Nathan West

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Nathan West is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan West has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Organic Chemistry and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Nathan West's work include Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (8 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (4 papers) and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (4 papers). Nathan West is often cited by papers focused on Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (8 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (4 papers) and Protein Degradation and Inhibitors (4 papers). Nathan West collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Nathan West's co-authors include James E. Bradner, Ralph Mazitschek, Edward F. Greenberg, Stephen J. Haggarty, Tandy Warnow, Melissa L. Grachan, Stuart L. Schreiber, Robert M. Williams, Albert A. Bowers and Olaf Wiest and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Nathan West

10 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Chemical phylogenetics of histone deacetylases

2010 581 citations James E. Bradner, Nathan West et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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Caroline B. Ho United States

Lang Ngo United States

Ilaria Laurenzana Italy

Sylvia Musto United States

Dianlin Xie United States

Kevin D. Shenk United States

Martin Schröder Germany

R A Rifkind United States

Chris Proffitt United States

Nerea Allende-Vega France

Caroline B. Ho United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan West

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan West

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Chan, Carmel T., Jun Qi, William Smith, et al.. (2014). Syntheses and Discovery of a Novel Class of Cinnamic Hydroxamates as Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors by Multimodality Molecular Imaging in Living Subjects. Cancer Research. 74(24). 7475–7486. 12 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Brian E., Matthias D. Hofer, Madeleine E. Lemieux, et al.. (2011). Differentiation of NUT Midline Carcinoma by Epigenomic Reprogramming. Cancer Research. 71(7). 2686–2696. 156 indexed citations

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Kemp, Melissa M., Qiu Wang, Nathan West, et al.. (2011). A novel HDAC inhibitor with a hydroxy-pyrimidine scaffold. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 21(14). 4164–4169. 19 indexed citations

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Estiú, Guillermina, Nathan West, Ralph Mazitschek, et al.. (2010). On the inhibition of histone deacetylase 8. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 18(11). 4103–4110. 71 indexed citations

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Bradner, James E., Nathan West, Melissa L. Grachan, et al.. (2010). Chemical phylogenetics of histone deacetylases. Nature Chemical Biology. 6(3). 238–243. 581 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marubayashi, Sachie, Priya Koppikar, Tony Taldone, et al.. (2010). HSP90 is a therapeutic target in JAK2-dependent myeloproliferative neoplasms in mice and humans. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 120(10). 3578–3593. 142 indexed citations

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Bradner, James E., Raymond H. Mak, Shyam Tanguturi, et al.. (2010). Chemical genetic strategy identifies histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) and HDAC2 as therapeutic targets in sickle cell disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(28). 12617–12622. 162 indexed citations

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Bowers, Albert A., Nathan West, Stuart L. Schreiber, et al.. (2009). Synthesis and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitory Activity of Largazole Analogs: Alteration of the Zinc-Binding Domain and Macrocyclic Scaffold. Organic Letters. 11(6). 1301–1304. 84 indexed citations

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Bowers, Albert A., Thomas J. Greshock, Nathan West, et al.. (2009). Synthesis and Conformation−Activity Relationships of the Peptide Isosteres of FK228 and Largazole. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(8). 2900–2905. 91 indexed citations

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Bowers, Albert A., Nathan West, Jack Taunton, et al.. (2008). Total Synthesis and Biological Mode of Action of Largazole: A Potent Class I Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(33). 11219–11222. 138 indexed citations

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