Oscar Touster

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
108 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Oscar Touster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Oscar Touster has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Physiology and 36 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Oscar Touster's work include Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (35 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (35 papers) and Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (24 papers). Oscar Touster is often cited by papers focused on Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (35 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (35 papers) and Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (24 papers). Oscar Touster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Oscar Touster's co-authors include Daulat R.P. Tulsiani, Nathan N. Aronson, John T. Dulaney, Dennis J. Opheim, Thomas M. Harris, S. Hollmann, H. Stewart Hendrickson, Kelley W. Moremen, Phillips W. Robbins and Philip D. Stahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Oscar Touster

108 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

[6]Isolation of rat liver plasma membrane fragments in isotonic sucrose

1974 583 citations Oscar Touster et al. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →
ISOLATION OF RAT LIVER PLASMA MEMBRANES

1970 469 citations Oscar Touster et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
Swainsonine inhibits the biosynthesis of complex glycoproteins by inhibition of Golgi mannosidase II.

1982 409 citations Daulat R.P. Tulsiani, Oscar Touster et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oscar Touster United States	42	3.8k	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	656	108	6.0k
David J. Shapiro United States	54	5.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.8×	706 1.1×	188	9.9k
L. Dorland Netherlands	43	4.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	514 0.4×	723 0.6×	172 0.3×	137	5.9k
Anatol G. Morell United States	30	2.7k 0.7×	572 0.4×	521 0.4×	433 0.4×	330 0.5×	46	5.0k
Bo E. Samuelsson Sweden	40	3.0k 0.8×	813 0.6×	331 0.3×	779 0.7×	404 0.6×	159	5.8k
Nathan N. Aronson United States	29	2.6k 0.7×	482 0.3×	813 0.7×	788 0.7×	175 0.3×	72	3.9k
Tamio Yamakawa Japan	34	2.8k 0.7×	827 0.6×	422 0.4×	756 0.7×	228 0.3×	145	3.7k
M Vaughan United States	46	4.4k 1.2×	394 0.3×	1.6k 1.3×	722 0.6×	271 0.4×	120	6.7k
Pierre Louisot France	31	3.2k 0.8×	428 0.3×	550 0.5×	830 0.7×	214 0.3×	244	4.9k
Gerald Litwack United States	55	9.1k 2.4×	370 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	842 0.8×	1.5k 2.3×	242	12.8k
Charles J. Waechter United States	40	3.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	686 0.6×	392 0.3×	141 0.2×	109	4.8k

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Touster, Oscar, et al.. (1993). Formation, Turnover, and Sensitivity to Phosphatidylinositol-Specific Phospholipase C of Thy-1 of a Rat Neuronal Tumor Cell Line. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 301(1). 8–14. 1 indexed citations

Tulsiani, Daulat R.P. & Oscar Touster. (1992). Evidence that swainsonine pretreatment of rats leads to the formation of autophagic vacuoles and endosomes with decreased capacity to mature to, or fuse with, active lysosomes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 296(2). 556–561. 12 indexed citations

Tulsiani, Daulat R.P., et al.. (1988). Rat epididymal α-d-mannosidase: Purification, carbohydrate composition, substrate specificity, and antibody production. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 267(1). 60–68. 18 indexed citations

Tulsiani, Daulat R.P., Harry P. Broquist, Lynn F. James, & Oscar Touster. (1988). Production of hybrid glycoproteins and accumulation of oligosaccharides in the brain of sheep and pigs administered swainsonine or locoweed. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 264(2). 607–617. 49 indexed citations

Novikoff, Phyllis M., Daulat R.P. Tulsiani, Oscar Touster, A Yam, & Alex B. Novikoff. (1983). Immunocytochemical localization of alpha-D-mannosidase II in the Golgi apparatus of rat liver.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(14). 4364–4368. 82 indexed citations

Touster, Oscar, et al.. (1978). [50] α-d-Mannosidase from Golgi membranes of rat liver. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 50. 500–505. 3 indexed citations

Tulsiani, Daulat R.P., Dennis J. Opheim, & Oscar Touster. (1977). Purification and characterization of alpha-D-mannosidase from rat liver golgi membranes.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 252(10). 3227–3233. 155 indexed citations

Oates, Peter J. & Oscar Touster. (1976). In vitro fusion of Acanthamoeba phagolysosomes. I. Demonstration and quantitation of vacuole fusion in Acanthamoeba homogenates.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 68(2). 319–338. 32 indexed citations

Stahl, Philip D. & Oscar Touster. (1971). β-Glucuronidase of Rat Liver Lysosomes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 246(17). 5398–5406. 112 indexed citations

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Hankes, L. V., et al.. (1970). MYO-INOSITOL CATABOLISM IN HUMAN PENTOSURICS: THE PREDOMINANT ROLE OF THE GLUCURONATE-XYLULOSE-PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 165(2 New Dimension). 564–576. 20 indexed citations

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Horvat, Agnes & Oscar Touster. (1967). Biochemical characterization of the lysosomes of ehrlich ascites tumor cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 148(3). 725–740. 41 indexed citations

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Gotto, Antonio M., et al.. (1967). On the mechanism of the nucleoside stimulation of amino acid incorporation into protein of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells in vitro.. PubMed. 27(6). 1073–83. 4 indexed citations

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Gotto, Antonio M., et al.. (1965). Spectrophotometric and manometric studies of NADPH and NADH oxidase activities of rat liver microsomes: Effects of drugs and adenine nucleotides. Biochemical Pharmacology. 14(6). 989–1002. 7 indexed citations

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Touster, Oscar. (1960). Essential pentosuria and the glucuronate-xylulose pathway.. PubMed. 19. 977–83. 28 indexed citations

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Touster, Oscar, et al.. (1960). The inhibition by ethionine of the enhancement of ascorbic acid excretion by barbital and by 3-methylcholanthrene in the rat. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 3(3). 248–252. 15 indexed citations

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McCormick, Donald B. & Oscar Touster. (1957). THE CONVERSION IN VIVO OF XYLITOL TO GLYCOGEN VIA THE PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 229(1). 451–461. 56 indexed citations

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Touster, Oscar, et al.. (1957). The conversion of 1-13C-D-glucuronolactone to 5-13C-L-xylulose in a pentosuric human. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 25(1). 196–198. 25 indexed citations

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Touster, Oscar, et al.. (1956). THE REDUCTION OF l-XYLULOSE TO XYLITOL BY GUINEA PIG LIVER MITOCHONDRIA. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 221(2). 697–709. 52 indexed citations

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Darby, William J., William J. McGanity, Margaret P. Martin, et al.. (1953). The Vanderbilt Cooperative Study of Maternal and Infant Nutrition IV. Dietary, Laboratory and Physical Findings in 2,129 Delivered Pregnancies. Journal of Nutrition. 51(4). 565–597. 58 indexed citations

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Bush, Milton T., et al.. (1951). THE PRODUCTION OF β-NITROPROPIONIC ACID BY A STRAIN OF ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 188(2). 685–693. 66 indexed citations

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