Engin Özkaynak

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Engin Özkaynak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Engin Özkaynak has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Immunology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Engin Özkaynak's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Engin Özkaynak is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (9 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (6 papers). Engin Özkaynak collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Türkiye. Engin Özkaynak's co-authors include Alexander Varshavsky, Daniel Finley, Hermann Oppermann, Daniel Finley, Wayne W. Hancock, Liqing Wang, Andrew D. Wells, Michael J. Solomon, David C. Rueger and Richard J. Ridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Engin Özkaynak

24 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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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.

Deacetylase inhibition promotes the generation and function of regulatory T cells

2007 754 citations Ran Tao, Edwin F. de Zoeten et al. Nature Medicine profile →
The yeast polyubiquitin gene is essential for resistance to high temperatures, starvation, and other stresses

1987 739 citations Engin Özkaynak, Alexander Varshavsky et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Engin Özkaynak United States	21	2.7k	1.5k	615	595	540	24	4.8k
Hans‐Jörg Bühring Germany	49	2.0k 0.7×	3.2k 2.1×	1.2k 1.9×	216 0.4×	952 1.8×	144	7.4k
Kazuhiko Takahara Japan	27	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	349 0.6×	178 0.3×	246 0.5×	53	3.7k
Thomas D. Mueller Germany	38	2.9k 1.1×	400 0.3×	687 1.1×	271 0.5×	407 0.8×	102	4.9k
Kayla J. Bayless United States	42	2.9k 1.1×	917 0.6×	554 0.9×	689 1.2×	527 1.0×	100	5.7k
J D Vassalli Switzerland	33	2.9k 1.1×	883 0.6×	714 1.2×	143 0.2×	1.0k 1.9×	48	6.6k
Sara A. Michie United States	41	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.6×	632 1.0×	165 0.3×	813 1.5×	86	5.2k
Michael J. Banda United States	27	1.9k 0.7×	651 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	129 0.2×	623 1.2×	38	5.7k
Ori Brenner Israel	30	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	608 1.0×	212 0.4×	530 1.0×	85	4.7k
Uwe Karsten Germany	39	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	826 1.3×	124 0.2×	403 0.7×	142	5.1k
Thomas Häupl Germany	38	1.4k 0.5×	859 0.6×	553 0.9×	264 0.4×	648 1.2×	105	4.4k

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Hancock, Wayne W. & Engin Özkaynak. (2009). Three Distinct Domains Contribute to Nuclear Transport of Murine Foxp3. PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7890–e7890. 37 indexed citations

Zoeten, Edwin F. de, Liqing Wang, Chunxia Chen, et al.. (2008). Foxp3 Processing by Proprotein Convertases and Control of Regulatory T Cell Function. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(9). 5709–5716. 37 indexed citations

Tao, Ran, Edwin F. de Zoeten, Engin Özkaynak, et al.. (2007). Deacetylase inhibition promotes the generation and function of regulatory T cells. Nature Medicine. 13(11). 1299–1307. 754 indexed citations breakdown →

Tao, Ran, Edwin F. de Zoeten, Engin Özkaynak, et al.. (2007). Histone deacetylase inhibitors and transplantation. Current Opinion in Immunology. 19(5). 589–595. 31 indexed citations

Azimzadeh, Agnes M., Steffen Pfeiffer, Guosheng Wu, et al.. (2006). Alloimmunity in Primate Heart Recipients with CD154 Blockade: Evidence for Alternative Costimulation Mechanisms. Transplantation. 81(2). 255–264. 36 indexed citations

Özkaynak, Engin, Ellen Triantafellow, Lisa M. Smith, et al.. (2005). Early infiltration of allografts by a subset of host mononuclear cells bearing inhibitory Ly49 receptors determines development of allograft rejection or tolerance.. American Journal of Transplantation. 5. 562–562. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Xunrong, Hua Yang, Dolca Thomas, et al.. (2005). Systemic Transforming Growth Factor-??1 Gene Therapy Induces Foxp3+ Regulatory Cells, Restores Self-Tolerance, and Facilitates Regeneration Of Beta Cell Function in Overtly Diabetic Nonobese Diabetic Mice. Transplantation. 79(9). 1091–1096. 70 indexed citations

Lee, Iris, Liqing Wang, Andrew D. Wells, et al.. (2005). Recruitment of Foxp3+ T regulatory cells mediating allograft tolerance depends on the CCR4 chemokine receptor. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 201(7). 1037–1044. 307 indexed citations

Rutitzky, Laura I., Engin Özkaynak, James B. Rottman, & Miguel J. Stadecker. (2003). Disruption of the ICOS-B7RP-1 Costimulatory Pathway Leads to Enhanced Hepatic Immunopathology and Increased Gamma Interferon Production by CD4 T Cells in Murine Schistosomiasis. Infection and Immunity. 71(7). 4040–4044. 29 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, Liqing Wang, Andrew Goodearl, et al.. (2002). Programmed Death-1 Targeting Can Promote Allograft Survival. The Journal of Immunology. 169(11). 6546–6553. 207 indexed citations

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Dorai, Haimanti, Alyssa Shepard, Engin Özkaynak, et al.. (2001). The 5′ Flanking Region of the Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-7 Gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 282(3). 823–831. 6 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, Wei Gao, Chichung Wang, et al.. (2001). Importance of ICOS–B7RP-1 costimulation in acute and chronic allograft rejection. Nature Immunology. 2(7). 591–596. 270 indexed citations

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Rottman, James B., Tammy Smith, James R. Tonra, et al.. (2001). The costimulatory molecule ICOS plays an important role in the immunopathogenesis of EAE. Nature Immunology. 2(7). 605–611. 226 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, Donald Jin, Mislav Jelić, Slobodan Vukičević, & Hermann Oppermann. (1997). Osteogenic Protein-1 mRNA in the Uterine Endometrium. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 234(1). 242–246. 20 indexed citations

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Helder, Marco N., Engin Özkaynak, Kuber T. Sampath, et al.. (1995). Expression pattern of osteogenic protein-1 (bone morphogenetic protein-7) in human and mouse development.. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry. 43(10). 1035–1044. 152 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, et al.. (1992). Osteogenic protein-2. A new member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily expressed early in embryogenesis.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 267(35). 25220–25227. 235 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, et al.. (1991). Murine osteogenic protein (OP-1): High levels of mRNA in kidney. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 179(1). 116–123. 146 indexed citations

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Özkaynak, Engin, David C. Rueger, Eric A. Drier, et al.. (1990). OP-1 cDNA encodes an osteogenic protein in the TGF-beta family.. The EMBO Journal. 9(7). 2085–2093. 448 indexed citations

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Dalay, Nejat, et al.. (1984). Isolation of Protein uH2A Using a one Step Preparative Gel Electrophoresis. Preparative Biochemistry. 14(2). 181–192. 1 indexed citations

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Varshavsky, Alexander, Louis Levinger, Olof Sundin, et al.. (1983). Cellular and SV40 Chromatin: Replication, Segregation, Ubiqiritination, Nuclease-hypersensitive Sites, HMG-containing Nueleosomes, and Heterochromatin-specific Protein. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 47(0). 511–528. 33 indexed citations

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