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

Ethan A. Older

University of South Carolina

ORCID: 0000-0003-1281-4071

Also affiliated with University of California, Santa Cruz

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyAgricultural and Biological SciencesImmunology and Microbiology

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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datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Papers

Driven by 14 papers. Top paper: “Biosynthetic enzyme analysis identifies a protective role for TLR4-acting gut microbial sulfonolipids in inflammatory bowel disease”.

Biosynthetic enzyme analysis identifies a protective role for TLR4-acting gut microbial sulfonolipids in inflammatory bowel disease

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-53670-y

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0.873DataRank · unranked

32 citations

Jian Zhang, Zachary E. Ferris, Dan Xue, Zheng Zhong, Mary K. Mitchell +10 more

Discovery of a Chimeric Polyketide Family as Cancer Immunogenic Chemotherapeutic Leads

Journal of the American Chemical Society(2024)10.1021/jacs.4c09582

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0.406DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Mingming Xu, Michael D. Madden, Xiaoying Lian, Ethan A. Older, Conor Pulliam +14 more

Seeing between the lines: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging advances for microbial interactions

Current Opinion in Microbiology(2025)10.1016/j.mib.2025.102634

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Ethan A. Older, Laura M. Sanchez, Laura Rodriguez-Velandia

Discovery and Heterologous Expression of Trilenodin, an Antimicrobial Lasso Peptide with a Unique Tri‐Isoleucine Motif

ChemBioChem(2024)10.1002/cbic.202400586

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0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Dan Xue, Andrew Campbell, Ethan A. Older, Jie Li, Conor Pulliam

Vibrio cholerae biofilm matrix assembly and growth are shaped by a glutamate-specific TAXI/TRAP protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2025)10.1073/pnas.2504869122

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Rino Oguchi, Steffi Jimmy, Christopher R. Evans, Kaitlin D Yarrington, James B. Winans +15 more

Biosynthetic Enzyme-guided Disease Correlation Connects Gut Microbial Metabolites Sulfonolipids to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Involving TLR4 Signaling

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.16.533047

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jian Zhang, Zachary E. Ferris, Dan Xue, Zheng Zhong, Mary K. Mitchell +10 more

Refactoring and Heterologous Expression of Class III Lanthipeptide Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Lead to the Discovery of N,N-Dimethylated Lantibiotics from Firmicutes

ACS Chemical Biology(2023)10.1021/acschembio.2c00849

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0DataRank · unranked

20 citations

Zhuo Shang, Ethan A. Older, Zheng Zhong, Conor Pulliam, Kyle Peter +5 more

Correlational networking guides the discovery of unclustered lanthipeptide protease-encoding genes

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-29325-1

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0DataRank · unranked

34 citations

Ethan A. Older, Zheng Zhong, Zhuo Shang, Nanzhu Chen, Nolan Dittenhauser +11 more

Correlational networking guides the discovery of cryptic natural product biosynthetic enzymes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.07.26.453782

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Ethan A. Older, Zheng Zhong, Zhuo Shang, Nanzhu Chen, Nolan Dittenhauser +9 more

The role of secondary structures of peptide polymers on antimicrobial efficacy and antibiotic potentiation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.11.19.623429

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Alimi Abiodun, Md Waliullah Hossain, Adam Parris, Aiswarya Banshidhar Chandrasseril, Ethan A. Older +4 more

Human gut commensal Alistipes timonensis modulates the host lipidome and delivers anti-inflammatory outer membrane vesicles to suppress colitis in an Il10 -deficient mouse model

Gut Microbes(2025)10.1080/19490976.2025.2517380

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0DataRank · unranked

28 citations

Mary K. Mitchell, Andrew Campbell, Xiaoying Lian, Michael C. Madden, Yuzhen Wang +10 more

Discovery of acylsulfenic acid-featuring natural product sulfenicin and characterization of its biosynthesis

Nature Chemistry(2025)10.1038/s41557-025-01833-9

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0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Hongbin Zou, Yanping Qiu, Wei Lv, Michael R. Madden, Mingming Xu +11 more

Discovery of anti-infective adipostatins through bioactivity-guided isolation and heterologous expression of a type III polyketide synthase

Bioorganic Chemistry(2021)10.1016/j.bioorg.2021.104925

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0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Ying Li, Qihao Wu, Miyang Li, Ethan A. Older, Xiaoyu Tang +9 more

Grincamycins P–T: Rearranged Angucyclines from the Marine Sediment-Derived Streptomyces sp. CNZ-748 Inhibit Cell Lines of the Rare Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei

Journal of Natural Products(2021)10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00179

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0DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Zachary E. Ferris, Douglas Sweeney, Alexander B. Chase, Chunhua Yuan, Yvonne Hui +11 more