Kavitha Sarma

7.9k citations

37 papers · 5.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Cancer Research top 1%
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Molecular Biology top 1%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Cancer-related gene regulation
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- DNA Repair Mechanisms

Papers in

Molecular Biology 35
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 24
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 16
- Cancer-related gene regulation 11
- RNA modifications and cancer 10
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 4
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 3
Cancer Research 6
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research 6

Co-authors: Danny Reinberg Jeannie T. Lee C. David Allis Kenichi Nishioka Raphaël Margueron Robert E. Kingston Ruth Steward Roopsha Sengupta
Journals: Molecular Cell (7 papers)Nature Communications (5 papers)Genes & Development (5 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (3 papers)Cell (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Chile Austria

In The Last Decade

Kavitha Sarma

36 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Genome-wide Identification of Polycomb-Associated RNAs by RIP-seq 2010 · 798 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Molecular Cell
2008 Molecular Cell
2004 Genes & Development

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All Works

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1	AP-1 mediates cellular adaptation and memory formation Nature Communications ·И.Д. Трошкина, Pavithran T. Ravindran, Phyllis F. Butler, G. Lundell, HU Dan-da, Verônica Santana da Silva, Christian Zerbi, Margaret C. Dunagin, Naveen Jain, Yogesh Goyal, Kavitha Sarma, 채창균, Hans Gaab	2026	1
2	Intertwining roles of R-loops and G-quadruplexes in DNA repair, transcription and genome organization Nature Cell Biology ·Phillip Wulfridge, Kavitha Sarma	2024	21
3	DCAF15 control of cohesin dynamics sustains acute myeloid leukemia Nature Communications ·浩生島, J. R. Lombardi, 雅祥打越, 林坚贞, Monika Mittal, T. Flick, Pamela Kabungo, Darius Tchoutang Nzepang, Baiyun Wang, Ning Zheng, Hsin‐Yao Tang, Kavitha Sarma, Roger A. Greenberg, Junwei Shi, Luca Busino	2024	6
4	G-quadruplexes associated with R-loops promote CTCF binding Molecular Cell ·Phillip Wulfridge, Qingqing Yan, 商振, Rebekah Dawn Giordano, Savoirs, textes et langage - UMR 8163 (STL, Lille FR), Sarah Offley, Sandra Deliard, Yanglin Lian, Jennifer E. Phillips‐Cremins, Alessandro Gardini, Kavitha Sarma	2023	43
5	ATRX histone binding and helicase activities have distinct roles in neuronal differentiation Nucleic Acids Research ·W. L. Tryon, Phillip Wulfridge, Rebekah Dawn Giordano, Wenqing Ren, Kavitha Sarma	2022	14
6	Proximity labeling identifies a repertoire of site-specific R-loop modulators Nature Communications ·Qingqing Yan, Phillip Wulfridge, Rebekah Dawn Giordano, José L. Fernández-Luna, Pedro J. Real, Hsin‐Yao Tang, Kavitha Sarma	2022	58
7	Targeted Nuclease Approaches for Mapping Native R-Loops Methods in molecular biology ·Phillip Wulfridge, Qingqing Yan, Kavitha Sarma	2022	1
8	A nuclease- and bisulfite-based strategy captures strand-specific R-loops genome-wide eLife ·Phillip Wulfridge, Kavitha Sarma	2021	34
9	Targeting the IRE1α/XBP1s pathway suppresses CARM1-expressing ovarian cancer Nature Communications ·Jianhuang Lin, Heng Liu, Takeshi Fukumoto, Joseph A. Zundell, Qingqing Yan, Chih-Hang Anthony Tang, Shuai Wu, Wei Zhou, Francesco de Meo, Sergey Karakashev, Chih‐Chi Andrew Hu, Kavitha Sarma, Andrew V. Kossenkov, Rugang Zhang	2021	37
