Usha Nair

8.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Usha Nair is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Usha Nair has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Epidemiology, 18 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Usha Nair's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (19 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (12 papers). Usha Nair is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (19 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (12 papers). Usha Nair collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Netherlands. Usha Nair's co-authors include Daniel J. Klionsky, Zhifen Yang, Zhiping Xie, Tomohiro Yorimitsu, Jiefei Geng, Fulvio Reggiori, Misuzu Baba, Takahiro Shintani, Yang Cao and Wei-Lien Yen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Usha Nair

22 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Triggers Autophagy

2006 805 citations Tomohiro Yorimitsu, Usha Nair et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Atg8 Controls Phagophore Expansion during Autophagosome Formation

2008 571 citations Zhiping Xie, Usha Nair et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Usha Nair United States	18	2.9k	1.7k	1.5k	453	355	23	3.6k
Yukiko Kabeya Japan	17	3.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	561 1.2×	431 1.2×	21	4.9k
Takayuki Sekito Japan	19	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	317 0.7×	324 0.9×	47	2.8k
Edward F. C. Blommaart Netherlands	11	2.0k 0.7×	785 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	340 0.8×	206 0.6×	14	3.5k
Tomer Shpilka Israel	12	1.7k 0.6×	813 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	300 0.7×	154 0.4×	17	2.7k
Sabrina Di Bartolomeo Italy	27	1.5k 0.5×	517 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	241 0.5×	162 0.5×	61	3.1k
Masahide Oku Japan	22	1.2k 0.4×	576 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	137 0.3×	310 0.9×	64	2.2k
Qihua Sun United States	8	1.9k 0.7×	355 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	226 0.5×	65 0.2×	10	2.7k
Eric C. Freundt United States	9	1.2k 0.4×	300 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	168 0.4×	97 0.3×	12	2.2k
Katherine R. Parzych United States	6	1.3k 0.4×	259 0.1×	1.2k 0.8×	145 0.3×	157 0.4×	6	2.6k
R. Andres Floto United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.4×	472 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	275 0.6×	57 0.2×	42	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nair, Usha, et al.. (2023). Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery-Cold Alert!. Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia. 26(2). 223–226.

Wang, Ke, Zhifen Yang, Xu Liu, et al.. (2012). Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinases Are Required for Autophagic Membrane Trafficking. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(45). 37964–37972. 57 indexed citations

Nair, Usha, Wei-Lien Yen, Muriel Mari, et al.. (2012). A role for Atg8–PE deconjugation in autophagosome biogenesis. Autophagy. 8(5). 780–793. 172 indexed citations

Nair, Usha, Jiefei Geng, Noor Gammoh, et al.. (2011). SNARE Proteins Are Required for Macroautophagy. Cell. 146(2). 290–302. 356 indexed citations

Nair, Usha & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2011). Autophagosome biogenesis requires SNAREs. Autophagy. 7(12). 1570–1572. 23 indexed citations

Nair, Usha, Michael Thumm, Daniel J. Klionsky, & Roswitha Krick. (2011). GFP-Atg8 protease protection as a tool to monitor autophagosome biogenesis. Autophagy. 7(12). 1546–1550. 74 indexed citations

Geng, Jiefei, et al.. (2010). Post-Golgi Sec Proteins Are Required for Autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(13). 2257–2269. 147 indexed citations

Nair, Usha, Yang Cao, Zhiping Xie, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2010). Roles of the Lipid-binding Motifs of Atg18 and Atg21 in the Cytoplasm to Vacuole Targeting Pathway and Autophagy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(15). 11476–11488. 100 indexed citations

Xie, Zhiping, et al.. (2009). Indirect estimation of the area density of Atg8 on the phagophore. Autophagy. 5(2). 217–220. 17 indexed citations

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Xie, Zhiping, Usha Nair, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2008). Dissecting autophagosome formation: The missing pieces. Autophagy. 4(7). 920–922. 16 indexed citations

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Geng, Jiefei, Misuzu Baba, Usha Nair, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2008). Quantitative analysis of autophagy-related protein stoichiometry by fluorescence microscopy. The Journal of Cell Biology. 182(1). 129–140. 94 indexed citations

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Masica, Andrew L., Timothy D. Girard, G. Wilkinson, et al.. (2007). Clinical sedation scores as indicators of sedative and analgesic drug exposure in intensive care unit patients. The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy. 5(3). 218–231. 15 indexed citations

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Cheong, Heesun, Usha Nair, Jiefei Geng, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2007). The Atg1 Kinase Complex Is Involved in the Regulation of Protein Recruitment to Initiate Sequestering Vesicle Formation for Nonspecific Autophagy inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 19(2). 668–681. 199 indexed citations

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Legakis, Julie E., et al.. (2006). Atg27 Is Required for Autophagy-dependent Cycling of Atg9. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18(2). 581–593. 136 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhifen, Ju Huang, Jiefei Geng, Usha Nair, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2006). Atg22 Recycles Amino Acids to Link the Degradative and Recycling Functions of Autophagy. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(12). 5094–5104. 206 indexed citations

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Yorimitsu, Tomohiro, Usha Nair, Zhifen Yang, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2006). Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Triggers Autophagy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(40). 30299–30304. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reggiori, Fulvio, Takahiro Shintani, Huira Chong, Usha Nair, & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2005). Atg9 Cycles Between Mitochondria and the Pre-Autophagosomal Structure in Yeasts. Autophagy. 1(2). 101–109. 202 indexed citations

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Nair, Usha & Daniel J. Klionsky. (2005). Molecular Mechanisms and Regulation of Specific and Nonspecific Autophagy Pathways in Yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(51). 41785–41788. 116 indexed citations

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Reggiori, Fulvio, Chao-Wen Wang, Usha Nair, et al.. (2004). Early Stages of the Secretory Pathway, but Not Endosomes, Are Required for Cvt Vesicle and Autophagosome Assembly inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(5). 2189–2204. 110 indexed citations

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Ramamurthy, T., et al.. (1993). Evidence for the presence of a receptor for the cytolethal distending toxin (CLDT) ofCampylobacter jejunion CHO and HeLa cell membranes and development of a receptor-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of CLDT. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 114(3). 285–291. 11 indexed citations

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