Gina E. Sosinsky

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Gina E. Sosinsky is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gina E. Sosinsky has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Gina E. Sosinsky's work include Connexins and lens biology (39 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (17 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (14 papers). Gina E. Sosinsky is often cited by papers focused on Connexins and lens biology (39 papers), Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (17 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (14 papers). Gina E. Sosinsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Gina E. Sosinsky's co-authors include Mark H. Ellisman, Thomas J. Deerinck, Guido Gaietta, Daniela Boassa, Bruce J. Nicholson, Gerhard Dahl, Cinzia Ambrosi, Dale W. Laird, David J. DeRosier and Noreen R. Francis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gina E. Sosinsky

69 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Multicolor and Electron Microscopic Imaging of Connexin Trafficking

2002 723 citations Guido Gaietta, Thomas J. Deerinck et al. profile →
Engineered ascorbate peroxidase as a genetically encoded reporter for electron microscopy

2012 521 citations Thomas J. Deerinck, Gina E. Sosinsky et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gina E. Sosinsky United States	35	3.8k	666	631	608	428	69	4.9k
Guido Gaietta United States	22	2.5k 0.7×	468 0.7×	676 1.1×	405 0.7×	414 1.0×	35	3.4k
Robert M. Henderson United Kingdom	34	4.6k 1.2×	852 1.3×	559 0.9×	419 0.7×	341 0.8×	99	6.2k
Dmitriy B. Staroverov Russia	29	3.3k 0.9×	419 0.6×	649 1.0×	296 0.5×	1.3k 3.0×	64	5.5k
Yuan Tu United States	13	4.3k 1.1×	591 0.9×	860 1.4×	938 1.5×	1.6k 3.7×	20	6.1k
Helge Ewers Germany	33	2.3k 0.6×	790 1.2×	525 0.8×	289 0.5×	1.3k 3.1×	75	4.2k
Varda Lev‐Ram United States	29	2.5k 0.7×	459 0.7×	2.2k 3.5×	175 0.3×	888 2.1×	47	5.1k
Sean McKinney United States	27	4.4k 1.2×	891 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	453 0.7×	2.0k 4.7×	58	7.2k
Paul Steinbach United States	15	4.4k 1.2×	936 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	677 1.1×	2.4k 5.5×	25	7.3k
Erik M. M. Manders Netherlands	30	3.8k 1.0×	874 1.3×	434 0.7×	497 0.8×	729 1.7×	69	6.1k
Steven S. Vogel United States	32	3.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	1.4k 2.3×	200 0.3×	821 1.9×	68	5.1k

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Ambrosi, Cinzia, et al.. (2016). Connexin43 Forms Supramolecular Complexes through Non-Overlapping Binding Sites for Drebrin, Tubulin, and ZO-1. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0157073–e0157073. 58 indexed citations

Hu, Bo, Xuebao Zhang, Wiebke Möbius, et al.. (2016). Tuning PAK Activity to Rescue Abnormal Myelin Permeability in HNPP. PLoS Genetics. 12(9). e1006290–e1006290. 26 indexed citations

Boassa, Daniela, Phuong Nguyen, Junru Hu, Mark H. Ellisman, & Gina E. Sosinsky. (2015). Pannexin2 oligomers localize in the membranes of endosomal vesicles in mammalian cells while Pannexin1 channels traffic to the plasma membrane. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 8. 468–468. 40 indexed citations

Ambrosi, Cinzia, et al.. (2013). A Comparative Antibody Analysis of Pannexin1 Expression in Four Rat Brain Regions Reveals Varying Subcellular Localizations. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 4. 6–6. 34 indexed citations

Ellisman, Mark H., Thomas J. Deerinck, Xiaokun Shu, & Gina E. Sosinsky. (2012). Picking Faces out of a Crowd. Methods in cell biology. 111. 139–155. 49 indexed citations

Sosinsky, Gina E., Daniela Boassa, Rolf Dermietzel, et al.. (2011). Pannexin channels are not gap junction hemichannels. Channels. 5(3). 193–197. 287 indexed citations

Ambrosi, Cinzia, Daniela Boassa, Junjie Wang, et al.. (2010). Pannexin1 and Pannexin2 Channels Show Quaternary Similarities to Connexons and Different Oligomerization Numbers from Each Other. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(32). 24420–24431. 139 indexed citations

Schulze, Jürgen P., et al.. (2009). Multichannel transfer function with dimensionality reduction. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7530. 75300A–75300A. 2 indexed citations

Lichtenstein, Alexandra, Guido Gaietta, Thomas J. Deerinck, et al.. (2008). The cytoplasmic accumulations of the cataract-associated mutant, Connexin50P88S, are long-lived and form in the endoplasmic reticulum. Experimental Eye Research. 88(3). 600–609. 23 indexed citations

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Perkins, Guy, et al.. (2007). Electron tomographic analysis of cytoskeletal cross-bridges in the paranodal region of the node of Ranvier in peripheral nerves. Journal of Structural Biology. 161(3). 469–480. 32 indexed citations

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Boassa, Daniela, Cinzia Ambrosi, Feng Qiu, et al.. (2007). Pannexin1 Channels Contain a Glycosylation Site That Targets the Hexamer to the Plasma Membrane. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(43). 31733–31743. 232 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Gina E. & Bruce J. Nicholson. (2005). Structural organization of gap junction channels. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1711(2). 99–125. 192 indexed citations

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Beahm, Derek L., Atsunori Oshima, Guido Gaietta, et al.. (2005). Mutation of a Conserved Threonine in the Third Transmembrane Helix of α- and β-Connexins Creates a Dominant-negative Closed Gap Junction Channel. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(12). 7994–8009. 73 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Gina E. & Guy Perkins. (2003). Purification of Gap Junctions. Humana Press eBooks. 154. 57–75. 2 indexed citations

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Martone, Maryann E., Amarnath Gupta, Mona Wong, et al.. (2002). A cell-centered database for electron tomographic data. Journal of Structural Biology. 138(1-2). 145–155. 86 indexed citations

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Perkins, Guy, Daniel A. Goodenough, & Gina E. Sosinsky. (1998). Formation of the gap junction intercellular channel requires a 30° rotation for interdigitating two apposing connexons. Journal of Molecular Biology. 277(2). 171–177. 59 indexed citations

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Perkins, Guy, et al.. (1997). Three-Dimensional Structure of the Gap Junction Connexon. Biophysical Journal. 72(2). 533–544. 60 indexed citations

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Sosinsky, Gina E.. (1996). Molecular organization of gap junction membrane channels. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 28(4). 297–309. 43 indexed citations

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Ghoshroy, Soumitra, D A Goodenough, & Gina E. Sosinsky. (1995). Preparation, characterization, and structure of half gap junctional layers split with urea and EGTA. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 146(1). 15–28. 47 indexed citations

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Cabral-Lilly, Donna, G.N. Phillips, Gina E. Sosinsky, et al.. (1991). Structural studies of tropomyosin by cryoelectron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. Biophysical Journal. 59(4). 805–814. 10 indexed citations

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