Yamuna Krishnan

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
89 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yamuna Krishnan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yamuna Krishnan has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Yamuna Krishnan's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (34 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers). Yamuna Krishnan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (58 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (34 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (27 papers). Yamuna Krishnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and France. Yamuna Krishnan's co-authors include Friedrich C. Simmel, Sunaina Surana, Kasturi Chakraborty, Souvik Modi, Dhiraj Bhatia, Anand Saminathan, Saikat Chakraborty, Aneesh Tazhe Veetil, Satyajit Mayor and Gagan D. Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yamuna Krishnan

87 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

ATP as a biological hydrotrope 2009 2026 2014 2020 2017 2009 2011 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. ATP as a biological hydrotrope
    2017 677 citations Avinash Patel, Liliana Malinovska et al. Science profile →
  2. A DNA nanomachine that maps spatial and temporal pH changes inside living cells
    2009 643 citations Yamuna Krishnan et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  3. Nucleic Acid Based Molecular Devices
    2011 494 citations Yamuna Krishnan et al. profile →

Peers

Yamuna Krishnan
Michael Famulok Germany
Jennifer A. Prescher United States
Matthew Levy United States
Yuri L. Lyubchenko United States
Dieter H. Klaubert United States
Dimitrios Fotiadis Switzerland
Erdinç Sezgin United Kingdom
Willi Bannwarth Germany
Michael Famulok Germany
Yamuna Krishnan
Citations per year, relative to Yamuna Krishnan Yamuna Krishnan (= 1×) peers Michael Famulok

Countries citing papers authored by Yamuna Krishnan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yamuna Krishnan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yamuna Krishnan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yamuna Krishnan. The network helps show where Yamuna Krishnan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yamuna Krishnan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yamuna Krishnan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yamuna Krishnan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yamuna Krishnan. Yamuna Krishnan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zajac, Matthew, et al.. (2024). A mechanism of lysosomal calcium entry. Science Advances. 10(7). eadk2317–eadk2317. 20 indexed citations
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Anees, Palapuravan, Anand Saminathan, Anke Di, et al.. (2023). Detecting organelle-specific activity of potassium channels with a DNA nanodevice. Nature Biotechnology. 42(7). 1065–1074. 24 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Raphaël & Yamuna Krishnan. (2023). The chemistry of next-generation sequencing. Nature Biotechnology. 41(12). 1709–1715. 38 indexed citations
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Zhang, Stephanie J., Palapuravan Anees, Yamuna Krishnan, et al.. (2023). Passive endocytosis in model protocells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(24). e2221064120–e2221064120. 10 indexed citations
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Mitra, Koushambi, Palapuravan Anees, Aneesh Tazhe Veetil, et al.. (2023). A DNA nanodevice for mapping sodium at single-organelle resolution. Nature Biotechnology. 42(7). 1075–1083. 27 indexed citations
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Saminathan, Anand, Kasturi Chakraborty, Matthew Zajac, et al.. (2021). Tubular lysosomes harbor active ion gradients and poise macrophages for phagocytosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(41). 35 indexed citations
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Osei‐Owusu, James, Junhua Yang, Ka‐Ho Leung, et al.. (2021). Proton-activated chloride channel PAC regulates endosomal acidification and transferrin receptor-mediated endocytosis. Cell Reports. 34(4). 108683–108683. 46 indexed citations
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Saminathan, Anand, et al.. (2019). Photostable Voltage-Sensitive Dyes Based on Simple, Solvatofluorochromic, Asymmetric Thiazolothiazoles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18780–18790. 100 indexed citations
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Narayanaswamy, Nagarjun, Kasturi Chakraborty, Anand Saminathan, et al.. (2018). A pH-correctable, DNA-based fluorescent reporter for organellar calcium. Nature Methods. 16(1). 95–102. 120 indexed citations
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Leung, Ka‐Ho, Kasturi Chakraborty, Anand Saminathan, & Yamuna Krishnan. (2018). A DNA nanomachine chemically resolves lysosomes in live cells. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(2). 176–183. 154 indexed citations
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Cui, Chang, et al.. (2018). A DNA-based fluorescent reporter maps HOCl production in the maturing phagosome. Nature Chemical Biology. 15(12). 1165–1172. 68 indexed citations
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Patel, Avinash, Liliana Malinovska, Shambaditya Saha, et al.. (2017). ATP as a biological hydrotrope. Science. 356(6339). 753–756. 677 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chakraborty, Kasturi, Ka‐Ho Leung, & Yamuna Krishnan. (2017). High lumenal chloride in the lysosome is critical for lysosome function. eLife. 6. 93 indexed citations
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Joshi, Himanshu, Dhiraj Bhatia, Yamuna Krishnan, & Prabal K. Maiti. (2017). Probing the structure and in silico stability of cargo loaded DNA icosahedra using MD simulations. Nanoscale. 9(13). 4467–4477. 10 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Yamuna, et al.. (2014). At a long-awaited turning point. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(7). 491–494. 10 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Saikat, et al.. (2012). Pri-miR-17-92a transcript folds into a tertiary structure and autoregulates its processing. RNA. 18(5). 1014–1028. 52 indexed citations
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Saha, Sonali, Kasturi Chakraborty, & Yamuna Krishnan. (2012). Tunable, colorimetric DNA-based pH sensors mediated by A-motif formation. Chemical Communications. 48(19). 2513–2513. 44 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Yamuna & Mark Bathe. (2012). Designer nucleic acids to probe and program the cell. Trends in Cell Biology. 22(12). 624–633. 61 indexed citations
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Surana, Sunaina, et al.. (2011). An autonomous DNA nanomachine maps spatiotemporal pH changes in a multicellular living organism. Nature Communications. 2(1). 340–340. 222 indexed citations
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Bhatia, Dhiraj, Sunaina Surana, Saikat Chakraborty, Sandhya P. Koushika, & Yamuna Krishnan. (2011). A synthetic icosahedral DNA-based host–cargo complex for functional in vivo imaging. Nature Communications. 2(1). 339–339. 202 indexed citations

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