W.S. Somers

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

W.S. Somers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, W.S. Somers has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in W.S. Somers's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (7 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (5 papers). W.S. Somers is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (7 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (6 papers) and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (5 papers). W.S. Somers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. W.S. Somers's co-authors include Jin Tang, Mark Stahl, Simon E. V. Phillips, Raymond T. Camphausen, Gray D. Shaw, Jasbir Seehra, Abraham M. de Vos, Mark Ultsch, Lidia Mosyak and James F. Tobin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

W.S. Somers

37 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Insights into the Molecular Basis of Leukocyte Tethering and Rolling Revealed by Structures of P- and E-Selectin Bound to SLeX and PSGL-1

2000 612 citations W.S. Somers, Jin Tang et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W.S. Somers United States	28	2.4k	974	648	630	435	37	4.3k
Savvas N. Savvides Belgium	40	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	518 0.8×	499 0.8×	151 0.3×	123	5.3k
Brian C. Cunningham United States	33	4.4k 1.8×	936 1.0×	871 1.3×	1.1k 1.7×	1.5k 3.4×	47	6.9k
James E. Strickler United States	31	3.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	308 0.5×	1.0k 1.7×	288 0.7×	47	6.1k
James M. McDonnell United Kingdom	31	3.7k 1.5×	1.5k 1.6×	258 0.4×	787 1.2×	1.0k 2.3×	81	6.2k
Juan Carlos Lacal Spain	54	5.7k 2.4×	660 0.7×	501 0.8×	1.8k 2.9×	785 1.8×	162	8.4k
Asher Zilberstein United States	36	3.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	473 0.7×	1.3k 2.1×	600 1.4×	68	5.9k
John E. Harlan United States	22	4.5k 1.9×	693 0.7×	437 0.7×	836 1.3×	244 0.6×	40	5.8k
Lidia Mosyak United States	29	2.1k 0.9×	743 0.8×	460 0.7×	339 0.5×	295 0.7×	45	3.4k
Klaus P. Hoeflich United States	36	4.8k 2.0×	572 0.6×	680 1.0×	2.0k 3.2×	452 1.0×	62	6.8k
Janice E. Buss United States	40	4.7k 2.0×	473 0.5×	470 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	338 0.8×	83	6.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W.S. Somers

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Wang, Hui, Joshua B. White, Cindy Huynh, et al.. (2025). Structural elucidation of the haptoglobin–hemoglobin clearance mechanism by macrophage scavenger receptor CD163. PLoS Biology. 23(7). e3003264–e3003264. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Mengmeng, Tetsuya Ishino, Alison Joyce, et al.. (2015). Faster in vivo clearance of human embryonic kidney than Chinese hamster ovary cell derived protein: Role of glycan mediated clearance. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 119(6). 657–660. 3 indexed citations

Ishino, Tetsuya, Mengmeng Wang, Lidia Mosyak, et al.. (2013). Engineering a Monomeric Fc Domain Modality by N-Glycosylation for the Half-life Extension of Biotherapeutics. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(23). 16529–16537. 28 indexed citations

Mosyak, Lidia, Zhang‐Bao Xu, Diane Joseph‐McCarthy, et al.. (2007). Structure-based optimization of PKCθ inhibitors. Biochemical Society Transactions. 35(5). 1027–1031. 7 indexed citations

Dumas, John J., Thomas McDonagh, Francis Sullivan, et al.. (2004). Crystal Structure of the Wild-type von Willebrand Factor A1-Glycoprotein Ibα Complex Reveals Conformation Differences with a Complex Bearing von Willebrand Disease Mutations. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(22). 23327–23334. 158 indexed citations

Manas, Eric S., Zhang B. Xu, Rayomand J. Unwalla, & W.S. Somers. (2004). Understanding the Selectivity of Genistein for Human Estrogen Receptor-β Using X-Ray Crystallography and Computational Methods. Structure. 12(12). 2197–2207. 156 indexed citations

Underwood, Kathryn, Kevin Parris, Lidia Mosyak, et al.. (2003). Catalytically Active MAP KAP Kinase 2 Structures in Complex with Staurosporine and ADP Reveal Differences with the Autoinhibited Enzyme. Structure. 11(6). 627–636. 55 indexed citations

Olland, Andrea, Kathryn Underwood, Robert Czerwiński, et al.. (2002). Identification, Characterization, and Crystal Structure ofBacillus subtilis Nicotinic Acid Mononucleotide Adenylyltransferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(5). 3698–3707. 49 indexed citations

Schiffer, Celia A., Mark Ultsch, Scott T.R. Walsh, et al.. (2002). Structure of a phage display-derived variant of human growth hormone complexed to two copies of the extracellular domain of its receptor: evidence for strong structural coupling between receptor binding sites. Journal of Molecular Biology. 316(2). 277–289. 24 indexed citations

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Somers, W.S., Gray D. Shaw, & Raymond T. Camphausen. (2001). Insights into the Molecular Basis of Leukocyte Tethering and Rolling Revealed by Structures of P- and E-Selectin Bound to SLeX and PSGL-1. Cell. 105(7). 971–971. 16 indexed citations

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Somoza, John R., Saurabh Menon, Harald Schmidt, et al.. (2000). Structural and kinetic analysis of Escherichia coli GDP-mannose 4,6 dehydratase provides insights into the enzyme’s catalytic mechanism and regulation by GDP-fucose. Structure. 8(2). 123–135. 77 indexed citations

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Somers, W.S., Jin Tang, Gray D. Shaw, & Raymond T. Camphausen. (2000). Insights into the Molecular Basis of Leukocyte Tethering and Rolling Revealed by Structures of P- and E-Selectin Bound to SLeX and PSGL-1. Cell. 103(3). 467–479. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nalefski, Eric A., Thomas McDonagh, W.S. Somers, et al.. (1998). Independent Folding and Ligand Specificity of the C2 Calciumdependent Lipid Binding Domain of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(3). 1365–1372. 110 indexed citations

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Somers, W.S.. (1997). 1.9 Acrystal structure of interleukin 6: implications for a novel mode of receptor dimerization and signaling. The EMBO Journal. 16(5). 989–997. 250 indexed citations

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Ultsch, Mark, W.S. Somers, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, & Abraham M. de Vos. (1994). The Crystal Structure of Affinity-matured Human Growth Hormone at 2 Å Resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 236(1). 286–299. 95 indexed citations

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Kossiakoff, Anthony A., et al.. (1994). Comparison of the intermediate complexes of human growth hormone bound to the human growth hormone and prolactin receptors. Protein Science. 3(10). 1697–1705. 67 indexed citations

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Somers, W.S., John B. Rafferty, Kathryn Phillips, et al.. (1994). The Met Repressor‐Operator Complex: DNA Recognition by β‐Strands^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 726(1). 105–117. 9 indexed citations

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Somers, W.S. & Simon E. V. Phillips. (1992). Crystal structure of the met represser–operator complex at 2.8 Å resolution reveals DNA recognition by β-strands. Nature. 359(6394). 387–393. 256 indexed citations

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Findlay, J. B. C., A.C.T. North, Simon E. V. Phillips, et al.. (1991). Crystallization of and preliminary X-ray data for the mouse major urinary protein and rat α-2u globulin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 218(4). 699–701. 16 indexed citations

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Rafferty, John B., et al.. (1989). Three-dimensional crystal structures of Escherichia coli met repressor with and without corepressor. Nature. 341(6244). 705–710. 152 indexed citations

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