D. Borden Lacy

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
197 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

D. Borden Lacy is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Borden Lacy has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Infectious Diseases, 52 papers in Physiology and 48 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in D. Borden Lacy's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (52 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (35 papers) and Muscle metabolism and nutrition (29 papers). D. Borden Lacy is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (52 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (35 papers) and Muscle metabolism and nutrition (29 papers). D. Borden Lacy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. D. Borden Lacy's co-authors include R. John Collier, David H. Wasserman, Raymond C. Stevens, Ramyavardhanee Chandrasekaran, Phillip E. Williams, Alan D. Cherrington, Dena Lyras, Rory N. Pruitt, Wiep Klaas Smits and Ed J. Kuijper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

D. Borden Lacy

190 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Clostridium difficile infection

2016 599 citations Dena Lyras, D. Borden Lacy et al. profile →
Crystal structure of botulinum neurotoxin type A and implications for toxicity

1998 569 citations D. Borden Lacy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Borden Lacy United States	51	3.5k	2.6k	1.7k	1.4k	1.4k	197	8.6k
Erik L. Hewlett United States	53	4.5k 1.3×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	532 0.4×	886 0.6×	172	9.2k
Alexis M. Kalergis Chile	50	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	694 0.4×	794 0.6×	4.3k 3.1×	350	11.3k
Chella S. David United States	61	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	873 0.6×	7.8k 5.7×	446	14.3k
Frank M. Collins United States	57	3.3k 0.9×	4.1k 1.6×	843 0.5×	927 0.6×	2.6k 1.9×	196	15.2k
Andrej Tarkowski Sweden	51	3.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	632 0.4×	3.1k 2.3×	138	9.7k
Wayne I. Lencer United States	62	5.8k 1.6×	912 0.3×	876 0.5×	758 0.5×	3.1k 2.3×	164	11.3k
Michael Bukrinsky United States	51	4.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	990 0.6×	607 0.4×	2.9k 2.1×	181	10.0k
Karen Smith United States	49	4.1k 1.2×	826 0.3×	924 0.6×	317 0.2×	987 0.7×	112	7.7k
Kurt Bürki Switzerland	48	4.4k 1.3×	685 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	882 0.6×	6.1k 4.5×	107	13.8k
Mark S. Klempner United States	39	1.4k 0.4×	2.8k 1.1×	715 0.4×	595 0.4×	1.5k 1.1×	110	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Borden Lacy

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20 of 20 papers shown

Frick-Cheng, Arwen E., Heather K. Kroh, W. Hayes McDonald, et al.. (2025). Species-specific components of the Helicobacter pylori Cag type IV secretion system. Infection and Immunity. 93(5). e0049324–e0049324.

Kordus, Shannon L., John A. Shupe, Anna Smith, et al.. (2024). Purified CDT toxins and a clean deletion within the CDT locus provide novel insights into the contribution of binary toxin in cellular inflammation and Clostridioides difficile infection. PLoS Pathogens. 20(9). e1012568–e1012568. 4 indexed citations

Kordus, Shannon L., Heather K. Kroh, John A. Shupe, et al.. (2023). Nanobodies against C. difficile TcdA and TcdB reveal unexpected neutralizing epitopes and provide a toolkit for toxin quantitation in vivo. PLoS Pathogens. 19(10). e1011496–e1011496. 10 indexed citations

Rutherford, Megan J., et al.. (2023). Sa1228 DELETED IN MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS 1 (DMBT1) GLYCOPROTEIN IS LOST IN EARLY COLONIC DYSPLASIA. Gastroenterology. 164(6). S–332.

Shupe, John A., et al.. (2022). Glucosyltransferase-dependent and independent effects of Clostridioides difficile toxins during infection. PLoS Pathogens. 18(2). e1010323–e1010323. 17 indexed citations

Sheedlo, Michael J., Melanie D. Ohi, D. Borden Lacy, & Timothy L. Cover. (2022). Molecular architecture of bacterial type IV secretion systems. PLoS Pathogens. 18(8). e1010720–e1010720. 46 indexed citations

Pirani, Ali, et al.. (2022). Strain Variation in Clostridioides difficile Cytotoxicity Associated with Genomic Variation at Both Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Loci. mSphere. 7(3). e0017422–e0017422. 6 indexed citations

Markham, Nicholas O., John A. Shupe, Heather K. Kroh, et al.. (2021). Murine Intrarectal Instillation of Purified Recombinant Clostridioides difficile Toxins Enables Mechanistic Studies of Pathogenesis. Infection and Immunity. 89(4). 12 indexed citations

Sheedlo, Michael J., Jeong Min Chung, Louise Chang, et al.. (2021). Cryo-EM reveals new species-specific proteins and symmetry elements in the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm T4SS. eLife. 10. 24 indexed citations

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Mileto, Steven J., Thierry Jardé, Kevin O. Childress, et al.. (2020). Clostridioides difficile infection damages colonic stem cells via TcdB, impairing epithelial repair and recovery from disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(14). 8064–8073. 75 indexed citations

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Tam, John, Rodolfo F. Gómez‐Biagi, Casey M. Theriot, et al.. (2020). Intestinal bile acids directly modulate the structure and function of C. difficile TcdB toxin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(12). 6792–6800. 57 indexed citations

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Sheedlo, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Cryo-EM reveals species-specific components within the Helicobacter pylori Cag type IV secretion system core complex. eLife. 9. 39 indexed citations

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Sheedlo, Michael J., Jeong Min Chung, Brenda Byrne, et al.. (2020). Structural analysis of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system core complex. eLife. 9. 47 indexed citations

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Chung, Jeong Min, Michael J. Sheedlo, A. Malcolm Campbell, et al.. (2019). Structure of the Helicobacter pylori Cag type IV secretion system. eLife. 8. 73 indexed citations

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Horvath, Dennis J., Kenneth J. Salleng, Nagarajan Raju, et al.. (2017). Antibacterial photosensitization through activation of coproporphyrinogen oxidase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(32). E6652–E6659. 16 indexed citations

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González‐Rivera, Christian, A. Malcolm Campbell, Stacey A. Rutherford, et al.. (2016). A Nonoligomerizing Mutant Form of Helicobacter pylori VacA Allows Structural Analysis of the p33 Domain. Infection and Immunity. 84(9). 2662–2670. 19 indexed citations

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Pruitt, Rory N., Melissa G. Chambers, Kenneth Ng, Melanie D. Ohi, & D. Borden Lacy. (2010). Structural organization of the functional domains of Clostridium difficile toxins A and B. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(30). 13467–13472. 117 indexed citations

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Stauff, Devin L., et al.. (2007). Crystal structure of the Helicobacter pylori vacuolating toxin p55 domain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(41). 16293–16298. 126 indexed citations

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Moore, Mary Courtney, et al.. (2000). Disposition of a Mixed Meal by Conscious Dogs after Seven Days of Treatment with Cyclosporine A and Prednisone. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 24(4). 244–250. 3 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Richard E., George Reed, David H. Wasserman, et al.. (1992). The effects of acute elevations in plasma cortisol levels on alanine metabolism in the conscious dog. Metabolism. 41(12). 1295–1303. 25 indexed citations

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