Prasad Tongaonkar

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Prasad Tongaonkar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Prasad Tongaonkar has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Microbiology and 9 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Prasad Tongaonkar's work include Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (10 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (4 papers). Prasad Tongaonkar is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (10 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and Biochemical and Structural Characterization (4 papers). Prasad Tongaonkar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and India. Prasad Tongaonkar's co-authors include A. S. Kolaskar, Kiran Madura, David Lambertson, Li Chen, Michio Nomura, Irving E. Vega, Loan Vũ, Warren M. Potts, Takashi Horiuchi and Takehiko Kobayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Prasad Tongaonkar

22 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A semi‐empirical method for prediction of antigenic determinants on protein antigens

1990 1.1k citations A. S. Kolaskar, Prasad Tongaonkar FEBS Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prasad Tongaonkar United States	17	1.8k	451	407	299	282	22	2.4k
Yasuhiko Horiguchi Japan	30	1.7k 0.9×	316 0.7×	473 1.2×	746 2.5×	65 0.2×	98	3.4k
Angelina S. Palma Portugal	24	1.1k 0.6×	519 1.2×	521 1.3×	421 1.4×	209 0.7×	55	2.4k
Guus Simons Netherlands	22	1.1k 0.6×	332 0.7×	215 0.5×	686 2.3×	122 0.4×	38	3.1k
Joe Chiba Japan	28	882 0.5×	856 1.9×	880 2.2×	358 1.2×	483 1.7×	113	2.6k
Chintamani D. Atreya United States	28	955 0.5×	305 0.7×	278 0.7×	320 1.1×	75 0.3×	89	2.7k
John Fikes United States	30	1.9k 1.0×	712 1.6×	1.4k 3.5×	279 0.9×	381 1.4×	49	3.3k
Brian Livingston United States	31	1.5k 0.8×	880 2.0×	1.5k 3.6×	481 1.6×	361 1.3×	43	2.8k
Zhiwei Huang China	20	1.7k 0.9×	208 0.5×	311 0.8×	170 0.6×	102 0.4×	41	2.3k
Wouter C. Puijk Netherlands	22	960 0.5×	162 0.4×	252 0.6×	185 0.6×	357 1.3×	45	1.7k
Eberhard Pfaff Germany	34	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 3.2×	411 1.0×	519 1.7×	236 0.8×	80	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tongaonkar, Prasad, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of miR-146a Expression and Regulation of Endotoxin Tolerance by Rhesus Theta-Defensin-1. Mediators of Inflammation. 2023. 1–8. 5 indexed citations

Tongaonkar, Prasad, Vasu Punj, Dat Q. Tran, et al.. (2019). RTD-1 therapeutically normalizes synovial gene signatures in rat autoimmune arthritis and suppresses proinflammatory mediators in RA synovial fibroblasts. Physiological Genomics. 51(12). 657–667. 9 indexed citations

Schaal, Justin B., Thorsten Maretzky, Dat Q. Tran, et al.. (2018). Macrocyclic θ-defensins suppress tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) shedding by inhibition of TNF-α–converting enzyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(8). 2725–2734. 25 indexed citations

Schaal, Justin B., Dat Q. Tran, Reshma Patel, et al.. (2017). Suppression and resolution of autoimmune arthritis by rhesus θ-defensin-1, an immunomodulatory macrocyclic peptide. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187868–e0187868. 12 indexed citations

Tongaonkar, Prasad, Justin B. Schaal, Dat Q. Tran, et al.. (2015). Rhesus macaque θ-defensin RTD-1 inhibits proinflammatory cytokine secretion and gene expression by inhibiting the activation of NF-κB and MAPK pathways. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 98(6). 1061–1070. 34 indexed citations

Tongaonkar, Prasad, et al.. (2012). High Fidelity Processing and Activation of the Human α-Defensin HNP1 Precursor by Neutrophil Elastase and Proteinase 3. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e32469–e32469. 21 indexed citations

Schaal, Justin B., Dat Q. Tran, Patti Tran, et al.. (2012). Rhesus Macaque Theta Defensins Suppress Inflammatory Cytokines and Enhance Survival in Mouse Models of Bacteremic Sepsis. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e51337–e51337. 59 indexed citations

Tongaonkar, Prasad & Michael E. Selsted. (2008). SDF2L1, a Component of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone Complex, Differentially Interacts with α-, β-, and θ-Defensin Propeptides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(9). 5602–5609. 16 indexed citations

Hontz, Robert D., Sarah L. French, Melanie Oakes, et al.. (2008). Transcription of Multiple Yeast Ribosomal DNA Genes Requires Targeting of UAF to the Promoter by Uaf30. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 28(21). 6709–6719. 24 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad, Sarah L. French, Melanie Oakes, et al.. (2005). Histones are required for transcription of yeast rRNA genes by RNA polymerase I. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(29). 10129–10134. 24 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Takehiko, Takashi Horiuchi, Prasad Tongaonkar, Loan Vũ, & Michio Nomura. (2004). SIR2 Regulates Recombination between Different rDNA Repeats, but Not Recombination within Individual rRNA Genes in Yeast. Cell. 117(4). 441–453. 208 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad, Jonathan A. Dodd, & Michio Nomura. (2003). Purification and Assay of Upstream Activation Factor, Core Factor, Rrn3p, and Yeast RNA Polymerase I. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 370. 109–120. 4 indexed citations

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Ortolan, Tatiana G., et al.. (2000). The DNA repair protein Rad23 is a negative regulator of multi-ubiquitin chain assembly. Nature Cell Biology. 2(9). 601–608. 164 indexed citations

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Tabb, Michelle M., Prasad Tongaonkar, Loan Vũ, & Michio Nomura. (2000). Evidence for Separable Functions of Srp1p, the Yeast Homolog of Importin α (Karyopherin α): Role for Srp1p and Sts1p in Protein Degradation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(16). 6062–6073. 56 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad, et al.. (2000). Evidence for an Interaction between Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes and the 26S Proteasome. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 20(13). 4691–4698. 76 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad, Konrad Beck, Ujwal Shinde, & Kiran Madura. (1999). Characterization of a Temperature-Sensitive Mutant of a Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme and Its Use as a Heat-Inducible Degradation Signal. Analytical Biochemistry. 272(2). 263–269. 11 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad, et al.. (1998). Sequence elements that contribute to the degradation of yeast Gα. Genes to Cells. 3(5). 307–319. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Li, Prasad Tongaonkar, Irving E. Vega, et al.. (1998). Rad23 links DNA repair to the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. Nature. 391(6668). 715–718. 394 indexed citations

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Tongaonkar, Prasad & Kiran Madura. (1998). Reconstituting Ubiquitination Reactions with Affinity-Purified Components and32P-Ubiquitin. Analytical Biochemistry. 260(2). 135–141. 16 indexed citations

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Kolaskar, A. S. & Prasad Tongaonkar. (1990). A semi‐empirical method for prediction of antigenic determinants on protein antigens. FEBS Letters. 276(1-2). 172–174. 1112 indexed citations breakdown →

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