David D. Thomas

18.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
450 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

David D. Thomas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, David D. Thomas has authored 450 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 249 papers in Molecular Biology, 225 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 75 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in David D. Thomas's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (143 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (93 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (73 papers). David D. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (143 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (93 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (73 papers). David D. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Italy. David D. Thomas's co-authors include Ewa Próchniewicz, Christine B. Karim, Roger Cooke, Rǎzvan L. Cornea, James S. Hyde, Gianluigi Veglia, Thomas C. Squier, Joseph M. Muretta, Larry R. Jones and L. Michel Espinoza‐Fonseca and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

David D. Thomas

437 papers receiving 13.8k 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.

Mechanochemical coupling in actomyosin energy transduction studied by in vitro movement assay

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David D. Thomas United States	62	8.3k	6.2k	2.3k	2.1k	1.6k	450	14.3k
David R. Trentham United Kingdom	56	5.8k 0.7×	4.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	332 0.2×	903 0.6×	145	9.1k
George K. Radda United Kingdom	58	4.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	879 0.4×	785 0.5×	263	11.9k
G.N. Phillips United States	67	11.3k 1.4×	1.0k 0.2×	5.1k 2.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	300	16.5k
Leslie M. Loew United States	60	6.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.2×	1.0k 0.4×	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	230	12.6k
Takashi Funatsu Japan	41	3.8k 0.5×	954 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	190	8.6k
Eduardo Perozo United States	54	8.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.4×	369 0.2×	778 0.4×	623 0.4×	132	9.8k
Michael C. Phillips United States	95	14.8k 1.8×	1.6k 0.3×	2.0k 0.9×	202 0.1×	1.2k 0.8×	292	27.7k
Mitsuhiko Ikura Canada	86	22.1k 2.7×	1.2k 0.2×	4.5k 1.9×	2.4k 1.1×	942 0.6×	305	29.8k
Michael B. Smith United States	64	2.4k 0.3×	932 0.2×	841 0.4×	827 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	205	12.0k
Robert M. Weiss United States	64	6.8k 0.8×	4.8k 0.8×	747 0.3×	202 0.1×	618 0.4×	373	16.6k

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Joshi, Nidhi, et al.. (2025). Aurora A binds to the transactivation domain of c-Myc and recognizes the phosphorylated N-terminal degron motif. Biochemical Journal. 482(8). 369–381.

Rustad, Mark, Osha Roopnarine, Rǎzvan L. Cornea, & David D. Thomas. (2023). Interaction of DWORF with SERCA and PLB as determined by EPR spectroscopy. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 645. 97–102. 8 indexed citations

Bidwell, Philip A., Samantha L. Yuen, Ji Li, et al.. (2022). A Large-Scale High-Throughput Screen for Modulators of SERCA Activity. Biomolecules. 12(12). 1789–1789. 13 indexed citations

Weber, Daniel K., Songlin Wang, Tata Gopinath, et al.. (2021). Structural basis for allosteric control of the SERCA-Phospholamban membrane complex by Ca2+ and phosphorylation. eLife. 10. 26 indexed citations

Miller, Mark S., et al.. (2020). Super-relaxed state of myosin in human skeletal muscle is fiber-type dependent. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 319(6). C1158–C1162. 12 indexed citations

Autry, Joseph M., Christine B. Karim, Sudeep Perumbakkam, et al.. (2020). Sarcolipin Exhibits Abundant RNA Transcription and Minimal Protein Expression in Horse Gluteal Muscle. Veterinary Sciences. 7(4). 178–178. 4 indexed citations

Rohde, John A., Osha Roopnarine, David D. Thomas, & Joseph M. Muretta. (2018). Mavacamten stabilizes an autoinhibited state of two-headed cardiac myosin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(32). E7486–E7494. 105 indexed citations

Muretta, Joseph M., Babu J.N. Reddy, Guido Scarabelli, et al.. (2018). A posttranslational modification of the mitotic kinesin Eg5 that enhances its mechanochemical coupling and alters its mitotic function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(8). E1779–E1788. 25 indexed citations

Ruff, Emily F., Joseph M. Muretta, Andrew R. Thompson, et al.. (2018). A dynamic mechanism for allosteric activation of Aurora kinase A by activation loop phosphorylation. eLife. 7. 51 indexed citations

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Thomas, David D., et al.. (2017). β-III-spectrin spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 mutation reveals a dominant cytoskeletal mechanism that underlies dendritic arborization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(44). E9376–E9385. 26 indexed citations

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Thomas, David D., et al.. (2017). Kulturelles Lernen im DaF/DaZ-Unterricht. Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen). 1 indexed citations

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Fealey, Michael E., Fengbin Wang, Albina Orlova, et al.. (2017). Structural basis for high-affinity actin binding revealed by a β-III-spectrin SCA5 missense mutation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1350–1350. 37 indexed citations

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Kraft, Thomas E., Monique R. Heitmeier, Rachel L. Edwards, et al.. (2016). A Novel Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Screen in High-Throughput Format To Identify Inhibitors of Malarial and Human Glucose Transporters. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60(12). 7407–7414. 16 indexed citations

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Espinoza‐Fonseca, L. Michel, Lorenzo Álamo, Antonio Pinto, David D. Thomas, & Raúl Padrón. (2015). Sequential myosin phosphorylation activates tarantula thick filament via a disorder–order transition. Molecular BioSystems. 11(8). 2167–2179. 15 indexed citations

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Álamo, Lorenzo, Xiaochuan Li, L. Michel Espinoza‐Fonseca, et al.. (2015). Tarantula myosin free head regulatory light chain phosphorylation stiffens N-terminal extension, releasing it and blocking its docking back. Molecular BioSystems. 11(8). 2180–2189. 19 indexed citations

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Espinoza‐Fonseca, L. Michel, Brett A. Colson, & David D. Thomas. (2014). Effects of pseudophosphorylation mutants on the structural dynamics of smooth muscle myosin regulatory light chain. Molecular BioSystems. 10(10). 2693–2698. 13 indexed citations

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Zamoon, Jamillah, Florentin R. Nitu, Christine B. Karim, David D. Thomas, & Gianluigi Veglia. (2005). Mapping the interaction surface of a membrane protein: Unveiling the conformational switch of phospholamban in calcium pump regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(13). 4747–4752. 88 indexed citations

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Thomas, David D., Laxma G. Reddy, Christine B. Karim, et al.. (1998). Direct Spectroscopic Detection of Molecular Dynamics and Interactions of the Calcium Pump and Phospholamban ^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 853(1). 186–194. 29 indexed citations

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Thomas, David D.. (1985). ATC IN TRANSITION 1956-1963. 27(4). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (1976). The place of Bahnar within Bahnaric. Americanae (AECID Library).

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