Susan Lindquist

73.5k citations

301 papers · 56.5k indexed · 30 hit papers · h-index 125

Impact in

Aging top 0.02%
Neurology top 0.02%
- Neurological diseases and metabolism

Papers in

Aging 21
Neurology 58
- Neurological diseases and metabolism 58

Co-authors: Luke Whitesell John R. Glover Mike A. Singer Suzanne L. Rutherford Mikko Taipale James Shorter Christine Queitsch Daniel F. Jarosz
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (49 papers)Cell (29 papers)Science (21 papers)Nature (12 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Susan Lindquist

297 papers receiving 55.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

APOE4 disrupts intracellular lipid homeostasis in human iPSC-derived glia 2021 · 197 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Science Translational Medicine
2019 Nature Chemical Biology
2012 Cell
2012 Cell
2011 Cell
2010 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2009 Cell
2007 Cell
2006 Science
2005 Science
2005 Nature reviews. Cancer
2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 Science
2002 Nature
2000 Science
2000 Nature
2000 The Plant Cell
1998 Nature
1998 Molecular Cell
1998 Cell
1997 Cell
1996 Trends in Biochemical Sciences
1996 Science
1995 Science
1994 Nature
1990 Science
1990 Nature
1989 Cell
1986 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1982 Cell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Susan Lindquist