10	Disruption of ATRX-RNA interactions uncovers roles in ATRX localization and PRC2 function Nature Communications ·Wenqing Ren, Elyse Berger-Pelleiter, Robert Warneford-Thomson, Phillip Wulfridge, Qingqing Yan, Zang Peng-Peng, Simone Sidoli, Benjamin A. García, Emmanuel Skordalakes, Eric F. Joyce, Roberto Bonasio, Kavitha Sarma	2020	22
11	ATRX Directs Binding of PRC2 to Xist RNA and Polycomb Targets Cell ·Kavitha Sarma, Catherine Cifuentes‐Rojas, Ayla Ergün, Amanda Del Rosario, Yesu Jeon, Forest M. White, Ruslan I. Sadreyev, Jeannie T. Lee	2015	1
12	High-resolution Xist binding maps reveal two-step spreading during X-chromosome inactivation Nature ·Matthew D. Simon, Stefan F. Pinter, Rui Fang, Kavitha Sarma, Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg, Sarah Bowman, Barry Kesner, Verena Maier, Robert E. Kingston, Jeannie T. Lee	2013	297
13	New and Xisting regulatory mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Yesu Jeon, Kavitha Sarma, Jeannie T. Lee	2012	80
14	Locked nucleic acids (LNAs) reveal sequence requirements and kinetics of Xist RNA localization to the X chromosome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kavitha Sarma, Ray Vellenga, A Aristarkhov, Jeannie T. Lee	2010	129
15	Chromatin in the Nuclear Landscape Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology ·David B. Beck, Roberto Bonasio, Syuzo Kaneko, Masoud Saeed, Masoud Saeed, Raphaël Margueron, Mathew Benshoff, Kavitha Sarma, Robert J. Sims, Junwoo Son, Patrick Trojer, Danny Reinberg	2010	21
16	Specificity and mechanism of the histone methyltransferase Pr-Set7 Genes & Development ·Bing Xiao, Chun Jing, Geoff Kelly, P.A. Walker, Frederick W. Muskett, Thomas A. Frenkiel, Stephen R. Martin, Kavitha Sarma, Danny Reinberg, S.J. Gamblin, J. Wilson	2005	157
17	PR-Set7-dependent methylation of histone H4 Lys 20 functions in repression of gene expression and is essential for mitosis Genes & Development ·Jeynne Pereira do Carmo, Kavitha Sarma, Danny Reinberg, Ruth Steward	2005	142
18	Mitotic-specific methylation of histone H4 Lys 20 follows increased PR-Set7 expression and its localization to mitotic chromosomes Genes & Development ·Judd C. Rice, Kenichi Nishioka, Kavitha Sarma, Ruth Steward, Danny Reinberg, C. David Allis	2002	202
19	PR-Set7 Is a Nucleosome-Specific Methyltransferase that Modifies Lysine 20 of Histone H4 and Is Associated with Silent Chromatin Molecular Cell ·Kenichi Nishioka, Judd C. Rice, Kavitha Sarma, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Janis Werner, Yanming Wang, Sergei Chuikov, Pablo Valenzuela, Paul Tempst, Ruth Steward, John T. Lis, C. David Allis, Danny Reinberg	2002	473
20	Set9, a novel histone H3 methyltransferase that facilitates transcription by precluding histone tail modifications required for heterochromatin formation Genes & Development ·Kenichi Nishioka, Sergei Chuikov, Kavitha Sarma, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, C. David Allis, Paul Tempst, Danny Reinberg	2002	454

About Kavitha Sarma

Kavitha Sarma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Biophysics and Speech and Hearing, having authored 37 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (24 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (11 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (6 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (1.5k citations), Molecular Biology (5.5k citations), Genetics (817 citations), Aging (49 citations) and Endocrinology (66 citations). Kavitha Sarma has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Chile and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Danny Reinberg, Jeannie T. Lee, C. David Allis, Kenichi Nishioka, Raphaël Margueron, Robert E. Kingston, Ruth Steward, Roopsha Sengupta, Thomas Jenuwein and Günter Reuter. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, Genes & Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Cell.

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