William Dowhan

18.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
166 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

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William Dowhan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Dowhan has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in William Dowhan's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (79 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (42 papers). William Dowhan is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (79 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (42 papers). William Dowhan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. William Dowhan's co-authors include Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Mikhail Bogdanov, Philip Heacock, Mei Zhang, William Wickner, Roland Lill, Jeanie B. McMillin, Heidi Vitrac, Vytas A. Bankaitis and Ann E. Cleves and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Dowhan

166 papers receiving 13.4k 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.

MOLECULAR BASIS FOR MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID DIVERSITY: Why Are There So Many Lipids?

1997 799 citations William Dowhan Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
Gluing the Respiratory Chain Together

2002 512 citations Mei Zhang, Eugenia Mileykovskaya et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Its own architect: Flipping cardiolipin synthase 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), William Dowhan, Mikhail Bogdanov	1
2	Structural insights into cardiolipin replacement by phosphatidylglycerol in a cardiolipin-lacking yeast respiratory supercomplex 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Corey F. Hryc, Venkata Mallampalli, (unknown), (unknown), Guizhen Fan, Irina I. Serysheva, Genevieve C. Sparagna, Matthew L. Baker, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, William Dowhan	7
3	Cardiolipin Synthesis in Skeletal Muscle Is Rhythmic and Modifiable by Age and Diet 2020 ·Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity ·Kazunari Nohara, Eunju Kim, Marvin Wirianto, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, William Dowhan, Zheng Chen, Seung‐Hee Yoo	17
4	Nobiletin: Targeting the Circadian Network to Promote Bioenergetics and Healthy Aging 2020 ·Biochemistry (Moscow) ·Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Seung‐Hee Yoo, William Dowhan, Zhongxue Chen	11
5	Lipid-Assisted Membrane Protein Folding and Topogenesis 2019 ·The Protein Journal ·William Dowhan, Heidi Vitrac, Mikhail Bogdanov	55
6	Structural and functional characterization of protein–lipid interactions of the Salmonella typhimurium melibiose transporter MelB 2018 ·BMC Biology ·Parameswaran Hariharan, Elena B. Tikhonova, João Medeiros‐Silva, Aike Jeucken, Mikhail Bogdanov, William Dowhan, Jos F. Brouwers, Markus Weingarth, Lan Guan	28
7	Lipids and Extracellular Materials 2014 ·Annual Review of Biochemistry ·William Dowhan	8
8	Lipids and topological rules governing membrane protein assembly 2013 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research ·Mikhail Bogdanov, William Dowhan, Heidi Vitrac	104
9	Mitochondrial Phosphatase PTPMT1 Is Essential for Cardiolipin Biosynthesis 2011 ·Cell Metabolism ·Ji Zhang, Ziqiang Guan, Anne N. Murphy, Sandra E. Wiley, Guy Perkins, Carolyn A. Worby, J Engel, Philip Heacock, (unknown), (unknown), Christian R.H. Raetz, William Dowhan, Jack E. Dixon	160
10	Modulation of Myocardial Mitochondrial Mechanisms during Severe Polymicrobial Sepsis in the Rat 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Mani Chopra, Honey B. Golden, Srinivas Mullapudi, William Dowhan, David E. Dostal, Avadhesh C. Sharma	32
11	Study of Polytopic Membrane Protein Topological Organization as a Function of Membrane Lipid Composition 2010 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Mikhail Bogdanov, Philip Heacock, William Dowhan	25
12	Cardiolipin membrane domains in prokaryotes and eukaryotes 2009 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Eugenia Mileykovskaya, William Dowhan	310
13	Phosphatidic Acid and N-Acylphosphatidylethanolamine Form Membrane Domains in Escherichia coli Mutant Lacking Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol 2008 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Eugenia Mileykovskaya, (unknown), (unknown), Chun‐Chieh Lin, Khaled Khalaf, William Dowhan, Teresa A. Garrett	66
14	Mutual effects of MinD-membrane interaction: II. Domain structure of the membrane enhances MinD binding 2008 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·(unknown), (unknown), Eugenia Mileykovskaya, William Margolin, William Dowhan, Itzhak Fishov	20
15	Lipid-engineered Escherichia coli Membranes Reveal Critical Lipid Headgroup Size for Protein Function 2008 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Malin Wikström, Amélie A. Kelly, Alexander Georgiev, Hanna Eriksson, (unknown), Mikhail Bogdanov, William Dowhan, Åke Wieslander	65
16	Regulation of cardiolipin synthase levels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2006 ·Yeast ·Xuefeng Su, William Dowhan	13
17	Monoglucosyldiacylglycerol, a Foreign Lipid, Can Substitute for Phosphatidylethanolamine in Essential Membrane-associated Functions in Escherichia coli 2004 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Malin Wikström, Jun Xie, Mikhail Bogdanov, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Philip Heacock, Åke Wieslander, William Dowhan	62
18	Cardiolipin Is Not Required to Maintain Mitochondrial DNA Stability or Cell Viability for Saccharomyces cerevisiae Grown at Elevated Temperatures 2003 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Mei Zhang, Xuefeng Su, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Andrew A. Amoscato, William Dowhan	31
19	Negatively charged phospholipids influence the activity of the sensor kinase KdpD of Escherichia coli 1999 ·Archives of Microbiology ·(unknown), William Dowhan, Karlheinz Altendorf, Kirsten Jung	21
20	Isolation of a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cDNA Encoding Phosphatidylglycerophosphate (PGP) Synthase, Expression of Which Corrects the Mitochondrial Abnormalities of a PGP Synthase-defective Mutant of CHO-K1 Cells 1999 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Kiyoshi Kawasaki, Osamu Kuge, Shao-Chun Chang, Philip Heacock, (unknown), Kenji Suzuki, Masahiro Nishijima, William Dowhan	80

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