Guy E. Townsend

516 total citations
13 papers, 348 citations indexed

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Guy E. Townsend is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Guy E. Townsend has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 348 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Guy E. Townsend's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers). Guy E. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Probiotics and Fermented Foods (4 papers). Guy E. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Guy E. Townsend's co-authors include Eduardo A. Groisman, Nathan D. Schwalm, Varsha Raghavan, Andrew L. Goodman, Natasha A. Barry, David H. Keating, David N. Bolam, Jun Liu, Elisabeth C. Lowe and Lennart S. Forsberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Guy E. Townsend

13 papers receiving 346 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guy E. Townsend United States	9	284	119	67	59	44	13	348
Xuechen Tian China	11	188 0.7×	116 1.0×	26 0.4×	53 0.9×	25 0.6×	24	347
Carlo Pinna Italy	11	214 0.8×	112 0.9×	35 0.5×	93 1.6×	61 1.4×	25	386
Shikha Sharma India	7	179 0.6×	73 0.6×	27 0.4×	51 0.9×	33 0.8×	24	325
Sandrine Bouché France	5	260 0.9×	179 1.5×	132 2.0×	58 1.0×	16 0.4×	7	420
Christopher A. Murdock United States	6	128 0.5×	86 0.7×	35 0.5×	60 1.0×	32 0.7×	7	344
Corina Diana Ceapă Mexico	8	156 0.5×	131 1.1×	44 0.7×	50 0.8×	15 0.3×	14	324
Louise Margrethe Arildsen Jakobsen Denmark	10	151 0.5×	118 1.0×	29 0.4×	97 1.6×	6 0.1×	19	355
Analy Machado de Oliveira Leite Brazil	3	218 0.8×	268 2.3×	21 0.3×	75 1.3×	10 0.2×	8	386
Casey M. Cosetta United States	9	194 0.7×	126 1.1×	45 0.7×	59 1.0×	24 0.5×	10	297
Kaiping Deng China	10	96 0.3×	81 0.7×	33 0.5×	24 0.4×	23 0.5×	23	319

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13 of 13 papers shown

Groisman, Eduardo A., et al.. (2025). Hierarchical glycolytic pathways control the carbohydrate utilization regulator in human gut Bacteroides. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4488–4488. 1 indexed citations

Krypotou, Emilia, Guy E. Townsend, Xiaohui Gao, et al.. (2023). Bacteria require phase separation for fitness in the mammalian gut. Science. 379(6637). 1149–1156. 53 indexed citations

Groisman, Eduardo A., et al.. (2023). Dietary sugars silence the master regulator of carbohydrate utilization in human gut Bacteroides species. Gut Microbes. 15(1). 2221484–2221484. 5 indexed citations

Townsend, Guy E., et al.. (2023). Harnessing gut microbes for glycan detection and quantification. Nature Communications. 14(1). 275–275. 6 indexed citations

Townsend, Guy E., Natasha A. Barry, Frank Peske, et al.. (2022). Gut colonization by Bacteroides requires translation by an EF‐G paralog lacking GTPase activity. The EMBO Journal. 42(2). e112372–e112372. 12 indexed citations

Townsend, Guy E., et al.. (2020). A Master Regulator of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Gut Colonization Controls Carbohydrate Utilization and an Alternative Protein Synthesis Factor. mBio. 11(1). 33 indexed citations

Townsend, Guy E., Nathan D. Schwalm, Varsha Raghavan, et al.. (2018). Dietary sugar silences a colonization factor in a mammalian gut symbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(1). 233–238. 59 indexed citations

Schwalm, Nathan D., Guy E. Townsend, & Eduardo A. Groisman. (2016). Prioritization of polysaccharide utilization and control of regulator activation in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Molecular Microbiology. 104(1). 32–45. 37 indexed citations

Schwalm, Nathan D., Guy E. Townsend, & Eduardo A. Groisman. (2016). Multiple Signals Govern Utilization of a Polysaccharide in the Gut Bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. mBio. 7(5). 51 indexed citations

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Raghavan, Varsha, Elisabeth C. Lowe, Guy E. Townsend, David N. Bolam, & Eduardo A. Groisman. (2014). Tuning transcription of nutrient utilization genes to catabolic rate promotes growth in a gut bacterium. Molecular Microbiology. 93(5). 1010–1025. 41 indexed citations

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Townsend, Guy E., Varsha Raghavan, Igor Zwir, & Eduardo A. Groisman. (2012). Intramolecular arrangement of sensor and regulator overcomes relaxed specificity in hybrid two-component systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(2). E161–9. 27 indexed citations

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Townsend, Guy E. & David H. Keating. (2008). Identification and characterization of KpsS, a novel polysaccharide sulphotransferase in Mesorhizobium loti. Molecular Microbiology. 68(5). 1149–1164. 2 indexed citations

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Townsend, Guy E., Lennart S. Forsberg, & David H. Keating. (2006). Mesorhizobium lotiProducesnodPQ-Dependent Sulfated Cell Surface Polysaccharides. Journal of Bacteriology. 188(24). 8560–8572. 21 indexed citations

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