Kay Childs

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

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Kay Childs is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kay Childs has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Infectious Diseases, 8 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kay Childs's work include interferon and immune responses (8 papers), Virology and Viral Diseases (5 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (5 papers). Kay Childs is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (8 papers), Virology and Viral Diseases (5 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (5 papers). Kay Childs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Kay Childs's co-authors include Stephen Goodbourn, Richard E. Randall, J. Andrejeva, Nicola Stock, D. F. Young, T. S. Carlos, Michael A. Skinner, Craig S. Ross, Louise Hilton and B. Precious and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kay Childs

17 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

The V proteins of paramyxoviruses bind the IFN-inducible RNA helicase, mda-5, and inhibit its activation of the IFN -β promoter

2004 825 citations J. Andrejeva, Kay Childs et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kay Childs United Kingdom	12	1.2k	737	642	487	190	18	1.8k
Gijs A. Versteeg Austria	18	1.4k 1.2×	538 0.7×	536 0.8×	835 1.7×	224 1.2×	33	2.1k
Junji Xing China	21	1.0k 0.9×	543 0.7×	443 0.7×	616 1.3×	195 1.0×	44	1.6k
Chenhe Su China	22	822 0.7×	635 0.9×	350 0.5×	488 1.0×	174 0.9×	27	1.4k
Choon Ping Tan United Kingdom	13	2.2k 1.9×	893 1.2×	620 1.0×	1.2k 2.5×	267 1.4×	14	3.1k
Delphine Goubau United Kingdom	12	2.2k 1.9×	464 0.6×	474 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	313 1.6×	13	2.7k
Jana M. Ellegast United States	9	1.6k 1.4×	435 0.6×	370 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	261 1.4×	18	2.3k
Olivier Moncorgé France	17	668 0.6×	680 0.9×	484 0.8×	599 1.2×	64 0.3×	26	1.6k
Takashi Natsukawa Japan	6	2.7k 2.3×	703 1.0×	534 0.8×	1.1k 2.3×	387 2.0×	8	3.2k
Theresa A. Banks United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	581 0.8×	238 0.4×	292 0.6×	223 1.2×	25	1.8k
Maria Kalamvoki United States	21	543 0.5×	594 0.8×	328 0.5×	591 1.2×	95 0.5×	39	1.2k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Childs, Kay, et al.. (2023). The Identification of Host Proteins That Interact with Non-Structural Proteins-1α and -1β of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus-1. Viruses. 15(12). 2445–2445. 2 indexed citations

Childs, Kay, et al.. (2023). Development of a quadrivalent foot-and-mouth disease vaccine candidate for use in East Africa. Vaccine. 41(44). 6572–6578. 2 indexed citations

Jackson, Ben, Kay Childs, Nanchaya Wanasen, et al.. (2022). Analysis of porcine bone marrow-derived macrophage cytokine responses to infection with PRRSV-1 strains of differing virulence. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2.

Childs, Kay, et al.. (2022). Trans-Encapsidation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Genomes Facilitates Escape from Neutralizing Antibodies. Viruses. 14(6). 1161–1161. 5 indexed citations

Jackson, Ben, B. Veronica Carr, Kay Childs, et al.. (2022). An Improved αvβ6-Receptor-Expressing Suspension Cell Line for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Production. Viruses. 14(3). 621–621. 6 indexed citations

Childs, Kay, Nicholas Juleff, Katy Moffat, & Julian Seago. (2021). Demonstration of Co-Infection and Trans-Encapsidation of Viral RNA In Vitro Using Epitope-Tagged Foot-and-Mouth Disease Viruses. Viruses. 13(12). 2433–2433. 2 indexed citations

Jackson, Ben, Kay Childs, Mark Boyce, et al.. (2021). Rotavirus NSP1 Inhibits Type I and Type III Interferon Induction. Viruses. 13(4). 589–589. 16 indexed citations

Ahmed, Saleem, Musharraf Jelani, Kay Childs, et al.. (2018). A missense mutation in TRAPPC6A leads to build-up of the protein, in patients with a neurodevelopmental syndrome and dysmorphic features. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2053–2053. 26 indexed citations

Childs, Kay, Richard E. Randall, & Stephen Goodbourn. (2013). LGP2 Plays a Critical Role in Sensitizing mda-5 to Activation by Double-Stranded RNA. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64202–e64202. 77 indexed citations

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Childs, Kay, Richard E. Randall, & Stephen Goodbourn. (2012). Paramyxovirus V Proteins Interact with the RNA Helicase LGP2 To Inhibit RIG-I-Dependent Interferon Induction. Journal of Virology. 86(7). 3411–3421. 116 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fuquan, et al.. (2010). The African Swine Fever Virus DP71L Protein Recruits the Protein Phosphatase 1 Catalytic Subunit To Dephosphorylate eIF2α and Inhibits CHOP Induction but Is Dispensable for These Activities during Virus Infection. Journal of Virology. 84(20). 10681–10689. 100 indexed citations

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Childs, Kay, J. Andrejeva, Richard E. Randall, & Stephen Goodbourn. (2008). Mechanism of mda-5 Inhibition by Paramyxovirus V Proteins. Journal of Virology. 83(3). 1465–1473. 112 indexed citations

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Stock, Nicola, B. Precious, Kay Childs, et al.. (2007). Mapuera virus, a rubulavirus that inhibits interferon signalling in a wide variety of mammalian cells without degrading STATs. Journal of General Virology. 88(3). 956–966. 25 indexed citations

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Childs, Kay, Nicola Stock, Craig S. Ross, et al.. (2006). mda-5, but not RIG-I, is a common target for paramyxovirus V proteins. Virology. 359(1). 190–200. 256 indexed citations

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Precious, B., et al.. (2005). Simian Virus 5 V Protein Acts as an Adaptor, Linking DDB1 to STAT2, To Facilitate the Ubiquitination of STAT1. Journal of Virology. 79(21). 13434–13441. 99 indexed citations

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Andrejeva, J., Kay Childs, D. F. Young, et al.. (2004). The V proteins of paramyxoviruses bind the IFN-inducible RNA helicase, mda-5, and inhibit its activation of the IFN -β promoter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(49). 17264–17269. 825 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marriott, J B, Ian Clarke, Anna Czajka, et al.. (2003). A novel subclass of thalidomide analogue with anti-solid tumor activity in which caspase-dependent apoptosis is associated with altered expression of bcl-2 family proteins.. PubMed. 63(3). 593–9. 45 indexed citations

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Childs, Kay. (2003). Identification of novel co-repressor molecules for Interferon Regulatory Factor-2. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(12). 3016–3026. 98 indexed citations

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