Lora K. Picton

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 945 citations indexed

About

Lora K. Picton is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lora K. Picton has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 945 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Immunology, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lora K. Picton's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (11 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers). Lora K. Picton is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (11 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (7 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers). Lora K. Picton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Lora K. Picton's co-authors include K. Christopher García, Tyler N. Starr, Joseph W. Thornton, Leon Su, Jonathan T. Sockolosky, Kevin M. Jude, R. Blake Hill, Giulia Parisi, David Baker and Benson M. George and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lora K. Picton

23 papers receiving 935 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.

Selective targeting of engineered T cells using orthogonal IL-2 cytokine-receptor complexes

2018 275 citations Jonathan T. Sockolosky, Eleonora Trotta et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lora K. Picton United States	14	447	442	379	148	87	23	945
Lindsay L. Jones United States	14	604 1.4×	393 0.9×	218 0.6×	99 0.7×	62 0.7×	20	895
Teresa Lozano Spain	20	717 1.6×	481 1.1×	393 1.0×	59 0.4×	96 1.1×	43	1.2k
Meng Wu China	12	463 1.0×	513 1.2×	485 1.3×	130 0.9×	190 2.2×	31	1.2k
Joanna Brzostek Singapore	17	611 1.4×	356 0.8×	215 0.6×	67 0.5×	69 0.8×	33	907
Xinhui Wang United States	17	652 1.5×	318 0.7×	344 0.9×	56 0.4×	38 0.4×	29	1.0k
Hassan Rahimi Italy	20	442 1.0×	282 0.6×	374 1.0×	53 0.4×	38 0.4×	51	856
Diana Llópiz Spain	19	700 1.6×	518 1.2×	351 0.9×	47 0.3×	40 0.5×	34	1.2k
Federica Riccardo Italy	22	359 0.8×	244 0.6×	424 1.1×	168 1.1×	55 0.6×	45	993
Kalet León Cuba	19	526 1.2×	242 0.5×	256 0.7×	49 0.3×	72 0.8×	59	887
Pedro Roda‐Navarro Spain	21	661 1.5×	265 0.6×	376 1.0×	40 0.3×	60 0.7×	45	1.1k

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Siepe, Dirk H., Lora K. Picton, & K. Christopher García. (2023). Receptor Elimination by E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Recruitment (REULR): A Targeted Protein Degradation Toolbox. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(4). 1081–1093. 23 indexed citations

Horton, Brendan, Maria Zagorulya, Lora K. Picton, et al.. (2023). Overcoming lung cancer immunotherapy resistance by combining nontoxic variants of IL-12 and IL-2. JCI Insight. 8(19). 14 indexed citations

Tsutsumi, Naotaka, Zahra Masoumi, Julie A. Tucker, et al.. (2023). Structure of the thrombopoietin-MPL receptor complex is a blueprint for biasing hematopoiesis. Cell. 186(19). 4189–4203.e22. 20 indexed citations

Ren, Junming, Qingxiang Liu, Caleb R. Glassman, et al.. (2022). Facile discovery of surrogate cytokine agonists. Cell. 185(8). 1414–1430.e19. 51 indexed citations

Ren, Junming, Kevin M. Jude, Lora K. Picton, et al.. (2022). Interleukin-2 superkines by computational design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2117401119–e2117401119. 16 indexed citations

Hirai, Toshihito, Po‐Yu Lin, Teresa Lopes Ramos, et al.. (2022). IL-2 receptor engineering enhances regulatory T cell function suppressed by calcineurin inhibitor. American Journal of Transplantation. 22(12). 3061–3068. 8 indexed citations

Hirai, Toshihito, Teresa Lopes Ramos, Po‐Yu Lin, et al.. (2021). Selective expansion of regulatory T cells using an orthogonal IL-2/IL-2 receptor system facilitates transplantation tolerance. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(8). 87–104. 55 indexed citations

Glassman, Caleb R., Leon Su, Hauke Winkelmann, et al.. (2021). Calibration of cell-intrinsic interleukin-2 response thresholds guides design of a regulatory T cell biased agonist. eLife. 10. 24 indexed citations

Wolf, Natalie K., Cristina Blaj, Lora K. Picton, et al.. (2021). 584 Powerful synergistic effects of a STING agonist and the IL-2 superkine, H9, in eliciting NK and T cell responses against MHC I- and MHC I+ tumors. Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts. A614–A614. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Lora K. Picton, Leon Su, et al.. (2021). A human orthogonal IL-2 and IL-2Rβ system enhances CAR T cell expansion and antitumor activity in a murine model of leukemia. Science Translational Medicine. 13(625). eabg6986–eabg6986. 108 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Nolan W., Lora K. Picton, & R. Blake Hill. (2020). Isolation and Analysis of Mitochondrial Fission Enzyme DNM1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods in molecular biology. 2159. 3–15. 1 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Ricardo A., Leon Su, Yoko Nishiga, et al.. (2020). Immune receptor inhibition through enforced phosphatase recruitment. Nature. 586(7831). 779–784. 78 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Michael J. Hollander, Lora K. Picton, et al.. (2020). Human Orthogonal IL-2/IL-2Rβ As a Tunable Approach to Enhance CD19-Speific CAR-T Cell Antitumor Activity. Blood. 136(Supplement 1). 48–48. 1 indexed citations

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Sockolosky, Jonathan T., Eleonora Trotta, Giulia Parisi, et al.. (2018). Selective targeting of engineered T cells using orthogonal IL-2 cytokine-receptor complexes. Science. 359(6379). 1037–1042. 275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Starr, Tyler N., Lora K. Picton, & Joseph W. Thornton. (2017). Alternative evolutionary histories in the sequence space of an ancient protein. Nature. 549(7672). 409–413. 130 indexed citations

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Hill, R. Blake, et al.. (2015). FIS1 and DNM1L Cooperate in Mitochondrial Fission: Convergence of Evolution and Intelligent Design. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 374a–374a. 2 indexed citations

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Picton, Lora K., et al.. (2012). A Designed Point Mutant in Fis1 Disrupts Dimerization and Mitochondrial Fission. Journal of Molecular Biology. 423(2). 143–158. 11 indexed citations

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Picton, Lora K., et al.. (2009). Evidence for Conformational Heterogeneity of Fission Protein Fis1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemistry. 48(28). 6598–6609. 8 indexed citations

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Arnold, Randy J., et al.. (2008). Role of Conserved Cysteines in the Alphavirus E3 Protein. Journal of Virology. 83(6). 2584–2591. 19 indexed citations

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Wells, Robert C., Lora K. Picton, Sarah Williams, Frederick J. Tan, & R. Blake Hill. (2007). Direct Binding of the Dynamin-like GTPase, Dnm1, to Mitochondrial Dynamics Protein Fis1 Is Negatively Regulated by the Fis1 N-terminal Arm. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(46). 33769–33775. 52 indexed citations

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