Hugh R.B. Pelham

31.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
133 papers, 26.7k citations indexed

About

Hugh R.B. Pelham is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugh R.B. Pelham has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 26.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Molecular Biology, 82 papers in Cell Biology and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hugh R.B. Pelham's work include Cellular transport and secretion (68 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (49 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (26 papers). Hugh R.B. Pelham is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (68 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (49 papers) and Heat shock proteins research (26 papers). Hugh R.B. Pelham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Hugh R.B. Pelham's co-authors include Richard J. Jackson, Sean Munro, Peter K. Sorger, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis, Kevin Hardwick, Mariann Bienz, Benjamin J. Nichols, Javier Valdez Taubas and Donald D. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hugh R.B. Pelham

133 papers receiving 25.4k 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.

An Efficient mRNA‐Dependent Translation System from Reticulocyte Lysates

1976 3.7k citations Hugh R.B. Pelham et al. profile →
A C-terminal signal prevents secretion of luminal ER proteins

1987 1.9k citations Hugh R.B. Pelham et al. Cell profile →
Speculations on the functions of the major heat shock and glucose-regulated proteins

1986 1.4k citations Hugh R.B. Pelham Cell profile →
An hsp70-like protein in the ER: Identity with the 78 kd glucose-regulated protein and immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein

1986 1.3k citations Hugh R.B. Pelham et al. Cell profile →
A regulatory upstream promoter element in the Drosophila Hsp 70 heat-shock gene

1982 923 citations Hugh R.B. Pelham Cell profile →
Yeast heat shock factor is an essential DNA-binding protein that exhibits temperature-dependent phosphorylation

1988 741 citations Hugh R.B. Pelham et al. Cell profile →
Control of Protein Exit from the Endoplasmic Reticulum

1989 688 citations Hugh R.B. Pelham PubMed profile →
A specific transcription factor that can bind either the 5S RNA gene or 5S RNA.

1980 443 citations Hugh R.B. Pelham, Donald D. Brown Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hugh R.B. Pelham United Kingdom	80	20.7k	10.4k	2.6k	2.5k	2.1k	133	26.7k
Elizabeth A. Craig United States	80	22.0k 1.1×	4.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	232	24.6k
Bernd Bukau Germany	107	30.3k 1.5×	6.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	4.0k 1.6×	4.6k 2.2×	259	34.5k
Johannes Büchner Germany	91	25.7k 1.2×	4.7k 0.5×	998 0.4×	4.0k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	293	29.8k
Patrick H. O’Farrell United States	66	25.0k 1.2×	7.2k 0.7×	3.9k 1.5×	2.9k 1.2×	4.7k 2.2×	140	34.2k
Günter Blobel United States	116	39.0k 1.9×	8.2k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	6.4k 3.0×	295	46.2k
Manajit Hayer‐Hartl Germany	53	15.6k 0.8×	3.5k 0.3×	995 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	98	18.1k
Ronald A. Laskey United Kingdom	64	21.6k 1.0×	4.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	4.8k 2.2×	119	29.6k
Fred Sherman United States	75	27.6k 1.3×	4.6k 0.4×	4.0k 1.6×	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	251	32.7k
Sheldon Penman United States	92	18.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	949 0.4×	3.5k 1.6×	229	25.1k
Nikola P. Pavletich United States	65	25.2k 1.2×	3.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	79	30.0k

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Mund, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Towards accurate exclusion of neonatal bacterial meningitis: a feasibility study of a novel 16S rDNA PCR assay. BMC Infectious Diseases. 20(1). 441–441. 6 indexed citations

Mund, Thomas & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (2018). Substrate clustering potently regulates the activity of WW-HECT domain–containing ubiquitin ligases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(14). 5200–5209. 14 indexed citations

Mund, Thomas, Masami Masuda‐Suzukake, Michel Goedert, & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (2018). Ubiquitination of alpha-synuclein filaments by Nedd4 ligases. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200763–e0200763. 21 indexed citations

Sullivan, James A., Michael Lewis, Elina Nikko, & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (2007). Multiple Interactions Drive Adaptor-Mediated Recruitment of the Ubiquitin Ligase Rsp5 to Membrane Proteins In Vivo and In Vitro. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(7). 2429–2440. 58 indexed citations

Hettema, Ewald H., Javier Valdez Taubas, & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (2004). Bsd2 binds the ubiquitin ligase Rsp5 and mediates the ubiquitination of transmembrane proteins. The EMBO Journal. 23(6). 1279–1288. 124 indexed citations

Pelham, Hugh R.B.. (2000). Getting Stuck in the Golgi. Traffic. 1(2). 191–192. 9 indexed citations

Pelham, Hugh R.B. & James E. Rothman. (2000). The Debate about Transport in the Golgi—Two Sides of the Same Coin?. Cell. 102(6). 713–719. 191 indexed citations

Wooding, Steven & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1998). The Dynamics of Golgi Protein Traffic Visualized in Living Yeast Cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 9(9). 2667–2680. 158 indexed citations

Pelham, Hugh R.B.. (1997). EJCB-Lecture. SNAREs and the organization of the secretory pathway.. PubMed. 74(4). 311–4. 15 indexed citations

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Lewis, Michael & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1996). SNARE-Mediated Retrograde Traffic from the Golgi Complex to the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Cell. 85(2). 205–215. 174 indexed citations

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Semenza, Jan C. & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1992). Changing the specificity of the sorting receptor for luminal endoplasmic reticulum proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 224(1). 1–5. 22 indexed citations

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Pelham, Hugh R.B.. (1991). Multiple targets for brefeldin A. Cell. 67(3). 449–451. 319 indexed citations

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Pelham, Hugh R.B.. (1990). 12 Functions of the hsp70 Protein Family: An Overview. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 19. 287–299. 6 indexed citations

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Lewis, Michael, Deborah Sweet, & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1990). The ERD2 gene determines the specificity of the luminal ER protein retention system. Cell. 61(7). 1359–1363. 202 indexed citations

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Pelham, Hugh R.B., Kevin Hardwick, & Michael Lewis. (1988). Sorting of soluble ER proteins in yeast.. The EMBO Journal. 7(6). 1757–1762. 233 indexed citations

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Jakobsen, Bent K. & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1988). Constitutive Binding of Yeast Heat Shock Factor to DNA In Vivo. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 8(11). 5040–5042. 28 indexed citations

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Pelham, Hugh R.B.. (1986). Speculations on the functions of the major heat shock and glucose-regulated proteins. Cell. 46(7). 959–961. 1371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riddihough, Guy & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1986). Activation of the Drosophila hsp27 promoter by heat shock and by ecdysone involves independent and remote regulatory sequences. The EMBO Journal. 5(7). 1653–1658. 111 indexed citations

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Pelham, Hugh R.B., W M Wormington, & Donald D. Brown. (1981). Related 5S RNA transcription factors in Xenopus oocytes and somatic cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(3). 1760–1764. 79 indexed citations

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Braude, Peter & Hugh R.B. Pelham. (1979). A microsystem for the extraction and in-vitro translation of mouse embryo mRNA. Reproduction. 56(1). 153–158. 16 indexed citations

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