Donita C. Brady

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Donita C. Brady is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donita C. Brady has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 8 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Donita C. Brady's work include Trace Elements in Health (12 papers), Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (11 papers) and Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy (7 papers). Donita C. Brady is often cited by papers focused on Trace Elements in Health (12 papers), Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (11 papers) and Cancer Mechanisms and Therapy (7 papers). Donita C. Brady collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Donita C. Brady's co-authors include Christopher M. Counter, Tiffany Tsang, Caroline I. Davis, Jessica M. Posimo, Adrienne D. Cox, Dennis J. Thiele, Matthew S. Crowe, Michelle L. Turski, David F. Kashatus and Kian‐Huat Lim 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

Donita C. Brady

38 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Copper is required for oncogenic BRAF signalling and tumorigenesis

2014 487 citations Donita C. Brady, Matthew S. Crowe et al. profile →
Copper is an essential regulator of the autophagic kinases ULK1/2 to drive lung adenocarcinoma

2020 268 citations Tiffany Tsang, Jessica M. Posimo et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Copper biology

2021 240 citations Tiffany Tsang, Caroline I. Davis et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donita C. Brady United States	25	1.3k	948	723	478	383	39	2.7k
Sumit Sahni Australia	35	1.9k 1.4×	553 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	331 0.7×	409 1.1×	90	3.6k
Michael A. Cater Australia	21	709 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	892 1.2×	362 0.8×	269 0.7×	28	2.5k
Boryana Petrova United States	17	2.0k 1.5×	595 0.6×	504 0.7×	1.1k 2.4×	1.1k 2.9×	31	4.0k
Roohangiz Safaei United States	25	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	1.9k 2.7×	134 0.3×	457 1.2×	33	3.4k
Michael Huang Australia	26	1.5k 1.2×	553 0.6×	418 0.6×	227 0.5×	226 0.6×	49	2.7k
Evgeni M. Frenkel United States	5	1.6k 1.2×	528 0.6×	430 0.6×	1.1k 2.3×	981 2.6×	6	3.3k
Manik C. Ghosh United States	38	2.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	405 0.6×	683 1.4×	566 1.5×	88	4.9k
Yohan Suryo Rahmanto Australia	33	1.5k 1.2×	601 0.6×	516 0.7×	196 0.4×	305 0.8×	46	3.0k
Angelica M. Merlot Australia	21	1.0k 0.8×	378 0.4×	631 0.9×	249 0.5×	185 0.5×	24	2.2k
Michelle L. Turski United States	11	645 0.5×	690 0.7×	399 0.6×	153 0.3×	139 0.4×	20	1.6k

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Messina, Marco S., Laura Torrente, Teresita Padilla‐Benavides, et al.. (2025). A histochemical approach to activity-based copper sensing reveals cuproplasia-dependent vulnerabilities in cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(3). e2412816122–e2412816122. 5 indexed citations

Williams, Patrick A., Priya Chatterji, Charles Danan, et al.. (2023). IGF2BP1/IMP1 Deletion Enhances a Facultative Stem Cell State via Regulation of MAP1LC3B. Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 17(3). 439–451. 1 indexed citations

Chaves‐Moreira, Daniele, Marilyn A. Mitchell, Simone Sidoli, et al.. (2022). The transcription factor PAX8 promotes angiogenesis in ovarian cancer through interaction with SOX17. Science Signaling. 15(728). eabm2496–eabm2496. 32 indexed citations

Tsang, Tiffany, et al.. (2022). BRAFV600E-Driven Lung Adenocarcinoma Requires Copper to Sustain Autophagic Signaling and Processing. Molecular Cancer Research. 20(7). 1096–1107. 24 indexed citations

Matier, Carson D., Xingxing Gu, Laura Torrente, et al.. (2022). Oxidation state-specific fluorescent copper sensors reveal oncogene-driven redox changes that regulate labile copper(II) pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(43). e2202736119–e2202736119. 65 indexed citations

Kim, Bang‐Jin, Jessica M. Posimo, Tiffany Tsang, et al.. (2022). Loss of p19Arf promotes fibroblast survival during leucine deprivation. Biology Open. 11(2).

Grasso, Michael, Ye‐Jin Kim, Stefanie D. Boyd, et al.. (2021). The copper chaperone CCS facilitates copper binding to MEK1/2 to promote kinase activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(6). 101314–101314. 60 indexed citations

Kim, Ye‐Jin, Tiffany Tsang, Grace R. Anderson, Jessica M. Posimo, & Donita C. Brady. (2020). Inhibition of BCL2 Family Members Increases the Efficacy of Copper Chelation in BRAFV600E-Driven Melanoma. Cancer Research. 80(7). 1387–1400. 38 indexed citations

Tsang, Tiffany, Jessica M. Posimo, A. Andrea Gudiel, et al.. (2020). Copper is an essential regulator of the autophagic kinases ULK1/2 to drive lung adenocarcinoma. Nature Cell Biology. 22(4). 412–424. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blockhuys, Stéphanie, Donita C. Brady, & Pernilla Wittung‐Stafshede. (2020). Evaluation of copper chaperone ATOX1 as prognostic biomarker in breast cancer. Breast Cancer. 27(3). 505–509. 39 indexed citations

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Davis, Caroline I., Xingxing Gu, Ryan M. Kiefer, et al.. (2020). Altered copper homeostasis underlies sensitivity of hepatocellular carcinoma to copper chelation. Metallomics. 12(12). 1995–2008. 97 indexed citations

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Rasool, Reyaz ur, Ramakrishnan Natesan, Qu Deng, et al.. (2019). CDK7 Inhibition Suppresses Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer through MED1 Inactivation. Cancer Discovery. 9(11). 1538–1555. 86 indexed citations

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Chung, Clive Yik‐Sham, Jessica M. Posimo, Sumin Lee, et al.. (2019). Activity-based ratiometric FRET probe reveals oncogene-driven changes in labile copper pools induced by altered glutathione metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(37). 18285–18294. 122 indexed citations

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Katona, Bryson W., Zijie Feng, Caroline I. Davis, et al.. (2019). Combined Menin and EGFR Inhibitors Synergize to Suppress Colorectal Cancer via EGFR-Independent and Calcium-Mediated Repression of SKP2 Transcription. Cancer Research. 79(9). 2195–2207. 22 indexed citations

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Kim, Ye‐Jin, et al.. (2019). Copper chaperone ATOX1 is required for MAPK signaling and growth in BRAF mutation-positive melanoma. Metallomics. 11(8). 1430–1440. 50 indexed citations

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Brady, Donita C., et al.. (2017). Copper Chelation Inhibits BRAFV600E-Driven Melanomagenesis and Counters Resistance to BRAFV600E and MEK1/2 Inhibitors. Cancer Research. 77(22). 6240–6252. 126 indexed citations

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Brady, Donita C., Michelle L. Turski, A. Chaikuad, et al.. (2014). Copper is required for oncogenic BRAF signaling and tumorigenesis. Molecular Cancer Research. 12. 1 indexed citations

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Zipfel, Patricia A., Donita C. Brady, David F. Kashatus, et al.. (2010). Ral activation promotes melanomagenesis. Oncogene. 29(34). 4859–4864. 37 indexed citations

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O’Hayer, Kevin, Donita C. Brady, & Christopher M. Counter. (2009). ELR+ CXC chemokines and oncogenic Ras-mediated tumorigenesis. Carcinogenesis. 30(11). 1841–1847. 31 indexed citations

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Brady, Donita C., et al.. (2006). Using Inhibitors of Prenylation to Block Localization and Transforming Activity. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 407. 575–597. 26 indexed citations

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