Frederick M. Ausubel

63.0k citations

302 papers · 48.7k indexed · 25 hit papers · h-index 120

Plant Science top 0.01%
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
Aging top 0.01%
Genetics top 0.1%
Endocrinology top 0.05%

Co-authors: Laurence G. Rahme Andrzej Konieczny Julia Dewdney Man‐Wah Tan Eliana Drenkard Gary Ruvkun Gang Wu Shalina Mahajan‐Miklos
Topics: Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (71 papers)Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (55 papers)Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (46 papers)
Cited by: Aging Plant Science Endocrinology
Journals: Nature Science Cell
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

Frederick M. Ausubel

300 papers receiving 47.1k 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.

MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity

2002 2.1k citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Isochorismate synthase is required to synthesize salicylic acid for plant defence

2001 1.8k citations Julia Dewdney, Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
A procedure for mapping Arabidopsis mutations using co‐dominant ecotype‐specific PCR‐based markers

1993 1.3k citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Common Virulence Factors for Bacterial Pathogenicity in Plants and Animals

1995 1.0k citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. Science profile →
Glucosinolate Metabolites Required for an Arabidopsis Innate Immune Response

2008 859 citations Nicole K. Clay, Adewale M. Adio et al. Science profile →
An ordered, nonredundant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 transposon insertion mutants

2006 773 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Pseudomonas aeruginosa used to model mammalian bacterial pathogenesis

1999 771 citations Man‐Wah Tan, Frederick M. Ausubel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Pseudomonas biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance are linked to phenotypic variation

2002 752 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Construction of a broad host range cosmid cloning vector and its use in the genetic analysis of Rhizobium mutants

1982 747 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Molecular Genetics of Plant Disease Resistance

1995 710 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. Science profile →
Are innate immune signaling pathways in plants and animals conserved?

2005 707 citations Frederick M. Ausubel profile →
A Conserved p38 MAP Kinase Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans Innate Immunity

2002 671 citations Dennis H. Kim, Rhonda Feinbaum et al. Science profile →
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence Elucidated Using a Pseudomonas aeruginosa– Caenorhabditis elegans Pathogenesis Model

1999 623 citations Man‐Wah Tan, Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
The A. thaliana disease resistance gene RPS2 encodes a protein containing a nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeats

1994 580 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
A general method for site-directed mutagenesis in prokaryotes

1981 577 citations Gary Ruvkun, Frederick M. Ausubel profile →
Isolation of a higher eukaryotic telomere from Arabidopsis thaliana

1988 574 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Overview of Next‐Generation Sequencing Technologies

2018 569 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Programmed cell death in plants: A pathogen-triggered response activated coordinately with multiple defense functions

1994 536 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
p38 MAPK Regulates Expression of Immune Response Genes and Contributes to Longevity in C. elegans

2006 509 citations Frederick M. Ausubel, Dennis H. Kim et al. profile →
The Apoplastic Oxidative Burst Peroxidase in Arabidopsis Is a Major Component of Pattern-Triggered Immunity

2012 492 citations Zhenyu Cheng, Frederick M. Ausubel et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Isolation of Arabidopsis Mutants With Enhanced Disease Susceptibility by Direct Screening

1996 486 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Innate Immune Responses Activated in Arabidopsis Roots by Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns

2010 444 citations Nicole K. Clay, Frederick M. Ausubel et al. The Plant Cell profile →
A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters

2018 319 citations Wooseong Kim, Huajian Gao et al. profile →
Associations with rhizosphere bacteria can confer an adaptive advantage to plants

2015 302 citations Frederick M. Ausubel et al. profile →
Interspecies homology of nitrogenase genes.

