Eric Bunker

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Eric Bunker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Bunker has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Epidemiology and 4 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Eric Bunker's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (8 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (3 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Eric Bunker is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (8 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (3 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). Eric Bunker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Eric Bunker's co-authors include Richard J. Youle, Chunxin Wang, Xuedong Liu, Ling Hao, Felix Randow, Giampietro Schiavo, Dragan Maric, Jose Norberto S. Vargas, Douglas A. Chapnick and Conggang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Eric Bunker

21 papers receiving 1000 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.

Spatiotemporal Control of ULK1 Activation by NDP52 and TBK1 during Selective Autophagy

2019 343 citations Jose Norberto S. Vargas, Chunxin Wang et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Bunker United States	15	637	524	170	130	86	21	1.0k
Martina Di Rienzo Italy	10	501 0.8×	465 0.9×	158 0.9×	81 0.6×	80 0.9×	11	873
Yuko Hirota Japan	17	731 1.1×	727 1.4×	352 2.1×	118 0.9×	158 1.8×	38	1.3k
Yusuke Kurihara Japan	10	550 0.9×	593 1.1×	222 1.3×	117 0.9×	85 1.0×	17	866
Meiyan Jin United States	15	673 1.1×	518 1.0×	252 1.5×	55 0.4×	42 0.5×	17	978
Nur Mehpare Kocatürk Türkiye	7	409 0.6×	356 0.7×	132 0.8×	51 0.4×	70 0.8×	11	708
Alexis Rozenknop Germany	5	754 1.2×	998 1.9×	299 1.8×	129 1.0×	171 2.0×	6	1.3k
Alexander F. Schubert United Kingdom	9	722 1.1×	520 1.0×	125 0.7×	232 1.8×	101 1.2×	10	1.0k
Maria Zachari United Kingdom	6	427 0.7×	552 1.1×	119 0.7×	38 0.3×	69 0.8×	6	825
Yoshihiro Tagawa Japan	6	501 0.8×	804 1.5×	248 1.5×	84 0.6×	151 1.8×	18	1.2k
Silvia Matteoni Italy	13	485 0.8×	360 0.7×	152 0.9×	34 0.3×	82 1.0×	19	862

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Fischer, Tara D., Eric Bunker, Peng-Peng Zhu, et al.. (2024). STING induces HOIP-mediated synthesis of M1 ubiquitin chains to stimulate NF-κB signaling. The EMBO Journal. 44(1). 141–165. 6 indexed citations

Bunker, Eric, François Le Guerroué, Chunxin Wang, et al.. (2023). Nix interacts with WIPI2 to induce mitophagy. The EMBO Journal. 42(22). e113491–e113491. 27 indexed citations

Guerroué, François Le, Eric Bunker, William M. Rosencrans, et al.. (2023). TNIP1 inhibits selective autophagy via bipartite interaction with LC3/GABARAP and TAX1BP1. Molecular Cell. 83(6). 927–941.e8. 21 indexed citations

Guard, Steven, Douglas A. Chapnick, Zachary C. Poss, et al.. (2022). Multiomic Analysis Reveals Disruption of Cholesterol Homeostasis by Cannabidiol in Human Cell Lines. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 21(10). 100262–100262. 16 indexed citations

Pourshafie, Naemeh, Eric Bunker, Allison Snyder, et al.. (2022). Altered SYNJ2BP-mediated mitochondrial-ER contacts in motor neuron disease. Neurobiology of Disease. 172. 105832–105832. 10 indexed citations

Bunker, Eric, et al.. (2021). Protocol for Analysis and Consolidation of TrackMate Outputs for Measuring Two-Dimensional Cell Motility using Nuclear Tracking. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Pourshafie, Naemeh, Eric Bunker, Alec R. Nickolls, et al.. (2020). Linking epigenetic dysregulation, mitochondrial impairment, and metabolic dysfunction in SBMA motor neurons. JCI Insight. 5(13). 23 indexed citations

Bunker, Eric, et al.. (2020). Suppression of α-catenin and adherens junctions enhances epithelial cell proliferation and motility via TACE-mediated TGF-α autocrine/paracrine signaling. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 32(4). 348–361. 12 indexed citations

Bunker, Eric, et al.. (2019). Bok regulates mitochondrial fusion and morphology. Cell Death and Differentiation. 26(12). 2682–2694. 53 indexed citations

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Vargas, Jose Norberto S., Chunxin Wang, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal Control of ULK1 Activation by NDP52 and TBK1 during Selective Autophagy. Molecular Cell. 74(2). 347–362.e6. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Conggang, Rongchun Wang, Zeyu Liu, et al.. (2019). The plant triterpenoid celastrol blocks PINK1-dependent mitophagy by disrupting PINK1's association with the mitochondrial protein TOM20. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(18). 7472–7487. 25 indexed citations

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Sekine, Shiori, Chunxin Wang, Dionisia P. Sideris, et al.. (2019). Reciprocal Roles of Tom7 and OMA1 during Mitochondrial Import and Activation of PINK1. Molecular Cell. 73(5). 1028–1043.e5. 121 indexed citations

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Chapnick, Douglas A., Eric Bunker, Xuedong Liu, & William M. Old. (2019). Temporal Metabolite, Ion, and Enzyme Activity Profiling Using Fluorescence Microscopy and Genetically Encoded Biosensors. Methods in molecular biology. 1978. 343–353. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Conggang, Zeyu Liu, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2017). Sorafenib targets the mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes and ATP synthase to activate the PINK1–Parkin pathway and modulate cellular drug response. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(36). 15105–15120. 78 indexed citations

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Sanchez, Gilson J., Phillip A. Richmond, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide dose-dependent inhibition of histone deacetylases studies reveal their roles in enhancer remodeling and suppression of oncogenic super-enhancers. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(4). 1756–1776. 53 indexed citations

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Li, Yunfeng, Kai Jin, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2017). Structural basis of the phosphorylation-independent recognition of cyclin D1 by the SCF ^FBXO31 ubiquitin ligase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(2). 319–324. 38 indexed citations

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Bennett, Christopher, Kent Riemondy, Douglas A. Chapnick, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide analysis of Musashi-2 targets reveals novel functions in governing epithelial cell migration. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(8). 3788–3800. 43 indexed citations

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Chapnick, Douglas A., Eric Bunker, & Xuedong Liu. (2015). A biosensor for the activity of the “sheddase” TACE (ADAM17) reveals novel and cell type–specific mechanisms of TACE activation. Science Signaling. 8(365). rs1–rs1. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Conggang, Yinghua Peng, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2014). PINK1 Triggers Autocatalytic Activation of Parkin to Specify Cell Fate Decisions. Current Biology. 24(16). 1854–1865. 85 indexed citations

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Ramsey, M. S., David E. Ash, Eric Bunker, et al.. (2011). Debris Resistive Acoustic Grid Orbital Navy Sensor (DRAGONS). 1 indexed citations

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