S.H. Light

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

S.H. Light is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, S.H. Light has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in S.H. Light's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers). S.H. Light is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (9 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (6 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers). S.H. Light collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. S.H. Light's co-authors include W.F. Anderson, Daniel A. Portnoy, Anthony T. Iavarone, Rafael Rivera‐Lugo, Caroline M. Ajo‐Franklin, Jose A. Cornejo, Lin Su, Alexander Louie, G. Minasov and A.S. Halavaty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

S.H. Light

31 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

A flavin-based extracellular electron transfer mechanism ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. A flavin-based extracellular electron transfer mechanism in diverse Gram-positive bacteria
    2018 457 citations S.H. Light, Lin Su et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S.H. Light United States 16 412 370 198 151 117 32 1.1k
Thomas Hübschmann Germany 26 1.1k 2.6× 316 0.9× 196 1.0× 34 0.2× 35 0.3× 40 1.8k
Julia Steuber Germany 25 1.1k 2.6× 185 0.5× 110 0.6× 152 1.0× 18 0.2× 79 1.6k
Chi Ho Chan United States 16 356 0.9× 601 1.6× 279 1.4× 93 0.6× 15 0.1× 25 991
Karine Bagramyan Armenia 20 759 1.8× 205 0.6× 25 0.1× 106 0.7× 31 0.3× 32 1.5k
Evan D. Brutinel United States 17 499 1.2× 358 1.0× 197 1.0× 61 0.4× 11 0.1× 19 1.0k
Yizhi Song China 23 530 1.3× 39 0.1× 56 0.3× 118 0.8× 101 0.9× 56 1.5k
Roland Groß Germany 23 735 1.8× 336 0.9× 87 0.4× 202 1.3× 16 0.1× 36 1.4k
Xiaoli Liu China 16 307 0.7× 70 0.2× 59 0.3× 42 0.3× 28 0.2× 44 836
A.M. James Panama 20 302 0.7× 44 0.1× 113 0.6× 39 0.3× 58 0.5× 80 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by S.H. Light

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S.H. Light

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sundararajan, Anitha, et al.. (2025). Gut bacteria metabolize natural and synthetic steroid hormones via the reductive OsrABC pathway. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(11). 1873–1885.e7.
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Méheust, Raphaël, et al.. (2024). Versatile roles of protein flavinylation in bacterial extracyotosolic electron transfer. mSystems. 9(8). e0037524–e0037524. 1 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., et al.. (2024). Bacteria on the foundational kelp in kelp forest ecosystems: Insights from culturing, whole genome sequencing and metabolic assays. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(3). e13270–e13270. 7 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Lugo, Rafael, Shuo Huang, Frank Lee, et al.. (2023). Distinct Energy-Coupling Factor Transporter Subunits Enable Flavin Acquisition and Extracytosolic Trafficking for Extracellular Electron Transfer in Listeria monocytogenes. mBio. 14(1). e0308522–e0308522. 9 indexed citations
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Lee, Woonghee, Marco Tonelli, Yeongjoon Lee, et al.. (2022). Solution structure and dynamics of the mitochondrial‐targeted GTPase‐activating protein (GAP) VopE by an integrated NMR/SAXS approach. Protein Science. 31(5). e4282–e4282. 1 indexed citations
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Pfister, Catherine A., S.H. Light, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, et al.. (2022). Conceptual Exchanges for Understanding Free-Living and Host-Associated Microbiomes. mSystems. 7(1). e0137421–e0137421. 3 indexed citations
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Méheust, Raphaël, Shuo Huang, Rafael Rivera‐Lugo, Jillian F. Banfield, & S.H. Light. (2021). Post-translational flavinylation is associated with diverse extracytosolic redox functionalities throughout bacterial life. eLife. 10. 17 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., Raphaël Méheust, Jooyoung Cho, et al.. (2019). Extracellular electron transfer powers flavinylated extracellular reductases in Gram-positive bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(52). 26892–26899. 65 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., Lin Su, Rafael Rivera‐Lugo, et al.. (2018). A flavin-based extracellular electron transfer mechanism in diverse Gram-positive bacteria. Nature. 562(7725). 140–144. 457 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bastounis, E, Fabian E. Ortega, S.H. Light, et al.. (2018). Listeria monocytogenes InlP interacts with afadin and facilitates basement membrane crossing. PLoS Pathogens. 14(5). e1007094–e1007094. 38 indexed citations
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Lee, Hyun, Jinhong Ren, S.H. Light, et al.. (2016). Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors against NS2B/NS3 serine protease from Zika virus. Antiviral Research. 139. 49–58. 107 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., Laty A. Cahoon, A.S. Halavaty, Nancy E. Freitag, & W.F. Anderson. (2016). Structure to function of an α-glucan metabolic pathway that promotes Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis. Nature Microbiology. 2(2). 16202–16202. 33 indexed citations
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Ruan, Jiapeng, Thomas Mouveaux, S.H. Light, et al.. (2015). The structure of bradyzoite-specific enolase fromToxoplasma gondiireveals insights into its dual cytoplasmic and nuclear functions. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 71(3). 417–426. 14 indexed citations
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Luan, Chi-Hao, S.H. Light, Sara F. Dunne, & W.F. Anderson. (2014). Ligand Screening Using Fluorescence Thermal Shift Analysis (FTS). Methods in molecular biology. 1140. 263–289. 16 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., et al.. (2013). Crystal structure of a type II dehydroquinate dehydratase-like protein from Bifidobacterium longum. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 14(1). 25–30. 1 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., G. Minasov, L. Shuvalova, et al.. (2011). A Conserved Surface Loop in Type I Dehydroquinate Dehydratases Positions an Active Site Arginine and Functions in Substrate Binding. Biochemistry. 50(12). 2357–2363. 11 indexed citations
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Light, S.H., G. Minasov, L. Shuvalova, et al.. (2010). Insights into the Mechanism of Type I Dehydroquinate Dehydratases from Structures of Reaction Intermediates. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(5). 3531–3539. 27 indexed citations

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