Ramanujan S. Hegde

17.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

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Ramanujan S. Hegde is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramanujan S. Hegde has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Cell Biology and 31 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ramanujan S. Hegde's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (66 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (39 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Ramanujan S. Hegde is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (66 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (39 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (29 papers). Ramanujan S. Hegde collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hungary. Ramanujan S. Hegde's co-authors include Sichen Shao, Szymon Juszkiewicz, Robert J. Keenan, Vishwanath R. Lingappa, R.M. Voorhees, D. Thomas Rutkowski, Ajay Sharma, Jack Taunton, Onn Brandman and Harris D. Bernstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ramanujan S. Hegde

140 papers receiving 13.2k 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 Transmembrane Form of the Prion Protein in Neurodegenerative Disease

1998 572 citations Ramanujan S. Hegde et al. Science profile →
ZNF598 Is a Quality Control Sensor of Collided Ribosomes

2018 286 citations Szymon Juszkiewicz, Viswanathan Chandrasekaran et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramanujan S. Hegde United States	73	10.8k	4.7k	1.7k	1.2k	1.0k	144	13.3k
Masayuki Miura Japan	64	8.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.5×	817 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	624 0.6×	253	13.2k
Judith Frydman United States	68	12.9k 1.2×	3.4k 0.7×	932 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	278 0.3×	157	15.8k
Vishwanath R. Lingappa United States	49	5.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	835 0.7×	996 1.0×	109	7.3k
Felix Wieland Germany	68	14.4k 1.3×	7.5k 1.6×	734 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	287 0.3×	168	18.2k
James Shorter United States	63	12.8k 1.2×	3.6k 0.8×	539 0.3×	607 0.5×	978 1.0×	161	15.9k
J. Paul Luzio United Kingdom	63	7.4k 0.7×	5.5k 1.2×	776 0.4×	1.8k 1.6×	283 0.3×	199	13.9k
James A. Wohlschlegel United States	66	12.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.3×	981 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	162 0.2×	236	16.3k
Keith D. Wilkinson United States	63	12.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	396 0.4×	118	15.1k
Roman Polishchuk Italy	54	6.2k 0.6×	4.6k 1.0×	635 0.4×	2.2k 1.9×	216 0.2×	118	10.9k
Kalle Gehring Canada	53	7.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.4×	750 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	194 0.2×	198	9.3k

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Yagita, Yuichi, Paul V. Murphy, R Kurzbauer, et al.. (2025). Convergence of orphan quality control pathways at a ubiquitin chain-elongating ligase. Molecular Cell. 85(4). 815–828.e10. 5 indexed citations

Juszkiewicz, Szymon, et al.. (2025). Mechanism of chaperone recruitment and retention on mitochondrial precursors. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 36(4). ar39–ar39. 8 indexed citations

Sundaram, Arunkumar, Qianru Li, Yu Wan, et al.. (2025). Global analysis of translocon remodeling during protein synthesis at the ER. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2517–2525. 1 indexed citations

Zhong, Frank, et al.. (2024). Structural analysis of the dynamic ribosome-translocon complex. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Höpfler, Markus, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, Evangelia Vartholomaiou, et al.. (2023). Mechanism of ribosome-associated mRNA degradation during tubulin autoregulation. Molecular Cell. 83(13). 2290–2302.e13. 18 indexed citations

Lemus, Leticia, Ramanujan S. Hegde, & Veit Goder. (2023). New frontiers in quality control: the case of GPI-anchored proteins. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 24(9). 599–600. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Haoxi, et al.. (2023). EMC rectifies the topology of multipass membrane proteins. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(1). 32–41. 20 indexed citations

Wan, Li, Szymon Juszkiewicz, Daniel Blears, et al.. (2021). Translation stress and collided ribosomes are co-activators of cGAS. Molecular Cell. 81(13). 2808–2822.e10. 64 indexed citations

Hegde, Ramanujan S., et al.. (2021). A unified evolutionary origin for the ubiquitous protein transporters SecY and YidC. BMC Biology. 19(1). 266–266. 31 indexed citations

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Chandrasekaran, Viswanathan, Szymon Juszkiewicz, Junhong Choi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of ribosome stalling during translation of a poly(A) tail. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26(12). 1132–1140. 113 indexed citations

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Juszkiewicz, Szymon, et al.. (2018). EMC Is Required to Initiate Accurate Membrane Protein Topogenesis. Cell. 175(6). 1507–1519.e16. 168 indexed citations

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Shao, Sichen, et al.. (2017). Mechanistic basis for a molecular triage reaction. Science. 355(6322). 298–302. 106 indexed citations

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Yanagitani, Kota, Szymon Juszkiewicz, & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2017). UBE2O is a quality control factor for orphans of multiprotein complexes. Science. 357(6350). 472–475. 93 indexed citations

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Guna, Alina, Norbert Volkmar, John C. Christianson, & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2017). The ER membrane protein complex is a transmembrane domain insertase. Science. 359(6374). 470–473. 217 indexed citations

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Voorhees, R.M. & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2015). Structure of the Sec61 channel opened by a signal sequence. Science. 351(6268). 88–91. 179 indexed citations

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Shao, Sichen & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2014). Reconstitution of a Minimal Ribosome-Associated Ubiquitination Pathway with Purified Factors. Molecular Cell. 55(6). 880–890. 86 indexed citations

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Basseville, Agnès, Akina Tamaki, Caterina Ieranò, et al.. (2012). Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Influence Chemotherapy Transport by Modulating Expression and Trafficking of a Common Polymorphic Variant of the ABCG2 Efflux Transporter. Cancer Research. 72(14). 3642–3651. 32 indexed citations

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Rane, Neena S., Oishee Chakrabarti, Lionel Feigenbaum, & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2010). Signal sequence insufficiency contributes to neurodegeneration caused by transmembrane prion protein. The Journal of Cell Biology. 188(4). 515–526. 70 indexed citations

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Snapp, Erik L., Ajay Sharma, Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz, & Ramanujan S. Hegde. (2006). Monitoring chaperone engagement of substrates in the endoplasmic reticulum of live cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(17). 6536–6541. 104 indexed citations

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Bhanuprakash, V., et al.. (2004). A Classical Live Attenuated Vaccine for Sheep Pox. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 36(4). 307–320. 27 indexed citations

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