Dana Westphal

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Dana Westphal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Dana Westphal has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Dana Westphal's work include Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (12 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (9 papers) and Brain Metastases and Treatment (6 papers). Dana Westphal is often cited by papers focused on Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (12 papers), Cell death mechanisms and regulation (9 papers) and Brain Metastases and Treatment (6 papers). Dana Westphal collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United States. Dana Westphal's co-authors include Grant Dewson, Ruth M. Kluck, Peter E. Czabotar, A.Y. Robin, Peter M. Colman, Brian J. Smith, Jerry M. Adams, Friedegund Meier, Shenggen Yao and W. Douglas Fairlie and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dana Westphal

39 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Bax Crystal Structures Reveal How BH3 Domains Activate Bax and Nucleate Its Oligomerization to Induce Apoptosis

2013 444 citations Peter E. Czabotar, Dana Westphal et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dana Westphal Germany	20	1.6k	469	366	325	201	41	2.3k
Guang Yang China	29	1.6k 1.0×	264 0.6×	510 1.4×	447 1.4×	194 1.0×	105	3.0k
Jayantha Gunaratne Singapore	28	1.7k 1.1×	349 0.7×	344 0.9×	251 0.8×	336 1.7×	82	2.9k
Ramón Campos‐Olivas Spain	28	2.0k 1.3×	435 0.9×	321 0.9×	384 1.2×	591 2.9×	62	3.1k
Katerina V. Gurova United States	34	2.3k 1.5×	823 1.8×	292 0.8×	205 0.6×	457 2.3×	84	3.1k
Alexey Stukalov Austria	17	1.5k 1.0×	323 0.7×	312 0.9×	186 0.6×	252 1.3×	36	2.1k
Vladimir Prassolov Russia	26	1.4k 0.9×	314 0.7×	230 0.6×	148 0.5×	285 1.4×	143	2.1k
Sunghyun Kang South Korea	26	1.4k 0.9×	376 0.8×	326 0.9×	153 0.5×	151 0.8×	64	2.1k
Hakim Djaballah United States	29	1.8k 1.2×	604 1.3×	606 1.7×	636 2.0×	432 2.1×	81	3.3k
David P. Nusinow United States	11	1.9k 1.2×	305 0.7×	214 0.6×	295 0.9×	237 1.2×	12	2.6k
Mark Andrake United States	21	1.5k 1.0×	244 0.5×	482 1.3×	212 0.7×	113 0.6×	55	2.1k

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Grützmann, Konrad, et al.. (2024). Personalized identification and characterization of genome-wide gene expression differences between patient-matched intracranial and extracranial melanoma metastasis pairs. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 12(1). 67–67. 3 indexed citations

Meier, Friedegund, Jörg Otte, Patrick Petzsch, et al.. (2024). Gene expression profiling in porocarcinoma indicates heterogeneous tumor development and substantiates poromas as precursor lesions. JDDG Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft. 22(8). 1115–1124.

Grützmann, Konrad, et al.. (2024). Network-based analysis of heterogeneous patient-matched brain and extracranial melanoma metastasis pairs reveals three homogeneous subgroups. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 23. 1036–1050. 2 indexed citations

Buszello, C. P., Reinhard Oertel, Matthias Meinhardt, et al.. (2024). Efficacy of BRAF/MEK-inhibitor therapy for epithelioid glioblastoma with a novel BRAFV600 mutation. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 12(1). 124–124. 3 indexed citations

Westphal, Dana, Matthias Meinhardt, Andreas Schulz, et al.. (2024). P02.13.B IMPLEMENTATION OF A MULTIPLEXED TISSUE IMAGING PROTOCOL FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT IN MELANOMA BRAIN METASTASES. Neuro-Oncology. 26(Supplement_5). v37–v37.

