Sharon Dent

11.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Sharon Dent is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon Dent has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Sharon Dent's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (43 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers). Sharon Dent is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (43 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (24 papers). Sharon Dent collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Poland. Sharon Dent's co-authors include Taiping Chen, John Latham, Evangelia Koutelou, Judith K. Davie, C. David Allis, Boyko S. Atanassov, Diane G. Edmondson, Qihuang Jin, Calley Hirsch and Wei Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sharon Dent

100 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Distinct roles of GCN5/PCAF‐mediated H3K9ac and CBP/p300‐mediated H3K18/27ac in nuclear receptor transactivation

2010 619 citations Sharon Dent et al. profile →
HDAC6 Modulates Cell Motility by Altering the Acetylation Level of Cortactin

2007 588 citations Sharon Dent et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Chromatin modifiers and remodellers: regulators of cellular differentiation

2013 464 citations Sharon Dent et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon Dent United States	49	7.3k	877	745	622	607	100	8.2k
Grace Gill United States	36	5.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	352 0.6×	493 0.8×	53	6.6k
Xiang‐Jiao Yang Canada	35	7.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.5×	325 0.5×	565 0.9×	55	8.8k
H. T. Marc Timmers Netherlands	48	6.3k 0.9×	865 1.0×	785 1.1×	354 0.6×	448 0.7×	129	7.2k
Jeffrey Field United States	45	4.8k 0.7×	984 1.1×	631 0.8×	392 0.6×	464 0.8×	87	6.7k
Oded Meyuhas Israel	43	5.8k 0.8×	570 0.6×	610 0.8×	281 0.5×	524 0.9×	79	7.1k
Peter Cheung Canada	32	5.0k 0.7×	472 0.5×	588 0.8×	334 0.5×	665 1.1×	49	6.1k
Jill Meisenhelder United States	23	4.1k 0.6×	897 1.0×	311 0.4×	304 0.5×	532 0.9×	45	5.4k
Greg Donahue United States	32	4.7k 0.6×	613 0.7×	741 1.0×	322 0.5×	752 1.2×	50	6.1k
Jens Peter von Kries Germany	32	5.0k 0.7×	878 1.0×	560 0.8×	178 0.3×	367 0.6×	86	6.2k
Elena V. Ivanova United States	26	3.1k 0.4×	984 1.1×	569 0.8×	318 0.5×	727 1.2×	80	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sharon Dent

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sharon Dent

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharon Dent

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

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Iqbal, Jahangir, J M Pfeffer, Caifeng Zhao, et al.. (2024). KAT2A and KAT2B prevent double-stranded RNA accumulation and interferon signaling to maintain intestinal stem cell renewal. Science Advances. 10(32). eadl1584–eadl1584. 4 indexed citations

Malone, Clare F., Nathaniel W. Mabe, Gabriela Alexe, et al.. (2024). The KAT module of the SAGA complex maintains the oncogenic gene expression program in MYCN- amplified neuroblastoma. Science Advances. 10(22). eadm9449–eadm9449. 4 indexed citations

Bernstein, Emily, Sharon Dent, Yali Dou, et al.. (2023). C. David Allis (1951–2023). Cell. 186(4). 663–667. 1 indexed citations

Koutelou, Evangelia & Sharon Dent. (2022). Navigating EMT with COMPASS and PRC2. Nature Cell Biology. 24(4). 412–414. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Joseph C. Y., Evangelia Koutelou, & Sharon Dent. (2022). Now open: Evolving insights to the roles of lysine acetylation in chromatin organization and function. Molecular Cell. 82(4). 716–727. 59 indexed citations

Farria, Aimee T., Joshua B. Plummer, Andrew P. Salinger, et al.. (2020). Transcriptional Activation of MYC-Induced Genes by GCN5 Promotes B-cell Lymphomagenesis. Cancer Research. 80(24). 5543–5553. 22 indexed citations

Koutelou, Evangelia, Aimee T. Farria, & Sharon Dent. (2020). Complex functions of Gcn5 and Pcaf in development and disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1864(2). 194609–194609. 37 indexed citations

Mi, Wenyi, Haipeng Guan, Jie Lyu, et al.. (2017). YEATS2 links histone acetylation to tumorigenesis of non-small cell lung cancer. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1088–1088. 103 indexed citations

Gao, Beixue, Qingfei Kong, Yana Zhang, et al.. (2017). The Histone Acetyltransferase Gcn5 Positively Regulates T Cell Activation. The Journal of Immunology. 198(10). 3927–3938. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Yajun, Chawon Yun, Beixue Gao, et al.. (2017). The Lysine Acetyltransferase GCN5 Is Required for iNKT Cell Development through EGR2 Acetylation. Cell Reports. 20(3). 600–612. 30 indexed citations

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Li, Wenqian, Boyko S. Atanassov, Xianjiang Lan, et al.. (2016). Cytoplasmic ATXN7L3B Interferes with Nuclear Functions of the SAGA Deubiquitinase Module. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 36(22). 2855–2866. 13 indexed citations

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Pérez, Carlos J., Lars Mecklenburg, Jean Jaubert, et al.. (2015). Increased Susceptibility to Skin Carcinogenesis Associated with a Spontaneous Mouse Mutation in the Palmitoyl Transferase Zdhhc13 Gene. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 135(12). 3133–3143. 24 indexed citations

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Johnson, D. Gale & Sharon Dent. (2013). Chromatin: Receiver and Quarterback for Cellular Signals. Cell. 152(4). 685–689. 57 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Cerdeño, Verónica, et al.. (2012). N-Myc and GCN5 Regulate Significantly Overlapping Transcriptional Programs in Neural Stem Cells. PLoS ONE. 7(6). e39456–e39456. 50 indexed citations

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Soragni, Elisabetta, David Herman, Sharon Dent, et al.. (2008). Long intronic GAA•TTC repeats induce epigenetic changes and reporter gene silencing in a molecular model of Friedreich ataxia. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(19). 6056–6065. 61 indexed citations

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Latham, John & Sharon Dent. (2007). Cross-regulation of histone modifications. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 14(11). 1017–1024. 315 indexed citations

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Lin, Wenchu & Sharon Dent. (2006). Functions of histone-modifying enzymes in development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 16(2). 137–142. 76 indexed citations

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Davie, Judith K. & Sharon Dent. (2004). Histone Modifications in Corepressor Functions. Current topics in developmental biology. 59. 145–163. 13 indexed citations

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Davie, Judith K., Robert Trumbly, & Sharon Dent. (2002). Histone-Dependent Association of Tup1-Ssn6 with Repressed Genes In Vivo. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(3). 693–703. 67 indexed citations

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Briggs, Scott, Mary Bryk, Brian D. Strahl, et al.. (2001). Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation is mediated by Set1 and required for cell growth and rDNA silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes & Development. 15(24). 3286–3295. 494 indexed citations

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