Saravanan Devendran

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Saravanan Devendran is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Saravanan Devendran has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 7 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Saravanan Devendran's work include Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (5 papers) and Biodiesel Production and Applications (4 papers). Saravanan Devendran is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (7 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (5 papers) and Biodiesel Production and Applications (4 papers). Saravanan Devendran collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Germany. Saravanan Devendran's co-authors include Ganapati D. Yadav, Jason M. Ridlon, Pei‐Chien Tsai, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Senthil Nagappan, Hans‐Uwe Dahms, Celia Méndez–García, João M. P. Alves, Isaac Cann and Lindsey K. Ly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Saravanan Devendran

30 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness

2024 72 citations Ayele Argaw-Denboba, Thomas Schmidt et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saravanan Devendran United States	21	682	287	252	132	119	30	1.2k
Shuwen Han China	24	973 1.4×	86 0.3×	168 0.7×	269 2.0×	128 1.1×	113	2.0k
Noreen Akhtar Pakistan	14	593 0.9×	77 0.3×	176 0.7×	85 0.6×	47 0.4×	68	1.7k
Bibekanand Mallick India	24	1.2k 1.7×	110 0.4×	229 0.9×	69 0.5×	93 0.8×	71	2.2k
Ruili Pan China	15	345 0.5×	115 0.4×	148 0.6×	71 0.5×	120 1.0×	37	845
Kai Nie China	16	492 0.7×	192 0.7×	57 0.2×	59 0.4×	116 1.0×	35	1.1k
Yating Li China	14	663 1.0×	80 0.3×	48 0.2×	70 0.5×	138 1.2×	25	1.2k
Shanthy Sundaram India	22	417 0.6×	314 1.1×	194 0.8×	74 0.6×	40 0.3×	93	1.5k
Lee A. Gethings United Kingdom	20	592 0.9×	74 0.3×	318 1.3×	43 0.3×	47 0.4×	66	1.5k
Mengwei Zhang China	21	508 0.7×	57 0.2×	63 0.3×	159 1.2×	58 0.5×	120	1.4k
Qian Shen China	23	569 0.8×	54 0.2×	78 0.3×	300 2.3×	84 0.7×	87	1.6k

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Argaw-Denboba, Ayele, Thomas Schmidt, Monica Di Giacomo, et al.. (2024). Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness. Nature. 629(8012). 652–659. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

García‐Santamarina, Sarela, Michael Kuhn, Saravanan Devendran, et al.. (2024). Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment. Cell. 187(22). 6346–6357.e20. 18 indexed citations

Konstantinidis, Dimitrios, Filipa Pereira, Eleni Kafkia, et al.. (2021). Adaptive laboratory evolution of microbial co‐cultures for improved metabolite secretion. Molecular Systems Biology. 17(8). e10189–e10189. 37 indexed citations

Wolf, Patricia G., Saravanan Devendran, Heidi L. Doden, et al.. (2021). Berberine alters gut microbial function through modulation of bile acids. BMC Microbiology. 21(1). 24–24. 26 indexed citations

Pugazhendhi, Arivalagan, Senthil Nagappan, Rahul R. Bhosale, et al.. (2020). Various potential techniques to reduce the water footprint of microalgal biomass production for biofuel—A review. The Science of The Total Environment. 749. 142218–142218. 57 indexed citations

Ly, Lindsey K., Joe L. Rowles, João M. P. Alves, et al.. (2019). Bacterial steroid-17,20-desmolase is a taxonomically rare enzymatic pathway that converts prednisone to 1,4-androstanediene-3,11,17-trione, a metabolite that causes proliferation of prostate cancer cells. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 199. 105567–105567. 43 indexed citations

Nagappan, Senthil, et al.. (2019). Enhancement of biofuel production by microalgae using cement flue gas as substrate. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(15). 17571–17586. 42 indexed citations

Devendran, Saravanan, João M. P. Alves, Patricia G. Wolf, et al.. (2019). Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704: Integration of Nutritional Requirements, the Complete Genome Sequence, and Global Transcriptional Responses to Bile Acids. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(7). 43 indexed citations

Doden, Heidi L., Rebecca M. Pollet, Z. Wawrzak, et al.. (2019). Structural and biochemical characterization of 20β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis strain L2-32. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(32). 12040–12053. 25 indexed citations

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Nagappan, Senthil, Saravanan Devendran, Pei‐Chien Tsai, Hans‐Uwe Dahms, & Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy. (2019). Potential of two-stage cultivation in microalgae biofuel production. Fuel. 252. 339–349. 116 indexed citations

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Doden, Heidi L., Saravanan Devendran, Lindsey K. Ly, et al.. (2018). Metabolism of oxo-bile acids and characterization of recombinant 12α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases from bile acid 7α-dehydroxylating human gut bacteria. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 84(10). 12 indexed citations

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Alexander, Celeste, Tzu-Wen Cross, Saravanan Devendran, et al.. (2018). Effects of prebiotic inulin-type fructans on blood metabolite and hormone concentrations and faecal microbiota and metabolites in overweight dogs. British Journal Of Nutrition. 120(6). 711–720. 61 indexed citations

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Devendran, Saravanan, et al.. (2018). Targeted Synthesis and Characterization of a Gene Cluster Encoding NAD(P)H-Dependent 3α-, 3β-, and 12α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases from Eggerthella CAG:298, a Gut Metagenomic Sequence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(7). 35 indexed citations

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Devendran, Saravanan, et al.. (2018). The desA and desB genes from Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704 encode steroid-17,20-desmolase. Journal of Lipid Research. 59(6). 1005–1014. 34 indexed citations

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Doden, Heidi L., Saravanan Devendran, Lindsey K. Ly, et al.. (2018). Metabolism of Oxo-Bile Acids and Characterization of Recombinant 12α-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases from Bile Acid 7α-Dehydroxylating Human Gut Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(10). 91 indexed citations

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Devendran, Saravanan, Celia Méndez–García, & Jason M. Ridlon. (2017). Identification and characterization of a 20β-HSDH from the anaerobic gut bacterium Butyricicoccus desmolans ATCC 43058. Journal of Lipid Research. 58(5). 916–925. 31 indexed citations

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Harris, Spencer, et al.. (2017). Identification of a gene encoding a flavoprotein involved in bile acid metabolism by the human gut bacterium Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1863(3). 276–283. 30 indexed citations

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Alexander, Celeste, Tzu‐Wen Liu, Saravanan Devendran, et al.. (2017). Effects of prebiotic inulin‐type fructans on blood metabolite and hormone concentrations and fecal microbiota and bile acids in overweight dogs. The FASEB Journal. 31(S1). 1 indexed citations

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Devendran, Saravanan, et al.. (2016). Multiple cellobiohydrolases and cellobiose phosphorylases cooperate in the ruminal bacterium Ruminococcus albus 8 to degrade cellooligosaccharides. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35342–35342. 8 indexed citations

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Devendran, Saravanan, et al.. (2016). Functional and modular analyses of diverse endoglucanases from Ruminococcus albus 8, a specialist plant cell wall degrading bacterium. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29979–29979. 16 indexed citations

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