Daniel W. Summers

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel W. Summers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel W. Summers has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Daniel W. Summers's work include Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (7 papers), Heat shock proteins research (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers). Daniel W. Summers is often cited by papers focused on Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (7 papers), Heat shock proteins research (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers). Daniel W. Summers collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Brazil. Daniel W. Summers's co-authors include Jeffrey Milbrandt, Aaron DiAntonio, Yo Sasaki, Josiah Gerdts, Xianrong Mao, Kow Essuman, Douglas Cyr, Peter M. Douglas, Lauren J. Walker and Daniel Gibson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Daniel W. Summers

24 papers receiving 2.0k 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 SARM1 Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Domain Possesses Intrinsic NAD+ Cleavage Activity that Promotes Pathological Axonal Degeneration

2017 429 citations Kow Essuman, Daniel W. Summers et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel W. Summers United States	17	1.1k	537	429	408	284	24	2.1k
Xianrong Mao United States	20	765 0.7×	331 0.6×	234 0.5×	316 0.8×	260 0.9×	25	1.7k
Stephen M. Altmann United States	6	526 0.5×	306 0.6×	106 0.2×	463 1.1×	150 0.5×	7	1.4k
Ayumu Sugiura Japan	18	2.1k 1.9×	232 0.4×	361 0.8×	114 0.3×	85 0.3×	32	2.8k
Bindi Patel United States	18	1.1k 1.0×	236 0.4×	511 1.2×	89 0.2×	227 0.8×	25	2.1k
Sebastián Bernales Chile	19	1.4k 1.3×	204 0.4×	1.4k 3.2×	58 0.1×	141 0.5×	29	3.2k
Ivana Peluso Italy	15	1.1k 1.0×	203 0.4×	346 0.8×	59 0.1×	445 1.6×	20	2.2k
Mariella Vicinanza United Kingdom	18	1.2k 1.2×	216 0.4×	984 2.3×	56 0.1×	332 1.2×	23	2.4k
Dominic Winter Germany	23	1.6k 1.5×	254 0.5×	384 0.9×	33 0.1×	99 0.3×	69	2.5k
Natalia B. Nedelsky United States	9	1.1k 1.1×	392 0.7×	357 0.8×	47 0.1×	62 0.2×	9	1.8k
Takeshi Kaizuka Japan	13	1.5k 1.4×	122 0.2×	742 1.7×	127 0.3×	405 1.4×	23	3.1k

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Summers, Daniel W., et al.. (2025). Nerve growth factor signaling tunes axon maintenance protein abundance and kinetics of Wallerian degeneration. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 36(4). ar46–ar46. 2 indexed citations

Sasaki, Yo, Amy Strickland, Daniel W. Summers, et al.. (2025). Suppressing phagocyte activation by overexpressing the phosphatidylserine lipase ABHD12 preserves sarmopathic nerves. iScience. 28(6). 112626–112626. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Huilan, et al.. (2024). Loss of Sarm1 reduces retinal ganglion cell loss in chronic glaucoma. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 12(1). 23–23. 6 indexed citations

Summers, Daniel W., et al.. (2024). Microtubules, Membranes, and Movement: New Roles for Stathmin‐2 in Axon Integrity. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 102(9). e25382–e25382. 4 indexed citations

Summers, Daniel W., et al.. (2023). The Stathmin-2 membrane-targeting domain is required for axon protection and regulated degradation by DLK signaling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(7). 104861–104861. 13 indexed citations

Summers, Daniel W., Erin Frey, Lauren J. Walker, Jeffrey Milbrandt, & Aaron DiAntonio. (2019). DLK Activation Synergizes with Mitochondrial Dysfunction to Downregulate Axon Survival Factors and Promote SARM1-Dependent Axon Degeneration. Molecular Neurobiology. 57(2). 1146–1158. 55 indexed citations

Essuman, Kow, Daniel W. Summers, Yo Sasaki, et al.. (2018). TIR Domain Proteins Are an Ancient Family of NAD+-Consuming Enzymes. Current Biology. 28(3). 421–430.e4. 178 indexed citations

Essuman, Kow, Daniel W. Summers, Yo Sasaki, et al.. (2017). The SARM1 Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Domain Possesses Intrinsic NAD+ Cleavage Activity that Promotes Pathological Axonal Degeneration. Neuron. 93(6). 1334–1343.e5. 429 indexed citations breakdown →

Walker, Lauren J., Daniel W. Summers, Yo Sasaki, et al.. (2017). MAPK signaling promotes axonal degeneration by speeding the turnover of the axonal maintenance factor NMNAT2. eLife. 6. 125 indexed citations

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Gerdts, Josiah, Daniel W. Summers, Jeffrey Milbrandt, & Aaron DiAntonio. (2016). Axon Self-Destruction: New Links among SARM1, MAPKs, and NAD+ Metabolism. Neuron. 89(3). 449–460. 253 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W., Daniel Gibson, Aaron DiAntonio, & Jeffrey Milbrandt. (2016). SARM1-specific motifs in the TIR domain enable NAD ⁺ loss and regulate injury-induced SARM1 activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(41). E6271–E6280. 99 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W., et al.. (2013). The Type II Hsp40 Sis1 Cooperates with Hsp70 and the E3 Ligase Ubr1 to Promote Degradation of Terminally Misfolded Cytosolic Protein. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e52099–e52099. 68 indexed citations

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Gerdts, Josiah, Daniel W. Summers, Yo Sasaki, Aaron DiAntonio, & Jeffrey Milbrandt. (2013). Sarm1-Mediated Axon Degeneration Requires Both SAM and TIR Interactions. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(33). 13569–13580. 275 indexed citations

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Kota, Pradeep, Daniel W. Summers, Hongyu Ren, Douglas Cyr, & Nikolay V. Dokholyan. (2010). Identification of a Consensus Motif in Substrates Bound by a Type I Hsp40. Biophysical Journal. 98(3). 33a–33a. 1 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W. & Douglas Cyr. (2010). Use of yeast as a system to study amyloid toxicity. Methods. 53(3). 226–231. 10 indexed citations

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Douglas, Peter M., Daniel W. Summers, Hong-Yu Ren, & Douglas Cyr. (2009). Reciprocal Efficiency of RNQ1 and Polyglutamine Detoxification in the Cytosol and Nucleus. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(19). 4162–4173. 32 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W., Peter M. Douglas, & Douglas Cyr. (2009). Prion propagation by Hsp40 molecular chaperones. Prion. 3(2). 59–64. 29 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W., Peter M. Douglas, Carlos H.I. Ramos, & Douglas Cyr. (2009). Polypeptide transfer from Hsp40 to Hsp70 molecular chaperones. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 34(5). 230–233. 63 indexed citations

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Douglas, Peter M., Daniel W. Summers, & Douglas Cyr. (2009). Molecular chaperones antagonize proteotoxicity by differentially modulating protein aggregation pathways. Prion. 3(2). 51–58. 43 indexed citations

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Summers, Daniel W., Peter M. Douglas, Hong-Yu Ren, & Douglas Cyr. (2008). The Type I Hsp40 Ydj1 Utilizes a Farnesyl Moiety and Zinc Finger-like Region to Suppress Prion Toxicity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(6). 3628–3639. 37 indexed citations

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