Shoshana Brown

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Shoshana Brown is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shoshana Brown has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shoshana Brown's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (14 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers). Shoshana Brown is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (14 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers). Shoshana Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Shoshana Brown's co-authors include Patricia C. Babbitt, Alexandra M. Schnoes, Igor Dodevski, Steven C. Almo, Elaine C. Meng, Matthew P. Jacobson, Thomas E. Ferrin, Sunil Ojha, Conrad C. Huang and Eyal Akiva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Shoshana Brown

37 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

  1. Annotation Error in Public Databases: Misannotation of Molecular Function in Enzyme Superfamilies
    2009 491 citations Alexandra M. Schnoes, Shoshana Brown et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →

Peers

Shoshana Brown
Eyal Akiva United States
T. Lundqvist Sweden
Denis Tritsch France
B. Hillerich United States
Moshe Goldsmith Israel
Hugues Ouellet United States
J.J. Truglio United States
K.L. Whalen United States
Klaus Kis Germany
Chris A. E. M. Spronk Netherlands
Eyal Akiva United States
Shoshana Brown
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shoshana Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shoshana Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shoshana Brown 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 Shoshana Brown. Shoshana Brown 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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Holliday, Gemma L., et al.. (2020). A strategy for large-scale comparison of evolutionary- and reaction-based classifications of enzyme function. Database. 2020. 5 indexed citations
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Holliday, Gemma L., Eyal Akiva, Elaine C. Meng, et al.. (2018). Atlas of the Radical SAM Superfamily: Divergent Evolution of Function Using a “Plug and Play” Domain. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 606. 1–71. 97 indexed citations
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Kumar, Santosh, Chase F. Kempinski, Xun Zhuang, et al.. (2016). Molecular Diversity of Terpene Synthases in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. The Plant Cell. 28(10). tpc.00062.2016–tpc.00062.2016. 55 indexed citations
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Kim, Jungwook, Hui Xiao, Yikai Wang, et al.. (2015). Determinants of the CmoB carboxymethyl transferase utilized for selective tRNA wobble modification. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(9). 4602–4613. 24 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2014). New Insights about Enzyme Evolution from Large Scale Studies of Sequence and Structure Relationships. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(44). 30221–30228. 49 indexed citations
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London, Nir, Jeremiah D. Farelli, Shoshana Brown, et al.. (2014). Covalent Docking Predicts Substrates for Haloalkanoate Dehalogenase Superfamily Phosphatases. Biochemistry. 54(2). 528–537. 23 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2014). Using the Structure‐Function Linkage Database to Characterize Functional Domains in Enzymes. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. 48(1). 5 indexed citations
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Akiva, Eyal, Shoshana Brown, Daniel E. Almonacid, et al.. (2013). The Structure–Function Linkage Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D521–D530. 189 indexed citations
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Zhao, Suwen, Ritesh Kumar, A. Sakai, et al.. (2013). Discovery of new enzymes and metabolic pathways by using structure and genome context. Nature. 502(7473). 698–702. 113 indexed citations
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Kim, Jungwook, Hui Xiao, J.B. Bonanno, et al.. (2013). Structure-guided discovery of the metabolite carboxy-SAM that modulates tRNA function. Nature. 498(7452). 123–126. 74 indexed citations
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Lukk, Tiit, A. Sakai, Chakrapani Kalyanaraman, et al.. (2012). Homology models guide discovery of diverse enzyme specificities among dipeptide epimerases in the enolase superfamily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(11). 4122–4127. 45 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2011). Inference of Functional Properties from Large-scale Analysis of Enzyme Superfamilies. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(1). 35–42. 42 indexed citations
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Pieper, Ursula, Ranyee A. Chiang, Shoshana Brown, et al.. (2009). Target selection and annotation for the structural genomics of the amidohydrolase and enolase superfamilies. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 10(2). 107–125. 24 indexed citations
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Schnoes, Alexandra M., Shoshana Brown, Igor Dodevski, & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2009). Annotation Error in Public Databases: Misannotation of Molecular Function in Enzyme Superfamilies. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(12). e1000605–e1000605. 491 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sakai, A., А.А. Федоров, E.V. Fedorov, et al.. (2009). Evolution of Enzymatic Activities in the Enolase Superfamily: Stereochemically Distinct Mechanisms in Two Families of cis,cis-Muconate Lactonizing Enzymes. Biochemistry. 48(7). 1445–1453. 34 indexed citations
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Song, Ling, Chakrapani Kalyanaraman, А.А. Федоров, et al.. (2007). Prediction and assignment of function for a divergent N-succinyl amino acid racemase. Nature Chemical Biology. 3(8). 486–491. 77 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana, А.А. Федоров, E.V. Fedorov, et al.. (2007). Structural Diversity within the Mononuclear and Binuclear Active Sites of N-Acetyl-d-glucosamine-6-phosphate Deacetylase,. Biochemistry. 46(27). 7953–7962. 18 indexed citations
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Pegg, Scott C.‐H., Shoshana Brown, Sunil Ojha, et al.. (2006). Leveraging Enzyme Structure−Function Relationships for Functional Inference and Experimental Design:  The Structure−Function Linkage Database. Biochemistry. 45(8). 2545–2555. 130 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2006). Using the Structure‐Function Linkage Database to Characterize Functional Domains in Enzymes. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. 13(1). 2.10.1–2.10.16. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Shoshana, Jean L. Chang, Wolfgang Sadée, & Patricia C. Babbitt. (2003). A semiautomated approach to gene discovery through expressed sequence tag data mining: Discovery of new human transporter genes. PubMed. 5(1). 1–18. 29 indexed citations

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