Mark Akeson

13.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
67 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Mark Akeson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Akeson has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mark Akeson's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (30 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Mark Akeson is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (30 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (13 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Mark Akeson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Vietnam. Mark Akeson's co-authors include David W. Deamer, Hugh E. Olsen, Miten Jain, Daniel Branton, Benedict Paten, Kate R. Lieberman, John J. Kasianowicz, Eric Brandin, Gerald Maxwell Cherf and W. Vercoutere and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Mark Akeson

67 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Oxford Nanopore MinION: delivery of nanopore sequencing to the genomics community

2016 963 citations Miten Jain, Hugh E. Olsen et al. profile →
Three decades of nanopore sequencing

2016 851 citations David W. Deamer, Mark Akeson et al. profile →
Microsecond Time-Scale Discrimination Among Polycytidylic Acid, Polyadenylic Acid, and Polyuridylic Acid as Homopolymers or as Segments Within Single RNA Molecules

1999 771 citations Mark Akeson, David W. Deamer et al. Biophysical Journal profile →
Automated forward and reverse ratcheting of DNA in a nanopore at 5-Å precision

2012 493 citations Gerald Maxwell Cherf, Kate R. Lieberman et al. profile →
Improved data analysis for the MinION nanopore sequencer

2015 422 citations Miten Jain, Hugh E. Olsen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Akeson United States	40	4.8k	4.1k	1.1k	788	611	67	8.1k
Sergey M. Bezrukov United States	55	5.9k 1.2×	3.3k 0.8×	853 0.7×	428 0.5×	297 0.5×	225	9.7k
Stephen Cheley United States	47	4.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	742 0.9×	581 1.0×	70	8.4k
David Sept United States	41	6.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.3×	434 0.4×	188 0.2×	452 0.7×	110	11.2k
Toshio Ando Japan	59	7.3k 1.5×	2.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.7×	176 0.2×	346 0.6×	363	14.5k
Scott R. Manalis United States	51	2.9k 0.6×	4.6k 1.1×	3.1k 2.7×	204 0.3×	200 0.3×	128	10.3k
Stefan Jakobs Germany	69	7.2k 1.5×	3.3k 0.8×	856 0.7×	256 0.3×	115 0.2×	195	14.9k
Hiroyuki Noji Japan	54	9.9k 2.0×	2.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	98 0.1×	218 0.4×	236	13.4k
John J. Kasianowicz United States	41	4.0k 0.8×	6.6k 1.6×	2.1k 1.8×	1.5k 1.9×	328 0.5×	81	8.6k
Norman J. Dovic̀hi United States	61	3.8k 0.8×	8.1k 2.0×	1.2k 1.0×	247 0.3×	163 0.3×	311	12.4k
Bo Huang United States	51	9.1k 1.9×	4.0k 1.0×	794 0.7×	96 0.1×	188 0.3×	133	16.8k

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Jones, Joshua D., Robin Abu-Shumays, Mark Akeson, et al.. (2024). Combining Nanopore direct RNA sequencing with genetics and mass spectrometry for analysis of T-loop base modifications across 42 yeast tRNA isoacceptors. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(19). 12074–12092. 6 indexed citations

Mulroney, Logan, Ira Schildkraut, George Tzertzinis, et al.. (2021). Identification of high-confidence human poly(A) RNA isoform scaffolds using nanopore sequencing. RNA. 28(2). 162–176. 17 indexed citations

Jain, Miten, et al.. (2021). Direct Nanopore Sequencing of Individual Full Length tRNA Strands. ACS Nano. 15(10). 16642–16653. 76 indexed citations

Robinson, Elektra K., Sergio Covarrubias, Robin Abu-Shumays, et al.. (2021). Inflammation drives alternative first exon usage to regulate immune genes including a novel iron-regulated isoform of Aim2. eLife. 10. 26 indexed citations

He, Daniel, David Wu, Sören Müller, et al.. (2021). miRNA-independent function of long noncoding pri-miRNA loci. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13). 25 indexed citations

Jain, Miten, Hang N. Nguyen, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Culture-Independent Microbial Profiling Onboard the International Space Station Using Nanopore Sequencing. Genes. 12(1). 106–106. 44 indexed citations

Jain, Miten, Hugh E. Olsen, Mark Akeson, & Robin Abu-Shumays. (2021). Adaptation of Human Ribosomal RNA for Nanopore Sequencing of Canonical and Modified Nucleotides. Methods in molecular biology. 2298. 53–74. 7 indexed citations

Dahl, Joseph M., Gerald Maxwell Cherf, Nahid N. Jetha, et al.. (2012). Direct Observation of Translocation in Individual DNA Polymerase Complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(16). 13407–13421. 27 indexed citations

Olasagasti, Felix, Kate R. Lieberman, Seico Benner, et al.. (2010). Replication of individual DNA molecules under electronic control using a protein nanopore. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(11). 798–806. 141 indexed citations

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Winters‐Hilt, Stephen & Mark Akeson. (2004). Nanopore Cheminformatics. DNA and Cell Biology. 23(10). 675–683. 19 indexed citations

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Winters‐Hilt, Stephen, et al.. (2003). Highly Accurate Classification of Watson-Crick Basepairs on Termini of Single DNA Molecules. Biophysical Journal. 84(2). 967–976. 80 indexed citations

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Vercoutere, W. & Mark Akeson. (2002). Biosensors for DNA sequence detection. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 6(6). 816–822. 104 indexed citations

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Katsuno, Tatsuro, Tapas K. Pradhan, Richard M. Ryan, et al.. (1999). Pharmacology and Cell Biology of the Bombesin Receptor Subtype 4 (BB₄-R). Biochemistry. 38(22). 7307–7320. 41 indexed citations

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Paula, Stefan, Mark Akeson, & David W. Deamer. (1999). Water transport by the bacterial channel α-hemolysin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1418(1). 117–126. 14 indexed citations

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Pradhan, Tapas K., Tatsuro Katsuno, Richard M. Ryan, et al.. (1998). The bombesin receptor subtype 4 is coupled to phospholipase C and has a unique pharmacology. Gastroenterology. 114. A1173–A1173. 1 indexed citations

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Kusui, Takashi, Richard V. Benya, Mark Akeson, et al.. (1997). Effect of Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor Number on Receptor Affinity, Coupling, Degradation, and Modulation. Molecular Pharmacology. 51(5). 721–732. 32 indexed citations

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Akeson, Mark, Joshua Scharff, Celia Sharp, & David M. Neville. (1992). Evidence that plasma membrane electrical potential is required for vesicular stomatitis virus infection of MDCK cells: A study using fluorescence measurements through polycarbonate supports. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 125(1). 81–91. 8 indexed citations

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Akeson, Mark & David W. Deamer. (1991). Proton conductance by the gramicidin water wire. Model for proton conductance in the F1F0 ATPases?. Biophysical Journal. 60(1). 101–109. 127 indexed citations

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Deamer, David W., et al.. (1991). Sensitivity to Anesthesia by Pregnanolone Appears Late in Evolution^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 625(1). 561–565. 6 indexed citations

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Akeson, Mark & David W. Deamer. (1989). Steady-state catecholamine distribution in chromaffin granule preparations: a test of the pump-leak hypothesis of general anesthesia. Biochemistry. 28(12). 5120–5127. 16 indexed citations

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