Jason R. Cantor

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Jason R. Cantor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason R. Cantor has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Jason R. Cantor's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (4 papers). Jason R. Cantor is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (4 papers). Jason R. Cantor collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Poland. Jason R. Cantor's co-authors include David M. Sabatini, Lynne Chantranupong, Robert A. Saxton, Sonia M. Scaria, Kuang Shen, Rachel L. Wolfson, Elizaveta Freinkman, Naama Kanarek, Caroline A. Lewis and Monther Abu-Remaileh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jason R. Cantor

25 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Sestrin2 is a leucine sensor for the mTORC1 pathway

2015 951 citations Rachel L. Wolfson, Lynne Chantranupong et al. Science profile →
Cancer Cell Metabolism: One Hallmark, Many Faces

2012 726 citations Jason R. Cantor, David M. Sabatini profile →
Physiologic Medium Rewires Cellular Metabolism and Reveals Uric Acid as an Endogenous Inhibitor of UMP Synthase

2017 372 citations Jason R. Cantor, Monther Abu-Remaileh et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason R. Cantor United States	19	2.5k	1.2k	467	426	347	27	3.6k
Steven J. Kridel United States	27	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	538 1.2×	231 0.5×	285 0.8×	50	3.3k
Tzuling Cheng United States	10	3.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	603 1.3×	313 0.7×	319 0.9×	15	4.3k
Tetsuo Mashima Japan	29	3.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	856 1.8×	449 1.1×	424 1.2×	70	4.4k
George Simos Greece	44	4.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	488 1.0×	255 0.6×	373 1.1×	98	5.3k
Sybille Mazurek Germany	24	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	537 1.1×	277 0.7×	149 0.4×	45	3.4k
Juan Liu China	29	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	927 2.0×	357 0.8×	209 0.6×	118	4.3k
David F. Kashatus United States	26	2.2k 0.9×	777 0.6×	381 0.8×	280 0.7×	341 1.0×	41	2.9k
Oliver D.K. Maddocks United Kingdom	27	3.5k 1.4×	2.2k 1.8×	775 1.7×	347 0.8×	303 0.9×	42	4.9k
Sze Ham Chan United States	17	1.8k 0.7×	728 0.6×	266 0.6×	212 0.5×	379 1.1×	22	2.8k
Monther Abu-Remaileh United States	25	3.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	399 0.9×	385 0.9×	585 1.7×	40	4.8k

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Virtue, Sam, et al.. (2025). Seeing the world through the eyes of cultured cells. Cell Metabolism. 37(4). 802–805.

Wilson, Kelli M., et al.. (2024). Conditional lethality profiling reveals anticancer mechanisms of action and drug-nutrient interactions. Science Advances. 10(40). eadq3591–eadq3591. 5 indexed citations

Adelmann, Charles H., et al.. (2021). CRISPR screens in physiologic medium reveal conditionally essential genes in human cells. Cell Metabolism. 33(6). 1248–1263.e9. 71 indexed citations

Kaymak, Irem, Kelsey S. Williams, Jason R. Cantor, & Russell G. Jones. (2020). Immunometabolic Interplay in the Tumor Microenvironment. Cancer Cell. 39(1). 28–37. 229 indexed citations

Williamson, Christina, Rohiverth Guarecuco, Leah Gates, et al.. (2020). ZBTB1 Regulates Asparagine Synthesis and Leukemia Cell Response to L-Asparaginase. Cell Metabolism. 31(4). 852–861.e6. 52 indexed citations

Cantor, Jason R.. (2019). The Rise of Physiologic Media. Trends in Cell Biology. 29(11). 854–861. 58 indexed citations

Kanarek, Naama, Heather R. Keys, Jason R. Cantor, et al.. (2018). Histidine catabolism is a major determinant of methotrexate sensitivity. Nature. 559(7715). 632–636. 226 indexed citations

Cantor, Jason R., Monther Abu-Remaileh, Naama Kanarek, et al.. (2017). Physiologic Medium Rewires Cellular Metabolism and Reveals Uric Acid as an Endogenous Inhibitor of UMP Synthase. Cell. 169(2). 258–272.e17. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

Wolfson, Rachel L., Lynne Chantranupong, Robert A. Saxton, et al.. (2016). Sestrin2 is a leucine sensor for the mTORC1 pathway. PMC. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Rachel L., Lynne Chantranupong, Robert A. Saxton, et al.. (2015). Sestrin2 is a leucine sensor for the mTORC1 pathway. Science. 351(6268). 43–48. 951 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Do‐Hoon, Brian P. Fiske, Kıvanç Birsoy, et al.. (2015). SHMT2 drives glioma cell survival in ischaemia but imposes a dependence on glycine clearance. Nature. 520(7547). 363–367. 273 indexed citations

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Shaul, Yoav D., Elizaveta Freinkman, William C. Comb, et al.. (2014). Dihydropyrimidine Accumulation Is Required for the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition. Cell. 158(5). 1094–1109. 172 indexed citations

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Cantor, Jason R., et al.. (2013). GFP Reporter Screens for the Engineering of Amino Acid Degrading Enzymes from Libraries Expressed in Bacteria. Methods in molecular biology. 978. 31–44. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Wenzong, Jason R. Cantor, S.D. Yogesha, et al.. (2012). Uncoupling Intramolecular Processing and Substrate Hydrolysis in the N-Terminal Nucleophile Hydrolase hASRGL1 by Circular Permutation. ACS Chemical Biology. 7(11). 1840–1847. 20 indexed citations

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Cantor, Jason R., et al.. (2011). Engineering Reduced-Immunogenicity Enzymes for Amino Acid Depletion Therapy in Cancer. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 502. 291–319. 42 indexed citations

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Cantor, Jason R., Everett Stone, & George Georgiou. (2011). Expression and Biochemical Characterization of the Human Enzyme N-Terminal Asparagine Amidohydrolase. Biochemistry. 50(14). 3025–3033. 9 indexed citations

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Cantor, Jason R., et al.. (2011). Therapeutic enzyme deimmunization by combinatorial T-cell epitope removal using neutral drift. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1272–1277. 96 indexed citations

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Varadarajan, Navin, Jason R. Cantor, George Georgiou, & Brent L. Iverson. (2009). Construction and flow cytometric screening of targeted enzyme libraries. Nature Protocols. 4(6). 893–901. 24 indexed citations

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Camarero, Julio A., Richard H. Kimura, Youn‐Hi Woo, Alexander Shekhtman, & Jason R. Cantor. (2007). Biosynthesis of a Fully Functional Cyclotide inside Living Bacterial Cells. ChemBioChem. 8(12). 1363–1366. 88 indexed citations

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Finehout, Erin, Jason R. Cantor, & Kelvin H. Lee. (2005). Kinetic characterization of sequencing grade modified trypsin. PROTEOMICS. 5(9). 2319–2321. 58 indexed citations

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