Whitney E. Purtha

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Whitney E. Purtha is a scholar working on Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Whitney E. Purtha has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Immunology, 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Whitney E. Purtha's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). Whitney E. Purtha is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (8 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). Whitney E. Purtha collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Canada. Whitney E. Purtha's co-authors include Michael Diamond, Brian T. Edelson, Emil R. Unanue, Kenneth M. Murphy, Kai Hildner, Theresa L. Murphy, Barbara U. Schraml, Masako Kohyama, Hirokazu Matsushita and Mark S. Diamond and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Whitney E. Purtha

16 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Batf3 Deficiency Reveals a Critical Role for CD8α ⁺ Dendritic Cells in Cytotoxic T Cell Immunity

2008 1.5k citations Kai Hildner, Brian T. Edelson et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Whitney E. Purtha United States	13	2.0k	558	557	541	536	16	2.9k
Ali Zaid Australia	22	1.5k 0.8×	675 1.2×	696 1.2×	266 0.5×	274 0.5×	45	2.5k
Antonio J. Pagán United States	20	2.0k 1.0×	464 0.8×	184 0.3×	594 1.1×	325 0.6×	27	2.9k
Mary Y. Murphy United States	4	1.3k 0.6×	599 1.1×	323 0.6×	651 1.2×	463 0.9×	7	2.3k
Anette Stryhn Denmark	25	1.4k 0.7×	556 1.0×	238 0.4×	1.3k 2.4×	630 1.2×	61	2.8k
Elodie Belnoue Switzerland	23	1.5k 0.7×	171 0.3×	1.2k 2.2×	430 0.8×	277 0.5×	37	2.5k
Kathryn A. Pape United States	21	3.3k 1.7×	309 0.6×	132 0.2×	457 0.8×	373 0.7×	31	3.9k
Ying Chan United States	15	819 0.4×	615 1.1×	427 0.8×	632 1.2×	134 0.3×	35	1.8k
Jenny Hendriks Netherlands	18	1.8k 0.9×	409 0.7×	133 0.2×	440 0.8×	554 1.0×	51	2.8k
Toshitada Takemori Japan	37	3.1k 1.6×	271 0.5×	174 0.3×	871 1.6×	423 0.8×	86	4.2k
Heping Shi United States	11	3.0k 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	280 0.5×	1.9k 3.4×	483 0.9×	15	3.6k

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Lau, Laura, Anne B. Chang, Joan H. Lane, et al.. (2025). An essential role for TASL in mouse autoimmune pathogenesis and Toll-like receptor signaling. Nature Communications. 16(1). 968–968. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Jennifer A., Benjamin T. K. Yuen, Whitney E. Purtha, et al.. (2024). Aire mediates tolerance to insulin through thymic trimming of high-affinity T cell clones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(20). e2320268121–e2320268121. 4 indexed citations

Spence, Allyson L., Whitney E. Purtha, Janice Tam, et al.. (2018). Revealing the specificity of regulatory T cells in murine autoimmune diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(20). 5265–5270. 59 indexed citations

Perry, Justin S. A., Emilie Russler‐Germain, Whitney E. Purtha, et al.. (2018). Transfer of Cell-Surface Antigens by Scavenger Receptor CD36 Promotes Thymic Regulatory T Cell Receptor Repertoire Development and Allo-tolerance. Immunity. 48(5). 923–936.e4. 62 indexed citations

Hao, Yue, Whitney E. Purtha, Christa L. Cortesio, et al.. (2018). Crystal structures of human procathepsin H. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200374–e0200374. 9 indexed citations

Malhotra, Deepali, Jonathan L. Linehan, Thamotharampillai Dileepan, et al.. (2016). Tolerance is established in polyclonal CD4+ T cells by distinct mechanisms, according to self-peptide expression patterns. Nature Immunology. 17(2). 187–195. 140 indexed citations

Purtha, Whitney E., Melissa Swiecki, Marco Colonna, Michael S. Diamond, & Deepta Bhattacharya. (2012). Spontaneous mutation of the Dock2 gene in Irf5 ^{− / −} mice complicates interpretation of type I interferon production and antibody responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(15). E898–904. 63 indexed citations

Purtha, Whitney E., Thomas F. Tedder, Syd Johnson, Deepta Bhattacharya, & Michael Diamond. (2011). Memory B cells, but not long-lived plasma cells, possess antigen specificities for viral escape mutants. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 208(13). 2599–2606. 172 indexed citations

Lanteri, Marion C., Katie M. O’Brien, Whitney E. Purtha, et al.. (2009). Tregs control the development of symptomatic West Nile virus infection in humans and mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 119(11). 3266–77. 176 indexed citations

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Hildner, Kai, Brian T. Edelson, Whitney E. Purtha, et al.. (2008). Batf3 Deficiency Reveals a Critical Role for CD8α ⁺ Dendritic Cells in Cytotoxic T Cell Immunity. Science. 322(5904). 1097–1100. 1543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shrestha, Bimmi, Bo Zhang, Whitney E. Purtha, Robyn S. Klein, & Michael Diamond. (2008). Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Protects against Lethal West Nile Virus Infection by Promoting Trafficking of Mononuclear Leukocytes into the Central Nervous System. Journal of Virology. 82(18). 8956–8964. 89 indexed citations

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Purtha, Whitney E., Karen A. Chachu, Herbert W. Virgin, & Michael Diamond. (2008). Early B-Cell Activation after West Nile Virus Infection Requires Alpha/Beta Interferon but Not Antigen Receptor Signaling. Journal of Virology. 82(22). 10964–10974. 75 indexed citations

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Purtha, Whitney E., Nancy B. Myers, Vesselin Mitaksov, et al.. (2007). Antigen‐specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes protect against lethal West Nile virus encephalitis. European Journal of Immunology. 37(7). 1845–1854. 94 indexed citations

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Sukupolvi-Petty, Soila, S. Kyle Austin, Whitney E. Purtha, et al.. (2007). Type- and Subcomplex-Specific Neutralizing Antibodies against Domain III of Dengue Virus Type 2 Envelope Protein Recognize Adjacent Epitopes. Journal of Virology. 81(23). 12816–12826. 222 indexed citations

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Purtha, Whitney E., et al.. (2005). Zn²⁺-Dependent Deoxyribozymes That Form Natural and Unnatural RNA Linkages. Biochemistry. 44(25). 9217–9231. 30 indexed citations

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Purtha, Whitney E., et al.. (2005). General Deoxyribozyme-Catalyzed Synthesis of Native 3‘−5‘ RNA Linkages. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(38). 13124–13125. 127 indexed citations

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