Satwik Kamtekar

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Satwik Kamtekar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Satwik Kamtekar has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Satwik Kamtekar's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers). Satwik Kamtekar is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (6 papers). Satwik Kamtekar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and South Korea. Satwik Kamtekar's co-authors include Michael H. Hecht, Jarad Schiffer, Jennifer M. Babik, Huayu Xiong, Thomas A. Steitz, Andrea J. Berman, Margarita Salas, Miguel de Vega, José M. Lázaro and Luis Blanco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Satwik Kamtekar

29 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Protein Design by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids

1993 603 citations Satwik Kamtekar, Jarad Schiffer et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Satwik Kamtekar United States	23	2.0k	503	421	401	278	29	2.6k
Lidia Mosyak United States	29	2.1k 1.0×	180 0.4×	235 0.6×	460 1.1×	166 0.6×	45	3.4k
Piotr Neumann Germany	31	2.2k 1.1×	219 0.4×	322 0.8×	254 0.6×	105 0.4×	87	2.8k
Johnny Habchi United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.0×	152 0.3×	410 1.0×	137 0.3×	162 0.6×	57	3.1k
Thomas Lundbäck Sweden	26	2.0k 1.0×	163 0.3×	210 0.5×	242 0.6×	85 0.3×	61	2.8k
Pamela J. Focia United States	26	1.5k 0.7×	178 0.4×	206 0.5×	315 0.8×	97 0.3×	40	2.3k
Peter Friedhoff Germany	30	2.7k 1.3×	231 0.5×	222 0.5×	363 0.9×	107 0.4×	69	3.6k
Giuseppe Melacini Canada	38	3.1k 1.5×	198 0.4×	388 0.9×	159 0.4×	57 0.2×	131	4.2k
Vladimir A. Mitkevich Russia	27	1.5k 0.8×	160 0.3×	164 0.4×	242 0.6×	129 0.5×	190	2.2k
Jörg Labahn Germany	17	2.2k 1.1×	125 0.2×	272 0.6×	298 0.7×	144 0.5×	41	2.9k
Gerald Böhm Germany	21	1.9k 0.9×	82 0.2×	728 1.7×	241 0.6×	160 0.6×	28	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Satwik Kamtekar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kamtekar, Satwik, et al.. (2012). Crystal structure of an intermediate of rotating dimers within the synaptic tetramer of the G-segment invertase. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(4). 2673–2682. 24 indexed citations

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Meyers, Marvin J., Scott A. Long, Matthew J. Pelc, et al.. (2011). Discovery of novel spirocyclic inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). Part 2. Discovery of 7-azaspiro[3.5]nonane urea PF-04862853, an orally efficacious inhibitor of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) for pain. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 21(21). 6545–6553. 23 indexed citations

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Mileni, Mauro, Satwik Kamtekar, David C. Wood, et al.. (2010). Crystal Structure of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Bound to the Carbamate Inhibitor URB597: Discovery of a Deacylating Water Molecule and Insight into Enzyme Inactivation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 400(4). 743–754. 90 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhigang, William Watt, Nathan A. Brooks, et al.. (2010). Kinetic and structural characterization of caspase-3 and caspase-8 inhibition by a novel class of irreversible inhibitors. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1804(9). 1817–1831. 52 indexed citations

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Day, Jacqueline E., Troii Hall, Lyle E. Pegg, et al.. (2010). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of rat autotaxin. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 66(9). 1127–1129. 9 indexed citations

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Meyers, Marvin J., Matthew J. Pelc, Satwik Kamtekar, et al.. (2010). Structure-based drug design enables conversion of a DFG-in binding CSF-1R kinase inhibitor to a DFG-out binding mode. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 20(5). 1543–1547. 31 indexed citations

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Ahn, Kay, Douglas S. Johnson, Mauro Mileni, et al.. (2009). Discovery and Characterization of a Highly Selective FAAH Inhibitor that Reduces Inflammatory Pain. Chemistry & Biology. 16(4). 411–420. 373 indexed citations

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Yin, F, Scott Bailey, C.A. Innis, et al.. (2009). Structure of the RAG1 nonamer binding domain with DNA reveals a dimer that mediates DNA synapsis. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 16(5). 499–508. 66 indexed citations

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Berman, Andrea J., Satwik Kamtekar, Jessica L. Goodman, et al.. (2007). Structures of phi29 DNA polymerase complexed with substrate: the mechanism of translocation in B‐family polymerases. The EMBO Journal. 26(14). 3494–3505. 130 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2006). The ϕ29 DNA polymerase:protein‐primer structure suggests a model for the initiation to elongation transition. The EMBO Journal. 25(6). 1335–1343. 76 indexed citations

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Li, Weikai, Satwik Kamtekar, Yong Xiong, et al.. (2005). Structure of a Synaptic γδ Resolvase Tetramer Covalently Linked to Two Cleaved DNAs. Science. 309(5738). 1210–1215. 93 indexed citations

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Ambrogelly, Alexandre, et al.. (2005). Asymmetric behavior of archaeal prolyl‐tRNA synthetase. FEBS Letters. 579(27). 6017–6022. 13 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2004). Insights into Strand Displacement and Processivity from the Crystal Structure of the Protein-Primed DNA Polymerase of Bacteriophage φ29. Molecular Cell. 16(6). 1035–1036. 2 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, et al.. (2004). Insights into Strand Displacement and Processivity from the Crystal Structure of the Protein-Primed DNA Polymerase of Bacteriophage φ29. Molecular Cell. 16(4). 609–618. 142 indexed citations

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Wang, Jimin, Satwik Kamtekar, Andrea J. Berman, & Thomas A. Steitz. (2004). Correction of X-ray intensities from single crystals containing lattice-translocation defects. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 61(1). 67–74. 37 indexed citations

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Ambrogelly, Alexandre, Satwik Kamtekar, Anselm Sauerwald, et al.. (2004). Cys-tRNACys formation and cysteine biosynthesis in methanogenic archaea: two faces of the same problem?. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 61(19-20). 2437–2445. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, J., Ji‐Joon Song, Ihn Sik Seong, et al.. (2001). Nucleotide-Dependent Conformational Changes in a Protease-Associated ATPase HslU. Structure. 9(11). 1107–1116. 141 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, et al.. (1997). Heme binding in a library of de Novo designed α-helical binary code proteins. 10(3333). 1 indexed citations

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Hecht, Michael H., Kathleen M. Vogel, Thomas G. Spiro, et al.. (1997). De novo heme proteins from designed combinatorial libraries. Protein Science. 6(12). 2512–2524. 81 indexed citations

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Kamtekar, Satwik, Jarad Schiffer, Huayu Xiong, Jennifer M. Babik, & Michael H. Hecht. (1993). Protein Design by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids. Science. 262(5140). 1680–1685. 603 indexed citations breakdown →

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