Sara Contente

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Sara Contente is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Contente has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sara Contente's work include Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (10 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers) and Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (3 papers). Sara Contente is often cited by papers focused on Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (10 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers) and Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (3 papers). Sara Contente collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Poland. Sara Contente's co-authors include David Dubnau, Thomas Gryczan, Robert M. Friedman, Kaylene Kenyon, Donata Rimoldi, Paolo Sarmientos, James E. Sylvester, Michael Cashel, Herbert M. Kagan and Philip C. Trackman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sara Contente

24 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus plasmids introduced by transformation into Bacillus subtilis

1978 486 citations Thomas Gryczan, Sara Contente et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Contente United States	14	1.4k	825	468	146	122	24	1.7k
Tamotsu Hashimoto-Gotoh Japan	20	1.3k 0.9×	975 1.2×	392 0.8×	80 0.5×	64 0.5×	37	1.9k
B. Cami France	21	1.2k 0.9×	604 0.7×	279 0.6×	201 1.4×	145 1.2×	43	1.7k
Pieter van de Putte Netherlands	34	2.0k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	779 1.7×	35 0.2×	69 0.6×	75	2.5k
Alan Sloma United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	559 0.7×	310 0.7×	315 2.2×	366 3.0×	25	1.9k
Anna J. Podhajska Poland	21	1.5k 1.1×	554 0.7×	270 0.6×	53 0.4×	60 0.5×	47	1.9k
Gérard Buttin France	22	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	193 0.4×	44 0.3×	149 1.2×	42	2.1k
Niels Frandsen France	15	1.3k 0.9×	918 1.1×	564 1.2×	74 0.5×	29 0.2×	19	2.0k
Kim Quon United States	16	1.8k 1.3×	968 1.2×	391 0.8×	138 0.9×	113 0.9×	19	2.3k
Kenichi Matsubara Japan	24	1.1k 0.8×	704 0.9×	459 1.0×	77 0.5×	96 0.8×	46	1.7k
Christoph Weigel Germany	23	1.1k 0.8×	823 1.0×	240 0.5×	35 0.2×	99 0.8×	51	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Contente

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Contente

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Contente

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Contente. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Contente 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 Sara Contente. Sara Contente 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

Selvanesan, Benson Chellakkan, Álvaro de Mingo Pulido, Daniel Hupalo, et al.. (2023). NSC243928 Treatment Induces Anti-Tumor Immune Response in Mouse Mammary Tumor Models. Cancers. 15(5). 1468–1468. 3 indexed citations

Selvanesan, Benson Chellakkan, Purushottam B. Tiwari, Daniel Hupalo, et al.. (2023). Lymphocyte antigen 6K signaling to aurora kinase promotes advancement of the cell cycle and the growth of cancer cells, which is inhibited by LY6K-NSC243928 interaction. Cancer Letters. 558. 216094–216094. 4 indexed citations

Contente, Sara, et al.. (2011). H-Ras Localizes to Cell Nuclei and Varies with the Cell Cycle. Genes & Cancer. 2(2). 166–172. 13 indexed citations

Contente, Sara, et al.. (2009). Tumor suppressive effect of lysyl oxidase proenzyme. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1793(7). 1272–1278. 14 indexed citations

Friedman, Robert M. & Sara Contente. (2009). Interferons as Therapy for Viral and Neoplastic Diseases: From Panacea to Pariah to Paragon. Pharmaceuticals. 2(3). 206–216. 5 indexed citations

Contente, Sara, et al.. (2005). Mechanisms of Deregulation of IFN Regulatory Factor-1 in ras -Transformed Fibroblasts. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 25(7). 418–423. 2 indexed citations

Contente, Sara, et al.. (2003). Deregulated Expression of Interferon Regulatory Factor-1 in Oncogene-Transformed Mouse Fibroblasts. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 23(11). 639–647. 4 indexed citations

Contente, Sara, et al.. (1999). Epigenetic inhibition of lysyl oxidase transcription after transformation by ras oncogene. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 194(1-2). 79–91. 38 indexed citations

Friedman, Robert M., et al.. (1997). Reversion by Deletion of Transforming Oncogene Following Interferon-β and Retinoic Acid Treatment. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 17(10). 647–651. 13 indexed citations

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Mello, Maria Luiza S., et al.. (1995). Modulation of ras Transformation Affecting Chromatin Supraorganization as Assessed by Image Analysis. Experimental Cell Research. 220(2). 374–382. 62 indexed citations

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Contente, Sara, Katalin Csiszár, Kaylene Kenyon, & Robert M. Friedman. (1993). Structure of the Mouse Lysyl Oxidase Gene. Genomics. 16(2). 395–400. 33 indexed citations

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Kenyon, Kaylene, W.S. Modi, Sara Contente, & Robert M. Friedman. (1993). A novel human cDNA with a predicted protein similar to lysyl oxidase maps to chromosome 15q24-q25.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 268(25). 18435–18437. 80 indexed citations

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Mock, Beverly A., Sara Contente, Kaylene Kenyon, Robert M. Friedman, & Christine A. Kozak. (1992). The gene for lysyl oxidase maps to mouse chromosome 18. Genomics. 14(3). 822–823. 11 indexed citations

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Kenyon, Kaylene, et al.. (1992). 32. A suppressor of the phenotypic expression of ras encodes lysyl oxidase. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 46(5-7). 254–254. 5 indexed citations

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Kenyon, Kaylene, Sara Contente, Philip C. Trackman, et al.. (1991). Lysyl Oxidase and rrg Messenger RNA. Science. 253(5021). 802–802. 183 indexed citations

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Contente, Sara, Kaylene Kenyon, Donata Rimoldi, & Robert M. Friedman. (1990). Expression of Gene rrg Is Associated with Reversion of NIH 3Tt3 Transformed by LTR-c-H- ras. Science. 249(4970). 796–798. 201 indexed citations

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Sarmientos, Paolo, James E. Sylvester, Sara Contente, & Michael Cashel. (1983). Differential stringent control of the tandem E. coli ribosomal RNA promoters from the rrnA operon expressed in vivo in multicopy plasmids. Cell. 32(4). 1337–1346. 194 indexed citations

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Gryczan, Thomas, Judith Hahn, Sara Contente, & David Dubnau. (1982). Replication and incompatibility properties of plasmid pE194 in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 152(2). 722–735. 57 indexed citations

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Gryczan, Thomas, Sara Contente, & David Dubnau. (1980). Molecular cloning of heterologous chromosomal DNA by recombination between a plasmid vector and a homologous resident plasmid in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 177(3). 459–467. 86 indexed citations

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Gryczan, Thomas, Sara Contente, & David Dubnau. (1978). Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus plasmids introduced by transformation into Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 134(1). 318–329. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

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