Prathapan Thiru

5.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
22 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Prathapan Thiru is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Prathapan Thiru has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Oncology and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Prathapan Thiru's work include RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Prathapan Thiru is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Prathapan Thiru collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Canada. Prathapan Thiru's co-authors include Ferenc Reinhardt, Robert A. Weinberg, Timothy C. Wang, Brian Bierie, David M. Sabatini, Walter W. Chen, Richard Possemato, Erol C. Bayraktar, Clary B. Clish and Franziska K. Lorbeer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Prathapan Thiru

22 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Metabolic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to glucose limitation and biguanides

2014 558 citations Kıvanç Birsoy, Richard Possemato et al. Nature profile →
A Genome-wide CRISPR Screen in Toxoplasma Identifies Essential Apicomplexan Genes

2016 550 citations Saima Sidik, Diego Huet et al. Cell profile →
Mitochondrial metabolism promotes adaptation to proteotoxic stress

2019 436 citations Peter Tsvetkov, Alexandre Detappe et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
Acquisition of a hybrid E/M state is essential for tumorigenicity of basal breast cancer cells

2019 341 citations Cornelia Kröger, Alexander B. Afeyan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prathapan Thiru United States	18	2.3k	1.1k	1.0k	410	404	22	3.7k
Thomas Chittenden United States	11	1.8k 0.8×	328 0.3×	1.5k 1.5×	179 0.4×	712 1.8×	25	3.4k
Valérie Lallemand-Breitenbach France	27	4.1k 1.8×	375 0.3×	704 0.7×	85 0.2×	347 0.9×	37	4.7k
Mads Gyrd‐Hansen Denmark	28	3.1k 1.3×	805 0.7×	747 0.7×	132 0.3×	682 1.7×	40	4.1k
Annette M.G. Dirac Netherlands	17	3.7k 1.6×	811 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	74 0.2×	468 1.2×	18	4.3k
Colin Nixon United Kingdom	38	3.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	43 0.1×	837 2.1×	94	5.1k
Pier Paolo Scaglioni United States	32	2.9k 1.3×	760 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	43 0.1×	1.2k 3.0×	61	4.5k
Nicolas Bidère France	26	2.0k 0.9×	798 0.7×	484 0.5×	54 0.1×	354 0.9×	59	3.3k
Hsing‐Jien Kung United States	36	2.1k 0.9×	939 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	39 0.1×	529 1.3×	91	3.9k
William McCulloch United States	21	1.4k 0.6×	512 0.5×	484 0.5×	164 0.4×	419 1.0×	87	2.5k
Mikhail A. Nikiforov United States	30	2.1k 0.9×	486 0.4×	580 0.6×	50 0.1×	269 0.7×	69	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Prathapan Thiru

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Prathapan Thiru

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lannes, Romain, et al.. (2024). Co-transcriptional splicing facilitates transcription of gigantic genes. PLoS Genetics. 20(6). e1011241–e1011241. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Haiting, Yang Guo, Paloma Cejas, et al.. (2022). The nuclear receptor THRB facilitates differentiation of human PSCs into more mature hepatocytes. Cell stem cell. 29(5). 795–809.e11. 15 indexed citations

Dongre, Anushka, Mohammad Rashidian, Elinor Ng Eaton, et al.. (2020). Direct and Indirect Regulators of Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition–Mediated Immunosuppression in Breast Carcinomas. Cancer Discovery. 11(5). 1286–1305. 93 indexed citations

Kröger, Cornelia, Alexander B. Afeyan, Elinor Ng Eaton, et al.. (2019). Acquisition of a hybrid E/M state is essential for tumorigenicity of basal breast cancer cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(15). 7353–7362. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

Tsvetkov, Peter, Alexandre Detappe, Kai Cai, et al.. (2019). Mitochondrial metabolism promotes adaptation to proteotoxic stress. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(7). 681–689. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

Pincus, David, Jayamani Anandhakumar, Prathapan Thiru, et al.. (2018). Genetic and epigenetic determinants establish a continuum of Hsf1 occupancy and activity across the yeast genome. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(26). 3168–3182. 42 indexed citations

Agarwal, Vikram, Alexander O. Subtelny, Prathapan Thiru, Igor Ulitsky, & David P. Bartel. (2018). Predicting microRNA targeting efficacy in Drosophila. Genome biology. 19(1). 152–152. 75 indexed citations

Bierie, Brian, Sarah E. Pierce, Daniel G. Stover, et al.. (2017). Integrin-β4 identifies cancer stem cell-enriched populations of partially mesenchymal carcinoma cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(12). E2337–E2346. 244 indexed citations

Keckesova, Zuzana, Joana Liu Donaher, Elizaveta Freinkman, et al.. (2017). LACTB is a tumour suppressor that modulates lipid metabolism and cell state. Nature. 543(7647). 681–686. 128 indexed citations

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Knoll, Marko, Sally Winther, Anirudh Natarajan, et al.. (2017). SYK kinase mediates brown fat differentiation and activation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2115–2115. 10 indexed citations

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Pattabiraman, Diwakar R., Brian Bierie, Prathapan Thiru, et al.. (2016). Activation of PKA leads to mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition and loss of tumor-initiating ability. Science. 351(6277). aad3680–aad3680. 258 indexed citations

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Sidik, Saima, Diego Huet, Suresh M. Ganesan, et al.. (2016). A Genome-wide CRISPR Screen in Toxoplasma Identifies Essential Apicomplexan Genes. Cell. 166(6). 1423–1435.e12. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shaul, Yoav D., Bingbing Yuan, Prathapan Thiru, et al.. (2015). MERAV: a tool for comparing gene expression across human tissues and cell types. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D560–D566. 100 indexed citations

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Birsoy, Kıvanç, Richard Possemato, Franziska K. Lorbeer, et al.. (2014). Metabolic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to glucose limitation and biguanides. Nature. 508(7494). 108–112. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shaul, Yoav D., Elizaveta Freinkman, William C. Comb, et al.. (2014). Dihydropyrimidine Accumulation Is Required for the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition. Cell. 158(5). 1094–1109. 172 indexed citations

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Pishesha, Novalia, et al.. (2014). Transcriptional divergence and conservation of human and mouse erythropoiesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). 4103–4108. 58 indexed citations

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Ludwig, Leif S., Hanna T. Gazda, Stephen W. Eichhorn, et al.. (2014). Altered translation of GATA1 in Diamond-Blackfan anemia. Nature Medicine. 20(7). 748–753. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lingbo, Violeta Rayon-Estrada, Prathapan Thiru, et al.. (2013). ZFP36L2 is required for self-renewal of early burst-forming unit erythroid progenitors. Nature. 499(7456). 92–96. 88 indexed citations

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Sankaran, Vijay G., Roxanne Ghazvinian, Ron Do, et al.. (2012). Exome sequencing identifies GATA1 mutations resulting in Diamond-Blackfan anemia. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 122(7). 2439–2443. 227 indexed citations

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Sankaran, Vijay G., Tobias Menne, Jo-Anne Vergilio, et al.. (2011). MicroRNA-15a and -16-1 act via MYB to elevate fetal hemoglobin expression in human trisomy 13. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1519–1524. 166 indexed citations

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