase from Endogenous Activating Factors: Evidence That Phospholipid Enhances the Interaction Between Enzyme and Dolichol. Journal of Neurochemistry. 54(3). 855–862. 7 indexed citations

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Rush, Jeffrey S., E Charles Snow, & Charles J. Waechter. (1987). Induction of glycoprotein biosynthesis in activated B lymphocytes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 259(2). 567–575. 11 indexed citations

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Waechter, Charles J., J. Schmidt, & W A Catterall. (1983). Glycosylation is required for maintenance of functional sodium channels in neuroblastoma cells.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258(8). 5117–5123. 135 indexed citations

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Steiner, Sheldon M., et al.. (1969). ISOLATION AND PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A MAJOR INOSITOL-CONTAINING LIPID IN BAKER'S YEAST, MANNOSYL-DIINOSITOL, DIPHOSPHORYL-CERAMIDE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 64(3). 1042–1048. 73 indexed citations

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