Sumit Sen Santara

724 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 500 citations indexed

About

Sumit Sen Santara is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sumit Sen Santara has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 500 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Immunology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Sumit Sen Santara's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (3 papers). Sumit Sen Santara is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (3 papers). Sumit Sen Santara collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Brazil. Sumit Sen Santara's co-authors include Judy Lieberman, Caroline Junqueira, Ângela C. Crespo, Farokh Dotiwala, Sachin Mulik, Jack L. Strominger, Subrata Adak, Moumita Bose, Tamara Tilburgs and Ricardo T. Gazzinelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sumit Sen Santara

15 papers receiving 499 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.

The NK cell receptor NKp46 recognizes ecto-calreticulin on ER-stressed cells

2023 108 citations Sumit Sen Santara, Dian-Jang Lee et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sumit Sen Santara India	9	326	134	83	77	75	16	500
Mercedes Cabrini Argentina	7	142 0.4×	43 0.3×	103 1.2×	54 0.7×	22 0.3×	14	350
M Stanislawski France	14	284 0.9×	58 0.4×	192 2.3×	38 0.5×	41 0.5×	41	510
Flávia Afonso Lima Brazil	10	163 0.5×	105 0.8×	112 1.3×	33 0.4×	53 0.7×	14	367
Irina Korneeva United States	11	96 0.3×	68 0.5×	151 1.8×	135 1.8×	23 0.3×	14	373
Yuyang Tang United States	12	181 0.6×	79 0.6×	250 3.0×	126 1.6×	22 0.3×	22	740
Christine Rueckert Germany	10	151 0.5×	30 0.2×	145 1.7×	49 0.6×	6 0.1×	12	392
Anders Laustsen Denmark	9	327 1.0×	35 0.3×	231 2.8×	63 0.8×	12 0.2×	11	517
Joeli Brinkman United States	13	180 0.6×	53 0.4×	180 2.2×	247 3.2×	12 0.2×	16	559
Sandrine Wouters Belgium	8	289 0.9×	41 0.3×	238 2.9×	166 2.2×	6 0.1×	9	572
William Bradford United States	12	45 0.1×	54 0.4×	222 2.7×	247 3.2×	32 0.4×	24	732

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sumit Sen Santara

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16 of 16 papers shown

Santara, Sumit Sen, et al.. (2025). Power of Memory: A Natural Killer Cell Perspective. Cells. 14(11). 846–846.

Santara, Sumit Sen, Dian-Jang Lee, Ângela C. Crespo, et al.. (2023). The NK cell receptor NKp46 recognizes ecto-calreticulin on ER-stressed cells. Nature. 616(7956). 348–356. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Murillo, Oscar, et al.. (2022). Costimulatory CD226 Signaling Regulates Proliferation of Memory-like NK Cells in Healthy Individuals with Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(21). 12838–12838. 2 indexed citations

Santara, Sumit Sen, Ângela C. Crespo, Sachin Mulik, et al.. (2021). Decidual NK cells kill Zika virus–infected trophoblasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(47). 19 indexed citations

Junqueira, Caroline, Rafael B. Polidoro, Sabrina Absalon, et al.. (2021). γδ T cells suppress Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection by direct killing and phagocytosis. Nature Immunology. 22(3). 347–357. 54 indexed citations

Duggal, Rohit, et al.. (2021). Promising Preliminary Activity of Optimized Affinity, CD38 CAR NK Cells Generated Using a Non-Viral Engineering Approach in Gene Edited Cord Blood Derived NK Cells for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma. Blood. 138(Supplement 1). 4793–4793. 1 indexed citations

Crespo, Ângela C., Sachin Mulik, Farokh Dotiwala, et al.. (2020). Decidual NK Cells Transfer Granulysin to Selectively Kill Bacteria in Trophoblasts. Cell. 182(5). 1125–1139.e18. 125 indexed citations

Junqueira, Caroline, Pedro Augusto Carvalho Costa, Andréa Teixeira‐Carvalho, et al.. (2018). Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells recognize and kill Plasmodium vivax–infected reticulocytes. Nature Medicine. 24(9). 1330–1336. 63 indexed citations

Dotiwala, Farokh, et al.. (2017). Granzyme B Disrupts Central Metabolism and Protein Synthesis in Bacteria to Promote an Immune Cell Death Program. Cell. 171(5). 1125–1137.e11. 51 indexed citations

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Santara, Sumit Sen, et al.. (2015). Control of catalysis in globin coupled adenylate cyclase by a globin-B domain. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 579. 85–90. 5 indexed citations

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Santara, Sumit Sen, et al.. (2014). The ferrous–dioxy complex of Leishmania major globin coupled heme containing adenylate cyclase: The role of proximal histidine on its stability. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1844(3). 615–622. 8 indexed citations

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Santara, Sumit Sen, et al.. (2013). Globin-coupled heme containing oxygen sensor soluble adenylate cyclase in Leishmania prevents cell death during hypoxia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(42). 16790–16795. 32 indexed citations

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Bose, Moumita, et al.. (2013). Effect of distal His mutation on the peroxynitrite reactivity of Leishmania major peroxidase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1834(10). 2057–2063. 1 indexed citations

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Bose, Moumita, et al.. (2013). Identification of Proximal and Distal Axial Ligands in Leishmania major Pseudoperoxidase. Biochemistry. 52(49). 8878–8887. 5 indexed citations

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Bose, Moumita, et al.. (2012). Protection against peroxynitrite by pseudoperoxidase from Leishmania major. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 53(10). 1819–1828. 9 indexed citations

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Santara, Sumit Sen, et al.. (2012). NAD(P)H Cytochrome b5 Oxidoreductase Deficiency in Leishmania major Results in Impaired Linoleate Synthesis Followed by Increased Oxidative Stress and Cell Death. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(42). 34992–35003. 17 indexed citations

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