Sohum Mehta

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Sohum Mehta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sohum Mehta has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Biophysics and 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sohum Mehta's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (24 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (7 papers). Sohum Mehta is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (24 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (21 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (7 papers). Sohum Mehta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Sohum Mehta's co-authors include Jin Zhang, Eric C. Greenwald, Brian Tenner, Jason Z. Zhang, Frank J. Turano, Ji‐Man Kang, Wei Lin, Padmini Rangamani, Jinfan Zhang and Susan S. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sohum Mehta

54 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Illuminate the Spatiotemporal Regulation of Signaling Networks

2018 372 citations Eric C. Greenwald, Sohum Mehta et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Liquid–liquid phase separation drives cellular function and dysfunction in cancer

2022 257 citations Sohum Mehta, Jin Zhang profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sohum Mehta United States	25	1.9k	464	437	245	205	58	2.5k
George T. Hanson United States	14	2.1k 1.1×	831 1.8×	520 1.2×	241 1.0×	132 0.6×	18	2.8k
Lin Guo United States	24	2.5k 1.3×	257 0.6×	380 0.9×	393 1.6×	197 1.0×	71	3.5k
Kenta Saito Japan	12	1.1k 0.6×	254 0.5×	289 0.7×	111 0.5×	203 1.0×	27	1.7k
Yi Shen Canada	25	1.1k 0.6×	349 0.8×	508 1.2×	135 0.6×	374 1.8×	63	2.1k
Alexa L. Mattheyses United States	26	1.4k 0.7×	485 1.0×	221 0.5×	680 2.8×	427 2.1×	62	2.5k
Dmitry S. Bilan Russia	21	1.1k 0.6×	288 0.6×	223 0.5×	84 0.3×	156 0.8×	47	1.6k
Mathew H. Horrocks United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.8×	376 0.8×	457 1.0×	289 1.2×	227 1.1×	68	3.0k
Christoph Biskup Germany	29	1.2k 0.6×	624 1.3×	410 0.9×	245 1.0×	306 1.5×	62	2.8k
Megan A. Rizzo United States	27	2.0k 1.0×	424 0.9×	328 0.8×	742 3.0×	88 0.4×	52	2.9k
Mathew Tantama United States	12	1.0k 0.5×	214 0.5×	276 0.6×	98 0.4×	165 0.8×	22	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sohum Mehta

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mehta, Sohum, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in spying on cell signaling with fluorescent biosensors. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 95. 102546–102546.

Lee, Ha Neul, Friedrich W. Herberg, Susan S. Taylor, et al.. (2025). Aberrant phase separation of two PKA RIβ neurological disorder mutants leads to mechanistically distinct signaling deficits. Cell Reports. 44(6). 115797–115797.

Frei, Michelle S., Longwei Liu, Falk Schneider, et al.. (2025). Far-red chemigenetic kinase biosensors enable multiplexed and super-resolved imaging of signaling networks. Nature Biotechnology. 44(3). 444–453. 7 indexed citations

Gest, Anneliese M. M., et al.. (2024). Molecular Spies in Action: Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensors Light up Cellular Signals. Chemical Reviews. 124(22). 12573–12660. 21 indexed citations

Lin, Wei, Longwei Liu, Hyung‐Bae Kwon, et al.. (2024). Light-gated integrator for highlighting kinase activity in living cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7804–7804. 3 indexed citations

Mehta, Sohum, et al.. (2023). Fluorescent biosensors illuminate the spatial regulation of cell signaling across scales. Biochemical Journal. 480(20). 1693–1717. 7 indexed citations

Posner, Clara, Sohum Mehta, & Jin Zhang. (2023). Fluorescent biosensor imaging meets deterministic mathematical modelling: quantitative investigation of signalling compartmentalization. The Journal of Physiology. 601(19). 4227–4241. 5 indexed citations

Schmitt, Danielle L., et al.. (2022). Spatial regulation of AMPK signaling revealed by a sensitive kinase activity reporter. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3856–3856. 47 indexed citations

Fujii, Hajime, Sohum Mehta, Keisuke Ota, et al.. (2022). A genetically encoded far‐red fluorescent calcium ion biosensor derived from a biliverdin‐binding protein. Protein Science. 31(10). 15 indexed citations

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Lin, Wei, Gary Mo, Sohum Mehta, & Jin Zhang. (2021). DrFLINC Contextualizes Super-resolution Activity Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(37). 14951–14955. 7 indexed citations

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Tenner, Brian, Brian Ross, Donya Ohadi, et al.. (2020). Spatially compartmentalized phase regulation of a Ca2+-cAMP-PKA oscillatory circuit. eLife. 9. 42 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinfan, Bian Liu, Ingie Hong, et al.. (2020). An ultrasensitive biosensor for high-resolution kinase activity imaging in awake mice. Nature Chemical Biology. 17(1). 39–46. 71 indexed citations

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Lee, Ha Neul, Sohum Mehta, & Jin Zhang. (2020). Recent advances in the use of genetically encodable optical tools to elicit and monitor signaling events. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 63. 114–124. 13 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Danielle L., Sohum Mehta, & Jin Zhang. (2020). Illuminating the kinome: Visualizing real-time kinase activity in biological systems using genetically encoded fluorescent protein-based biosensors. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 54. 63–69. 15 indexed citations

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Tenner, Brian, Brian Ross, Donya Ohadi, et al.. (2020). Spatially Compartmentalized Phase Regulation in the Ca2+-cAMP-PKA-Oscillatory Circuit. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 175a–175a. 3 indexed citations

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Lin, Wei, Sohum Mehta, & Jin Zhang. (2019). Genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors illuminate kinase signaling in cancer. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(40). 14814–14822. 39 indexed citations

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Qian, Yong, Kiryl D. Piatkevich, Benedict Mc Larney, et al.. (2019). A genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent calcium ion indicator. Nature Methods. 16(2). 171–174. 162 indexed citations

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Mehta, Sohum, Yong Zhang, Richard H. Roth, et al.. (2018). Single-fluorophore biosensors for sensitive and multiplexed detection of signalling activities. Nature Cell Biology. 20(10). 1215–1225. 126 indexed citations

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Mehta, Sohum, et al.. (2015). Visualization of Compartmentalized Kinase Activity Dynamics Using Adaptable BimKARs. Chemistry & Biology. 22(11). 1470–1479. 23 indexed citations

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Kang, Ji‐Man, Sohum Mehta, & Frank J. Turano. (2004). The putative glutamate receptor 1.1 (AtGLR1.1) in Arabidopsis thaliana Regulates Abscisic Acid Biosynthesis and Signaling to Control Development and Water Loss. Plant and Cell Physiology. 45(10). 1380–1389. 93 indexed citations

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