Sadeem Ahmad

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sadeem Ahmad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sadeem Ahmad has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sadeem Ahmad's work include interferon and immune responses (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (6 papers). Sadeem Ahmad is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (8 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (6 papers). Sadeem Ahmad collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Sadeem Ahmad's co-authors include Sun Hur, Xin Mu, Emily Greenwald, Cristhian Cadena, Ji Woo Park, Sudhir Pai Kasturi, Rohit Verma, Etai Jacob, Y. Grace Chen and Fei Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sadeem Ahmad

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

N6-Methyladenosine Modification Controls Circular RNA Imm... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 100 200 300 400
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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. N6-Methyladenosine Modification Controls Circular RNA Immunity
    2019 431 citations Y. Grace Chen, Robert Chen et al. Molecular Cell profile →
  2. ADAR1 prevents autoinflammation by suppressing spontaneous ZBP1 activation
    2022 159 citations Richard de Reuver, Evelien Dierick et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Sadeem Ahmad
Andrew Kohlway United States
Mariana Pavon-Eternod United States
Anand Kornepati United States
Subba Rao Nallagatla United States
Alessandro Michienzi Italy
Joseph M. Ziegelbauer United States
Shiyou Zhu China
Walter N. Moss United States
Seiichi Hirano Japan
Rachel E. Rigby United Kingdom
Andrew Kohlway United States
Sadeem Ahmad
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Countries citing papers authored by Sadeem Ahmad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sadeem Ahmad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sadeem Ahmad. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sadeem Ahmad. The network helps show where Sadeem Ahmad may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sadeem Ahmad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sadeem Ahmad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sadeem Ahmad 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 Sadeem Ahmad. Sadeem Ahmad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Ahmad, Sadeem, Tao Zou, Linlin Zhao, et al.. (2025). PACT prevents aberrant activation of PKR by endogenous dsRNA without sequestration. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3325–3325. 4 indexed citations
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Cadena, Cristhian, Sadeem Ahmad, Haitao Wang, et al.. (2023). Stress granules are shock absorbers that prevent excessive innate immune responses to dsRNA. Molecular Cell. 83(7). 1180–1196.e8. 74 indexed citations
3.
Reuver, Richard de, Evelien Dierick, Josephine Nemegeer, et al.. (2022). ADAR1 prevents autoinflammation by suppressing spontaneous ZBP1 activation. Nature. 607(7920). 784–789. 159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xue, Miaoge, Yuexiu Zhang, Haitao Wang, et al.. (2021). Viral RNA N6-methyladenosine modification modulates both innate and adaptive immune responses of human respiratory syncytial virus. PLoS Pathogens. 17(12). e1010142–e1010142. 27 indexed citations
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Lu, Mijia, Miaoge Xue, Haitao Wang, et al.. (2021). Nonsegmented Negative-Sense RNA Viruses Utilize N 6 -Methyladenosine (m 6 A) as a Common Strategy To Evade Host Innate Immunity. Journal of Virology. 95(9). 37 indexed citations
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Kato, Kazuki, Sadeem Ahmad, Zixiang Zhu, et al.. (2020). Structural analysis of RIG-I-like receptors reveals ancient rules of engagement between diverse RNA helicases and TRIM ubiquitin ligases. Molecular Cell. 81(3). 599–613.e8. 59 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem, Xin Mu, & Sun Hur. (2020). The Role of RNA Editing in the Immune Response. Methods in molecular biology. 2181. 287–307. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Y. Grace, Robert Chen, Sadeem Ahmad, et al.. (2019). N6-Methyladenosine Modification Controls Circular RNA Immunity. Molecular Cell. 76(1). 96–109.e9. 431 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cadena, Cristhian, Sadeem Ahmad, Joschka Willemsen, et al.. (2019). Ubiquitin-Dependent and -Independent Roles of E3 Ligase RIPLET in Innate Immunity. Cell. 177(5). 1187–1200.e16. 151 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem, Xin Mu, Fei Yang, et al.. (2018). Breaching Self-Tolerance to Alu Duplex RNA Underlies MDA5-Mediated Inflammation. Cell. 172(4). 797–810.e13. 287 indexed citations
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Mu, Xin, Emily Greenwald, Sadeem Ahmad, & Sun Hur. (2018). An origin of the immunogenicity of in vitro transcribed RNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(10). 5239–5249. 143 indexed citations
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Pawar, Komal Ishwar, Sadeem Ahmad, Katta Suma, et al.. (2016). Elongation Factor Tu Prevents Misediting of Gly-tRNA(Gly) Caused by the Design Behind the Chiral Proofreading Site of D-Aminoacyl-tRNA Deacylase. PLoS Biology. 14(5). e1002465–e1002465. 26 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem & Sun Hur. (2015). Helicases in Antiviral Immunity: Dual Properties as Sensors and Effectors. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 40(10). 576–585. 64 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem, Sowndarya Muthukumar, Santosh Kumar Kuncha, et al.. (2015). Specificity and catalysis hardwired at the RNA–protein interface in a translational proofreading enzyme. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7552–7552. 24 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem, Venu Kamarthapu, Jisha Chalissery, et al.. (2013). Mechanism of chiral proofreading during translation of the genetic code. eLife. 2. 33 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Sadeem, et al.. (2012). Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analyses of threonyl-tRNA synthetase editing domain fromAeropyrum pernix. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 68(11). 1390–1393. 1 indexed citations

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