William W. Wheaton

5.5k citations

9 papers · 4.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 9

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.5%
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
Molecular Biology top 2%
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Papers in

Cancer Research 6
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism 5
Immunology and Allergy 1

Co-authors: Navdeep S. Chandel Robert B. Hamanaka Gökhan M. Mutlu Samuel E. Weinberg Lucas B. Sullivan G. R. Scott Budinger Joy Joseph Balaraman Kalyanaraman
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)Nature Medicine (1 paper)Journal of Cellular Biochemistry (1 paper)Journal of Biological Chemistry (1 paper)Nature (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Canada Finland

In The Last Decade

William W. Wheaton

9 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Metformin inhibits mitochondrial complex I of cancer cells to reduce tumorigenesis 2014 · 858 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 eLife
2011 Nature
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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9 of 9 papers shown

#	Work
1	Metformin inhibits mitochondrial complex I of cancer cells to reduce tumorigenesis eLife ·William W. Wheaton, Samuel E. Weinberg, Robert B. Hamanaka, Saul Soberanes, Lucas B. Sullivan, Elena Ansó, Andrea Glasauer, Éric Dufour, Gökhan M. Mutlu, Hannah Nix, Navdeep S. Chandel Hit paper breakdown →	2014	858
2	Reductive carboxylation supports growth in tumour cells with defective mitochondria Nature ·Andrew R. Mullen, William W. Wheaton, Eunsook S. Jin, Pei-Hsuan Chen, Lucas B. Sullivan, Tzuling Cheng, Youfeng Yang, W. Marston Linehan, Navdeep S. Chandel, Ralph J. DeBerardinis Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1004
3	Mitochondrial metabolism and ROS generation are essential for Kras-mediated tumorigenicity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Frank Weinberg, Robert B. Hamanaka, William W. Wheaton, Samuel E. Weinberg, Joy Joseph, Marcos López, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Gökhan M. Mutlu, G. R. Scott Budinger, Navdeep S. Chandel Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1361
4	Hypoxia. 2. Hypoxia regulates cellular metabolism American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology ·William W. Wheaton, Navdeep S. Chandel	2010	333
5	Human embryonic stem cell microenvironment suppresses the tumorigenic phenotype of aggressive cancer cells Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lynne‐Marie Postovit, Naira V. Margaryan, Elisabeth A. Seftor, Dawn A. Kirschmann, Reyhaneh Nekooie, William W. Wheaton, Daniel E. Abbott, Richard E.B. Seftor, Mary J.C. Hendrix	2008	240
6	Hypoxia/reoxygenation: A dynamic regulator of lysyl oxidase‐facilitated breast cancer migration Journal of Cellular Biochemistry ·Lynne‐Marie Postovit, Daniel E. Abbott, Pasin Manurangsi, William W. Wheaton, Naira V. Margaryan, Richard Sullivan, Gyeong-Suk Min, Katalin Csiszár, Mary J.C. Hendrix, Dawn A. Kirschmann	2007	76
7	Embryonic and tumorigenic pathways converge via Nodal signaling: role in melanoma aggressiveness Nature Medicine ·Jolanta M. Topczewska, Lynne‐Marie Postovit, Naira V. Margaryan, 福井博, Angela R. Hess, William W. Wheaton, Brian J. Nickoloff, Jacek Topczewski, Mary J.C. Hendrix	2006	345
8	Mammary Serine Protease Inhibitor (Maspin) Binds Directly to Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Caleb M. Bailey, Zhila Khalkhali‐Ellis, Shinji Kondo, Naira V. Margaryan, Richard E.B. Seftor, William W. Wheaton, Sumaira Amir, Michael R. Pins, Brian C. Schutte, Mary J.C. Hendrix	2005	81
9	Epigenetic Transdifferentiation of Normal Melanocytes by a Metastatic Melanoma Microenvironment Cancer Research ·Elisabeth A. Seftor, Kevin M. Brown, Lynda Chin, Dawn A. Kirschmann, William W. Wheaton, Alexei Protopopov, Bin Feng, Yoganand Balagurunathan, Jeffrey M. Trent, Brian J. Nickoloff, Richard E.B. Seftor, Mary J.C. Hendrix	2005	48

About William W. Wheaton

William W. Wheaton is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Immunology and Allergy, Small Animals, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, having authored 9 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (5 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (2 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (1 paper), Infectious Diseases and Mycology (1 paper), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (1 paper), Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (1 paper) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (2.2k citations), Molecular Biology (3.2k citations), Oncology (790 citations), Biochemistry (205 citations) and Cell Biology (291 citations). William W. Wheaton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Navdeep S. Chandel, Robert B. Hamanaka, Gökhan M. Mutlu, Samuel E. Weinberg, Lucas B. Sullivan, G. R. Scott Budinger, Joy Joseph, Balaraman Kalyanaraman, Marcos López and Frank Weinberg. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature.

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