Syed Khund-Sayeed

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Syed Khund-Sayeed is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Syed Khund-Sayeed has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Syed Khund-Sayeed's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers). Syed Khund-Sayeed is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (6 papers). Syed Khund-Sayeed collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and India. Syed Khund-Sayeed's co-authors include Charles Vinson, Paul A. Ginno, Silvia Domcke, Dirk Schübeler, Biswajyoti Sahu, Jussi Taipale, Kashyap Dave, Yimeng Yin, Teemu Kivioja and А. Н. Попов and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Syed Khund-Sayeed

12 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Impact of cytosine methylation on DNA binding specificities of human transcription factors

2017 801 citations Yimeng Yin, Ekaterina Morgunova et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Syed Khund-Sayeed United States	9	886	185	86	62	61	13	1.1k
Ksenia Skvortsova Australia	9	637 0.7×	182 1.0×	146 1.7×	50 0.8×	67 1.1×	11	847
Alexandra L. Mattei United States	7	583 0.7×	195 1.1×	91 1.1×	43 0.7×	35 0.6×	11	877
Luka Bočkor Croatia	11	678 0.8×	196 1.1×	43 0.5×	45 0.7×	70 1.1×	23	854
Aimee I. Badeaux United States	7	773 0.9×	172 0.9×	48 0.6×	23 0.4×	36 0.6×	7	905
Anna Sahakyan United States	13	1.2k 1.3×	308 1.7×	198 2.3×	25 0.4×	37 0.6×	14	1.4k
Mehrnaz Fatemi United States	11	827 0.9×	209 1.1×	73 0.8×	20 0.3×	52 0.9×	12	995
Daniele Colombo Italy	7	774 0.9×	273 1.5×	103 1.2×	31 0.5×	40 0.7×	9	904
Stefania Rapelli Italy	12	1.0k 1.2×	160 0.9×	200 2.3×	32 0.5×	40 0.7×	15	1.1k
Isabelle Fernandes France	17	653 0.7×	248 1.3×	102 1.2×	76 1.2×	21 0.3×	26	1.0k
Alexey Ruzov United Kingdom	16	1.3k 1.5×	337 1.8×	96 1.1×	26 0.4×	95 1.6×	47	1.4k

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Nagarajan, Balaji, et al.. (2025). Pharmacogenomics for sustainable drug development: A narrative review of precision medicine, green chemistry, and multi-omics innovation. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science.

Tillo, Desiree, et al.. (2021). REL Domain of NFATc2 Binding to Five Types of DNA Using Protein Binding Microarrays. ACS Omega. 6(6). 4147–4154. 2 indexed citations

Yin, Yimeng, Ekaterina Morgunova, Arttu Jolma, et al.. (2017). Impact of cytosine methylation on DNA binding specificities of human transcription factors. Science. 356(6337). 801 indexed citations breakdown →

Tillo, Desiree, Syed Khund-Sayeed, Ximiao He, et al.. (2017). The Epstein-Barr Virus B-ZIP Protein Zta Recognizes Specific DNA Sequences Containing 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine. Biochemistry. 56(47). 6200–6210. 13 indexed citations

Khund-Sayeed, Syed, Ximiao He, Jun Wang, et al.. (2016). 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in E-box motifs ACAT|GTG and ACAC|GTG increases DNA-binding of the B-HLH transcription factor TCF4. Integrative Biology. 8(9). 936–945. 20 indexed citations

Khund-Sayeed, Syed, Ximiao He, Desiree Tillo, et al.. (2016). 5-Methylcytosine (5mC) and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) Enhance the DNA Binding of CREB1 to the C/EBP Half-Site Tetranucleotide GCAA. Biochemistry. 55(49). 6940–6948. 15 indexed citations

Khund-Sayeed, Syed, Jianfei Zhao, Bangalore K. Sathyanarayana, Jaya Prakash Golla, & Charles Vinson. (2015). C/EBPβ (CEBPB) protein binding to the C/EBP|CRE DNA 8-mer TTGC|GTCA is inhibited by 5hmC and enhanced by 5mC, 5fC, and 5caC in the CG dinucleotide. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1849(6). 583–589. 34 indexed citations

He, Ximiao, Desiree Tillo, Jeff Vierstra, et al.. (2015). Methylated Cytosines Mutate to Transcription Factor Binding Sites that Drive Tetrapod Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(11). 3155–3169. 18 indexed citations

He, Ximiao, Syed Khund-Sayeed, Desiree Tillo, et al.. (2015). GABPα Binding to Overlapping ETS and CRE DNA Motifs Is Enhanced by CREB1: Custom DNA Microarrays. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(9). 1909–1918. 2 indexed citations

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Khund-Sayeed, Syed, et al.. (2014). Identification of heat shock factor binding protein in Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria Journal. 13(1). 118–118. 8 indexed citations

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Golla, Jaya Prakash, Jianfei Zhao, Ishminder K. Mann, et al.. (2014). Carboxylation of cytosine (5caC) in the CG dinucleotide in the E-box motif (CGCAG|GTG) increases binding of the Tcf3|Ascl1 helix-loop-helix heterodimer 10-fold. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 449(2). 248–255. 18 indexed citations

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Acharya, Pragyan, Rani Pallavi, Syed Khund-Sayeed, et al.. (2011). Clinical Proteomics of the Neglected Human Malarial Parasite Plasmodium vivax. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26623–e26623. 40 indexed citations

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Kashimata, Masanori, Syed Khund-Sayeed, Andrea Onetti Muda, et al.. (2000). The ERK-1/2 Signaling Pathway Is Involved in the Stimulation of Branching Morphogenesis of Fetal Mouse Submandibular Glands by EGF. Developmental Biology. 220(2). 183–196. 103 indexed citations

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