Nathan A. Tanner

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Nathan A. Tanner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan A. Tanner has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Nathan A. Tanner's work include Biosensors and Analytical Detection (23 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (22 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). Nathan A. Tanner is often cited by papers focused on Biosensors and Analytical Detection (23 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (22 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (10 papers). Nathan A. Tanner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Nathan A. Tanner's co-authors include Yinhua Zhang, Thomas C. Evans, Antoine M. van Oijen, Samir M. Hamdan, Slobodan Jergic, Nicholas E. Dixon, Joseph J. Loparo, Jackson Buss, Clotilde K. S. Carlow and Guoping Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, The EMBO Journal and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nathan A. Tanner

42 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Real-time single-molecule observation of rolling-circle DNA replication

2009 1.2k citations Nathan A. Tanner, Joseph J. Loparo et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Visual Detection of Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Using pH-Sensitive Dyes

2015 482 citations Nathan A. Tanner, Yinhua Zhang et al. BioTechniques profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan A. Tanner United States	22	2.1k	1.2k	640	346	243	42	3.2k
Keith Pardee Canada	24	2.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	472 0.7×	337 1.0×	104 0.4×	37	3.7k
Max J. Kellner United States	13	5.9k 2.8×	1.2k 0.9×	924 1.4×	614 1.8×	365 1.5×	17	6.9k
Robi D. Mitra United States	37	4.0k 1.9×	573 0.5×	350 0.5×	1.1k 3.1×	455 1.9×	97	5.6k
Irene Bosch United States	32	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	225 0.7×	64 0.3×	71	4.3k
Xing Zhu China	31	1.3k 0.6×	305 0.2×	792 1.2×	145 0.4×	151 0.6×	66	2.8k
Timothy Spicer United States	32	1.5k 0.7×	282 0.2×	631 1.0×	162 0.5×	206 0.8×	130	3.3k
Anthony J. O’Donoghue United States	31	1.5k 0.7×	221 0.2×	368 0.6×	110 0.3×	286 1.2×	114	2.9k
Ryan Tewhey United States	23	1.2k 0.5×	185 0.2×	325 0.5×	561 1.6×	163 0.7×	32	2.0k
Christopher T. Eggers United States	10	2.1k 1.0×	387 0.3×	178 0.3×	190 0.5×	55 0.2×	11	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan A. Tanner

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Pan, Juan, Megumu Mabuchi, Daniel W. Kneller, et al.. (2025). Kinetic analysis and engineering of thermostable Cas12a for nucleic acid detection. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(11). 3 indexed citations

Li, Zhiru, Amit Sinha, Yinhua Zhang, et al.. (2023). Extraction-free LAMP assays for generic detection of Old World Orthopoxviruses and specific detection of Mpox virus. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 21093–21093. 12 indexed citations

Tamanaha, Esta, Yinhua Zhang, & Nathan A. Tanner. (2022). Profiling RT-LAMP tolerance of sequence variation for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0259610–e0259610. 23 indexed citations

Tanner, Nathan A., et al.. (2022). Chimeric DNA byproducts in strand displacement amplification using the T7 replisome. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0273979–e0273979. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yinhua, Eric A. Hunt, Esta Tamanaha, Ivan R. Corrêa, & Nathan A. Tanner. (2022). Improved visual detection of DNA amplification using pyridylazophenol metal sensing dyes. Communications Biology. 5(1). 999–999. 15 indexed citations

Li, Zhiru, Jacqueline L. Bruce, William E. Jack, et al.. (2022). Development and implementation of a simple and rapid extraction-free saliva SARS-CoV-2 RT-LAMP workflow for workplace surveillance. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0268692–e0268692. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Yinhua & Nathan A. Tanner. (2022). Improving RT-LAMP detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA through primer set selection and combination. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0254324–e0254324. 6 indexed citations

Smith, Chelsey, Nathaniel G. Butlin, Nathan A. Tanner, et al.. (2021). Improving Performance of a SARS-CoV-2 RT-LAMP Assay for Use With a Portable Isothermal Fluorimeter: Towards a Point-of-Care Molecular Testing Strategy. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT. 32(3). 180–185. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Yinhua & Nathan A. Tanner. (2021). Development of Multiplexed Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza Viral RNA. BioTechniques. 70(3). 167–174. 35 indexed citations

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Hunt, Eric A., et al.. (2021). Profiling Thermus thermophilus Argonaute Guide DNA Sequence Preferences by Functional Screening. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 670940–670940. 6 indexed citations

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Anahtar, Melis N., Graham McGrath, Brian Rabe, et al.. (2020). Clinical Assessment and Validation of a Rapid and Sensitive SARS-CoV-2 Test Using Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Without the Need for RNA Extraction. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(2). ofaa631–ofaa631. 39 indexed citations

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Schermer, Bernhard, Francesca Fabretti, Veronica Di Cristanziano, et al.. (2020). Rapid SARS-CoV-2 testing in primary material based on a novel multiplex RT-LAMP assay. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0238612–e0238612. 51 indexed citations

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Hunt, Eric A., Thomas C. Evans, & Nathan A. Tanner. (2018). Single-stranded binding proteins and helicase enhance the activity of prokaryotic argonautes in vitro. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0203073–e0203073. 21 indexed citations

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Calvert, Amanda E., et al.. (2017). Rapid colorimetric detection of Zika virus from serum and urine specimens by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP). PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0185340–e0185340. 78 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yinhua & Nathan A. Tanner. (2017). Isothermal Amplification of Long, Discrete DNA Fragments Facilitated by Single-Stranded Binding Protein. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8497–8497. 25 indexed citations

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Tanner, Nathan A., et al.. (2016). High-temperature single-molecule kinetic analysis of thermophilic archaeal MCM helicases. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(18). 8764–8771. 13 indexed citations

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Tanner, Nathan A., Gökhan Tolun, Joseph J. Loparo, et al.. (2011). E. coli DNA replication in the absence of free β clamps. The EMBO Journal. 30(9). 1830–1840. 37 indexed citations

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Tanner, Nathan A. & Antoine M. van Oijen. (2010). Visualizing DNA Replication at the Single-Molecule Level. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 475. 259–278. 32 indexed citations

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Kulczyk, Arkadiusz W., Nathan A. Tanner, Joseph J. Loparo, Charles C. Richardson, & Antoine M. van Oijen. (2010). Direct Observation of Enzymes Replicating DNA Using a Single-molecule DNA Stretching Assay. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 11 indexed citations

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Hamdan, Samir M., Donald E. Johnson, Nathan A. Tanner, et al.. (2007). Dynamic DNA Helicase-DNA Polymerase Interactions Assure Processive Replication Fork Movement. Molecular Cell. 27(4). 539–549. 92 indexed citations

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