OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biochemistry is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrasting Mechanisms of Aromatic and Aryl-Methyl Substituent Hydroxylation by the Rieske Monooxygenase Salicylate 5-Hydroxylase	141
Hysteresis in Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Requires Assembly of Near-Perfect Capsids	126
Transient-State Kinetic Analysis of the RNA Polymerase II Nucleotide Incorporation Mechanism	124
The Fascinating Intricacy of pSer/Thr-Specific Phosphatases and Their Higher-Order Complexes: Emerging Concepts	99
Molecular Evolution and Origins of Antibiotic Resistance Genes	90
AmorProt: Amino Acid Molecular Fingerprints Repurposing-Based Protein Fingerprint	89
Determining the Sequence Dependency of Self-Assembly of Elastin-Like Peptides Using Short Peptide Analogues with Shuffled Repetitive Sequences	88
Signal Transmission in Escherichia coli Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein for Survival in Extreme Acidic Conditions	84
Advancing the Biosynthetic and Chemical Understanding of the Carcinogenic Risk Factor Colibactin and Its Producers	79
Genome Engineering for Next-Generation Cellular Immunotherapies	66
Identification of Filamin A Mechanobinding Partner III: SAV1 Specifically Interacts with Filamin A Mechanosensitive Domain 21	55
¹³C Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Spectroscopy-Guided Molecular Dynamics Computations Reveal the Structure of the Enzyme–Substrate Complex of an Active, N-Linked Glycosylated Lip	53
Discovery of an Allosteric, Inactive Conformation-Selective Inhibitor of Full-Length HPK1 Utilizing a Kinase Cascade Assay	52
Structure and Mechanism of a Cold-Adapted Bacterial Lipase	46
Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Catalyzed Hydride Transfer: Enzyme Activation by Cofactor Pieces	44
α-Helical Structure of Antimicrobial Peptides Enhances Their Activity through Molecular Surface Signatures	43
Electrostatic Interactions Dictate Bile Salt Hydrolase Substrate Preference	41
Inside-Out Design of Zinc-Binding Proteins with Non-Native Backbones	41
Distinguishing Different Hydrogen-Bonded Helices in Proteins by Efficient ¹H-Detected Three-Dimensional Solid-State NMR	40
Two-Component System Sensor Kinase Inhibitors Target the ATP-Lid of PmrB to Disrupt Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii	39
RNA Polymerase Ribozyme That Recognizes the Template–Primer Complex through Tertiary Interactions	37
A High-Throughput Screening Pipeline to Identify Methyltransferase and Exonuclease Inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 NSP14	36
Parameterizing the Binding Properties of XNA Aptamers Isolated from a Low Stringency Selection	35
Computational Approaches for Development of Engineered Therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2	35
C3- and C3/C5-Epimerases Required for the Biosynthesis of the Capsular Polysaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni	33

Human Translesion Synthesis Polymerases polκ and polη Perform Error-Free Replication across N²-dG Methyleugenol and Estragole DNA Adducts	33
Multitasking Proteins: Exploring Noncanonical Functions of Proteins during Mitosis	32
Modifying the Basicity of the dNTP Leaving Group Modulates Precatalytic Conformational Changes of DNA Polymerase β	32
Molecular Insights into the Inhibition of Dialysis-Related β2m Amyloidosis Orchestrated by a Bispidine Peptidomimetic Analogue	30
Modification of the 4Fe-4S Cluster Charge Transport Pathway Alters RNA Synthesis by Yeast DNA Primase	30