Vivek Anantharaman

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Vivek Anantharaman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vivek Anantharaman has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Vivek Anantharaman's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). Vivek Anantharaman is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (19 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). Vivek Anantharaman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Vivek Anantharaman's co-authors include L. Aravind, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, Eugene V. Koonin, Dapeng Zhang, Robson Francisco de Souza, Lalitha Iyer, Seshadri Balaji, Balaji Santhanam, Kira S. Makarova and Eugene V. Koonin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Vivek Anantharaman

75 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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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.

Complete Genome Sequence of the Apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum

2004 724 citations Mitchell S. Abrahamsen, Thomas J. Templeton et al. Science profile →
The many faces of the helix-turn-helix domain: Transcription regulation and beyond

2005 513 citations L. Aravind, Vivek Anantharaman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vivek Anantharaman United States	44	4.9k	1.4k	1.1k	877	852	75	7.2k
Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen Denmark	8	4.4k 0.9×	917 0.6×	894 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	507 0.6×	12	7.7k
Mark N. Wass United Kingdom	25	5.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	889 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	264 0.3×	68	9.5k
Stuart J. Cordwell Australia	49	4.0k 0.8×	650 0.5×	795 0.7×	625 0.7×	251 0.3×	137	6.7k
Christopher M. Yates United States	20	5.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	841 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	215 0.3×	29	8.8k
Young Mi Park South Korea	13	4.4k 0.9×	753 0.5×	801 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	186 0.2×	30	7.3k
Patrice Gouet France	27	7.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	909 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	187 0.2×	78	11.3k
Raphael H. Valdivia United States	41	4.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	906 0.8×	478 0.5×	446 0.5×	97	9.0k
B. G. Barrell United Kingdom	37	4.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	872 1.0×	768 0.9×	63	9.1k
Adrian R. Tivey United Kingdom	7	3.2k 0.7×	628 0.4×	677 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	164 0.2×	7	5.5k
Milot Mirdita South Korea	16	6.3k 1.3×	938 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	975 1.1×	132 0.2×	29	9.0k

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Updegrove, Taylor B., Vivek Anantharaman, Lisa M. Jenkins, et al.. (2024). Bacterial spore surface nanoenvironment requires a AAA+ ATPase to promote MurG function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2414737121–e2414737121. 1 indexed citations

Updegrove, Taylor B., Vivek Anantharaman, Hyo Moon Cho, et al.. (2024). Altruistic feeding and cell-cell signaling during bacterial differentiation actively enhance phenotypic heterogeneity. Science Advances. 10(42). eadq0791–eadq0791. 2 indexed citations

Ravi, Janani, et al.. (2024). The phage shock protein (PSP) envelope stress response: discovery of novel partners and evolutionary history. mSystems. 9(6). e0084723–e0084723. 10 indexed citations

My, Lætitia, Léon Espinosa, Vivek Anantharaman, et al.. (2024). A molecular switch controls assembly of bacterial focal adhesions. Science Advances. 10(22). eadn2789–eadn2789. 2 indexed citations

Iyer, Lakshminarayan M., A. Maxwell Burroughs, Vivek Anantharaman, & L. Aravind. (2022). Apprehending the NAD+–ADPr-Dependent Systems in the Virus World. Viruses. 14(9). 1977–1977. 14 indexed citations

Iyer, Lakshminarayan M., Vivek Anantharaman, Arunkumar Krishnan, A. Maxwell Burroughs, & L. Aravind. (2021). Jumbo Phages: A Comparative Genomic Overview of Core Functions and Adaptions for Biological Conflicts. Viruses. 13(1). 63–63. 65 indexed citations

Updegrove, Taylor B., Vivek Anantharaman, Jin Yang, et al.. (2021). Reformulation of an extant ATPase active site to mimic ancestral GTPase activity reveals a nucleotide base requirement for function. eLife. 10. 16 indexed citations

Ravi, Janani, Vivek Anantharaman, L. Aravind, & Maria Laura Gennaro. (2018). Variations on a theme: evolution of the phage-shock-protein system in Actinobacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 111(5). 753–760. 4 indexed citations

Nagy, Attila, et al.. (2012). ATP hydrolysis by a domain related to translation factor GTPases drives polymerization of a static bacterial morphogenetic protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(2). E151–60. 33 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, & L. Aravind. (2012). Ter-dependent stress response systems: novel pathways related to metal sensing, production of a nucleoside-like metabolite, and DNA-processing. Molecular BioSystems. 8(12). 3142–3165. 81 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, & L. Aravind. (2010). Presence of a classical RRM-fold palm domain in Thg1-type 3'- 5'nucleic acid polymerases and the origin of the GGDEF and CRISPR polymerase domains. Biology Direct. 5(1). 43–43. 36 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek & L. Aravind. (2008). Analysis of DBC1 and its homologs suggests a potential mechanism for regulation of Sirtuin domain deacetylases by NAD metabolites. Cell Cycle. 7(10). 1467–1472. 37 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek & L. Aravind. (2005). Diversification of Catalytic Activities and Ligand Interactions in the Protein Fold Shared by the Sugar Isomerases, eIF2B, DeoR Transcription Factors, Acyl-CoA Transferases and Methenyltetrahydrofolate Synthetase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 356(3). 823–842. 25 indexed citations

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Abrahamsen, Mitchell S., Thomas J. Templeton, Shinichiro Enomoto, et al.. (2004). Complete Genome Sequence of the Apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum. Science. 304(5669). 441–445. 724 indexed citations breakdown →

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Templeton, Thomas J., Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, Vivek Anantharaman, et al.. (2004). Comparative Analysis of Apicomplexa and Genomic Diversity in Eukaryotes. Genome Research. 14(9). 1686–1695. 149 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek & L. Aravind. (2003). New connections in the prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin network: relationship with the eukaryotic nonsense-mediated RNA decay system. Genome biology. 4(12). R81–R81. 201 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek. (2002). Comparative genomics and evolution of proteins involved in RNA metabolism. Nucleic Acids Research. 30(7). 1427–1464. 426 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek & L. Aravind. (2002). The PRC-barrel: a widespread, conserved domain shared by photosynthetic reaction center subunits and proteins of RNA metabolism. Genome biology. 3(11). RESEARCH0061–RESEARCH0061. 47 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek. (2001). TRAM, a predicted RNA-binding domain, common to tRNA uracil methylation and adenine thiolation enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 197(2). 215–221. 6 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Vivek, Eugene V. Koonin, & L. Aravind. (2001). TRAM, a predicted RNA-binding domain, common to tRNA uracil methylation and adenine thiolation enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 197(2). 215–221. 58 indexed citations

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