Stephen R. Wassall

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

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Stephen R. Wassall is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen R. Wassall has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 27 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Stephen R. Wassall's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (88 papers), Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (27 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (26 papers). Stephen R. Wassall is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (88 papers), Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (27 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (26 papers). Stephen R. Wassall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Slovakia. Stephen R. Wassall's co-authors include William Stillwell, Saame Raza Shaikh, John Katsaras, Thad A. Harroun, Michael R. Brzustowicz, Justin A. Williams, Vadim Cherezov, Martin Caffrey, William D. Ehringer and Jacob J. Kinnun and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Stephen R. Wassall

104 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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Docosahexaenoic acid: membrane properties of a unique fatty acid

2003 652 citations William Stillwell, Stephen R. Wassall Chemistry and Physics of Lipids profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen R. Wassall United States	37	3.4k	1.5k	792	564	564	105	5.2k
William Stillwell United States	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	296 0.5×	574 1.0×	120	5.3k
Burton J. Litman United States	45	5.0k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	705 0.9×	466 0.8×	740 1.3×	74	6.8k
Jos A.F. Op den Kamp Netherlands	38	3.8k 1.1×	548 0.4×	603 0.8×	187 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	118	5.7k
Pablo V. Escribá Spain	42	3.9k 1.2×	580 0.4×	585 0.7×	170 0.3×	663 1.2×	128	5.9k
Edward A. Dratz United States	38	3.0k 0.9×	628 0.4×	328 0.4×	157 0.3×	495 0.9×	107	5.2k
Albin Hermetter Austria	42	3.5k 1.1×	416 0.3×	1.6k 2.0×	166 0.3×	1.6k 2.8×	166	6.6k
J. A. Lucy United Kingdom	42	3.8k 1.1×	780 0.5×	379 0.5×	209 0.4×	923 1.6×	104	6.8k
B. Roelofsen Netherlands	39	4.1k 1.2×	513 0.3×	534 0.7×	192 0.3×	2.1k 3.7×	111	6.4k
László Vı́gh Hungary	47	6.0k 1.8×	319 0.2×	751 0.9×	278 0.5×	1.1k 2.0×	166	8.6k
Juan C. Gómez‐Fernández Spain	44	4.8k 1.4×	253 0.2×	303 0.4×	298 0.5×	613 1.1×	210	6.0k

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Wassall, Stephen R., et al.. (2024). How Membrane Phospholipids Containing Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Oxidation Products Orchestrate Lipid Raft Dynamics to Control Inflammation. Journal of Nutrition. 154(9). 2862–2870. 13 indexed citations

Mitra, Saheli, et al.. (2023). Location of dopamine in lipid bilayers and its relevance to neuromodulator function. Biophysical Journal. 122(6). 1118–1129. 6 indexed citations

Pennington, Edward Ross, et al.. (2023). OxPAPC stabilizes liquid-ordered domains in biomimetic membranes. Biophysical Journal. 122(6). 1130–1139. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Fangqiang, et al.. (2019). A Role for Lipid-Lipid Interactions in Vitamin E's Function as a Membrane Antioxidant. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 227a–227a.

Leng, Xiaoling, Fangqiang Zhu, & Stephen R. Wassall. (2018). Vitamin E Has Reduced Affinity for a Polyunsaturated Phospholipid: An Umbrella Sampling Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(35). 8351–8358. 9 indexed citations

Kinnun, Jacob J., Robert Bittman, Saame Raza Shaikh, & Stephen R. Wassall. (2018). DHA Modifies the Size and Composition of Raftlike Domains: A Solid-State 2H NMR Study. Biophysical Journal. 114(2). 380–391. 29 indexed citations

Wassall, Stephen R., Xiaoling Leng, Edward Ross Pennington, et al.. (2018). Docosahexaenoic acid regulates the formation of lipid rafts: A unified view from experiment and simulation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1860(10). 1985–1993. 71 indexed citations

Kinnun, Jacob J., et al.. (2018). Vitamin E Bends Model Cell Membranes to Promote its Antioxidant Function. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 101a–101a. 1 indexed citations

Leng, Xiaoling, Fangqiang Zhu, & Stephen R. Wassall. (2016). Binding of Vitamin E in Model Membranes Studied by Umbrella Sampling Simulations. Biophysical Journal. 110(3). 583a–583a. 2 indexed citations

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Shaikh, Saame Raza, et al.. (2015). N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Lipid Microclusters, and Vitamin E. Current topics in membranes. 75. 209–231. 21 indexed citations

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Johnson, Merrell A., Bruce D. Ray, Stephen R. Wassall, & Horia I. Petrache. (2015). Equivalent Isopropanol Concentrations of Aromatic Amino Acids Interactions with Lipid Vesicles. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 248(4). 695–703. 2 indexed citations

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Marquardt, Drew, Justin A. Williams, Jacob J. Kinnun, et al.. (2014). DMPC: A Remarkable Exception to the Tocopherol's Membrane Presence. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 41a–41a. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, Justin A., et al.. (2013). Dependence of Cholesterol-Phospholipid Affinity on Degree of Acyl Chain Unsaturation as Determined by EPR. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 588a–588a. 1 indexed citations

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Wassall, Stephen R., et al.. (2010). Convulsant agent pentylenetetrazol does not alter the structural and dynamical properties of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine model membranes. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 54(2). 379–386. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Justin A., et al.. (2009). Preferential Interaction of α-tocopherol with PUFA-containing Lipids Characterized by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 608a–608a. 3 indexed citations

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Wassall, Stephen R. & William Stillwell. (2008). Docosahexaenoic acid domains: the ultimate non-raft membrane domain. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids. 153(1). 57–63. 167 indexed citations

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Harroun, Thad A., John Katsaras, & Stephen R. Wassall. (2008). Cholesterol Is Found To Reside in the Center of a Polyunsaturated Lipid Membrane. Biochemistry. 47(27). 7090–7096. 110 indexed citations

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Stillwell, William, et al.. (2005). Docosahexaenoic acid affects cell signaling by altering lipid rafts. annales de biologie animale biochimie biophysique. 45(5). 559–579. 200 indexed citations

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Wassall, Stephen R.. (1996). Pulsed field gradient-spin echo NMR studies of water diffusion in a phospholipid model membrane. Biophysical Journal. 71(5). 2724–2732. 61 indexed citations

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Wassall, Stephen R., et al.. (1988). Electron spin resonance study of the interactions of retinoids with a phospholipid model membrane. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 939(2). 393–402. 36 indexed citations

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