Lisa Sharek

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Lisa Sharek is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa Sharek has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cell Biology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lisa Sharek's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (5 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (2 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (2 papers). Lisa Sharek is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (5 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (2 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (2 papers). Lisa Sharek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Lisa Sharek's co-authors include Keith Burridge, Rafael García‐Mata, Christophe Guilluy, Richard Superfine, Lukas D. Osborne, Laurianne Van Landeghem, James E. Bear, Silvia M. Goicoechea, Carol Otey and Jen Jen Yeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Cell Biology and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Lisa Sharek

11 papers receiving 858 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus

2014 457 citations Christophe Guilluy, Lukas D. Osborne et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lisa Sharek United States	10	530	471	141	91	79	11	865
Lukas D. Osborne United States	6	465 0.9×	435 0.9×	79 0.6×	113 1.2×	68 0.9×	8	772
Shailaja Seetharaman France	8	368 0.7×	493 1.0×	84 0.6×	127 1.4×	95 1.2×	9	811
Annica K. B. Gad Sweden	17	331 0.6×	413 0.9×	145 1.0×	87 1.0×	82 1.0×	31	842
Matthias Schaks Germany	16	336 0.6×	478 1.0×	66 0.5×	65 0.7×	109 1.4×	23	815
Chen Luxenburg Israel	17	602 1.1×	521 1.1×	250 1.8×	87 1.0×	157 2.0×	26	1.1k
Matthias Rübsam Germany	13	334 0.6×	424 0.9×	84 0.6×	112 1.2×	57 0.7×	22	802
Ziba Razinia United States	11	342 0.6×	361 0.8×	69 0.5×	49 0.5×	149 1.9×	13	709
Alexei Mikhailov United States	15	859 1.6×	749 1.6×	211 1.5×	105 1.2×	229 2.9×	27	1.4k
Shin-ichiro Kojima United States	10	1.0k 1.9×	850 1.8×	109 0.8×	47 0.5×	104 1.3×	10	1.5k
Fabian Oceguera-Yañez Japan	14	626 1.2×	533 1.1×	105 0.7×	106 1.2×	69 0.9×	16	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa Sharek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lisa Sharek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lisa Sharek based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lisa Sharek. Lisa Sharek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Burridge, Keith, Fabio Urbina, Stephanie L. Gupton, et al.. (2025). Vinculin and metavinculin exhibit distinct effects on focal adhesion properties, cell migration, and mechanotransduction. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

2.

Sharek, Lisa, E. Timothy O’Brien, Fabio Urbina, et al.. (2019). Vinculin and metavinculin exhibit distinct effects on focal adhesion properties, cell migration, and mechanotransduction. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221962–e0221962. 23 indexed citations

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Graham, David M., Tomas Andersen, Lisa Sharek, et al.. (2018). Enucleated cells reveal differential roles of the nucleus in cell migration, polarity, and mechanotransduction. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(3). 895–914. 80 indexed citations

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Guilluy, Christophe, Lukas D. Osborne, Laurianne Van Landeghem, et al.. (2014). Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus. Nature Cell Biology. 16(4). 376–381. 457 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goicoechea, Silvia M., Rafael García‐Mata, Julie Staub, et al.. (2013). Palladin promotes invasion of pancreatic cancer cells by enhancing invadopodia formation in cancer-associated fibroblasts. Oncogene. 33(10). 1265–1273. 101 indexed citations

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Samson, Thomas, Jaap D. van Buul, Jeffrey Kroon, et al.. (2013). The Guanine-Nucleotide Exchange Factor SGEF Plays a Crucial Role in the Formation of Atherosclerosis. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e55202–e55202. 24 indexed citations

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Krishna, Sudhir, Paola Massimi, Siaw Shi Boon, et al.. (2012). The Invasive Capacity of HPV Transformed Cells Requires the hDlg-Dependent Enhancement of SGEF/RhoG Activity. PLoS Pathogens. 8(2). e1002543–e1002543. 33 indexed citations

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Roney, Kelly E., Brian P. O’Connor, Haitao Wen, et al.. (2011). Plexin-B2 Negatively Regulates Macrophage Motility, Rac, and Cdc42 Activation. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24795–e24795. 39 indexed citations

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Guilluy, Christophe, Zhigang Zhang, Prasanna M. Bhende, et al.. (2011). Latent KSHV infection increases the vascular permeability of human endothelial cells. Blood. 118(19). 5344–5354. 39 indexed citations

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Samson, Thomas, et al.. (2007). Def-6, a Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor for Rac1, Interacts with the Skeletal Muscle Integrin Chain α7A and Influences Myoblast Differentiation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(21). 15730–15742. 29 indexed citations

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García‐Mata, Rafael, Adi D. Dubash, Lisa Sharek, et al.. (2007). The Nuclear RhoA Exchange Factor Net1 Interacts with Proteins of the Dlg Family, Affects Their Localization, and Influences Their Tumor Suppressor Activity. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(24). 8683–8697. 39 indexed citations

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