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Susan Lindquist, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	HSF2 cooperates with HSF1 to drive a transcriptional program critical for the malignant state Science Advances ·Roger S. Smith, Teja Indrakanti, David R. Amici, Kyle Metz, Sitaram Gayatri, Myung Gu Ji, 宗彦小山, Sonia Brockway, I S megi, Basil W. Bathe, Mikko Taipale, Sandro Santagata, Luke Whitesell, Susan Lindquist, Jeffrey N. Savas, Marc L. Mendillo	2022	23
2	Structural basis for species-selective targeting of Hsp90 in a pathogenic fungus Nature Communications ·Luke Whitesell, Nicole Robbins, Ayşe Pınar Aydeş, Catherine A. McLellan, Tanvi Shekhar‐Guturja, Emmanuelle V. LeBlanc, Catherine S. Nation, Raymond Hui, Ashley Hutchinson, Cathy Collins, Sharanya Chatterjee, Richard Trilles, Jinglin Lucy Xie, Damian J. Krysan, Susan Lindquist, John A. Porco, Utpal Tatu, Lauren E. Brown, J.C. Pizarro, Leah E. Cowen	2019	93
3	Aggregation and Fibril Structure of Aβ_M01–42 and Aβ_1–42 Biochemistry ·Robert Silvers, Michael T. Colvin, Kendra K. Frederick, Hirotada Maezawa, Susan Lindquist, Sara Linse, Robert G. Griffin	2017	22
4	Luminidependens (LD) is an Arabidopsis protein with prion behavior Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sohini Chakrabortee, Can Kayatekin, Gregory A. Newby, Marc L. Mendillo, Alex K. Lancaster, Susan Lindquist	2016	124
5	Endothelial Thermotolerance Impairs Nanoparticle Transport in Tumors Cancer Research ·Alexander F. Bagley, Ruth Scherz‐Shouval, Peter A. Galie, Angela Q. Zhang, Jeffrey Wyckoff, Luke Whitesell, Christopher S. Chen, Susan Lindquist, Sangeeta N. Bhatia	2015	27
6	Prion-like proteins sequester and suppress the toxicity of huntingtin exon 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Can Kayatekin, Kent Matlack, William R. Hesse, Yinghua Guan, Sohini Chakrabortee, Jenny Russ, Erich E. Wanker, Jagesh V. Shah, Susan Lindquist	2014	44
7	Yeast Reveal a “Druggable” Rsp5/Nedd4 Network that Ameliorates α-Synuclein Toxicity in Neurons Science ·Daniel F. Tardiff, Nathan T. Jui, Vikram Khurana, Mitali A. Tambe, Michelle L. Thompson, Chee Yeun Chung, Hari Kamadurai, Hyoung Tae Kim, Alex K. Lancaster, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Jean‐Christophe Rochet, Stephen L. Buchwald, Susan Lindquist	2013	200
8	Tight Coordination of Protein Translation and HSF1 Activation Supports the Anabolic Malignant State Science ·Sandro Santagata, Marc L. Mendillo, Yun‐Chi Tang, Aravind Subramanian, Casey C. Perley, Stéphane P. Roche, Bang Wong, Rajiv Narayan, Markus Tümpel, Martina Koeva, Angelika Amon, Todd R. Golub, John A. Porco, Luke Whitesell, Susan Lindquist	2013	222
9	Conserved features of intermediates in amyloid assembly determine their benign or toxic states Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Rajaraman Krishnan, Jessica L. Goodman, Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Elisa Ravaioli, Edward A. Lemke, Ashok A. Deniz, Susan Lindquist	2012	113
10	Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts RePEc: Research Papers in Economics ·Randal Halfmann, Daniel F. Jarosz, Sandra K. Jones, Amelia Chang, Alex K. Lancaster, Susan Lindquist	2012	7
11	Different 8-Hydroxyquinolines Protect Models of TDP-43 Protein, α-Synuclein, and Polyglutamine Proteotoxicity through Distinct Mechanisms Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Daniel F. Tardiff, Cameron Lee, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Susan Lindquist	2011	61
12	Biochemical, Cell Biological, and Genetic Assays to Analyze Amyloid and Prion Aggregation in Yeast Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Simon Alberti, Randal Halfmann, Susan Lindquist	2010	63
13	Harnessing Hsp90 function as a powerful, broadly effective therapeutic strategy for fungal infectious disease Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Leah E. Cowen, Sheena D. Singh-Babak, Julia R. Köhler, Cathy Collins, Aimee K. Zaas, Wiley A. Schell, Hamza Aziz, Eleftherios Mylonakis, John R. Perfect, Luke Whitesell, Susan Lindquist	2009	327
14	Inhibiting the transcription factor HSF1 as an anticancer strategy Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets ·Luke Whitesell, Susan Lindquist	2009	182
15	Prion protein is expressed on long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and is important for their self-renewal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cheng Zhang, Andrew D. Steele, Susan Lindquist, Harvey F. Lodish	2006	189
16	α-Synuclein Blocks ER-Golgi Traffic and Rab1 Rescues Neuron Loss in Parkinson's Models Science ·Antony A. Cooper, Aaron D. Gitler, Anil G. Cashikar, Cole M. Haynes, Kathryn J. Hill, Bhupinder Bhullar, Kangning Liu, Kexiang Xu, Katherine E. Strathearn, Fang Liu, Songsong Cao, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Gerald Marsischky, Richard D. Kolodner, Joshua LaBaer, Jean‐Christophe Rochet, Nancy M. Bonini, Susan Lindquist Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1064
17	Hsp104 Catalyzes Formation and Elimination of Self-Replicating Sup35 Prion Conformers Science ·James Shorter, Susan Lindquist	2004	389
18	Neurotoxicity and Neurodegeneration When PrP Accumulates in the Cytosol Science ·Jiyan Ma, F Oliveira Michele, Susan Lindquist	2002	373
19	Wild-type PrP and a mutant associated with prion disease are subject to retrograde transport and proteasome degradation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jiyan Ma, Susan Lindquist	2001	236
20	Mutational Analysis of Hsp90 Function: Interactions with a Steroid Receptor and a Protein Kinase Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Debra F. Nathan, Susan Lindquist	1995	368

About Susan Lindquist

Susan Lindquist is a scholar working on Aging, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Cell Biology, having authored 301 papers that have together received 56.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Heat shock proteins research (113 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (107 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (58 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (36 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (32 papers), thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses (30 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (29 papers) and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (3.3k citations), Neurology (5.7k citations), Molecular Biology (44.9k citations), Cell Biology (8.1k citations) and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (3.5k citations). Susan Lindquist has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Luke Whitesell, John R. Glover, Mike A. Singer, Suzanne L. Rutherford, Mikko Taipale, James Shorter, Christine Queitsch, Daniel F. Jarosz, Randal Halfmann and Todd A. Sangster. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cell, Science, Nature and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

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