Schulz, Alexander, Alexander Arthur Wurm, Mildred Sergon, et al.. (2023). BRAF and MEK inhibitor combinations induce potent molecular and immunological effects in NRAS‐mutant melanoma cells: Insights into mode of action and resistance mechanisms. International Journal of Cancer. 154(6). 1057–1072. 5 indexed citations

Niessner, Heike, Corinna Kosnopfel, Matthias Meinhardt, et al.. (2023). Exploring the In Vitro and In Vivo Therapeutic Potential of BRAF and MEK Inhibitor Combination in NRAS-Mutated Melanoma. Cancers. 15(23). 5521–5521. 1 indexed citations

Gellrich, Frank Friedrich, Matthias Meinhardt, Dana Westphal, et al.. (2023). Leptomeningeal Metastases in Melanoma Patients: An Update on and Future Perspectives for Diagnosis and Treatment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11443–11443. 7 indexed citations

Schulz, Alexander, Julia K. Tietze, Bertold Renner, et al.. (2022). Head-to-Head Comparison of BRAF/MEK Inhibitor Combinations Proposes Superiority of Encorafenib Plus Trametinib in Melanoma. Cancers. 14(19). 4930–4930. 10 indexed citations

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Richter, Stefanie, Dana Westphal, Buqing Yi, et al.. (2022). Efficient production of inhibitor-free foamy virus glycoprotein-containing retroviral vectors by proteoglycan-deficient packaging cells. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 26. 394–412. 3 indexed citations

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Westphal, Dana, Harald Surowy, Friedegund Meier, et al.. (2021). Whole-exome sequencing in eccrine porocarcinoma indicates promising therapeutic strategies. Cancer Gene Therapy. 29(6). 697–708. 16 indexed citations

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Nandi, Sukhendu, Laura Galazzo, Stephanie Bleicken, et al.. (2020). Biophysical Characterization of Pro-apoptotic BimBH3 Peptides Reveals an Unexpected Capacity for Self-Association. Structure. 29(2). 114–124.e3. 12 indexed citations

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Surowy, Harald, Jens C. Otte, Reinhard Büttner, et al.. (2018). Gene expression profiling in aggressive digital papillary adenocarcinoma sheds light on the architecture of a rare sweat gland carcinoma. British Journal of Dermatology. 180(5). 1150–1160. 15 indexed citations

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Niessner, Heike, Tobias Sinnberg, Corinna Kosnopfel, et al.. (2017). BRAF Inhibitors Amplify the Proapoptotic Activity of MEK Inhibitors by Inducing ER Stress in NRAS-Mutant Melanoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(20). 6203–6214. 34 indexed citations

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Iyer, Sweta, Dana Westphal, Khatira Anwari, et al.. (2015). Bak apoptotic pores involve a flexible C-terminal region and juxtaposition of the C-terminal transmembrane domains. Cell Death and Differentiation. 22(10). 1665–1675. 50 indexed citations

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Robin, A.Y., K K Saji Kumar, Dana Westphal, et al.. (2015). Crystal structure of Bax bound to the BH3 peptide of Bim identifies important contacts for interaction. Cell Death and Disease. 6(7). e1809–e1809. 55 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Jason M., Dana Westphal, Grant Dewson, et al.. (2014). Bak Core and Latch Domains Separate during Activation, and Freed Core Domains Form Symmetric Homodimers. Molecular Cell. 55(6). 938–946. 128 indexed citations

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Bartolo, Ray C., et al.. (2013). Bak apoptotic function is not directly regulated by phosphorylation. Cell Death and Disease. 4(1). e452–e452. 12 indexed citations

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Czabotar, Peter E., Dana Westphal, Grant Dewson, et al.. (2013). Bax Crystal Structures Reveal How BH3 Domains Activate Bax and Nucleate Its Oligomerization to Induce Apoptosis. Cell. 152(3). 519–531. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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Westphal, Dana, Grant Dewson, Peter E. Czabotar, & Ruth M. Kluck. (2010). Molecular biology of Bax and Bak activation and action. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1813(4). 521–531. 430 indexed citations

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