Sudarshan Rajagopal

10.5k citations

120 papers · 7.7k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 40

Molecular Biology top 1%
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.5%
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 2%
Oncology top 5%
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine top 2%

Co-authors: Robert J. Lefkowitz Jeffrey S. Smith Keith Moffat Keshava Rajagopal Sudha K. Shenoy Seungkirl Ahn Erin J. Whalen Sean Crosson
Topics: Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments (46 papers)Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (35 papers)Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (16 papers)
Cited by: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Molecular Biology Structural Biology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Sudarshan Rajagopal

111 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Teaching old receptors new tricks: biasing seven-transmembrane receptors

2010 666 citations Sudarshan Rajagopal, Robert J. Lefkowitz et al. profile →
Biased signalling: from simple switches to allosteric microprocessors

2018 514 citations Jeffrey S. Smith, Robert J. Lefkowitz et al. profile →
Distinct Phosphorylation Sites on the β ₂ -Adrenergic Receptor Establish a Barcode That Encodes Differential Functions of β-Arrestin

2011 497 citations Kunhong Xiao, Seungkirl Ahn et al. Science Signaling profile →
β-arrestin- but not G protein-mediated signaling by the “decoy” receptor CXCR7

2009 469 citations Sudarshan Rajagopal, Ji‐Hee Kim et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Therapeutic potential of β-arrestin- and G protein-biased agonists

2010 419 citations Sudarshan Rajagopal, Robert J. Lefkowitz et al. profile →
A stress response pathway regulates DNA damage through β2-adrenoreceptors and β-arrestin-1

2011 338 citations Makoto R. Hara, Jeffrey J. Kovacs et al. profile →
Quantifying Ligand Bias at Seven-Transmembrane Receptors

2011 306 citations Sudarshan Rajagopal, Seungkirl Ahn et al. profile →
Multiple ligand-specific conformations of the β2-adrenergic receptor

2011 206 citations Alem W. Kahsai, Kunhong Xiao et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sudarshan Rajagopal

