Virginia Smith Shapiro

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Virginia Smith Shapiro is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia Smith Shapiro has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Immunology, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Virginia Smith Shapiro's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (38 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (25 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers). Virginia Smith Shapiro is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (38 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (25 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers). Virginia Smith Shapiro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Norway. Virginia Smith Shapiro's co-authors include Arthur Weiss, David Stokoe, Larry Kane, Michael J. Shapiro, Bente Lowin Kropf, Marianne Mollenauer, Danping Huang, Peter N. Lalli, Jinbo Liu and Nasima Muqim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Virginia Smith Shapiro

60 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Induction of NF-κB by the Akt/PKB kinase

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia Smith Shapiro United States	26	1.7k	1.4k	586	505	253	63	3.2k
Leonard B. Maggi United States	22	1.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	699 1.2×	633 1.3×	180 0.7×	38	3.2k
Navin Rao United States	24	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	558 1.0×	667 1.3×	234 0.9×	43	2.9k
Yoshiteru Sasaki Japan	31	2.2k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	827 1.4×	796 1.6×	149 0.6×	49	4.2k
Edward F. Rosloniec United States	30	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	796 1.4×	490 1.0×	186 0.7×	74	4.7k
Emily Heikamp United States	11	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	492 0.8×	579 1.1×	145 0.6×	18	2.8k
Wayne Pearce United Kingdom	24	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	808 1.4×	223 0.4×	281 1.1×	30	3.7k
Kenneth Schooley United States	10	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	913 1.6×	803 1.6×	257 1.0×	12	3.6k
Casey Fox United States	18	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	705 1.2×	621 1.2×	196 0.8×	23	3.2k
Zuoming Sun United States	31	2.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	749 1.3×	521 1.0×	188 0.7×	68	3.7k
Véronique Baron France	33	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	772 1.3×	463 0.9×	155 0.6×	57	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virginia Smith Shapiro

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Hamaidi, Imène, Alak Manna, İsmail Can, et al.. (2026). SIRT2-mediated deacetylation of LCK governs the magnitude of T cell receptor signaling. Nature Immunology. 27(2). 213–224.

Zhu, Xingxing, Yue Wu, Yanfeng Li, et al.. (2024). The nutrient-sensing Rag-GTPase complex in B cells controls humoral immunity via TFEB/TFE3-dependent mitochondrial fitness. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10163–10163. 2 indexed citations

Friedman, David J., et al.. (2022). Cutting Edge: Enhanced Antitumor Immunity in ST8Sia6 Knockout Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 208(8). 1845–1850. 5 indexed citations

Sturmlechner, Ines, Cheng Zhang, Karthik B. Jeganathan, et al.. (2021). p21 produces a bioactive secretome that places stressed cells under immunosurveillance. Science. 374(6567). eabb3420–eabb3420. 177 indexed citations

Friedman, David J., Michael J. Shapiro, Xin Liu, et al.. (2021). ST8Sia6 Promotes Tumor Growth in Mice by Inhibiting Immune Responses. Cancer Immunology Research. 9(8). 952–966. 24 indexed citations

Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Cutting Edge: ST8Sia6-Generated α-2,8-Disialic Acids Mitigate Hyperglycemia in Multiple Low-Dose Streptozotocin–Induced Diabetes. The Journal of Immunology. 204(12). 3071–3076. 11 indexed citations

Shapiro, Michael J. & Virginia Smith Shapiro. (2020). Chromatin-Modifying Enzymes in T Cell Development. Annual Review of Immunology. 38(1). 397–419. 12 indexed citations

Philips, Rachael L., et al.. (2019). Cutting Edge: HDAC3 Protects Double-Positive Thymocytes from P2X7 Receptor–Induced Cell Death. The Journal of Immunology. 202(4). 1033–1038. 6 indexed citations

Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2019). NKAP Must Associate with HDAC3 to Regulate Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance and Survival. The Journal of Immunology. 202(8). 2287–2295. 4 indexed citations

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Philips, Rachael L., Jeong‐Heon Lee, Krutika S. Gaonkar, et al.. (2019). HDAC3 restrains CD8-lineage genes to maintain a bi-potential state in CD4+CD8+ thymocytes for CD4-lineage commitment. eLife. 8. 20 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2019). Murine T Cell Maturation Entails Protection from MBL2, but Complement Proteins Do Not Drive Clearance of Cells That Fail Maturation in the Absence of NKAP. The Journal of Immunology. 203(2). 408–417. 6 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2019). The Interaction between NKAP and HDAC3 Is Critical for T Cell Maturation. ImmunoHorizons. 3(8). 352–367. 4 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Michael J., et al.. (2018). Treg-specific deletion of NKAP results in severe, systemic autoimmunity due to peripheral loss of Tregs. Journal of Autoimmunity. 89. 139–148. 12 indexed citations

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Thapa, Puspa, et al.. (2017). Histone deacetylase 3 is required for iNKT cell development. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5784–5784. 26 indexed citations

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Kanakkanthara, Arun, Karthik B. Jeganathan, Darren J. Baker, et al.. (2016). Cyclin A2 is an RNA binding protein that controls Mre11 mRNA translation. Science. 353(6307). 1549–1552. 59 indexed citations

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Thapa, Puspa, Joy Das, Michael J. Shapiro, et al.. (2013). The transcriptional repressor NKAP is required for the development of iNKT cells. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1582–1582. 47 indexed citations

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Hsu, Fan-Chi, et al.. (2011). NKAP is required for T cell maturation and acquisition of functional competency. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 208(6). 1291–1304. 49 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Virginia Smith, et al.. (2009). NKAP, a novel modulator of Notch signaling, is required for T cell development (85.5). The Journal of Immunology. 182(Supplement_1). 85.5–85.5. 1 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Michael J., Chau Nguyen, Haig Aghajanian, Weiguo Zhang, & Virginia Smith Shapiro. (2008). Negative Regulation of TCR Signaling by Linker for Activation of X Cells via Phosphotyrosine-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms. The Journal of Immunology. 181(10). 7055–7061. 10 indexed citations

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Sundvold‐Gjerstad, Vibeke, Tomas Mustelin, Tone Berge, et al.. (2005). The C terminus of T cell‐specific adapter protein (TSAd) is necessary for TSAd‐mediated inhibition of Lck activity. European Journal of Immunology. 35(5). 1612–1620. 22 indexed citations

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