David Sept

14.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
110 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

David Sept is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sept has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Cell Biology, 52 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in David Sept's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (36 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (32 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (13 papers). David Sept is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (36 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (32 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (13 papers). David Sept collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. David Sept's co-authors include J. Andrew McCammon, Nathan Baker, Michael Holst, Simpson Joseph, John A. Cooper, Michael Mayer, Adrian H. Elcock, Jerry Yang, L. David Sibley and Karthikeyan Diraviyam and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

David Sept

108 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Electrostatics of nanosystems: Application to microtubules and the ribosome

2001 6.1k citations Nathan Baker, David Sept et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An electric-eel-inspired soft power source from stacked hydrogels

2017 463 citations David Sept, Jerry Yang et al. profile →
Real-time shape approximation and fingerprinting of single proteins using a nanopore

2016 371 citations Erik C. Yusko, David Sept et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Sept United States	41	6.7k	2.5k	1.4k	1.1k	862	110	11.2k
Bridget Carragher United States	61	7.9k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	443 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	838 1.0×	195	13.4k
Abraham J. Koster Netherlands	66	5.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	855 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	815 0.9×	184	13.3k
Holger Stark Germany	68	12.5k 1.9×	1.6k 0.7×	693 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	152	14.9k
Elliot L. Elson United States	50	4.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	545 0.5×	363 0.4×	114	10.3k
Katherine Luby‐Phelps United States	47	5.1k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	935 0.7×	553 0.5×	654 0.8×	92	10.2k
John L. Rubinstein Canada	45	8.7k 1.3×	1.0k 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	952 1.1×	138	12.7k
Steven J. Ludtke United States	59	9.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	499 0.4×	2.0k 1.8×	1.3k 1.5×	138	13.7k
Katharina Gaus Australia	58	6.7k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	378 0.4×	255	12.2k
Andreas Herrmann Germany	63	8.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.6×	813 0.6×	569 0.5×	617 0.7×	330	12.2k
Sanford M. Simon United States	55	7.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	2.7k 2.4×	780 0.9×	144	13.0k

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Endress, Jennifer E., Paloma González‐Sánchez, Wentao Dong, et al.. (2024). Drug screening in human physiologic medium identifies uric acid as an inhibitor of rigosertib efficacy. JCI Insight. 9(13). 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yunbo, Di Zu, Zhijia Zhang, et al.. (2023). Phase intensity nanoscope (PINE) opens long-time investigation windows of living matter. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4318–4318. 2 indexed citations

Hotta, Takashi, Sarah E. Haynes, T. Lynne Blasius, et al.. (2021). Parthenolide Destabilizes Microtubules by Covalently Modifying Tubulin. Current Biology. 31(4). 900–907.e6. 27 indexed citations

Tan, Zhenyu, Sarah E. Haynes, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, et al.. (2021). Kinesin-binding protein remodels the kinesin motor to prevent microtubule binding. Science Advances. 7(47). eabj9812–eabj9812. 12 indexed citations

Budaitis, Breane, Shashank Jariwala, Lu Rao, et al.. (2020). Pathogenic mutations in the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A diminish force generation and movement through allosteric mechanisms. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(4). 53 indexed citations

Chaaban, Sami, Shashank Jariwala, Stefanie Redemann, et al.. (2018). The Structure and Dynamics of C. elegans Tubulin Reveals the Mechanistic Basis of Microtubule Growth. Developmental Cell. 47(2). 191–204.e8. 54 indexed citations

Lalle, Marco, et al.. (2017). 14-3-3 Regulates Actin Filament Formation in the Deep-Branching Eukaryote Giardia lamblia. mSphere. 2(5). 11 indexed citations

Liu, Haiyan, David Sept, Khyati Kapoor, Suresh V. Ambudkar, & Michael Mayer. (2014). Functional Assay for Characterizing Human P-Glycoprotein Transport using the Pore Forming Peptide Gramicidin A. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 791a–791a.

Collier, Timothy S., Karthikeyan Diraviyam, John Monsey, et al.. (2013). Carboxyl Group Footprinting Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Dynamics Identify Key Interactions in the HER2-HER3 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Interface. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(35). 25254–25264. 30 indexed citations

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Majd, Sheereen, Erik C. Yusko, Jerry Yang, David Sept, & Michael Mayer. (2013). A Model for the Interfacial Kinetics of Phospholipase D Activity on Long-Chain Lipids. Biophysical Journal. 105(1). 146–153. 11 indexed citations

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Paredez, Alexander R., Zoe J. Assaf, David Sept, et al.. (2011). An actin cytoskeleton with evolutionarily conserved functions in the absence of canonical actin-binding proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(15). 6151–6156. 72 indexed citations

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Sim, Hoon, Kristin Bibee, Samuel A. Wickline, & David Sept. (2010). Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Tumor Bioluminescence Implicates Efflux, and Not Influx, as the Bigger Hurdle in Cancer Drug Therapy. Cancer Research. 71(3). 686–692. 24 indexed citations

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Krishnamoorthy, Gayathri, Akansha Saxena, Guohui Zhang, et al.. (2010). An Epilepsy/Dyskinesia-Associated Mutation Enhances BK Channel Activation by Potentiating Ca2+ Sensing. Neuron. 66(6). 871–883. 90 indexed citations

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Silva, Jonathan R., Hua Pan, Dick Wu, et al.. (2009). A multiscale model linking ion-channel molecular dynamics and electrostatics to the cardiac action potential. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(27). 11102–11106. 96 indexed citations

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Moore, Jeffrey K., David Sept, & John A. Cooper. (2009). Neurodegeneration mutations in dynactin impair dynein-dependent nuclear migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(13). 5147–5152. 60 indexed citations

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Cooper, John A. & David Sept. (2008). New Insights into Mechanism and Regulation of Actin Capping Protein. International review of cell and molecular biology. 267. 183–206. 175 indexed citations

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Sept, David, et al.. (2007). Molecular Modeling of the Cytoskeleton. Methods in cell biology. 84. 893–910. 2 indexed citations

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Sept, David, et al.. (2006). Energetics and Dynamics of Constrained Actin Filament Bundling. Biophysical Journal. 90(12). 4295–4304. 13 indexed citations

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Tuszyński, Jack A., Janice A. Brown, & David Sept. (2003). Models of the Collective Behavior of Proteins in Cells: Tubulin, Actin and Motor Proteins. Journal of Biological Physics. 29(4). 401–428. 17 indexed citations

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Sept, David. (1999). Model for spatial microtubule oscillations. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(1). 838–841. 5 indexed citations

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