Lance Wells

14.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
180 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Lance Wells is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lance Wells has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Organic Chemistry and 40 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Lance Wells's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (91 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (49 papers) and Galectins and Cancer Biology (29 papers). Lance Wells is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (91 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (49 papers) and Galectins and Cancer Biology (29 papers). Lance Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Lance Wells's co-authors include Gerald W. Hart, Keith Vosseller, Peng Zhao, Jae‐Min Lim, Frank I. Comer, Yuan Gao, Glendon J. Parker, Michael Tiemeyer, Kazuhiro Aoki and Chin Fen Teo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lance Wells

175 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Glycosylation of Nucleocytoplasmic Proteins: Signal Transduction and O-GlcNAc

2001 798 citations Lance Wells, Gerald W. Hart et al. profile →
RNA-Guided RNA Cleavage by a CRISPR RNA-Cas Protein Complex

2009 793 citations Peng Zhao, Lance Wells et al. profile →
Dynamic O-Glycosylation of Nuclear and Cytosolic Proteins

2001 617 citations Lance Wells, Gerald W. Hart et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lance Wells United States	51	8.4k	3.1k	2.6k	1.1k	649	180	10.2k
Kelley W. Moremen United States	54	7.7k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.9×	379 0.6×	217	10.0k
Jacques Baenziger United States	55	7.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	317 0.5×	123	9.4k
Jasna Peter‐Katalinić Germany	50	5.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	1.8k 2.8×	226	7.8k
Robert G. Spiro United States	63	8.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	2.6k 2.4×	409 0.6×	144	12.4k
Toshisuke Kawasaki Japan	47	5.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	124 0.2×	179	8.0k
Anthony L. Tarentino United States	38	5.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	864 0.3×	815 0.8×	288 0.4×	70	6.8k
Yasutsugu Shimonishi Japan	46	5.8k 0.7×	747 0.2×	1.3k 0.5×	995 0.9×	946 1.5×	204	9.7k
Rosalind Kornfeld United States	31	6.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	153 0.2×	48	8.2k
Franz‐Georg Hanisch Germany	43	3.7k 0.4×	952 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	551 0.5×	265 0.4×	137	5.9k
Masahiro Nishijima Japan	57	7.0k 0.8×	478 0.2×	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 2.1×	447 0.7×	185	10.9k

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Lu, Jingrang, et al.. (2025). Deciphering the unique autoregulatory mechanisms and substrate specificity of the understudied DCLK3 kinase linked to neurodegenerative diseases. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(10). 110664–110664.

Morava, Éva, et al.. (2024). O-GlcNAc transferase congenital disorder of glycosylation (OGT-CDG): Potential mechanistic targets revealed by evaluating the OGT interactome. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(9). 107599–107599. 4 indexed citations

Wells, Lance. (2024). Summer Hedge Pruning of Pecan in the Southeastern United States. HortScience. 59(6). 756–758.

Wells, Lance & Gerald W. Hart. (2024). O-GlcNAcylation: A major nutrient/stress sensor that regulates cellular physiology. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(9). 107635–107635. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Zhonghou, Peng Zhao, Yao Yao, et al.. (2023). Taste papilla cell differentiation requires the regulation of secretory protein production by ALK3-BMP signaling in the tongue mesenchyme. Development. 150(18). 2 indexed citations

Grauke, L.J., Xinwang Wang, Patrick J. Conner, et al.. (2023). Influence of Geographical Orchard Location on the Microbiome from the Progeny of a Pecan Controlled Cross. Plants. 12(2). 360–360. 3 indexed citations

Sheikh, M. Osman, Chantelle J. Capicciotti, Lin Liu, et al.. (2022). Cell surface glycan engineering reveals that matriglycan alone can recapitulate dystroglycan binding and function. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3617–3617. 29 indexed citations

Yang, Jeong‐Yeh, Jeremy L. Praissman, Digantkumar Chapla, et al.. (2021). Crystal structures of β-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2: structural basis for inherited muscular dystrophies. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 77(4). 486–495. 4 indexed citations

Sandoval, Daniel R., Alejandro Gómez Toledo, Chelsea D. Painter, et al.. (2020). Proteomics-based screening of the endothelial heparan sulfate interactome reveals that C-type lectin 14a (CLEC14A) is a heparin-binding protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(9). 2804–2821. 28 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyun W., David F. Thieker, M. Osman Sheikh, et al.. (2020). A terminal α3-galactose modification regulates an E3 ubiquitin ligase subunit in Toxoplasma gondii. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(27). 9223–9243. 13 indexed citations

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Bock, Clive H., et al.. (2018). A comparison of organic fungicides: alternatives for reducing scab on pecan. Organic Agriculture. 9(3). 305–314. 5 indexed citations

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Yu, Wen‐Han, Peng Zhao, Monia Draghi, et al.. (2018). Exploiting glycan topography for computational design of Env glycoprotein antigenicity. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(4). e1006093–e1006093. 19 indexed citations

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Gas‐Pascual, Elisabet, H. Travis Ichikawa, M. Osman Sheikh, et al.. (2018). CRISPR/Cas9 and glycomics tools for Toxoplasma glycobiology. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(4). 1104–1125. 47 indexed citations

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Capicciotti, Chantelle J., Chengli Zong, M. Osman Sheikh, et al.. (2017). Cell-Surface Glyco-Engineering by Exogenous Enzymatic Transfer Using a Bifunctional CMP-Neu5Ac Derivative. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(38). 13342–13348. 47 indexed citations

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Middleton, Dustin R., Xing Zhang, Paeton L. Wantuch, et al.. (2017). Identification and characterization of the Streptococcus pneumoniae type 3 capsule-specific glycoside hydrolase of Paenibacillus species 32352. Glycobiology. 28(2). 90–99. 11 indexed citations

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Amore, Antonella, Brandon C. Knott, Nitin T. Supekar, et al.. (2017). Distinct roles of N- and O-glycans in cellulase activity and stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(52). 13667–13672. 76 indexed citations

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Praissman, Jeremy L., Tobias Willer, M. Osman Sheikh, et al.. (2016). The functional O-mannose glycan on α-dystroglycan contains a phospho-ribitol primed for matriglycan addition. eLife. 5. 93 indexed citations

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Meng, Lu, F. Forouhar, David F. Thieker, et al.. (2013). Enzymatic Basis for N-Glycan Sialylation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(48). 34680–34698. 113 indexed citations

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Teo, Chin Fen, Sampat Ingale, Margreet A. Wolfert, et al.. (2010). Glycopeptide-specific monoclonal antibodies suggest new roles for O-GlcNAc. Nature Chemical Biology. 6(5). 338–343. 144 indexed citations

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Aoki, Kazuhiro, et al.. (2007). Dynamic Developmental Elaboration of N-Linked Glycan Complexity in the Drosophila melanogaster Embryo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(12). 9127–9142. 225 indexed citations

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