James E. Rothman

39.6k total citations · 24 hit papers
157 papers, 31.8k citations indexed

About

James E. Rothman is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Rothman has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 31.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Cell Biology, 125 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in James E. Rothman's work include Cellular transport and secretion (130 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (85 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (27 papers). James E. Rothman is often cited by papers focused on Cellular transport and secretion (130 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (85 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (27 papers). James E. Rothman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. James E. Rothman's co-authors include Thomas Söllner, Sidney W. Whiteheart, Thomas C. Südhof, Dino A. De Angelis, Gero Miesenböck, Felix Wieland, James A. McNew, Paul Tempst, Francesco Parlati and Gregory C. Flynn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

James E. Rothman

156 papers receiving 31.3k citations

Hit Papers

SNAP receptors implicated... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1993 1998 1998 1994 1993 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. SNAP receptors implicated in vesicle targeting and fusion
    1993 2.6k citations Thomas Söllner, James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  2. SNAREpins: Minimal Machinery for Membrane Fusion
    1998 2.0k citations Thomas Weber, James A. McNew et al. Cell profile →
  3. Visualizing secretion and synaptic transmission with pH-sensitive green fluorescent proteins
    1998 2.0k citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  4. Mechanisms of intracellular protein transport
    1994 1.9k citations James E. Rothman profile →
  5. A protein assembly-disassembly pathway in vitro that may correspond to sequential steps of synaptic vesicle docking, activation, and fusion
    1993 1.6k citations Thomas Söllner, James E. Rothman et al. Cell profile →
  6. Membrane Fusion: Grappling with SNARE and SM Proteins
    2009 1.5k citations James E. Rothman et al. Science profile →
  7. Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles
    1996 979 citations James E. Rothman et al. Science profile →
  8. Peptide Binding and Release by Proteins Implicated as Catalysts of Protein Assembly
    1989 654 citations James E. Rothman et al. Science profile →
  9. Peptide-binding specificity of the molecular chaperone BiP
    1991 644 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  10. Inhibition by brefeldin A of a Golgi membrane enzyme that catalyses exchange of guanine nucleotide bound to ARF
    1992 638 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  11. Compartmental specificity of cellular membrane fusion encoded in SNARE proteins
    2000 537 citations James A. McNew, Fabienne Paumet et al. profile →
  12. Uncoating ATPase is a member of the 70 kilodalton family of stress proteins
    1986 527 citations James E. Rothman et al. Cell profile →
  13. Implications of the SNARE hypothesis for intracellular membrane topology and dynamics
    1994 480 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  14. A fusion protein required for vesicle-mediated transport in both mammalian cells and yeast
    1989 474 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  15. A rab protein is required for the assembly of SNARE complexes in the docking of transport vesicles
    1994 452 citations James E. Rothman, Thomas Söllner et al. Cell profile →
  16. SNAPs, a family of NSF attachment proteins involved in intracellular membrane fusion in animals and yeast
    1990 447 citations James E. Rothman et al. Cell profile →
  17. Purification of an N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive protein catalyzing vesicular transport.
    1988 416 citations James E. Rothman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  18. Brefeldin A, a drug that blocks secretion, prevents the assembly of non-clathrin-coated buds on Golgi cisternae
    1991 409 citations Alain Perrelet, James E. Rothman et al. Cell profile →
  19. Selective Activation of Cognate SNAREpins by Sec1/Munc18 Proteins
    2007 368 citations Fabienne Paumet, James E. Rothman et al. Cell profile →
  20. An enzyme that removes clathrin coats: purification of an uncoating ATPase.
    1984 364 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  21. Bidirectional Transport by Distinct Populations of COPI-Coated Vesicles
    1997 361 citations Lelio Orci, Mariella Ravazzola et al. Cell profile →
  22. N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein: a trimeric ATPase whose hydrolysis of ATP is required for membrane fusion.
    1994 350 citations James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  23. A coat subunit of Golgi-derived non-clathrin-coated vesicles with homology to the clathrin-coated vesicle coat protein β-adaptin
    1991 338 citations Lelio Orci, James E. Rothman et al. profile →
  24. Single Reconstituted Neuronal SNARE Complexes Zipper in Three Distinct Stages
    2012 315 citations Ying Gao, Sylvain Zorman et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
James E. Rothman 24.6k 22.1k 4.7k 3.5k 2.8k 157 31.8k
Richard H. Scheller 19.6k 0.8× 16.9k 0.8× 8.0k 1.7× 3.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 206 28.3k
Marino Zerial 21.1k 0.9× 18.9k 0.9× 2.3k 0.5× 4.6k 1.3× 3.2k 1.1× 186 31.1k
Harvey T. McMahon 19.3k 0.8× 15.2k 0.7× 4.2k 0.9× 3.6k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 113 26.6k
Reinhard Jahn 32.9k 1.3× 28.6k 1.3× 15.9k 3.3× 6.1k 1.7× 3.3k 1.2× 375 48.0k
Mitsunori Fukuda 14.2k 0.6× 12.6k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 2.9k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 480 23.4k
