Fraydoon Rastinejad

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
69 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Fraydoon Rastinejad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fraydoon Rastinejad has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Fraydoon Rastinejad's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (16 papers), Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (12 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers). Fraydoon Rastinejad is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (16 papers), Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes (12 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (11 papers). Fraydoon Rastinejad collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Fraydoon Rastinejad's co-authors include Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, Pengxiang Huang, Vikas Chandra, Youngchang Kim, Dalei Wu, Srilatha Raghuram, Thomas P. Burris, Nalini Potluri, Jingping Lu and Thomas Perlmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fraydoon Rastinejad

69 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Bile acid metabolites control TH17 and Treg cell differentiation

2019 956 citations Saiyu Hang, Donggi Paik et al. Nature profile →
Structure of the intact PPAR-γ–RXR-α nuclear receptor complex on DNA

2008 626 citations Vikas Chandra, Pengxiang Huang et al. Nature profile →
A bacterial bile acid metabolite modulates Treg activity through the nuclear hormone receptor NR4A1

2021 183 citations Saiyu Hang, Donggi Paik et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fraydoon Rastinejad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fraydoon Rastinejad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fraydoon Rastinejad based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fraydoon Rastinejad. Fraydoon Rastinejad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structural basis for the ligand-dependent activation of heterodimeric AHR-ARNT complex 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Xiaotong Diao, (unknown), (unknown), Yubin Huang, Meina Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Fan Zhou, Jingjing Zhuang, Shuang‐Jiang Liu, Christoph F. A. Vogel, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Dalei Wu	9
2	Pharmacological targeting of BMAL1 modulates circadian and immune pathways 2025 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthew Baxter, K. Huber, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, David Ray, Fraydoon Rastinejad	8
3	Decoding Allosteric Control in Hypoxia-Inducible Factors 2023 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Jingjing Zhuang, (unknown), Fraydoon Rastinejad, Dalei Wu	12
4	Monoterpenoid aryl hydrocarbon receptor allosteric antagonists protect against ultraviolet skin damage in female mice 2023 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Barbora Vyhlídalová, Kristýna Krasulová, (unknown), Radim Vrzal, Petr Nádvorník, Binod Nepal, Sandhya Kortagere, Martina Kopečná, David Kopečný, Marek Šebela, Fraydoon Rastinejad, (unknown), Miroslav Soural, (unknown), Thomas Haarmann‐Stemmann, Hao Li, Sridhar Mani, Zdeněk Dvořák	28
5	The protein architecture and allosteric landscape of HNF4α 2023 ·Frontiers in Endocrinology ·Fraydoon Rastinejad	13
6	Bile acid metabolites control TH17 and Treg cell differentiation breakdown → 2019 ·Nature ·Saiyu Hang, Donggi Paik, Lina Yao, Eunha Kim, Jamma Trinath, Jingping Lu, Soyoung Ha, (unknown), Samantha Kelly, Lin Wu, Ye Zheng, Randy Longman, Fraydoon Rastinejad, A. Sloan Devlin, Michael R. Krout, Michael A. Fischbach, Dan R. Littman, Jun R. Huh	956
7	The Nuclear Receptor PPARγ Controls Progressive Macrophage Polarization as a Ligand-Insensitive Epigenomic Ratchet of Transcriptional Memory 2018 ·Immunity ·Bence Dániel, Gergely Nagy, Zsolt Czimmerer, Attila Horváth, David W. Hammers, Ixchelt Cuaranta‐Monroy, Szilárd Póliska, Petros Tzerpos, Zsuzsanna Kolostyák, Tristan T. Hays, Andreas Patsalos, René Houtman, Sascha Sauer, (unknown), Fraydoon Rastinejad, Bálint L. Bálint, H. Lee Sweeney, László Nagy	130
8	The quaternary architecture of RARβ–RXRα heterodimer facilitates domain–domain signal transmission 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Vikas Chandra, Dalei Wu, Sheng Li, Nalini Potluri, Youngchang Kim, Fraydoon Rastinejad	67
9	Understanding nuclear receptor form and function using structural biology 2013 ·Journal of Molecular Endocrinology ·Fraydoon Rastinejad, Pengxiang Huang, Vikas Chandra, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh	154
10	Multidomain integration in the structure of the HNF-4α nuclear receptor complex 2013 ·Nature ·Vikas Chandra, Pengxiang Huang, Nalini Potluri, Dalei Wu, Youngchang Kim, Fraydoon Rastinejad	153
11	Double chromodomains cooperate to recognize the methylated histone H3 tail 2005 ·Nature ·John F. Flanagan, Li-Zhi Mi, M. Chruszcz, M. Cymborowski, Katrina L. Clines, Youngchang Kim, W. Minor, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh	415
12	Plasticity of the Ecdysone Receptor DNA Binding Domain 2004 ·Molecular Endocrinology ·(unknown), (unknown), Agnieszka Kowalska, Iwona Grad, (unknown), Grzegorz Rymarczyk, Piotr Dobryszycki, Daniel Krowarsch, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Marian Kochman, Andrzej Ożyhar	25
13	Insights into Catalysis by a Knotted TrmD tRNA Methyltransferase 2003 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·P.A. Elkins, Joseph Watts, Magdalena Zalacaín, (unknown), Patrik Vitazka, Maria J. Redlak, Cecile Andraos-Selim, Fraydoon Rastinejad, W. Michael Holmes	107
14	Large Scale Production of Nuclear Receptor Ligand-Binding Domains 2003 ·Humana Press eBooks ·Li-Zhi Mi, Fraydoon Rastinejad	3
15	DNA binding domains in diverse nuclear receptors function as nuclear export signals 2001 ·Current Biology ·Ben E. Black, James M. Holaska, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Bryce M. Paschal	143
16	Structure of the RXR–RAR DNA-binding complex on the retinoic acid response element DR1 2000 ·The EMBO Journal ·Fraydoon Rastinejad, Trixie Wagner, Qiang Zhao, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh	162
17	Transcription factors: The right combination for the DNA lock 1999 ·Current Biology ·Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, Fraydoon Rastinejad	11
18	Structural Elements of an Orphan Nuclear Receptor–DNA Complex 1998 ·Molecular Cell ·Qiang Zhao, Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, (unknown), Mitchell A. Lazar, Fraydoon Rastinejad	125
19	Bacteriophage T7 RNA Polymerase 1993 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Fraydoon Rastinejad, (unknown)	22
20	Origin of the Asymmetrical Contact between lac Repressor and lac Operator DNA 1993 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Fraydoon Rastinejad, (unknown), (unknown)	16

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