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Combining hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MR imaging and spectroscopy to noninvasively estimate pulmonary vascular resistance 2025 ·Journal of Applied Physiology ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Berend E. Westerhof,David Mummy,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Bastiaan Driehuys	2
2	Emerging multimodality imaging techniques for the pulmonary circulation 2024 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Sudarshan Rajagopal,Harm Jan Bogaard,Mohammed S.M. Elbaz,Benjamin H. Freed,Martine Rémy‐Jardin,Edwin J.R. van Beek,Deepa Gopalan,David G. Kiely	10
3	Phosphorylation patterns in the AT1R C-terminal tail specify distinct downstream signaling pathways 2024 ·Science Signaling ·Clarice Gareri,(unknown),(unknown),João A. Paulo,Steven P. Gygi,Uyen Pham,(unknown),Laura M. Wingler,Dean P. Staus,Tomasz Maciej Stępniewski,Jana Selent,(unknown),(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal,Howard A. Rockman	6
4	Evaluation of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension and a range of comorbidities prescribed inhaled treprostinil 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Aparna Swaminathan,(unknown),Alice Parish,Cynthia L. Green,Kishan S. Parikh,Terry Fortin,Richard A. Krasuski,(unknown),Talal Dahhan,Yen‐Rei Yu,(unknown),(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal	0
5	Quantitative assessment of ligand bias from bias plots: The bias coefficient “kappa” 2023 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects ·(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal,Kalina Hristova	3
6	Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Distinct Immune and Smooth Muscle Cell Populations that Contribute to Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension 2023 ·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Gayathri Viswanathan,Hèléne Fradin,(unknown),(unknown),Asvin M. Ganapathi,Ian Cumming,Yonghua Zhuang,Issac Choi,Anmol Warman,(unknown),(unknown),John C. Haney,David L. Corcoran,Yen‐Rei Yu,Sudarshan Rajagopal	32
7	Long-term Survival and Quality of Life 2023 ·Kelly Chin,William R. Auger,Raymond L. Benza,Richard N. Channick,R. Duane Davis,C. Gregory Elliott,Feng He,Sonia Jain,Michael M. Madani,Vallerie V. McLaughlin,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Josanna Rodriguez‐Lopez,Victor F. Tapson,Kim M. Kerr,Andrea Z. LaCroix	6
8	Inhaled Epoprostenol Compared With Nitric Oxide for Right Ventricular Support After Major Cardiac Surgery 2023 ·Circulation ·Kamrouz Ghadimi,(unknown),Mary Cooter,Jerrold H. Levy,Benjamin S. Bryner,Adam D. DeVore,Jacob N. Schroder,Chetan B. Patel,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Svati H. Shah,Carmelo A. Milano,(unknown)	11
9	Optimized quantitative mapping of cardiopulmonary oscillations using hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe gas exchange MRI: Digital phantoms and clinical evaluation in CTEPH 2023 ·Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ·(unknown),Fawaz Alenezi,Elianna Bier,(unknown),David Mummy,(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal,Scott H. Robertson,Peter Niedbalski,Bastiaan Driehuys	6
10	Community guidelines for GPCR ligand bias: IUPHAR review 32 2022 ·British Journal of Pharmacology ·Peter Kolb,Terry Kenakin,S P H Alexander,Marcel Bermúdez,Laura Bohn,(unknown),Michel Bouvier,Stephen J. Hill,Evi Kostenis,Kirill A. Martemyanov,(unknown),H. Ongun Onaran,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Bryan L. Roth,Jana Selent,Arun K. Shukla,M. Sommer,David E. Gloriam	121
11	Novel Approaches to Imaging the Pulmonary Vasculature and Right Heart. 2022 ·PubMed ·Fawaz Alenezi,(unknown),Monica Mukherjee,Stephen C. Mathai,Paul B. Yu,Sudarshan Rajagopal	7
12	β-Arrestin–Mediated Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Activation Promotes Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Hypertension 2021 ·JACC Basic to Translational Science ·Zhiyuan Ma,Gayathri Viswanathan,(unknown),(unknown),Issac Choi,(unknown),Xinyu Xiong,(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal	19
13	Noncanonical scaffolding of G _αi and β-arrestin by G protein–coupled receptors 2021 ·Science ·Jeffrey S. Smith,Thomas F. Pack,Asuka Inoue,(unknown),(unknown),Issac Choi,Dylan Scott Eiger,Anmol Warman,Xinyu Xiong,Zhiyuan Ma,Gayathri Viswanathan,(unknown),Lauren K. Rochelle,Dean P. Staus,Joshua C. Snyder,Alem W. Kahsai,Marc G. Caron,Sudarshan Rajagopal	73
14	The role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in pulmonary arterial hypertension 2019 ·British Journal of Pharmacology ·Argen Mamazhakypov,Gayathri Viswanathan,Allan Lawrie,Ralph T. Schermuly,Sudarshan Rajagopal	45
15	Manifold roles of β-arrestins in GPCR signaling elucidated with siRNA and CRISPR/Cas9 2018 ·Science Signaling ·Louis M. Luttrell,Jialu Wang,Bianca Plouffe,Jeffrey S. Smith,Lama Yamani,Suneet Kaur,Pierre‐Yves Jean‐Charles,Christophe Gauthier,Mi‐Hye Lee,Biswaranjan Pani,Ji‐Hee Kim,Seungkirl Ahn,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Éric Reiter,Michel Bouvier,Sudha K. Shenoy,Stéphane A. Laporte,Howard A. Rockman,Robert J. Lefkowitz	153
16	How do chemokines navigate neutrophils to the target site: Dissecting the structural mechanisms and signaling pathways 2018 ·Cellular Signalling ·Krishna Rajarathnam,Michael Schnoor,Ricardo M. Richardson,Sudarshan Rajagopal	165
17	Distinct Phosphorylation Sites on the β ₂ -Adrenergic Receptor Establish a Barcode That Encodes Differential Functions of β-Arrestinbreakdown → 2011 ·Science Signaling ·(unknown),Kunhong Xiao,Seungkirl Ahn,Arun K. Shukla,(unknown),Sudarshan Rajagopal,Ryan T. Strachan,Teng‐Yi Huang,(unknown),Makoto R. Hara,Sudha K. Shenoy,Steven P. Gygi,Robert J. Lefkowitz	497
18	Global phosphorylation analysis of β-arrestin–mediated signaling downstream of a seven transmembrane receptor (7TMR) 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kunhong Xiao,Jin‐Peng Sun,Ji‐Hee Kim,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Bo Zhai,Judit Villén,Wilhelm Haas,Jeffrey J. Kovacs,Arun K. Shukla,Makoto R. Hara,Marylens Hernandez,Alexander Lachmann,Shan Zhao,Yuan Lin,Yi‐Shan Cheng,Kensaku Mizuno,Avi Ma’ayan,Steven P. Gygi,Robert J. Lefkowitz	164
19	Visualizing reaction pathways in photoactive yellow protein from nanoseconds to seconds 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hyotcherl Ihee,Sudarshan Rajagopal,V. Šrajer,Reinhard Pahl,Spencer Anderson,Marius Schmidt,Friedrich Schotte,Philip Anfinrud,Michaël Wulff,Keith Moffat	210
20	Chromophore Conformation and the Evolution of Tertiary Structural Changes in Photoactive Yellow Protein 2004 ·Structure ·Spencer Anderson,V. Šrajer,Reinhard Pahl,Sudarshan Rajagopal,Friedrich Schotte,Philip Anfinrud,Michaël Wulff,Keith Moffat	53

About Sudarshan Rajagopal

Sudarshan Rajagopal is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, having authored 120 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments (46 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (35 papers) and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (2.8k citations), Molecular Biology (4.8k citations) and Structural Biology (61 citations). Sudarshan Rajagopal has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Robert J. Lefkowitz, Jeffrey S. Smith, Keith Moffat, Keshava Rajagopal, Sudha K. Shenoy, Seungkirl Ahn, Erin J. Whalen, Sean Crosson, Kunhong Xiao and Arun K. Shukla. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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