Mehdi Mollapour

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Mehdi Mollapour is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mehdi Mollapour has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cell Biology and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mehdi Mollapour's work include Heat shock proteins research (61 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (18 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (18 papers). Mehdi Mollapour is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (61 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (18 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (18 papers). Mehdi Mollapour collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Mehdi Mollapour's co-authors include Len Neckers, Peter W. Piper, Jane B. Trepel, Giuseppe Giaccone, Chrisostomos Prodromou, Mark R. Woodford, Barry Panaretou, Kostas Hatzixanthis, Dimitra Bourboulia and Shinji Tsutsumi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mehdi Mollapour

98 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Targeting the dynamic HSP90 complex in cancer

2010 1.2k citations Jane B. Trepel, Mehdi Mollapour et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mehdi Mollapour United States	41	5.2k	860	599	580	533	101	6.0k
Barry Panaretou United Kingdom	29	4.3k 0.8×	568 0.7×	902 1.5×	616 1.1×	590 1.1×	43	4.7k
Yolanda Sánchez United States	41	6.2k 1.2×	2.0k 2.3×	241 0.4×	200 0.3×	51 0.1×	89	7.7k
F. Niesen United Kingdom	19	2.7k 0.5×	401 0.5×	443 0.7×	186 0.3×	209 0.4×	25	3.5k
Paul Jenö Switzerland	45	3.7k 0.7×	840 1.0×	204 0.3×	1.1k 1.9×	47 0.1×	72	6.0k
Michael G. Douglas United States	43	5.6k 1.1×	851 1.0×	333 0.6×	331 0.6×	54 0.1×	78	6.0k
Gilles Labesse France	43	3.1k 0.6×	524 0.6×	562 0.9×	177 0.3×	315 0.6×	127	4.9k
Thomas Lübben United States	23	2.7k 0.5×	311 0.4×	508 0.8×	434 0.7×	126 0.2×	50	3.4k
Martin Bard United States	46	4.7k 0.9×	827 1.0×	86 0.1×	236 0.4×	69 0.1×	112	6.8k
Rosalind Kim United States	34	3.6k 0.7×	275 0.3×	1.1k 1.9×	143 0.2×	65 0.1×	87	4.4k
Michael D. W. Griffin Australia	32	2.0k 0.4×	258 0.3×	653 1.1×	379 0.7×	68 0.1×	122	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mehdi Mollapour

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Backe, Sarah J., Rebecca Sager, Michael Daneshvar, et al.. (2026). Targeting and dissociating HIF2α from the molecular chaperone Hsp70 triggers apoptosis in kidney cancer. Communications Medicine. 6(1). 91–91.

Sager, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). Flow cytometry FRET reveals post-translational modifications drive Protein Phosphatase-5 conformational changes in mammalian cells. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 29(6). 709–717. 2 indexed citations

Backe, Sarah J., et al.. (2024). Molecular chaperones: Guardians of tumor suppressor stability and function. Oncotarget. 15(1). 679–696. 2 indexed citations

Sager, Rebecca, Sarah J. Backe, Diana M. Dunn, et al.. (2024). SUMOylation of protein phosphatase 5 regulates phosphatase activity and substrate release. EMBO Reports. 25(11). 4636–4654. 4 indexed citations

Basin, Michael, et al.. (2023). MP04-12 PHARMACOLOGICAL INHIBITION OF THE MOLECULAR CHAPERONE HSP70 OVERCOMES BELZUTIFAN RESISTANCE IN CCRCC. The Journal of Urology. 209(Supplement 4). 1 indexed citations

Woodford, Mark R., Dimitra Bourboulia, & Mehdi Mollapour. (2023). Epichaperomics reveals dysfunctional chaperone protein networks. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5084–5084. 3 indexed citations

Sager, Rebecca, Sarah J. Backe, Len Neckers, Mark R. Woodford, & Mehdi Mollapour. (2023). Detecting Posttranslational Modifications of Hsp90 Isoforms. Methods in molecular biology. 2693. 125–139.

Woodford, Mark R., Sarah J. Backe, Rebecca Sager, et al.. (2020). The Role of Heat Shock Protein-90 in the Pathogenesis of Birt-Hogg-Dubé and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Syndromes. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 39(6). 322–326. 6 indexed citations

Woodford, Mark R., Beiyang Wei, Mehdi Mollapour, et al.. (2018). Extracellular Phosphorylation of TIMP-2 by Secreted c-Src Tyrosine Kinase Controls MMP-2 Activity. iScience. 1. 87–96. 30 indexed citations

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Woodford, Mark R., Rebecca Sager, Diana M. Dunn, et al.. (2017). Tumor suppressor Tsc1 is a new Hsp90 co‐chaperone that facilitates folding of kinase and non‐kinase clients. The EMBO Journal. 36(24). 3650–3665. 68 indexed citations

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Oberoi, Jasmeen, Diana M. Dunn, Mark R. Woodford, et al.. (2016). Structural and functional basis of protein phosphatase 5 substrate specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(32). 9009–9014. 64 indexed citations

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Bratslavsky, Gennady, Mark R. Woodford, Michael Daneshvar, & Mehdi Mollapour. (2016). Sixth BHD Symposium and First International Upstate Kidney Cancer Symposium: latest scientific and clinical discoveries. Oncotarget. 7(13). 15292–15298. 2 indexed citations

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Woodford, Mark R., et al.. (2016). Targeting Hsp90 in Non-Cancerous Maladies. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 16(25). 2792–2804. 12 indexed citations

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Miyajima, Naoto, Shinji Tsutsumi, Carole Sourbier, et al.. (2013). The HSP90 Inhibitor Ganetespib Synergizes with the MET Kinase Inhibitor Crizotinib in both Crizotinib-Sensitive and -Resistant MET-Driven Tumor Models. Cancer Research. 73(23). 7022–7033. 48 indexed citations

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Mollapour, Mehdi, Shinji Tsutsumi, Thomas L. Prince, et al.. (2012). Tumor-Intrinsic and Tumor-Extrinsic Factors Impacting Hsp90- Targeted Therapy. Current Molecular Medicine. 12(9). 1125–1141. 36 indexed citations

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Mollapour, Mehdi & Peter W. Piper. (2007). Hog1 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphorylation Targets the Yeast Fps1 Aquaglyceroporin for Endocytosis, Thereby Rendering Cells Resistant to Acetic Acid. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(18). 6446–6456. 212 indexed citations

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Harris, Nicholas, et al.. (2005). Overexpressed Sod1p acts either to reduce or to increase the lifespans and stress resistance of yeast, depending on whether it is Cu²⁺‐deficient or an active Cu,Zn‐superoxide dismutase. Aging Cell. 4(1). 41–52. 40 indexed citations

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Mamnun, Yasmine M., Bettina Bauer, Christoph Schüller, et al.. (2003). War1p, a Novel Transcription Factor Controlling Weak Acid Stress Response in Yeast. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 23(5). 1775–1785. 107 indexed citations

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Schüller, Christoph, Yasmine M. Mamnun, Mehdi Mollapour, et al.. (2003). Global Phenotypic Analysis and Transcriptional Profiling Defines the Weak Acid Stress Response Regulon inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(2). 706–720. 128 indexed citations

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Panaretou, Barry, Giuliano Siligardi, Philippe Meyer, et al.. (2002). Activation of the ATPase Activity of Hsp90 by the Stress-Regulated Cochaperone Aha1. Molecular Cell. 10(6). 1307–1318. 415 indexed citations

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