Kommireddy Vasu

770 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 561 citations indexed

About

Kommireddy Vasu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kommireddy Vasu has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 561 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kommireddy Vasu's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Kommireddy Vasu is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). Kommireddy Vasu collaborates with scholars based in India and Poland. Kommireddy Vasu's co-authors include Valakunja Nagaraja, Saravanan Matheshwaran, Soumitra Ghosh, Rajendra Boggavarapu, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Wareed Ahmed, Adwait Anand Godbole, Anirban P. Mitra, Arnab China and Rupesh Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kommireddy Vasu

10 papers receiving 557 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.

Diverse Functions of Restriction-Modification Systems in Addition to Cellular Defense

2013 432 citations Kommireddy Vasu, Valakunja Nagaraja Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kommireddy Vasu India	7	381	210	149	71	65	10	561
David Mayo-Muñoz Denmark	9	473 1.2×	280 1.3×	91 0.6×	88 1.2×	59 0.9×	12	614
Anna C. Llewellyn United States	7	536 1.4×	125 0.6×	171 1.1×	154 2.2×	42 0.6×	12	676
Geoffrey B. Severin United States	15	392 1.0×	144 0.7×	157 1.1×	175 2.5×	76 1.2×	23	583
An Van den Bossche Belgium	12	285 0.7×	348 1.7×	107 0.7×	50 0.7×	72 1.1×	24	537
Neal Whitaker United States	11	307 0.8×	135 0.6×	142 1.0×	93 1.3×	50 0.8×	18	528
Adam R. Parks United States	11	281 0.7×	261 1.2×	119 0.8×	82 1.2×	63 1.0×	15	484
Olle M. de Bruin Canada	7	367 1.0×	137 0.7×	222 1.5×	175 2.5×	32 0.5×	8	522
Clare Rollie United Kingdom	7	386 1.0×	255 1.2×	160 1.1×	72 1.0×	74 1.1×	7	499
Ruth Kiro Israel	9	547 1.4×	441 2.1×	200 1.3×	113 1.6×	50 0.8×	9	787
Ana Saurı́ Spain	13	253 0.7×	152 0.7×	207 1.4×	147 2.1×	145 2.2×	13	532

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Vasu, Kommireddy, et al.. (2017). Restriction endonuclease triggered bacterial apoptosis as a mechanism for long time survival. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(14). 8423–8434. 34 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Soumitra, Adwait Anand Godbole, Wareed Ahmed, et al.. (2016). Transcriptional regulation of topology modulators and transcription regulators of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 475(3). 257–263. 2 indexed citations

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Vasu, Kommireddy & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2013). Diverse Functions of Restriction-Modification Systems in Addition to Cellular Defense. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 77(1). 53–72. 432 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vasu, Kommireddy, et al.. (2012). Promiscuous restriction is a cellular defense strategy that confers fitness advantage to bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(20). E1287–93. 29 indexed citations

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Vasu, Kommireddy, et al.. (2012). Ca²⁺ Binding to the ExDxD Motif Regulates the DNA Cleavage Specificity of a Promiscuous Endonuclease. Biochemistry. 51(44). 8939–8949. 6 indexed citations

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Vasu, Kommireddy, Saravanan Matheshwaran, & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2011). Endonuclease Active Site Plasticity Allows DNA Cleavage with Diverse Alkaline Earth and Transition Metal Ions. ACS Chemical Biology. 6(9). 934–942. 10 indexed citations

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Vasu, Kommireddy, Saravanan Matheshwaran, Rajendra Boggavarapu, & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2010). Generation of a Manganese Specific Restriction Endonuclease with Nicking Activity. Biochemistry. 49(38). 8425–8433. 5 indexed citations

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Matheshwaran, Saravanan, Kommireddy Vasu, & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2008). Evolution of sequence specificity in a restriction endonuclease by a point mutation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(30). 10344–10347. 21 indexed citations

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Vasu, Kommireddy, Saravanan Matheshwaran, Janusz M. Bujnicki, & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2007). Structural integrity of the Beta Beta Alpha-Metal finger motif is required for DNA binding and stable protein–DNA complex formation in R.KpnI. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1784(2). 269–275. 3 indexed citations

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Matheshwaran, Saravanan, Kommireddy Vasu, Soumitra Ghosh, & Valakunja Nagaraja. (2007). Dual Role for Zn2+ in Maintaining Structural Integrity and Inducing DNA Sequence Specificity in a Promiscuous Endonuclease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(44). 32320–32326. 19 indexed citations

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