Rūta Gerasimaitė

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Rūta Gerasimaitė is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rūta Gerasimaitė has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Rūta Gerasimaitė's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (6 papers). Rūta Gerasimaitė is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (6 papers). Rūta Gerasimaitė collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Lithuania. Rūta Gerasimaitė's co-authors include Andreas Mayer, Gražvydas Lukinavičius, Jonas Bucevičius, Andrea Schmidt, Henning J. Jessen, Igor Pavlovic, Ji‐Yul Jung, Yves Poirier, Rebekka Wild and Michael Hothorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Rūta Gerasimaitė

26 papers receiving 1.3k 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. Control of eukaryotic phosphate homeostasis by inositol polyphosphate sensor domains
    2016 454 citations Rebekka Wild, Rūta Gerasimaitė et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rūta Gerasimaitė Germany 18 611 387 200 171 110 26 1.3k
Jochen Kuper Germany 27 1.7k 2.8× 172 0.4× 54 0.3× 84 0.5× 17 0.2× 60 2.1k
Danye Qiu Germany 16 294 0.5× 199 0.5× 40 0.2× 98 0.6× 8 0.1× 42 667
Krisztina Z. Bencze United States 9 586 1.0× 60 0.2× 123 0.6× 84 0.5× 18 0.2× 11 1.2k
Jérôme Dupuy France 16 593 1.0× 127 0.3× 47 0.2× 91 0.5× 28 0.3× 23 1.3k
Claudia A. Lipschultz United States 22 1.2k 2.0× 152 0.4× 35 0.2× 143 0.8× 14 0.1× 32 1.9k
Mariapina D’Onofrio Italy 24 929 1.5× 129 0.3× 14 0.1× 146 0.9× 22 0.2× 71 1.4k
Alberto Boffi Italy 17 510 0.8× 66 0.2× 73 0.4× 109 0.6× 9 0.1× 28 912
Maura Montani Italy 24 712 1.2× 95 0.2× 65 0.3× 32 0.2× 9 0.1× 43 1.3k
Josep Font Australia 20 728 1.2× 39 0.1× 63 0.3× 37 0.2× 25 0.2× 33 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Rūta Gerasimaitė

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rūta Gerasimaitė

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rūta Gerasimaitė

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rūta Gerasimaitė. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rūta Gerasimaitė based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rūta Gerasimaitė. Rūta Gerasimaitė is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lukinavičius, Gražvydas, Jonatan Alvelid, Rūta Gerasimaitė, et al.. (2024). Stimulated emission depletion microscopy. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 4(1). 20 indexed citations
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Probst, Dimitri, et al.. (2023). Force generation in human blood platelets by filamentous actomyosin structures. Biophysical Journal. 122(16). 3340–3353. 7 indexed citations
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Kohl, Bastian, Rūta Gerasimaitė, Sarah Hostachy, et al.. (2023). Inositol pyrophosphates activate the vacuolar transport chaperone complex in yeast by disrupting a homotypic SPX domain interaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2645–2645. 17 indexed citations
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Bucevičius, Jonas, et al.. (2023). A general highly efficient synthesis of biocompatible rhodamine dyes and probes for live-cell multicolor nanoscopy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1306–1306. 38 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, Visvaldas Kairys, Thomas Schubert, et al.. (2023). Biochemical and cellular insights into the Baz2B protein, a non-catalytic subunit of the chromatin remodeling complex. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(1). 337–354. 3 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, et al.. (2021). Blinking Fluorescent Probes for Tubulin Nanoscopy in Living and Fixed Cells. ACS Chemical Biology. 16(11). 2130–2136. 26 indexed citations
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Thurn, Johann, Jasmin K. Pape, Rūta Gerasimaitė, et al.. (2021). Inside a Shell—Organometallic Catalysis Inside Encapsulin Nanoreactors. Angewandte Chemie. 133(44). 24028–24034. 5 indexed citations
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Bucevičius, Jonas, et al.. (2020). Enhancing the biocompatibility of rhodamine fluorescent probes by a neighbouring group effect. Chemical Science. 11(28). 7313–7323. 49 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, Jan Seikowski, Georgij Kostiuk, et al.. (2020). Efflux pump insensitive rhodamine–jasplakinolide conjugates for G- and F-actin imaging in living cells. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18(15). 2929–2937. 17 indexed citations
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Alexeeva, Marina, Rūta Gerasimaitė, Magnar Bjørås, et al.. (2018). Excision of the doubly methylated base N 4 ,5-dimethylcytosine from DNA by Escherichia coli Nei and Fpg proteins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1748). 20170337–20170337. 6 indexed citations
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Bucevičius, Jonas, Gražvydas Lukinavičius, & Rūta Gerasimaitė. (2018). The Use of Hoechst Dyes for DNA Staining and Beyond. Chemosensors. 6(2). 18–18. 146 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta & Andreas Mayer. (2017). Ppn2, a novel Zn2+-dependent polyphosphatase in the acidocalcisome-like yeast vacuole. Journal of Cell Science. 130(9). 1625–1636. 51 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, Igor Pavlovic, Samanta Capolicchio, et al.. (2017). Inositol Pyrophosphate Specificity of the SPX-Dependent Polyphosphate Polymerase VTC. ACS Chemical Biology. 12(3). 648–653. 76 indexed citations
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Wild, Rebekka, Rūta Gerasimaitė, Ji‐Yul Jung, et al.. (2016). Control of eukaryotic phosphate homeostasis by inositol polyphosphate sensor domains. Science. 352(6288). 986–990. 454 indexed citations breakdown →
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Desfougères, Yann, Rūta Gerasimaitė, Henning J. Jessen, & Andreas Mayer. (2016). Vtc5, a Novel Subunit of the Vacuolar Transporter Chaperone Complex, Regulates Polyphosphate Synthesis and Phosphate Homeostasis in Yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(42). 22262–22275. 62 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, et al.. (2014). Coupled synthesis and translocation restrains polyphosphate to acidocalcisome-like vacuoles and prevents its toxicity. Journal of Cell Science. 127(Pt 23). 5093–104. 93 indexed citations
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Lukinavičius, Gražvydas, et al.. (2012). Engineering the DNA cytosine-5 methyltransferase reaction for sequence-specific labeling of DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(22). 11594–11602. 42 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, et al.. (2011). Direct observation of cytosine flipping and covalent catalysis in a DNA methyltransferase. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(9). 3771–3780. 34 indexed citations
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Gerasimaitė, Rūta, Giedrius Vilkaitis, & Saulius Klimašauskas. (2009). A directed evolution design of a GCG-specific DNA hemimethylase. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(21). 7332–7341. 19 indexed citations
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Klimašauskas, Saulius, Rūta Gerasimaitė, Giedrius Vilkaitis, & Saulius Kulakauskas. (2002). N4,5-dimethylcytosine, a novel hypermodified base in DNA. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series. 2(1). 73–74. 5 indexed citations

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