Kewen Cai

959 total citations
13 papers, 834 citations indexed

About

Kewen Cai is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kewen Cai has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 834 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kewen Cai's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (12 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (9 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Kewen Cai is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (12 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (9 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (5 papers). Kewen Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Kewen Cai's co-authors include Wayne L. Hubbell, H. G. Khorana, Christian Altenbach, Judith Klein‐Seetharaman, H. Gobind Khorana, H. Gobind Khorana, Ralf Langen, John Hwa, Cheng Zhang and David Farrens and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kewen Cai

13 papers receiving 816 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kewen Cai United States 13 780 554 77 69 67 13 834
Alexander Zürn Germany 8 654 0.8× 335 0.6× 105 1.4× 130 1.9× 39 0.6× 8 773
Oleg G. Kisselev United States 18 1.1k 1.4× 616 1.1× 69 0.9× 28 0.4× 54 0.8× 31 1.3k
René Seyer France 15 663 0.8× 302 0.5× 102 1.3× 20 0.3× 44 0.7× 32 921
Evan Crocker United States 11 644 0.8× 368 0.7× 45 0.6× 26 0.4× 137 2.0× 13 768
Brigitte Ilien France 20 762 1.0× 552 1.0× 78 1.0× 21 0.3× 38 0.6× 41 982
Michaela Králíková Czechia 8 575 0.7× 458 0.8× 101 1.3× 31 0.4× 27 0.4× 15 705
Matthias Elgeti Germany 14 632 0.8× 408 0.7× 115 1.5× 67 1.0× 103 1.5× 21 750
Jacqueline J. Steenhuis United States 11 1.0k 1.3× 767 1.4× 100 1.3× 29 0.4× 66 1.0× 13 1.1k
Pauline Scholler France 13 919 1.2× 744 1.3× 128 1.7× 34 0.5× 36 0.5× 15 1.1k
Shao‐Ling Fong United States 16 881 1.1× 582 1.1× 52 0.7× 24 0.3× 46 0.7× 28 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kewen Cai

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Cai, Kewen, et al.. (2001). Mapping of contact sites in complex formation between light-activated rhodopsin and transducin by covalent crosslinking: Use of a chemically preactivated reagent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(9). 4883–4887. 83 indexed citations
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Cai, Kewen, et al.. (2001). Mapping of contact sites in complex formation between transducin and light-activated rhodopsin by covalent crosslinking: Use of a photoactivatable reagent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(9). 4877–4882. 117 indexed citations
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Altenbach, Christian, Judith Klein‐Seetharaman, Kewen Cai, H. Gobind Khorana, & Wayne L. Hubbell. (2001). Structure and Function in Rhodopsin:  Mapping Light-Dependent Changes in Distance between Residue 316 in Helix 8 and Residues in the Sequence 60−75, Covering the Cytoplasmic End of Helices TM1 and TM2 and Their Connection Loop CL1. Biochemistry. 40(51). 15493–15500. 88 indexed citations
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Altenbach, Christian, Kewen Cai, Judith Klein‐Seetharaman, H. Gobind Khorana, & Wayne L. Hubbell. (2001). Structure and Function in Rhodopsin:  Mapping Light-Dependent Changes in Distance between Residue 65 in Helix TM1 and Residues in the Sequence 306−319 at the Cytoplasmic End of Helix TM7 and in Helix H8. Biochemistry. 40(51). 15483–15492. 82 indexed citations
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Cai, Kewen, Judith Klein‐Seetharaman, Christian Altenbach, Wayne L. Hubbell, & H. Gobind Khorana. (2001). Probing the Dark State Tertiary Structure in the Cytoplasmic Domain of Rhodopsin:  Proximities between Amino Acids Deduced from Spontaneous Disulfide Bond Formation between Cysteine Pairs Engineered in Cytoplasmic Loops 1, 3, and 4. Biochemistry. 40(42). 12479–12485. 20 indexed citations
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Altenbach, Christian, Kewen Cai, H. G. Khorana, & Wayne L. Hubbell. (1999). Structural Features and Light-Dependent Changes in the Sequence 306−322 Extending from Helix VII to the Palmitoylation Sites in Rhodopsin:  A Site-Directed Spin-Labeling Study,. Biochemistry. 38(25). 7931–7937. 85 indexed citations
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Langen, Ralf, Kewen Cai, Christian Altenbach, H. G. Khorana, & Wayne L. Hubbell. (1999). Structural Features of the C-Terminal Domain of Bovine Rhodopsin:  A Site-Directed Spin-Labeling Study,. Biochemistry. 38(25). 7918–7924. 75 indexed citations
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Cai, Kewen, Judith Klein‐Seetharaman, John Hwa, Wayne L. Hubbell, & H. G. Khorana. (1999). Structure and Function in Rhodopsin:  Effects of Disulfide Cross-Links in the Cytoplasmic Face of Rhodopsin on Transducin Activation and Phosphorylation by Rhodopsin Kinase,. Biochemistry. 38(39). 12893–12898. 58 indexed citations
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Cai, Kewen, Ralf Langen, Wayne L. Hubbell, & H. Gobind Khorana. (1997). Structure and function in rhodopsin: Topology of the C-terminal polypeptide chain in relation to the cytoplasmic loops. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(26). 14267–14272. 48 indexed citations
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Wang, Ying, et al.. (1994). Photoaffinity-labeling peptide substrates for farnesyl-protein transferase and the intersubunit location of the active site.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 269(1). 470–477. 37 indexed citations

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