Peter Agre

44.1k total citations · 31 hit papers
233 papers, 34.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Agre is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Agre has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 34.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Molecular Biology, 72 papers in Physiology and 66 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Peter Agre's work include Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (164 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (73 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (66 papers). Peter Agre is often cited by papers focused on Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (164 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (73 papers) and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (66 papers). Peter Agre collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Switzerland. Peter Agre's co-authors include Gregory M. Preston, Søren Nielsen, Landon S. King, Barbara L. Smith, William B. Guggino, David Kozono, Ole Petter Ottersen, Andreas Engel, Mario J. Borgnia and Masato Yasui and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Peter Agre

229 papers receiving 34.3k 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.

  1. Appearance of Water Channels in Xenopus Oocytes Expressing Red Cell CHIP28 Protein
    1992 1.6k citations Gregory M. Preston, William B. Guggino et al. Science profile →
  2. Structural determinants of water permeation through aquaporin-1
    2000 1.4k citations Kazuyoshi Murata, Teruhisa Hirai et al. profile →
  3. Specialized Membrane Domains for Water Transport in Glial Cells: High-Resolution Immunogold Cytochemistry of Aquaporin-4 in Rat Brain
    1997 1.2k citations Søren Nielsen, Erlend A. Nagelhus et al. profile →
  4. Aquaporins in the Kidney: From Molecules to Medicine
    2002 954 citations Søren Nielsen, Peter Agre et al. profile →
  5. Aquaporin water channels – from atomic structure to clinical medicine
    2002 896 citations Peter Agre, Landon S. King et al. profile →
  6. From structure to disease: the evolving tale of aquaporin biology
    2004 732 citations Landon S. King, David Kozono et al. profile →
  7. Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Aquaporin Water Channels
    1999 694 citations Søren Nielsen, Andreas Engel et al. profile →
  8. Isolation of the cDNA for erythrocyte integral membrane protein of 28 kilodaltons: member of an ancient channel family.
    1991 650 citations Gregory M. Preston, Peter Agre Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Distribution of the aquaporin CHIP in secretory and resorptive epithelia and capillary endothelia.
    1993 645 citations Søren Drud-Heydary Nielsen, Barbara L. Smith et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  10. Molecular characterization of an aquaporin cDNA from brain: candidate osmoreceptor and regulator of water balance.
    1994 585 citations Gregory M. Preston, William B. Guggino et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Identification, purification, and partial characterization of a novel Mr 28,000 integral membrane protein from erythrocytes and renal tubules.
    1988 543 citations Bradley Smith, Peter Agre et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  12. Aquaporin CHIP: the archetypal molecular water channel
    1993 532 citations Peter Agre, Gregory M. Preston et al. profile →
  13. Aquaporin Water Channels (Nobel Lecture)
    2004 514 citations Peter Agre profile →
  14. Direct immunogold labeling of aquaporin-4 in square arrays of astrocyte and ependymocyte plasma membranes in rat brain and spinal cord
    1998 509 citations Peter Agre, Søren Nielsen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. Reconstitution of functional water channels in liposomes containing purified red cell CHIP28 protein
    1992 497 citations Mark L. Zeidel, Barbara L. Smith et al. profile →
