Sankar Adhya

18.5k citations

204 papers · 15.4k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 67

Impact in

Genetics top 0.05%
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Ecology top 0.1%
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Papers in

Genetics 109
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 100
Ecology 76
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 76

Co-authors: Max E. Gottesman Benoît De Crombrugghe Ira Pastan Susan Garges Carl R. Merril Hirofumi Aiba Michael J. Weickert Dean Scholl
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (37 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (22 papers)Journal of Bacteriology (18 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (17 papers)Molecular Microbiology (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States India United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Sankar Adhya

203 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

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TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION BY cAMP AND ITS RECEPTOR PROTEIN 1993 · 708 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1993 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1981 Journal of Biological Chemistry
1978 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1977 Medical Entomology and Zoology

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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1	Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation mBio ·Eric C. Keen, Valery Bliskovsky, Francisco Malagón, James D. Baker, Jeffrey S. Prince, James S. Klaus, Sankar Adhya	2017	101
2	Genome-Wide Transcriptional Regulation and Chromosome Structural Arrangement by GalR in E. coli Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences ·Qian Zhong, Andrei Trostel, Dale E. A. Lewis, Sang Jun Lee, Ximiao He, Anne M. Stringer, Joseph T. Wade, Thomas D. Schneider, Tim Durfee, Sankar Adhya	2016	9
3	Noncoding RNAs Binding to the Nucleoid Protein HU in Escherichia coli Journal of Bacteriology ·Mirjana Mačvanin, Rotem Edgar, Feng Cui, Andrei Trostel, Victor B. Zhurkin, Sankar Adhya	2012	43
4	Spiral structure of Escherichia coli HUαβ provides foundation for DNA supercoiling Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Fusheng Guo, Sankar Adhya	2007	97
5	Ribosomal protein S1 promotes transcriptional cycling RNA ·Maxim V. Sukhodolets, Susan Garges, Sankar Adhya	2006	44
6	Recognition of the tumor suppressor protein p53 and other protein targets by the calcium-binding protein S100B Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research ·Paul T. Wilder, どんと, Rhythm Bhalla, Thomas H. Charpentier, Donghwa Yang, Melissa A. Liriano, Kristen M. Varney, Andrew Lee, Amos B. Oppenheim, Sankar Adhya, France Carrier, David J. Weber	2006	82
7	Escherichia coli K1's Capsule Is a Barrier to Bacteriophage T7 Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Dean Scholl, Sankar Adhya, Carl R. Merril	2005	156
8	On the role of Cro in λ prophage induction Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sine Lo Svenningsen, Nina Costantino, Donald L. Court, Sankar Adhya	2005	82
9	2004 ASM Conference on the New Phage Biology: the ‘Phage Summit’ Molecular Microbiology ·Sankar Adhya, Lindsay W. Black, David I. Friedman, Graham F. Hatfull, Kenneth N. Kreuzer, Carl R. Merril, Amos B. Oppenheim, Forest Rohwer, Ry Young	2005	8
10	Phages: their role in bacterial pathogenesis and biotechnology. ASM Press eBooks ·Matthew K. Waldor, David I. Friedman, Sankar Adhya	2005	87
11	A mutant spacer sequence between -35 and -10 elements makes the P _lac promoter hyperactive and cAMP receptor protein-independent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mo‐Fang Liu, Michael Tolstorukov, Victor B. Zhurkin, Susan Garges, Sankar Adhya	2004	86
12	Improved Plasmid Vectors for the Analysis of Protein-Induced DNA Bending Humana Press eBooks ·Christian Zwieb, Sankar Adhya	2003	9
13	Bacteriophage Therapy Rescues Mice Bacteremic from a Clinical Isolate of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Infection and Immunity ·Biswajit Biswas, Sankar Adhya, Empar Sainz-Arnau, Tambaya M. Aliyu T.M., Andrei Trostel, Bradford S. Powell, Richard M. Carlton, Carl R. Merril	2002	383
14	Recruitment of HU by piggyback: a special role of GalR in repressosome assembly Genes & Development ·Sudeshna Kar, Sankar Adhya	2001	42
15	RNA polymerase and associated factors Elsevier eBooks ·Sankar Adhya, Susan Garges	1996	5
16	Role of Allosteric Changes in Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein Function Sub-cellular biochemistry ·Sankar Adhya, Sangryeol Ryu, Susan Garges	1995	5
17	Transcription Termination Regulates Gene Expression Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Sankar Adhya, Max E. Gottesman, Benoît De Crombrugghe, Don Court	1976	27
18	Cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate in Escherichia coli Bacteriological Reviews ·Ira Pastan, Sankar Adhya	1976	295
19	The Role of Gene S Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Sankar Adhya, Arup Sen, Sankar Mitra	1971	25
20	Origin and Bidirectional Orientation of DNA Replication in Coliphage Lambda Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Willem F. Stevens, Sankar Adhya, Waclaw Szybalski	1971	43

About Sankar Adhya

Sankar Adhya is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, having authored 204 papers that have together received 15.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (100 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (76 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (69 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (41 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers) and Escherichia coli research studies (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (6.8k citations), Ecology (5.3k citations), Endocrinology (1.1k citations), Microbiology (1.0k citations) and Molecular Biology (10.9k citations). Sankar Adhya has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Max E. Gottesman, Benoît De Crombrugghe, Ira Pastan, Susan Garges, Carl R. Merril, Hirofumi Aiba, Michael J. Weickert, Dean Scholl, Amos B. Oppenheim and Ahmad I. Bukhari. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology.

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