Saurja DasGupta

978 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Saurja DasGupta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Saurja DasGupta has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Saurja DasGupta's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (8 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Saurja DasGupta is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (8 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Saurja DasGupta collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Saurja DasGupta's co-authors include Joseph A. Piccirilli, Steven A. Benner, Shuichi Hoshika, Nilesh B. Karalkar, Andrew D. Ellington, Adam J. Meyer, Hyo‐Joong Kim, Myong‐Sang Kim, Alison M. Bates and Millie M. Georgiadis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Saurja DasGupta

17 papers receiving 674 citations

Hit Papers

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight buildi... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
    2019 330 citations Shuichi Hoshika, Nicole A. Leal et al. Science profile →

Peers

Saurja DasGupta
Nilesh B. Karalkar United States
Myong‐Jung Kim United States
Christopher Cozens United Kingdom
Myong‐Sang Kim United States
Alison M. Bates United States
Natasha Paul United States
Petra Burgstaller Germany
Razvan Cojocaru Canada
Elisa Biondi United States
Sujay P. Sau United States
Nilesh B. Karalkar United States
Saurja DasGupta
Citations per year, relative to Saurja DasGupta Saurja DasGupta (= 1×) peers Nilesh B. Karalkar

Countries citing papers authored by Saurja DasGupta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Saurja DasGupta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saurja DasGupta

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Zhang, Stephanie J., Xiwen Jia, Saurja DasGupta, & Jack W. Szostak. (2025). Potentially prebiotic isocyanide activation chemistry drives RNA assembly. Chemical Communications. 61(73). 13920–13923.
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Ding, Dian, Lijun Zhou, Saurja DasGupta, et al.. (2024). Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life. PNAS Nexus. 3(3). pgae084–pgae084. 4 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, et al.. (2024). Evolution of the substrate specificity of an RNA ligase ribozyme from phosphorimidazole to triphosphate activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(38). e2407325121–e2407325121. 1 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, Stephanie J. Zhang, Merrick Pierson Smela, & Jack W. Szostak. (2023). RNA‐Catalyzed RNA Ligation within Prebiotically Plausible Model Protocells**. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(43). e202301376–e202301376. 7 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, Stephanie J. Zhang, & Jack W. Szostak. (2023). Molecular Crowding Facilitates Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Assembly. ACS Central Science. 9(8). 1670–1678. 8 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, et al.. (2022). Nonenzymatic assembly of active chimeric ribozymes from aminoacylated RNA oligonucleotides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(7). 15 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, et al.. (2022). REVERSE: a user-friendly web server for analyzing next-generation sequencing data from in vitro selection/evolution experiments. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(W1). W639–W650. 5 indexed citations
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Müller, Ulrich F., Jamie E. Elsila, Dustin Trail, et al.. (2022). Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 52(1-3). 165–181. 4 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, et al.. (2021). The hammerhead self-cleaving motif as a precursor to complex endonucleolytic ribozymes. RNA. 27(9). 1017–1024. 7 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja & Joseph A. Piccirilli. (2021). The Varkud Satellite Ribozyme: A Thirty-Year Journey through Biochemistry, Crystallography, and Computation. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(11). 2591–2602. 6 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Saurja DasGupta, Daniel Duzdevich, Seung Soo Oh, & Jack W. Szostak. (2020). In vitro selection of ribozyme ligases that use prebiotically plausible 2-aminoimidazole–activated substrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(11). 5741–5748. 23 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja. (2020). Molecular crowding and RNA catalysis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18(39). 7724–7739. 19 indexed citations
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Hoshika, Shuichi, Nicole A. Leal, Myong‐Jung Kim, et al.. (2019). Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks. Science. 363(6429). 884–887. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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DasGupta, Saurja, N.B. Suslov, & Joseph A. Piccirilli. (2017). Structural Basis for Substrate Helix Remodeling and Cleavage Loop Activation in the Varkud Satellite Ribozyme. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(28). 9591–9597. 20 indexed citations
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Koirala, Deepak, Sandip A. Shelke, Marcel Dupont, et al.. (2017). Affinity maturation of a portable Fab–RNA module for chaperone-assisted RNA crystallography. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(5). 2624–2635. 26 indexed citations
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Biondi, Elisa, Debasis Das, Saurja DasGupta, et al.. (2016). Laboratory evolution of artificially expanded DNA gives redesignable aptamers that target the toxic form of anthrax protective antigen. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(20). gkw890–gkw890. 72 indexed citations
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Suslov, N.B., Saurja DasGupta, Hao Huang, et al.. (2015). Crystal structure of the Varkud satellite ribozyme. Nature Chemical Biology. 11(11). 840–846. 80 indexed citations
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DasGupta, Saurja, Sandip A. Shelke, Nan‐Sheng Li, & Joseph A. Piccirilli. (2015). Spinach RNA aptamer detects lead(ii) with high selectivity. Chemical Communications. 51(43). 9034–9037. 54 indexed citations

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