Stephen C. Winans

15.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

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Stephen C. Winans is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen C. Winans has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Genetics and 43 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen C. Winans's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (48 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (47 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (35 papers). Stephen C. Winans is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (48 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (47 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (35 papers). Stephen C. Winans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Germany. Stephen C. Winans's co-authors include E. Peter Greenberg, W. Claiborne Fuqua, Clay Fuqua, Jun Zhu, Gary M. Dunny, Eugene W. Nester, Graham C. Walker, Katherine M. Pappas, Anja Brenčič and Yunrong Chai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Stephen C. Winans

119 papers receiving 11.6k citations

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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.

Quorum sensing in bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI family of cell density-responsive transcriptional regulators

1994 2.1k citations Stephen C. Winans et al. profile →
CENSUS AND CONSENSUS IN BACTERIAL ECOSYSTEMS: The LuxR-LuxI Family of Quorum-Sensing Transcriptional Regulators

1996 927 citations Clay Fuqua, Stephen C. Winans et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen C. Winans United States	51	9.1k	3.9k	3.8k	1.8k	1.7k	119	12.0k
Clay Fuqua United States	50	7.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	3.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	127	12.1k
Janine Doly France	23	9.6k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	48	15.9k
George P. C. Salmond United Kingdom	64	9.8k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	5.4k 1.4×	3.6k 2.0×	2.1k 1.3×	228	17.6k
Gordon S.A.B. Stewart United Kingdom	52	8.0k 0.9×	2.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	110	11.4k
Reinhard Simon Peru	32	5.3k 0.6×	3.1k 0.8×	5.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	54	11.7k
Dieter Haas Switzerland	68	9.0k 1.0×	4.9k 1.3×	7.3k 1.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	161	15.9k
Lian‐Hui Zhang China	55	8.9k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	4.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	249	13.8k
Bob Mau United States	15	9.2k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	3.5k 1.9×	2.1k 1.2×	20	14.4k
Francisco Bolívar Mexico	52	11.8k 1.3×	6.4k 1.6×	1.7k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	899 0.5×	173	15.6k
Siri Ram Chhabra United Kingdom	42	7.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	78	10.1k

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Winans, Stephen C., et al.. (2023). Quorum sensing interference by phenolic compounds – A matter of bacterial misunderstanding. Heliyon. 9(7). e17657–e17657. 47 indexed citations

Pinto, Uelinton Manoel, Katherine M. Pappas, & Stephen C. Winans. (2012). The ABCs of plasmid replication and segregation. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 10(11). 755–765. 117 indexed citations

Wei, Yuping, et al.. (2010). Saturation mutagenesis of a CepR binding site as a means to identify new quorum-regulated promoters in Burkholderia cenocepacia. Molecular Microbiology. 79(3). 616–632. 11 indexed citations

Winans, Stephen C., et al.. (2010). LuxR-type quorum-sensing regulators that are detached from common scents. Molecular Microbiology. 77(5). 1072–1082. 84 indexed citations

Pinto, Uelinton Manoel & Stephen C. Winans. (2009). Dimerization of the quorum‐sensing transcription factor TraR enhances resistance to cytoplasmic proteolysis. Molecular Microbiology. 73(1). 32–42. 35 indexed citations

Winans, Stephen C.. (2008). Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The biomedical & life sciences collection.. 2008(1). e1001861–e1001861. 1 indexed citations

Brenčič, Anja, Esther R. Angert, & Stephen C. Winans. (2005). Unwounded plants elicit Agrobacterium vir gene induction and T‐DNA transfer: transformed plant cells produce opines yet are tumour free. Molecular Microbiology. 57(6). 1522–1531. 30 indexed citations

Weingart, Christine L., Catharine E. White, Yunrong Chai, et al.. (2005). Direct binding of the quorum sensing regulator CepR of Burkholderia cenocepacia to two target promoters in vitro. Molecular Microbiology. 57(2). 452–467. 53 indexed citations

Akakura, Reiko & Stephen C. Winans. (2002). Constitutive Mutations of the OccR Regulatory Protein Affect DNA Bending in Response to Metabolites Released from Plant Tumors. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(8). 5866–5874. 37 indexed citations

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Dunny, Gary M. & Stephen C. Winans. (1999). Cell-cell signaling in bacteria. ASM Press eBooks. 429 indexed citations

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Lyi, Sangbom M., Samina Jafri, & Stephen C. Winans. (1999). Mannopinic acid and agropinic acid catabolism region of the octopine‐type Ti plasmid pTi15955. Molecular Microbiology. 31(1). 339–347. 14 indexed citations

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Jafri, Samina, et al.. (1999). An Lrp-type transcriptional regulator from Agrobacterium tumefaciens condenses more than 100 nucleotides of DNA into globular nucleoprotein complexes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 288(5). 811–824. 39 indexed citations

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Winans, Stephen C.. (1998). Command, control and communication in bacterial pathogenesis. Trends in Microbiology. 6(10). 382–383. 10 indexed citations

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Cellini, Christina, Virginia S. Kalogeraki, & Stephen C. Winans. (1997). The Hydrophobic TraM Protein of pKM101 Is Required for Conjugal Transfer and Sensitivity to Donor-Specific Bacteriophage. Plasmid. 37(3). 181–188. 9 indexed citations

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Fuqua, Clay & Stephen C. Winans. (1996). Localization of OccR‐activated and TraR‐activated promoters that express two ABC‐type permeases and the traR gene of Ti plasmid pTiR10. Molecular Microbiology. 20(6). 1199–1210. 74 indexed citations

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Pohlman, Robert F., et al.. (1994). Common ancestry between IncN conjugal transfer genes and macromolecular export systems of plant and animal pathogens. Molecular Microbiology. 14(4). 655–668. 93 indexed citations

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Winans, Stephen C., et al.. (1994). Host recognition by the VirA, VirG two-component regulatory proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Research in Microbiology. 145(5-6). 461–473. 34 indexed citations

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Pohlman, Robert F., Franklin Liu, Lu Wang, Margret I. Moré, & Stephen C. Winans. (1993). Genetic and biochemical analysis of an endonuclease encoded by the IncN plasmid pKM101. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(21). 4867–4872. 48 indexed citations

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Wang, Lu, John D. Helmann, & Stephen C. Winans. (1992). The A. tumefaciens transcriptional activator OccR causes a bend at a target promoter, which is partially relaxed by a plant tumor metabolite. Cell. 69(4). 659–667. 112 indexed citations

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Winans, Stephen C.. (1991). An Agrobacterium two‐component regulatory system for the detection of chemicals released from plant wounds. Molecular Microbiology. 5(10). 2345–2350. 56 indexed citations

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