Tom Curran

63.5k total citations · 29 hit papers
276 papers, 50.9k citations indexed

About

Tom Curran is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Curran has authored 276 papers receiving a total of 50.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 190 papers in Molecular Biology, 59 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 54 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Tom Curran's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (39 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (32 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (31 papers). Tom Curran is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (39 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (32 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (31 papers). Tom Curran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Japan. Tom Curran's co-authors include James P. Morgan, Frank J. Rauscher, B. Robert Franza, Donna Cohén, Inder M. Verma, Gabriella D’Arcangelo, Steven Xanthoudakis, Tom K. Kerppola, Dennis S. Rice and Rolf Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Tom Curran

273 papers receiving 49.8k citations

Hit Papers

Stimulus-Transcription Coupling in the Nervous System: In... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1991 1988 1987 1988 1995 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Stimulus-Transcription Coupling in the Nervous System: Involvement of the Inducible Proto-Oncogenes fos and jun
    1991 2.3k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  2. Expression of c- fos Protein in Brain: Metabolic Mapping at the Cellular Level
    1988 1.7k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  3. Mapping Patterns of c- fos Expression in the Central Nervous System After Seizure
    1987 1.5k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  4. Fos and jun: The AP-1 connection
    1988 1.4k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  5. A protein related to extracellular matrix proteins deleted in the mouse mutant reeler
    1995 1.4k citations Graham G. Miao, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  6. Redox Regulation of Fos and Jun DNA-Binding Activity in Vitro
    1990 1.3k citations Cory Abate, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  7. Induction of c-fos gene and protein by growth factors precedes activation of c-myc
    1984 1.3k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  8. A zinc finger-encoding gene coregulated with c-fos during growth and differentiation, and after cellular depolarization
    1988 1.2k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  9. Cross-family dimerization of transcription factors Fos/Jun and ATF/CREB alters DNA binding specificity.
    1991 1.1k citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  10. Role of ion flux in the control of c-fos expression
    1986 879 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  11. Stimulus-transcription coupling in neurons: role of cellular immediate-early genes
    1989 829 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  12. Redox activation of Fos-Jun DNA binding activity is mediated by a DNA repair enzyme.
    1992 783 citations Graham G. Miao, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  13. Reelin Is a Ligand for Lipoprotein Receptors
    1999 666 citations Dennis S. Rice, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  14. Continuous c-fos expression precedes programmed cell death in vivo
    1993 666 citations Graham G. Miao, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  15. The T-cell transcription factor NFATp is a substrate for calcineurin and interacts with Fos and Jun
    1993 664 citations Tom K. Kerppola, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  16. FBJ murine osteosarcoma virus: identification and molecular cloning of biologically active proviral DNA
    1982 612 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  17. Isolation and characterization of the c-fos(rat) cDNA and analysis of post-translational modification in vitro.
    1987 603 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  18. Fos-Associated Protein p39 Is the Product of the jun Proto-Oncogene
    1988 584 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  19. Identification and characterization of Ref-1, a nuclear protein that facilitates AP-1 DNA-binding activity.
    1992 583 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  20. Radial glia cells are candidate stem cells of ependymoma
    2005 579 citations Christine Fuller, Susan Magdaleno et al. profile →
  21. Common DNA binding site for Fos protein complexesand transcription factor AP-1
    1988 562 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  22. Role of the Reelin Signaling Pathway in Central Nervous System Development
    2001 558 citations Dennis S. Rice, Tom Curran profile →
  23. c-fos protein can induce cellular transformation: A novel mechanism of activation of a cellular oncogene
    1984 554 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  24. Parallel Association of Fos and Jun Leucine Zippers Juxtaposes DNA Binding Domains
    1989 539 citations Cory Abate, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  25. Scrambler and yotari disrupt the disabled gene and produce a reeler -like phenotype in mice
    1997 536 citations Dennis S. Rice, Tom Curran et al. profile →
  26. Binding of the Wilms' Tumor Locus Zinc Finger Protein to the EGR-1 Consensus Sequence
    1990 504 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  27. Analysis of FBJ-MuSV provirus and c-fos (mouse) gene reveals that viral and cellular fos gene products have different carboxy termini
    1983 492 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  28. Viral and cellular fos proteins: A comparative analysis
    1984 467 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →
  29. Fos and Jun bind cooperatively to the AP-1 site: reconstitution in vitro.
    1988 467 citations Tom Curran et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Curran United States 111 32.0k 14.5k 6.6k 6.1k 5.5k 276 50.9k
Luis F. Parada United States 94 17.4k 0.5× 9.4k 0.6× 4.6k 0.7× 5.3k 0.9× 5.4k 1.0× 231 33.7k
