Sy Redding

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
17 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Sy Redding is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sy Redding has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sy Redding's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Sy Redding is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Sy Redding collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and United Kingdom. Sy Redding's co-authors include Eric C. Greene, Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer A. Doudna, Martin Jínek, Madeline M Keenen, Geeta J. Narlikar, David A. Agard, Michael J. Trnka, Alma L. Burlingame and Jonathan B. Johnston and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sy Redding

17 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 2019 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9
    2014 1.4k citations Samuel H. Sternberg, Sy Redding et al. Nature profile →
  2. Liquid droplet formation by HP1α suggests a role for phase separation in heterochromatin
    2017 1.2k citations Adam G. Larson, Daniel Elnatan et al. Nature profile →
  3. Organization of Chromatin by Intrinsic and Regulated Phase Separation
    2019 723 citations Bryan A. Gibson, Lynda K. Doolittle et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sy Redding United States 14 4.1k 502 492 175 153 17 4.3k
David I. Bryson United States 8 3.1k 0.7× 427 0.9× 808 1.6× 182 1.0× 257 1.7× 10 3.2k
Srinivasan Chandrasegaran United States 28 4.7k 1.1× 776 1.5× 1.2k 2.5× 135 0.8× 244 1.6× 53 5.0k
Joerg Schnitzbauer United States 11 2.0k 0.5× 211 0.4× 246 0.5× 63 0.4× 110 0.7× 12 2.6k
Gaelen T. Hess United States 17 2.1k 0.5× 169 0.3× 436 0.9× 47 0.3× 79 0.5× 21 2.5k
Eric C. Greene United States 43 6.8k 1.6× 646 1.3× 1.1k 2.3× 196 1.1× 190 1.2× 123 7.4k
Ved V. Topkar United States 11 4.2k 1.0× 443 0.9× 904 1.8× 290 1.7× 542 3.5× 15 4.3k
Aaron Cheng United States 8 2.0k 0.5× 193 0.4× 393 0.8× 114 0.7× 196 1.3× 12 2.6k
Gang Sheng China 18 2.5k 0.6× 291 0.6× 298 0.6× 146 0.8× 104 0.7× 35 2.8k
Jordan L. Doman United States 11 2.4k 0.6× 518 1.0× 682 1.4× 131 0.7× 206 1.3× 14 2.5k
Keqiong Ye China 30 2.9k 0.7× 642 1.3× 172 0.3× 122 0.7× 13 0.1× 71 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sy Redding

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sy Redding

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sy Redding. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sy Redding. The network helps show where Sy Redding may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sy Redding

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sy Redding. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sy Redding based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sy Redding. Sy Redding is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Farr, Stephen E., Jianyuan Luo, Bryan A. Gibson, et al.. (2025). Nucleosome spacing can fine-tune higher-order chromatin assembly. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6315–6315. 5 indexed citations
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Harris, C. Jake, Gundeep Kaur, Suhua Feng, et al.. (2021). MBD5 and MBD6 couple DNA methylation to gene silencing through the J-domain protein SILENZIO. Science. 372(6549). 1434–1439. 55 indexed citations
3.
Redding, Sy. (2021). Dynamic asymmetry and why chromatin defies simple physical definitions. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 70. 116–122. 6 indexed citations
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Keenen, Madeline M, David A. Brown, Lucy D. Brennan, et al.. (2021). HP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains. eLife. 10. 134 indexed citations
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Gibson, Bryan A., Lynda K. Doolittle, Liv Jensen, et al.. (2019). Organization of Chromatin by Intrinsic and Regulated Phase Separation. Cell. 179(2). 470–484.e21. 723 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keenen, Madeline M, Adam G. Larson, Geeta J. Narlikar, & Sy Redding. (2018). Dissecting the Mechanism of HP1 Mediated Chromatin Compaction via Single Molecule DNA Curtains. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 30a–30a. 1 indexed citations
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Terakawa, Tsuyoshi, Sy Redding, Timothy D. Silverstein, & Eric C. Greene. (2017). Sequential eviction of crowded nucleoprotein complexes by the exonuclease RecBCD molecular motor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(31). E6322–E6331. 19 indexed citations
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Larson, Adam G., Daniel Elnatan, Madeline M Keenen, et al.. (2017). Liquid droplet formation by HP1α suggests a role for phase separation in heterochromatin. Nature. 547(7662). 236–240. 1211 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lee, Ja Yil, Tsuyoshi Terakawa, Zhi Qi, et al.. (2015). Base triplet stepping by the Rad51/RecA family of recombinases. Science. 349(6251). 977–981. 129 indexed citations
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Redding, Sy, Samuel H. Sternberg, Bryan Gibb, et al.. (2015). Surveillance and Processing of Foreign DNA by the Escherichia coli CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 163(4). 854–865. 148 indexed citations
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Qi, Zhi, Sy Redding, Ja Yil Lee, et al.. (2015). DNA Sequence Alignment by Microhomology Sampling during Homologous Recombination. Cell. 160(5). 856–869. 158 indexed citations
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Sternberg, Samuel H., Sy Redding, Martin Jínek, Eric C. Greene, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2014). DNA Interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-Guided Endonuclease Cas9. Biophysical Journal. 106(2). 695a–695a. 45 indexed citations
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Sternberg, Samuel H., Sy Redding, Martin Jínek, Eric C. Greene, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2014). DNA interrogation by the CRISPR RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9. Nature. 507(7490). 62–67. 1372 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duzdevich, Daniel, Sy Redding, & Eric C. Greene. (2014). DNA Dynamics and Single-Molecule Biology. Chemical Reviews. 114(6). 3072–3086. 38 indexed citations
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Redding, Sy & Eric C. Greene. (2013). How do proteins locate specific targets in DNA?. Chemical Physics Letters. 570. 1–11. 42 indexed citations
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Redding, Sy, et al.. (2012). The promoter-search mechanism of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase is dominated by three-dimensional diffusion. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 20(2). 174–181. 88 indexed citations
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Gorman, Jason, Feng Wang, Sy Redding, et al.. (2012). Single-molecule imaging reveals target-search mechanisms during DNA mismatch repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(45). E3074–83. 134 indexed citations

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