Debkumar Pain

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Debkumar Pain is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Debkumar Pain has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Debkumar Pain's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (24 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (11 papers). Debkumar Pain is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (39 papers), Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (24 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (11 papers). Debkumar Pain collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and India. Debkumar Pain's co-authors include Edouard I. Azzam, Jean‐Paul Jay‐Gerin, Andrew Dancis, G Blobel, Hiroshi Murakami, Donna M. Gordon, Naresh Babu V. Sepuri, Simon A.B. Knight, Günter Blobel and Boominathan Amutha 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

Debkumar Pain

75 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Ionizing radiation-induced metabolic oxidative stress and prolonged cell injury

2011 1.1k citations Edouard I. Azzam, Jean‐Paul Jay‐Gerin et al. Cancer Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Debkumar Pain United States	37	3.5k	866	786	501	490	75	5.1k
Sandra E. Wiley United States	28	2.9k 0.8×	312 0.4×	142 0.2×	133 0.3×	225 0.5×	47	4.3k
Yves St‐Pierre Canada	42	3.0k 0.9×	262 0.3×	266 0.3×	201 0.4×	386 0.8×	153	5.3k
Lukas C. Kühn Switzerland	47	4.4k 1.3×	124 0.1×	350 0.4×	248 0.5×	216 0.4×	90	8.0k
Suping Zhang China	40	3.2k 0.9×	192 0.2×	218 0.3×	282 0.6×	261 0.5×	163	5.4k
Ross T. A. MacGillivray Canada	43	2.7k 0.8×	88 0.1×	255 0.3×	240 0.5×	111 0.2×	161	6.3k
Stein Ove Døskeland Norway	48	5.6k 1.6×	161 0.2×	100 0.1×	140 0.3×	755 1.5×	184	8.2k
Masato Noguchi Japan	39	3.7k 1.1×	95 0.1×	323 0.4×	234 0.5×	509 1.0×	166	5.7k
Bernhard Schmidt Germany	38	2.6k 0.8×	83 0.1×	191 0.2×	620 1.2×	126 0.3×	89	4.6k
Cristina M. Furdui United States	38	2.8k 0.8×	83 0.1×	277 0.4×	313 0.6×	93 0.2×	155	4.9k
Thomas Dierks Germany	41	2.6k 0.7×	228 0.3×	180 0.2×	78 0.2×	133 0.3×	100	4.5k

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Pandey, Ashutosh, Jayashree Pain, Pratibha Singh, Andrew Dancis, & Debkumar Pain. (2025). Mitochondrial glutaredoxin Grx5 functions as a central hub for cellular iron-sulfur cluster assembly. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(4). 108391–108391. 3 indexed citations

Dancis, Andrew, Ashutosh Pandey, & Debkumar Pain. (2024). Mitochondria function in cytoplasmic FeS protein biogenesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1871(5). 119733–119733. 3 indexed citations

Pandey, Ashutosh, Sundararajan Venkatesh, Debkumar Pain, et al.. (2023). Child Neurology: Progressive Cerebellar Atrophy and Retinal Dystrophy. Neurology. 101(15). e1567–e1571. 1 indexed citations

Pandey, Ashutosh, Jayashree Pain, Andrew Dancis, & Debkumar Pain. (2019). Mitochondria export iron–sulfur and sulfur intermediates to the cytoplasm for iron–sulfur cluster assembly and tRNA thiolation in yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(24). 9489–9502. 55 indexed citations

Yoon, Heeyong, Simon A.B. Knight, Jayashree Pain, et al.. (2015). Turning Saccharomyces cerevisiae into a Frataxin-Independent Organism. PLoS Genetics. 11(5). e1005135–e1005135. 31 indexed citations

Yoon, Heeyong, Simon A.B. Knight, Jayashree Pain, et al.. (2014). Frataxin-bypassing Isu1: characterization of the bypass activity in cells and mitochondria. Biochemical Journal. 459(1). 71–81. 30 indexed citations

Li, Min, Manuela Buonanno, Narongchai Autsavapromporn, et al.. (2013). Health Risks of Space Exploration: Targeted and Nontargeted Oxidative Injury by High-Charge and High-Energy Particles. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 20(9). 1501–1523. 42 indexed citations

Berkow, Elizabeth L., Chirayu Desai, Alok Pandey, et al.. (2013). Mitochondrial Two-Component Signaling Systems in Candida albicans. Eukaryotic Cell. 12(6). 913–922. 20 indexed citations

Azzam, Edouard I., Jean‐Paul Jay‐Gerin, & Debkumar Pain. (2011). Ionizing radiation-induced metabolic oxidative stress and prolonged cell injury. Cancer Letters. 327(1-2). 48–60. 1108 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yoon, Heeyong, Emmanuel Lesuisse, Jayashree Pain, et al.. (2011). Mutation in the Fe–S scaffold protein Isu bypasses frataxin deletion. Biochemical Journal. 441(1). 473–480. 37 indexed citations

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Stemmler, Timothy L., Emmanuel Lesuisse, Debkumar Pain, & Andrew Dancis. (2010). Frataxin and Mitochondrial FeS Cluster Biogenesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(35). 26737–26743. 123 indexed citations

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Amutha, Boominathan, Donna M. Gordon, Yajuan Gu, & Debkumar Pain. (2004). A novel role of Mgm1p, a dynamin-related GTPase, in ATP synthase assembly and cristae formation/maintenance. Biochemical Journal. 381(1). 19–23. 67 indexed citations

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Anandatheerthavarada, Hindupur K., Gopa Biswas, Naresh Babu V. Sepuri, et al.. (2002). Bimodal Targeting of Microsomal CYP2E1 to Mitochondria through Activation of an N-terminal Chimeric Signal by cAMP-mediated Phosphorylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(43). 40583–40593. 124 indexed citations

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Li, Jie, et al.. (1999). Yeast Mitochondrial Protein, Nfs1p, Coordinately Regulates Iron-Sulfur Cluster Proteins, Cellular Iron Uptake, and Iron Distribution. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(46). 33025–33034. 169 indexed citations

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Knight, Simon A.B., Naresh Babu V. Sepuri, Debkumar Pain, & Andrew Dancis. (1998). Mt-Hsp70 Homolog, Ssc2p, Required for Maturation of Yeast Frataxin and Mitochondrial Iron Homeostasis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(29). 18389–18393. 151 indexed citations

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Sepuri, Naresh Babu V., Norbert Schülke, & Debkumar Pain. (1998). GTP Hydrolysis Is Essential for Protein Import into the Mitochondrial Matrix. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(3). 1420–1424. 32 indexed citations

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Arakane, Futoshi, Caleb B. Kallen, Hidemichi Watari, et al.. (1998). The Mechanism of Action of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein (StAR). Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(26). 16339–16345. 164 indexed citations

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Tu, Li-Wei, et al.. (1996). Voltage-gated K+ Channels Contain Multiple Intersubunit Association Sites. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(31). 18904–18911. 74 indexed citations

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Pain, Debkumar, Hiroshi Murakami, Danny J. Schnell, & Günter Blobel. (1990). Identification and characterization of receptors for protein import into chloroplasts and mitochondria.. PubMed. 27(6). 443–5. 1 indexed citations

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Schnell, Danny J., Günter Blobel, & Debkumar Pain. (1990). The chloroplast import receptor is an integral membrane protein of chloroplast envelope contact sites.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 111(5). 1825–1838. 75 indexed citations

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