Mala Samaranayake

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mala Samaranayake is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mala Samaranayake has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Mala Samaranayake's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Mala Samaranayake is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (5 papers). Mala Samaranayake collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and France. Mala Samaranayake's co-authors include Sriharsa Pradhan, George R. Feehery, Pierre‐Olivier Estève, Jack S. Benner, Steven E. Jacobsen, Hang Gyeong Chin, Gregory A. Horwitz, Xiaodong Cheng, J.R. Horton and Anup K. Upadhyay and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Mala Samaranayake

8 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Enzymatic methyl sequencing detects DNA methylation at single-base resolution from picograms of DNA

2021 262 citations Romualdas Vaisvila, V. K. Chaithanya Ponnaluri et al. Genome Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mala Samaranayake United States	8	1.0k	193	161	76	72	8	1.2k
Szymon Czauderna Poland	5	945 0.9×	230 1.2×	105 0.7×	61 0.8×	55 0.8×	7	1.1k
Carla Sawan France	8	793 0.8×	107 0.6×	133 0.8×	60 0.8×	53 0.7×	9	947
Geneviève P. Delcuve Canada	15	988 1.0×	182 0.9×	121 0.8×	55 0.7×	105 1.5×	21	1.3k
Stefania Rapelli Italy	12	1.0k 1.0×	160 0.8×	200 1.2×	40 0.5×	48 0.7×	15	1.1k
Shengjiang Tu United States	9	943 0.9×	163 0.8×	100 0.6×	56 0.7×	69 1.0×	12	1.2k
Maria R. Matarazzo Italy	19	1.0k 1.0×	291 1.5×	379 2.4×	63 0.8×	85 1.2×	36	1.2k
Sean Chen United States	14	833 0.8×	228 1.2×	266 1.7×	66 0.9×	41 0.6×	21	1.0k
Sarah Hevi United States	10	1.6k 1.6×	368 1.9×	122 0.8×	136 1.8×	82 1.1×	12	1.8k
Jeffrey Bajko United States	6	1.2k 1.2×	303 1.6×	77 0.5×	125 1.6×	56 0.8×	6	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Mala Samaranayake

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mala Samaranayake

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mala Samaranayake. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mala Samaranayake 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 Mala Samaranayake. Mala Samaranayake is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Sun, Zhiyi, Romualdas Vaisvila, Bo Yan, et al.. (2021). Nondestructive enzymatic deamination enables single-molecule long-read amplicon sequencing for the determination of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine at single-base resolution. Genome Research. 31(2). 291–300. 68 indexed citations

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Vaisvila, Romualdas, V. K. Chaithanya Ponnaluri, Zhiyi Sun, et al.. (2021). Enzymatic methyl sequencing detects DNA methylation at single-base resolution from picograms of DNA. Genome Research. 31(7). 1280–1289. 262 indexed citations breakdown →

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Horton, J.R., Megumu Mabuchi, Devora Cohen-Karni, et al.. (2012). Structure and cleavage activity of the tetrameric MspJI DNA modification-dependent restriction endonuclease. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(19). 9763–9773. 33 indexed citations

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Estève, Pierre‐Olivier, Yanqi Chang, Mala Samaranayake, et al.. (2010). A methylation and phosphorylation switch between an adjacent lysine and serine determines human DNMT1 stability. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 18(1). 42–48. 171 indexed citations

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Estève, Pierre‐Olivier, Hang Gyeong Chin, Jack S. Benner, et al.. (2009). Regulation of DNMT1 stability through SET7-mediated lysine methylation in mammalian cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(13). 5076–5081. 252 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Mala, et al.. (2008). Epigenetic mechanisms in mammals. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 66(4). 596–612. 345 indexed citations

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Canugovi, Chandrika, Mala Samaranayake, & Ashok S. Bhagwat. (2008). Transcriptional pausing and stalling causes multiple clustered mutations by human activation‐induced deaminase. The FASEB Journal. 23(1). 34–44. 38 indexed citations

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Samaranayake, Mala, Janusz M. Bujnicki, Michael A. Carpenter, & Ashok S. Bhagwat. (2006). Evaluation of Molecular Models for the Affinity Maturation of Antibodies: Roles of Cytosine Deamination by AID and DNA Repair. Chemical Reviews. 106(2). 700–719. 26 indexed citations

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