William H. Tepp

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

William H. Tepp is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Tepp has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Neurology, 64 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William H. Tepp's work include Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (99 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (75 papers) and Hereditary Neurological Disorders (55 papers). William H. Tepp is often cited by papers focused on Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (99 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (75 papers) and Hereditary Neurological Disorders (55 papers). William H. Tepp collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. William H. Tepp's co-authors include Eric A. Johnson, Min Dong, Edwin R. Chapman, Sabine Pellett, Raymond C. Stevens, Bibhuti R. DasGupta, Roger Janz, A Cohen, D. Borden Lacy and Felix L. Yeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William H. Tepp

103 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

SV2 Is the Protein Receptor for Botulinum Neurotoxin A

2006 584 citations Min Dong, Felix L. Yeh et al. Science profile →
Crystal structure of botulinum neurotoxin type A and implications for toxicity

1998 569 citations William H. Tepp, Bibhuti R. DasGupta et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William H. Tepp United States	37	4.1k	2.8k	1.0k	545	385	105	5.1k
Andreas Rummel Germany	31	2.9k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	693 0.7×	490 0.9×	262 0.7×	111	3.6k
Min Dong United States	35	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	641 1.2×	354 0.9×	110	4.6k
Clifford C. Shone United Kingdom	38	2.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	803 1.5×	321 0.8×	88	4.2k
Bibhuti R. DasGupta United States	34	4.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	2.5k 2.4×	1.7k 3.0×	529 1.4×	124	6.4k
Sascha Martens Austria	37	398 0.1×	485 0.2×	3.7k 3.7×	2.3k 4.1×	614 1.6×	70	6.8k
Fred Hofmann Germany	36	263 0.1×	472 0.2×	1.9k 1.9×	638 1.2×	216 0.6×	64	3.9k
Kenichi Yoshino Japan	31	217 0.1×	289 0.1×	2.3k 2.2×	520 1.0×	464 1.2×	131	4.2k
Georgina Miller United States	29	319 0.1×	507 0.2×	2.1k 2.1×	526 1.0×	301 0.8×	43	4.1k
Marc Moniatte Switzerland	31	377 0.1×	342 0.1×	1.2k 1.1×	212 0.4×	478 1.2×	54	2.7k
Gema Vizcay‐Barrena United Kingdom	30	349 0.1×	285 0.1×	2.3k 2.3×	562 1.0×	340 0.9×	49	4.0k

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Gardner, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Botulinum neurotoxin Light Chain/A1 uses fast synaptic vesicle cycling to cleave plasma membrane bound SNAP-25. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1383–1383.

Tepp, William H., et al.. (2024). Potency Evaluations of Recombinant Botulinum Neurotoxin A1 Mutants Designed to Reduce Toxicity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(16). 8955–8955. 1 indexed citations

Matsumura, Takuhiro, William H. Tepp, Marite Bradshaw, et al.. (2024). Botulinum neurotoxin X lacks potency in mice and in human neurons. mBio. 15(3). e0310623–e0310623. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Sicai, Ronnie P.‐A. Berntsson, William H. Tepp, et al.. (2017). Structural basis for the unique ganglioside and cell membrane recognition mechanism of botulinum neurotoxin DC. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1637–1637. 26 indexed citations

Jacobson, Alan R., Michael Adler, N.R. Silvaggi, et al.. (2017). Small molecule metalloprotease inhibitor with in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo efficacy against botulinum neurotoxin serotype A. Toxicon. 137. 36–47. 9 indexed citations

Pellett, Sabine, William H. Tepp, Regina C. M. Whitemarsh, Marite Bradshaw, & Eric A. Johnson. (2015). In vivo onset and duration of action varies for botulinum neurotoxin A subtypes 1-5. Toxicon. 107(Pt A). 37–42. 62 indexed citations

Tepp, William H., et al.. (2013). Entry of a Recombinant, Full-Length, Atoxic Tetanus Neurotoxin into Neuro-2a Cells. Infection and Immunity. 82(2). 873–881. 17 indexed citations

Peng, Lisheng, Huisheng Liu, Hongyu Ruan, et al.. (2013). Cytotoxicity of botulinum neurotoxins reveals a direct role of syntaxin 1 and SNAP-25 in neuron survival. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1472–1472. 77 indexed citations

Wang, Dongxia, Sabine Pellett, Jakub Baudys, et al.. (2013). Comparison of the catalytic properties of the botulinum neurotoxin subtypes A1 and A5. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1834(12). 2722–2728. 24 indexed citations

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Whitemarsh, Regina C. M., Christina L. Pier, William H. Tepp, Sabine Pellett, & Eric A. Johnson. (2012). Model for studying Clostridium botulinum neurotoxin using differentiated motor neuron-like NG108-15 cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 427(2). 426–430. 10 indexed citations

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Pellett, Sabine, Zhongwei Du, Christina L. Pier, et al.. (2010). Sensitive and quantitative detection of botulinum neurotoxin in neurons derived from mouse embryonic stem cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 404(1). 388–392. 22 indexed citations

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Fischer, Audrey, Lisa M. Eubanks, William H. Tepp, et al.. (2009). Bimodal modulation of the botulinum neurotoxin protein-conducting channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(5). 1330–1335. 68 indexed citations

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Yang, Mingder, Joseph C. González, Ann E. Larson, et al.. (2009). Egg Yolk Antibodies for Detection and Neutralization of Clostridium botulinum Type A Neurotoxin. Journal of Food Protection. 72(5). 1005–1011. 23 indexed citations

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Tepp, William H., et al.. (2008). Function-oriented synthesis applied to the anti-botulinum natural product toosendanin. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 17(3). 1152–1157. 20 indexed citations

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Frisk, Megan, Erwin Berthier, William H. Tepp, Eric A. Johnson, & David J. Beebe. (2008). Bead-based microfluidic toxin sensor integrating evaporative signal amplification. Lab on a Chip. 8(11). 1793–1793. 24 indexed citations

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Zhou, Bin, et al.. (2008). Delineating the susceptibility of botulinum neurotoxins to denaturation through thermal effects. FEBS Letters. 582(10). 1526–1531. 6 indexed citations

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Dong, Min, Felix L. Yeh, William H. Tepp, et al.. (2006). SV2 Is the Protein Receptor for Botulinum Neurotoxin A. Science. 312(5773). 592–596. 584 indexed citations breakdown →

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DasGupta, Bibhuti R., et al.. (2005). Botulinum Neurotoxin Types A, B, and E: Fragmentations by Autoproteolysis and Other Mechanisms Including by O-Phenanthroline–Dithiothreitol, and Association of the Dinucleotides NAD+/NADH with the Heavy Chain of the Three Neurotoxins. The Protein Journal. 24(6). 337–368. 7 indexed citations

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Dong, Min, David A. Richards, Michael C. Goodnough, et al.. (2003). Synaptotagmins I and II mediate entry of botulinum neurotoxin B into cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 162(7). 1293–1303. 223 indexed citations

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Oost, Thorsten, Matthias Brewer, Michael C. Goodnough, et al.. (2003). Design and synthesis of substrate‐based inhibitors of botulinum neurotoxin type B metalloprotease. Biopolymers. 71(6). 602–619. 16 indexed citations

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