Sharon La Fontaine

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Sharon La Fontaine is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon La Fontaine has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 19 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sharon La Fontaine's work include Trace Elements in Health (42 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (19 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (11 papers). Sharon La Fontaine is often cited by papers focused on Trace Elements in Health (42 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (19 papers) and Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (11 papers). Sharon La Fontaine collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and India. Sharon La Fontaine's co-authors include Julian F. B. Mercer, Michael A. Cater, Shashank Masaldan, Delphine Denoyer, Zhiguang Xiao, Anthony G. Wedd, Ashley I. Bush, Julian I. Rood, Ya Hui Hung and James Camakaris and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sharon La Fontaine

51 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Targeting copper in cancer therapy: ‘Copper That Cancer’

2015 660 citations Sharon La Fontaine, Michael A. Cater et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon La Fontaine Australia	30	2.2k	1.2k	1.1k	983	458	52	3.7k
Maria Marjorette O. Peña United States	29	1.1k 0.5×	916 0.8×	570 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	539 1.2×	39	3.5k
Byung‐Eun Kim United States	14	1.8k 0.8×	523 0.5×	941 0.9×	712 0.7×	179 0.4×	15	2.6k
Michael J. Petris United States	40	3.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	595 1.3×	69	5.9k
Jaekwon Lee United States	32	3.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	2.3k 2.4×	446 1.0×	62	6.7k
John Forbes Canada	18	2.8k 1.3×	793 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	838 0.9×	159 0.3×	30	4.0k
Jay N. Umbreit United States	29	999 0.4×	435 0.4×	370 0.3×	863 0.9×	212 0.5×	49	3.0k
Iqbal Hamza United States	36	1.0k 0.5×	294 0.3×	409 0.4×	1.9k 2.0×	472 1.0×	75	4.5k
Caryn E. Outten United States	29	2.1k 0.9×	438 0.4×	627 0.6×	2.3k 2.3×	114 0.2×	41	4.7k
Daniel Yuan United States	24	1.9k 0.9×	482 0.4×	744 0.7×	2.5k 2.6×	159 0.3×	47	4.5k
Masami Kimura Japan	26	985 0.4×	333 0.3×	795 0.8×	439 0.4×	81 0.2×	108	2.1k

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Hung, Ya Hui, Abdel Ali Belaidi, Irene Volitakis, et al.. (2024). Impaired cellular copper regulation in the presence of ApoE4. Journal of Neurochemistry. 168(9). 3284–3307. 1 indexed citations

Miller, Kelly K., et al.. (2024). A WIL assessment meta-framework for discipline-specific employability learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15(1). 276–291.

Ayton, Scott, et al.. (2021). Copper and lipid metabolism: A reciprocal relationship. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1865(11). 129979–129979. 64 indexed citations

Fontaine, Sharon La, et al.. (2020). Human glutaredoxin-1 can transfer copper to isolated metal binding domains of the P1B-type ATPase, ATP7B. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4157–4157. 10 indexed citations

Fontaine, Sharon La, et al.. (2019). High-resolution crystal structure of the reduced Grx1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 75(5). 392–396. 3 indexed citations

Hung, Ya Hui, et al.. (2013). Role of the P-Type ATPases, ATP7A and ATP7B in brain copper homeostasis. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 5. 44–44. 133 indexed citations

Du, Tai, Aphrodite Caragounis, Sarah J. Parker, et al.. (2011). A potential copper-regulatory role for cytosolic expression of the DNA repair protein XRCC5. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 51(11). 2060–2072. 5 indexed citations

Xiao, Zhiguang, et al.. (2011). Unification of the Copper(I) Binding Affinities of the Metallo-chaperones Atx1, Atox1, and Related Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(13). 11047–11055. 223 indexed citations

Cater, Michael A., et al.. (2006). ATP7B Mediates Vesicular Sequestration of Copper: Insight Into Biliary Copper Excretion. Gastroenterology. 130(2). 493–506. 111 indexed citations

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Cater, Michael A., John Forbes, Sharon La Fontaine, Diane W. Cox, & Julian F. B. Mercer. (2004). Intracellular trafficking of the human Wilson protein: the role of the six N-terminal metal-binding sites. Biochemical Journal. 380(3). 805–813. 90 indexed citations

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Bellingham, Shayne A., Debomoy K. Lahiri, Bryan Maloney, et al.. (2004). Copper Depletion Down-regulates Expression of the Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid-β Precursor Protein Gene. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(19). 20378–20386. 133 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Sharon La, et al.. (2002). Neurodegenerative and neuroprotective effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in retinal ischemia. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(7). 1–7. 15 indexed citations

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Lockhart, Paul J., Sharon La Fontaine, Stephen Firth, et al.. (2002). Correction of the copper transport defect of Menkes patient fibroblasts by expression of two forms of the sheep Wilson ATPase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1588(2). 189–194. 6 indexed citations

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Bissig, Karl‐Dimiter, Sharon La Fontaine, Julian F. B. Mercer, & Marc Solioz. (2001). Expression of the Human Menkes ATPase in Xenopus laevis Oocytes. Biological Chemistry. 382(4). 711–4. 7 indexed citations

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Voskoboinik, Ilia, Mark Greenough, Sharon La Fontaine, J. F. B. Mercer, & James Camakaris. (2001). Functional Studies on the Wilson Copper P-Type ATPase and Toxic Milk Mouse Mutant. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 281(4). 966–970. 66 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Sharon La. (2001). Effect of the toxic milk mutation (tx) on the function and intracellular localization of Wnd, the murine homologue of the Wilson copper ATPase. Human Molecular Genetics. 10(4). 361–370. 80 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Sharon La & Julian I. Rood. (1997). Physical and genetic map of the chromosome of Dichelobacter nodosus strain A198. Gene. 184(2). 291–298. 3 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Sharon La & Julian I. Rood. (1996). Organization of ribosomal RNA genes from the footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus. Microbiology. 142(4). 889–899. 14 indexed citations

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Fontaine, Sharon La & Julian I. Rood. (1990). Evidence that Bacteroides nodosus Belongs in Subgroup Gamma of the Class Proteobacteria, Not in the Genus Bacteroides: Partial Sequence Analysis of a B. nodosus 16S rRNA Gene. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 40(2). 154–159. 13 indexed citations

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Dewhirst, Floyd E., Bruce J. Paster, Sharon La Fontaine, & Julian I. Rood. (1990). Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the Genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; Transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the Genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and Assignment of the Genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the Gamma Division of Proteobacteria on the Basis of 16S rRNA Sequence Comparisons. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 40(4). 426–433. 91 indexed citations

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