W A Catterall

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

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W A Catterall is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, W A Catterall has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 8 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in W A Catterall's work include Ion channel regulation and function (40 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (12 papers). W A Catterall is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (40 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (12 papers). W A Catterall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Switzerland. W A Catterall's co-authors include Michael K. Ahlijanian, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Max Willow, J. Schmidt, L. Béress, Todd Scheuer, Gerald Ehrenstein, James Offord, Li Huang and Maria R. Castro Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

W A Catterall

48 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Cellular and molecular biology of voltage-gated sodium channels

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W A Catterall United States	38	4.0k	2.8k	915	437	265	48	4.8k
Peter C. Ruben Canada	29	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	219 0.5×	89 0.3×	108	3.4k
Stephan Grissmer Germany	36	4.8k 1.2×	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	624 1.4×	121 0.5×	89	5.9k
Georges Romey France	51	8.1k 2.0×	4.4k 1.6×	3.6k 4.0×	549 1.3×	255 1.0×	116	9.6k
Doju Yoshikami United States	52	6.8k 1.7×	3.1k 1.1×	231 0.3×	323 0.7×	249 0.9×	94	7.6k
M. P. Blaustein United States	42	4.6k 1.1×	3.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	326 0.7×	492 1.9×	64	6.2k
Robert L. Barchi United States	40	4.3k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 2.0×	128 0.3×	267 1.0×	106	5.1k
Bruce K. Krueger United States	34	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	264 0.3×	499 1.1×	263 1.0×	60	3.2k
Irwin B. Levitan United States	41	3.5k 0.9×	3.1k 1.1×	953 1.0×	182 0.4×	303 1.1×	95	5.0k
H. Meves Germany	30	2.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	555 0.6×	242 0.6×	122 0.5×	105	4.1k
Diane M. Papazian United States	35	5.4k 1.4×	3.8k 1.4×	2.3k 2.5×	306 0.7×	348 1.3×	69	6.0k

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Catterall, W A. (1997). 14 Modulation of sodium and calcium channels by protein phosphorylation and G proteins. PubMed. 31. 159–181. 48 indexed citations

Cantrell, Angela R., et al.. (1997). Dopaminergic Modulation of Sodium Current in Hippocampal Neurons via cAMP-Dependent Phosphorylation of Specific Sites in the Sodium Channel α Subunit. Journal of Neuroscience. 17(19). 7330–7338. 131 indexed citations

Baruscotti, Mirko, R. Westenbroek, W A Catterall, Dario DiFrancesco, & Richard B. Robinson. (1997). The newborn rabbit sino‐atrial node expresses a neuronal type I‐like Na+ channel.. The Journal of Physiology. 498(3). 641–648. 52 indexed citations

Qu, Y, et al.. (1996). Phosphorylation of S1505 in the cardiac Na+ channel inactivation gate is required for modulation by protein kinase C.. The Journal of General Physiology. 108(5). 375–379. 68 indexed citations

Catterall, W A. (1996). Molecular properties of sodium and calcium channels. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 28(3). 219–230. 65 indexed citations

Catterall, W A. (1996). Introduction: Ion channels in plasma membrane signal transduction. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 28(3). 217–218. 2 indexed citations

Qu, Y, J C Rogers, T. Tanada, Todd Scheuer, & W A Catterall. (1995). Molecular determinants of drug access to the receptor site for antiarrhythmic drugs in the cardiac Na+ channel.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92(25). 11839–11843. 102 indexed citations

Jongh, Karen S. De, et al.. (1994). Differential Proteolysis of the Full‐Length Form of the L‐Type Calcium Channel α1 Subunit by Calpain. Journal of Neurochemistry. 63(4). 1558–1564. 61 indexed citations

Gordon, Dalia, et al.. (1992). Localization of receptor sites for insect-selective toxins on sodium channels by site-directed antibodies. Biochemistry. 31(33). 7622–7628. 81 indexed citations

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Westenbroek, Ruth E., Michael K. Ahlijanian, & W A Catterall. (1990). Clustering of L-type Ca2+ channels at the base of major dendrites in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Nature. 347(6290). 281–284. 416 indexed citations

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Offord, James & W A Catterall. (1989). Electrical activity, cAMP, and cytosolic calcium regulate mRNA encoding sodium channel α subunits in rat muscle cells. Neuron. 2(5). 1447–1452. 116 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Masami & W A Catterall. (1987). Dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channels in cardiac and skeletal muscle membranes: studies with antibodies against the .alpha. subunits. Biochemistry. 26(17). 5518–5526. 39 indexed citations

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Gordon, Dalia, Daniel T. Merrick, Vanessa J. Auld, et al.. (1987). Tissue-specific expression of the RI and RII sodium channel subtypes.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(23). 8682–8686. 145 indexed citations

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Gonoi, Tohru, Yasushi Ohizumi, Jin-ichi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakamura, & W A Catterall. (1987). Actions of a polypeptide toxin from the marine snail Conus striatus on voltage-sensitive sodium channels.. Molecular Pharmacology. 32(5). 691–698. 21 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, R P, et al.. (1986). Sodium channels in planar lipid bilayers. Channel gating kinetics of purified sodium channels modified by batrachotoxin.. The Journal of General Physiology. 88(1). 1–23. 43 indexed citations

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Gonoi, Tohru, Kinya Ashida, Daniel J. Feller, et al.. (1986). Mechanism of action of a polypeptide neurotoxin from the coral Goniopora on sodium channels in mouse neuroblastoma cells.. Molecular Pharmacology. 29(4). 347–354. 92 indexed citations

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Hartshorne, R P, et al.. (1985). Functional reconstitution of the purified brain sodium channel in planar lipid bilayers.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 82(1). 240–244. 115 indexed citations

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Sherman, Scott J., John C. Lawrence, & W A Catterall. (1982). The effect of denervation on the development of the high affinity saxitoxin receptor in the skeletal muscle. Federation Proceedings. 41(5). 1 indexed citations

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Costa, Maria R. Castro & W A Catterall. (1982). Characterization of variant neuroblastoma clones with missing or altered sodium channels.. Molecular Pharmacology. 22(1). 196–203. 6 indexed citations

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Huang, Li, W A Catterall, & Gerald Ehrenstein. (1978). Selectivity of cations and nonelectrolytes for acetylcholine-activated channels in cultured muscle cells.. The Journal of General Physiology. 71(4). 397–410. 103 indexed citations

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