Eric A. Ortlund

10.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Eric A. Ortlund is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric A. Ortlund has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Eric A. Ortlund's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (29 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (15 papers) and Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension (11 papers). Eric A. Ortlund is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (29 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (15 papers) and Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension (11 papers). Eric A. Ortlund collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Eric A. Ortlund's co-authors include Joseph W. Thornton, William Henry Hudson, Emily R. Weikum, Jamie T. Bridgham, Xu Liu, Matthew R. Redinbo, Keith R. Yamamoto, Matthew T. Knuesel, Patrick R. Griffin and Manish C. Pathak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eric A. Ortlund

107 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Glucocorticoid receptor control of transcription: precision and plasticity via allostery

2017 367 citations Emily R. Weikum, Eric A. Ortlund et al. profile →
The nuclear receptor superfamily: A structural perspective

2018 329 citations Emily R. Weikum, Xu Liu et al. Protein Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric A. Ortlund United States	38	3.4k	1.5k	616	602	492	109	5.6k
Fraydoon Rastinejad United States	41	4.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	457 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	1.3k 2.6×	69	8.0k
Darrel W. Stafford United States	46	4.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	899 1.5×	873 1.5×	624 1.3×	162	9.2k
Etienne Waelkens Belgium	51	4.5k 1.3×	925 0.6×	283 0.5×	646 1.1×	855 1.7×	208	8.0k
Bo Feng China	37	4.0k 1.2×	715 0.5×	184 0.3×	492 0.8×	491 1.0×	153	6.5k
Patrice M. Milos United States	39	4.7k 1.4×	993 0.7×	388 0.6×	434 0.7×	628 1.3×	66	6.8k
Edwin R. Sánchez United States	40	3.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	390 0.6×	876 1.8×	75	5.2k
Andreas Braun Germany	39	2.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	455 0.7×	374 0.6×	275 0.6×	116	4.7k
Mario D. Galigniana Argentina	42	3.7k 1.1×	779 0.5×	948 1.5×	438 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	102	5.0k
Elspeth A. Bruford United Kingdom	35	5.5k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	202 0.3×	783 1.3×	1.1k 2.3×	57	8.4k
John W. R. Schwabe United Kingdom	49	8.3k 2.5×	2.5k 1.7×	736 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	991 2.0×	120	10.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Sanjeev, Iván del Moral-Sánchez, Maddy L. Newby, et al.. (2025). The Design and Immunogenicity of an HIV-1 Clade C Pediatric Envelope Glycoprotein Stabilized by Multiple Platforms. Vaccines. 13(2). 110–110. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chih‐Yu, Kristal Maner-Smith, Jun Young Ahn, et al.. (2025). Integrative brain omics approach highlights sn-1 lysophosphatidylethanolamine in Alzheimer’s dementia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9627–9627.

Ortlund, Eric A., et al.. (2024). Structure, function, and lipid sensing activity in the thioesterase superfamily. Biochemical Society Transactions. 52(4). 1565–1577.

Liu, Ken, Choon‐Myung Lee, Edward T. Morgan, et al.. (2024). Mammalian hydroxylation of microbiome-derived obesogen, delta-valerobetaine, to homocarnitine, a 5-carbon carnitine analog. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(1). 108074–108074. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xu, et al.. (2023). Evolution of androgen receptors contributes to species variation in androgenic regulation of communication signals in electric fishes. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 578. 112068–112068. 5 indexed citations

Snyder, Nathaniel W., Marcos G. Teneche, Xiaowei Liu, et al.. (2023). Acyl-CoA thioesterase 12 suppresses YAP-mediated hepatocarcinogenesis by limiting glycerolipid biosynthesis. Cancer Letters. 565. 216210–216210. 7 indexed citations

D’Agostino, Emma H., et al.. (2023). Comparison of activity, structure, and dynamics of SF-1 and LRH-1 complexed with small molecule modulators. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(8). 104921–104921. 5 indexed citations

Hercules, David M., et al.. (2023). The nuclear receptor LRH ‐1 discriminates between ligands using distinct allosteric signaling circuits. Protein Science. 32(10). e4754–e4754. 8 indexed citations

Courouble, Valentine V., Anamika Patel, Alyssa M. Johnson, et al.. (2022). Differential Modulation of Nuclear Receptor LRH-1 through Targeting Buried and Surface Regions of the Binding Pocket. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(9). 6888–6902. 6 indexed citations

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Kapoor-Vazirani, Priya, Sandip Kumar Rath, Xu Liu, et al.. (2022). SAMHD1 deacetylation by SIRT1 promotes DNA end resection by facilitating DNA binding at double-strand breaks. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6707–6707. 17 indexed citations

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Maner-Smith, Kristal, et al.. (2022). Age- and Diet-Dependent Changes in Hepatic Lipidomic Profiles of Phospholipids in Male Mice: Age Acceleration in Cyp2b-Null Mice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2022. 1–17. 9 indexed citations

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D’Agostino, Emma H., Xiangsheng Huang, Guohui Wang, et al.. (2022). A phospholipid mimetic targeting LRH-1 ameliorates colitis. Cell chemical biology. 29(7). 1174–1186.e7. 9 indexed citations

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Grogan, Kathleen E., Wendy M. Zinzow-Kramer, Dan Sun, et al.. (2020). A supergene-linked estrogen receptor drives alternative phenotypes in a polymorphic songbird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(35). 21673–21680. 30 indexed citations

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Squires, Katherine E., Kyle J. Gerber, Daniel J. Lustberg, et al.. (2020). Human genetic variants disrupt RGS14 nuclear shuttling and regulation of LTP in hippocampal neurons. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100024–100024. 9 indexed citations

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Imai, Norihiro, C. Denise Okafor, Puneet Juneja, et al.. (2020). Allosteric regulation of thioesterase superfamily member 1 by lipid sensor domain binding fatty acids and lysophosphatidylcholine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 22080–22089. 15 indexed citations

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Johnson, Alyssa M., Emma H. D’Agostino, Diana Melchers, et al.. (2020). Development of a new class of liver receptor homolog-1 (LRH-1) agonists by photoredox conjugate addition. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 30(16). 127293–127293. 14 indexed citations

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Weikum, Emily R., et al.. (2016). A Structural Investigation into Oct4 Regulation by Orphan Nuclear Receptors, Germ Cell Nuclear Factor (GCNF), and Liver Receptor Homolog-1 (LRH-1). Journal of Molecular Biology. 428(24). 4981–4992. 17 indexed citations

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Yu, Kuai, et al.. (2015). Identification of a lipid scrambling domain in ANO6/TMEM16F. eLife. 4. e06901–e06901. 145 indexed citations

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Horton, Brent M., William Henry Hudson, Eric A. Ortlund, et al.. (2014). Estrogen receptor α polymorphism in a species with alternative behavioral phenotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(4). 1443–1448. 76 indexed citations

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Ortlund, Eric A., Jamie T. Bridgham, Matthew R. Redinbo, & Joseph W. Thornton. (2007). Crystal Structure of an Ancient Protein: Evolution by Conformational Epistasis. Science. 317(5844). 1544–1548. 328 indexed citations

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