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Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

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Molecular Biology
India
2026

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
54
Citations
11408
World Ranking
2320
National Ranking
3

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kapaettu Satyamoorthy sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 326 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kapaettu Satyamoorthy sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in India Leader Award

Overview

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy is affiliated with Manipal University Jaipur in India. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a total of 149 and 126 publications respectively in these areas.

Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Oncology, Cancer Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Plant Science. This indicates a diverse range of research interests combining molecular mechanisms with clinical and environmental health aspects.

Key topics in Kapaettu Satyamoorthy's research portfolio include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Malaria Research and Control
  • Cancer-related gene regulation

Frequent publication venues where Satyamoorthy's work appears are:

  • OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology
  • Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
  • 3 Biotech
  • Mitochondrion
  • Functional & Integrative Genomics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Oxidative Stress in Cognitive and Epigenetic Aging: A Retrospective Glance" (2020), published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • "Photodynamic therapy to control microbial biofilms" (2020), published in Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
  • "Histone deacetylase 2 selective inhibitors: A versatile therapeutic strategy as next generation drug target in cancer therapy" (2021), published in Pharmacological Research
  • "Advances in development and application of human organoids" (2021), published in 3 Biotech
  • "ZNF471 modulates EMT and functions as methylation regulated tumor suppressor with diagnostic and prognostic significance in cervical cancer" (2021), published in Cell Biology and Toxicology

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Shama Prasada Kabekkodu
  • Thokur Sreepathy Murali
  • S Padmalatha
  • Manjunath B. Joshi
  • Kanive Parashiva Guruprasad

Best Publications

  • N-Cadherin-mediated Intercellular Interactions Promote Survival and Migration of Melanoma Cells

    Gang Li;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Meenhard Herlyn

  • Constitutive mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in melanoma is mediated by both BRAF mutations and autocrine growth factor stimulation.

    Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Gang Li;Michelle R. Gerrero;Marcia S. Brose

  • The RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways present molecular targets for the effective treatment of advanced melanoma.

    Friedegund Meier;Birgit Schittek;Silke Busch;Claus Garbe

  • Clustered miRNAs and their role in biological functions and diseases

    Shama Prasada Kabekkodu;Vaibhav Shukla;Vinay Koshy Varghese;Jeevitha D’ Souza

  • Downregulation of E-cadherin and Desmoglein 1 by autocrine hepatocyte growth factor during melanoma development.

    Gang Li;Gang Li;Helmut Schaider;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Yasushi Hanakawa

  • Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Increases Survival of Human Melanoma through Stroma Remodeling

    Carola Berking;Richelle Takemoto;Helmut Schaider;Louise Showe

  • Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Induces Survival and Growth of Biologically Early Melanoma Cells through Both the Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase and β-Catenin Pathways

    Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Gang Li;Bhavesh Vaidya;Dipa Patel

  • Microtubule-associated protein 2, a marker of neuronal differentiation, induces mitotic defects, inhibits growth of melanoma cells, and predicts metastatic potential of cutaneous melanoma.

    Mohammad H. Soltani;Rita Pichardo;Ziqui Song;Namrata Sangha

  • Function and regulation of melanoma–stromal fibroblast interactions: when seeds meet soil

    Gang Li;Gang Li;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Friedegund Meier;Friedegund Meier;Carola Berking;Carola Berking

  • High glucose modulates IL-6 mediated immune homeostasis through impeding neutrophil extracellular trap formation

    Manjunath B. Joshi;Apurva Lad;Alevoor S. Bharath Prasad;Aswath Balakrishnan

  • Molecular events in melanoma development and progression.

    F Meier;K Satyamoorthy;M Nesbit;M Y Hsu

  • Differential response of primary and metastatic melanomas to neutrophils attracted by IL-8.

    Helmut Schaider;Masahiro Oka;Thomas Bogenrieder;Mark Nesbit

  • Melanoma cell lines from different stages of progression and their biological and molecular analyses.

    Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Emma DeJesus;Alban J. Linnenbach;Barbara Kraj

  • The promise of discovering population-specific disease-associated genes in South Asia

    Nathan Nakatsuka;Priya Moorjani;Niraj Rai;Biswanath Sarkar

  • Interleukin-8 overexpression is present in pyoderma gangrenosum ulcers and leads to ulcer formation in human skin xenografts.

    Masahiro Oka;Carola Berking;Mark Nesbit;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

  • Induction of p21(WAF1/CIP1) and inhibition of Cdk2 mediated by the tumor suppressor p16(INK4a).

    Jayashree Mitra;Charlotte Y. Dai;Kumaravel Somasundaram;Wafik S. El-Deiry

  • Progression-related expression of β3 integrin in melanomas and nevi

    Patricia A Van Belle;Patricia A Van Belle;Rosalie Elenitsas;Rosalie Elenitsas;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Jonathan T Wolfe;Jonathan T Wolfe

  • DNA methylation patterns in luminal breast cancers differ from non-luminal subtypes and can identify relapse risk independent of other clinical variables

    Sitharthan Kamalakaran;Vinay Varadan;Hege E. Giercksky Russnes;Dan Levy

  • Aberrant regulation and function of wild-type p53 in radioresistant melanoma cells

    Kapaettu Satyamoorthy;Nabil H. Chehab;Matthew J. F. Waterman;Marcus C. Lien

  • Lessons from melanocyte development for understanding the biological events in naevus and melanoma formation.

    M. Herlyn;C. Berking;G. Li;K. Satyamoorthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Meenhard Herlyn
Meenhard Herlyn The Wistar Institute
Kumarasamy Thangaraj
Kumarasamy Thangaraj Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
David E. Elder
David E. Elder Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Paturu Kondaiah
Paturu Kondaiah Indian Institute of Science
Keshav K. Singh
Keshav K. Singh University of Alabama at Birmingham
Wafik S. El-Deiry
Wafik S. El-Deiry Brown University
Arun M. Isloor
Arun M. Isloor National Institute of Technology Karnataka
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Masamitsu Ichihashi
Masamitsu Ichihashi Kobe University
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society

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