Sankar Mitra

19.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
253 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Sankar Mitra is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sankar Mitra has authored 253 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Oncology and 35 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sankar Mitra's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (149 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (64 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (37 papers). Sankar Mitra is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (149 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (64 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (37 papers). Sankar Mitra collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Panama. Sankar Mitra's co-authors include Tapas K. Hazra, Tadahide Izumi, István Boldogh, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay, Sheila E. Crowe, Asima Bhattacharyya, Muralidhar L. Hegde, Kishor K. Bhakat, Robert S. Foote and Robert E. Carraway and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sankar Mitra

249 papers receiving 15.6k 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.

Oxidative Stress: An Essential Factor in the Pathogenesis of Gastrointestinal Mucosal Diseases

2014 1.9k citations Asima Bhattacharyya, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay et al. profile →
DNA-bound structures and mutants reveal abasic DNA binding by APE1 DNA repair and coordination

2000 637 citations Clifford D. Mol, Tadahide Izumi et al. Nature profile →
Early steps in the DNA base excision/single-strand interruption repair pathway in mammalian cells

2008 518 citations Muralidhar L. Hegde, Tapas K. Hazra et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sankar Mitra

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Combinatorial Effect of PLK1 Inhibition with Temozolomide and Radiation in Glioblastoma 2021 ·Cancers ·Arvind Pandey, S. C. Tripathi, Junhua Mai, Samir Hanash, Haifa Shen, Sankar Mitra, Robert Rostomily	9
2	Gold Nanoparticles Radio-Sensitize and Reduce Cell Survival in Lewis Lung Carcinoma 2020 ·Nanomaterials ·Arvind Pandey, Veronica Vighetto, (unknown), Francesca Ferraro, Matteo Hirsch, Nicola Di Ferrante, Sankar Mitra, Alessandro Grattoni, Carly S. Filgueira	21
3	Motor neuron disease-associated loss of nuclear TDP-43 is linked to DNA double-strand break repair defects 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Joy Mitra, Erika N. Guerrero, Pavana M. Hegde, Nicole F. Liachko, Haibo Wang, Velmarini Vasquez, Junling Gao, Arvind Pandey, J. Paul Taylor, Brian C. Kraemer, Ping Wu, István Boldogh, Ralph M. Garruto, Sankar Mitra, K. S. Rao, Muralidhar L. Hegde	208
4	SMAD4 Gene Mutation Renders Pancreatic Cancer Resistance to Radiotherapy through Promotion of Autophagy 2018 ·Clinical Cancer Research ·Feng Wang, Xiaojun Xia, Chunying Yang, (unknown), Junhua Mai, (unknown), Dickson Kirui, Ya’an Kang, Jason B. Fleming, Eugene J. Koay, Sankar Mitra, Mauro Ferrari, Haifa Shen	123
5	Revisiting Metal Toxicity in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Stroke: Therapeutic Potential. 2015 ·Europe PMC (PubMed Central) ·Joy Mitra, Velmarini Vasquez, Pavana M. Hegde, István Boldogh, Sankar Mitra, Thomas A. Kent, Kosagi Sharaf Jagannatha Rao, Muralidhar L. Hegde	21
6	Obesity and Hepatosteatosis in Mice with Enhanced Oxidative DNA Damage Processing in Mitochondria 2011 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Haihong Zhang, Cheng‐Hui Xie, Horace J. Spencer, Chunlai Zuo, Masahiro Higuchi, Gouri Ranganathan, Philip A. Kern, Ming W. Chou, Qin Huang, Bartosz Szczęsny, Sankar Mitra, Amanda J. Watson, Geoffrey P. Margison, Chun-Yang Fan	16
7	Lipid Nano-Particles in Medicine: Production, Stability and Drug Delivery – A Review 2011 ·Sankar Mitra	3
8	Cell Surface Binding, Intracellular cAMP Elevation and Membrane Associated G-Protein Activation by (R,R)- and (S,S)-Formoterols in Androgen Independent Human Prostate Cancer Cell Line, PC3 2008 ·Sankar Mitra	1
9	Regulatory Role of Human AP-Endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1) in YB-1-Mediated Activation of the Multidrug Resistance Gene MDR1 2008 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Ranajoy Chattopadhyay, Soumita Das, Amit K. Maiti, István Boldogh, Jingwu Xie, Tapas K. Hazra, Kimitoshi Kohno, Sankar Mitra, Kishor K. Bhakat	101
10	Transcriptional Regulatory Functions of Mammalian AP-Endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1), an Essential Multifunctional Protein 2008 ·Antioxidants and Redox Signaling ·Kishor K. Bhakat, Anil K. Mantha, Sankar Mitra	211
11	Binding and Stability of Curcumin in Presence of Bovine Serum Albumin 2007 ·Sankar Mitra	19
12	Interleukin-8 Induction by Helicobacter pylori in Gastric Epithelial Cells is Dependent on Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease-1/Redox Factor-1 2006 ·The Journal of Immunology ·Ann M. O’Hara, Asima Bhattacharyya, Randy C. Mifflin, Michael F. Smith, Kieran A. Ryan, Kevin G.–E. Scott, Makoto Naganuma, Antonella Casola, Tadahide Izumi, Sankar Mitra, Peter B. Ernst, Sheila E. Crowe	44
13	Two essential but distinct functions of the mammalian abasic endonuclease 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tadahide Izumi, David B. Brown, C. V. Naidu, Kishor K. Bhakat, Mark A. MacInnes, Hiroshi Saito, David J. Chen, Sankar Mitra	194
14	Multiple DNA glycosylases for repair of 8-oxoguanine and their potential in Vivo functions 2001 ·Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology ·Tapas K. Hazra, Jeff W. Hill, Tadahide Izumi, Sankar Mitra	110
15	Requirement for human AP endonuclease 1 for repair of 3′-blocking damage at DNA single-strand breaks induced by reactive oxygen species 2000 ·Carcinogenesis ·Tadahide Izumi, Tapas K. Hazra, István Boldogh, Alan E. Tomkinson, Min S. Park, Shogo Ikeda, Sankar Mitra	145
16	DNA-bound structures and mutants reveal abasic DNA binding by APE1 DNA repair and coordination breakdown → 2000 ·Nature ·Clifford D. Mol, Tadahide Izumi, Sankar Mitra, John A. Tainer	637
17	Induction of the alkyltransferase (MGMT) gene by DNA damaging agents and the glucocorticoid dexamethasone and comparison with the response of base excision repair genes 1996 ·Carcinogenesis ·Thomas Grombacher, Sankar Mitra, Bernd Kaina	107
18	Chromosomal localization of human O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene by in situ hybridization 1992 ·Mutagenesis ·A.T. Natarajan, (unknown), F. Darroudi, Marcus B. Valentine, Thomas P. Brent, Sankar Mitra, Keizo Tano	52
19	Rapid, large-scale purification and characterization of ‘Ada protein’ (0⁶methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase) ofE.coli 1988 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·D. K. Bhattacharyya, Keizo Tano, Gerard J. Bunick, (unknown), W. David Behnke, Sankar Mitra	16
20	The Role of Gene S 1971 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Sankar Adhya, Arup Sen, Sankar Mitra	25

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