Kimberly K. Buhman

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Kimberly K. Buhman is a scholar working on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimberly K. Buhman has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Biochemistry, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Kimberly K. Buhman's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (29 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (15 papers) and Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (14 papers). Kimberly K. Buhman is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (29 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (15 papers) and Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (14 papers). Kimberly K. Buhman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Kimberly K. Buhman's co-authors include Robert V. Farese, Ji‐Xin Cheng, Aki Uchida, Bonggi Lee, Jiabin Zhu, Hubert C. Chen, Alicia L. Carreiro, Shawn S. Donkin, Rafat A. Siddiqui and Caryl J. Antalis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Kimberly K. Buhman

68 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets

2013 618 citations Florian Wilfling, Huajin Wang et al. Developmental Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kimberly K. Buhman United States	33	2.0k	1.5k	1.3k	950	538	70	4.3k
Tatsuya Takano Japan	36	1.9k 1.0×	793 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	596 0.6×	460 0.9×	109	4.7k
Günter Müller Germany	41	3.1k 1.6×	679 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	584 1.1×	156	5.8k
Christopher M. Jenkins United States	35	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	406 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	358 0.7×	65	4.0k
Hugues Chap France	43	3.6k 1.8×	706 0.5×	827 0.7×	794 0.8×	484 0.9×	163	6.6k
Anil K. Agarwal United States	43	4.1k 2.1×	1.3k 0.8×	822 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	2.0k 3.8×	127	7.0k
Maria Veiga‐da‐Cunha Belgium	38	2.1k 1.0×	542 0.4×	508 0.4×	675 0.7×	370 0.7×	82	3.7k
Monika Oberer Austria	34	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	396 0.3×	901 0.9×	198 0.4×	62	3.6k
Takashi Osumi Japan	52	7.5k 3.7×	1.6k 1.0×	516 0.4×	2.1k 2.2×	213 0.4×	155	9.1k
Ingrid C. Gelissen Australia	29	1.9k 1.0×	299 0.2×	2.0k 1.6×	409 0.4×	335 0.6×	73	3.7k
Xavier Parés Spain	41	3.0k 1.5×	587 0.4×	422 0.3×	379 0.4×	392 0.7×	132	5.2k

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Park, Brian, Andrew R. Reeves, Ying Zhu, et al.. (2025). Hyperinsulinemia-induced upregulation of adipocyte TPH2 contributes to peripheral serotonin production, metabolic dysfunction, and obesity. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(14).

Zhu, Ying, et al.. (2024). Intestinal Acyl-CoA synthetase 5 (ACSL5) deficiency potentiates postprandial GLP-1 & PYY secretion, reduces food intake, and protects against diet-induced obesity. Molecular Metabolism. 83. 101918–101918. 5 indexed citations

Suárez-Trujillo, Aridany, et al.. (2020). High-fat-diet induced obesity increases the proportion of linoleic acyl residues in dam serum and milk and in suckling neonate circulation. Biology of Reproduction. 103(4). 736–749. 15 indexed citations

Suárez-Trujillo, Aridany, Shihuan Kuang, Kimberly K. Buhman, et al.. (2019). Maternal high-fat diet exposure during gestation, lactation, or gestation and lactation differentially affects intestinal morphology and proteome of neonatal mice. Nutrition Research. 66. 48–60. 15 indexed citations

Hung, Yu-Han, Alicia L. Carreiro, & Kimberly K. Buhman. (2017). Dgat1 and Dgat2 regulate enterocyte triacylglycerol distribution and alter proteins associated with cytoplasmic lipid droplets in response to dietary fat. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1862(6). 600–614. 58 indexed citations

Vickman, Renee E., Scott A. Crist, Lívia S. Eberlin, et al.. (2016). Cholesterol Sulfonation Enzyme, SULT2B1b, Modulates AR and Cell Growth Properties in Prostate Cancer. Molecular Cancer Research. 14(9). 776–786. 23 indexed citations

D’Aquila, Theresa, Yu-Han Hung, Alicia L. Carreiro, & Kimberly K. Buhman. (2016). Recent discoveries on absorption of dietary fat: Presence, synthesis, and metabolism of cytoplasmic lipid droplets within enterocytes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1861(8). 730–747. 106 indexed citations

Wilmanski, Tomasz, Kimberly K. Buhman, Shawn S. Donkin, John Burgess, & Dorothy Teegarden. (2016). 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D inhibits de novo fatty acid synthesis and lipid accumulation in metastatic breast cancer cells through down-regulation of pyruvate carboxylase. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 40. 194–200. 29 indexed citations

Lee, Hyeon Jeong, Wandi Zhang, Delong Zhang, et al.. (2015). Assessing Cholesterol Storage in Live Cells and C. elegans by Stimulated Raman Scattering Imaging of Phenyl-Diyne Cholesterol. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 7930–7930. 119 indexed citations

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Wilfling, Florian, Huajin Wang, Joel T. Haas, et al.. (2013). Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets. Developmental Cell. 24(4). 384–399. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Uchida, Aki, et al.. (2012). Reduced Triglyceride Secretion in Response to an Acute Dietary Fat Challenge in Obese Compared to Lean Mice. Frontiers in Physiology. 3. 26–26. 46 indexed citations

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Uchida, Aki, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Ji‐Xin Cheng, & Kimberly K. Buhman. (2011). Fenofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α agonist, alters triglyceride metabolism in enterocytes of mice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1811(3). 170–176. 42 indexed citations

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Buhman, Kimberly K., et al.. (2011). Novel anti-inflammatory role of SLPI in adipose tissue and its regulation by high fat diet. Journal of Inflammation. 8(1). 5–5. 17 indexed citations

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McLamore, Eric S., Jin Shi, David Jaroch, et al.. (2010). A self referencing platinum nanoparticle decorated enzyme-based microbiosensor for real time measurement of physiological glucose transport. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 26(5). 2237–2245. 67 indexed citations

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Uchida, Aki, Mikhail N. Slipchenko, Ji‐Xin Cheng, & Kimberly K. Buhman. (2010). Fenofibrate (FEN), a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor alpha (PPAR α) agonist, decreases dietary fat absorption and alters triglyceride (TG) metabolism in enterocytes of mice. The FASEB Journal. 24(S1). 1 indexed citations

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Antalis, Caryl J., et al.. (2009). Docosahexaenoic acid is a substrate for ACAT1 and inhibits cholesteryl ester formation from oleic acid in MCF-10A cells. Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. 80(2-3). 165–171. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Jia, Mary E. Byrne, Eugene Chang, et al.. (2008). 1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D hydroxylase in adipocytes. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 112(1-3). 122–126. 118 indexed citations

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Borradaile, Nica M., Kimberly K. Buhman, Laura Listenberger, et al.. (2005). A Critical Role for Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 1A-1 in Lipotoxic Cell Death. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(2). 770–778. 127 indexed citations

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Xie, Yan, Fatiha Nassir, Jianyang Luo, Kimberly K. Buhman, & Nicholas O. Davidson. (2003). Intestinal lipoprotein assembly in apobec-1^–^/^–mice reveals subtle alterations in triglyceride secretion coupled with a shift to larger lipoproteins. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 285(4). G735–G746. 32 indexed citations

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Buhman, Kimberly K., Hubert C. Chen, & Robert V. Farese. (2001). The Enzymes of Neutral Lipid Synthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(44). 40369–40372. 135 indexed citations

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