  16. Molecular structure of the water channel through aquaporin CHIP. The hourglass model.
    1994 494 citations Gregory M. Preston, Barbara L. Smith et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  17. The mercury-sensitive residue at cysteine 189 in the CHIP28 water channel.
    1993 493 citations Gregory M. Preston, Peter Agre et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  18. CHIP28 water channels are localized in constitutively water-permeable segments of the nephron.
    1993 453 citations Barbara L. Smith, Erik Christensen et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
  19. An α-syntrophin-dependent pool of AQP4 in astroglial end-feet confers bidirectional water flow between blood and brain
    2003 434 citations Mahmood Amiry‐Moghaddam, Takashi Otsuka et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Pathophysiology of the Aquaporin Water Channels
    1996 428 citations Landon S. King, Peter Agre profile →
  21. Rapid gating and anion permeability of an intracellular aquaporin
    1999 402 citations Masato Yasui, Søren Nielsen et al. profile →
  22. Syntrophin-dependent expression and localization of Aquaporin-4 water channel protein
    2001 402 citations John D. Neely, Mahmood Amiry‐Moghaddam et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. Aquaporin water channels: molecular mechanisms for human diseases1
    2003 396 citations Peter Agre, David Kozono profile →
  24. Arsenite transport by mammalian aquaglyceroporins AQP7 and AQP9
    2002 392 citations Peter Agre et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  25. The Aquaporins, Blueprints for Cellular Plumbing Systems
    1998 382 citations Peter Agre et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  26. Aquaporin-4 Water Channel Protein in the Rat Retina and Optic Nerve: Polarized Expression in Müller Cells and Fibrous Astrocytes
    1998 382 citations Erlend A. Nagelhus, Finn‐Mogens Šmejda Haug et al. profile →
  27. Molecular Cloning and Characterization of an Aquaporin cDNA from Salivary, Lacrimal, and Respiratory Tissues
    1995 360 citations Surabhi Raina, Gregory M. Preston et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  28. The three-dimensional structure of aquaporin-1
    1997 359 citations Thomas Walz, Teruhisa Hirai et al. profile →
  29. Aquaporins in complex tissues. II. Subcellular distribution in respiratory and glandular tissues of rat
    1997 355 citations Søren Nielsen, Landon S. King et al. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology profile →
  30. Erythrocyte Mr 28,000 transmembrane protein exists as a multisubunit oligomer similar to channel proteins.
    1991 308 citations Barbara L. Smith, Peter Agre Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
  31. Partial deficiency of erythrocyte spectrin in hereditary spherocytosis
    1985 178 citations Peter Agre et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Agre 25.7k 8.2k 5.2k 4.4k 3.1k 233 34.9k
A.S. Verkman 25.2k 1.0× 9.2k 1.1× 3.2k 0.6× 2.6k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 323 34.8k
Navdeep S. Chandel 33.7k 1.3× 4.9k 0.6× 7.3k 1.4× 3.4k 0.8× 3.2k 1.0× 303 57.5k
Randall S. Johnson 23.2k 0.9× 3.3k 0.4× 5.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.3× 3.1k 1.0× 362 52.6k
Richard C. Boucher 17.0k 0.7× 26.8k 3.3× 5.8k 1.1× 1.7k 0.4× 2.5k 0.8× 482 46.2k
Sergio Grinstein 28.9k 1.1× 3.0k 0.4× 7.4k 1.4× 2.0k 0.4× 3.5k 1.1× 578 53.1k
M. Celeste Simon 26.3k 1.0× 4.5k 0.5× 5.1k 1.0× 2.4k 0.5× 3.1k 1.0× 262 47.7k
Toren Finkel 30.3k 1.2× 2.2k 0.3× 11.4k 2.2× 1.5k 0.3× 3.4k 1.1× 211 55.4k
Jacques Pouysségur 29.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.3× 3.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.3× 3.1k 1.0× 369 42.1k
Philip S. Low 15.7k 0.6× 4.7k 0.6× 5.8k 1.1× 7.5k 1.7× 2.0k 0.6× 521 36.9k
Matthew G. Vander Heiden 37.2k 1.4× 3.5k 0.4× 4.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 225 54.5k