Sandra L. Schmid 18.4k 0.7× 14.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.4× 3.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 182 26.3k
Josep Rizo 15.6k 0.6× 12.0k 0.5× 4.9k 1.0× 2.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 178 20.1k
Juan S. Bonifacino 23.2k 0.9× 19.6k 0.9× 2.7k 0.6× 5.0k 1.4× 3.6k 1.3× 301 42.7k
Pietro De Camilli 35.5k 1.4× 31.3k 1.4× 13.8k 2.9× 7.2k 2.0× 3.1k 1.1× 384 52.5k
Richard G.W. Anderson 26.5k 1.1× 18.4k 0.8× 2.4k 0.5× 6.8k 1.9× 840 0.3× 176 39.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Feng, Jeff Coleman, Lorena Redondo‐Morata, et al.. (2024). Quantitative single-molecule analysis of assembly and Ca2+-dependent disassembly of synaptotagmin oligomers on lipid bilayers. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1608–1608.
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Schueder, Florian, Félix Rivera-Molina, Maohan Su, et al.. (2024). Unraveling cellular complexity with transient adapters in highly multiplexed super-resolution imaging. Cell. 187(7). 1769–1784.e18. 40 indexed citations
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Radhakrishnan, Abhijith, Jeff Coleman, Ramalingam Venkat Kalyana Sundaram, et al.. (2023). Synaptophysin chaperones the assembly of 12 SNAREpins under each ready-release vesicle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(45). e2311484120–e2311484120. 21 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jie, Zachary A. McDargh, Feng Li, et al.. (2022). Synaptotagmin rings as high-sensitivity regulators of synaptic vesicle docking and fusion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(38). e2208337119–e2208337119. 12 indexed citations
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Heo, Paul, Jeff Coleman, Jean‐Baptiste Fleury, James E. Rothman, & Frédéric Pincet. (2021). Nascent fusion pore opening monitored at single-SNAREpin resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(5). 17 indexed citations
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Bottanelli, Francesca, Nicole Kilian, Andreas M. Ernst, et al.. (2017). A novel physiological role for ARF1 in the formation of bidirectional tubules from the Golgi. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(12). 1676–1687. 52 indexed citations
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Shi, Lei, et al.. (2013). Preparation and characterization of SNARE-containing nanodiscs and direct study of cargo release through fusion pores. Nature Protocols. 8(5). 935–948. 27 indexed citations
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Shi, Lei, Qing-Tao Shen, Alexander Kiel, et al.. (2012). SNARE Proteins: One to Fuse and Three to Keep the Nascent Fusion Pore Open. Science. 335(6074). 1355–1359. 204 indexed citations
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Gao, Ying, Sylvain Zorman, Zhiqun Xi, et al.. (2012). Single Reconstituted Neuronal SNARE Complexes Zipper in Three Distinct Stages. Science. 337(6100). 1340–1343. 315 indexed citations breakdown →
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Karatekin, Erdem, Cécile Iborra, Jeff Coleman, et al.. (2010). A fast, single-vesicle fusion assay mimics physiological SNARE requirements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(8). 3517–3521. 117 indexed citations
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Rothman, James E.. (2010). The Future of Golgi Research. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(22). 3776–3780. 23 indexed citations
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Giraudo, Claudio G., Alejandro Garcia-Diaz, William Eng, et al.. (2009). Alternative Zippering as an On-Off Switch for SNARE-Mediated Fusion. Science. 323(5913). 512–516. 127 indexed citations
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Mayer, Thomas U., Bernd Jagla, Michael R. Wyler, et al.. (2006). Cell‐Based Assays Using Primary Endothelial Cells to Study Multiple Steps in Inflammation. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 414. 266–283. 8 indexed citations
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Paumet, Fabienne, et al.. (2005). Concerted Auto-regulation in Yeast Endosomal t-SNAREs. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(22). 21137–21143. 10 indexed citations
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Volchuk, Allen, et al.. (2005). Differential use of endoplasmic reticulum membrane for phagocytosis in J774 macrophages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(11). 4022–4026. 96 indexed citations
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Fukasawa, Masayoshi, Oleg Varlamov, William Eng, Thomas Söllner, & James E. Rothman. (2004). Localization and activity of the SNARE Ykt6 determined by its regulatory domain and palmitoylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(14). 4815–4820. 113 indexed citations
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Volchuk, Allen, Mariella Ravazzola, Alain Perrelet, et al.. (2004). Countercurrent Distribution of Two Distinct SNARE Complexes Mediating Transport within the Golgi Stack. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(4). 1506–1518. 80 indexed citations
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Hu, Chuan, Mahiuddin Ahmed, Thomas J. Melia, et al.. (2003). Fusion of Cells by Flipped SNAREs. Science. 300(5626). 1745–1749. 181 indexed citations
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McNew, James A., Thomas Weber, Donald M. Engelman, Thomas Söllner, & James E. Rothman. (1999). The Length of the Flexible SNAREpin Juxtamembrane Region Is a Critical Determinant of SNARE-Dependent Fusion. Molecular Cell. 4(3). 415–421. 132 indexed citations
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Waters, M. Gerard, Con J. Beckers, & James E. Rothman. (1992). [31] Purification of coat protomers. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 219. 331–337. 27 indexed citations

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