David Sychantha

886 total citations
23 papers, 628 citations indexed

About

David Sychantha is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sychantha has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 628 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Infectious Diseases and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David Sychantha's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (4 papers). David Sychantha is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (4 papers). David Sychantha collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. David Sychantha's co-authors include Anthony J. Clarke, Gerard D. Wright, Kalinka Koteva, Elizabeth Culp, Patrick J. Moynihan, Aline Fiebig‐Comyn, Yen‐Pang Hsu, Wenliang Wang, Yves V. Brun and Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze 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 Sychantha

22 papers receiving 618 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Sychantha Canada 14 323 130 121 115 92 23 628
Maxime Gualtiéri France 15 304 0.9× 104 0.8× 160 1.3× 119 1.0× 78 0.8× 25 705
Avijit Pramanik Germany 9 258 0.8× 161 1.2× 134 1.1× 130 1.1× 51 0.6× 16 633
Janne Kudsk Klitgaard Denmark 12 274 0.8× 88 0.7× 95 0.8× 83 0.7× 54 0.6× 23 493
Daniela Münch Germany 14 503 1.6× 155 1.2× 102 0.8× 111 1.0× 95 1.0× 14 777
Ana Amoroso Belgium 14 302 0.9× 82 0.6× 157 1.3× 104 0.9× 59 0.6× 33 704
Congran Li China 17 429 1.3× 119 0.9× 213 1.8× 82 0.7× 78 0.8× 58 826
Guido Schiffer Germany 12 511 1.6× 150 1.2× 136 1.1× 148 1.3× 105 1.1× 15 818
Anne Lamsa United States 10 413 1.3× 127 1.0× 48 0.4× 142 1.2× 124 1.3× 14 586
R. Herman Belgium 15 349 1.1× 89 0.7× 219 1.8× 148 1.3× 73 0.8× 24 752
Olga V. Efremenkova Russia 14 290 0.9× 193 1.5× 51 0.4× 49 0.4× 63 0.7× 65 678

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Sychantha

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Sychantha

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Sychantha. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Sychantha 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 Sychantha. David Sychantha 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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Koteva, Kalinka, Yunjin Lee, David Sychantha, et al.. (2025). Coniontins, lipopetaibiotics active against Candida auris identified from a microbial natural product fractionation library. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7337–7337.
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Sychantha, David, Michael R. M. Ranieri, Ryan P. Lamers, et al.. (2025). Perturbation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa peptidoglycan recycling by anti-folates and design of a dual-action inhibitor. mBio. 16(3). e0298424–e0298424. 1 indexed citations
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Marmont, Lindsey S., David Sychantha, Neil G. Greene, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Nature Microbiology. 9(3). 763–775. 4 indexed citations
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Puumala, Emily, David Sychantha, AkshatKumar Nigam, et al.. (2024). Allosteric inhibition of tRNA synthetase Gln4 by N-pyrimidinyl-β-thiophenylacrylamides exerts highly selective antifungal activity. Cell chemical biology. 31(4). 760–775.e17. 2 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, Xuefei Chen, Kalinka Koteva, Gerd Prehna, & Gerard D. Wright. (2024). Targeting bacterial nickel transport with aspergillomarasmine A suppresses virulence-associated Ni-dependent enzymes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4036–4036. 4 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Shehryar, Kara K. Tsang, David Sychantha, et al.. (2023). Identification of a broadly conserved family of enzymes that hydrolyze (p)ppApp. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2213771120–e2213771120. 6 indexed citations
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Bullen, Nathan P., David Sychantha, Peter H. Culviner, et al.. (2022). An ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin kills bacterial cells by modifying structured non-coding RNAs. Molecular Cell. 82(18). 3484–3498.e11. 31 indexed citations
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Culp, Elizabeth, David Sychantha, Christian Hobson, et al.. (2022). ClpP inhibitors are produced by a widespread family of bacterial gene clusters. Nature Microbiology. 7(3). 451–462. 34 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, et al.. (2021). Aspergillomarasmine A inhibits metallo-β-lactamases by selectively sequestering Zn2+. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(2). 100918–100918. 28 indexed citations
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Culp, Elizabeth, Nicholas Waglechner, Wenliang Wang, et al.. (2020). Evolution-guided discovery of antibiotics that inhibit peptidoglycan remodelling. Nature. 578(7796). 582–587. 208 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, et al.. (2020). Structural basis for the O-acetyltransferase function of the extracytoplasmic domain of OatA from Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(24). 8204–8213. 17 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, et al.. (2020). Suppression of β-Lactam Resistance by Aspergillomarasmine A Is Influenced by both the Metallo-β-Lactamase Target and the Antibiotic Partner. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 64(4). 19 indexed citations
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Anderson, Erin M., David Sychantha, Dyanne Brewer, et al.. (2019). Peptidoglycomics reveals compositional changes in peptidoglycan between biofilm- and planktonic-derived Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(2). 504–516. 22 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, et al.. (2019). Assays for the Enzymes Catalyzing the O-Acetylation of Bacterial Cell Wall Polysaccharides. Methods in molecular biology. 1954. 115–136. 4 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, et al.. (2018). Mechanistic Pathways for Peptidoglycan O-Acetylation and De-O-Acetylation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 2332–2332. 37 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, Dustin J. Little, Patrick J. Moynihan, et al.. (2017). In vitro characterization of the antivirulence target of Gram-positive pathogens, peptidoglycan O-acetyltransferase A (OatA). PLoS Pathogens. 13(10). e1006667–e1006667. 35 indexed citations
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Sychantha, David, Dustin J. Little, Robert N. Chapman, et al.. (2017). PatB1 is an O-acetyltransferase that decorates secondary cell wall polysaccharides. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(1). 79–85. 39 indexed citations
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Seepersaud, Ravin, David Sychantha, Barbara A. Bensing, Anthony J. Clarke, & Paul M. Sullam. (2017). O-acetylation of the serine-rich repeat glycoprotein GspB is coordinated with accessory Sec transport. PLoS Pathogens. 13(8). e1006558–e1006558. 16 indexed citations
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Frirdich, Emilisa, David Sychantha, Jacob Biboy, et al.. (2016). Accumulation of Peptidoglycan O-Acetylation Leads to Altered Cell Wall Biochemistry and Negatively Impacts Pathogenesis Factors of Campylobacter jejuni. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(43). 22686–22702. 23 indexed citations
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Moynihan, Patrick J., David Sychantha, & Anthony J. Clarke. (2014). Chemical biology of peptidoglycan acetylation and deacetylation. Bioorganic Chemistry. 54. 44–50. 53 indexed citations

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