🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Yetunde A. Ayinuola

University of Notre Dame

ORCID: 0000-0001-7803-8058

Also affiliated with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland, College Park

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Papers

Driven by 11 papers. Top paper: “The M Protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain AP53 Retains Cell Surface Functional Plasminogen Binding after Inactivation of the Sortase A Gene”.

The M Protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain AP53 Retains Cell Surface Functional Plasminogen Binding after Inactivation of the Sortase A Gene

Journal of Bacteriology(2020)10.1128/jb.00096-20
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12 citations

Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Damini Singh, Katelyn E. Carothers, Vincent A. Fischetti, Ana L. Flores‐Mireles +5 more

Streptococcus co-opts a conformational lock in human plasminogen to facilitate streptokinase cleavage and bacterial virulence

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2020)10.1074/jbc.ra120.016262
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12 citations

Teresa Brito-Robinson, Olawole Ayinuola, Julia Beck, Diana Cruz‐Topete, Shaun W. Lee +3 more

Group A Streptococcus-Induced Activation of Human Plasminogen Is Required for Keratinocyte Wound Retraction and Rapid Clot Dissolution

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine(2021)10.3389/fcvm.2021.667554
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14 citations

Daniel E. Hammers, Zhong Liang, Gabrielle L. Nguyen, Mary E. Benz, Thomas E. Moran +9 more

Binding of the kringle‐2 domain of human plasminogen to streptococcal PAM‐type M‐protein causes dissociation of PAM dimers

MicrobiologyOpen(2021)10.1002/mbo3.1252
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5 citations

Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Cunjia Qiu, Shaun W. Lee, Victoria A. Ploplis, Francis Castellino +1 more

Evolution of Streptococcus pyogenes has maximized the efficiency of the Sortase A cleavage motif for cell wall transpeptidation

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2022)10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101940
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2 citations

Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Brady T. Russo, Zhong Liang, Shaun W. Lee, Victoria A. Ploplis +3 more

Inactivation of the lysine binding sites of human plasminogen (hPg) reveals novel structural requirements for the tight hPg conformation, M-protein binding, and rapid activation

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences(2023)10.3389/fmolb.2023.1166155
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7 citations

Francis Castellino, Yetunde A. Ayinuola

Generation and characterization of a plasminogen-binding group A streptococcal M-protein/streptokinase-sensitive mouse line

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis(2023)10.1016/j.jtha.2023.02.028
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2 citations

Deborah L. Donahue, Jermilia Charles, Zhong Liang, Francis Castellino, Victoria A. Ploplis +1 more

A high-resolution cryo-EM structure of a bacterial M-protein reveals a compact structure that diverges from related M-proteins

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.09.18.558297
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Sheiny Tjia-Fleck, Nathan R. McCann, Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Francis Castellino, Bradley M. Readnour

High-resolution cryo-EM analysis of a Streptococcus pyogenes M-protein/human plasminogen complex

Structure(2024)10.1016/j.str.2024.10.003
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1 citations

Sheiny Tjia-Fleck, Nathan R. McCann, Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Francis J. Castellino, Bradley M. Readnour

Hydrophobic residues in the D‐domain of a plasminogen‐binding M‐protein modulate α‐helicity, oligomerization, and surface anchoring in Streptococcus pyogenes

Protein Science(2025)10.1002/pro.70287
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1 citations

Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Zhong Liang, Francis Castellino, Olawole Ayinuola

Interactions between membrane-bound streptococcal alpha-enolase and human plasminogen captured through cryogenic-electron microscopy

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences(2025)10.3389/fmolb.2025.1666748
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Bradley M. Readnour, Zhong Liang, Yetunde A. Ayinuola, Francis Castellino, Sheiny Tjia-Fleck