Mariano Barbacid United States 107 31.1k 1.0× 12.4k 0.9× 4.5k 0.7× 5.4k 0.9× 15.0k 2.7× 266 52.4k
Peter H. Seeburg Germany 112 34.1k 1.1× 26.1k 1.8× 6.1k 0.9× 2.3k 0.4× 3.3k 0.6× 229 56.1k
Michael E. Greenberg United States 125 58.5k 1.8× 26.4k 1.8× 10.0k 1.5× 7.6k 1.2× 8.4k 1.5× 251 88.7k
Jeffrey Milbrandt United States 106 18.1k 0.6× 12.5k 0.9× 4.5k 0.7× 3.7k 0.6× 2.8k 0.5× 297 34.7k
Moses V. Chao United States 100 16.8k 0.5× 18.3k 1.3× 2.3k 0.4× 7.2k 1.2× 2.5k 0.4× 296 35.2k
Günther Schütz Germany 92 19.6k 0.6× 7.9k 0.5× 10.4k 1.6× 1.6k 0.3× 3.0k 0.5× 261 38.9k
Robert E. Hammer United States 116 27.2k 0.9× 5.8k 0.4× 10.7k 1.6× 1.5k 0.2× 4.3k 0.8× 290 52.9k
Wieland Β. Huttner Germany 103 24.7k 0.8× 7.3k 0.5× 4.1k 0.6× 7.6k 1.3× 3.2k 0.6× 345 35.5k
Richard D. Palmiter United States 143 30.6k 1.0× 14.2k 1.0× 13.7k 2.1× 1.5k 0.3× 4.3k 0.8× 471 69.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Curran, Tom, et al.. (2024). LOCAL ANESTHETIC SYSTEMIC TOXICITY (LAST): A RARE CASE OF REACTION TO BUPIVACAINE. CHEST Journal. 166(4). A3069–A3070.
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Du, Fang, Eric H. Lee, Yuan Wang, et al.. (2019). Leukotriene Synthesis Is Critical for Medulloblastoma Progression. Clinical Cancer Research. 25(21). 6475–6486. 12 indexed citations
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Gordon, Renata E., Li Zhang, Suraj Peri, et al.. (2018). Statins Synergize with Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitors for Treatment of Medulloblastoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(6). 1375–1388. 53 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongqiang, Yuan Wang, Fang Du, et al.. (2017). Astrocytes Promote Medulloblastoma Progression through Hedgehog Secretion. Cancer Research. 77(23). 6692–6703. 48 indexed citations
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Li, Peng, Eric H. Lee, Fang Du, et al.. (2016). Nestin Mediates Hedgehog Pathway Tumorigenesis. Cancer Research. 76(18). 5573–5583. 29 indexed citations
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Ng, Jessica M.Y., Daniel Martínez, Eric D. Marsh, et al.. (2015). Generation of a Mouse Model of Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor of the Central Nervous System through Combined Deletion of Snf5 and p53. Cancer Research. 75(21). 4629–4639. 30 indexed citations
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Gurung, Buddha, Zijie Feng, Daniel V. Iwamoto, et al.. (2013). Menin Epigenetically Represses Hedgehog Signaling in MEN1 Tumor Syndrome. Cancer Research. 73(8). 2650–2658. 79 indexed citations
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Gajjar, Amar, Clinton F. Stewart, David W. Ellison, et al.. (2013). Phase I Study of Vismodegib in Children with Recurrent or Refractory Medulloblastoma: A Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study. Clinical Cancer Research. 19(22). 6305–6312. 164 indexed citations
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Gasperi, Rita De, Miguel A. Gama Sosa, Paul H. Wen, et al.. (2008). Cortical development in the presenilin‐1 null mutant mouse fails after splitting of the preplate and is not due to a failure of reelin‐dependent signaling. Developmental Dynamics. 237(9). 2405–2414. 7 indexed citations
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Sasai, Ken, Justyna T. Romer, Hiromichi Kimura, et al.. (2007). Medulloblastomas Derived from Cxcr6 Mutant Mice Respond to Treatment with a Smoothened Inhibitor. Cancer Research. 67(8). 3871–3877. 27 indexed citations
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Sasai, Ken, Justyna T. Romer, Youngsoo Lee, et al.. (2006). Shh Pathway Activity Is Down-Regulated in Cultured Medulloblastoma Cells: Implications for Preclinical Studies. Cancer Research. 66(8). 4215–4222. 113 indexed citations
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Park, Tae‐Ju, Kelli L. Boyd, & Tom Curran. (2006). Cardiovascular and Craniofacial Defects in Crk- Null Mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 26(16). 6272–6282. 76 indexed citations
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Magdaleno, Susan & Tom Curran. (2001). Brain development: Integrins and the Reelin pathway. Current Biology. 11(24). R1032–R1035. 26 indexed citations
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Curran, Tom & Paul Thompson. (1997). Automatic Categorization of Statute Documents. 8(1). 19–30. 3 indexed citations
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Chock, P Boon, et al.. (1996). Ubiquitinylation of Transcription Factors c-Jun and c-Fos Using Reconstituted Ubiquitinylating Enzymes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(9). 4930–4936. 41 indexed citations
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Miao, Graham G. & Tom Curran. (1994). Cell Transformation by c- fos Requires an Extended Period of Expression and Is Independent of the Cell Cycle. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(6). 4295–4310. 87 indexed citations
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Yaseen, Nabeel R., et al.. (1994). A Central Role for Fos in Human B- and T-Cell NFAT (Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells): an Acidic Region Is Required for In Vitro Assembly. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 14(10). 6886–6895. 8 indexed citations
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Kerppola, Tom K., Daniel Luk, & Tom Curran. (1993). Fos is a Preferential Target of Glucocorticoid Receptor Inhibition of AP-1 Activity In Vitro. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 13(6). 3782–3791. 14 indexed citations
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Abate, Cory, Daniel Luk, & Tom Curran. (1991). Transcriptional Regulation by Fos and Jun In Vitro: Interaction among Multiple Activator and Regulatory Domains. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(7). 3624–3632. 24 indexed citations
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Abate, Cory, et al.. (1990). Fos and Jun Cooperate in Transcriptional Regulation via Heterologous Activation Domains. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 10(10). 5532–5535. 22 indexed citations

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