Grant Dewson

14.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
81 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Grant Dewson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Grant Dewson has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Immunology and 12 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Grant Dewson's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (48 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (22 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (20 papers). Grant Dewson is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (48 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (22 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (20 papers). Grant Dewson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Grant Dewson's co-authors include Ruth M. Kluck, Dana Westphal, Jerry M. Adams, Peter E. Czabotar, David C.S. Huang, Edwina Naik, Simon N. Willis, Andrew H. Wei, Chen Lin and Jamie I. Fletcher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Grant Dewson

80 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Proapoptotic Bak is sequestered by Mcl-1 and Bcl-x _L , but not Bcl-2, until displaced by BH3-only proteins

2005 1.0k citations Simon N. Willis, Grant Dewson et al. profile →
Bax Crystal Structures Reveal How BH3 Domains Activate Bax and Nucleate Its Oligomerization to Induce Apoptosis

2013 444 citations Peter E. Czabotar, Dana Westphal et al. profile →
Ubiquitin signalling in neurodegeneration: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

2021 245 citations Zhong Yan Gan, David Komander et al. Cell Death and Differentiation profile →
Mitochondria and cell death

2024 171 citations Grant Dewson, Stephen W. G. Tait et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
Deubiquitinases in cancer

2023 149 citations Grant Dewson, Pieter J.A. Eichhorn et al. Nature reviews. Cancer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Grant Dewson Australia	46	5.3k	1.3k	1.1k	999	671	81	7.2k
Paul G. Ekert Australia	41	5.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	844 1.3×	128	8.3k
Guillaume Lessène Australia	34	5.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	714 0.7×	614 0.9×	78	7.3k
Beni B. Wolf United States	26	5.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	801 0.8×	893 1.3×	53	7.6k
Lisa Bouchier‐Hayes United States	32	5.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	885 1.3×	52	7.2k
Atan Gross Israel	25	7.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	999 1.5×	32	8.8k
Henning R. Stennicke Denmark	29	6.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	933 0.9×	938 1.4×	56	8.9k
Jean S. Campbell United States	46	3.3k 0.6×	788 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	693 1.0×	110	7.4k
Fiona L. Scott United States	30	4.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	751 0.7×	900 0.9×	550 0.8×	46	5.5k
Jean‐Ehrland Ricci France	37	4.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	794 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.2×	86	7.1k
Silvano Capitani Italy	51	4.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	737 0.7×	711 1.1×	262	7.9k

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Gan, Zhong Yan, Sylvie Callegari, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, et al.. (2024). Interaction of PINK1 with nucleotides and kinetin. Science Advances. 10(3). eadj7408–eadj7408. 7 indexed citations

Dewson, Grant, et al.. (2024). Mitochondria and cell death. Nature Cell Biology. 26(9). 1434–1446. 171 indexed citations breakdown →

Delft, Mark F. van, Xiang Li, Brian J. Smith, et al.. (2024). Key residues in the VDAC2-BAK complex can be targeted to modulate apoptosis. PLoS Biology. 22(5). e3002617–e3002617. 2 indexed citations

Frank, Daniel, Maria Bergamasco, Michael J. Mlodzianoski, et al.. (2023). Trabid patient mutations impede the axonal trafficking of adenomatous polyposis coli to disrupt neurite growth. eLife. 12.

Dewson, Grant, Pieter J.A. Eichhorn, & David Komander. (2023). Deubiquitinases in cancer. Nature reviews. Cancer. 23(12). 842–862. 149 indexed citations breakdown →

Gan, Zhong Yan, Sylvie Callegari, Simon A. Cobbold, et al.. (2021). Activation mechanism of PINK1. Nature. 602(7896). 328–335. 117 indexed citations

Birkinshaw, Richard W., Sweta Iyer, Daisy Lio, et al.. (2021). Structure of detergent-activated BAK dimers derived from the inert monomer. Molecular Cell. 81(10). 2123–2134.e5. 27 indexed citations

Delft, Mark F. van, et al.. (2021). Too much death can kill you: inhibiting intrinsic apoptosis to treat disease. The EMBO Journal. 40(14). e107341–e107341. 45 indexed citations

Iyer, Sweta, Rachel T. Uren, Michael A. Dengler, et al.. (2020). Robust autoactivation for apoptosis by BAK but not BAX highlights BAK as an important therapeutic target. Cell Death and Disease. 11(4). 268–268. 28 indexed citations

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Cowan, Angus D., Nicholas A. Smith, Jarrod J. Sandow, et al.. (2020). BAK core dimers bind lipids and can be bridged by them. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 27(11). 1024–1031. 47 indexed citations

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Teh, Charis E., Alissa K. Robbins, Darren C. Henstridge, et al.. (2020). MCL-1 is essential for survival but dispensable for metabolic fitness of FOXP3+ regulatory T cells. Cell Death and Differentiation. 27(12). 3374–3385. 2 indexed citations

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Brennan, Margs S., Catherine Chang, Lin Tai, et al.. (2018). Humanized Mcl-1 mice enable accurate preclinical evaluation of MCL-1 inhibitors destined for clinical use. Blood. 132(15). 1573–1583. 66 indexed citations

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Uren, Rachel T., Martin O’Hely, Sweta Iyer, et al.. (2017). Disordered clusters of Bak dimers rupture mitochondria during apoptosis. eLife. 6. 82 indexed citations

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Coffey, Michael, Brad E. Sleebs, Alessandro D. Uboldi, et al.. (2015). An aspartyl protease defines a novel pathway for export of Toxoplasma proteins into the host cell. eLife. 4. 83 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Jason M., Dana Westphal, Grant Dewson, et al.. (2014). Bak Core and Latch Domains Separate during Activation, and Freed Core Domains Form Symmetric Homodimers. Molecular Cell. 55(6). 938–946. 128 indexed citations

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Bartolo, Ray C., et al.. (2013). Bak apoptotic function is not directly regulated by phosphorylation. Cell Death and Disease. 4(1). e452–e452. 12 indexed citations

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Dewson, Grant, Stephen Ma, Colin Hockings, et al.. (2011). Bax dimerizes via a symmetric BH3:groove interface during apoptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 19(4). 661–670. 149 indexed citations

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Westphal, Dana, Grant Dewson, Peter E. Czabotar, & Ruth M. Kluck. (2010). Molecular biology of Bax and Bak activation and action. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1813(4). 521–531. 430 indexed citations

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Huntington, Nicholas D., Hamsa Puthalakath, Edwina Naik, et al.. (2007). Interleukin 15–mediated survival of natural killer cells is determined by interactions among Bim, Noxa and Mcl-1. Nature Immunology. 8(8). 856–863. 216 indexed citations

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Dewson, Grant, Edward C. Conley, & Peter Bradding. (2002). Multigene family isoform profiling from blood cell lineages. BMC Genomics. 3(1). 22–22. 5 indexed citations

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