Tommi Kotila

962 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 595 citations indexed

About

Tommi Kotila is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tommi Kotila has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 595 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Cell Biology, 7 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Tommi Kotila's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (7 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Tommi Kotila is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (10 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (7 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (5 papers). Tommi Kotila collaborates with scholars based in Finland, France and United States. Tommi Kotila's co-authors include Pekka Lappalainen, Antoine Jégou, Guillaume Romet‐Lemonne, Konstantin Kogan, Giray Enkavi, Ilpo Vattulainen, Hugo Wioland, Alphée Michelot, Elena Kremneva and Gergana Gateva and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tommi Kotila

14 papers receiving 593 citations

Hit Papers

Biochemical and mechanical regulation of actin dynamics 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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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. Biochemical and mechanical regulation of actin dynamics
    2022 159 citations Pekka Lappalainen, Tommi Kotila et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tommi Kotila Finland 10 377 221 167 118 69 15 595
Jenna R. Christensen United States 10 511 1.4× 303 1.4× 74 0.4× 121 1.0× 68 1.0× 15 639
Konstantin Kogan Finland 13 283 0.8× 361 1.6× 127 0.8× 75 0.6× 50 0.7× 21 647
Julien Pernier France 13 489 1.3× 303 1.4× 116 0.7× 149 1.3× 66 1.0× 27 779
Kirsten Remmert United States 11 559 1.5× 362 1.6× 228 1.4× 82 0.7× 76 1.1× 19 728
Adam Zwolak United States 12 290 0.8× 394 1.8× 134 0.8× 57 0.5× 56 0.8× 20 658
Heath I. Balcer United States 8 287 0.8× 214 1.0× 63 0.4× 93 0.8× 37 0.5× 18 496
Agnieszka Collins United States 9 579 1.5× 363 1.6× 92 0.6× 155 1.3× 91 1.3× 12 809
Kuo‐Kuang Wen United States 19 383 1.0× 495 2.2× 206 1.2× 55 0.5× 58 0.8× 33 853
Shiqiong Hu United States 11 425 1.1× 287 1.3× 91 0.5× 69 0.6× 90 1.3× 14 661
Shashank Shekhar United States 16 662 1.8× 282 1.3× 125 0.7× 244 2.1× 96 1.4× 34 899

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tommi Kotila

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tommi Kotila. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tommi Kotila 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 Tommi Kotila. Tommi Kotila is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Kotila, Tommi, Konstantin Kogan, Lina Antenucci, et al.. (2024). Leishmania profilin interacts with actin through an unusual structural mechanism to control cytoskeletal dynamics in parasites. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(3). 105740–105740. 1 indexed citations
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Kotila, Tommi, Christophe Guérin, Benoît Vianay, et al.. (2023). Recycling of the actin monomer pool limits the lifetime of network turnover. The EMBO Journal. 42(9). e112717–e112717. 14 indexed citations
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Lappalainen, Pekka, Tommi Kotila, Antoine Jégou, & Guillaume Romet‐Lemonne. (2022). Biochemical and mechanical regulation of actin dynamics. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 23(12). 836–852. 159 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kogan, Konstantin, Karita Haapasalo, Tommi Kotila, et al.. (2022). Mechanism of Borrelia immune evasion by FhbA-related proteins. PLoS Pathogens. 18(3). e1010338–e1010338. 3 indexed citations
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Selvaraj, Muniyandi, Gabriella Reggiano, Konstantin Kogan, et al.. (2022). Structural basis underlying specific biochemical activities of non-muscle tropomyosin isoforms. Cell Reports. 42(1). 111900–111900. 9 indexed citations
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Kotila, Tommi, Hugo Wioland, Muniyandi Selvaraj, et al.. (2022). Structural basis of rapid actin dynamics in the evolutionarily divergent Leishmania parasite. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3442–3442. 12 indexed citations
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Hakala, Markku, Hugo Wioland, Tommi Kotila, et al.. (2021). Twinfilin uncaps filament barbed ends to promote turnover of lamellipodial actin networks. Nature Cell Biology. 23(2). 147–159. 48 indexed citations
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Kogan, Konstantin, et al.. (2021). A functional family of fluorescent nucleotide analogues to investigate actin dynamics and energetics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 548–548. 7 indexed citations
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Kotila, Tommi, Hugo Wioland, Giray Enkavi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of synergistic actin filament pointed end depolymerization by cyclase-associated protein and cofilin. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5320–5320. 85 indexed citations
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A, Mu, et al.. (2019). Regulation of INF2-mediated actin polymerization through site-specific lysine acetylation of actin itself. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(1). 439–447. 34 indexed citations
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Kotila, Tommi, Hugo Wioland, Giray Enkavi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of synergistic actin filament pointed end depolymerization by cyclase-associated protein and cofilin. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Kotila, Tommi, Konstantin Kogan, Giray Enkavi, et al.. (2018). Structural basis of actin monomer re-charging by cyclase-associated protein. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1892–1892. 59 indexed citations
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Lehtimäki, Jaakko, Aidan M. Fenix, Tommi Kotila, et al.. (2017). UNC-45a promotes myosin folding and stress fiber assembly. The Journal of Cell Biology. 216(12). 4053–4072. 29 indexed citations
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Kolodziejczyk, R., Tommi Kotila, Vincent L. G. Postis, et al.. (2017). Crystal structure of a tripartite complex between C3dg, C-terminal domains of factor H and OspE of Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188127–e0188127. 17 indexed citations
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Gateva, Gergana, Elena Kremneva, Tommi Kotila, et al.. (2017). Tropomyosin Isoforms Specify Functionally Distinct Actin Filament Populations In Vitro. Current Biology. 27(5). 705–713. 118 indexed citations

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