Dita Rasper

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Dita Rasper is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Dita Rasper has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Dita Rasper's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (11 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (3 papers). Dita Rasper is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (11 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (3 papers). Dita Rasper collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Dita Rasper's co-authors include Donald W. Nicholson, Nancy A. Thornberry, John P. Vaillancourt, Erin P. Peterson, Sophie Roy, Margarita García‐Calvo, Thomas A. Rano, Kevin T. Chapman, Michael R. Hayden and Robert Zamboni and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Genetics and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Dita Rasper

22 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

A Combinatorial Approach Defines Specificities of Members of the Caspase Family and Granzyme B

1997 1.8k citations Nancy A. Thornberry, Thomas A. Rano et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dita Rasper Canada	17	3.2k	725	679	505	454	22	3.9k
Seisuke Hattori Japan	35	2.7k 0.8×	555 0.8×	310 0.5×	434 0.9×	724 1.6×	97	3.9k
Steven Xanthoudakis United States	26	4.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	455 0.7×	865 1.7×	378 0.8×	40	5.6k
Nicholas A. Morrice United Kingdom	36	3.3k 1.0×	432 0.6×	237 0.3×	657 1.3×	653 1.4×	64	4.2k
Koichi Honke Japan	42	3.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.7×	385 0.6×	345 0.7×	925 2.0×	134	5.2k
Anne‐Odile Hueber France	31	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	247 0.4×	745 1.5×	484 1.1×	68	3.5k
Natalie Roy Canada	10	3.8k 1.2×	924 1.3×	262 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	510 1.1×	13	5.0k
Fiona L. Scott United States	30	4.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	350 0.5×	751 1.5×	516 1.1×	46	5.5k
Michael H. Cardone United States	21	3.3k 1.0×	610 0.8×	263 0.4×	841 1.7×	555 1.2×	31	4.4k
Masao Iwamori Japan	35	2.9k 0.9×	944 1.3×	317 0.5×	294 0.6×	569 1.3×	212	4.4k
Hamish Allen United States	15	2.3k 0.7×	970 1.3×	243 0.4×	343 0.7×	519 1.1×	18	3.1k

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Godinez, William J., Helen Chan, Imtiaz Hossain, et al.. (2019). Morphological Deconvolution of Beta-Lactam Polyspecificity in E. coli. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(6). 1217–1226. 19 indexed citations

Isabel, Élise, Renée Aspiotis, W. Cameron Black, et al.. (2007). Solid-phase analogue synthesis of caspase-3 inhibitors via palladium-catalyzed amination of 3-bromopyrazinones. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(6). 1671–1674. 9 indexed citations

Han, Yongxin, André Giroux, John Colucci, et al.. (2005). Novel pyrazinone mono-amides as potent and reversible caspase-3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(4). 1173–1180. 25 indexed citations

Mellon, Christophe, Renée Aspiotis, Christopher I. Bayly, et al.. (2005). Lipophilic versus hydrogen-bonding effect in P3 on potency and selectivity of valine aspartyl ketones as caspase 3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(17). 3886–3890. 10 indexed citations

Grimm, Erich L., Bruno Roy, Renée Aspiotis, et al.. (2004). Solid phase synthesis of selective caspase-3 peptide inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 12(5). 845–851. 12 indexed citations

Méthot, Nathalie, Jingqi Huang, Nathalie Coulombe, et al.. (2004). Differential Efficacy of Caspase Inhibitors on Apoptosis Markers during Sepsis in Rats and Implication for Fractional Inhibition Requirements for Therapeutics. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 199(2). 199–207. 49 indexed citations

Han, Yongxin, André Giroux, Erich L. Grimm, et al.. (2003). Discovery of novel aspartyl ketone dipeptides as potent and selective caspase-3 inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 14(3). 805–808. 23 indexed citations

Isabel, Élise, W. Cameron Black, Christopher I. Bayly, et al.. (2003). Nicotinyl aspartyl ketones as inhibitors of caspase-3. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13(13). 2137–2140. 18 indexed citations

Gervais, François G., Roshni R. Singaraja, Steven Xanthoudakis, et al.. (2002). Recruitment and activation of caspase-8 by the Huntingtin-interacting protein Hip-1 and a novel partner Hippi. Nature Cell Biology. 4(2). 95–105. 241 indexed citations

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Maier, Johannes, Nathalie H. Gendron, Raouf Fetni, et al.. (2002). The Neuronal Apoptosis Inhibitory Protein Is a Direct Inhibitor of Caspases 3 and 7. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(6). 2035–2043. 150 indexed citations

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Chopra, Vikramjit, Martina Metzler, Dita Rasper, et al.. (2000). HIP12 is a non-proapoptotic member of a gene family including HIP1, an interacting protein with huntingtin. Mammalian Genome. 11(11). 1006–1015. 41 indexed citations

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García‐Calvo, Margarita, Erin P. Peterson, Dita Rasper, et al.. (1999). Purification and catalytic properties of human caspase family members. Cell Death and Differentiation. 6(4). 362–369. 201 indexed citations

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Nasir, Jamal, K. Nichol, Dita Rasper, et al.. (1999). Genomic organization of the human caspase-9 gene on Chromosome 1p36.1-p36.3. Mammalian Genome. 10(7). 757–760. 13 indexed citations

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Rasper, Dita, John P. Vaillancourt, Sabina Keen, et al.. (1998). Cell death attenuation by `Usurpin', a mammalian DED-caspase homologue that precludes caspase-8 recruitment and activation by the CD-95 (Fas, APO-1) receptor complex. Cell Death and Differentiation. 5(4). 271–288. 271 indexed citations

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Thornberry, Nancy A., Thomas A. Rano, Erin P. Peterson, et al.. (1997). A Combinatorial Approach Defines Specificities of Members of the Caspase Family and Granzyme B. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(29). 17907–17911. 1802 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nasir, Jamal, Jane Theilmann, Vikramjit Chopra, et al.. (1997). Localization of the cell death genes CPP32 and Mch-2 to human Chromosome 4q. Mammalian Genome. 8(1). 56–59. 12 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Y. Paul, Donald W. Nicholson, Dita Rasper, et al.. (1996). Cleavage of huntingtin by apopain, a proapoptotic cysteine protease, is modulated by the polyglutamine tract. Nature Genetics. 13(4). 442–449. 465 indexed citations

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Rotonda, J., Donald W. Nicholson, Michel Gallant, et al.. (1996). The three-dimensional structure of apopain/CPP32, a key mediator of apoptosis. Nature Structural Biology. 3(7). 619–625. 356 indexed citations

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Rasper, Dita & A. Rod Merrill. (1994). Evidence for the modulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exotoxin A-Induced Pore Formation by Membrane Surface Charge Density. Biochemistry. 33(44). 12981–12989. 17 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Donald W., et al.. (1992). Purification of human leukotriene C₄ synthase from dimethylsulfoxide‐differentiated U937 cells. European Journal of Biochemistry. 209(2). 725–734. 40 indexed citations

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