David Shechter

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

David Shechter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, David Shechter has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in General Health Professions and 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in David Shechter's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers). David Shechter is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (22 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers). David Shechter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Taiwan. David Shechter's co-authors include Jean Gautier, C. David Allis, Sandra B. Hake, Vincenzo Costanzo, Jocelyn E. Krebs, Benjamin M. Lorton, Carol Y. Ying, Karlene A. Cimprich, Patrick J. Lupardus and Max E. Gottesman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David Shechter

47 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Extraction, purification and analysis of histones

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Shechter United States	25	3.3k	515	353	342	329	47	3.8k
Jeanette Gowen Cook United States	36	3.0k 0.9×	685 1.3×	255 0.7×	709 2.1×	223 0.7×	77	3.7k
Eric T. Rosenthal United States	19	1.5k 0.5×	522 1.0×	292 0.8×	584 1.7×	813 2.5×	73	2.6k
Jason M. Sheltzer United States	22	1.4k 0.4×	433 0.8×	609 1.7×	617 1.8×	354 1.1×	35	2.7k
Mamoun Ahram Jordan	20	1.0k 0.3×	382 0.7×	440 1.2×	119 0.3×	183 0.6×	80	2.0k
Honggang Li China	27	2.1k 0.6×	312 0.6×	379 1.1×	82 0.2×	441 1.3×	129	3.9k
Lynne S. Cox United Kingdom	31	2.3k 0.7×	914 1.8×	385 1.1×	288 0.8×	206 0.6×	62	3.7k
Cecilia Lundin Sweden	22	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 3.2×	793 2.2×	433 1.3×	298 0.9×	34	4.4k
Aldur W. Eriksson Finland	30	1.5k 0.4×	251 0.5×	327 0.9×	169 0.5×	712 2.2×	192	3.6k
Diana A. Stavreva United States	26	1.8k 0.5×	168 0.3×	227 0.6×	247 0.7×	437 1.3×	46	2.9k
Simone Chevalier Canada	29	1.5k 0.4×	497 1.0×	445 1.3×	257 0.8×	277 0.8×	119	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Shechter

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Kim, Kyoohyun, Carsten Hoege, Benjamin M. Lorton, et al.. (2025). Conserved nucleocytoplasmic density homeostasis drives cellular organization across eukaryotes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7597–7597. 2 indexed citations

DeAngelo, Joseph D., Maxim I. Maron, Jacob S. Roth, et al.. (2025). Productive mRNA chromatin escape is promoted by PRMT5 activity. Molecular Cell. 85(21). 4016–4031.e9. 1 indexed citations

Shechter, David. (2019). Introduction to the multi-author review on methylation in cellular physiology. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 76(15). 2871–2872. 6 indexed citations

Lorton, Benjamin M. & David Shechter. (2019). Cellular consequences of arginine methylation. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 76(15). 2933–2956. 116 indexed citations

Ravichandran, Mirunalini, Qin Tang, Yilin Zhao, et al.. (2019). Rinf Regulates Pluripotency Network Genes and Tet Enzymes in Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Reports. 28(8). 1993–2003.e5. 19 indexed citations

Warren, Christopher L. & David Shechter. (2017). Fly Fishing for Histones: Catch and Release by Histone Chaperone Intrinsically Disordered Regions and Acidic Stretches. Journal of Molecular Biology. 429(16). 2401–2426. 55 indexed citations

Wang, Wei–Lin & David Shechter. (2016). Chromatin assembly and transcriptional cross-talk in Xenopus laevis oocyte and egg extracts. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 60(7-8-9). 315–320. 14 indexed citations

Onikubo, Takashi & David Shechter. (2016). Chaperone-mediated chromatin assembly and transcriptional regulation in Xenopus laevis. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 60(7-8-9). 271–276. 2 indexed citations

Krebs, Jocelyn E., et al.. (2015). The PRMT5 arginine methyltransferase: many roles in development, cancer and beyond. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 72(11). 2041–2059. 381 indexed citations

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Burgos, Emmanuel S., Carola Wilczek, Takashi Onikubo, et al.. (2015). Histone H2A and H4 N-terminal Tails Are Positioned by the MEP50 WD Repeat Protein for Efficient Methylation by the PRMT5 Arginine Methyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(15). 9674–9689. 72 indexed citations

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Wang, Wei–Lin, Lissa C. Anderson, Joshua J. Nicklay, et al.. (2014). Phosphorylation and arginine methylation mark histone H2A prior to deposition during Xenopus laevis development. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 7(1). 22–22. 26 indexed citations

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Wilczek, Carola, J.B. Bonanno, Xing Li, et al.. (2013). Structure of the Arginine Methyltransferase PRMT5-MEP50 Reveals a Mechanism for Substrate Specificity. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e57008–e57008. 101 indexed citations

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Wilczek, Carola, Raghu Chitta, Eileen M. Woo, et al.. (2011). Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Prmt5-Mep50 Methylates Histones H2A and H4 and the Histone Chaperone Nucleoplasmin in Xenopus laevis Eggs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(49). 42221–42231. 48 indexed citations

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Banaszynski, Laura A., C. David Allis, & David Shechter. (2010). Analysis of histones and chromatin in Xenopus laevis egg and oocyte extracts. Methods. 51(1). 3–10. 13 indexed citations

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Shechter, David, Joshua J. Nicklay, Raghu Chitta, et al.. (2008). Analysis of Histones in Xenopus laevis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(2). 1064–1074. 65 indexed citations

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Xiao, Andrew, Haitao Li, David Shechter, et al.. (2008). WSTF regulates the H2A.X DNA damage response via a novel tyrosine kinase activity. Nature. 457(7225). 57–62. 327 indexed citations

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Ozminkowski, Ronald J., Ron Z. Goetzel, David Shechter, et al.. (2006). Predictors of preventive service use among Medicare beneficiaries.. PubMed. 27(3). 5–23. 11 indexed citations

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Shechter, David, Vincenzo Costanzo, & Jean Gautier. (2004). ATR and ATM regulate the timing of DNA replication origin firing. Nature Cell Biology. 6(7). 648–655. 293 indexed citations

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Costanzo, Vincenzo, David Shechter, Patrick J. Lupardus, et al.. (2003). An ATR- and Cdc7-Dependent DNA Damage Checkpoint that Inhibits Initiation of DNA Replication. Molecular Cell. 11(1). 203–213. 278 indexed citations

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Shechter, David, Carol Y. Ying, & Jean Gautier. (2000). The Intrinsic DNA Helicase Activity of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum ΔH Minichromosome Maintenance Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(20). 15049–15059. 122 indexed citations

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