Lorraine D. Hernandez

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Lorraine D. Hernandez is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorraine D. Hernandez has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Epidemiology, 8 papers in Infectious Diseases and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Lorraine D. Hernandez's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (5 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (4 papers). Lorraine D. Hernandez is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (8 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (5 papers) and Vibrio bacteria research studies (4 papers). Lorraine D. Hernandez collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Lorraine D. Hernandez's co-authors include Jorge E. Galán, Richard A. Flavell, Ruslan Medzhitov, Charles A. Janeway, Koichi S. Kobayashi, Judith M. White, Lucas R. Hoffman, Tyra G. Wolfsberg, Gabriel Núñez and Naohiro Inohara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lorraine D. Hernandez

24 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

IRAK-M Is a Negative Regulator of Toll-like Receptor Signaling

2002 1.1k citations Koichi S. Kobayashi, Lorraine D. Hernandez et al. Cell profile →
RICK/Rip2/CARDIAK mediates signalling for receptors of the innate and adaptive immune systems

2002 731 citations Koichi S. Kobayashi, Naohiro Inohara et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lorraine D. Hernandez United States	19	1.8k	1.3k	890	715	420	25	4.0k
Fumitaka Hayashi United States	11	4.1k 2.3×	1.3k 1.0×	819 0.9×	570 0.8×	572 1.4×	12	6.0k
Gary R. Klimpel United States	41	3.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	823 1.2×	390 0.9×	110	6.0k
Philip Griebel Canada	42	2.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	110 0.3×	181	5.6k
Mónica A. Delgado United States	26	875 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	483 0.7×	381 0.9×	50	3.7k
Kimmo Virtaneva United States	31	689 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	794 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	300 0.7×	55	4.5k
Carrie M. Rosenberger United States	27	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	556 0.6×	525 0.7×	421 1.0×	45	2.8k
Michinaga Ogawa Japan	32	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	1.5k 1.7×	820 1.1×	1.3k 3.2×	57	4.8k
Hitomi Mimuro Japan	36	2.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.7×	904 1.0×	712 1.0×	896 2.1×	75	5.4k
Letícia A. M. Carneiro Brazil	22	2.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	453 0.6×	492 1.2×	30	4.2k
Gary A. Splitter United States	41	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	371 0.5×	837 2.0×	173	5.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hernandez, Lorraine D., et al.. (2025). A sucrose-rich diet promotes Clostridioides difficile carriage without prior antibiotics and significantly exacerbates both acute disease and long-term colonization. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2566302–2566302.

Libardo, M. Daben J., Eberhard Dürr, & Lorraine D. Hernandez. (2023). A Robust Protocol to Isolate Outer Membrane Vesicles from Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Methods and Protocols. 6(2). 42–42. 2 indexed citations

Gupta, Pulkit, Zhifen Zhang, Seiji N. Sugiman‐Marangos, et al.. (2017). Functional defects in Clostridium difficile TcdB toxin uptake identify CSPG4 receptor-binding determinants. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(42). 17290–17301. 49 indexed citations

Hernandez, Lorraine D., Heather K. Kroh, Edward J. Hsieh, et al.. (2017). Epitopes and Mechanism of Action of the Clostridium difficile Toxin A-Neutralizing Antibody Actoxumab. Journal of Molecular Biology. 429(7). 1030–1044. 33 indexed citations

Warn, Peter, Pia Thömmes, Abdul Sattar, et al.. (2016). Disease Progression and Resolution in Rodent Models of Clostridium difficile Infection and Impact of Antitoxin Antibodies and Vancomycin. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60(11). 6471–6482. 27 indexed citations

Orth, Peter, Li Xiao, Lorraine D. Hernandez, et al.. (2014). Mechanism of Action and Epitopes of Clostridium difficile Toxin B-neutralizing Antibody Bezlotoxumab Revealed by X-ray Crystallography. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(26). 18008–18021. 109 indexed citations

Hernandez, Lorraine D., Fred Racine, Li Xiao, et al.. (2014). Broad Coverage of Genetically Diverse Strains of Clostridium difficile by Actoxumab and Bezlotoxumab Predicted by In Vitro Neutralization and Epitope Modeling. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59(2). 1052–1060. 40 indexed citations

Yang, Zhiyong, Jeremy P. Ramsey, Therwa Hamza, et al.. (2014). Mechanisms of Protection against Clostridium difficile Infection by the Monoclonal Antitoxin Antibodies Actoxumab and Bezlotoxumab. Infection and Immunity. 83(2). 822–831. 79 indexed citations

Hernandez, Lorraine D., Karsten Hueffer, Markus R. Wenk, & Jorge E. Galán. (2004). Salmonella Modulates Vesicular Traffic by Altering Phosphoinositide Metabolism. Science. 304(5678). 1805–1807. 256 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D., Marc Pypaert, Richard A. Flavell, & Jorge E. Galán. (2003). A Salmonella protein causes macrophage cell death by inducing autophagy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 163(5). 1123–1131. 183 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D., et al.. (2003). Receptor-Activated Binding of Viral Fusion Proteins to Target Membranes. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 372. 428–440. 7 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Koichi S., Naohiro Inohara, Lorraine D. Hernandez, et al.. (2002). RICK/Rip2/CARDIAK mediates signalling for receptors of the innate and adaptive immune systems. Nature. 416(6877). 194–199. 731 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kobayashi, Koichi S., Lorraine D. Hernandez, Jorge E. Galán, et al.. (2002). IRAK-M Is a Negative Regulator of Toll-like Receptor Signaling. Cell. 110(2). 191–202. 1112 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Daoguo, Limei Chen, Lorraine D. Hernandez, Stephen B. Shears, & Jorge E. Galán. (2001). A Salmonella inositol polyphosphatase acts in conjunction with other bacterial effectors to promote host cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and bacterial internalization. Molecular Microbiology. 40(6). 1461–1461. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Daoguo, Limei Chen, Lorraine D. Hernandez, Stephen B. Shears, & Jorge E. Galán. (2001). ASalmonellainositol polyphosphatase acts in conjunction with other bacterial effectors to promote host cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and bacterial internalization. Molecular Microbiology. 39(2). 248–260. 307 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D., Reuben J. Peters, Sue E. Delos, et al.. (1997). Activation of a Retroviral Membrane Fusion Protein: Soluble Receptor-induced Liposome Binding of the ALSV Envelope Glycoprotein. The Journal of Cell Biology. 139(6). 1455–1464. 110 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D., et al.. (1996). Synthesis of Small Heat-Shock Proteins Is Part of the Developmental Program of Late Seed Maturation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 112(2). 747–757. 213 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D., Lucas R. Hoffman, Tyra G. Wolfsberg, & Judith M. White. (1996). VIRUS-CELL AND CELL-CELL FUSION. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 12(1). 627–661. 490 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Joanna M., Lorraine D. Hernandez, John W. Balliet, Paul Bates, & Judith M. White. (1995). Receptor-induced conformational changes in the subgroup A avian leukosis and sarcoma virus envelope glycoprotein. Journal of Virology. 69(12). 7410–7415. 81 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Lorraine D. & Elizabeth Vierling. (1993). Expression of Low Molecular Weight Heat-Shock Proteins under Field Conditions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 101(4). 1209–1216. 65 indexed citations

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