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All Works

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Wang, Sibao, André L.A. Dos-Santos, Wei Huang, et al.. (2017). Driving mosquito refractoriness to Plasmodium falciparum with engineered symbiotic bacteria. Science. 357(6358). 1399–1402. 185 indexed citations
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Agre, Peter. (2006). The Aquaporin Water Channels. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 3(1). 5–13. 335 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (2006). Purification and functional characterization of aquaporin‐8. Biology of the Cell. 98(3). 153–161. 92 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Yasuko, Mariusz T. Skowroński, Yoshiko Nakae, et al.. (2005). Identification of AQP5 in lipid rafts and its translocation to apical membranes by activation of M3 mAChRs in interlobular ducts of rat parotid gland. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 289(5). C1303–C1311. 108 indexed citations
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Agre, Peter. (2004). Aquaporin‐Wasserkanäle (Nobel‐Vortrag). Angewandte Chemie. 116(33). 4377–4390. 38 indexed citations
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Amiry‐Moghaddam, Mahmood, Takashi Otsuka, Patricia D. Hurn, et al.. (2003). An α-syntrophin-dependent pool of AQP4 in astroglial end-feet confers bidirectional water flow between blood and brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(4). 2106–2111. 434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kozono, David, Masato Yasui, Landon S. King, & Peter Agre. (2002). Aquaporin water channels: atomic structure molecular dynamics meet clinical medicine. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 109(11). 1395–1399. 173 indexed citations
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Fujiyoshi, Yoshinori, Kaoru Mitsuoka, Bert L. de Groot, et al.. (2002). Structure and Function of Water Channels. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 12(4). 509–515. 213 indexed citations
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Murata, Kazuyoshi, Kaoru Mitsuoka, Teruhisa Hirai, et al.. (2001). Molecular basis of water selectivity on aquaporin-1. Kidney International. 60(2). 399–399. 1 indexed citations
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Nagelhus, Erlend A., et al.. (1999). Ontogeny of water transport in rat brain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(3). 1 indexed citations
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Tse, William, Patrick G. Gallagher, Yongping Wang, et al.. (1997). Amino-acid substitution in α-spectrin commonly coinherited with nondominant hereditary spherocytosis. American Journal of Hematology. 54(3). 233–241. 15 indexed citations
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Elkjær, Marie-Louise, Henrik Birn, Peter Agre, Erik Christensen, & Søren Nielsen. (1995). Effects of microtubule disruption on endocytosis, membrane recycling and polarized distribution of Aquaporin-1 and gp330 in proximal tubule cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 67(1). 57–72. 7 indexed citations
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Raina, Surabhi, Gregory M. Preston, William B. Guggino, & Peter Agre. (1995). Molecular Cloning and Characterization of an Aquaporin cDNA from Salivary, Lacrimal, and Respiratory Tissues. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(4). 1908–1912. 360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Agre, Peter, Bradley Smith, Ruben Baumgarten, et al.. (1994). Human red cell Aquaporin CHIP. II. Expression during normal fetal development and in a novel form of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 94(3). 1050–1058. 51 indexed citations
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Agre, Peter, et al.. (1994). Differential control of band 3 lateral and rotational mobility in intact red cells.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 94(2). 683–688. 41 indexed citations
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Smith, Barbara L., Ruben Baumgarten, Søren Nielsen, et al.. (1993). Concurrent expression of erythroid and renal aquaporin CHIP and appearance of water channel activity in perinatal rats.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 92(4). 2035–2041. 61 indexed citations
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Echevarrı́a, Miriam, Gustavo Frindt, Gregory M. Preston, et al.. (1993). Expression of multiple water channel activities in Xenopus oocytes injected with mRNA from rat kidney.. The Journal of General Physiology. 101(6). 827–841. 45 indexed citations
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Agre, Peter & Jean‐Pierre Cartron. (1992). Protein blood group antigens of the human red cell : structure, function, and clinical significance. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Sahr, Kenneth E., Takashi Tobe, A L Scarpa, et al.. (1989). Sequence and exon-intron organization of the DNA encoding the alpha I domain of human spectrin. Application to the study of mutations causing hereditary elliptocytosis.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 84(4). 1243–1252. 51 indexed citations
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Marchesi, Sally L., et al.. (1987). Mutant forms of spectrin alpha-subunits in hereditary elliptocytosis.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 80(1). 191–198. 58 indexed citations

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