Sarah A. Slavoff

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sarah A. Slavoff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah A. Slavoff has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Oncology and 3 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sarah A. Slavoff's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Sarah A. Slavoff is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Sarah A. Slavoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Sarah A. Slavoff's co-authors include Zhenkun Na, Yang Luo, Alan Saghatelian, Bogdan Budnik, Jiao Ma, Alexandra Khitun, Adam G. Schwaid, Joshua Z. Levin, John L. Rinn and Amir Karger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sarah A. Slavoff

36 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Peptidomic discovery of short open reading frame–encoded peptides in human cells

2012 484 citations Sarah A. Slavoff, Andrew J. Mitchell et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →
P-Bodies: Composition, Properties, and Functions

2018 386 citations Yang Luo, Zhenkun Na et al. Biochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah A. Slavoff United States	22	1.9k	431	130	129	124	38	2.2k
Benedikt M. Beckmann Germany	16	2.6k 1.3×	459 1.1×	56 0.4×	141 1.1×	34 0.3×	18	2.8k
Arne H. Smits Netherlands	18	1.6k 0.8×	121 0.3×	182 1.4×	207 1.6×	135 1.1×	19	2.0k
Jean‐François Lucier Canada	19	1.6k 0.8×	218 0.5×	80 0.6×	84 0.7×	92 0.7×	34	2.0k
Bora Uyar Germany	18	1.6k 0.8×	108 0.3×	109 0.8×	157 1.2×	100 0.8×	23	1.9k
Catherine A. Musselman United States	31	2.6k 1.3×	101 0.2×	219 1.7×	196 1.5×	71 0.6×	50	2.9k
Len C. Packman United Kingdom	20	1.0k 0.5×	78 0.2×	169 1.3×	235 1.8×	119 1.0×	23	1.6k
Tharan Srikumar Canada	25	1.8k 0.9×	311 0.7×	417 3.2×	236 1.8×	55 0.4×	35	2.3k
Yonathan Lissanu Deribe United States	8	1.2k 0.6×	275 0.6×	346 2.7×	390 3.0×	78 0.6×	12	1.5k
Daniel N. Itzhak Germany	13	1.3k 0.7×	134 0.3×	98 0.8×	123 1.0×	348 2.8×	15	1.8k
Katrin Eichelbaum Germany	11	2.7k 1.4×	516 1.2×	94 0.7×	230 1.8×	123 1.0×	12	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah A. Slavoff

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Zheng, Shu-Jian, Haomiao Su, Lichong Yan, et al.. (2025). The ERVK3-1 Microprotein Interacts with the HUSH Complex. Biochemistry. 64(15). 3372–3381.

Bacchiocchi, Antonella, Michael Mak, Xiangyu Gong, et al.. (2025). LZTR1 is a melanoma oncogene that promotes invasion and suppresses apoptosis. Oncogene. 44(41). 3974–3984.

Chen, Yanran, Xiongwen Cao, Ken H. Loh, & Sarah A. Slavoff. (2023). Chemical labeling and proteomics for characterization of unannotated small and alternative open reading frame-encoded polypeptides. Biochemical Society Transactions. 51(3). 1071–1082. 7 indexed citations

Slavoff, Sarah A., et al.. (2023). Noncoding translation: Quality control in the BAG. Molecular Cell. 83(12). 1967–1969. 1 indexed citations

Slavoff, Sarah A., et al.. (2023). Microproteins—Discovery, structure, and function. PROTEOMICS. 23(23-24). e2100211–e2100211. 20 indexed citations

Chen, Yanran, Haomiao Su, Jianing Zhao, et al.. (2023). Unannotated microprotein EMBOW regulates the interactome and chromatin and mitotic functions of WDR5. Cell Reports. 42(9). 113145–113145. 14 indexed citations

Dai, Xiaoyun, Jonathan J. Park, Yaying Du, et al.. (2023). Massively parallel knock-in engineering of human T cells. Nature Biotechnology. 41(9). 1239–1255. 34 indexed citations

Cao, Xiongwen, et al.. (2022). Nascent alt-protein chemoproteomics reveals a pre-60S assembly checkpoint inhibitor. Nature Chemical Biology. 18(6). 643–651. 20 indexed citations

Na, Zhenkun, Xiaoyun Dai, Shu-Jian Zheng, et al.. (2022). Mapping subcellular localizations of unannotated microproteins and alternative proteins with MicroID. Molecular Cell. 82(15). 2900–2911.e7. 34 indexed citations

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Cao, Xiongwen, Alexandra Khitun, Yang Luo, et al.. (2021). Alt-RPL36 downregulates the PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling pathway by interacting with TMEM24. Nature Communications. 12(1). 508–508. 33 indexed citations

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Cao, Xiongwen & Sarah A. Slavoff. (2020). Non-AUG start codons: Expanding and regulating the small and alternative ORFeome. Experimental Cell Research. 391(1). 111973–111973. 51 indexed citations

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Luo, Yang, et al.. (2020). Discovery of cellular substrates of human RNA-decapping enzyme DCP2 using a stapled bicyclic peptide inhibitor. Cell chemical biology. 28(4). 463–474.e7. 17 indexed citations

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Luo, Yang, Jeremy A. Schofield, Matthew D. Simon, & Sarah A. Slavoff. (2020). Global Profiling of Cellular Substrates of Human Dcp2. Biochemistry. 59(43). 4176–4188. 23 indexed citations

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Khitun, Alexandra, et al.. (2019). Small open reading frames and cellular stress responses. Molecular Omics. 15(2). 108–116. 58 indexed citations

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D’Lima, Nadia G., Alexandra Khitun, Brandon M. Gassaway, et al.. (2017). Comparative Proteomics Enables Identification of Nonannotated Cold Shock Proteins in E. coli. Journal of Proteome Research. 16(10). 3722–3731. 26 indexed citations

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D’Lima, Nadia G., Jiao Ma, Lauren Winkler, et al.. (2016). A human microprotein that interacts with the mRNA decapping complex. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(2). 174–180. 216 indexed citations

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Ma, Jiao, Carl Ward, Irwin Jungreis, et al.. (2015). Discovery of Human sORF-Encoded\nPolypeptides (SEPs)\nin Cell Lines and Tissue. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Jiao, Carl Ward, Irwin Jungreis, et al.. (2014). Discovery of Human sORF-Encoded Polypeptides (SEPs) in Cell Lines and Tissue. PubMed Central. 140 indexed citations

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Slavoff, Sarah A., Jinho Heo, Bogdan Budnik, Leslyn A. Hanakahi, & Alan Saghatelian. (2014). A Human Short Open Reading Frame (sORF)-encoded Polypeptide That Stimulates DNA End Joining. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(16). 10950–10957. 125 indexed citations

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Slavoff, Sarah A., Andrew J. Mitchell, Adam G. Schwaid, et al.. (2012). Peptidomic discovery of short open reading frame–encoded peptides in human cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 9(1). 59–64. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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