David Drew

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

David Drew is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Drew has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in David Drew's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (18 papers). David Drew is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (18 papers). David Drew collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Japan. David Drew's co-authors include So Iwata, Gunnar von Heijne, Olga Boudker, Jan‐Willem De Gier, Simon Newstead, Alexander D. Cameron, Povilas Uzdavinys, Mikaela Rapp, Daniel O. Daley and Jan‐Willem L. de Gier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

David Drew

72 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Shared Molecular Mechanis... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2016 2010 2021 100 200 300
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.

  1. Shared Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Transporters
    2016 357 citations David Drew et al. profile →
  2. Maltose–neopentyl glycol (MNG) amphiphiles for solubilization, stabilization and crystallization of membrane proteins
    2010 350 citations David Drew et al. profile →
  3. Structures and General Transport Mechanisms by the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS)
    2021 262 citations David Drew, Rachel A. North et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Drew 4.2k 1.4k 784 490 433 77 5.7k
Dirk Jan Slotboom 3.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 797 1.0× 386 0.8× 330 0.8× 117 5.1k
Edmund R.S. Kunji 6.3k 1.5× 798 0.6× 515 0.7× 292 0.6× 397 0.9× 125 8.1k
Simon Newstead 3.6k 0.9× 632 0.5× 871 1.1× 406 0.8× 411 0.9× 84 5.3k
Stanley C. Gill 5.8k 1.4× 833 0.6× 458 0.6× 228 0.5× 480 1.1× 40 7.2k
Ming‐Daw Tsai 7.5k 1.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 416 0.8× 1.1k 2.5× 292 10.1k
P. Brick 5.2k 1.2× 743 0.5× 890 1.1× 415 0.8× 394 0.9× 40 6.3k
Tim Clausen 4.7k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 444 0.6× 192 0.4× 700 1.6× 102 7.1k
Lawrence P. McIntosh 5.8k 1.4× 621 0.5× 489 0.6× 683 1.4× 435 1.0× 145 7.5k
Brigitte Wittmann‐Liebold 6.3k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 732 0.9× 906 1.8× 363 0.8× 171 7.8k
Geoffrey Chang 4.3k 1.0× 797 0.6× 2.7k 3.4× 347 0.7× 182 0.4× 52 6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by David Drew

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Drew

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Drew

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Drew. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Drew based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Drew. David Drew is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Chen, Mengxi Du, Hanseul Kim, et al.. (2025). Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Risk of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Precursors Among Women. JAMA Oncology. 12(1). 49–49.
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Wolf, Gernot, et al.. (2025). Stepwise ATP translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum by human SLC35B1. Nature. 643(8072). 855–864. 1 indexed citations
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Balakrishnan, Arjun, Mirjam Hunziker, Puja Tiwary, et al.. (2025). A CRISPR homing screen finds a chloroquine resistance transporter-like protein of the Plasmodium oocyst essential for mosquito transmission of malaria. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3895–3895.
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Matsuoka, Rei, Aurélien F. A. Moumbock, Andrew Quigley, et al.. (2025). Structural basis of specific lysine transport by Pseudomonas aeruginosa permease LysP. Nature Communications. 17(1). 37–37. 1 indexed citations
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Corey, Robin A., Louise Persson, Abraham O. Oluwole, et al.. (2025). Engineering cardiolipin binding to an artificial membrane protein reveals determinants for lipid-mediated stabilization. eLife. 14.
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Drew, David, et al.. (2024). Structure and mechanism of the K+/H+ exchanger KefC. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4751–4751. 2 indexed citations
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Roumeliotis, Theodoros I., David Drew, S. Tamir Rashid, et al.. (2024). Structural basis for the modulation of MRP2 activity by phosphorylation and drugs. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1983–1983. 13 indexed citations
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Currie, Michael, Mariafrancesca Scalise, J. D. Wright, et al.. (2024). Structural and biophysical analysis of a Haemophilus influenzae tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporter. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Currie, Michael, Mariafrancesca Scalise, J. D. Wright, et al.. (2023). Structural and biophysical analysis of a Haemophilus influenzae tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporter. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations
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Currie, Michael, Rachel A. North, Mariafrancesca Scalise, et al.. (2023). Structure and mechanism of a tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic TRAP transporter. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1120–1120. 18 indexed citations
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Drew, David, et al.. (2023). Structure and electromechanical coupling of a voltage-gated Na+/H+ exchanger. Nature. 623(7985). 193–201. 14 indexed citations
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Delemotte, Lucie, et al.. (2023). Determinants of sugar-induced influx in the mammalian fructose transporter GLUT5. eLife. 12. 9 indexed citations
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Yen, Hsin‐Yung, Mark T. Agasid, Dilraj Lama, et al.. (2022). Electrospray ionization of native membrane proteins proceeds via a charge equilibration step. RSC Advances. 12(16). 9671–9680. 6 indexed citations
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Landreh, Michael, Cagla Sahin, Joseph Gault, et al.. (2020). Predicting the Shapes of Protein Complexes through Collision Cross Section Measurements and Database Searches. Analytical Chemistry. 92(18). 12297–12303. 22 indexed citations
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Nji, Emmanuel, et al.. (2019). Structural basis for the delivery of activated sialic acid into Golgi for sialyation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(6). 415–423. 42 indexed citations
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Landreh, Michael, Erik G. Marklund, Povilas Uzdavinys, et al.. (2017). Integrating mass spectrometry with MD simulations reveals the role of lipids in Na+/H+ antiporters. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13993–13993. 63 indexed citations
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Simmons, Katie J., Scott M. Jackson, Florian Brueckner, et al.. (2014). Molecular mechanism of ligand recognition by membrane transport protein, Mhp1. The EMBO Journal. 33(16). 1831–1844. 50 indexed citations
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Daley, Daniel O., Mikaela Rapp, Erik Granseth, et al.. (2005). Global Topology Analysis of the Escherichia coli Inner Membrane Proteome. Science. 308(5726). 1321–1323. 386 indexed citations
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Drew, David, Dan Sjöstrand, Johan Nilsson, et al.. (2002). Rapid topology mapping of Escherichia coli inner-membrane proteins by prediction and PhoA/GFP fusion analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(5). 2690–2695. 165 indexed citations

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