1980 246 citations Gary Ruvkun, Frederick M. Ausubel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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1	Antimicrobial peptide developed with machine learning sequence optimization targets drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus in mice 2025 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Biswajit Mishra,Anindya Basu,Fadi Shehadeh,Felix LewisOscar,Sai Sundeep Kollala,Yashpal S. Chhonker,Mandar T. Naik,(unknown),Liyang Zhang,(unknown),Daryl J. Murry,Jianhua Gu,Michael B. Sherman,Frederick M. Ausubel,Paul P. Sotiriadis,Eleftherios Mylonakis	4
2	A Methylazanediyl Bisacetamide Derivative Sensitizes Staphylococcus aureus Persisters to a Combination of Gentamicin And Daptomycin 2023 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown),Guijin Zou,(unknown),Jae‐Seok Kim,Eleftherios Mylonakis,Frederick M. Ausubel,Huajian Gao,Wooseong Kim	11
3	Generation of Fluorinated Amychelin Siderophores against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections by a Combination of Genome Mining and Mutasynthesis 2020 ·Cell chemical biology ·Feng Xie,(unknown),Yu Zhao,Pei Huang,Yu Shen,Biao Ren,(unknown),(unknown),Gil Alterovitz,Qi Zhang,Jingyu Zhang,Xiangyin Chen,Lan Jiang,Fuhang Song,Hongwei Liu,Frederick M. Ausubel,Xueting Liu,Huanqin Dai,Lixin Zhang	11
4	Plant immunity triggered by engineered in vivo release of oligogalacturonides, damage-associated molecular patterns 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Manuel Benedetti,Daniela Pontiggia,Sara Raggi,Zhenyu Cheng,Flavio Scaloni,Simone Ferrari,Frederick M. Ausubel,Felice Cervone,Giulia De Lorenzo	162
5	Virulence profile 2013 ·Virulence ·Frederick M. Ausubel	1
6	Genes Involved in the Evolution of Herbivory by a Leaf-Mining, Drosophilid Fly 2012 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Noah K. Whiteman,Andrew D. Gloss,Timothy B. Sackton,Simon C. Groen,Parris T. Humphrey,Richard T. Lapoint,Ida E. Sønderby,Barbara Ann Halkier,Christine Kocks,Frederick M. Ausubel,Naomi E. Pierce	44
7	Glucosinolate Metabolites Required for an Arabidopsis Innate Immune Responsebreakdown → 2008 ·Science ·Nicole K. Clay,Adewale M. Adio,Carine Denoux,Georg Jander,Frederick M. Ausubel	859
8	Resistance to Botrytis cinerea Induced in Arabidopsis by Elicitors Is Independent of Salicylic Acid, Ethylene, or Jasmonate Signaling But Requires PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT3 2007 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Simone Ferrari,R Galletti,Carine Denoux,Giulia De Lorenzo,Frederick M. Ausubel,Julia Dewdney	333
9	Identification of novel antimicrobials using a live-animal infection model 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Terence I. Moy,Anthony R. Ball,(unknown),Gabriele Casadei,Kim Lewis,Frederick M. Ausubel	230
10	Pseudomonas syringae manipulates systemic plant defenses against pathogens and herbivores 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),(unknown),Elizabeth G. Pringle,Gustavo Hernández-Guzmán,Carol L. Bender,Naomi E. Pierce,Frederick M. Ausubel	220
11	Long-Lived C. elegans daf-2 Mutants Are Resistant to Bacterial Pathogens 2003 ·Science ·Danielle A. Garsin,(unknown),Jakob Begun,Dennis H. Kim,Costi D. Sifri,Stephen B. Calderwood,Gary Ruvkun,Frederick M. Ausubel	465
12	Five components of the ethylene-response pathway identified in a screen for weak ethylene-insensitive mutants in Arabidopsis 2003 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·José M. Alonso,Anna N. Stepanova,Roberto Solano,Ellen Wisman,Simone Ferrari,Frederick M. Ausubel,Joseph R. Ecker	311
13	Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Eleftherios Mylonakis,Frederick M. Ausubel,John R. Perfect,Joseph Heitman,Stephen B. Calderwood	248
14	Tandemly Duplicated Arabidopsis Genes That Encode Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins Are Regulated Coordinately by Different Signal Transduction Pathways in Response to Fungal Infection 2002 ·The Plant Cell ·Simone Ferrari,Donatella Vairo,Frederick M. Ausubel,Felice Cervone,Giulia De Lorenzo	229
15	A Conserved p38 MAP Kinase Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans Innate Immunitybreakdown → 2002 ·Science ·Dennis H. Kim,Rhonda Feinbaum,Geneviève Alloing,(unknown),Danielle A. Garsin,Hideki Inoue,(unknown),Naoki Hisamoto,Kunihiro Matsumoto,Man‐Wah Tan,Frederick M. Ausubel	671
16	Signals Involved in Arabidopsis Resistance to Trichoplusia ni Caterpillars Induced by Virulent and Avirulent Strains of the Phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae 2002 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·(unknown),Georg Jander,Lisa R. Racki,(unknown),Naomi E. Pierce,Frederick M. Ausubel	90
17	A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors 2001 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Danielle A. Garsin,Costi D. Sifri,Eleftherios Mylonakis,Xiang Qin,Kavindra V. Singh,Barbara E. Murray,Stephen B. Calderwood,Frederick M. Ausubel	445
18	Powdery mildew pathogenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana 1998 ·Mycologia ·Julia M. Plotnikova,T. Lynne Reuber,Frederick M. Ausubel,Donald H. Pfister	43
19	Developmental Genetics of the Rhizobium /Legume Symbiosis 1984 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Frederick M. Ausubel	2
20	Purification of Proteins Determined by Two Nonessential Genes in Lambda 1971 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Frederick M. Ausubel,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown)	7

About Frederick M. Ausubel

Frederick M. Ausubel is a scholar working on Aging, Endocrinology and Plant Science, having authored 302 papers that have together received 48.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (71 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (55 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (46 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (5.2k citations), Plant Science (26.0k citations) and Endocrinology (3.2k citations). Frederick M. Ausubel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Laurence G. Rahme, Andrzej Konieczny, Julia Dewdney, Man‐Wah Tan, Eliana Drenkard, Gary Ruvkun, Gang Wu, Shalina Mahajan‐Miklos, Clive W. Ronson and Stephen B. Calderwood. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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