Stephen W. Santoro

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Stephen W. Santoro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Sensory Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen W. Santoro has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Sensory Systems. Recurrent topics in Stephen W. Santoro's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (8 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Stephen W. Santoro is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (8 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Stephen W. Santoro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Israel. Stephen W. Santoro's co-authors include Gerald F. Joyce, Peter G. Schultz, David S. King, Lei Wang, Andrew B. Martin, Jason W. Chin, Catherine Dulac, J. Christopher Anderson, Kandasamy Sakthivel and Carlos F. Barbas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Stephen W. Santoro

24 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

A general purpose RNA-cleaving DNA enzyme

1997 1.3k citations Stephen W. Santoro, Gerald F. Joyce profile →
Addition of p-Azido-l-phenylalanine to the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli

2002 610 citations Stephen W. Santoro, Andrew B. Martin et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen W. Santoro United States	16	3.3k	460	436	344	221	26	3.7k
Indraneel Ghosh United States	31	2.7k 0.8×	168 0.4×	214 0.5×	454 1.3×	307 1.4×	64	3.5k
Toshihide Takeuchi Japan	34	4.3k 1.3×	684 1.5×	273 0.6×	428 1.2×	183 0.8×	62	5.4k
Isabel D. Alves France	33	2.3k 0.7×	170 0.4×	229 0.5×	177 0.5×	163 0.7×	86	2.9k
Horst Pick Switzerland	26	2.8k 0.9×	242 0.5×	583 1.3×	850 2.5×	604 2.7×	57	4.2k
Oded Tour Israel	7	2.3k 0.7×	330 0.7×	143 0.3×	249 0.7×	141 0.6×	9	3.1k
Stéphanie Cabantous France	22	2.9k 0.9×	581 1.3×	194 0.4×	222 0.6×	402 1.8×	44	3.8k
Paul Otto United States	9	3.4k 1.0×	265 0.6×	564 1.3×	553 1.6×	433 2.0×	17	4.4k
Gediminas Vidugiris United States	14	2.8k 0.9×	210 0.5×	505 1.2×	486 1.4×	333 1.5×	26	3.7k
Monika G. Wood United States	12	3.4k 1.0×	252 0.5×	668 1.5×	575 1.7×	425 1.9×	18	4.4k
Sandrine Sagan France	37	3.8k 1.2×	377 0.8×	213 0.5×	426 1.2×	143 0.6×	120	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen W. Santoro

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O’Rourke, Rebecca, et al.. (2025). In mice, discrete odors can selectively promote the neurogenesis of sensory neuron subtypes that they stimulate. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Santoro, Stephen W., et al.. (2024). The influence of olfactory experience on the birthrates of olfactory sensory neurons with specific odorant receptor identities. genesis. 62(3). e23611–e23611. 1 indexed citations

O’Rourke, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). In mice, discrete odors can selectively promote the neurogenesis of sensory neuron subtypes that they stimulate. eLife. 13.

Williams, Jasper Z., Dina Polyak, James Zhang, et al.. (2023). 323 Preclinical development of AB-1015, an integrated circuit T cell therapy containing an ALPG/MSLN logic gate and FAS/PTPN2 shRNA-miR, for the treatment of ovarian cancer. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. A367–A367. 1 indexed citations

Santoro, Stephen W., et al.. (2023). A histological protocol for quantifying the birthrates of specific subtypes of olfactory sensory neurons in mice. STAR Protocols. 4(3). 102432–102432. 3 indexed citations

Williams, Jasper Z., Joseph Choe, Maxim Sidorov, et al.. (2022). Abstract 2854: Logic gates controlled by priming receptors increase specificity and potency of CAR T cells. Cancer Research. 82(12_Supplement). 2854–2854. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Pooja, et al.. (2020). Olfactory Stimulation Regulates the Birth of Neurons That Express Specific Odorant Receptors. Cell Reports. 33(1). 108210–108210. 23 indexed citations

Santoro, Stephen W. & Susanne Jakob. (2018). Gene expression profiling of the olfactory tissues of sex-separated and sex-combined female and male mice. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180260–180260. 11 indexed citations

Jakob, Susanne, et al.. (2018). Sex separation induces differences in the olfactory sensory receptor repertoires of male and female mice. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5081–5081. 33 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhenyu, Amit Thakar, Stephen W. Santoro, & Kara G. Pratt. (2018). Presenilin Regulates Retinotectal Synapse Formation through EphB2 Receptor Processing. Developmental Neurobiology. 78(12). 1171–1190. 9 indexed citations

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Pérez, J., Nimrod D. Rubinstein, Daniel E. Fernandez, et al.. (2015). Quantitative and functional interrogation of parent-of-origin allelic expression biases in the brain. eLife. 4. e07860–e07860. 55 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W. & Catherine Dulac. (2015). Histone variants and cellular plasticity. Trends in Genetics. 31(9). 516–527. 27 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W. & Catherine Dulac. (2012). The activity-dependent histone variant H2BE modulates the life span of olfactory neurons. eLife. 1. e00070–e00070. 89 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W., Hanne Volpin, Yoram Eyal, et al.. (2006). Site-specific recombination of asymmetric lox sites mediated by a heterotetrameric Cre recombinase complex. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 14(9). 3081–3089. 17 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W. & Peter G. Schultz. (2003). Directed Evolution of the Substrate Specificities of a Site-Specific Recombinase and an Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Using Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS). Humana Press eBooks. 230. 291–312. 5 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W.. (2003). An archaebacteria-derived glutamyl-tRNA synthetase and tRNA pair for unnatural amino acid mutagenesis of proteins in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(23). 6700–6709. 60 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Enoch P., Shelley S. Martin, Kathy A. Gelato, et al.. (2003). A Specificity Switch in Selected Cre Recombinase Variants Is Mediated by Macromolecular Plasticity and Water. Chemistry & Biology. 10(11). 1085–1094. 27 indexed citations

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Mehl, Ryan A., J. Christopher Anderson, Stephen W. Santoro, et al.. (2003). Generation of a Bacterium with a 21 Amino Acid Genetic Code. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(4). 935–939. 221 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W., Lei Wang, Brad Herberich, David S. King, & Peter G. Schultz. (2002). An efficient system for the evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase specificity. Nature Biotechnology. 20(10). 1044–1048. 165 indexed citations

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Santoro, Stephen W. & Gerald F. Joyce. (1998). Mechanism and Utility of an RNA-Cleaving DNA Enzyme. Biochemistry. 37(38). 13330–13342. 376 indexed citations

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