Frank Shewmaker

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Frank Shewmaker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Shewmaker has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Neurology and 16 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Frank Shewmaker's work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (33 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (20 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (16 papers). Frank Shewmaker is often cited by papers focused on Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (33 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (20 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (16 papers). Frank Shewmaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Frank Shewmaker's co-authors include Reed B. Wickner, Dmitry Kryndushkin, Robert Tycko, Herman K. Edskes, Ryan P. McGlinchey, Zachary Monahan, Shannon N. Rhoads, Nicolas L. Fawzi, Toru Nakayashiki and Veronica H. Ryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Frank Shewmaker

60 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.

Phosphorylation of the FUS low‐complexity domain disrupts phase separation, aggregation, and toxicity

2017 520 citations Zachary Monahan, Shannon N. Rhoads et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Shewmaker United States	33	3.3k	841	680	666	462	60	3.8k
Jörg Tatzelt Germany	37	3.9k 1.2×	981 1.2×	900 1.3×	1.4k 2.0×	838 1.8×	96	4.9k
Randal Halfmann United States	20	2.8k 0.8×	457 0.5×	204 0.3×	516 0.8×	224 0.5×	38	3.1k
Brandon H. Toyama United States	11	2.0k 0.6×	788 0.9×	144 0.2×	378 0.6×	286 0.6×	12	2.4k
David W. Colby United States	21	2.2k 0.7×	672 0.8×	237 0.3×	636 1.0×	392 0.8×	23	2.6k
Anil G. Cashikar United States	20	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	886 1.3×	377 0.6×	137 0.3×	32	3.8k
Sarah Meehan United Kingdom	23	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	269 0.4×	162 0.2×	155 0.3×	31	3.7k
Lin Guo United States	24	2.5k 0.8×	247 0.3×	852 1.3×	102 0.2×	30 0.1×	71	3.5k
Dorothee Dormann Germany	29	3.8k 1.1×	392 0.5×	2.2k 3.2×	321 0.5×	26 0.1×	50	5.2k
Lukasz Goldschmidt United States	12	1.8k 0.5×	919 1.1×	165 0.2×	104 0.2×	86 0.2×	15	2.4k
Amandine Molliex United States	8	3.0k 0.9×	369 0.4×	736 1.1×	121 0.2×	20 0.0×	10	3.5k

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Perdikari, Theodora Myrto, Victoria Johnson, Jeremy T. Smyth, et al.. (2021). The oncogenic transcription factor FUS-CHOP can undergo nuclear liquid–liquid phase separation. Journal of Cell Science. 134(17). 37 indexed citations

Rhoads, Shannon N., et al.. (2020). The prion-like domain of Fused in Sarcoma is phosphorylated by multiple kinases affecting liquid- and solid-phase transitions. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 31(23). 2522–2536. 16 indexed citations

Rhoads, Shannon N., Zachary Monahan, Andrew Y. T. Leung, et al.. (2018). The prionlike domain of FUS is multiphosphorylated following DNA damage without altering nuclear localization. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(15). 1786–1797. 42 indexed citations

Wickner, Reed B., Dmitry Kryndushkin, Frank Shewmaker, Ryan P. McGlinchey, & Herman K. Edskes. (2018). Study of Amyloids Using Yeast. Methods in molecular biology. 313–339. 6 indexed citations

Daigle, J. Gavin, Karthik Krishnamurthy, Nandini Ramesh, et al.. (2016). Pur-alpha regulates cytoplasmic stress granule dynamics and ameliorates FUS toxicity. Acta Neuropathologica. 131(4). 605–620. 48 indexed citations

Monahan, Zachary, Frank Shewmaker, & Udai Bhan Pandey. (2016). Stress granules at the intersection of autophagy and ALS. Brain Research. 1649(Pt B). 189–200. 84 indexed citations

Villapol, Sonia, Dmitry Kryndushkin, Ashley Campbell, et al.. (2015). Hepatic Expression of Serum Amyloid A1 Is Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury and Modulated by Telmisartan. American Journal Of Pathology. 185(10). 2641–2652. 34 indexed citations

Kryndushkin, Dmitry, Natalia Pripuzova, Barrington G. Burnett, & Frank Shewmaker. (2013). Non-targeted Identification of Prions and Amyloid-forming Proteins from Yeast and Mammalian Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(38). 27100–27111. 55 indexed citations

Kryndushkin, Dmitry, Reed B. Wickner, & Frank Shewmaker. (2011). FUS/TLS forms cytoplasmic aggregates, inhibits cell growth and interacts with TDP-43 in a yeast model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Protein & Cell. 2(3). 223–236. 76 indexed citations

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Kryndushkin, Dmitry & Frank Shewmaker. (2011). Modeling ALS and FTLD proteinopathies in yeast: An efficient approach for studying protein aggregation and toxicity. Prion. 5(4). 250–257. 18 indexed citations

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Wickner, Reed B., Herman K. Edskes, Frank Shewmaker, et al.. (2010). The relationship of prions and translation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA. 1(1). 81–89. 10 indexed citations

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Wickner, Reed B., Frank Shewmaker, Herman K. Edskes, et al.. (2010). Prion amyloid structure explains templating: how proteins can be genes. FEMS Yeast Research. 10(8). 980–991. 55 indexed citations

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Shewmaker, Frank, Ryan P. McGlinchey, Kent R. Thurber, et al.. (2009). The Functional Curli Amyloid Is Not Based on In-register Parallel β-Sheet Structure. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(37). 25065–25076. 109 indexed citations

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Wickner, Reed B., Herman K. Edskes, Frank Shewmaker, Dmitry Kryndushkin, & Julie Nemecek. (2009). Prion variants, species barriers, generation and propagation. Journal of Biology. 8(5). 47–47. 19 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zheng, Jun-Bao Fan, Haili Zhu, et al.. (2009). Crowded Cell-like Environment Accelerates the Nucleation Step of Amyloidogenic Protein Misfolding. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(44). 30148–30158. 86 indexed citations

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Shewmaker, Frank & Reed B. Wickner. (2006). Ageing in yeast does not enhance prion generation. Yeast. 23(16). 1123–1128. 6 indexed citations

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Wickner, Reed B., Herman K. Edskes, & Frank Shewmaker. (2006). How to find a prion: [URE3], [PSI+] and [β]. Methods. 39(1). 3–8. 39 indexed citations

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Shewmaker, Frank, Michael J. Kerner, Manajit Hayer‐Hartl, et al.. (2004). A mobile loop order–disorder transition modulates the speed of chaperonin cycling. Protein Science. 13(8). 2139–2148. 16 indexed citations

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Guidry, Jessie J., Frank Shewmaker, Karol Maskos, Samuel J. Landry, & Pernilla Wittung‐Stafshede. (2003). Probing the interface in a human co-chaperonin heptamer: residues disrupting oligomeric unfolded state identified. BMC Biochemistry. 4(1). 14–14. 16 indexed citations

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Shewmaker, Frank, Karol Maskos, Carlos Simmerling, & Samuel J. Landry. (2001). The Disordered Mobile Loop of GroES Folds into a Defined β-Hairpin upon Binding GroEL. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(33). 31257–31264. 31 indexed citations

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