V. Sasisekharan

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

V. Sasisekharan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, V. Sasisekharan has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in V. Sasisekharan's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (47 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (21 papers). V. Sasisekharan is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (47 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (29 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (21 papers). V. Sasisekharan collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Singapore. V. Sasisekharan's co-authors include G. N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan, Ram Sasisekharan, Rahul Raman, A. V. Lakshminarayanan, Manju Bansal, P. K. Ponnuswamy, Samir K. Brahmachari, Ganesh Venkataraman and Karthik Viswanathan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

V. Sasisekharan

119 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Stereochemistry of polypeptide chain configurations

1963 2.6k citations V. Sasisekharan et al. profile →
Conformation of Polypeptides and Proteins

1968 2.5k citations V. Sasisekharan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
V. Sasisekharan India	37	7.0k	2.0k	1.1k	1.1k	785	119	9.4k
Charles E. Bugg United States	40	5.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	368 0.5×	158	8.6k
F.M. Richards United States	31	8.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	930 0.9×	278 0.4×	47	11.4k
Peter Y. Chou United States	17	9.5k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	858 0.8×	504 0.5×	625 0.8×	18	12.1k
E. Morton Bradbury United Kingdom	65	10.0k 1.4×	853 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	554 0.5×	330 0.4×	217	12.6k
Peter H. von Hippel United States	82	23.1k 3.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	454 0.6×	250	28.3k
Alexander McPherson United States	62	8.7k 1.3×	5.7k 2.8×	842 0.8×	463 0.4×	391 0.5×	280	14.5k
Richard B. Sessions United Kingdom	54	5.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	561 0.5×	985 0.9×	409 0.5×	236	9.3k
Rolf Boelens Netherlands	64	13.2k 1.9×	2.6k 1.3×	2.3k 2.2×	682 0.6×	387 0.5×	318	17.1k
Fred E. Cohen United States	85	22.7k 3.3×	3.4k 1.7×	874 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	562 0.7×	181	26.2k
W. Curtis Johnson United States	40	6.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	720 0.7×	161 0.2×	123	8.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of V. Sasisekharan

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Raman, Rahul, Kannan Tharakaraman, V. Sasisekharan, & Ram Sasisekharan. (2016). Glycan–protein interactions in viral pathogenesis. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

Raman, Rahul, Kannan Tharakaraman, V. Sasisekharan, & Ram Sasisekharan. (2016). Glycan–protein interactions in viral pathogenesis. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 40. 153–162. 98 indexed citations

Raman, Rahul, Kannan Tharakaraman, Akila Jayaraman, et al.. (2014). Glycan receptor specificity as a useful tool for characterization and surveillance of influenza A virus. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

Tharakaraman, Kannan, Rahul Raman, Karthik Viswanathan, et al.. (2013). Structural Determinants for Naturally Evolving H5N1 Hemagglutinin to Switch Its Receptor Specificity. Cell. 153(7). 1475–1485. 64 indexed citations

Soundararajan, Venkataramanan, Rahul Raman, S. Raguram, V. Sasisekharan, & Ram Sasisekharan. (2010). Atomic Interaction Networks in the Core of Protein Domains and Their Native Folds. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9391–e9391. 31 indexed citations

Srinivasan, Aravind, Karthik Viswanathan, Rahul Raman, et al.. (2008). Quantitative biochemical rationale for differences in transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza A viruses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(8). 2800–2805. 106 indexed citations

Liu, Keliang, V. Sasisekharan, H. Todd Miles, & G. Raghunathan. (1998). Structure of Py·Pu·PyDNA triple helices. Fourier transforms of fiber-type x-ray diffraction of single crystals. Biopolymers. 39(4). 573–589. 13 indexed citations

Venkataraman, Ganesh, et al.. (1995). Single strand targeted triplex formation: targeting purine-pyrimidine mixed sequences using abasic linkers. Nucleic Acids Research. 23(21). 4510–4517. 9 indexed citations

Raghunathan, G., H. Todd Miles, & V. Sasisekharan. (1993). Symmetry and molecular structure of a DNA triple helix: d(T)n.cntdot.d(A)n.cntdot.d(T)n. Biochemistry. 32(2). 455–462. 75 indexed citations

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Howard, Frank B., H. Todd Miles, Keliang Liu, et al.. (1992). Structure of d(T)n.cntdot.d(A)n.cntdot.d(T)n: the DNA triple helix has B-form geometry with C2'-endo sugar pucker. Biochemistry. 31(44). 10671–10677. 66 indexed citations

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Gopal, E. S. R., et al.. (1992). Quasiperiodic tilings with fourfold symmetry. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 48(5). 782–784. 3 indexed citations

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Rao, K. Ekambareswara & V. Sasisekharan. (1990). ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Distamycin and Netropsin Analogs. Part 2. DNA‐Binding Bisquaternary Ammonium Heterocycles Analogous to NSC 101327.. ChemInform. 21(38). 3 indexed citations

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Balaji, V., et al.. (1986). Geometry of proline and hydroxyproline I: An analysis of X-ray crystal structure data. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 140(3). 895–900. 15 indexed citations

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Datta, Santanu, et al.. (1984). A Detailed Study of Li-DNA Fibres at Various Salt Concentrations Reveals a Non-helical B-DNA and a Possible Similarity of Solution and Solid State Structures. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 2(1). 149–157. 4 indexed citations

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Rajagopalan, Malini, Samir K. Brahmachari, V. Sasisekharan, & Rohit Srivastava. (1983). X‐Ray diffraction studies on Mycobacterium smegmatis DNA. Biopolymers. 22(7). 1633–1635. 1 indexed citations

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Brahmachari, Samir K., Manju Bansal, V. S. Ananthanarayanan, & V. Sasisekharan. (1979). Structural Investigations on Poly(4-hydroxy-L-proline). 2. Physicochemical Studies. Macromolecules. 12(1). 23–28. 20 indexed citations

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Sasisekharan, V., Nagarajan Pattabiraman, & Gautam Gupta. (1978). Some implications of an alternative structure for DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 75(9). 4092–4096. 39 indexed citations

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Ponnuswamy, P. K. & V. Sasisekharan. (1970). Studies on the conformation of amino acids VII. Backbone and side-chain conformations of N-terminal residues in peptides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure. 221(2). 153–158. 4 indexed citations

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Sasisekharan, V.. (1959). Structure of poly-L-hydroxyproline. Acta Crystallographica. 12(11). 903–909. 34 indexed citations

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Sasisekharan, V.. (1959). Unit cell and space group of L-proline monohydrate. Acta Crystallographica. 12(11). 941–942. 7 indexed citations

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